On the road for ocean science
Heather, in her role as Director of the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, will log considerable miles on land and sea Sept. 21–23 to discuss ocean science and ocean stewardship. Read more…
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Heather on MPBN
Thanks to MPBN Maine Calling for a great radio experience last week! If you’d like to learn more about the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center and all that we are celebrating in this 50th anniversary year, our piece is a great one to listen to: http://news.mpbn.net/post/maines-aquaculture-and-50th-anniversary-darling-marine-center
Read moreNew director at Darling
As of August 1, 2015, I’ve taken on the Directorship of the Darling Marine Center, the University of Maine’s marine lab. I’m thrilled to be back in midcoast Maine and look forward to working with the Center community and our many collaborators to advance marine science, teaching and service on the coast of Maine. You […]
Read moreEngaging in the Gulf
Former Leslie Lab member Katherine Siegel, now at research assistant with UC Santa Barbara’s Sustainable Fisheries group, authored this personal essay for Heather’s course on engaged environmental scholarship and communication. Read on to learn more about Katherine’s undergraduate research on the human and ecological dimensions of Mexican small-scale fisheries. Arcángel sighed, pulled up his last […]
Read moreEnvironment & health
Victoria Brown, Class of 2015, authored this essay for Engaged Environmental Communication and Scholarship, the capstone course Prof. Leslie taught as part of the Voss Environmental Fellows Program in Spring 2016. Here, in her own words, Victoria reflects on what engaged scholarship means to her. I walked past rows and rows of women, some sitting in […]
Read moreField Notes from Loreto
Loreto, June 2015 This year, 2015, was the first year that the Annual Chocolate Clam Festival in Loreto, Mexico included a bilingual Clam Biology tent as part of the festivities. The tent featured a large diagram of the clam life cycle with interesting facts about chocolate clams, and educational coloring pages for kids. The real […]
Read moreA new geography of social-ecological sustainability
Meeting human needs while sustaining ecosystems and the benefits they provide is a global challenge. Coastal marine systems present a particularly important case, given that >50% of the world’s population lives within 100 km of the coast and fisheries are the primary source of protein for >1 billion people worldwide. Our integrative analysis here yields […]
Read moreEcosystem services lens on tidal energy development
Heather and former Brown undergraduate Megan Palmer (Class of 2014) just published an article in Marine Technology Society Journal on the value of taking an ecosystem services approach to assessing the impacts of tidal energy development. The results are described here, and also were picked up by RI NPR!
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The Hidden Nature of Baja, January 2015 The wind was blowing hard out of the north already at 8 AM and was predicted to increase. We squeezed into an old white pick up truck that Sara had already loaded with our gear, and drove south. The peaks of the Sierra de la Giganta hugged us […]
Read moreRocky shore work in Ecosphere
Leslie Lab members published results from a multi year study at 18 rocky shore sites from Maine to New York state in Ecosphere this week. Mussels could be the perfect ‘sentinel’ species to signal the health of coastal ecosystems. But a new study of blue mussels in estuary ecosystems along 600 kilometers of coastline in […]
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