Publication Announcement We have a chapter on engaged research in coastal Maine in the forthcoming book, Climate Change and Estuaries. This book is scheduled for publication on September 15th, the first day of National Estuaries Week. Learn more about the book here and download this flyer to pre-order your copy at a discount today! The chapter […]
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Together with students at Lincoln Academy and the University of Maine, shellfish harvesters, and other citizens, we are engaged in data collection, interpretation and application that contributes to municipal shellfish management as well as a broader vision for sustaining the social-ecological system of the upper Damariscotta River estuary. View the poster that PhD candidate Sarah Risley presented at the Ecological Society […]
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Emma Polhemus worked as a summer research intern at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in 2023. Mentored by Drs. Jessica Reilly-Moman and Heather Leslie, Emma focused on participatory social science to support ocean renewable energy development. She is about to begin her junior year at the University of Vermont. I wrote a picture […]
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Members of the Leslie Lab are investigating how values and beliefs influence people’s responses to ocean renewable energy development and how those values and beliefs differ by place. To do this work, we are engaged in participatory social science research to identify and characterize the values and beliefs that influence social acceptance of ocean renewable […]
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Dr. Jessica Reilly-Moman, research affiliate in the Leslie Lab, recently gave a presentation on her research on social indicators of climate resilience to the MAREA+ network. This 20-minute presentation is particularly oriented towards researchers and practitioners working on enhancing community resilience to climate change impacts. Jess would greatly appreciate your feedback and questions. Specifically, do […]
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Leslie Lab member Will Spaller created this video about Semester by the Sea as part of his Marine Sciences capstone project in collaboration with his classmates in Fall 2022. Thank you, Will!
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Thanks to PhD candidate Phoebe Jekielek for sharing her science with Aquaponics students from Lincoln Academy earlier this week. Students helped Phoebe to sort young scallops and other invertebrates from spat bags collected from Penobscot Bay, where Phoebe and collaborators at Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership are studying the dynamics of wild and […]
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2022 Leslie Lab intern Audrey Hufnagel was quoted in the Portland Press Herald, as part of an article highlighting the work that she and other youth climate activists are doing to pass the Pine Tree Amendment. This bill that would give voters an opportunity to add the right to a clean and healthy environment to the […]
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Congratulations to graduate student Jen Smith-Mayo! Jen just published an article in Communication Design Quarterly – “Embodied Participation: (re)Situating Bodies in Collaborative Research” – highlighting how the many ways in which people interact while collaborating, from listening, sharing and organizing ideas to fostering empathy, deciding what questions to ask, working through tensions and laughing together, shape research […]
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Heather Leslie, professor of marine science and director of the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, has been named a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, one of the highest honors in the scientific community. Heather has been a member of AAAS since she was a graduate student and […]
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