Field Notes

Spring break – Journeying to urban estuaries

For my daughter’s school vacation last month, we traveled to urban estuaries south of Maine. We drove into spring, in southern New England and then worked our way along Long Island Sound to the Hudson River. We spent several days on the Hudson, crossing by ferry from Hoboken to Manhattan to explore New York City, […]

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Shellfish project featured on The Mudflat

The Mudflat, Maine Shellfish Learning Network’s website, now features the Shellfish Project we’ve contributed to over the last several years, along with the Town of Damariscotta and other community partners. Learn more via this one pager or at https://themudflat.org/damariscotta-assessment-of-shellfish-resource-for-coastal-resilience/ 

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Collaborative image making

Congratulations to graduate student Jen Smith-Mayo, who won the 2022 CMJ Showcase (Graduate Work Category) award in April. The UMaine Department of Communication and Journalism (CMJ) held its inaugural student showcase this spring to recognize the outstanding creative, research, and engagement work of CMJ students. Click HERE to access Jen Smith-Mayo’s project video and learn […]

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Sarah’s defending!

Wed, Apr 13 at 1030 AM, School of Marine Sciences graduate student Sarah Risley presented her research linking local knowledge and community science in support of coastal marine stewardship. This presentation partially fulfilled the requirements of her dual MS degrees in Marine Biology and Marine Policy. The video of Sarah’s zoom seminar is available here.  […]

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Jen shares her PhD path

Weaving together science, story, collaboration and communications research, Jennifer Smith-Mayo is doing incredible work as part of the Maine-eDNA project. She is co-advised by Heather and Dr. Bridie McGreavy. Jennifer Smith-Mayo: Rethinking how we talk about science

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Communicating across disciplines

Leslie Lab members and other UMaine researchers from a range of disciplines — including anthropology, ecology and environmental science, genetics, journalism, marine science and Native American studies — collaborated on a study recently published in the journal Frontiers in Communication. The researchers looked at communication among partners from different disciplines in developing science for coastal resilience […]

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Chadbourne, Damariscotta R Estuary

Apply now – Summer 2022 positions

We’re hiring an undergraduate student and a high school intern in Summer 2022 to work on the engaged research related to shellfish and the estuarine ecosystem. We also plan to host student researchers working on projects related to the human dimensions of ocean renewable energy; aquaculture science, practice and business development; and marine science data […]

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Congratulations, Jess!

Jessica Reilly-Moman defended her PhD dissertation – Climate Care: Pathways for Coastal Climate Resilience – on December 3, 2021, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Maine. Jess’ seminar is viewable on YouTube. Jess is committed to supporting the assessment and […]

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Sarah presents community shellfish project

Graduate student Sarah Risley presented the State of the Damariscotta River Estuary report to the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen on Wednesday evening, November 3, 2021. You can watch the video recording of the presentation on the Town’s YouTube channel named, “Town of Damariscotta, Maine.” You can access the Damariscotta report here. Later in November, Sarah […]

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Melissa in the field

New research on aquaculture

Congratulations to Melissa on the publication of her Masters thesis research in Marine Policy! New aquaculture research highlights areas of consensus, disagreement

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