Field Notes

NSF, Mainebiz feature paper about the value of bringing local norms and knowledge into fisheries regulations

Mainebiz interviewed Kara Pellowe, a former University of Maine postdoctoral student, about the value of integrating local norms and fishermen’s knowledge into fisheries regulations. Pellowe, now based at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, co-authored a study with Heather Leslie, director of the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine, exploring the interplay between formal and […]

Maine Climate Science & Action

Heather gave the DMC’s final summer science seminar of 2020: Climate Science and Action for Maine’s Coast and Coastal Communities. Watch this and all the DMC summer seminars here. Heather serves as co-lead of the Maine Climate Council’s Coastal and Marine Working Group. Together with 37 other leading scientists, resource managers, municipal officials, and other […]

Kara’s new position at Stockholm Resilience Centre

Congratulations to Dr. Kara Pellowe! Following her PhD at UMaine and a postdoc in collaboration with Heather and MAREA colleagues at Stockholm University, Kara has accepted a new position at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. She will be working with Dr. Steven Lade as a postdoctoral fellow in social-ecological analysis and modeling at the Stockholm Resilience […]

Marina selected as Knauss Fellow!

Congratulations to Leslie Lab alumna, Marina Cucuzza, on her selection as a 2021 Knauss Fellow! This one-year fellowship places early career professionals in federal government offices in Washington, D.C., where they’ll received hands-on experiences transferring science to policy and management. For many fellows, this opportunity helps launch their careers at NOAA and other federal agencies.

Engaged research in Baja

Heather and Kara joined other members of the MAREA team in La Paz, Mexico earlier this year, to share our findings to date on the human and environmental dimensions of small-scale fisheries in the state of Baja California Sur. These conversations were an opportunity for fisheries managers, scientists and fishermen to share their thoughts on […]

Size-selective fishing results in trade-off between fishery yield, reproductive productivity

How people fish matters perhaps as much as the quantity harvested, say University of Maine researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. Their study published in Ecosphere details the impacts of size-selective fishing on an economically important species of clam in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The information is critical for fisheries managers to design policies that balance short- […]

New coastal community resilience paper

Congratulations to Marina Cucuzza, a dual degree graduate student in the Leslie Lab, on her recent publication in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Read more…

Ecology & Society paper on fishermen’s adaptations to change

Congratulations to Dr. Kara Pellowe on her recent publication, which is one of several papers she developed as part of her dissertation in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at University of Maine. Fishermen adapt to environmental change in varied ways, UMaine study finds

Update – Shellfish resilience project

Dr. Heather Leslie presented the Final Report on the 2019 Shellfish Resilience Project to the Joint Shellfish Committee of the Towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle on Jan 2, 2020. This presentation followed on an earlier presentation by Dr. Kara Pellowe, postdoc in the Leslie lab, in September 2019. Kara’s presentation was reported in the local […]

Ecology & science of team science graduate opportunities

Heather is co-leading a major new research and graduate training initiative at the University of Maine, Maine eDNA. With support of the National Science Foundation, ecologists, geneticists, oceanographers, and other natural and social scientists from across the state are working together to develop new tools to tackle public health and fisheries challenges in Maine and […]

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