Heather was interviewed by Jenny Siefert of the Ocean Health Index team for a recent piece on the Ocean Health Index. The OHI was developed almost a decade ago through a collaboration convened at NCEAS, and has since been used in diverse countries and contexts to track the health of the ocean and progress of […]
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Together with an international team of conservation scientists, Heather designed a new tool for understanding the state of the science and practice in ocean conservation. Learn more via the links below. Leslie helps design database to assess, guide ocean conservation efforts And from our colleagues at James Cook University, check out this great Conservation Planning […]
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Kaitlyn Raffier is a rising senior at the University of Maine. She is completing a Bachelors of Science in Ecology and Environmental Science with a concentration in sustainability, environmental policy and natural resource management and also a Bachelors of Arts in Economics. For her internship at the DMC in Summer 2018, she developed a framework […]
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Heather recently authored an invited commentary for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. She reflected of the significance of a recent research article on ecosystem-based management efforts in the Chesapeake Bay. Heather noted that marine ecosystem-based management (EBM) is not a singular approach, but rather a framework for managing people’s […]
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Melissa Britsch shares her reflections on her recently completed Aquaculture Internship at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Melissa’s internship and the research she conducted was supported by both state and federal government sources*, along with in-kind support from the Darling Marine Center. I came to the Darling Marine Center (DMC) in […]
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A Reflection by Marina Cucuzza, UMaine Graduate Student August 2017 As the summer winds to a close, I will soon leave the Darling Marine Center to begin my first semester of graduate school at the University of Maine. There hasn’t been a dull moment since I arrived at the marine lab in early May 2017, […]
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Congratulations to Kara on publishing her first marine conservation science paper! You can download the PLOS ONE paper from our Publications page. This paper builds on the international, multi institutional collaborative that Heather has led for the last decade, related to the human and environmental dimensions of small-scale fisheries. Learn more at the project website, […]
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Resilient coastal communities is topic of June 23 seminar
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Heather is among the plenary speakers for CERF 2017, in Providence, RI. Her talk will be part of the Tuesday afternoon plenary on Food Webs and Fisheries, and focus on how the reciprocal connections between people and other components of coastal marine systems contribute to resilience of both ecosystems and the human communities who are part […]
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Menge, B. A., M. Bracken, J. Lubchenco, and H. M. Leslie. 2017. Alternative state? Experimentally-induced Fucus canopy persists 38 years in an Ascophyllum-dominated community. Ecosphere, doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1725. Experimental tests of the hypothesis that ecological communities can exist in “multiple stable states” are rare, and some argue, impossible, because of the unlikelihood that any system will […]
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