In 2019, in partnership with the Joint Shellfish Committee of the Towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle, the Leslie Lab group at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center initiated this community science program. The goal of this program is to create robust social and ecological data to support ecosystem-based management at the local scale and specifically in the Damariscotta River Estuary in midcoast Maine.
Together with students at Lincoln Academy and the University of Maine, shellfish harvesters, and other citizens, we are engaged in data collection, interpretation and applications that contribute to municipal shellfish management as well as a broader vision for sustaining this social-ecological system.
If you are interested in the data generated from this program, you are invited to download this file.
For additional information on this program, see the archived resources that we have created:
