Coastal Community Resilience Archives - Leslie Lab: Marine Conservation Science

Tag: Coastal Community Resilience

Adapting to change

For more than 20 years, Heather has collaborated with an international group of researchers to study how coastal communities respond to environmental, economic and political pressures in the Gulf of California region, in northwest Mexico. UMaine News recently interviewed Heather about this work. Read more at this link: https://umaine.edu/news/2026/02/from-maine-to-mexico-working-waterfronts-with-less-variety-carry-more-risk/

Marina’s research journey

Lab alumna Marina Tomer shares her research journey in this recent post by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Welcome back to Maine, Marina!

Creative writing at the DMC

Leslie Lab members Heather, Sarah, and Emma hosted the entire sophomore class of Lincoln Academy, the local high school, at the Darling Center earlier this fall. This field trip, designed in collaboration with LA English faculty, was part of their Mitchell Center funded project that focuses on creative approaches to understanding and building community resilience. […]

Joelle’s research journey

Leslie Lab member Joelle Kilchenmann shares the journey that brought her to UMaine and her interdisciplinary PhD research related to Maine’s lobster fishery.

Share your story

Thanks to support from UMaine’s Mitchell Center, we are using arts-based methods like storytelling and creative writing to share knowledge and learn together in support of coastal community resilience. We have just launched a new phase of this project, focused on documenting oral histories of residents within the Damariscotta River estuary watershed. Learn more about […]

Engaging in offshore wind development

We are delighted to share How to Engage in Offshore Wind Development: A Guide to Values, Questions, Perspectives, and Pathways Forward in Coastal Maine, with you. Download the Guide as a word document, or as a PDF. This guide is designed to support many different people – community members, developers, government agencies and nonprofit organizations […]

Community Science Update

Graduate students Sarah Risley (above) and Melissa Britsch (now at the Maine Coastal Program) led local knowledge research in the Damariscotta and Medomak River estuaries. This open-access study was just published in the international scientific journal Ambio. This was the first time the knowledge of shellfish harvesters and experts working within these estuaries was documented, […]

Reflecting on the Maine Climate Council process

The Maine Climate Council Scientific and Technical Subcommittee recently released their 2024 report, which guides the work of the Council in finalizing the Maine Climate Action Plan later this year. Here, Leslie Lab affiliate Dr. Jess Reilly-Moman reflects on her experience supporting the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee over the last year. An Anthropologist and An […]