Tag: Coastal Community Resilience

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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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