Undark Magazine publishes opinion piece by master’s student
Undark Magazine published an opinion essay on wildlife policy and Lyme disease by Elyse DeFranco, an ecology and environmental sciences master’s student at the University of Maine. The essay draws on research led by Susan Elias while completing her Ph.D. at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, which found that maintaining deer populations below a certain threshold could control the black-legged tick population and reduce the risk of Lyme disease in Maine. The article also was published on Salon.com and in Canada’s National Observer through the Climate Desk Collaboration, which seeks to promote journalism that explores the effects of a changing climate.