Leslie to discuss marine resilience July 25 at Skidompha Library
Heather Leslie will be the featured “Chats with Champions” speaker at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 25 at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta.
The director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center will draw on her research in Maine and Mexico to discuss how the emerging science of marine resilience is changing how people understand and steward coastal and marine ecosystems.
She also will preview elements of the strategic and master plans under development for the DMC in Walpole.
A member of the UMaine faculty since August 2015, Leslie earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Harvard University, a doctorate in zoology at Oregon State University and conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University.
Before arriving at UMaine, she was on the faculty at Brown University as the inaugural Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe Assistant Professor. Originally from Plymouth, Massachusetts, Leslie lives by the Damariscotta River in Newcastle with her two children and husband, microbial ecologist Jeremy Rich.
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop sponsors the chats. For more information, call 563.5513.