Sydne Record, Ph.D

Dr. Sydne Record is the Executive Director of the University of Maine System TRANSFORMS Student Success and Retention Initiative and a Professor of Landscape Conservation in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology at the University of Maine. Prior to this, she was the Associate Provost of Curricular Assessment and Sustainability and an Associate Professor of Biology at Bryn Mawr College. She earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her interdisciplinary research spans ecology, statistics, and computer science. Her research program focuses on the effects of disturbance on forests and using technology like remote sensing and artificial intelligence to study biodiversity. She has secured over $2.82 million in grants and is the author or co-author of over 80 publications in leading journals.