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University of Maine
University of Maine
Understanding the drivers of the distribution and abundance of life on Earth across scales of space, time and biological organization
Recent news:
Fall 2026:
Welcome to new PhD student Kyle Lima! Kyle will be working on applying new technologies to biodiversity monitoring at Acadia National Park and beyond.
Congratulations to PhD student Aly East for receiving the best paper award from the National Ecological Observatory Network for her beetle research presented at the Ecological Society of America! Aly is featured in the NEON blog this month.Â
Summer 2026:
PhD student Aly East and postdocs Indra Boving and Dylan MacArthur-Waltz attend Florapalooza at the Imageomics Institute to innovate computer vision methods applied to plants
Welcome to postdoc Indra Boving who recently completed her PhD at UC Santa Barbara! Indra will be working on remote sensing, scaling, and demography of forests.
Welcome to undergraduate student Nicole MacAdam who will be working this summer with our non-profit partner Bangor Beautiful to map pollinator gardens across Bangor, Maine!
Spring 2026:
Congratulations to PhD student Jill Fedarick on the successful defense of her dissertation. We wish Jill well as she embarks on a postdoc at the University of Alabama. Roll Tide!
Congratulations to PhD student Aly East on a successful comprehensive exam and her advancement to PhD candidacy!
Sydne is one of 20 American scientists to meet with 20 scientists from the European Union at the DiscoverUS meeting co-organized by Sage Grande and the Barcelona Super Computing Institute in Spain to imagine what is possible with edge computing in the domain of environmental science.
PhD student Jill Fedarick receives the Outstanding Service Award from the UMaine College of Earth, Life, and Health and the Provost's Innovative and Creative Teaching Award for her Art and Ecologies Course
PhD student Aly East, Postdoc Dylan MacArthur-Waltz, and Sydne attend the first Imageomics Conference in Columbus, Ohio. Aly presented a poster and Sydne contributed to a panel on the horizons of Imageomics and co-led a workshop on Designing for Discovery with Imageomics Tools.
PhD student Aly East attends the FAIR AI Readiness and Responsibility Research Coordination Network (FARR-RCN) Workshop in Washington D.C. to present the award for the winner of the Harnessing the Data Revolution ML Challenge on NEON Beetles we organized with Imageomics collaborators.