Phoebe Jekielek (aquaculture - scallops)

<p><a href="https://www.hurricaneisland.net/staff/phoebe-jekielek" target="_blank">Phoebe Jekielek</a> is Director of Research for <a href="https://www.hurricaneisland.net/" target="_blank">Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership</a>. Her current research focuses on farming scallops, and she's using eDNA as one of the tools to help analyze the aquaculture farm they have at Hurricane. </p><p>Phoebe is pursing her PhD at the University of Maine, working in the <a href="https://umaine.edu/leslie-lab/" target="_blank">Leslie Lab</a> and being co-advised by Heather Leslie of the <a href="https://dmc.umaine.edu/" target="_blank">Darling Marine Center</a> and Nichole Price of <a href="https://www.bigelow.org/" target="_blank">Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences</a>. If you want to email Phoebe and get photos/videos of scallops, she can be reached at phoebe@hurricaneisland.net.</p><p>~~~~~</p><p>Tickets are now on sale for the 2022 Headliner: <i>The Warming Sea - an exploration of Hope in the face of the climate crisis</i>. (thewarmingsea.me) - March 19, 2022, 7pm, Collins Center for the Arts.</p><p>~~~~~~</p><p>The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Science Festival. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, at the Maine Discovery Museum, in Bangor, ME. Edited and produced by Kate Dickerson; financial support from Central Maine Power; production support by Maranda Bouchard; and social media support from Next Media.</p><p>The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.</p><p> </p><p>If you want to support the Maine Science Podcast and/or the Maine Science Festival, you can do so at our website mainesciencefestival.org either at our donation page OR by getting some MSF merchandise through our online store.</p><p>Find us online:</p><p>Website -<a href="http://www.mainesciencefestival.org/"> Maine Science Festival</a></p><p><i>Maine Science Festival</i> on social media: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mainesciencefestival">Facebook</a>    <a href="http://www.twitter.com/MEScienc