Chris Nadeau

21 Jan 2020

National parks are not only beautiful, they are unique places to study how conservation agencies can  adapt to climate change. This article highlights how fellowships make climate change adaptation research possible, including a discussion of the Second Century Stewardship Fellowship, and a blurb on my research in Acadia National Park.

1 December 2019

Puddles of freshwater - known as freshwater rock pools - are an amazing scientific tool. Much like mice are used as a model to understand human medicine, the fascinating diversity of life in freshwater rock pools can serve as a model to understand how biodiversity will be affected by climate change.

6 August 2018

Conservation practitioners worldwide are adapting their management plans to incorporate climate change. What is limiting their progress? Could targeted science and collaboration with scientists help? I led a team that organized a workshop to address these questions at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Participants left with new research ideas and motivation to forge new collaborations. 

11 June 2018

What seem like simple puddles on the rocky coastline of Acadia National Park are actually amazing scientific and interpretive tools known as freshwater rock pools. To increase interest in these pools, Anjelica Giacomazzo and I hosted a workshop for park interpreters where they got to interact with the amazing diversity of life that lives in these pools.  

19 April 2018

ScienceNetLinks recognizes that "the gap between the science classroom and a real-life career in the sciences can seem distant for some students." To help bridge this gap, I participated in their "5 questions for a scientist" blog series, which highlights the diversity of careers and people in science.

3 Aug 2017

After three days of intensive learning about science communication, AAAS interviewed me about my research using Daphnia as a model system in climate change biology. 

30 June 2017

Climate change biology links diverse subjects taught in K-12 classrooms, including geography, climate, and biology. As part of the annual Maine RiSE conference, I worked with Bill Zoellick and Hannah Webber from the Schoodic Institute to host a workshop for K-12 teachers to present climate change as a tool for critical thinking in K-12 classrooms. 

1 May 2017

Second Century Stewardship is a program supporting research and science communication at Acadia National Park. When the program awarded me a fellowship in 2017, the Mount Desert Islander highlighted my research and the research of 3 other fellows. 

2 April 2017

​Second Century Stewardship is a program supporting research and science communication at Acadia National Park. When the program awarded me a fellowship in 2017, AAAS highlighted my research and the research of 2 other fellows on their website.

13 January 2017

How scientists measure climate change can alter predictions of where climate change will have the biggest impacts. In this guest blog at Methods.blog, I discuss different ways that biologists measure climate change. Ultimately, I highlight the new method we developed to incorporate many biologically relevant aspects of climate in to measurements of climate change.

15 December 2016

I Skyped with students from the Sumner Memorial High School Pathways Program at the Schoodic Institute to discuss how small species can be used to understand big problems in conservation biology. We discussed how Daphnia research could help inform Moose and Lobster conservation in Maine.