MercoPress reports on Hamley and Gill ESA award

MercoPress, an independent news agency based in Uruguay, reported that  Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, and Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the Climate Change Institute, were recently selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America’s W.S. Cooper Award for a study on seabirds in the Falkland Islands. Gill and Hamley will be recognized along with principal author Dulcinea Groff, who conducted the research as part of her Ph.D. at University of Maine, as well as Gill’s former UMaine undergraduate research assistants Trevor Lessard and Kayla Greenawalt.