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Elisabeth Maxwell, a University of Maine alumna, a research associate at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center and an assistant in the Scientific Diving program, has successfully completed the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) instructor certification.  UMaine’s Scientific Diving Program provides support and training to scientists and students in using diving as a research tool. It is based in Walpole along the Damariscotta River at the Darling Marine Center. Maxwell, who lives in Newcastle, received dual master’s degrees in marine biology and marine policy from U...

Women That Dive: Alejandra Hernandez On almost every dive, researcher Alejandra Hernandez brings a camera along.    But far removed from contemporary social media culture, she uses her lens as a tool to develop data, not selfies. As a coral reef ecologist, Alejandra is principally concerned with community and population dynamics and how organisms respond to a changing environment.  By combining photogrammetry with enhanced software, she and her team are able to stitch those pictures together to map underwater ecosystems and topographies. And in turn, photo mappings generate massive data s...