https://www.lelaschlenker.com/lela-schlenker-media daily 0.75 2022-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/3d2e6bf5-aa03-4bc5-a34b-436536473644/Screen+Shot+2022-03-17+at+5.07.00+PM.jpg Media - “Changing Seas with Lela Schlenker” March 13, 2022. Wild Connection: The Podcast Hosted by Dr. Jennifer Verdolin. https://www.lelaschlenker.com/lela-schlenker-outreach daily 0.75 2023-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/b7da2341-4d46-4fcb-824d-817f065ecc32/Lela+Teaching+Steinbeck.JPEG Teaching & Outreach Williams-Mystic students learn about marine ecology of the Pacific Ocean on a California Field Seminar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/95e705cf-bdfc-44bb-b549-4c9bf5b467c6/Teaching+on+Roann+with+John+Rita.jpg Teaching & Outreach - Captain John Rita, a longtime commercial trawler in Stonington, CT talks about his experience to Williams-Mystic students as a fisherman aboard the FV Roann, a wooden trawler active in Stonington’s commercial fleet up until 1998 and now located in Mystic Seaport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1d0dcdbf-2acc-460b-949d-9bdd75595d96/Teaching+on+Cramer.JPG Teaching & Outreach Lela teaching about the ecology of reef fish aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer while sailing around St. Croix with the Williams-Mystic Spring 2022 class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/21e39c13-912c-4f2f-969c-6bc1cd459e4f/Felipe+photo_Devils+Crown+5.JPG Teaching & Outreach - Make it stand out Lela shows a University of Miami undergraduate student how to do a fish count while snorkeling at Devil’s Crown in the Galápagos as part of an intensive field course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1585077466266-K7O5G2BQ52TOQ5C94NO0/IMG_0645.JPG Teaching & Outreach As a GK-12 Fellow, Lela helped to teach York High School students hands-on science over the course of a year. Here, these students are learning dogfish anatomy through a dissection activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1585162633935-2DQW8WCX4D5H2G18DUGV/IMG_7792.jpg Teaching & Outreach Lela helping middle school students observe the heart beat of larval mahi-mahi during Women in Science Day at the University of Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1585077084630-K25SAX59RY9BSK0HPDMS/Lela+outreach+with+Dan.jpg Teaching & Outreach Elementary school groups learn about pop-up satellite tagging mahi-mahi at the University of Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1632840337011-0T6G8HIX5GKXAU9RW2HC/Screen+Shot+2021-09-28+at+10.44.07+AM.png Teaching & Outreach - Can you tell a story about your research in 3 minutes with one slide? That was the challenge for the recent East Carolina University PostDoc Flash Talk competition. Lela won “Audience Favorite” for her 3 minute story about what climate change and weather patterns have to do with the shrimp we eat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1585080047774-0BQ4WKUB9KHEUDM9W0W3/IMG_3173.jpg Teaching & Outreach Lela posing with the winning angler and her prize mahi-mahi at a fishing tournament in the Florida Keys after a long day of outreach. https://www.lelaschlenker.com/lela-schlenker-home daily 1.0 2024-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1579802523098-G0P25GGTA3VAI09YADKP/Felipe+photo_Devils+Crown+5.JPG Lela Schlenker-Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1579802608949-42ABT4UBLEA9YT6DKSJU/IMG_0859.JPG Lela Schlenker-Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1579802813400-2DRW6HM1WTLZ0WP7FR7L/EOG+close+up+Damsel.jpg Lela Schlenker-Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1579802837311-PF201ZCUZZOA8OXVNUUB/Lela+tagging+a+mahi.png Lela Schlenker-Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1579802888968-EMR5EN4PEZEQG7RI4UD8/IMG_7227.jpg Lela Schlenker-Home https://www.lelaschlenker.com/lela-schlenker-contact daily 0.75 2020-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1581447990333-ILSEM2C3KJTWAXGSVK06/0180AC92-5F2B-4CD3-AFC0-06A58B296F8A.jpg Contact - Contact Please reach out with questions, to discuss collaborations, or to request PDFs of manuscripts lelaschlenker [at] gmail [dot] com https://www.lelaschlenker.com/lela-schlenker-about daily 0.75 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1581516231619-70AWBV82DGOKTHB8BGNT/32020009.jpg About - Lela weighing bycatch on the F/V Seafarer in 2007 for an undergraduate research project while studying at the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1581516001346-A8IHGXYSA2GAVB0VSO0T/P9030128.JPG About - Lela taking a blood sample from a white marlin during her master’s degree at VIMS to examine the physiological response to catch and release angling as well as air exposure. Spoiler alert—Keeping fish in the water is critical to maximizing their survival following release! Keep ‘em wet! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1581516537063-I4QQN9M6XKBHD9ZG1TNI/Mahi+tagging+in+sling.jpg About Lela tagging a bull mahi-mahi with a pop-up satellite archival tag in the northern Gulf of Mexico during her dissertation research examining the migratory pathways and habitat use of wild mahi-mahi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1581516696187-FTOD12A98IOILPMYY9YK/Franco+and+Lela+in+SRS.jpg About Throw-trapping small freshwater fish and invertebrates in the Florida Everglades while trying to avoid stepping on alligators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1581517031966-86GNO958PLWRXILOT86C/DSCN1327.jpg About Lela about to release a young-of-year tiger shark during the fishery independent bottom longline survey while working as a research technician at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. https://www.lelaschlenker.com/lela-schlenker-research daily 0.75 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1626453524926-H9K8SR6AY61SMG29S3WC/Brown%2BShrimp%2Bon%2Bboat.jpg Research & Publications - Organisms on the move! Implications of Climate Change for Marine Populations Just inside North Carolina’s Outer Banks is the Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoonal estuary in the United States. Pamlico Sound provides critical nursery area for many ecologically, commercially, and recreationally important species of fish and invertebrates and straddles one of the most significant climate and biogeographic breaks in the world, making the region especially important to understand as oceans continue to warm. My research examined a 30-year data set on shrimp catches in Pamlico Sound in order to understand the effects of climate and environmental variability on the growth and movements of brown, white, and pink shrimp and project how future environmental change may affect shrimp ecology and shrimp fisheries. Currently, we are comparing our quantitative results to a qualitative survey of fishers to assess how local ecological knowledge can additionally inform management. A brown shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) caught in Pamlico Sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1585145848508-0B60F5T1G8ZBL71PIL6X/Tagged%2BMahi%2Brelease.jpg Research & Publications Mahi-mahi tagged with a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) swims away from the boat after being released in the Florida Straits. PSATs can provide detailed fishery independent information on temperature, depth, and acceleration patterns as well as collect light data that can be modeled to estimate migratory pathways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1585145991377-JAN7GQ6ASQONHEH97AQ4/Damsel+EOG.jpg Research & Publications Testing the olfactory acuity, or sense of smell, using an electrophysiological technique called an electro olfactogram (EOG) assay. A glass electrode measures the voltage at the olfactory epithelium while a second glass electrode measures (and subtracts) the background voltage of the fish. A glass pipette delivers odors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e29bc4951bb0c3dff595253/1585158834430-PAFVF863C2ROZ3O9EOPF/Aro%2BHa_0387.jpg Research & Publications Graphical abstract for my publication “Exposure to Crude Oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impairs Oil Avoidance Behavior without Affecting Olfactory Physiology in Juvenile Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena hippurus)” published in Environmental Science & Technology. Juvenile mahi-mahi avoid crude oil, but after an oil exposure they no longer do so. They can also detect oil as an olfactory cue before and after oil exposure suggesting that their loss of oil avoidance is due to central nervous system effects from oil exposure rather than effects to their olfactory sensory neurons.