The Schwieterman Lab investigates how environmental and anthropogenic stress impacts fish physiology using a variety of techniques to answer questions that span multiple levels of biological organization. Our research aims to better understand the links between individuals and their environment with the goal of informing more effective conservation and sustainable natural resource management.

We are currently based at the University of Maine, which we recognize is located on Marsh Island in the homeland of the Penobscot Nation, where issues of water and territorial rights, and encroachment upon sacred sites, are ongoing. Penobscot homeland is connected to the other Wabanaki Tribal Nations — the Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi’kmaq — through kinship, alliances and diplomacy. The Schwieterman Lab and the University also recognize that the Penobscot Nation and the other Wabanaki Tribal Nations are distinct, sovereign, legal and political entities with their own powers of self-governance and self-determination.