The University of Maine seeks a diverse pool of up to 18 doctoral students to join a new NSF-funded $20 million program in eDNA approaches to coastal ecosystem understanding and sustainability. Maine-eDNA is a multi-institution EPSCoR program involving the University of Maine, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and seven other post-secondary and research institutions (https://umaine.edu/edna/). We are seeking students with backgrounds and interests in the following areas: Aquatic ecology, marine science, bioinformatics, data science and spatial informatics, communications and team science. Maine’s coastal ecosystems, from lakes to rivers, estuaries and in-shore waters, are impacted by numerous stressors, including warming, fisheries declines, invasive species, harmful algal blo