{"id":4543,"date":"2023-10-09T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/?page_id=4543"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:52:13","slug":"kaila-leonard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/fy21\/cohort-2-y21\/kaila-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaila Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOAA-EPP LMRCSC Graduate Fellow<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><em>M.S., Marine Science<\/em><br><strong>Savannah State University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaila Leonard studies the Eastern Oyster, its ecosystem, and the impact of its conservation on communities. Receiving a NOAA LMRCSC Fellowship allows her to perform this research in support of NOAA\u2019s mission and vision and helps her protect and maintain Eastern Oysters by using alternative oyster reef substrates. Her research will help determine which alternative substrate reef is stronger, is capable of attracting spat, and improves the Eastern Oyster population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/research-themes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research Theme:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Healthy Habitats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOAA LMRCSC Fellows attain the NOAA Core Competencies detailed in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2024\/02\/NOAA-Core-competency-rubric.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this rubric<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NERTO Project Title:&nbsp;<\/strong>TBA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOAA Mentor:&nbsp;<\/strong>TBA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Academic Advisor:&nbsp;<\/strong>Dr. Dionne Hoskins-Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100.png 100w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center<br>University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Lead Institution)<br>(410) 651-7870<br>Award numbers: FY 2021 Award #NA21SEC4810005<br>Funding Agency:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/office-education\/epp-msi\">NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP\/MSI)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA-EPP LMRCSC Graduate Fellow&nbsp;M.S., Marine ScienceSavannah State University Kaila Leonard studies the Eastern Oyster, its ecosystem, and the impact of its conservation on communities. Receiving a NOAA LMRCSC Fellowship allows her to perform this research in support of NOAA\u2019s mission and vision and helps her protect and maintain Eastern Oysters by using alternative oyster reef&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/fy21\/cohort-2-y21\/kaila-leonard\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Kaila Leonard<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"featured_media":0,"parent":3490,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-4543","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4543\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}