Esperanza Stancioff, Extension Educator University of Maine Cooperative Extension & Sea Grant 377 Manktown Road · Waldoboro, ME 04572 Phone 207.832.0343 or 1.800.244.2104 · Fax 207.832.0377 Email esp@umext.maine.edu

Esperanza's current work focuses on climate change education and adaptation planning. Since joining University of Maine Cooperative Extension in 1988, Esperanza has designed and implemented educational programs in coastal ecosystem health, specifically in marine environmental monitoring and watershed assessment and management. She is the recipient of a Gulf of Maine Visionary Award from the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment for her long-term devotion to improving public awareness and protection of estuarine water quality (1992) and a Maryann Hartman Award for her contributions to statewide environmental stewardship and marine education (1999).