Associate Provost and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Maine at Augusta
Pamela S.D. MacRae was appointed Associate Provost in July 2024, following her previous appointments as Assistant Provost in January 2022 and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in July 2021 at the University of Maine at Augusta. In addition to her academic dean role, she oversees UMA’s Early College Program, Prison Education Partnership, Senior College Office, and leads the implementation of the Fostering Inclusion goals and objectives in the Strategic Plan and Co-chairs the President’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council. Prior to UMA, she served for one year as the Distance Education Dean of Environmental Conservation and Research at Unity College, Maine (now Unity Environmental University). Previously she served as the Dean of the School of Biodiversity Conservation for four years, and was the Director of the Honors Program for 5 years having joined the faculty at Unity College in 2013. She earned a Ph.D. in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences from Louisiana State University, a M.S. in Zoology from the University of Toronto and B.S. in Biology from Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. She conducted her post-doctoral scholar research at Florida State University on the long-term patterns of fish population density in Florida springs, ponds and tidal marshes and she has published in scientific journals including Ecology, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Journal of Fish Biology and Copeia among others.
Pamela is a field-based fish community ecologist, and her research has focused on exploring the links between fish community structure and environmental variables in marine, freshwater and estuarine habitats. She has over a decade of teaching field-based ecology, fisheries and marine science classes. She has a record of including undergraduate students in her research and was awarded the Undergraduate Research Mentor Award just one year after beginning her faculty position at Unity College. Prior to joining the faculty at Unity College, she served as an Assistant Professor Biology and Coordinator of the Environmental Science Technology Program at Tallahassee Community College, Florida. Additionally, she has worked in the private industry serving as a Senior Environmental Scientist with the Engineering firm Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan and as a Fisheries Biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.