Taylor Bailey Spencer

Dr. Taylor Bailey Spencer is a Coastal Processes Postdoctoral Research Associate with Maine Sea Grant, supporting the Resilient Maine project, a statewide climate initiative led by the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future. Her work focuses on coastal ecosystem processes, applying expertise in hydrodynamic modeling to help communities plan for sea level rise, flooding, and other climate hazards.

A Maine native, Taylor earned her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Maine in 2025. Her research explored how tides, currents, and freshwater flows influence the transport of pollutants in coastal systems.