The state of Maine is particularly sensitive to climatic changes given its high percentage of forested lands and socio-economic dependence on natural resources. Understanding the determinants of climate change risk perceptions among forest resource stakeholders is critical to eliciting broad support for adaptation. In this article just published in Society & Natural Resources, UMaine researchers Alyssa […]
Read more
Program Coordinator, Enhancing Conservation Science Dr. Sandra De Urioste-Stone (of the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests) at the University of Maine is seeking applicants for a five-year National Research Traineeship (NRT) Program Coordinator position to work on a recently funded National Science Foundation project to develop an interdisciplinary graduate program on resilient ecological conservation […]
Read more
Researchers awarded $1.5M to examine spread of mosquito-transmitted diseases
Read more
$2.9 million NSF award will train the next generation of environmental conservation leaders
Read more
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship Program (NRT) announced today a $2.9 million grant to Dr. Sandra de Urioste-Stone, Assistant Professor of Nature-based Tourism at the University of Maine, to lead an interdisciplinary team of UMaine faculty (from the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests [CRSF]; Department of Communication and Journalism; Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and […]
Read more
UMaine researchers awarded $152K NOAA grant to study impacts of climate change on coastal tourism
Read more
Climate change resilience research receives $150K NIFA grant
Read more
Greenfire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time Showing: April 9, 2018 5:00 pm, 100 Nutting Hall Discussion with Narrator Dr. Curt Meine : April 10, 2018, 100 Nutting Hall The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, School of Forest Resources, and Center for Research on Sustainable Forests present a showing of Green […]
Read more
The Bureau of Parks and Lands has just released the Maine State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) to guide Maine’s outdoor recreation priorities for 2014-2019. The report was highly informed by an outdoor recreation survey conducted by CRSF-affiliated faculty and students in UMaine’s School of Forest Resources. For more information on the SCORP report as […]
Read more
The abstract for a brand new article to by published in the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism based on research by members of CRSF’s Nature-based Tourism program on climate change and tourism in Maine can be found here!
Read more