CRSF Director Aaron Weiskittel, UMaine’s lead site as part of the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC, https://nsrcforest.org/), organized and hosted a 2-day workshop with US Forest Service personnel at the Massabesic Experimental Forest (MEF) this week focused on future research opportunities and needs. Attendees included Cindi West, Director of the Northern Research Station (USFS NRS), […]
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Sustaining the Health of the Northern Forest Orono, ME — Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) Directors are pleased to announce 11 grants totaling nearly $2.2 million of federal funding and close to $1 million of matching funding for research that will focus on areas of concern identified by forest stakeholders in the Northern Forest region: […]
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Orono, July 8, 2025. CRSF Director Aaron Weiskittel is pleased to share the news that NSF has advanced the Northern New England Precision Forest Management and Advanced Forest Bioproducts (NNE-PROMISE) proposal to the semifinal round of the NSF Regional Innovation Engines program. NNE-PROMISE is 1 of 29 proposals to moved forward from 71 submissions from […]
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Under the auspices of the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program and World Affairs Council of Maine (WACM), UMaine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests Director Dr. Aaron Weiskittel and Shane O’Neill, Forest Industry Business Development Manager, organized and coordinated the visit by six Indonesian delegates well-versed in forest policy and environmental journalism, […]
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Over the past few years and supported by the NSF EPSCoR Track-2 project “Leveraging Intelligent Informatics and Smart Data for Improved Understanding of Northern Forest Ecosystem Resilience” (INSPIRES; OIA-1920908) and E-RISE RII project, “Enhancing Maine Forest Economy, Sustainability, and Technology Ecosystem To Accelerate Innovation” (FOREST; OIA-2416915), CRSF researchers have been working to develop low-cost, easy […]
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The Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) has released their 2024 Request for Proposals (RFP) aimed at problem-driven research that will enhance forest and community resilience in the Northern Forest Region under threat from climate change, forest pests and pathogens, and changing land use. Proposals are sought that will address forest health issues along with community […]
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University of Maine master’s student Allison Foster (MS in Forest Resources) along with School of Forestry faculty Dr. Adam Daigneault, Dr. Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, and Dr. Aaron Weiskittel have published a brief in the Maine Policy Review from the results of a survey of Maine’s largest forestland owners and managers. The survey focused on participants’ perspectives […]
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Leveraging Intelligent Informatics and Smart Data for Improved Understanding of Northern Forest Ecosystem Resilience, an NSF-supported RII Track-2 FEC project that merged expertise from the University of Maine, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, and Alabama A&M University to facilitate analysis of forest ecosystem integrity and resilience from multiple scientific perspectives, has issued its final project report. […]
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CRSF’s Forest Climate Change Initiative, with the Forest Stewards Guild and Maine TREE, have finalized plans for their final webinar and field tour in year 4 of their Addressing Forest Climate Change in Maine series. The season finale will provide an overview of the Piscataquis County Soil & Water District (PCSWD) and history of Williams […]
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The Northern States Resource Cooperative (NSRC) will award up to $1.5 million in 2024 to support projects with budgets ranging from $75,000 to $500,000 for one- to three-year funding terms via their Indigenous Forest Knowledge Fund (IFKF). The IFKF seeks projects that will: (1) acknowledge and address structural inequities in opportunities for Indigenous youth to […]
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