CRSF’s Dr. Aaron Weiskittel and Dr. Shawn Fraver, along with FOREST-affiliated researchers Dr. Mehdi Tajvidi and Dr. Douglas Gardner (all faculty in UMaine’s School of Forest Resources) have been ranked in the top 2% of scientists worldwide for their scholarship impact by a metric from Elsevier BV. Elsevier BV’s publicly available database of over 100,000 […]
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CRSF’s Cooperative Forestry Research Unit is supporting Dr. Angela Mech to run a new lab to monitor spruce budworm in Maine. New Spruce Budworm Testing Lab at UMaine critical to mitigating impact of destructive insect
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Northeastern States Research Cooperative announces a Request for Proposals. Details at: https://nsrcforest.org/principal-investigator-resources RFP Timeline: Pre-proposals are due by October 27, 2021. Full proposals will be due January 18, 2022. Notifications of final proposal selections will be made in April 2022. Funding will be awarded in May 2022 in time for the 2022 field season. The […]
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The number of trees that can occupy any given space—known as live tree size-density metrics—have informed the management of forest stands for many decades. Monitoring key forest attributes across time and space is vital to ensure the health and effectiveness of large-scale management efforts and policies. This just-released peer-reviewed article in Scientific Reports (www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98244-w), co-authored […]
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The Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) is pleased to announce ongoing support for the INSPIRES EPSCoR RII Track-2 (Award #1920908; Leveraging Intelligent Informatics and Smart Data for Improved Understanding of Northern Forest Ecosystem Resiliency) project. INSPIRES is a multi-jurisdictional effort across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont led by project investigator Dr. Aaron Weiskittel of the University of Maine’s CRSF. INSPIRES […]
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For details and to register for this series hosted by CRSF’s Forest Climate Change Initiative and the Forest Stewards Guild, visit the FCCI Series Webpage.
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Natural climate solutions (NCS), such as planting trees, reducing tillage, managing manure, and conserving land that sequester carbon or reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can affect near-term climate change mitigation goals in cost-effective ways while also enhancing ecosystem services. Natural Climate Solutions for Forestry and Agriculture in Maine: Finial Report is a comprehensive assessment evaluating […]
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Innovative research in Maine will support sustainable forest management needs Orono, ME—Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) and UMaine’s Center for Research on Sustainable Forests are pleased to announce a $1.6 million investment in 13 research projects to address priority issues facing communities and businesses that rely on Northern Forest resources. The projects cover a broad […]
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Orono, ME. Researchers from the University of Maine’s Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) and School of Forest Resources (SFR) have been awarded funding from NASA for a 3-year, $940,308 research project to integrate remotely-sensed data along with forest inventory-based information into a forest landscape model framework that will be calibrated for application in […]
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