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Weiskittel to Speak at State of AI in Maine Event

The State of AI in Maine Event co-hosted by the The Roux Institute and the Institute for Experiential AI The State of AI in Maine will celebrate the release of a report by the Roux Institute and the Institute for Experiential AI (EAI) at Northeastern University exploring Maine’s early and surprising AI breakthroughs. Leaders will […]

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New Forest Carbon Accounting & Modeling Guide Released

Forest Carbon Accounting and Modeling Framework Alternatives: An Inventory, Assessment, and Application Guide for Eastern US State Policy Agencies Final Report, Center for Research on Sustainable Forests Adam J. Daigneault, Daniel J. Hayes, Ivan J. Fernandez, and Aaron R. Weiskittel School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME International agreements on climate change mitigation, […]

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Daigle et al. Awarded Indigenous Forest Research Funding

The Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) announced the funding of several new Indigenous Forest Knowledge Fund (IFKF) projects. The goal of the IFKF fund is to support traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for Indigenous communities alongside other applied forest research. The University of Maine’s John Daigle will lead a team of researchers, including grad students Tyler […]

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UMaine CAFS Hosts GIS Community College Internship Experience

Casmir Brown and Bryon Carroll, students of Jonathon Little, Associate Professor of Geography at SUNY-Monroe Community College (MCC), arrived in Orono over the summer for an 8-week internship focused on geographic information systems (GIS) and forestry-related fieldwork. Casmir began his studies in graphic design a few years ago, but found courses in that topic too […]

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New study shows how global forests play a key role in the future global carbon balance

A new study published in Global Environmental Change by University of Maine Associate Professor of Forest Policy and Economics Adam Daigneault and colleagues from seven institutions develop a first of its kind forest model intercomparison project (ForMIP) to estimate long-term futures for the world’s forests under different socioeconomic and climate mitigation pathways. Amidst growing recognition […]

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CRSF Releases Year 3 EPSCoR Track-2 Annual Progress Report

The University of Maine’s Center for Research on Sustainable Forests has just released its annual progress report on the NSF-funded INSPIRES project, which leverages unique expertise from the University of Maine, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, and Alabama A&M University to construct a digital framework to better assess, understand, and forecast this complex […]

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INSPIRES: Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems using High Spatio-temporal Resolution

CRSF is pleased to announce a publication by cross-institutional members of our NSF-sponsored EPSCoR Track 2 project, Leveraging Intelligent Informatics and Smart Data for Improved Understanding of Northern Forest Ecosystem Resilience (INSPIRES). Their article, Sharing Wireless Spectrum in the Forest Ecosystems Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, has just been published in the International Journal […]

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