October 13, 2020 Using Lasers from Space to Map Carbon in Forests: New NASA Project Awarded to UMaine Researchers from the Wheatland Geospatial Laboratory (WGL) in the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources and the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) have been selected to join NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science […]
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Putting a Price-tag on Natural Climate Solutions Define baseline or business as usual pathway Establish list of acceptable or appropriate mitigation practices Estimate cost and effectiveness of implementing practices More FCCI FAQs
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Improve carbon stock and sequestration Provide durable and long-term storage as wood products Can be used for biomass-based energy, which offsets energy from non-renewables Increase forest resilience to potential disturbances like spruce budworm or fire More FCCI FAQs
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Forest management and operations Forest fires Water quantity and quality, particularly during and after harvesting Spruce-fir suitable habitat Rare plants Habitat for wildlife Land use and conservation Forest vulnerability Recreation and human behavior (parks, ski/snowmobile industry, ticks, ecotourism) More FCCI FAQs
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Approximately 89% of Maine is forested Forests accounts for the vast majority of carbon uptake and storage in the state Forest carbon cycle is primarily driven by trees taking up carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and storing carbon as biomass Carbon is also incorporated into the soil and long-term wood products like lumber More […]
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The Center for Advanced Forestry Systems report highlights projects begun under phase 2 of this NSF I/URC grant. UMaine’s CRSF is the lead site for CAFS. More information on this project can be found on the CAFS webpage here. Many of the problems and opportunities facing the management of forests today bridge disciplinary and regional […]
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UMaine helps relaunch Northeastern States Research Cooperative to support applied regional forest science
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News Release from the University of Maine…. UMaine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests to lead NSF-funded effort to better measure, monitor and manage U.S. forests
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To learn more about this program, go to our CAFS webpage. CAFS awarded 5-year, $500,000 NSF grant
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A group of University of Maine faculty (many affiliated with CRSF’s Forest Climate Change Initiative) and graduate students, joined by a geology professor from Bates and a Maine Forest Service staff member, have recently compiled, synthesized, and analyzed an estimate of Maine’s carbon budget between 2006-2016 by major emissions source and land use category. This […]
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