Multi-Institutional Research

Maine-FOREST
Forest-based Opportunities for Resilient Economy, Sustainability, and Technology

A project to grow the state’s forest-based economy and the rural communities it supports through scientific advancements in key strategic areas and related workforce development activities.
The Challenge: Lead a comprehensively integrated research, education, and outreach program that fosters diversified and robust forest-based economies and rural livelihoods.

CAFS
Center for Advanced Forestry Systems

As participants in the Center for Advanced Forestry Systems (CAFS), an NSF industry-university cooperative, CRSF helps facilitate the connections among multiple university forestry research programs and industry members to solve complex, industry-wide problems. The CRSF took over as the program lead site in 2018.

NSRC
Northern States Research Cooperative

The NSRC is a competitive grant program that is funded by the USDA Forest Service to support cross-disciplinary, collaborative research in the Northern Forest. NSRC is governed by the universities of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York (ESF), along with the regional lead Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. The CRSF oversees the University of Maine’s participation.

Promoting Economic Resilience and Sustainability of the Eastern U.S. Forests

Scientifically sound information, outreach, and educational opportunities that will lay the foundation for a long-term paradigm shift in forestry toward data-driven, AI-supported forest management systems that increase both the provision of ecosystem services and operational efficiency.

Map of Maine illustrating bioeconomic factors related to science and technology

Coalition of Northern Forest Innovation and Research

A strategic regional partnership to leverage knowledge in precision forest management, traditional wood products, and bio-based materials to complement past successes and infrastructure investments with emerging forest-based sustainable products and technologies.

Smart Data for Resilient Forests

Compiling data to better assess, understand, and forecast complex forest landscape changes is the goal of a four-year, multidisciplinary regional project led by Aaron Weiskittel, director of the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests at the University of Maine.

Center for Research on Sustainable Forests