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CRSF Annual Report

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CRSF 2022 Annual Report

CRSF has fully embraced the land grant university mission of research, education, and service. In terms of research, CRSF continues to led on multiple stakeholder-led research efforts including the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (CFRU), Center for Advanced Forestry Systems (CAFS), Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC), and the National Science Foundation Track 2 project entitled INSPIRES. […]

Updated 05.4.23
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2021 Annual Report

Highlights Despite the shutdowns associated with the global pandemic, CRSF programs and scientists continued to pursue forest-related research and produce significant results. Output for CRSF researchers include 16 journal articles, 39 presentations/meetings, 8 research reports, 5 theses, 7 media-related publications, 45 videos. During FY21 (July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021), CRSF researchers were awarded $2,205,545 to […]

Updated 01.18.22
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2020 Annual Report

Highlights In FY20, CRSF researchers brought in 13 awards worth $4,303,096. This is an increase of nearly $3.75M from FY19. CRSF researchers submitted 20 proposals in FY20 that, if awarded, could bring in more than $5M in extramural funding. A key source of financial support for the CRSF is provided by the Maine Economic Improvement […]

Updated 01.18.22

ECANUSA

FCCI

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10th Biennial Report on Progress toward Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released its Tenth Biennial Report on Progress Toward Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals in June 2024, which provides a comprehensive analysis of Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by fuel source and economic sector. This report includes an estimate of both gross anthropogenic GHG emissions (i.e., emissions from human activity) […]

Updated 09.11.24

FCCI webinar series

INSPIRES

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INSPIRES Year 4 Annual Report

Year 4 Highlights New inter-jurisdictional research on cold-air pooling and managing for the cold supported by a multidisciplinary network of team members from INSPIRES and beyond, including the University of Michigan; US Fish and Wildlife; Vermont Forests, Parks and Recreation; Vermont Fish and Wildlife Conservation, and Bartlett Experimental Forest (US Forest Service). This project is […]

Updated 08.23.24

Intelligent GeoSolutions

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ForEST App Summary

The ForEST app is a geospatial tool that harnesses state-of-the-ForEST distills the complexity of regional forest conditions down to the key information relevant to forest management/conservation planning in advance of the oncoming spruce budworm outbreak. Forest vulnerability layer using our predictive model based on multiple forest, topographic, and climatalogical factors.

Updated 10.30.24

Maine FOREST

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EPSCoR Maine-FOREST Summary

Forest-based Opportunities for Resilient Economy, Sustainability, and Technology (Maine-FOREST): Future Opportunities for Decarbonization was awarded funding under the NSF EPSCoR E-Rise program to grow Maine’s forest-based economy and rural economies through technology and innovation.

Updated 09.30.24

Natural Climate Solutions

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Forest Carbon Accounting and Modeling Framework Alternatives

An Inventory, Assessment, and Application Guide for Eastern US State Policy Agencies Adam J. Daigneault, Daniel J. Hayes, Ivan J. Fernandez, and Aaron R. Weiskittel School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME Citation: Daigneault, A. J., Hayes, D. J., Fernandez, I. J., & Weiskittel, A. R. (2022). Forest Carbon Accounting and Modeling Framework […]

Updated 01.17.23

PERSEUS

Spruce-Fir Guide

Track 1 Grant

 

Uncategorized Resources

CAFS Menti Survey 6.2025

Updated 06.13.25
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A Resilience Indicators Approach to Ensuring Equitable, Objective, and Continued Investment in Northern Border Communities

Report summarizes the results of a collaborative research project to understand community resilience in the Northern Border region, a federally designated area of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York that borders Canada and generally has higher levels of unemployment, population loss, and lower incomes than neighboring areas.

Updated 05.10.23
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