Two UMaine Projects Receive Northeastern States Research Cooperative Awards
The Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC), a competitive grant program supported by the USDA Forest Service and serving the states of Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont announced its 2015 research awards to advance cross-disciplinary, collaborative research in the Northern Forest region.
The University of Maine will lead two of the 11 projects to receive NSRC Research Awards:
- Classifying and Evaluating Partial Harvests and Their Effect on Stand Dynamics in Northern Maine
- $77,371; Project Leader: Christian Kuehne at the University of Maine
- Productivity, Regeneration Patterns, and Precommercial Treatment Options of Two Ecologically Based Silvicultural Systems: Twenty-year Results from the Acadian Forest Ecosystem Research Project (AFERP) Study
- $39,985; Project Leader: Robert Seymour at the University of Maine
A total of 95 pre-proposals and 41 proposals were evaluated by four peer review panels. The 11 projects selected were awarded approximately $925,000 by NSRC and nearly the equivalent in matching funds. The nearly $2 million will fund research on a range of topics in four core areas of critical importance to Northern Forest communities: society and economics, forest ecology, wood products and forest biodiversity.
Since its inception in 2001, NSRC has awarded $23 million in research funding across the Northern Forest.
More about the 2015 NSRC Research Awards and the projects is online.