Research & Outreach
The Climate Change Institute is a global leader in research and graduate education that integrates transformational field, laboratory and modeling activities to understand the physical, chemical, biological and social components of the climate system of the past and present and to predict future changes in climate and their impacts at local to global scales.
The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions
Producing knowledge and linking it to actions that meet human needs while preserving the planet’s life-support systems is emerging as one of the most fundamental and difficult challenges for science in the 21st century. There is growing consensus that traditional methods of generating and using knowledge must be fundamentally reorganized to confront the breadth, magnitude, and urgency of many problems now facing society. The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions seeks to transform Maine’s capacity for addressing these scientific challenges in ways that directly benefit Maine and other regions. The program of research will also help Maine increase economic activity and technological innovation in ways that sustain the State’s remarkable “quality of place”.
Advanced Structures and Composites Center
The Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s research initiatives include cutting-edge technology development for deepwater offshore wind, public infrastructure, consumer products, residential and light commercial construction, force protection and homeland security.
Forest Bioproducts Research Institute
The Forest Bioproducts Research Institute’s Mission is to advance understanding of the scientific underpinnings, system behavior and policy implications for the production of forest-based bioproducts and to provide and promote technology validation and partnerships that will meet societal needs for materials, chemicals and fuels in an economically and ecologically sustainable manner.
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
The UMaine Extension is part of the nationwide Cooperative Extension System, which works through the land-grant universities in each U.S. state, it is the doorway to University of Maine expertise. For 100 years, UMaine Extension has been putting university research to work in homes, businesses, farms, and communities in every corner of Maine. Educational efforts focus on the Maine Food System, Positive Youth Development, and Community and Economic Development.