Our Areas of Specialization
Work in the Agriculture and Food Systems, Forests and Forest Products, and Marine and Coastal Communities areas (more details coming soon) is anchored by a specialist, typically also working closely with one or more units at the University of Maine leveraging that area of work (e.g. University of Maine Cooperative Extension Office, Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, and Maine Sea Grant respectively).
Maine Won’t Wait also called for the coordination of data and monitoring in support of technical assistance to stakeholders including the Maine Climate Council, the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, the MCC Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, the MCC Equity Subcommittee, the MCC Working groups, the University of Maine System, Maine’s scientific community at large, Maine’s municipalities, business, NGOs and policymakers. To meet this directive MCSIE works with the Maine Climate Office and the Maine State Climatologist, Dr. Sean Birkel, to enhance access to climate relevant data and to build increased capacity for the Maine Climate Office to serve as a gateway to relevant data and monitoring information for Maine.
MCSIE draws on the expertise at the University of Maine in the Office of Strategic Partnerships, Innovation, Resources and Engagement and the Office of Research Development in developing coalitions of researchers in seeking to build research with partners from both within and external to the University of Maine that promote the information needs of Maine’s climate action plan implementation.
Finally, MCSIE benefits from the input of an Advisory Committee including staff from the University of Maine Vice President’s Office of Innovation and Economic Development and the University of Maine Office of Research and Development.