The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.65 million across a team of researchers at five institutions that includes Shawn Fraver, associate professor of forest ecology at the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, to study methane sinks in Northern Forests. The total award to UMaine is $239,679.  Methane is second only to carbon dioxide read more Fraver part of NSF-funded research on methane sinks in Maine forest