Media share UMaine grant to study climate resilience in mobile home communities
News Center Maine, the Bangor Daily News and VTDigger reported that Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, was awarded more than $79,000 for a study of climate change resilience in mobile home park communities along with collaborators in New Hampshire and Vermont from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Climate Adaptation Partnerships program. “By reaching out to vulnerable communities we can learn their climate adaptation and resiliency needs, and help connect people to needed resources. Ultimately, this project contributes to the important work of Maine’s Climate Action Plan,” Birkel said.