Maine’s forests and their associated wood products may offset as much as 75% of the state’s annual fossil fuel carbon emissions, and the highest carbon stock densities are in wetlands and salt marshes, according to a new University of Maine-led analysis. This initial assessment, “The State of Maine’s Carbon Budget,” analyzed available information to calculate […]
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The Washington Post talked with Stephen Shaler, director of the School of Forest Resources and associate director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, for its story “Forget the log cabin. Wood buildings are climbing skyward — with pluses for the planet.” Shaler said, “There’s not a silver bullet out there” with regards to mass […]
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Islam Hafez will develop a nanocellulose-based point-of-use purification system that removes arsenic from drinking water. The United States Department of Agriculture awarded the postdoctoral researcher in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine $132,403 for the two-year project. The university is contributing $67,216 toward the project. “I like my work to be […]
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Scientific American quoted Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, in the article “Harm to Table: Turning an Invasive Crab into a Delicacy.” Local conditions will continue to promote green crab population surges as ocean waters warm faster in the Gulf of Maine than almost anywhere else in […]
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The Maine Division of the New England Society of American Foresters will hold its annual fall meeting Oct. 7–8 at the University of Maine. The meeting will be held 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days in Wells Conference Center and will focus on “Forest Certification: Its Legacy and Future in Maine.” The conference, which […]
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Aaron Weiskittel, director of the University of Maine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, was interviewed for the story “Are We Overestimating How Much Trees Will Help Fight Climate Change?” in Undark. Bob Marra, a forest pathologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station who uses imaging scans to measure internal decay of trees, says internal […]
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Compiling data to better assess, understand and forecast complex forest landscape changes is the goal of a four-year, multidisciplinary regional project led by the University of Maine. The project was awarded $6 million from the National Science Foundation, with $3 million contingent on project progress and availability of funds. It will bring together expertise and […]
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State-of-the-art geospatial data collection and modeling to assess, monitor and forecast the quality, health and value of Maine forestlands is the focus of a new NASA-funded project led by the University of Maine. The three-year project, funded by a nearly $750,000 NASA grant, is led by Parinaz Rahimzadeh, assistant professor of remote sensing of natural […]
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When spotting a butterfly, a common reaction may be to whip out a phone and snap a photo. A team of University of Maine researchers is hoping another response could be to use the phone to log details about areas where butterflies are likely to be found. Using a mobile app, anyone can become a […]
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Mount Desert Islander spoke with Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology at the University of Maine, about a study she’s leading that found ticks are more abundant in parts of Acadia National Park that burned in the October 1947 fire. “We’re trying to establish associations between where we see high densities of […]
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