The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2017 CUGR Summer Fellowship winners. The center’s advisory committee selected six proposals from 28 student submissions to be awarded $3,000 each during the summer semester. This year’s winners are: Meaghan Delcourt, psychology, “Examination of Electrodermal Reactivity in Self-Injurious Behaviors,” advised by Emily Haigh; […]
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The University of Maine School of Forest Resources and Native American Studies Program will present a talk by Visiting Libra Diversity Professor Caroline Brackette on April 17. Brackette will discuss “Cultural Competency, Diversity and Forestry” from 11 a.m. to noon in Norman Smith Hall, Room 107. The School of Forest Resources and Native American Studies […]
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Land managers in New England and eastern New York state have a new tool to help identify eastern hemlock stands at greatest risk for rapid growth decline by evaluating stresses on the trees, including response to the hemlock woolly adelgid and changes resulting from a warming climate. Today, an estimated 26 percent of the region’s […]
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The Ellsworth American wrote about the University of Maine School of Forest Resources’ Barbara Wheatland Geospatial Analysis Laboratory’s involvement with the construction of a new waste transfer station in Orland. “Basically the client wanted the most up-to-date representation of what’s there on the ground,” says Dave Sandilands, a graduate student, remote sensing specialist and aerial […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources recently finished an innovative remote sensing application for the town of Orland. The Barbara Wheatland Geospatial Programs’ aerial monitoring team produced a high-resolution orthophoto — an aerial photograph that has been geometrically corrected to have a uniform scale — and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) analysis for […]
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The Maine forest products industry has been a part of Walker Day’s life for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the small western Maine town of Lovell, Day watched as his father and grandfather spent the majority of their professional careers in forestry. “They both had a very big impact on how […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reports U.S. Sen. Angus King will be at the University of Maine Friday to help announce a forest bio-based manufacturing partnership between the university and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During his visit, King will receive a private briefing on the project and tour the Alfond Advanced Manufacturing Lab for Structural Thermoplastics.
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Long-term changes in weather are affecting Maine agriculture, bringing both risks and potential opportunities for farmers in the state. At the University of Maine, faculty initiated the Maine Climate and Agriculture Network to improve coordination among faculty, staff and students on the subject. The network recently published a fact sheet that outlines observations of how […]
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The use of residual forest biomass for rural development faces economic hurdles that make it unlikely to be a job source in the near future, according to an Oregon State University analysis led by a University of Maine researcher. The study, published in Forest Policy and Economics, focused on biomass generated during timber-harvesting operations. It […]
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The annual Christmas tree sale put on by Xi Sigma Pi, the forestry honors society, is underway at the University of Maine’s Nutting Hall. Xi Sigma Pi runs the sale to raise money for student scholarships within the School of Forest Resources and the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology. Trees ranging from 4 […]
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