School of Forest Resources

CRSF launches third adaptive forest management webinar, field tour series

The Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) is launching the third year of its webinar and field tour series focused on adaptive forest management in Maine under the changing climate.  The series’ first event will focus on the Howland Research Forest, with a webinar held Oct. 26 and a field tour Oct. 28.  Series […]

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Media highlight UMaine research using artificial intelligence to monitor forests

The Bangor Daily News, Penobscot Bay Pilot, Boothbay Register, Science Daily, Scienmag, Bioengineer, Verve Times, Earth.com, Phys.org and other outlets reported on a study by researchers at the University of Maine suggesting that artificial intelligence could be a cost-effective and energy-efficient tool to monitor and manage Maine’s forests. “AI can learn from the environment, predict […]

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Gardner presents at American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago

Douglas Gardner, researcher at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center and professor of sustainable materials and technology in the School of Forest Resources recently presented at the American Chemical Society’s fall meeting in Chicago. Gardner presided over the session “The wide world of adhesion: Symposium in honor of Kash Mittal at 75” and presented a […]

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Fraver part of NSF-funded research on methane sinks in Maine forest 

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 […]

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Maine Public features UMaine’s Howland Research Forest

As part of their series “Climate Driven: A deep dive into Maine’s response, one county at a time,” Maine Public featured the University of Maine’s Howland Research Forest, where scientists have undertaken groundbreaking studies on acid rain, forest ecology and soil health. At the research forest, carbon and other greenhouse gas measurements are continuously recorded […]

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Emily Filiberti: Making international bird connections

University of Maine graduate student Emily Filiberti of Fairfax, Vermont has spent her summer in the woods of Wisconsin tracking forest songbirds. With the guidance of her adviser Amber Roth, assistant professor of forest wildlife management at UMaine, Filiberti is studying the survival rate of the birds using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, an international […]

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O’Neill speaks to BDN about Old Town bridge impacting timber routes

Shane O’Neill, the forest industry business development manager at the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News about how the new 30-ton weight limit on the Llewellyn G. Estes Memorial Bridge in Old Town impacts the transportation of forest products. O’Neill told the BDN that the bridge over […]

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Mech featured on Something Offbeat podcast discussing insects and climate change

Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, was featured on the podcast Something Offbeat by News Radio 1080 KRLD in Dallas-Fort Worth discussing how climate change might impact the way human and insect worlds interact. “We’re seeing, you know, shifting of species being found where they typically weren’t before,” Mech […]

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