External grants awarded

>$50,000

Project Title Principal Investigator Sponsor Name Award Amount
2026 February Grant Report
Center for Advanced Forestry Systems Phase 4 Aaron Weiskittel
Michael Premer
Kasey Legaard
Kenneth Bundy
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc $70,000
Development of Veneer-Based Food Packaging Xuefeng Zhang
Benjamin Herzog
Shane O’Neill
Jacob Snow
Richard King Mellon Foundation $250,000
Evaluating Nutrient Movement In Deep Compost Mulch Systems To Understand Environmental Impacts, Nutrient Availability And Educate Farmers Nicholas Rowley
Jason Lilley
ME Dept of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry $169,155
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Speed Activated Message Signs in Maine Rebecca Bian ME Dept of Transportation $75,000
Evaluating The Range and Severity of Impacts Across the U.S. Northeastern Seaboard of a Decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Tiago Carrilho Bilo
Sean Birkel
Climate Security Initiative
CO2 Foundation
$54,939
Expanding Soil Health Technical Assistance for Maine Urban Farmers Carrick Gambell ME Dept of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry $184,998
HRFarm: A Sustainable, Unmanned, and AI-driven Cyber-Physical System to Monitor and Analyze High-Resolution Crop-Environment Interactions for Precision Agriculture Yongjie Guan
Xueyu Hou
Seanna Annis
US Dept of Agriculture $586,000
Investigating the role of phage-encoded ESX-secreted toxin (PEST) systems in mycobacterial intrinsic antibiotic resistance Sally Molloy
Joshua Kelley
US Dept of Health & Human Services $542,874
Longitudinal Effectiveness of Speed Feedback Signs at Rural Transition Zones Rebecca Bian ME Dept of Transportation $138,949
Maine WRRI Annual Base Grant 104(b) David Hart
Shaleen Jain
Audrey Kopec
Caroline Noblet
US Dept of the Interior $96,106
PC-Talk Alan Cobo-Lewis Educare of Central Maine
US Dept of Education
$105,000
Personnel Support for Ocean Observing Systems Diane Rowland Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
US Dept of Commerce
$191,680
Rural THRIVE: The Rural Educator Resilience Project Catharine Biddle Nellie Mae Education Foundation $75,000

Contact: research@maine.edu

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