External grants awarded >$50,000
Download a PDF of the March 2024 Grant Report.
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Sponsor Name | Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessing Maine Hunters Behavior in the time of PFAS | Caroline Noblet Audrey Kopec |
ME Dept of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife | $116,584 |
| Cloud-based small area estimation based on fast, on-demand processing of large-area remote sensing and 3D point-cloud data | Aaron Weiskittel Kasey Legaard Michael Premer |
National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc US Dept of Agriculture |
$300,000 |
| Design, optimization, and control of floating offshore wind farms for optimal energy production | Kimberly Huguenard Richard Kimball Babak Hejrati |
University of Rhode Island US Dept of Energy |
$367,812 |
| Exploring PFAS Concentrations, Exposure Routes and Trophic Transfer in Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) in an Impacted Area of Maine | Matthew Chatfield Audrey Kopec |
ME Dept of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife | $218,212 |
| Joint Administration of Maine InfoNet (personnel costs of Executive Director) | Daisy Singh | Maine State Library Institute of Museum & Library Services |
$89,731 |
| OMRS grant funding for English language and workforce training (expansion project) | Orlina Boteva | Catholic Charities Maine US Dept of Health & Human Services |
$58,440 |
| Public Health Opioid Response (formerly Naloxone Distribution for Public Health Opioid Response) | Marcella Sorg Jamie Wren |
ME Dept of Health and Human Services US Dept of Health & Human Services |
$984,761 |
| RSVP Renewal FY24 | Carrie Limeburner | Corporation for National & Community Service | $101,702 |
| Strengthening Transition to Organic Outreach and Education for Maine Farms | Lily Calderwood Glenda Pereira Parente Mark Hutton Ellen Mallory |
Pennsylvania Certified Organic US Dept of Agriculture |
$61,128 |
| Sustainable Rivers Program – Science – Willamette River: Updating flow ecology assumptions $$ | Christina Murphy | US Dept of the Interior | $50,990 |
| Sustainable Wood to Fuel and Fish Feed (SWF3) for Strengthening the US Bioeconomy | Hemant Pendse Sampath Gunukula Michael Habte-Tsion Clay Wheeler Peter van Walsum Donald Hawkyard William DeSisto Deborah Bouchard |
US Dept of Agriculture | $10,000,000 |
| UMS Nursing education facilities and equipment – Improving Access to Care and Patient Outcomes Across Maine | Kelley Strout | US Dept of Health & Human Services | $1,300,000 |