The canopy of a red spruce stand at Penny’s Preserve in Blue Hill. Photo by Emmett Gartner.
The canopy of a red spruce stand at Penny’s Preserve in Blue Hill, Maine.Emmett Gartner

Maine coastal spruce research project featured in The Maine Monitor

July 28, 2025 WGL news & updates

A recent article in The Maine Monitor describes current research at the University of Maine on coastal spruce resilience in the age of climate disruption. Wheatland Geospatial Lab grad student, Greg McHale, is a member of this research team. Greg is using hyperspectral and thermal imagery collected from UAVs, as well as lidar, to assess vegetation stress in coastal red spruce forests in Maine. The Maine Monitor article can be found at: https://themainemonitor.org/coastal-spruce-forests-climate-change/.