University of Maine School of Forest Resources

06/25/2021

Congratulations to Casey Olechnowicz, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Forest Resources, on being quoted in an article about wildlifes in Maine within this month's Downeast magazine

Drought, climate change, and Western megafires have many Mainers wondering.

06/22/2021

https://umaine.edu/research/2021/06/01/new-assistant-vpr-announced/

Sandra De Urioste-Stone, associate professor of nature-based tourism in the School of Forest Resources has been named Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Maine starting June 1st. De Urioste-Stone received her Ph.D. from the University of Idaho. Prior to joining the University....

06/22/2021

Two Master of Science Bioproducts Engineering students in Dr. Tajvidi’s lab won the 2021 TAPPI NANO Student Poster Competition awards. The virtual conference was hosted by VTT in Finland on June 15-16 2021 and is considered the world’s largest cellulose nanomaterial forum where scientists, students and the industry gather annually to exchange the most recent findings and progress in the area of renewable nanomaterials technology.

Alexander Collins presented his project titled “Contact‐dewatered cellulose nanofibers for reinforced bio‐polymer composites” and won the 2nd place award.

Rakibul Hossain also won the 3rd place award for his presentation titled “Novel multi‐layer oil‐resistant food serving plates using nanocellulose composite”.

06/09/2021

https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2021/06/03/family-forest-initiatives-should-consider-place-attachment-according-to-umaine-study/

Foresters working with family forest landowners should apply contemporary approaches, including place attachment theory and addressing landowner concerns regarding biophysical and social conditions on their woodlands to advance forest stewardship, according to two researchers in the University of Ma...

06/09/2021

https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2021/06/01/umaine-scientists-discover-invasive-earthworms-in-aroostook-forestland/

University of Maine researchers discovered invasive earthworms in Aroostook County timberlands, one of the first reported sightings in Northern Maine forests.  European earthworms have invaded forestland near the Seven Islands campsite on the St. John River and along Route 11 in Nashville Plantatio...

06/07/2021

Great support makes a great team and SFR had the support of Cindy Paschal for 43 years. Friday was Cindy's retirement party and we tried the best we could to let her know just how important she was to us. Enjoy your retirement Cindy!!

06/02/2021

https://calendar.umaine.edu/event/addressing-forest-climate-change-in-maine-managing-brown-ash-for-resiliency-against-eab-and-climate-change-online/

Panelists: John Daigle, Professor of Forest Recreation Management, Tyler Everett, UMaine SFR Ph.D. .student, Emily Francis, UMaine SFR Ph.D. student Series moderator: Amanda Mahaffey, Forest Stewards Guild Panelists will discuss alignment between ash resiliency and climate adaptation through science...

05/17/2021

https://crsf.umaine.edu/2021/04/30/nasa-awards-funding-for-a-carbon-monitoring-framework-in-forestry-decision-making-to-umaine/?fbclid=IwAR32lCdeM5TzLnmLyYHi2TbV-qMpBIN_3icaYxL-rh0hYI9cEbPkBlrzFJg

Orono, ME. Researchers from the University of Maine’s Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) and School of Forest Resources (SFR) have been awarded funding from NASA for a 3-year, $940,308 research project to integrate remotely-sensed data along with forest inventory-based information i...

04/30/2021

SFR Graduating Seniors Class of 2021!!

04/30/2021

https://crsf.umaine.edu/2021/04/30/nasa-awards-funding-for-a-carbon-monitoring-framework-in-forestry-decision-making-to-umaine/

Orono, ME. Researchers from the University of Maine’s Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) and School of Forest Resources (SFR) have been awarded funding from NASA for a 3-year, $940,308 research project to integrate remotely-sensed data along with forest inventory-based information i...

04/23/2021

Rural Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge Grant Program awards announced. From the 14 new proposals awarded system-wide, 3 led and 1 participant from the SFR faculty:
“Community Resilience in a Time of Crisis: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Sandra de Urioste-Stone

“Cellulose Nanofibril-based Materials as a Substrate for Disinfectant Wipes.” Islam Hafez

“Fostering Biochar-Oriented Applications and Workforce in Maine.” Ling Li

Ivan Fernandez was a participant in the project “Maine Circular Food System Infrastructure Research Team.”

The University of Maine System Research Reinvestment Fund (RRF) Advisory Board has announced the award of 14 new internal grants for the 2020–21 academic year. These one-year projects will foster research and development activities in three important areas: COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants; Interdis...

04/22/2021

https://nsfa.umaine.edu/blog/2021/04/16/sun-dow-award/

The George F. Dow Graduate Scholarship recognizes a graduate student associated with the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station with outstanding academic and research performance. Wenjing Sun works to help the environment by developing biodegradable products from renewable resources. With....