Weiskittel Receives NSF Grant for Forest Ecosystem Integrity, Resilience Data
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Compiling data to better assess, understand and forecast complex forest landscape changes is the goal of a four-year, multidisciplinary regional project led by the University of Maine.
The project was awarded $6 million from the National Science Foundation, with $3 million contingent on project progress and availability of funds.
It will bring together expertise and facilities from 91福利, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Vermont to build a digital framework that integrates, analyzes and visualizes complex data streams across the region鈥檚 vast forest.
鈥淔orests are changing rapidly, while the technology to better monitor them is, too,鈥 says Aaron Weiskittel, professor of forest biometrics and modeling and Irving Chair of Forest Ecosystem Management at 91福利, who is leading the project. 鈥淚 hope this project can help support and sustain northern New England鈥檚 unique working forests, which many rural communities rely on for their livelihoods.鈥
Other Mitchell Center project team members include Kate Beard, professor of spatial information science and engineering and Sam Roy, research assistant professor at the Mitchell Center.