  {"id":18454,"date":"2019-09-06T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=18454"},"modified":"2019-09-06T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:15:27","slug":"weiskittel-receives-nsf-grant-for-forest-ecosystem-integrity-resilience-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2019\/09\/06\/weiskittel-receives-nsf-grant-for-forest-ecosystem-integrity-resilience-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiskittel Receives NSF Grant for Forest Ecosystem Integrity, Resilience Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/nsf-grant-awarded-to-develop-framework-to-harness-forest-ecosystem-integrity-resilience-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article available from 91¸£Àû News<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The project was awarded $6 million from the National Science Foundation, with $3 million contingent on project progress and availability of funds.<\/p>\n<p>It will bring together expertise and facilities from 91¸£Àû, 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\u2019s vast forest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForests are changing rapidly, while the technology to better monitor them is, too,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/aaron-weiskittel\/\">Aaron Weiskittel<\/a>, professor of forest biometrics and modeling and Irving Chair of Forest Ecosystem Management at 91¸£Àû, who is leading the project. \u201cI hope this project can help support and sustain northern New England\u2019s unique working forests, which many rural communities rely on for their livelihoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Mitchell Center project team members include <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/m-kate-beard-tisdale\/\">Kate Beard<\/a>, professor of spatial information science and engineering and <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/sam-roy\/\">Sam Roy<\/a>, research assistant professor at the Mitchell Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full article available from 91¸£Àû News&#8230; 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. 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