SSI Research Projects
Protecting Natural Resources at the Community Scale: Using vernal pools to study urbanization, climate change and forest management
Team: University of Maine
Project range: Statewide
Sustainable Urban Regions Project (SURP)
Team: University of Southern Maine, University of Maine
Project range: Portland and Bangor
Safeguarding a Vulnerable Watershed
Decision tools to support water resources sustainability of managed lake systems
Team: University of Maine, University of Southern Maine
Project range: Sebago Lake Watershed
People, Landscape and Communities (PLACE)
Team: University of Maine
Project range: Statewide
The Knowledge-to-Action Collaborative
Team: University of Maine
Project range: Statewide
Mapping a Sustainable Future
Analysis of Alternative Futures in the Maine Landscape using Spatial Models of Coupled Social and Ecological Systems
Team: University of Maine, University of Maine School of Law
Project range: Lower Penobscot River Watershed
Helping Communities Weather the Storms
Team: University of Maine, UMaine Cooperative Extension
Project range: Coastal Maine
Mobilizing to Fight an Invasive Insect
Mobilizing Diverse Interests to Address Invasive Species Threats to Coupled Natural/Human Systems: The Case of the Emerald Ash Borer in Maine
Team: University of Maine
Project range: Statewide
Renewable Energy from the Tides
The Maine Tidal Power Initiative: Linking knowledge to action for responsible tidal power development
Team: University of Maine
Project range: Down East Maine
Effects of Climate Change on Organisms (ECCO)
Team: University of Maine
Project range: Statewide
SES Synergy: Finding and Applying Best Practices in Socio-ecological Systems Modeling and Outreach
Team: University of Maine
Range: Project wide
Restoring Maine's Rivers
Ecological and Economic Recovery and Sustainability of the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers, Estuary and Nearshore Environment
Team: Bates & Bowdoin Colleges, University of Southern Maine
Project range: Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers and Estuary
Sustaining Our Lakes
Modeling Resilience and Adaptation in the Belgrade Lakes Watershed
Team: Colby College
Project range: Belgrade Lakes Watershed
Sustaining Quality of Place in the Saco River Estuary through Community Based Ecosystem Management
Team: University of New England
Project range: Saco River Estuary
Understanding An Insect Threat to Maine’s Hemlock Trees
Team: Unity College
Project range: Southern & Central Maine
Assessing the Feasibility and Sustainability of Grass Biomass Production in Aroostook County
Team: University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI)
Project range:
Aroostook River Watershed
Charting the Rangeley Region's Social-Ecological System and Identifying Community Sustainability Strategiess
Team: University of Maine at Farmington (UMF)
Project range: Belgrade & Rangeley Lakes Regions
Biomass Energy Resources in the St. John Valley, Aroostook County, Maine: Landscape Implications and Sustainable Development Potentials
Team: University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK)
Project range: St. John Valley
Evaluating Interactions Between Wild Turkeys and Maine Agriculture
University of Maine at Augusta (UMA)
Project range: Statewide
Organizational Innovation
System Analysis of SSI: Navigating Perspectives, Paradigms and Problemscapes
Team: University of Maine
Range: Project wide
Integration Projects
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Combined and Inactive Projects
Sustaining and Restoring Urban Stream Resources in Maine
This project has been combined with Analysis of Alternative Futures in the Maine Landscape using Spatial Models of Coupled Social and Ecological Systems for Year 3.
Spatial forest planning to meet multiple natural resource goals: Developing geospatial tools to forecast management outcomes across a diverse landscape of ownership types and stakeholder interests
This project has been combined with Ecological and Social Change: Adaptation, Place and Evaluation for Year 3.
Linking Knowledge with Action: Refining Maine’s Mercury Fish Consumption Advisory (Phase I)
This project is inactive.
Modeling Stakeholder Acceptance of Solutions to Environmental Problems
This project was merged into the Knowledge-to-Action Collaborative for Year 3.
Perceptions of the System and Interdisciplinary Success
This project was merged into the System Analysis of SSI: Navigating Perspectives, Paradigms and Problemscapes for Year 3.
Developing a Framework for Linking Researcher and Stakeholder Values with Knowledge to Action Effectiveness (Organizational Innovation)
This project was merged into the Knowledge-to-Action Collaborative for Year 3.
Developing our Energy Future: A Community-based Research Project (Planning Grant) - College of the Atlantic
This project is inactive.
