Faculty research interests within the EES Program include the following 20 major areas of investigation. Many faculty have interests in multiple research areas. Selection of a given key word will bring you to a list of the faculty in that subject area.
With its broad geographic, climatic, and landscape diversity, Maine provides an exceptional outdoor laboratory for the analysis of environmental and ecological problems related to land use, disturbance, climate change, water-air-soil pollution, environmental gradients, and linkages among different types of ecosystems.
Laboratory Facilities
Bear Brook Watershed Ecosystem Study Site Darling Center for Marine Research Holt Forest Long-term Ecological Study Site Howland Forest Long-term Ecosystem Study Site Institute for Climate Change Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology Maine Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station MAFES Plant and Soil Analysis Laboratory MAFES Potato Ecosystem Research Site Maine Image Analysis Laboratory National Center for Geographic Information Analysis Penobscot Experimental Forest (USDA Forest Service) Rogers Farm Sustainable Agriculture Study Site Maine Water Research Institute and Senator George J. Mitchell Center for the Environment University of Maine Forest Weymouth Point Watershed Ecosystem Study Site
Graduate Program in Ecology and Environmental Science
5751 Murray Hall
Orono, ME 04469
