UMaine Receives Grant for Climate Research
February 12, 2007
WASHINGTON – The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Maine $239,020 for environmental research, according to U.S. Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins.
The grant will go toward the project titled “Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Groundwater-Carbon Coupling in Large Peat Basins and its Relation to Climate Change.” The project is under the direction of Andrew Reeve, an associate professor of Earth sciences at the University of Maine.
“This funding will greatly assist in the understanding of the linkage between groundwater and climate change,” Snowe and Collins said in a joint statement.
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