I/UCRC: Phase 2 - UMaine Membership in IUCRC Center for Advanced Forestry Systems

在第二阶段的运作中，缅因州大学的I/UCRC先进林业系统（CAFS）的网站打算专注于优化所需的造林和遗传系统，以生产高品质的原材料，从而促进该中心的合作研究，并通过森林遗传学，现场操作，更好的生长产量建模，在提高森林生产力方面取得重大进展。 今天森林管理面临的许多问题和机会跨越了学科和区域的界限。 为了实现新的21世纪世纪的挑战所需的技术进步，现有的大学/工业合作社必须在多个空间（包括分子，细胞，个体树，林分，森林和生态系统水平）和时间尺度的研究问题。由CAFS的缅因州大学网站进行的研究增加了森林产品行业和森林土地所有者的竞争力。工业成员通过了解更广泛的技术能力而受益，CAFS科学家和成员人员之间的技术转让促进了新技术的快速实施。通过CAFS研究培训的学生在林业科学中是独一无二的，因为他们在多个尺度上使用跨学科技术解决问题的应用技能。将继续在代表性不足的群体中积极招聘研究生，增加学术界和工业界在这一传统上缺乏多样性的学科中的劳动力多样性。将继续寻求机会，让本科生参与CAFS的研究活动，使他们接触到森林科学的兴奋，并鼓励他们追求研究生教育。

In Phase II operation, the University of Maine Site of the I/UCRC for Advanced Forestry Systems (CAFS) intends to focus on optimizing the silvicultural and genetic systems needed to produce high quality, raw materials thereby contributing to the cooperative research of the center and making significant progress in increasing forest productivity through forest genetics, site manipulation, and better growth & yield modeling. Many of the problems and opportunities facing the management of forests today bridge disciplinary and regional boundaries. To achieve the technological advances needed for new 21st century challenges, existing university/industry cooperatives must approach research questions at multiple spatial (including the molecular, cellular, individual-tree, stand, forest, and ecosystem levels) and temporal scales. Research conducted by the University of Maine site of CAFS increases the competitiveness of forest products industries and forest landowners. Industrial members benefit by becoming knowledgeable about a wider range of technological capabilities and technology transfer between CAFS scientists and member personnel fosters rapid implementation of new technologies. Students trained via CAFS research are unique in the forestry sciences because of their applied problem-solving skills using interdisciplinary techniques across multiple scales. Aggressive recruiting for graduate students among under-represented groups will continue to be conducted, increasing the diversity of the workforce for both academia and industry in this traditionally diversity-deficient discipline. Opportunities will continue to be sought to involve undergraduate students in CAFS research activities, exposing them to the excitement of forest science and encouraging them to pursue graduate education.