News
5 December 2023
Katrina Schweikert featured as a Sustainability Graduate Fellow. SKAI Lab research assistant Katrina Schweikert discusses her research using geospatial knowledge graphs to integrate environmental data and investigate PFAS contamination, alongside her interests in sustainability and environmental justice. Read the Mitchell Center fellowship feature.
10 October 2023
NSF funding supports the development of SAWGraph. SKAI Lab director Torsten Hahmann leads a team awarded $1.5 million from NSF to develop SAWGraph, an open knowledge network connecting PFAS contamination data with information about potential sources and environmental pathways. Read the UMaine News article.
16 June 2021
Connecting forest data through student research. SKAI Lab research assistant Kingsley Wiafe-Kwakye discusses his Digital Forest research in an INSPIRES student feature. Co-advised by Kate Beard-Tisdale and Torsten Hahmann, Kingsley uses ontologies and knowledge graphs to connect information about tree species and their environmental conditions. Read the Maine EPSCoR student feature.
12 January 2016
Collaborating on new approaches to computing education. SKAI Lab director Torsten Hahmann is a partner in a project led by Harlan Onsrud exploring hands-on, team-based computing education across the University of Maine System. The project brings computing into activities addressing scientific and societal challenges. Read the UMaine Research announcement.