{"id":3176,"date":"2025-10-07T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:51:06","slug":"justin-baumann-awarded-funding-from-maine-epscor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/2025\/10\/07\/justin-baumann-awarded-funding-from-maine-epscor\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baumann awarded funding from Maine EPSCoR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Justin Baumann, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, who has received funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/epscor\/2024-update\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/epscor\/2024-update\/\">University of Maine<\/a>&#8216;s National Science Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/e-rise-epscor-research-infrastructure-improvement-program-epscor\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/e-rise-epscor-research-infrastructure-improvement-program-epscor\">EPSCoR eRISE II<\/a> program to support his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/04\/pulling-mussels-bates-researchers-spend-the-summer-studying-maines-disappearing-shellfish\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/04\/pulling-mussels-bates-researchers-spend-the-summer-studying-maines-disappearing-shellfish\/\">project<\/a> studying mussel populations in the intertidal zones of the Gulf of Maine. This award will fund genetic sequencing of mussels collected by Bates undergrads over the past summer to identify subpopulations of mussels that may be better able to adapt to changing water temperatures.  Collection and analysis of the mussels and sequencing data will be part of the honors theses of two seniors in Justin&#8217;s lab this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1277\" height=\"1919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann.webp\" alt=\"Headshot of Justin Baumann\" class=\"wp-image-3177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann.webp 1277w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann-599x900.webp 599w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann-768x1154.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann-418x628.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2025\/10\/Justin-Baumann-1022x1536.webp 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1277px) 100vw, 1277px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Assist. Prof. Justin Baumann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1722\" height=\"1731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1.webp\" alt=\"National Science Foundation logo\" class=\"wp-image-2454\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1370967741935485;width:140px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1.webp 1722w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1-298x300.webp 298w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1-895x900.webp 895w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1-768x772.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1-1528x1536.webp 1528w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/files\/2022\/04\/NSF-Logo-1-625x628.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1722px) 100vw, 1722px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:100\"><em>This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OIA-2412130 to the University of Maine.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Congratulations to Justin Baumann, Assistant Professor of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["justin-h-baumann"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-grants","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}