National Science Foundation

Jet-Set Offset is a donation-based carbon-offsetting tool for air travel, and a consumer-friendly alternative to the traditional carbon marketplace. Our site operates as a fundraising tool for environmental nonprofit organizations and facilitates automatic, mileage-based donations from travelers' flights. We've developed this approach to raise awareness of the environmental impact of air travel and inspire eco-conscious travelers and businesses to take action. Travelers and companies can subscribe to Jet-Set Offset and choose to support a nonprofit organization automatically with a one cent-per-mile donation every time they, or their employees, fly. Our nonprofit partners are working towards local climate solutions across the country, operating certified carbon offset and credit projects, as well as advocacy, education, renewable energy, reforestation, and/or conservation programs.

Paramount Planet Product is an Orono-based startup that aims to cut ocean pollution with low-cost, compostable plant-based drink lid that resembles plastic but will not harm the ocean environment if littered.

Cloud services have become ubiquitous to all major 21st century economic activities. However, cloud services and technologies can be significantly more powerful than they are now. A persistent barrier to further advancement has been the lack of a large-scale and open cloud research platforms. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chameleon project will provide such a large-scale platform to the open research community allowing them explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services, design, and core technologies. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating software-defined networking, and optimizing virtualization technologies. The Chameleon testbed, will be deployed at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will consist of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. While a large part of the testbed will consist of homogenous hardware to support large-scale experiments, a portion of it will support heterogeneous units allowing experimentation with high-memory, large-disk, low-power, GPU, and co-processor units. The project will also leverage existing FutureGrid hardware at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year to provide a transition period for the existing FutureGrid community of experimental users. To support the broad range of experiments experiments described above, the project will support a graduated configuration system allowing full user configurability of the software stack, from provisioning of bare metal and network interconnects to delivery of fully functioning cloud environments. A special feature of Chameleon is that it provides for an exceptionally close integration of clouds and networks, which substantially enhances the capabilities of both. In addition, to facilitate experiments, Chameleon will support a set of services designed to meet researchers needs, including support for experimental management, reproducibility, and repositories of trace and workload data of production cloud workloads. The project is led by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and partners from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and University of Texas at San Antonio, comprising a highly qualified and experienced team. The team includes members from the NSF supported FutureGrid project and from the GENI community, both forerunners of the NSFCloud solicitation under which this project is funded. Chameleon will also form a set of partnerships with commercial and academic clouds, such as Rackspace, CERN and Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), and will partner with other testbeds, notably GENI and INRIA's Grid'5000 testbed.

Neuright is a biotech company that develops theragnostic devices for peripheral neuropathy. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Orono, Maine.

Acadia Harvest Inc. is a seafood company based in Franklin, Maine, that specializes in land-based indoor marine fish farming. Established in 2011, the company focuses on utilizing recirculating aquaculture systems to cultivate and market high-value fish products, including yellowtail and black sea bass, as well as American oysters. Acadia Harvest aims to enhance aquaculture technologies to create an integrated and sustainable farming environment, promoting a “zero-waste” facility approach.

Acadia Harvest Inc. is a seafood company based in Franklin, Maine, that specializes in land-based indoor marine fish farming. Established in 2011, the company focuses on utilizing recirculating aquaculture systems to cultivate and market high-value fish products, including yellowtail and black sea bass, as well as American oysters. Acadia Harvest aims to enhance aquaculture technologies to create an integrated and sustainable farming environment, promoting a “zero-waste” facility approach.

Alba-Technic is a technology company that offers patented shock absorbing materials. In December 2015, Alba-Technic announced their patented shock absorbing technology; the same technology principals and patented combination of materials that reside in the SMARTY.

Acadia Harvest Inc. is a seafood company based in Franklin, Maine, that specializes in land-based indoor marine fish farming. Established in 2011, the company focuses on utilizing recirculating aquaculture systems to cultivate and market high-value fish products, including yellowtail and black sea bass, as well as American oysters. Acadia Harvest aims to enhance aquaculture technologies to create an integrated and sustainable farming environment, promoting a “zero-waste” facility approach.

Acadia Harvest Inc. is a seafood company based in Franklin, Maine, that specializes in land-based indoor marine fish farming. Established in 2011, the company focuses on utilizing recirculating aquaculture systems to cultivate and market high-value fish products, including yellowtail and black sea bass, as well as American oysters. Acadia Harvest aims to enhance aquaculture technologies to create an integrated and sustainable farming environment, promoting a “zero-waste” facility approach.

Acadia Harvest Inc. is a seafood company based in Franklin, Maine, that specializes in land-based indoor marine fish farming. Established in 2011, the company focuses on utilizing recirculating aquaculture systems to cultivate and market high-value fish products, including yellowtail and black sea bass, as well as American oysters. Acadia Harvest aims to enhance aquaculture technologies to create an integrated and sustainable farming environment, promoting a “zero-waste” facility approach.

Provider of contract manufacturing services. The company focuses on specialty plastic, filtration, membrane and fluid technologies for various life science applications and provides research and development, prototyping, low to high volume production and assembly services to accommodate the changing needs of the life sciences industry.

Cerahelix, Inc. is a manufacturer specializing in ceramic membrane filters designed for various applications, including water purification, biomass processing, and resource recycling. Established in 2011 and based in Orono, Maine, the company utilizes patented DNA template technology to create bio-derived products with sub-nanometer pores. This innovative approach enables the precise filtration of minute particles, allowing for the effective separation of salts, metal ions, and other impurities at the molecular level. Cerahelix offers a range of products, including single-channel elements for laboratory studies and multi-channel elements for commercial use, along with filter element housings and laboratory test systems for research and development. Its ceramic filtration solutions serve diverse industries such as food and beverage, mining, pharmaceuticals, and waste-to-energy, contributing to enhanced water quality and resource management.

Provider of contract manufacturing services. The company focuses on specialty plastic, filtration, membrane and fluid technologies for various life science applications and provides research and development, prototyping, low to high volume production and assembly services to accommodate the changing needs of the life sciences industry.