Question: Mattie Pinette is a graduate from the University of Maine, a public research university, which is one of how many land, sea and space grant institutions in the nation?
Context: Nadine G. Barlow is an American astrophysicist.  She is currently a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern Arizona University (NAU).  She became Associate Chair of the NAU Department of Physics and Astronomy in Fall 2010.  She is also the director of the Northern Arizona University/NASA Space Grant Program and an associate director of the Arizona Space Grant Consortium. Mattie Pinette (1903–1999) graduated from the University of Maine and worked as a secretary for the National Bureau of Standards and the Civil Aeronautics Administration in Washington, DC. Louisiana Tech University, colloquially referred to as Louisiana Tech or La.  Tech, is a coeducational public research university in Ruston, Louisiana, United States.  Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier One national university by the 2018 U.S. News & World Report college rankings and is the only Tier One national university in the nine-member University of Louisiana System.  It is a space grant college, member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, is a "R3: Doctoral University with moderate research activity," according to the Carnegie Foundation Doctoral University. Louisiana Tech conducts research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  Louisiana Tech is one of less than 50 comprehensive research universities in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and Research by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  Also, the FAA named Louisiana Tech to the National Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems.  The university is known for its engineering and science programs. There are thirty institutions of higher learning in Maine.  These institutions include the University of Maine, which is the oldest, largest and only research university in the state.  UMaine was founded in 1865 and is the state's only land grant and sea grant college.  The University of Maine is located in the town of Orono and is the flagship of the University of Maine System. The University of Connecticut (UConn) was founded in 1881 and is a public land grant, National Sea Grant and National Space Grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. The Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC) alliance was formed in 1995 by a group of four land grant institutions - Cornell University, Iowa State University, University of Arizona, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library (NAL).  In 1998, NAL assumed the role as “secretariat” to move the partnership forward.  Members were committed to creating a voluntary “alliance” dedicated to providing Internet access to quality, authoritative agricultural information, and specialized reference services.  In 2007, with 60 voluntary partners, this vision continues to sustain the Alliance, largely due to its collaborative nature.  University libraries affiliated with land-grant colleges—as well as other interested institutions, such as the International Rice Research Institute, the American Farmland Trust, the Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for America (SIDALC) and the University of Buenos Aires, School of Agriculture, Central Library, are working together with NAL to develop the AgNIC Alliance, its collections and services, and the technologies upon which it relies. North Carolina State University (also referred to as NCSU, NC State, or just State) is a public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.  It is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution.  The university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle together with Duke University in Durham and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP) Project was formally organized by the five directors of the Land Grant institutions in Hawaii and the United States-affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) in 1988, with the deans/directors of the Land Grant institutions serving as the Board of Directors.  The purpose of ADAP is to strengthen existing Land Grant programs by sharing and focusing resources on priority areas of common concern and interest.  Priority areas are often unique to the Pacific region, having to do with tropical/subtropical island agriculture and cultural practices.  Due to the unique natural and human resource base of the Pacific island agro-ecosystems, it is often not possible or appropriate to transfer results from temperate zone agricultural research, and materials for extension and teaching used by continental US Land Grant programs.  ADAP supports applied research within the region, and the development of effective extension materials that are culturally appropriate. The University of Maine (also referred to as UMaine, Maine or UMO) is a public research university in Orono, Maine, United States.  The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is the flagship university of the University of Maine System.  The University of Maine is one of only nine land, sea and space grant institutions in the nation. Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, TAMU , or A&M) is a coeducational public research university in College Station, Texas, United States.  It is a state university and is a member of the Texas A&M University System.  The Texas A&M system endowment is one of the 10 biggest in the nation.  Texas A&M's student body is the largest in Texas and one of the largest in the United States.  Texas A&M's designation as a land, sea, and space grant institution–the only university in Texas to hold all three designations–reflects a range of research with ongoing projects funded by organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.  In 2001, Texas A&M was inducted as a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities.  The school's students, alumni—over 450,000 strong—and sports teams are known as Aggies.  The Texas A&M Aggies athletes compete in 18 varsity sports as a member of the Southeastern Conference.
Answer: nine