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Low-Income New Hampshire Parents’ Food Acquisition Decisions, Sarah Boege, Jess Carson

Carsey Publications

Drawing on interviews with 16 low-income New Hampshire parents in 2022, this paper explores the complex decisions that families make in choosing what foods to buy and where (and how) to shop.

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Nearly All 2022 Maine Voters Say It Was Easy To Vote, Most Confident Vote Was Accurately Counted 12/8/2022, Unh Survey Center

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Two-thirds of Maine residents who voted in the 2022 general election are very confident their vote was accurately counted, though only one-third of Republicans feel this way. Almost all voters say it was very easy to vote. Maine voters most often mention the economy, inflation, or the cost of living and stopping MAGA, Trump, or far-right candidates as their most important reason for voting.

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Nearly All 2022 Vermont Voters Say It Was Easy To Vote; Gop Voters Skeptical Votes Were Accurately Counted 12/8/2022, Unh Survey Center

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Seven in ten Vermont voters in the 2022 election are very conﬁdent their vote was accurately counted but only one-third of Republican voters feel this way. Almost all voters say it is very easy to vote. When asked their most important reason for voting, Vermont voters most frequently cite abortion or women's rights or electing their own party's candidates or defeating the candidates of the other party.

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Confidence Vote Accurately Counted In 2022 New Hampshire Election Higher Than In 2020 & 2016 12/6/2022, Unh Survey Center

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Three-quarters of New Hampshire residents who voted in the 2022 general election are very confident their vote was accurately counted, and seven in eight say it was very easy to vote. Voters are more likely than in 2020 or 2016 to be very confident their vote was accurately counted, though Republicans in the state remain less confident than others.

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Predicting Eye Disease, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

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Measuring The Inventor's Contribution

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

All inventors should be compensated for the value of their contributions. Inventors contribute both to the patent system and to the technology commercialization process by providing access to a qualifying disclosure describing a qualifying idea. Yet today, a schism divides the patent world and the commercial world over the value of these inventive contributions. Unlike the commercial world, the patent world pays inventors for the contributions of noninventor technology commercialization roles. In particular, seminal reasonable royalty cases like Georgia-Pacific and TWM Manufacturing allow patentees to recover infringer profits and proxies thereof—in violation of congressional mandate and the Supreme Court’s opinion …

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Reccurent Neural Network For The Detection Of Odontocetes, Christopher Michael Foster

Master's Theses and Capstones

This research project explores the ability of a Recurrent Neural Network to detect Odontocetecalls. With the current degree of climate change impacting the planet, being able to better track and locate highly mobile endangered species is imperative. An example of such a species is the Sperm Whale, which is listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Species Act, that migrate annually and have a range that extends through all the world’s oceans. Current methods of detection require a great deal of manual interaction and skill on behalf of the identifier. Automating this process would enable easier tracking and aid …

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Transgender Health: Exploring Medicalization And The Interactions Of Race/Ethnicity, Disability, And Education, Evan Thomas England

Master's Theses and Capstones

There is a wide range of experiences among and between transgender, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) and disabled groups, but they all share histories of medicalization that result in marginalized health experiences and access to health care. To what extent do these health experiences and outcomes vary for U.S. adults with multiply marginalized intersectional identities? How, if at all, does the established moderating capability of education impact health outcomes for people who are transgender? Using data from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, this study utilizes regression modelling to explore the interactions of race/ethnicity, disability, and education with …

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The Influence Of Permafrost Soil Structure On Microbial Community Diversity And Abundance, Nathan D. Blais

Master's Theses and Capstones

Soil structure plays a critical role in shaping soil microbial communities, who directly influence biogeochemical cycling1–4. Although well-studied in temperate systems, the importance of physical structure on soil microbial community diversity, function, and overall activity in permafrost soils is largely unknown. I hypothesized that (1) decreases in pore connectivity would increase microbial diversity based on an expected inverse relationship between diversity and connectivity; (2) soil with an increased abundance of larger pores (> 75 µm), which are uninhabitable because they are too large to sustain liquid water, will exhibit lower bacterial and archaeal abundance and (3) the surface area of …

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Implementing A Reference Backscatter Calibration Technique On A Multi-Sector Multibeam Echosounder, Rui Miguel Aleixo Miguel Cândido

Master's Theses and Capstones

Increasingly, national hydrographic agencies are committing to routine acquisition of seabed backscatter strength estimates from multibeam echosounders (MBES) as part of national programs for seabed characterization. As part of their bathymetric survey mandate, these agencies have a long history of sounding quality control utilizing absolute and relative calibration (reference surfaces and crossover comparisons). Equivalent quality control is, however, not yet in place for managing seabed backscatter strength measurements, as the majority of the collected data is not absolutely referenced.Herein, a new technique for cross-calibrating a MBES with a reference calibrated split beam echosounder (SBES) was implemented. Broadband reference bottom backscatter …

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Perceived Gender Discrimination In The United States Air Force, Linzi Gail Eppinger

Master's Theses and Capstones

While the existence of gender discrimination in the Air Force is well known, previous research had not examined how active-duty Air Force members define gender discrimination and how service members differentiate instances of gender discrimination from gender-based harassment. This study drew on qualitative interviews with 25 Air Force service members to provide a rich account of their perceptions of discrimination and harassment. From this research, several common attributes of gender discrimination became clear. Active-duty Air Force women were more aware of instances of gender discrimination than men, participants perceived being a gender minority in the workplace is a risk factor …

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A Geographic Segmentation Approach For Satellite-Derived Bathymetry, Juliane Jussara Affonso

Master's Theses and Capstones

Safety of navigation depends on our knowledge of seabed and its features, and, as such, any improvements in deriving bathymetry for nautical chart updating are of major importance. Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB) is an alternative to traditional surveys using ship and airborne sensors, particularly for mapping remote and shallow areas, due to its reduced cost and the absence of navigational risks in very shallow and unsurveyed areas. However, the accuracy of SDB can be judged as relatively low for nautical charting purposes and, therefore, is mostly used for reconnaissance or/and for filling gaps in remote or very shallow areas. One of …

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Design And Synthesis Towards Bifunctional 89zr And 44sc Chelators For Immuno-Positron Emission Tomography, Noah Cote

Master's Theses and Capstones

The design and synthesis of novel zirconium and scandium complexes, ZrIV(p-NO2-sal-DFO) and ScIII(p-NO2-Bn-NOTPi) respectively, and their potential for use in immuno-positron emission tomography (immuno-PET) are discussed. The design for a linear octadentate ligand for Zr was hypothesized and derived from deferoxamine B (DFO), a well-known hexadentate siderophore for Fe complexation. A p-NO2-salicyclic acid derivative was prepared to provide a bifunctional handle for antibody conjugation. Deferoxamine B chelates with hydroxamate moieties, which have proven useful for chelation of hard acids. While difficulties in purification led to no complexation studies being performed, this chelator was confirmed via 1H NMR , 13C NMR, …

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Cosmogenic 36cl Dating Of The Granite Canyon Moraine Complex In The Teton Range To Determine Fault Offset Rates And The Influence Of Valley Hypsometry On Glacier Behavior, Calen M. Rubin

Master's Theses and Capstones

During the Last Glacial Maximum, major drainages along the east side of the Teton Range were occupied by alpine glaciers that extended to the floor of Jackson Hole. Chronologies of glaciation in the central and northern parts of the range have been developed via 10Be exposure dating of well-preserved terminal and lateral moraine complexes. However, few glacial records have been developed in the southern portion of the range. The metamorphic and sedimentary bedrock and shallow hypsometry of Granite Canyon stand in contrast to the crystalline lithology and steeper hypsometry of glaciated valleys further north along the eastern range front. Granite …

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Rethinking Absolute Immunity From Defamation Suits In Private Quasi-Judicial Proceedings

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

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Pop & Perjury: The Irs Valuation War With The Estate Of Michael Jackson

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

When Michael Jackson died unexpectedly in Los Angeles, California, on June 25, 2009, his career and earnings were nearing an all-time low. Plagued by past sexual abuse allegations, scandals, and questionable health, Michael Jackson’s personal finances were purported to be in complete disarray. However, following his unexpected death, the value of his estate, which was reported to be near to nothing, swelled as the world remembered his beloved contributions to the world and began to purchase accordingly. Sales of Michael Jackson’s music began to soar high. The estate’s value soared even higher as it signed licensing agreements and released new …

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Broken Promises: The Granite State’S Return To The Institutionalization Of Children With Disabilities

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

In 1975, the New Hampshire legislature enacted a progressive statute which mandated the Department of Health and Human Services “to establish, maintain, implement and coordinate a comprehensive service delivery system for developmentally disabled persons.” This law was innovative for its time; it decreed that individual service plans (ISPs) be developed for every client in the state’s service delivery system, guaranteed “a right to adequate and humane habilitation and treatment[,]” and contemplated the state’s area agency system as we know it today. The statute was a steppingstone for the 1981 class action lawsuit of Garrity v. Gallen. This was one of …

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Investigating The Role Of Palmitoyl Acyltransferase 14 In Preventing Early Death In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Robert Elliott

Master's Theses and Capstones

Palmitoylation is a reversible post-translational modification that affects the location, activity, and stability of proteins. Arabidopsis thaliana contains 23 genes for palmitoyl acyltransferases (PATs), the enzymes that catalyze palmitoylation. Loss of PAT14 activity results in early senescence and diminished plant size when plants are grown on standard peat/perlite mixtures in pots and watered with a commercial fertilizer, but this phenotype is not observed when plants grown on agar plates containing a different nutrient solution. Here we show that neither the peat/perlite growth medium nor the commensal microbes present in the growth are the causative agents for phenotype development. However, the …

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Development Of A Continuous-Tension-Compression Machine For Testing Thin Sheet Metal, Jacqueline Mcnally

Master's Theses and Capstones

This thesis details the design and manufacturing of a custom testing machine for thin sheet metal undergoing continuous tension-compression (CTC) loading. The CTC machine concept is based on using a set of intermeshing dies to continuously support the thin sheet specimen against buckling during the test. The upper set of dies are held in place by a pneumatic actuator of 25 kN capacity. The dies can move freely relative to one another, so that both tension and compression can be performed in the same setup. A hydraulic actuator of 50 kN capacity displaces one side of the intermeshed dies. The …

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Automated License Plate Recognition Systems, Nicholas Noboa

Master's Theses and Capstones

Automated license plate recognition systems make use of machines learning coupled with traditional algorithmic programming to create software capable of identifying and transcribing vehicles’ license plates. From this point, automated license plate recognition systems can be capable of performing a variety of functions, including billing an account or querying the plate number against a database to identify vehicles of concern. These capabilities allow for an efficient method of autonomous vehicle identification, although the unmanned nature of these systems raises concerns over the possibility of their use for surveillance, be it against an individual or group. This thesis will explore the …

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Substrate Availability And Not Thermal Acclimation Controls Microbial Temperature Sensitivity Response To Long-Term Warming, Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta, Grace Pold, Hailey Erb, David Sebag, Eric Verrecchia, Trent Northen, Katherine Louie, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Christa Pennacchio, Melissa A. Knorr, Serita D. Frey, Jerry M. Melillo, Kristen M. Deangelis

Faculty Publications

Microbes are responsible for cycling carbon (C) through soils, and predicted changes in soil C stocks under climate change are highly sensitive to shifts in the mechanisms assumed to control the microbial physiological response to warming. Two mechanisms have been suggested to explain the long-term warming impact on microbial physiology: microbial thermal acclimation and changes in the quantity and quality of substrates available for microbial metabolism. Yet studies disentangling these two mechanisms are lacking. To resolve the drivers of changes in microbial physiology in response to long-term warming, we sampled soils from 13- and 28-year-old soil warming experiments in different …

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Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, November 30, 2022, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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Soil Microbial Communities Vary In Composition And Functional Strategy Across Soil Aggregate Size Class Regardless Of Tillage, Lukas T. Bernhardt, Richard G. Smith, Andrew S. Grandy, Jessica E. Mackay, Nicholas D. Warren, Kevin M. Geyer, Jessica G. Ernakovich

Faculty Publications

The physicochemical environment within aggregates controls the distribution of carbon and microbial communities in soils. Agricultural management, such as tillage, can disrupt aggregates and the microscale habitat provided to microorganisms, thus altering microbial community dynamics. Categorizing microbial communities into life history strategies with shared functional traits—as has been done to understand plant community structure for decades—can illuminate how the soil physicochemical environment constrains the membership and activity of microbial communities. We conducted an aggregate scale survey of microbial community composition and function through the lens of the yield–acquisition–stress (Y–A–S) tolerator life history framework. Soils collected from a 7-year tillage experiment …

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Development And Evaluation Of E3sm-Mosaic: Spatial Distributions And Radiative Effects Of Nitrate Aerosol, Mingxuan Wu, Hailong Wang, Richard C. Easter, Zheng Lu, Xiaohong Liu, Balwinder Singh, Po-Lun Ma, Qi Tang, Ziming Ke, Rudong Zhang, Louisa K. Emmons, Simone Tilmes, Jack E. Dibb, Xue Zheng, Shaocheng Xie, L. Ruby Leung

Faculty Publications

Nitrate aerosol plays an important role in affecting regional air quality as well as Earthâ€™s climate. However, it is not well represented or even neglected in many global climate models. In this study, we couple the Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC) module with the four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) in DOEâ€™s Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 2 (E3SMv2) to treat nitrate aerosol and its radiative effects. We find that nitrate aerosol simulated by E3SMv2-MAM4-MOSAIC is sensitive to the treatment of gaseous HNO3 transfer to/from interstitial particles related to accommodation coefficients of HNO3 (Î±_HNO3) …

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Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, November 16, 2022, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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2022-2023 Faculty Senate Xxvii - November 14, 2022 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Denmark's Depth Model: Compilation Of Bathymetric Data Within The Danish Waters, Giuseppe Masetti, Ove Andersen, Nicki R. Andreasen, Philip S. Christiansen, Marcus A. Cole, James P. Harris, Kasper Langdahl, Lasse M. Schwenger, Ian B. Sonne

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Denmark’s Depth Model (DDM) is a Digital Bathymetric Model based on hundreds of bathymetric survey datasets and historical sources within the Danish Exclusive Economic Zone. The DDM represents the first publicly released model covering the Danish waters with a grid resolution of 50 m. When modern datasets are not available for a given area, historical sources are used, or, as the last resort, interpolation is applied. The model is generated by averaging depths values from validated sources, thus, not targeted for safety of navigation. The model is available by download from the Danish Geodata Agency website. DDM is also made …

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Evaluation Of The Naqfc Driven By The Noaa Global Forecast System (Version 16): Comparison With The Wrf-Cmaq Downscaling Method During The Summer 2019 Firex-Aq Campaign, Youhua Tang, Patrick C. Campbell, Pius Lee, Rick Saylor, Fanglin Yang, Barry Baker, Daniel Tong, Ariel Stein, Jianping Huang, Ho-Chun Huang, Li Pan, Jeff Mcqueen, Ivanka Stajner, Jose Tirado-Delgado, Youngsun Jung, Melissa Yang, Ilann Bourgeois, Jeff Peischl, Tom Ryerson, Donald Blake, Joshua Schwarz, Jose-Luis Jimenez, James Crawford, Glenn Diskin, Richard Moore, Johnathan Hair, Greg Huey, Andrew Rollins, Jack E. Dibb, Xiaoyang Zhang

Faculty Publications

The latest operational National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) has been advanced to use the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model (version 5.3.1) with the CB6r3 (Carbon Bond 6 revision 3) AERO7 (version 7 of the aerosol module) chemical mechanism and is driven by the Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere (FV3) Global Forecast System, version 16 (GFSv16). This update has been accomplished via the development of the meteorological preprocessor, NOAA-EPA Atmosphere–Chemistry Coupler (NACC), adapted from the existing Meteorology–Chemistry Interface Processor (MCIP). Differing from the typically used Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) CMAQ system in the air quality research community, the interpolation-based NACC can …

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2022-2023 Faculty Senate Xxvii - October 31, 2022 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Beyond The Ångström Exponent: Probing Additional Information In Spectral Curvature And Variability Of In Situ Aerosol Hyperspectral (0.3–0.7 Μm) Optical Properties, Carolyn E. Jordan, Bruce E. Anderson, John D. Barrick, Dani Blum, Kathleen Brunke, Jiajue Chai, Gao Chen, Ewan C. Crosbie, Jack E. Dibb, Ann M. Dillner, Emily Gargulinski, Charles H. Hudgins, Emily Joyce, Jackson Kaspari, Robert F. Martin, Richard H. Moore, Rachel O’Brien, Claire E. Robinson, Gregory L. Schuster, Taylor J. Shingler, Michael A. Shook, Amber J. Soja, Kenneth L. Thornhill, Andrew T. Weakley, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Edward L. Winstead, Luke D. Ziemba

Faculty Publications

Ångström exponents (α) allow reconstruction of aerosol optical spectra over a broad range of wavelengths from measurements at two or more wavelengths. Hyperspectral measurements of atmospheric aerosols provide opportunities to probe measured spectra for information inaccessible from only a few wavelengths. Four sets of hyperspectral in situ aerosol optical coefficients (aerosol-phase total extinction, σext, and absorption, σabs; liquid-phase soluble absorption from methanol, σMeOH-abs, and water, σDI-abs, extracts) were measured from biomass burning aerosols (BBAs). Hyperspectral single scattering albedo (ω), calculated from σext and σabs, provide spectral resolution over a wide spectral range rare for this optical parameter. Observed spectral shifts …

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Low-Income New Hampshire Parents’ Food Acquisition Decisions, Sarah Boege, Jess Carson

Carsey Publications

Nearly All 2022 Maine Voters Say It Was Easy To Vote, Most Confident Vote Was Accurately Counted 12/8/2022, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Nearly All 2022 Vermont Voters Say It Was Easy To Vote; Gop Voters Skeptical Votes Were Accurately Counted 12/8/2022, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Confidence Vote Accurately Counted In 2022 New Hampshire Election Higher Than In 2020 & 2016 12/6/2022, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Predicting Eye Disease, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

Measuring The Inventor's Contribution

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Reccurent Neural Network For The Detection Of Odontocetes, Christopher Michael Foster

Master's Theses and Capstones

Transgender Health: Exploring Medicalization And The Interactions Of Race/Ethnicity, Disability, And Education, Evan Thomas England

Master's Theses and Capstones

The Influence Of Permafrost Soil Structure On Microbial Community Diversity And Abundance, Nathan D. Blais

Master's Theses and Capstones

Implementing A Reference Backscatter Calibration Technique On A Multi-Sector Multibeam Echosounder, Rui Miguel Aleixo Miguel Cândido

Master's Theses and Capstones

Perceived Gender Discrimination In The United States Air Force, Linzi Gail Eppinger

Master's Theses and Capstones

A Geographic Segmentation Approach For Satellite-Derived Bathymetry, Juliane Jussara Affonso

Master's Theses and Capstones

Design And Synthesis Towards Bifunctional 89zr And 44sc Chelators For Immuno-Positron Emission Tomography, Noah Cote

Master's Theses and Capstones

Cosmogenic 36cl Dating Of The Granite Canyon Moraine Complex In The Teton Range To Determine Fault Offset Rates And The Influence Of Valley Hypsometry On Glacier Behavior, Calen M. Rubin

Master's Theses and Capstones

Rethinking Absolute Immunity From Defamation Suits In Private Quasi-Judicial Proceedings

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Pop & Perjury: The Irs Valuation War With The Estate Of Michael Jackson

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Broken Promises: The Granite State’S Return To The Institutionalization Of Children With Disabilities

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Investigating The Role Of Palmitoyl Acyltransferase 14 In Preventing Early Death In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Robert Elliott

Master's Theses and Capstones

Development Of A Continuous-Tension-Compression Machine For Testing Thin Sheet Metal, Jacqueline Mcnally

Master's Theses and Capstones

Automated License Plate Recognition Systems, Nicholas Noboa

Master's Theses and Capstones

Faculty Publications

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, November 30, 2022, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

Soil Microbial Communities Vary In Composition And Functional Strategy Across Soil Aggregate Size Class Regardless Of Tillage, Lukas T. Bernhardt, Richard G. Smith, Andrew S. Grandy, Jessica E. Mackay, Nicholas D. Warren, Kevin M. Geyer, Jessica G. Ernakovich

Faculty Publications

Faculty Publications

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, November 16, 2022, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

2022-2023 Faculty Senate Xxvii - November 14, 2022 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

Denmark's Depth Model: Compilation Of Bathymetric Data Within The Danish Waters, Giuseppe Masetti, Ove Andersen, Nicki R. Andreasen, Philip S. Christiansen, Marcus A. Cole, James P. Harris, Kasper Langdahl, Lasse M. Schwenger, Ian B. Sonne

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Faculty Publications

2022-2023 Faculty Senate Xxvii - October 31, 2022 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

Faculty Publications