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Where Do You Look? Relating Visual Attention To Learning Outcomes And Url Parsing, Niveta Ramkumar May 2021

Where Do You Look? Relating Visual Attention To Learning Outcomes And Url Parsing, Niveta Ramkumar

Master's Theses and Capstones

Visual behavior provides a dynamic trail of where attention is directed. It is considered the behavioral interface between engagement and gaining information, and researchers have used it for several decades to study user's behavior. This thesis focuses on employing visual attention to understand user's behavior in two contexts: 3D learning and gauging URL safety. Such understanding is valuable for improving interactive tools and interface designs. In the first chapter, we present results from studying learners' visual behavior while engaging with tangible and virtual 3D representations of objects. This is a replication of a recent study, and we extended it using …


An Assessment Of The Use Of Green Stormwater Infrastructure For Flood Mitigation At Berry Brook, Rachel Lynn Hastings May 2021

An Assessment Of The Use Of Green Stormwater Infrastructure For Flood Mitigation At Berry Brook, Rachel Lynn Hastings

Master's Theses and Capstones

This research examined the effectiveness of GSI and other BMPs to control urban flooding for extreme precipitation events and compared the impacts of increasing impervious cover with the impacts of increasing rainfall intensity caused by climate change. The City of Dover has spent the last decade implementing best management practices in the 185-acre Berry Brook watershed to combat stream pollution and flooding caused by urbanization. Improvements to the watershed included building additional headwater wetland area, daylighting and restoring 1,100 feet of stream, and redirecting stormwater to GSIs, thereby reducing the effective impervious cover from 30% to 10%. Four PCSWMM models …


Use Of Smart Rocks To Improve Rock Slope Design, Bruma Morganna Mendonca Mendonca De Souza May 2021

Use Of Smart Rocks To Improve Rock Slope Design, Bruma Morganna Mendonca Mendonca De Souza

Master's Theses and Capstones

For many states, rockfall presents risks of irreversible damage to motorists on highways and roads across the country. Assessing these hazards is difficult as it relies on highly empirical methods based on assumed and/or measured slope and terrain surfaces and rock parameters, which can predict unrealistic trajectories due to unreliable modeling inputs. Research undertaken at the University of New Hampshire over the last decade includes the development of Smart Rock (SR) sensors used to evaluate these events from the perspective of the falling rock. The latest SRs consist of 3D printed capsules 50.8 mm in length and 25.4 mm in …


2021-22 Dyf Recipients Honored, Lily Greenberg Apr 2021

2021-22 Dyf Recipients Honored, Lily Greenberg

UNH Today Archive

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Three Students Awarded Smart Scholarship, Brooks Payette Apr 2021

Three Students Awarded Smart Scholarship, Brooks Payette

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Sf6+: Stabilizing Transient Ions In Helium Nanodroplets, Simon Albertini, Stefan Bergmeister, Felix Laimer, Paul Martini, Elisabeth Gruber, Fabio Zappa, Milan Ončák, Paul Scheier, Olof E. Echt Apr 2021

Sf6+: Stabilizing Transient Ions In Helium Nanodroplets, Simon Albertini, Stefan Bergmeister, Felix Laimer, Paul Martini, Elisabeth Gruber, Fabio Zappa, Milan Ončák, Paul Scheier, Olof E. Echt

Faculty Publications

There are myriads of ions that are deemed too short-lived to be experimentally accessible. One of them is SF6+. It has never been observed, although not for lack of trying. We demonstrate that long-lived SF6+ can be formed by doping charged helium nanodroplets (HNDs) with sulfur hexafluoride; excess helium is then gently stripped from the doped HNDs by collisions with helium gas. The ion is identified by high-resolution mass spectrometry (resolution m/Dm = 15000), the close agreement between the expected and observed yield of ions that contain minor sulfur isotopes, and collision-induced dissociation …


Assessing Marginal Shallow-Water Bathymetric Information Content Of Lidar Sounding Attribute Data And Derived Seafloor Geomorphometry, Kim Lowell, Brian R. Calder Apr 2021

Assessing Marginal Shallow-Water Bathymetric Information Content Of Lidar Sounding Attribute Data And Derived Seafloor Geomorphometry, Kim Lowell, Brian R. Calder

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Shallow-water depth estimates from airborne lidar data might be improved by using sounding attribute data (SAD) and ocean geomorphometry derived from lidar soundings. Moreover, an accurate derivation of geomorphometry would be beneficial to other applications. The SAD examined here included routinely collected variables such as sounding intensity and fore/aft scan direction. Ocean-floor geomorphometry was described by slope, orientation, and pulse orthogonality that were derived from the depth estimates of bathymetry soundings using spatial extrapolation and interpolation. Four data case studies (CSs) located near Key West, Florida (United States) were the testbed for this study. To identify bathymetry soundings in lidar …


2020-2021 Faculty Senate Xxv - April 12, 2021 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate Apr 2021

2020-2021 Faculty Senate Xxv - April 12, 2021 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Is A Common Goal A False Hope In Convergence Research?: Opportunities And Challenges Of International Convergence Research To Address Arctic Change, Jessica G. Ernakovich, N. Eklund, Ruth K. Varner, N. Kirchner, J. Jeuring, Katharine Duderstadt, A. Granebeck, E. Golubeva, Asiaq Participants Apr 2021

Is A Common Goal A False Hope In Convergence Research?: Opportunities And Challenges Of International Convergence Research To Address Arctic Change, Jessica G. Ernakovich, N. Eklund, Ruth K. Varner, N. Kirchner, J. Jeuring, Katharine Duderstadt, A. Granebeck, E. Golubeva, Asiaq Participants

Faculty Publications

The Arctic faces multiple pressures including climate change, shifting demographics, human health risks, social justice imbalances, governance issues, and expanding resource extraction. A convergence of academic disciplines—such as natural and social sciences, engineering and technology, health and medicine—and international perspectives is required to meaningfully contribute to solving the challenges of Arctic peoples and ecosystems. However, successfully carrying out convergent, international research and education remains a challenge. Here, lessons from the planning phase of a convergence research project concerned with the health of Arctic waters developed by the Arctic Science IntegrAtion Quest (ASIAQ) are discussed. We discuss our perspective on the …


Prestigious Nsf Graduate Fellowships Awarded, Susan Dumais Apr 2021

Prestigious Nsf Graduate Fellowships Awarded, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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Nuclear Physics Applications Through The Lens Of Undergraduate Research, Tristan Anderson Apr 2021

Nuclear Physics Applications Through The Lens Of Undergraduate Research, Tristan Anderson

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

Whether you know it or not, nuclear-based technologies are pervasive in our daily lives. Despite the field's politicized history, nuclear physics is a great thing—and its non-weaponized applications extend harmlessly and helpfully beyond the walls of a laboratory. In this commentary, I give an overview of a subfield in nuclear physics that investigates the role of nuclear spin within the nuclear medium. I then branch into a discussion of some of my research on spin that I have done in the University of New Hampshire's Polarized Target Group and relate my work's application to medical technologies (external to UNH). From …


Retaining Eucalyptus Harvest Residues Promotes Different Pathways For Particulate And Mineral-Associated Organic Matter, Gabriel W. D. Ferreira, Fernanda C. C. Oliveira, Emanuelle M. B. Soares, Jorg Schnecker, Ivo R. Silva, A. Stuart Grandy Mar 2021

Retaining Eucalyptus Harvest Residues Promotes Different Pathways For Particulate And Mineral-Associated Organic Matter, Gabriel W. D. Ferreira, Fernanda C. C. Oliveira, Emanuelle M. B. Soares, Jorg Schnecker, Ivo R. Silva, A. Stuart Grandy

Faculty Publications

Eucalyptus plantations have replaced other (agro)ecosystems over 5.6 Mha in Brazil. While these plantations rapidly accumulate carbon (C) in their biomass, the C storage in living forest biomass is transient, and thus, longer-term sustainability relies on sustaining soil organic matter (SOM) stocks. A significant amount of harvest residues (HR) is generated every rotation and can yield SOM if retained in the field. Yet, there is little information on how managing eucalyptus HR changes SOM dynamics. We used isotopic and molecular approaches in a 3-yr field decomposition experiment where a native grassland has been replaced by eucalyptus plantations to assess how …


Designing And Conducting A Community-Based Civic Health Index: A Primer For Local Leaders, Quixada Moore-Vissing, Bruce L. Mallory Mar 2021

Designing And Conducting A Community-Based Civic Health Index: A Primer For Local Leaders, Quixada Moore-Vissing, Bruce L. Mallory

Carsey Publications

In this report, authors Quixada Moore-Vissing and Bruce Mallory build on previous Indexes published in 2006, 2009, and 2013 to take stock of New Hampshire's civic well-being in light of the changes the state has experienced in recent years. Their research draws on data from the U.S. Census, the Social Capital Community Benchmarks survey, and the UNH Granite State Poll.


Coordination And Control – Limits In Standard Representations Of Multi-Reservoir Operations In Hydrological Modeling, Charles Rouge, Patrick M. Reed, Danielle S. Grogan, Shan Zuidema, Alexander Prusevich, Stanley Glidden, Jonathan R. Lamontagne, Richard B. Lammers Mar 2021

Coordination And Control – Limits In Standard Representations Of Multi-Reservoir Operations In Hydrological Modeling, Charles Rouge, Patrick M. Reed, Danielle S. Grogan, Shan Zuidema, Alexander Prusevich, Stanley Glidden, Jonathan R. Lamontagne, Richard B. Lammers

Faculty Publications

Major multi-reservoir cascades represent a primary mechanism for dealing with hydrologic variability and extremes within institutionally complex river basins worldwide. These coordinated management processes fundamentally reshape water balance dynamics. Yet, multi-reservoir coordination processes have been largely ignored in the increasingly sophisticated representations of reservoir operations within large-scale hydrological models. The aim of this paper is twofold, namely (i) to provide evidence that the common modeling practice of parameterizing each reservoir in a cascade independently from the others is a significant approximation and (ii) to demonstrate potential unintended consequences of this independence approximation when simulating the dynamics of hydrological extremes in …


Demystifying The Scholarly Publishing Landscape, Eleta Exline, Emily Poworoznek, Patricia Condon Mar 2021

Demystifying The Scholarly Publishing Landscape, Eleta Exline, Emily Poworoznek, Patricia Condon

University Library Scholarship

The scholarly publishing landscape has grown exponentially in size, scope and complexity within the last decade. Since the number and type of publishing outlets have exploded, researchers now need to consider practical and ethical issues such as predatory journals, open access, preprints, publishing data and sponsor obligations when making publication decisions. Further, these issues may be compounded by interdisciplinary research collaborations. Presenters will provide an overview of the contemporary scholarly publishing landscape and the different components. They will also help researchers identify key questions to ask during different stages of the research process, highlight differences that may bear on interdisciplinary …


Racism In Science, Jody Record Mar 2021

Racism In Science, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Oral Exams In Shift To Remote Learning, Mihaela Sabin, Karen H. Jin, Adrienne Smith Mar 2021

Oral Exams In Shift To Remote Learning, Mihaela Sabin, Karen H. Jin, Adrienne Smith

Applied Engineering and Sciences Scholarship

In this experience report paper we present our experience with the development of oral assessments as final examinations in three introductory computing courses. The choice of this type of summative assessment was prompted by the emergency remote instruction instituted in the middle of the Spring 2020 semester, across colleges and universities in the U.S., due to the coronavirus pandemic. The principles that guided our oral assessment design were: to develop a more comprehensive measure of student competence and mitigate exam cheating; to facilitate communication and workplace skills through student-teacher interaction; and to alleviate negative emotions associated with traditional summative assessments. …


Electronic Transitions In Rb2+ Dimers Solvated In Helium, Simon Albertini, Paul Martini, Arne Schiller, Harald Schöbel, Elham Ghavidel, Milan Ončák, Olof E. Echt, Paul Scheier Mar 2021

Electronic Transitions In Rb2+ Dimers Solvated In Helium, Simon Albertini, Paul Martini, Arne Schiller, Harald Schöbel, Elham Ghavidel, Milan Ončák, Olof E. Echt, Paul Scheier

Faculty Publications

We have measured depletion spectra of the heteronuclear (85Rb87Rb+) dimer cation complexed with up to 10 He atoms. Two absorption bands are observed between 920 and 250 nm. The transition into the repulsive 12Sigmau+ state of HeRb2+ gives rise to a broad feature at 790 nm (12650 cm–1); it exhibits a blueshift of 98 cm–1 per added He atom. The transition into the bound 1 2Piu state of HeRb2+ reveals vibrational structure with a band head at < 15522 cm–1, a harmonic …


Synergies Among Environmental Science Research And Monitoring Networks: A Research Agenda, J. A. Jones, P. M. Groffman, J. Blair, F. W. Davis, H. Dugan, E. E. Euskirchen, Serita D. Frey, T. K. Harms, E. Hinckley, M. Kosmala, S. Loberg, S. Malone, K. Novick, S. Malone, K. Novick, S. Record, A. V. Rocha, B. L. Ruddell, E. H. Stanley, C. Sturtevant, A. Thorpe, T. White, W. R. Wieder, L. Zhai, K. Zhu Feb 2021

Synergies Among Environmental Science Research And Monitoring Networks: A Research Agenda, J. A. Jones, P. M. Groffman, J. Blair, F. W. Davis, H. Dugan, E. E. Euskirchen, Serita D. Frey, T. K. Harms, E. Hinckley, M. Kosmala, S. Loberg, S. Malone, K. Novick, S. Malone, K. Novick, S. Record, A. V. Rocha, B. L. Ruddell, E. H. Stanley, C. Sturtevant, A. Thorpe, T. White, W. R. Wieder, L. Zhai, K. Zhu

Faculty Publications

Many research and monitoring networks in recent decades have provided publicly available data documenting environmental and ecological change, but little is known about the status of efforts to synthesize this information across networks. We convened a working group to assess ongoing and potential cross-network synthesis research and outline opportunities and challenges for the future, focusing on the US-based research network (the US Long-Term Ecological Research network, LTER) and monitoring network (the National Ecological Observatory Network, NEON). LTER-NEON cross-network research synergies arise from the potentials for LTER measurements, experiments, models, and observational studies to provide context and mechanisms for interpreting NEON …


Insect Reproductive Behaviors Are Important Mediators Of Carrion Nutrient Release Into Soil, Brooke K. Woelber-Kastner, Serita D. Frey, Daniel R. Howard, Carrie L. Hall Feb 2021

Insect Reproductive Behaviors Are Important Mediators Of Carrion Nutrient Release Into Soil, Brooke K. Woelber-Kastner, Serita D. Frey, Daniel R. Howard, Carrie L. Hall

Faculty Publications

Current declines in terrestrial insect biomass and abundance have raised global concern for the fate of insects and the ecosystem services they provide. However, the ecological and economic contributions of many insects have yet to be quantified. Carrion-specializing invertebrates are important mediators of carrion decomposition; however, the role of their reproductive activities in facilitating this nutrient pulse into ecosystems is poorly understood. Here, we investigate whether insects that sequester carrion belowground for reproduction alter soil biotic and abiotic properties in North American temperate forests. We conducted a field experiment that measured soil conditions in control, surface carrion alone, and beetle-utilized …


Yip Joins Unh Leitzel Center, Dave Kellam Jan 2021

Yip Joins Unh Leitzel Center, Dave Kellam

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Linking Genes To Traits In Fungi, A. L. Romero-Olivares, Eric W. Morrison, A. Pringle, Serita D. Frey Jan 2021

Linking Genes To Traits In Fungi, A. L. Romero-Olivares, Eric W. Morrison, A. Pringle, Serita D. Frey

Faculty Publications

Fungi are mediators of the nitrogen and carbon cycles in terrestrial ecosystems. Examining how nitrogen uptake and organic matter decomposition potential differs in fungi can provide insight into the underlying mechanisms driving fungal ecological processes and ecosystem functioning. In this study, we assessed the frequency of genes encoding for specific enzymes that facilitate nitrogen uptake and organic matter decomposition in 879 fungal genomes with fungal taxa grouped into trait-based categories. Our linked gene-trait data approach revealed that gene frequencies vary across and within trait-based groups and that trait-based categories differ in trait space. We present two examples of how this …


The Band Marches On, Susan Dumais Jan 2021

The Band Marches On, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of Wilton, Nh For The Year Ending December 31, 2020., Wilton Town Representatives Jan 2021

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of Wilton, Nh For The Year Ending December 31, 2020., Wilton Town Representatives

Wilton, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.


University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Academic Catalog, 2021-2022, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2021

University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Academic Catalog, 2021-2022, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.


Kindergarten Entry Assessment And Transition Practice Final Report, Tessa Mcdonnell, Sarah Henry Jan 2021

Kindergarten Entry Assessment And Transition Practice Final Report, Tessa Mcdonnell, Sarah Henry

Preschool Development Grant

No abstract provided.


Annual Report Of The Grafton County Commissioners Together With The Reports From The Conservation District, County Attorney, Human Resources, Nursing Home, Sheriff's Department, Treasurer And Auditors, Unh Cooperative Extension, Corrections, Registry Of Deeds, Information Technology, Department Of Maintenance, Alternative Sentencing, For The Fiscal Year Covering July 1, 2020 - June 20, 2021., Grafton County Representatives Jan 2021

Annual Report Of The Grafton County Commissioners Together With The Reports From The Conservation District, County Attorney, Human Resources, Nursing Home, Sheriff's Department, Treasurer And Auditors, Unh Cooperative Extension, Corrections, Registry Of Deeds, Information Technology, Department Of Maintenance, Alternative Sentencing, For The Fiscal Year Covering July 1, 2020 - June 20, 2021., Grafton County Representatives

Grafton County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.


New Hampshire Continental Shelf Geophysical Database: 2002-2005 Jeffreys Ledge Field Campaign – Seafloor Photographs And Sediment Data, Larry G. Ward, Raymond E. Grizzle, Rachel C. Morrison Jan 2021

New Hampshire Continental Shelf Geophysical Database: 2002-2005 Jeffreys Ledge Field Campaign – Seafloor Photographs And Sediment Data, Larry G. Ward, Raymond E. Grizzle, Rachel C. Morrison

Data Catalog

Jeffreys Ledge is a major physiographic feature in the western Gulf of Maine (WGOM) located ~50 km off the coast of New Hampshire, although coming within ~10 km of shore by Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Jeffreys Ledge rises up as much as ~150 m from the seafloor of the adjacent basins (i.e., Scantum Basin or Wilkinson Basin) to depths less than 50 m on the ridge surface. The ridge extends over 100 km along its north-northeast to south-southwest axes while generally only being 5 to 10 km in width (~20 km maximum). Jeffreys Ledge and the surrounding region, like many features …


University Of New Hampshire Graduate Academic Catalog, 2021-2022, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2021

University Of New Hampshire Graduate Academic Catalog, 2021-2022, University Of New Hampshire

Graduate Catalog

No abstract provided.


High Frequency Concurrent Measurements In Watershed And Impaired Estuary Reveal Coupled Doc And Decoupled Nitrate Dynamics, Gopal K. Mulukutla, Wilfred Wollheim, Joseph Salisbury, Richard O. Carey, Thomas Gregory, William H. Mcdowell Jan 2021

High Frequency Concurrent Measurements In Watershed And Impaired Estuary Reveal Coupled Doc And Decoupled Nitrate Dynamics, Gopal K. Mulukutla, Wilfred Wollheim, Joseph Salisbury, Richard O. Carey, Thomas Gregory, William H. Mcdowell

All Materials

Rapid changes in land use, pollution inputs, and climate are altering the quantity, timing and form of materials delivered from watersheds to estuaries. To better characterize these alterations simultaneous measurements of biogeochemical conditions in watersheds and estuaries over a range of times scales are needed. We examined the strength of watershed-estuarine biogeochemical coupling using data of in situ measurements of nitrate, terrestrial dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and chloride collected over a seven-month period in a nitrogen impaired estuary in the northeastern US. The watershed was observed exerting strong control over concentrations of terrestrially derived DOC in the estuary, attributable to …