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Clarksville, New Hampshire 2020 Annual Town Report And Annual Report Of School Directors., Clarksville Town Representatives

Clarksville, NH Annual Reports

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

Three Essays In Applied Microeconomics: Spillover Effects Of Anti Discrimination And Anti Violence Policies, Gokhan Kumpas

Doctoral Dissertations

In this research, I examine the intended and unintended consequences of three highly debated policies at the state and federal level: enactment of Title IX, state anti-bullying laws, and warrantless arrest laws aimed at curbing domestic violence. My first essay examines the causal relationship between athletic participation and means-tested program participation. I use the variation in the implementation of Title IX and find that a 30 percentage-point increase in female athletic participation induced by Title IX increased program participation among 25 to 40-year-old females by 2.8 percentage-points. This effect persists across SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid recipiency. Event study analysis and …

Characterizing Forest Stands Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (Uas) Digital Photogrammetry: Advancements And Challenges In Monitoring Local Scale Forest Composition, Structure, And Health, Benjamin T. Fraser

Doctoral Dissertations

Present-day forests provide a wide variety of ecosystem services to the communities that rely on them. At the same time, these environments face routine and substantial disturbances that direct the need for site-specific, timely, and accurate monitoring/management (i.e., precision forestry). Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS or UAV) and their associated technologies offer a promising tool for conducting such precision forestry. Now, even with only natural color, uncalibrated, UAS imagery, software workflows involving Structure from Motion (SfM) (i.e., digital photogrammetry) modelling and segmentation can be used to characterize the features of individual trees or forest communities. In this research, we tested the …

2020 Annual Town Report Lempster, New Hampshire., Lempster Town Representatives

Lempster, NH Annual Reports

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

Workshop Outcomes Report: 1st International Workshop On Seismic Resilience Of Arctic Infrastructure And Social Systems, Majid Ghayoomi, Katharine Duderstadt, Alexander Kholodov, Alexander Shiklomanov, Matthew Turner, Elham Ajorlou

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Loon Lake 2021 Water Quality Full Annual Report, Amanda Mcquaid, Robert Craycraft

UNH Cooperative Extension

A Water Quality Report by UNH CE Lakes Lay Monitoring Program for Loon Lake in Effingham, NH.

From Community Policing To Political Police In Nicaragua, Lucia Dammert, Mary Fran T. Malone

Faculty Publications

In a region plagued by high rates of violent crime and repressive policing practices, Nicaragua has earned a reputation as exceptional. Despite poverty, inequality, and a historical legacy of political violence and repression, Nicaragua has defied regional trends. It has registered low rates of violent crime while deploying policing practices that emphasized prevention over repression. April 2018 marked an end to this exceptionalism. Police attacked anti-government protestors, and launched a sustained campaign against dissidents that continues to the present day. While the Nicaraguan police had long cultivated a reputation as community-oriented and non-repressive, they appeared to quickly change into a …

Nos Hurricane Preparedness Summit Series 2020, Coastal Response Research Center

Coastal Response Research Center

An in-person, three-day NOS Hurricane Summit was planned in late-April 2020 ahead of the 2020 hurricane season. The purpose of the summit was to enhance preparedness for the 2020 hurricane season by identifying past shortfalls and challenges using the lessons learned from past events to plan for future hurricane response requests. The summit series centered on the safety and preparedness of NOS staff, facilities, partners, and other key resources as well as mission related activities and response actions. These mission activities included, but were not limited to, coordination with USCG for port safety and reopening, readiness and response for pollution …

Junk Evidence: A Call To Scrutinize Historical Cell Site Location Evidence, Victoria Saxe

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Historical cell site location information (CSLI) has been offered as objective, scientific location evidence in criminal trials, but is far less precise than the claims it is used to support. Not only is there no way to pinpoint a cellphone’s precise geographic location from historical CSLI, but there are also no known validation or error rates for the methodologies used to collect and analyze this data. A 2019 telecommunications scandal in Denmark revealed gross inadequacies in the cellphone data and software used by law enforcement to analyze this type of evidence. The scandal sent shockwaves through the country’s legal community …

Hydrographic Survey With Autonomous Surface Vessels: A Best Practices Guide, Val Schmidt

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Increasingly, hydrographic offices are turning to robotic, unmanned, and “autonomous” surface vehicles (ASVs) to conduct systematic seafloor surveys for hydrographic applications (nautical charting). The term “autonomous” is set in quotes to acknowledge the spectrum of capability of these vessels, which varies from those that are remotely piloted (but possibly either manned or unmanned), to those that have some auto-pilot capability, to those that have the ability to react to their local environment, for example to avoid hazards and other ships while optimizing data collection. Data on which these reactions are based may be provided to them or sensed on their …

Unh Police Offer Online Services Safety In Wake Of Covid-19, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Granite State College Undergraduate Catalog 2020-2021, Granite State College

Granite State College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

I’Ll Be Dammed! Public Preferences Regarding Dam Removal In New Hampshire (Pre-Print), Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine Ashcraft, Kevin H. Gardner, Lawrence C. Hamilton

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Decisions about dams, like other environmental conflicts, involve complex tradeoffs between different water uses with varying human and ecological impacts, have significant impacts on public resources and involve many stakeholders with diverse and often conflicting interests. Given the many upcoming dam decisions in New England and across the United States of America, an improved understanding of public preferences about dam decisions is needed to steward resources in the public interest. This research asks (1) What does the public want to see happen with dams?, and (2) Do demographic factors influence public preferences for dam decisions? This paper analyzes data from …

What Do We Know About What To Do With Dams? How Knowledge Shapes Public Opinion About Their Removal In New Hampshire, Simone Chapman, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Kevin H. Gardner

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Simone Chapman, Catherine Ashcraft, Lawrence Hamilton, and Kevin Gardner report the results of an October 2018 Granite State Poll that asked 607 New Hampshire residents how much they have heard, and their thoughts, concerning the question of whether older dams on New Hampshire rivers should be removed for ecological or safety reasons, or whether the dams should be kept.

Most people admitted they have not heard or read about this issue, but at the same time they agreed that dams could be removed in at least some cases. The more people heard or read about the …

Pearl River Negotiation Simulation: Negotiating The Future Of Dams, Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine Ashcraft, Weiwei Mo, Cuihong Song

New Hampshire EPSCoR

The role-play included in this packet is a facilitated, multi-issue negotiation simulation for eight or nine participants about the management of five dams in the hypothetical Pearl River basin. This role-play is meant to be used in conjunction with a system dynamics model, which simulates potential environmental and economic outcomes under different dam management alternatives in the Pearl River basin. The user interface for the system dynamics model can be accessed at: https://ddc.unh.edu/dam-system-dynamics/. The science-based role-play negotiation simulation provides opportunity for discussion of complex topics surrounding human-environment interactions, use of scientific data and modeling in environmental decision-making under uncertainty, …

Majority In Nh Continue To Prioritize "Stay At Home"; Many Not Yet Comfortable Going To Public Places 5/20/2020, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

A majority of New Hampshire residents continue to prioritize following the Governor's "stay at home" order over re-opening the economy. Granite Staters are comfortable going to a golf course, going to a drive-in movie theater, or having a "time-sensitive" hospital procedure. However, far fewer feel comfortable eating inside a restaurant, going to a gym or health club, or going to a movie theater. Republicans are far more comfortable with going to businesses and public places than Democrats. Concern about a family member or oneself contracting COVID-19 has declined since April but nearly two-thirds remain worried about it.

Modeling And Assessing The Sustainability Of Dams In The United States, Cuihong Song

Doctoral Dissertations

Dam decision-making is often controversial as a choice has to be made between the benefits provided by dams (e.g., recreation, water supply, hydropower) and their potential negative impacts (e.g., effects on natural flow regime, impediment for fish migration). However, our understandings of such tradeoffs under a full range of dam management alternatives remain limited which hinders our ability to make sound and scientifically defensible dam management decisions. The diverse stakeholders involved in the decision-making process with varying perspectives and preferences could further exacerbate the difficulty of decision-making. To advance our knowledge in sustainable dam decision-making, this dissertation developed modeling tools …

Granite Staters Approve Of Sununu's Handling Of Coronavirus, Stay At Home Order 4/22/2020, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Nine in ten Granite Staters approve of the job Governor Chris Sununu has done handling the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. A similarly large majority support Sununu's "stay at home" order for the state. Granite Staters say maintaining the stay at home order is more important than re-opening the NH economy by a two-to-one margin. Majorities of Granite Staters believe that state beaches, gyms, and churches should be closed during the stay at home order, while a plurality believe that state parks should stay open during the order.

Acting Out Our Dam Future: Science-Based Role-Play Simulations As Mechanisms For Learning And Natural Resource Planning, Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine Ashcraft, Weiwei Mo, Cuihong Song, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Shannon Rogers, Kevin H. Gardner

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Science often does not make its way into decisions, leading to a problematic gap between scientific and societal progress. To tackle this issue, our research tests a novel science-based negotiation simulation that integrates a role-play simulation (RPS) with a system dynamics model (SDM). In RPSs, stakeholders engage in a mock decision-making process (reflecting real-life institutional arrangements and scientific knowledge) for a set period. System dynamics models (SDMs) are visual tools used to simulate the interactions and feedback within a complex system. We test the integration of the two approaches with stakeholders in New England via a series of two consecutive …

Community Needs Survey In Response To Covid-19 Summary Report, Charlie French

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Views Of A Fast-Moving Pandemic: A Survey Of Granite Staters’ Responses To Covid-19, Thomas G. Safford, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Thomas Safford and Lawrence Hamilton report the results of a Granite State Panel survey (March 17-26), asking New Hampshire residents about their views concerning government responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and whether they changed their daily routine because of the pandemic. They report that New Hampshire residents who approve of President Trump’s handling of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and those who regularly watch Fox News are less likely than others to have made major changes in their routines due to COVID-19. Granite Staters have polarized opinions about President Trump’s handling of the pandemic: 40 …

Getting To Yes, Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

New Hampshire Coastal Flood Risk Summary, Part Ii: Guidance For Using Scientific Projections, New Hampshire Coastal Flood Risk Science And Technical Advisory Panel

All Materials

No abstract provided.

Union Leader Names Two Carsey Alumnae To Annual 40 Under Forty List, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Runoff Coefficients Of High-Flow Events In Undisturbed New England Basins, Iman Hosseini-Shakib, Kevin H. Gardner, Anne Lightbody

New Hampshire EPSCoR

The New England region in the Northeast U.S. receives high annual precipitation as rain and snow, which results in floods that endanger people and infrastructure. Owing to the complexity of hydrologic systems, increases in the frequency and intensity of large precipitation events do not always translate into increases in surface runoff measured as event flow at the basin outlet. However, recent studies have recognized positive trends in the frequency and magnitude of high-flow events in New England. For high-flow events of equal or greater than 2-year daily runoff, the runoff coefficients, or the fraction of precipitation converted into surface runoff …

Annual Reports 2019 Town Officers Town Of Freedom, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2019, Vital Statistics For 2019., Freedom Town Representatives

Freedom, NH Annual Reports

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

Town Of Farmington, New Hampshire 2019 Annual Report., Farmington Town Representatives

Farmington, NH Annual Reports

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

Town Of Francestown, New Hampshire 2019 Annual Reports Of The Officials, Departments, And Committees Of The Town Of Francestown For The Calendar Year Ending December 31, 2019., Francestown Town Representatives

Francestown, NH Annual Reports

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

2019 Annual Town And School Report Exeter, New Hampshire., Exeter Town Representatives

Exeter, NH Annual Reports

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

Town Of Epping, New Hampshire 2019 Town And School Annual Report., Epping Town Representatives

Epping, NH Annual Reports

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