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Emerging Science, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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Covid-19 Didn't Create A Child Care Crisis, But Hastened And Inflamed It, Jess Carson, Marybeth J. Mattingly

Carsey Publications

In this Carsey Perspective, authors Jess Carson and Marybeth Mattingly describe the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has strained the nation’s already-fragile early childhood care systems.

Child care providers are struggling to address revenue losses associated with closures, fewer enrollments, and new safety guidelines. Meanwhile, demand for formal child care is shifting in yet-unknown ways, with unemployment, telework, uncertain school reopenings for older children, and health-related concerns all playing a part.

The authors conclude that the child care system requires significant policy support to regain lost footage, but encourage policymakers to utilize the pandemic’s disruption as an opportunity to rebuild …

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, August 19, 2020, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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A Decade Of Marine Mammal Acoustical Presence And Habitat Preference In The Bering Sea, Kerri D. Seger, Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

As Arctic seas rapidly change with increased ocean temperatures and decreased sea ice extent, traditional Arctic marine mammal distributions may be altered, and typically temperate marine mammal species may shift poleward. Extant and seasonal odontocete species on the continental shelves of the Bering and Chukchi Seas include killer whales (Orcinus orca), sperm whales (Physeter microcephalus), beluga whales (Delphiapterus leucas), harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), and Dall’s porpoises (Phocoenoides dalli). Newly documented, typically temperate odontocete species include Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus) and Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens). Until recently, recording constraints limited sampling rates, preventing the acoustic detection of many of these …

First-Year Mentor Spotlight: Juan Reyes '23, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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Scientific Challenges And Present Capabilities In Underwater Robotic Vehicle Design And Navigation For Oceanographic Exploration Under-Ice, Laughlin D. L. Barker, Michael V. Jakuba, Andrew D. Bowen, Christopher R. German, Ted Maksym, Larry A. Mayer, Antje Boetius, Pierre Dutrieux, Louis L. Whitcomb

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

This paper reviews the scientific motivation and challenges, development, and use of underwater robotic vehicles designed for use in ice-covered waters, with special attention paid to the navigation systems employed for under-ice deployments. Scientific needs for routine access under fixed and moving ice by underwater robotic vehicles are reviewed in the contexts of geology and geophysics, biology, sea ice and climate, ice shelves, and seafloor mapping. The challenges of under-ice vehicle design and navigation are summarized. The paper reviews all known under-ice robotic vehicles and their associated navigation systems, categorizing them by vehicle type (tethered, untethered, hybrid, and glider) and …

Unh Research Aims To Manage Apple Scab Using Seafood Industry Byproduct, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Fish Futures, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

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Report On The 2018 Rapid Assessment Survey Of Introduced, Cryptogenic, And Native Marine Species At New England Marinas Massachusetts To Maine, Cristina Kennedy, Adrienne Pappal, Carolina Bastidas, James Carlton, Andrew David, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Sean Duffey, Jennifer Gibson, Sara Grady, Lindsay Green-Gavrielidis, Larry Harris, Niels-Viggo Hobbs, Alec Mauk, Megan Mcculler, Chris Neefus, Brandon O’Brien, Kristin Osborne, Judy Pederson, Jaclyn Robidoux, Matt Tyler, Kaitlin S. Van Volkom

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

No abstract provided.

Going The Distance, Brion O'Connor

UNH Today Archive

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Microbial Diversity Drives Carbon Use Efficiency In A Model Soil, Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta, Grace Pold, Xiao-Jun Allen Liu, Serita D. Frey, Jerry M. Melillo, Kristen M. Deangelis

Faculty Publications

Empirical evidence for the response of soil carbon cycling to the combined effects of warming, drought and diversity loss is scarce. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) plays a central role in regulating the flow of carbon through soil, yet how biotic and abiotic factors interact to drive it remains unclear. Here, we combine distinct community inocula (a biotic factor) with different temperature and moisture conditions (abiotic factors) to manipulate microbial diversity and community structure within a model soil. While community composition and diversity are the strongest predictors of CUE, abiotic factors modulated the relationship between diversity and CUE, with CUE …

Unh Scientists Find Faster Way To Count Animal Sperm Using Dna, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Towards An Equity Competency Model For Sustainable Food Systems Education Programs, Will Valley, Molly Anderson, Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Eleanor Sterling, Erin Betley, Sharon Akabas, Pamela Koch, Colin Dring, Joanne D. Burke, Karen Spiller

The Sustainability Institute Publications

Addressing social inequities has been recognized as foundational to transforming food systems. Activists and scholars have critiqued food movements as lacking an orientation towards addressing issues of social justice. To address issues of inequity, sustainable food systems education (SFSE) programs will have to increase students’ equity-related capabilities. Our first objective in this paper is to determine the extent to which SFSE programs in the USA and Canada address equity. We identified 108 programs and reviewed their public facing documents for an explicit focus on equity. We found that roughly 80% of universities with SFSE programs do not provide evidence that …

Transfer Mentor Spotlight, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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The Joy Of Specs, Sarah Scaier

UNH Today Archive

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Decomposability Of Soil Organic Matter Over Time: The Soil Incubation Database (Sidb, Version 1.0) And Guidance For Incubation Procedures, Christina Schadel, Jeffrey Beem-Miller, Mina Aziz Rad, Susan E. Crow, Caitlin E. Hicks Pries, Jessica G. Ernakovich, Alison M. Hoyt, Alain Plante, Shane Stoner, Claire C. Treat, Carlos A. Sierra

Faculty Publications

The magnitude of carbon (C) loss to the atmosphere via microbial decomposition is a function of the amount of C stored in soils, the quality of the organic matter, and physical, chemical, and biological factors that comprise the environment for decomposition. The decomposability of C is commonly assessed by laboratory soil incubation studies that measure greenhouse gases mineralized from soils under controlled conditions. Here, we introduce the Soil Incubation Database (SIDb) version 1.0, a compilation of time series data from incubations, structured into a new, publicly available, open-access database of C flux (carbon dioxide, CO2, or methane, CH4). In addition, …

Falling In Love With Chemistry, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Researchers Aim To Boost U.S. Production Of Atlantic Salmon And Steelhead Trout With Cleanerfish, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

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Lumpfish Hold Potential For Managing Sea Lice Infestations At Fish Farms, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Cibbr Announces New Grants, Sarah Scaier

UNH Today Archive

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Exploring The Utility Of Small Unmanned Aerial System (Suas) Products In Remote Visual Stream Ecological Assessment, Alexandra D. Evans, Kevin H. Gardner, Scott Greenwood, Bruce Pruitt

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Many restoration projects’ success is not evaluated (Roni & Beechie 2013; Nilsson et al. 2016), despite available conventional ecological assessment methods. There is a need for more flexible, affordable, and efficient methods for evaluation, particularly those that take advantage of new remote sensing and geospatial technologies (Hubbart et al. 2017). This study explores the use of illustrative small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) products, made using a simple structure-from-motion photogrammetry workflow, coupled with a visual assessment protocol as a remote evaluation and ecological condition archive approach. Three streams were assessed in the field (“surface assessments”) using the Stream Visual Assessment Protocol …

Eyes On The Tiger, Sarah Scaier

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Dairies Receive 2019 Quality Milk Award From Dairy One, Lori Wright

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Manchester Spring 2020 Dean's List, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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Fisheries Funding, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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Effects Of Socioeconomic Status And Race On Access To Healthcare In The United States, Madeline Ohlson

Perspectives

This literature review discusses the effects of an individual or community’s socioeconomic status and race on their access to healthcare in the United States as important and controversial. Health issues affect all Americans, yet inequalities still exist in the healthcare system. Aspects of socioeconomic status and race are prevalent factors in many social problems, especially in their significant influence on access to, quality of, and availability of healthcare that a person receives. The reviewed studies discuss how social stratification regarding socioeconomic status and race lead to disparities in the field of healthcare when discussing the quality of care, health insurance, …

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, June 11, 2020, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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Proving The Naysayers Wrong, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

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Heavy Metals In The Arctic: Distribution And Enrichment Of Five Metals In Alaskan Soils, Clarice R. Perryman, Jochen Wirsing, Kathryn A. Bennett, Owen Brennick, Apryl L. Perry, Nicole Williamson, Jessica G. Ernakovich

Faculty Publications

Metal contamination of food and water resources is a known public health issue in Arctic and sub-Arctic communities due to the proximity of many communities to mining and drilling sites. In addition, permafrost thaw may release heavy metals sequestered in previously frozen soils, potentially contaminating food and water resources by increasing the concentration of metals in freshwater, plants, and wildlife. Here we assess the enrichment of selected heavy metals in Alaskan soils by synthesizing publicly available data of soil metal concentrations. We analyzed data of soil concentrations of arsenic, chromium, mercury, nickel, and lead from over 1,000 samples available through …

Skeletal Analysis Reveals New Details About The Beginnings Of The American Slave Trade, Helen Brosnan

Spectrum

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