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Assessing Effectiveness Of Runnel Restoration In New England Salt Marsh Habitats, David M. Burdick, Grant Mckown, Gregg Moore, Jenny Gibson, Wenley Ferguson, John Herbert, Nancy Pau, Susan Adamowicz, Geoff Wilson Jul 2025

Assessing Effectiveness Of Runnel Restoration In New England Salt Marsh Habitats, David M. Burdick, Grant Mckown, Gregg Moore, Jenny Gibson, Wenley Ferguson, John Herbert, Nancy Pau, Susan Adamowicz, Geoff Wilson

Faculty Publications

Rising sea levels that increase flooding in salt marshes recovering from hydrologic impairments is reducing nesting habitat for salt marsh sparrows. Abandonment of colonial farming practices (1600s through 1900s) has resulted in large, waterlogged basins characterized by shallow depressions (pannes) dominated by short-form Spartina alterniflora and unvegetated megapools that are subsiding. A relatively new technique designed to provide regular tidal flooding and drainage to the waterlogged basins that have formed on the marsh is runnelling – creation of shallow hydrologic features on the marsh surface. Will runnels result in revegetation of pannes and pools with productive perennial grasses that are …


Town Of Lee, New Hampshire Annual Town Report June 30, 2025, Lee Town Representatives Jul 2025

Town Of Lee, New Hampshire Annual Town Report June 30, 2025, Lee Town Representatives

Lee, NH Annual Reports

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


Large Lessons From A Tiny Wasp, Mark Wanner Jul 2025

Large Lessons From A Tiny Wasp, Mark Wanner

UNH Today Archive

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"Access Granted": Analyzing The Growing Use Of Biometric Data Collection At Sports Facilities, Patrick Doll Jun 2025

"Access Granted": Analyzing The Growing Use Of Biometric Data Collection At Sports Facilities, Patrick Doll

UNH Sports Law Review

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Bousquet ’27 Earns Noaa Hollings Scholarship, Keith Testa Jun 2025

Bousquet ’27 Earns Noaa Hollings Scholarship, Keith Testa

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Renovated Spaulding Hall Unveiled, Jeremy Gasowski Jun 2025

Renovated Spaulding Hall Unveiled, Jeremy Gasowski

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Study Shows Corals Can't Escape Warming Water But Urgent Action Could Protect Them, Robbin Ray Jun 2025

Study Shows Corals Can't Escape Warming Water But Urgent Action Could Protect Them, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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The Rhythms Of The Sea And A Snail, Mark Wanner Jun 2025

The Rhythms Of The Sea And A Snail, Mark Wanner

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Participatory Science Newsletter 2025_05_20, Mairi Poisson, Malin Clyde, Alyson L. Eberhardt May 2025

Participatory Science Newsletter 2025_05_20, Mairi Poisson, Malin Clyde, Alyson L. Eberhardt

Participatory Science News

In this edition of the UNH Participatory Sciences Newsletter, we offer news and resources on The Power of Participatory Sciences. These include a story about UNH graduate student Lauren White's work using participatory science data about horseshoe crab spawning in the Great Bay. Another story highlights UNH's Coastal Research Volunteers Beach Profiling Project and another outlines how many UNH researchers at UNH are working with local communities to find solutions to environmental problems. A final article shares information about the 2025 conference for the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences and the poster presented by scholars and students from UNH.


International Changemaker Grant Sends Students To Work In Global Communities, Unh Communications And Public Affairs May 2025

International Changemaker Grant Sends Students To Work In Global Communities, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Leading First-Generation College Students To Career Success: An Analysis Of Practices And Programs, Karyn E. King Fargo May 2025

Leading First-Generation College Students To Career Success: An Analysis Of Practices And Programs, Karyn E. King Fargo

M.S. in Leadership

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of first-generation college students and examine how career development programs impact their career readiness and success. Despite their growing presence in higher education, support systems for first-generation college students remain insufficient, putting many at risk of not completing their degree or successfully transitioning into the workforce. The study used a qualitative methodology consisting of a comprehensive literature review and interviews with college administrators involved in career and student development programs. The study compared insights from existing literature with the perspectives of college administrators, identifying key programs and practices that contribute …


University Of New Hampshire 2025-2026 Faculty Senate Xxx - May 5, 2025 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate May 2025

University Of New Hampshire 2025-2026 Faculty Senate Xxx - May 5, 2025 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Time Variant Particle Swarm Optimization For Autonomous Dynamic Rescue And Recovery, Kyle Sanders May 2025

Time Variant Particle Swarm Optimization For Autonomous Dynamic Rescue And Recovery, Kyle Sanders

Master's Theses and Capstones

Rescue and recovery missions on extraterrestrial sites are an inevitable necessity, especiallywith increased extraterrestrial exploration. Robotic and crewed missions provide significant challenges due to budgetary restrictions and time constraints. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) techniques leverage shared swarm knowledge for solution convergence. However, traditional PSO exhibits performance degradation in dynamic scenarios. The author presents Time-Variant Particle Swarm Optimization (TVPSO), which weighs newer measurements higher than previously held values. This is achieved through implementation of a configurable comparison function as part of the survival of the fittest logical calculations. Three versions of this comparison function are evaluated (exponential, linear, and logistic) against …


Exploring The Dynamics Of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus Diversity In Developing Aquaculture Oyster Microbiomes, Benjamin John Wasson May 2025

Exploring The Dynamics Of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus Diversity In Developing Aquaculture Oyster Microbiomes, Benjamin John Wasson

Master's Theses and Capstones

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a genetically diverse marine bacterium and the leading cause of seafood-borne bacterial illness in the United States. While most strains are harmless, some can cause illness. As oyster aquaculture grows in the Northeast, particularly in New Hampshire’s Great Bay Estuary (GBE), understanding the dynamics of V. parahaemolyticus population diversity and persistence is critical for public health and sustainable aquaculture production. This work investigates two major research questions: whether standard bacterial enumeration methods introduce bias when evaluating diversity of V. parahaemolyticus populations, and how environmental factors influence V. parahaemolyticus acquisition and microbiome development in juvenile oysters. We first …


A Multi-Layered, Discourse-Oriented Exploration Of Learning Assistant-Student Interaction In Calculus I, Rebecca Butler May 2025

A Multi-Layered, Discourse-Oriented Exploration Of Learning Assistant-Student Interaction In Calculus I, Rebecca Butler

Doctoral Dissertations

Learning Assistants (LAs) are undergraduate near-peer tutors who aid in the instruction of collegiate courses in which they have previously been successful as students. It has been consistently shown that students in LA-supported STEM courses have more positive course outcomes than their peers without LA support. The benefits include improved retention, better scores on content assessments requiring higher-order reasoning, and a greater sense of belonging in STEM. Little is known about why students in LA-supported courses evidence this range of positive course outcomes, but it is conjectured that LAs facilitate these outcomes through their frequent and engaging interactions with students. …


A Daughter’S Inheritance: The Construction Of Motherhood Through Death, Michaela George May 2025

A Daughter’S Inheritance: The Construction Of Motherhood Through Death, Michaela George

Doctoral Dissertations

Mother-daughter relationships have been of feminist interest for decades as this relationship shifts narrative focus to underrepresented characters. In literature their relationship illustrates and complicates what it means to be ‘woman’ and provides access to educational theories, political understanding, and familial ideologies. Further, examining how these relationships shift and alter through eras of narratives offers tangible patterns for study. My dissertation examines the mother-daughter relationships in late eighteenth-century, early nineteenth-century prose by investigating how social constructions of gender are complicated, critiqued, shaped, and altered as they are passed from parent to child in deathbed scenes. I engage with medical humanities …


Assessing The Roles Of Corticosterone And Familiarity In Prosocial Helping Tasks, Taylor Anne Kimball-Sabatella May 2025

Assessing The Roles Of Corticosterone And Familiarity In Prosocial Helping Tasks, Taylor Anne Kimball-Sabatella

Doctoral Dissertations

Studies have suggested that rats may be motivated by empathy, a characteristic that has been historically viewed as uniquely human, when engaging in helping other individuals escape stressful situations. Some researchers refute this idea, suggesting rats may be motivated by social interaction or other factors. To better understand what is driving helping behavior, it is critical to investigate the effectiveness of the stressors used in previous studies, how stress levels change over time, and how the stress of the recipient is related to the actions of the helper. If restraint is causing sufficient stress to the trapped individual and a …


Consumptive And Energetic Responses Of Fishes Under Pressure Of Climate Change, Nathan Thomas Hermann May 2025

Consumptive And Energetic Responses Of Fishes Under Pressure Of Climate Change, Nathan Thomas Hermann

Doctoral Dissertations

Marine organisms are confronted with warming waters due to climate change requiring species to exhibit responses to persist. For many fish, these responses have included range shifts to cooler waters, but are species-specific which may create further disruption through trophic mismatches. To identify potential mismatches and estimate their implications for the quality of consumption within major predators, analyses of predator stomach contents were integrated with reviews of organismal energetics and physiological parameter values. The energy density of prey that is consumed dictates the consequences of consumption, so having data expands general understanding of diet. To that end, published records (n …


Dimensions Of Green Crabs, Carcinus Maenas (Linnaeus 1785), And Oysters, Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin 1791), In Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire, Kelsey Meyer May 2025

Dimensions Of Green Crabs, Carcinus Maenas (Linnaeus 1785), And Oysters, Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin 1791), In Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire, Kelsey Meyer

Doctoral Dissertations

Invasive species may alter how an ecosystem functions, such as the Great Bay Estuary (GBE) inNew Hampshire. In GBE, an invasive species of particular interest is the green cab (Carcinus maenas) because historically (and currently) there are no mitigation or eradication plans that have been implemented. It is not well-known how green crabs are interacting with oysters in GBE, whether that be wild, restored, or aquacultured. The aim of this dissertation was to document NH oyster growers’ perspectives on the issue of green crabs and oyster predation, understand their abundance, distribution and diet among natural/restored oyster areas and oyster farms …


The Last Snail In The Coffin: Climate Change Facilitates The Rise Of A Native Slipper Limpet To The Detriment Of Gulf Of Maine Ecosystems, Kaitlin Van Volkom May 2025

The Last Snail In The Coffin: Climate Change Facilitates The Rise Of A Native Slipper Limpet To The Detriment Of Gulf Of Maine Ecosystems, Kaitlin Van Volkom

Doctoral Dissertations

Climate change is thought to favor invasive species and harm native species, but the native slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata, may prosper under climate change scenarios. C. fornicata is widely distributed along the East Coast of the United States and has been known to increase its reproductive output in response to warming water temperatures. This species is an ideal model organism for studying the impacts of climate change because this species has a large latitudinal distribution, are very common, and are present in many different ecosystems. However, little is known about C. fornicata population dynamics, trophic relationships, or population level differences …


Investigating The Role Of Soundscape Properties And Genetic Material As Sentinel Indicators Of The Acoustic Environment In Gulf Of Maine Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Grant Alexander Milne May 2025

Investigating The Role Of Soundscape Properties And Genetic Material As Sentinel Indicators Of The Acoustic Environment In Gulf Of Maine Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Grant Alexander Milne

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT By identifying soundscape properties and taxa detected with metabarcoding that accurately predict substrate composition, assumptions about propagative properties of the environment can be rapidly formed without the use of active acoustic sensing or invasive environmental sampling techniques. “Sentinel indicators,” are variables, processes, or components within ecosystems that can be measured or quantified and have sensitivity to environmental pressures. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and metabarcoding of seawater samples (MSS) are two minimally invasive potential methods of identifying sentinel indicators of soundscape and propagation properties of marine habitats by detecting the presence of marine taxa and extracting information from soundscapes. To …


Design And Synthesis Of Single Atom Catalysts For Solar Fuel Generation, Allison Harper St. John May 2025

Design And Synthesis Of Single Atom Catalysts For Solar Fuel Generation, Allison Harper St. John

Doctoral Dissertations

Solar fuel generation from photocatalytic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction is a growing area of interest to mitigate global energy and climate crises. Graphitic carbon nitride (C3N4) is a light-absorbing semiconductor with a promising outlook for solar fuels, gaining popularity in recent years due to its low cost and appropriate band positions for many environmentally relevant reactions. The addition of atomically dispersed single atom catalysts (SACs) to semiconducting materials is a viable strategy for creating active sites to improve photocatalytic performance of the semiconductors studied. Designing C3N4 materials as a support for SACs with well-defined binding motifs and sufficiently high concentrations …


The Role Of The Gut Microbiota In Opioid Use Disorder, Izabella Jannae Sall May 2025

The Role Of The Gut Microbiota In Opioid Use Disorder, Izabella Jannae Sall

Doctoral Dissertations

Opioids are highly effective analgesics for acute and chronic pain management but carry dangerous side effects that limit their utility and increase the risk of opioid use disorder (OUD). Yet not all individuals prescribed opioids develop an OUD, presenting a conundrum: why are so some individuals develop an OUD and others do not? While genetics, social environment, and behavior contribute to risk, they fail to explain why some individuals transition from prescribed use to an OUD. My doctoral research investigates an increasingly likely culprit that is also a promising therapeutic target: the gut microbiota. The gut microbiota is essential for …


Responding To Range Expansion: Assessing Insect Communities, Tree Decline Symptoms, And Tree Mortality Risk As The Southern Pine Beetle Moves North, Caroline Rachel Kanaskie May 2025

Responding To Range Expansion: Assessing Insect Communities, Tree Decline Symptoms, And Tree Mortality Risk As The Southern Pine Beetle Moves North, Caroline Rachel Kanaskie

Doctoral Dissertations

Climate change is shifting species distributions. In New England, warmer winters allow southern species to survive further north. The northward range expansion of the tree-killing southern pine beetle is the focus of this dissertation. Outbreaks of this beetle cause both ecological and economic damage, which threaten the globally rare pine barrens ecosystem. I used an interdisciplinary approach to study this insect: 1) I synthesized literature on the beetle’s natural enemies; 2) I used a suite of chemical attractants to investigate the insect community attracted to the beetle’s pheromones and assessed the diversity and abundance of its potential predators; 3) I …


Molecular Simulation Studies Of Peptide Transport Across The Mitochondrial Membrane, Son Nguyen May 2025

Molecular Simulation Studies Of Peptide Transport Across The Mitochondrial Membrane, Son Nguyen

Doctoral Dissertations

Molecular transport across membranes is an important biophysical process. Designing molecules capable of crossing cell membranes and targeting specific organelle is becoming necessary in treating many diseases and disorders. In recent decades, cell-penetrating peptides have been studied and utilized to deliver a variety of cargoes. My dissertation work focuses on studying the molecular details of the peptide translocation process across a cell membrane. Specifically, I investigated the dynamics of mitochondrial-targeting peptides and their mechanisms of translocation across the mitomembrane. I conducted molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of model mitochondrial-targeting peptides with distinct physical and chemical properties such as sequence lengths, functional …


Evaluation Of The Role Of Bet Inhibitors On The Bone Marrow Microenvironment, Victoria Aumann Dos Reis May 2025

Evaluation Of The Role Of Bet Inhibitors On The Bone Marrow Microenvironment, Victoria Aumann Dos Reis

Master's Theses and Capstones

Waldenström Macroglobulinemia (WM) is an incurable subtype of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma characterized by high levels of circulating serum IgM and bone marrow infiltration by malignant cells. As in other hematological malignancies, the tumor microenvironment (TME) is crucial for tumorigenesis and survival of WM cells. The TME is composed by non-cancer cells, including stromal and endothelial cells, immune cells, and adipocytes, metabolites, lymphatic and blood vessels, extracellular matrix, and signaling components, such as chemokines, cytokines and growth factors. Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) are essential for hematopoiesis, since they secrete stromal factors and cytokines, including Interleukin (IL)-6. IL-6 modulates the secretion of …


Eastern Oyster Behavioral And Morphological Response To External Stimuli, Michaela Edwards May 2025

Eastern Oyster Behavioral And Morphological Response To External Stimuli, Michaela Edwards

Master's Theses and Capstones

Oysters are known to provide ecosystem services such as improving water quality, and providing habitats to other organisms, in addition to their role as economically important organisms. Many of these services are tied to the gaping behavior oysters exhibit, opening their shells to filter water and grow. Oysters are known to be impacted by many biological and abiotic factors, including predators, biofouling, and handing stressors. Past work has investigated oyster mortality and growth relating to predation and implementation of different cage and bag cleaning frequencies on farms. However, there is limited research regarding how oyster gaping behavior changes in relation …


Adélie Penguin Vocalizations Reflect Breeding Phenology, Danielle Therese Fradet May 2025

Adélie Penguin Vocalizations Reflect Breeding Phenology, Danielle Therese Fradet

Master's Theses and Capstones

Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are bellwethers for Antarctic climate change because their breeding phenology is closely linked to sea-ice extent. Researchers need long-term, large-scale phenology data to make informed Antarctic climate and conservation insights. However, traditional breeding phenology data collection is resource intensive, limiting research to small colonies located near research stations. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a low-disturbance, easily scalable method which facilitates large-scale data collection and has been successfully applied at multiple seabird colonies to collect breeding phenology data. In this thesis, I provide a framework to implement a custom BirdNET wind detector to identify wind distorted recordings, …


Good Vibrations: Low-Frequency Anthropogenic Sound And Blue Mussel Recruitment, Kyrie Elise Newby May 2025

Good Vibrations: Low-Frequency Anthropogenic Sound And Blue Mussel Recruitment, Kyrie Elise Newby

Master's Theses and Capstones

Anthropogenic noise pollution is increasing in the world’s oceans, particularly along urbanized coastlines and global shipping routes. Many human activities, such as vessel traffic, pile driving, drilling, and other construction projects, produce loud low-frequency noise (Duarte et al. 2021). Marine invertebrates, including the blue mussel Mytilus edulis, sense sound through particle motion and may use acoustic signals as informational cues. While excessive noise has been shown to have negative physiological effects on adult and larval shellfish, Mytilidae larvae have also demonstrated a positive settlement response to some types of low-frequency anthropogenic noise (Solé et al. 2023). During the summer of …


Effects Of Winter Severity On Regional Variability In The Timing Of Tree Green-Up Across Eastern North America, Dylan Joseph Smith May 2025

Effects Of Winter Severity On Regional Variability In The Timing Of Tree Green-Up Across Eastern North America, Dylan Joseph Smith

Master's Theses and Capstones

Climate change is altering the depth and duration of winter across eastern North America, with implications for ecological processes dependent on the coldness and seasonality provided by it. Tree green-up is a critical ecosystem transition point being affected by changing climatic conditions. This study investigates how winter season severity- the cumulative depth and duration of the winter season- affects the timing of spring green-up across a dynamically changing region. Using site-level linear trend analysis, meta-analysis, and mixed-effects linear regression, I assessed spatio-temporal changes in winter severity and green-up timing, employing a precipitation-based winter season severity index and PhenoCam remote sensing …