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Collaboration Is The Key To Success In Publishing Your Work, Patricia A. Halpin

Life Sciences Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

National Transfer Student Week: Meet Your Mates, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Beyond Imagining: Program Support, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 08 (Oct. 18, 2018), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Expert In Nanosensors, Brian Cunningham To Visit Unh, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

2018-19 Faculty Senate Xxiii - October 15, 2018 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 06 (Oct. 4, 2018), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Long-Time Unh Researcher, Lab Honored With Epa Environmental Merit Award, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Environmental Honors, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Nh International Seminar, Fall 2018: Global Challenges And Change, Global Education Center

NH International Seminar

Kathy Mills
Research Scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute
September 20, 2018
"Fisheries in a Changing Climate"

Chris Larkin
Director of Impact at IDEO.ORG
October 9, 2018 (Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances)
"Human-Centered Design for Positive Change"
Co-sponsored by Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise

Fredrik Meiton
Department of History, UNH
Jeannie Sowers
Department of Political Science, UNH
November 6, 2018
"Power and Protest in Gaza"

Three For The Record Books, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Pathway To Colsa, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

How Do Social Determinants Of Health Manifest In Oral Health?, Annette Cole

M. S. in Management

This research looks at the cause and effect of oral health inequities in the United States. The field of dentistry is a specialized form of health care that is devoted to preventing and treating oral disease and maintaining oral health. Successful patient outcomes in oral healthcare rely on a two-pronged approach. One is quality care delivered by dental providers, and the other is the adoption of daily oral self-care by the patient. Achieving oral health is the sum of collective circumstances not exclusive to an individual’s social, economic, biological or behavioral factors. Through a critical and integrative literature review of …

Unh Manchester, Armi Introduce New Hampshire High School Students To Manufacturing For The Emerging Biofabrication Industry, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Guidelines And Considerations For Designing Field Experiments Simulating Precipitation Extremes In Forest Ecosystems, Heidi Asbjornsen, John L. Campbell, Katie A. Jennings, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Cameron Mcintire, Pamela H. Templer, Richard P. Phillips, Taryn L. Bauerle, Michael C. Dietze, Serita D. Frey, Peter M. Groffman, Rosella Guerrieri, Paul J. Hanson, Eric P. Kelsey, Alan K. Knapp, Nathan G. Mcdowell, Patrick Meir, Kimberly A. Novick, Scott V. Ollinger, Will T. Pockman, Paul G. Schaberg, Stan D. Wullschleger, Melinda D. Smith, Lindsey E. Rustad

Faculty Publications

Precipitation regimes are changing in response to climate change, yet understanding of how forest ecosystems respond to extreme droughts and pluvials remains incomplete. As future precipitation extremes will likely fall outside the range of historical variability, precipitation manipulation experiments (PMEs) are critical to advancing knowledge about potential ecosystem responses. However, few PMEs have been conducted in forests compared to short-statured ecosystems, and forest PMEs have unique design requirements and constraints. Moreover, past forest PMEs have lacked coordination, limiting cross-site comparisons. Here, we review and synthesize approaches, challenges, and opportunities for conducting PMEs in forests, with the goal of guiding design …

Cover Crops May Cause Winter Warming In Snow-Covered Regions, Danica L. Lombardozzi, Gordon B. Bonan

Faculty Publications

Cover crops, grown between cash crops when soil is fallow, are a management strategy that may help mitigate climate change. The biogeochemical effects of cover crops are well documented, as they provide numerous localized benefits to farmers. We test potential biogeophysical climate impacts of idealized cover crop scenarios by assuming that cover crops are planted offseason in all crop regions throughout North America. Our results suggest that planting cover crops increases wintertime temperature up to 3 °C in central North America by decreasing albedo in regions with variable snowpack. Cover crops with higher leaf area indices increase temperature more by …

New Unh Research Aims To Help Humans Survive Dehydration, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Selective Habitat Use By Moose During Critical Periods In The Winter Tick Life Cycle, Christine Healy, Peter J. Pekins, Lee Kantar, Russell G. Congalton, Shadi Atallah

Faculty Publications

High calf mortality attributed to winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus) parasitism occurs in moose (Alces alces) populations along their southern range in the northeastern United States. We analyzed habitat use of cow and calf moose during the critical drop-off and questing periods in the winter tick life cycle to determine a potential relationship between tick density and habitat. We measured habitat use using geospatial analyses of locational data from > 200 radio-marked animals at 3 sites in New Hampshire and Maine. Moose selected for optimal habitat, defined as 4–16 year-old forest openings, regardless of season or site; this was the only land …

Flushing Time Versus Residence Time For The Great Bay Estuary, Kalle Matso

PREP Reports & Publications

The terms “flushing time” and “residence time” have cropped up often in discussions about water quality and eelgrass health in the Great Bay Estuary. Flushing time and residence time are not the same thing and should not be used interchangeably. Flushing time is defined as the time it takes to replace a certain water mass in a coastal system and is most often used as a general measurement of water exchange in an estuary used to relate water exchange from one estuary to another. The most recent estimates of flushing time (2013) for the Great Bay are between 2.5 and …

Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Fall 2018, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

No abstract provided.

Home Range And Microhabitat Associations Of The Southern Red-Backed Vole (Myodes Gapperi) In New Hampshire Forests, Honora Tisell

Master's Theses and Capstones

Resources, such as food and shelter, are unevenly distributed across the landscape at both macro and micro scales. Home range is one measure of space use that reflects an individual’s resource requirements (e.g., microhabitat characteristics) and competition for those resources (e.g., density dependence). This study focuses on the home range of the southern red-backed vole (Myodes gapperi), comparing field methods for estimating home range and modeling the microhabitat characteristics that define the core area of the home range. Southern red-backed voles (Myodes gapperi) are common to boreal forests, most often found in coniferous or mixed deciduous stands, and in the …

A Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion System For Use At Bridges With The Memorial Bridge As A Case Study, Ian Gagnon

Master's Theses and Capstones

As a part of the Living Bridge Project on the Memorial Bridge between Portsmouth, NH and Kittery, ME a turbine deployment system for use at bridges was designed, built, and deployed. One of the purposes of the Living Bridge Project is to demonstrate that advantages to deploying hydrokinetic turbines at bridges exist. The expected advantages include 1) good hydrokinetic resources are likely to occur at bridges because bridges are typically built at constrictions where the flow tends to speed up, 2) existing bridge structures can be used as mooring points, 3) existing bridge permits can be leveraged to aid in …

Analysis Of Uncertainty In Underwater Multiview Reconstruction, Igor V. Kozlov

Master's Theses and Capstones

Multiview reconstruction, a method for creating 3D models from multiple images from different views, has been a popular topic of research in the eld of computer vision in the last two decades. Increased availability of high-quality cameras led to the development of advanced techniques and algorithms. However, little attention has been paid to multiview reconstruction in underwater conditions. Researchers in a wide variety of elds (e.g. marine biology, archaeology, and geology) could benefit from having 3D models of seafloor and underwater objects. Cameras, designed to operate in air, must be put in protective housings to work underwater. This affects the …

The Tallgrass Prairie Soundscape; Employing An Ecoacoustic Approach To Understand Grassland Response To Prescribed Burns And The Spatial And Temporal Patterns Of Nechrophilous Invertebrate Communities, Sarah Dodgin

Master's Theses and Capstones

Tallgrass prairies are rapidly vanishing biodiversity hotspots for native and endemic species, yet little is known regarding how spatial and temporal variation of prairie soundscapes relates to seasonal changes, disturbance patterns and biological communities. Ecoacoustics, the study of environmental sounds using passive acoustics as a non-invasive tool for investigating ecological complexity, allows for long-term data to be captured without disrupting biological communities. Two studies were carried out by employing ecoacoustic methodology to study grassland carrion food webs and to capture the phenology of a grassland soundscape following a prescribed burn. Both studies were conducted at the Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie …

Growing Kiwiberries In New England: A Guide For Regional Producers, William Hastings

Master's Theses and Capstones

The kiwiberry (Actinidia arguta) has an extensive 140-year history of being grown in New England as an ornamental vine but has only recently been adopted as a commercial fruit crop. As regional and international acreage in commercial production continues to increase, the need for a comprehensive production guides and regionally-specific enterprise analyses has become evident. This thesis brings together the most recent findings of the Kiwiberry Development Program at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, along with available commercial kiwiberry production information, to address this need. Specifically, this guide presents an overview of the species, current best production practices, regionally-relevant …

The Effects Of Cortisol, Stress And Rearing Temperature On Black Sea Bass (Centropristis Striata) Sex Differentiation, Kelsie A. Miller

Master's Theses and Capstones

Teleosts exhibit some of the most diverse array of reproductive strategies of all vertebrates, including gonochorism and hermaphroditism. Black sea bass (BSB; Centropristis striata) are protogynous hermaphrodites that undergo sex change between 2-6 years of age in the wild. Transition is initiated earlier in captivity and a greater percentage of fish differentiate directly as males. Captivity and environmental factors, such as temperature, can activate a stress response in fish that can lead to increased production of cortisol, the primary glucocorticoid released following a stressor. Cortisol treatment during sensitive developmental periods has been shown to have masculinizing effects on many teleost …

Investigations Of The Effects Of Reading Skill And Epistemological Beliefs On Learning In General Chemistry, And How Students Use Textbooks To Study, Rene Buell

Doctoral Dissertations

Understanding how student characteristics affect learning in chemistry can influence the pedagogical strategies employed by chemistry instructors. Previous studies have investigated the effects of characteristics including prior knowledge, math ability, and motivations on course performance. Student characteristics can also influence study strategies employed by students. Few studies, however, have focused on the role of language and reading comprehension skill on learning in chemistry, and fewer have investigated the levels of epistemological beliefs of general chemistry students. Three studies are presented in this dissertation. In the first study, the effects of prior knowledge and reading comprehension skill on learning from reading …

Genetic Dissection Of Non-Host Resistance To The Wheat Stem Rust Pathogen, Using An Interspecific Barberry Hybrid, Radhika Bartaula

Doctoral Dissertations

Stem rust, caused by the macrocyclic fungal pathogen P. graminis (Pg), is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat and other small grains globally; and the emergence of new stem rust races virulent on deployed resistance genes brings urgency to the discovery of more durable sources of genetic resistance. Given its intrinsic durability and effectiveness across a broad range of pathogens, non-host resistance (NHR) presents a compelling strategy for achieving long-term rust control in wheat. However, NHR to Pg (Pg-NHR) remains largely unexplored as a protection strategy in wheat, in part due to the challenge of developing a genetically …

Variation In Plant Water Use, Growth, And Water-Use Efficiency Of Planted Mixtures And Monocultures: Toward Proper Species Selection For Reforestation Efforts In The Seasonally Dry Tropics, Katherine Sinacore

Doctoral Dissertations

In recent years, there has been a trend towards reforesting previously degraded areas by planting trees. While plantations offer an opportunity to restore ecosystem functions and diversity, most reforested plantations currently consist of monocultures, or single-species systems. Originally planted to provide wood for both global and regional markets, monocultures provide only a few goods and services and reduce plant biodiversity in comparison to multi-species systems, like forests. An alternative to the current plantation design is planting mixed species systems. Beyond diversifying a plantation, mixed species stands provide an opportunity to enhance ecosystem services that include non-timber forest products, carbon sequestration, …

Biophysical Properties Of An Antifreeze Protein And The Effects Of Ionic Liquids On The Model Protein Gb1, Korth Wade Elliott

Doctoral Dissertations

Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a unique class of protein characterized by their ability to depress the freezing point of water sufficient to prevent the formation of ice crystals by adsorbing to the surface of ice crystals. This unique ability allows organisms (e.g. plants, fish, insects, etc.) which live in extremely cold climates to survive. Because of these proteins’ ability to prevent and slow the rate of ice crystal formation, they have great potential in the application of cryopreservation in medicine, agriculture and food science. Antifreeze proteins have been known for over five decades, however, their exact mechanism of action is …