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The Ise Awards, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

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An Adventure Worth Taking, Elizabeth Pellerin

UNH Today Archive

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Keane Takes Over, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Helps Lead The Way For Campuses To Measure Their Nitrogen Footprints, Unh Today

Media Relations

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From Genomes To Collective Bargaining, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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How's Your Nitrogen Footprint?, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 44 (Apr. 13, 2017), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 43 (Apr. 10, 2017), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

Permanent Draft Genome Sequence Of Ensifer Sp. Strain Lcm 4579, A Salt-Tolerant, Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Isolated From Senegalese Soil, Nathalie Diagne, Erik Swanson, Celine Pesce, Fatoumata Fall, Fatou Diouf, Niokhor Bakhoum, Dioumacor Fall, Mathieu Ndigue Faye, Rediet Oshone, Stephen D. Simpson, Krystalynne Morris, William Kelley Thomas, Lionel Moulin, Diegane Diouf, Louis S. Tisa

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

The genus Ensifer (formerly Sinorhizobium) contains many species able to form nitrogen-fixing nodules on plants of the legume family. Here, we report the 6.1-Mb draft genome sequence of Ensifer sp. strain LCM 4579, with a G+C content of 62.4% and 5,613 candidate protein-encoding genes.

The Buzz On Bees, Larry Clow

UNH Today Archive

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In Memoriam: Guy Richard Knudsen ’78, Karen Tongue Hammond

UNH Today Archive

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Bioengineering Boon, Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

UNH Today Archive

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Cloudy With A Chance Of Ions, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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Leading The Change He Wants To See, Kimberly Swick Slover

UNH Today Archive

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Multicultural Overnight Program, Dauri Torres

M. S. in Project Management

The declining population of the North East has created a corresponding problem of reduced enrollment for Keene State College. For an educational institution to become successful in a competitive market, new and innovative programs must be created to attract students from diverse cultural backgrounds. The Multicultural Overnight Program will allow students to learn more about what Keene State College offers while simultaneously experiencing various opportunities available to them on and off campus. The program allows students to experience an on campus overnight stay with Keene State students coupled with various workshops presented by faculty from the college. The goal of …

Using Radio Telemetry And Geographic Information Systems To Map And Estimate The Home Range Size And Daily Movement Patterns Of Female Cheetahs On Namibia’S Commercial Farmland, Elisabeth Wise

Inquiry Journal 2017

Fewer than 10,000 cheetahs remain in the wild in Sub-Saharan Africa.Namibia has the largest population, estimated to be 4,000 cheetahs. Habitat fragmentation and prey depletion from human expansion for agriculture have pushed 90 percent of cheetahs to reside on commercial farmland where there is an absence of larger predators, but where there is conflict with the livestock farmers. Radio telemetry was used to investigate the seasonal variation in home range size among nine female cheetahs on commercial farmlands on or near the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia. ArcGIS 10.3 and Geospatial Modeling Environment were used to calculate the home …

Leveraging The Power Of Place In Citizen Science For Effective Conservation Decision Making, G. Newman, M. Chandler, M. Clyde, B. Mcgreavy, M. Haklay, H. Ballard, S. Gray, R. Scarpino, R. Hauptfeld, D. Mellor, J. Gallo

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Many citizen science projects are place-based - built on in-person participation and motivated by local conservation. When done thoughtfully, this approach to citizen science can transform humans and their environment. Despite such possibilities, many projects struggle to meet decision-maker needs, generate useful data to inform decisions, and improve social-ecological resilience. Here, we define leveraging the ‘power of place’ in citizen science, and posit that doing this improves conservation decision making, increases participation, and improves community resilience. First, we explore ‘place’ and identify five place dimensions: social-ecological, narrative and name-based, knowledge-based, emotional and affective, and performative. We then thematically analyze 134 …

Diadromous Fish Investigations, 2016: Anadromous Alosid Restoration And Evaluation, Nh Fish & Game

PREP Reports & Publications

Eight fishways on six New Hampshire (NH) coastal rivers were operated during the spring of 2016 to facilitate the passage of river herring (Alewife Alosa pseudoharengus and Blueback Herring Alosa aestivalis), American Shad Alosa sapidissima, and other diadromous fish over dams.

Estimated numbers of river herring using all coastal river fish ladders in 2016 increased by approximately 40.5% from 2015. Alewives dominated returns to the Cocheco, Exeter, and Lamprey rivers while the Oyster River had a slightly higher percentage of Blueback Herring returning. The Oyster River continues to have low return numbers and exhibits signs that habitat problems are inhibiting …

Persistent Organic Pollutants In The Atlantic And Southern Oceans And Oceanic Atmosphere, Jenna L. Luek, Rebecca M. Dickhut, Michele A. Cochran, Renee L. Falconer, Henrik Kylin

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) continue to cycle through the atmosphere and hydrosphere despite banned or severely restricted usages. Global scale analyses of POPs are challenging, but knowledge of the current distribution of these compounds is needed to understand the movement and long-term consequences of their global use. In the current study, air and seawater samples were collected Oct. 2007–Jan. 2008 aboard the Icebreaker Oden en route from Göteborg, Sweden to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Both air and surface seawater samples consistently contained α-hexachlorocyclohexane (α-HCH), γ-HCH, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), α-Endosulfan, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Sample concentrations for most POPs in air were higher …

Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Spring 2017, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

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2017 Inquiry Journal: Table Of Contents, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal 2017

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Exploring The Recent Abundance Of Spiny Dogfish In The Gulf Of Maine, Benjamin Gallo

Inquiry Journal 2017

I received a 2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) grant to work alongside commercial fishermen on the New Hampshire coastline. Declining populations of traditional groundfish species, such as Atlantic cod, have forced New Hampshire commercial fishermen to target different species. One of their new targets, the spiny dogfish, is a species of shark that migrates along the eastern seaboard over the course of the year. The mechanism behind this migration is still unknown, but typically dogfish are seen in New Hampshire waters from June to August. With the increase in ocean water temperatures in recent years, some fishermen have begun …

Social Behavior And Personality Patterns Of Captive African Elephants, Alison Jeffrey

Inquiry Journal 2017

Through the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, I received an International Research Opportunities Program (IROP) grant to study the social behaviors of African elephants. My research took place in South Africa with the African Elephant ResearchUnit at Knysna ElephantPark. Elephants live in herds and have very strong social bonds. The social interactions and dominance hierarchy between individuals of a herd depend upon many factors, including maternal lineage, age, sex, and personality traits of the elephants.I studied how social behaviors among captive elephants vary throughout the day on an hourly time scale, if those behavior patterns are related to age, and …

Write Free Or Die: Vol. 03, No. 02, Unh Writing Programs

Writing Program Newsletter

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The Evolution Of Senses: My Research Journey Into The Nervous System Of Cnidaria, Molly Hartley

Inquiry Journal 2017

Our understanding of the evolutionary history of animals is improving, but knowledge of the ancient sensory systems that early animals used to interact with their environments is still largely unknown. Using molecular cloning and in situ hybridization staining procedures, I was able to test the hypothesis that some senses evolved prior to the evolution of animals with bilateral symmetry. My data provides evidence that cnidarians can taste using genes that are closely related to human taste receptors. This finding changes our current understanding of when tasteevolved by hundreds of millions of years. The in situ hybridization results also demonstrated co-localization, …

Exploring The Diversity Of Tropical Pumpkin In Costa Rica, Lizzie Gill

Inquiry Journal 2017

A decrease in crop biodiversity within the commercial agricultural sector has prompted plant breeders to explore and utilize wild varieties from each crop’s region of origin to provide enhanced resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. This study explores the diversity of the economically significant tropical pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) present in Costa Rica. Through a nine-week independently designed International Research Opportunities Program (IROP) research grant, I traveled to geographically different cities and farmers’ markets around Costa Rica and communicated with local farmers to collect diverse tropical pumpkin samples. I spent the weekdays with Costa Rican professors at the University of Costa …

Pain Perception: Investigating Links Between Pain Transmission And Cck(+) Neurons, With Regard To The Opioid Crisis, Sumeet Panesar, Zachary Tepper

Inquiry Journal 2017

With dependence on opioids, such as codeine, morphine, and heroin, steadily increasing amongst the American public, the withdrawal symptoms associated with disuse are receiving much more attention. Our research identifies neurons that are implicated in the hyperanalgesic response to the cessation of opiate medication after dependence has been established. These neurons, identified by the cholecystokinin protein (CCK), are localized in regions of the central nervous system that are responsible for transducing painful signals from the periphery to the brain. In particular, our research focuses on the substantia gelatinosa of the spinal cord and the trigeminal nucleus within the brain stem; …

Keeping An Open Mind: Challenges And Mysteries In Cancer Cell Biology Research, Yusuf Ebrahim

Inquiry Journal 2017

I received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) in 2016 to work in Professor Chuck Walker’s cell biology lab, where I had been involved since 2014. I worked under the guidance of Dr. Walker and alongside other colleagues in the lab. My work during that time focused on culturing cancer cells and investigatingthe proteinp53 within them. The body aims toprevent tumors from forming by protecting the integrity of its cells’ DNA. The protein p53 is so vital in this role that it is often referred to as the “guardian of the genome.” In fact, more than half of all human …

2016 Oyster Reef Restoration Project Funded By The Aquatic Resources Mitigation Program, Raymond E. Grizzle, Krystin M. Ward

PREP Reports & Publications

This report describes the results of the construction and initial monitoring phase of an oyster restoration project conducted in 2016 by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), funded by the New Hampshire Aquatic Resources Mitigation Program. The overall goal of the project was to construct 5 acres of new oyster reef habitat in an area adjacent to a live natural reef northwest of Nannie Island, in the Town of Newington, NH, off Woodman Point. The report is organized according to the four major tasks listed as deliverables in the subaward to UNH from TNC.

Scientists To Discuss Latest Research At Unh Macfarlane Research Greenhouses March 31, Lori Wright

UNH Today Archive

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