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A Summer At Apple, Brooks Payette

UNH Today Archive

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Understanding Stakeholder Preferences For Flood Adaptation Alternatives With Natural Capital Implications, Jonathon R. Loos, Shannon H. Rogers

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Inland flood risks are defined by a range of environmental and social factors, including land use and floodplain management. Shifting patterns of storm intensity and precipitation, attributed to climate change, are exacerbating flood risk in regions across North America. Strategies for adapting to growing flood risks and climate change must account for a community’s specific vulnerabilities, and its local economic, environmental, and social conditions. Through a stakeholder-engaged methodology, we designed an interactive decision exercise to enable stakeholders to evaluate alternatives for addressing specific community flood vulnerabilities. We used a multicriteria framework to understand what drives stakeholder preferences for flood mitigation …

Resource Guide For Addiction And Mental Health Care Consumers: Answering Questions About Insurance Coverage And Parity For Addiction And Mental Health Care Services, Lucy C. Hodder, Michele D. Merritt, Margaret H. Schmidt, Jacqueline Botchman, Caitlyn Ebert, Marguerite Corvini, Kate Crary, Bridget Drake

Law Faculty Scholarship

Navigating the maze of health insurance coverage can be difficult. For individuals with addiction or mental illness, the process of getting treatment approved and paid for by health insurance can be overwhelming. As a result, many people give up when their health insurance company denies coverage for needed services. This Guide can help people learn how to access health insurance and use their coverage to pay for treatment. This Guide also provides a basic explanation of consumers’ rights under the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

2016 Nrpt: Oil Spill Response Options For The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Coastal Response Research Center (Crrc)

Coastal Response Research Center

On May 25-26, 2016, the Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC)1 and Disaster Response Center (DRC) co-sponsored a NOAA Regional Preparedness Training (NRPT) Workshop at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS). The workshop focused on preparedness, planning and improvement of response to a potential oil spill that threatened the FGBNMS. The workshop examined response options such as dispersant use and in-situ burning (ISB) while developing the framework for an Environmental Tradeoff Analysis (ETA) to evaluate response options. The workshop also provided the opportunity for the spill response community to build relationships, understand the role each group plays in a …

Understanding Nitrogen Sources In The Great Bay Watershed, Michelle L. Daley

New Hampshire EPSCoR

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Colsa Students Excel In Telling The Story Of Science, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Alumna Honored With Presidential Award For Outstanding Math And Science Teachers, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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Unhsc Design Specifications For Porous Asphalt Pavement And Infiltration Beds, Unh Stormwater Center

UNH Stormwater Center

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Stories Of Science, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Resource Guide For Addiction And Mental Health Care Consumers, Jacqueline Botchman, Marguerite Corvini, Kate Crary, Bridget Drake, Caitlyn Ebert, Lucy C. Hodder, Margaret H. Schmidt

All Materials

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Detecting Precontact Anthropogenic Microtopographic Features In A Forested Landscape With Lidar: A Case Study From The Upper Great Lakes Region, Ad 1000-1600, Meghan L. Howey, Franklin B. Sullivan, Jason Tallant, Robert Vande Kopple, Michael W. Palace

Faculty Publications

Forested settings present challenges for understanding the full extent of past human landscape modifications. Field-based archaeological reconnaissance in forests is low-efficiency and most remote sensing techniques are of limited utility, and together, this means many past sites and features in forests are unknown. Archaeologists have increasingly used light detection and ranging (lidar), a remote sensing tool that uses pulses of light to measure reflecting surfaces at high spatial resolution, to address these limitations. Archaeology studies using lidar have made significant progress identifying permanent structures built by large-scale complex agriculturalist societies. Largely unaccounted for, however, are numerous small and more practical …

Symbiotic Performance Of Diverse Frankia Strains On Salt-Stressed Casuarina Glauca And Casuarina Equisetifolia Plants, Mariama Ngom, Krystelle Gray, Nathalie Diagne, Rediet Oshone, Joel Fardoux, Hassen Gherbi, Valerie Hocher, Sergio Svistoonoff, Laurent Laplaze, Louis S. Tisa, Mame Oureye Sy, Antony Champion

Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences

Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing associations between Casuarina trees and the actinobacteria Frankia are widely used in agroforestry in particular for salinized land reclamation. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of salinity on the establishment of the actinorhizal symbiosis between C. glauca and two contrasting Frankia strains (salt sensitive; CcI3 vs. salt tolerant; CeD) and the role of these isolates in the salt tolerance of C. glauca and C. equisetifolia plants. We show that the number of root nodules decreased with increasing salinity levels in both plants inoculated with CcI3 and CeD. Nodule formation did not occur in seedlings …

River Discharge: In State Of The Climate In 2015., R. M. Holmes, Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Suzanne E. Tank, James W. Mcclelland, M. Tretiakov

Faculty Publications

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Popular Pollinators, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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2016-17 Faculty Senate Xxi - August 29, 2016 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Murray Straus And Owen Rogers Remembered, Karen Tongue Hammond

UNH Today Archive

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Noteworthy, Jeremy Gasowski

UNH Today Archive

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Senior Bio Major Runs For N.H. State Representative, Katie Seraikas

UNH Today Archive

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Eelgrass Distribution In The Great Bay Estuary For 2014, Frederick T. Short

PREP Reports & Publications

See also: "Eelgrass/Macroalgae Discussion Primer for TAC Activities 2016-2017" http://scholars.unh.edu/prep/355

Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) is an essential habitat for the Great Bay Estuary (GBE) because it is the basis of an estuarine food web that supports many of the recreationally, commercially and ecologically important species in the estuary and beyond. Eelgrass provides food for ducks, geese and swans, as well as food, nursery habitat, and shelter for juvenile fish and shellfish. Eelgrass filters estuarine waters and improves water clarity, removing both nutrients and suspended sediments from the water column; its roots and rhizomes bind and hold sediments in place, thereby …

The Ability Model Of Emotional Intelligence: Principles And Updates, John D. Mayer, David R. Caruso, Peter Salovey

Psychology

This article presents seven principles that have guided our thinking about emotional intelligence, some of them new. We have reformulated our original ability model here guided by these principles, clarified earlier statements of the model that were unclear, and revised portions of it in response to current research. In this revision, we also positioned emotional intelligence amidst other hot intelligences including personal and social intelligences, and examined the implications of the changes to the model. We discuss the present and future of the concept of emotional intelligence as a mental ability.

Eleven Years Of Crop Diversification Alters Decomposition Dynamics Of Litter Mixtures Incubated With Soil, M. D. Mcdaniel, A. Stuart Grandy, Lisa K. Tiemann, Michael N. Weintraub

Faculty Publications

Agricultural crop rotations have been shown to increase soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and microbial biomass. The mechanisms behind these increases remain unclear, but may be linked to the diversity of crop residue inputs to soil organic matter (SOM). We used a residue mixture incubation to examine how variation in long-term diversity of plant communities in agroecosystems influences decomposition of residue mixtures, thus providing a comparison of the effects of plant diversification on decomposition in the long term (via crop rotation) and short term (via residue mixtures). Three crop residue mixtures, ranging in diversity from two to four species, were …

Liberal Arts Students Awarded Gilman International Scholarships, Laura Perille

UNH Today Archive

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Oyster ( Crassostrea Virginica ) Recruitment Studies In The Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire, Robert L. Eckert

PREP Reports & Publications

Oyster populations in New Hampshire’s Great Bay Estuary have experienced dramatic declines similar to populations along the east coast. These declines have caused ecosystem degradation in estuaries and prompted a focus on oyster reef restoration. Despite the large use of procured funds dedicated for oyster reef restoration, few quantifiable successes have occurred. Currently, there is no rigorous method for determining where a restored reef would have the highest probability for long-term success. However, consistent and substantial natural recruitment is a major factor to consider. In this research, I identify historic trends in oyster populations, quantify the success and failures of …

Unh Research: Cold Weather Makes For Tastier Spinach, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Dissolved Organic Carbon Uptake In Streams: A Review And Assessment Of Reach‐Scale Measurements, Madeleine M. Mineau, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Ishi Buffam, Stuart E. G. Findlay, Robert O. Hall Jr., Erin R. Hotchkiss, Lauren E. Koenig, William H. Mcdowell, Thomas B. Parr

Faculty Publications

Quantifying the role that freshwater ecosystems play in the global carbon cycle requires accurate measurement and scaling of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal in river networks. We reviewed reach‐scale measurements of DOC uptake from experimental additions of simple organic compounds or leachates to inform development of aquatic DOC models that operate at the river network, regional, or continental scale. Median DOC uptake velocity (vf) across all measurements was 2.28 mm min−1. Measurements using simple compound additions resulted in faster vf (2.94 mm min−1) than additions of leachates (1.11 mm min−1). We also reviewed published data of DOC bioavailability for ambient …

Passing: Professor Emeritus Donald Green, Stacia Sower

UNH Today Archive

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Permanent Improved High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence Of Nocardia Casuarinae Strain Bmg51109, An Endophyte Ofactinorhizal Root Nodules Of Casuarina Glauca, Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari, Nicholas Beauchemin, Moussa Louati, Imen Nouioui, Amir Ktari, Karima Hezbri, Abdellatif Gueddou, Amy Chen, Marcel Huntemann, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos Kyrpides, Victor Markowitz, Kostas Mavrommatis, Ioanna Pagani, Arnab Sen, Luis Wall, Tanja Woyke, Maher Gtari, Louis S. Tisa

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

Here, we report the first genome sequence of aNocardiaplant endophyte, N. casuarinaestrain BMG51109, isolated fromCasu-arina glaucaroot nodules. The improved high-quality draft genome sequence contains 8,787,999 bp with a 68.90% GC contentand 7,307 predicted protein-coding genes.

Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement In An African Insurance Market, Casey Golomski

Anthropology

Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations. In this article, after delineating the forms of customary and civil marriage and the possibilities for divorce or estrangement from each, I describe how some married women in Swaziland and South Africa mediate this complex social field for their children and families through pensions and continuing to pay for their partners’ insurance coverage. This was not solely out of avarice to reap future …

Roles Of Mechanistic Target Of Rapamycin And Transforming Growth Factor-B Signaling In The Molting Gland (Y-Organ) Of The Blackback Land Crab, Gecarcinus Lateralis, Ali M. Abuhagr, Kyle S. Maclea, Megan R. Mudron, Sharon A. Chang, Ernest S. Chang, Donald L. Mykles

Life Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Molting in decapod crustaceans is controlled by molt-inhibiting hormone (MIH), an eyestalk neuropeptide that suppresses production of ecdysteroids by a pair of molting glands (Y-organs or YOs). Eyestalk ablation (ESA) activates the YOs, which hypertrophy and increase ecdysteroid secretion. At mid premolt, which occurs 7–14 days post-ESA, the YO transitions to the committed state; hemolymph ecdysteroid titers increase further and the animal reaches ecdysis ~ 3 weeks post-ESA. Two conserved signaling pathways, mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), are expressed in the Gecarcinus lateralis YO. Rapamycin, an mTOR antagonist, inhibits YO ecdysteroidogenesis in vitro. In this …

Sare Grant Expands Unh Tomato Research, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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