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Unh Fairchild Dairy Receives 2014 Quality Milk Award From Dairy One, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Professor Jack Hoza Recognized For Teaching Excellence, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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The Dirt On Studio Soils, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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Breaking The Mold: Thinking Beyond Deficits, Elyse Hambacher, Winston Charles Thompson

Education

In an attempt to understand widespread school failure among children of color and children from low-income backgrounds, dominant discourse points to pervasive deficit ideologies that blame a student’s family structure, cultural and linguistic background, and community (Dudley-Marling, 2007; Valencia, 2010; Weiner, 2006). By accepting such a simplistic explanation of blaming the child for a lack of success without examining systemic inequities, deficit thinkers ignore real and complex issues of structural inequity. We agree with Pearl (1997) who argues that deficit thinking ignores “external forces— [i.e.], the complex makeup of macro- and micro-level mechanisms that help structure schools as inequitable and …

Mechanical Engineering Major Receives 2015 Goldwater Scholarship, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Excess Body Weight And Gait Influence Energy Cost Of Walking In Older Adults, Dain P. Laroche, Nise R. Marques, Heidi N. Shumila, Christopher R. Logan, Robyn St Laurent, Mauro Gonçalves

Kinesiology

Purpose: To study how excess body weight influences the energy cost of walking (Cw) and determine if overweight and obese older adults self-select stride frequency to minimize Cw.

Methods: Using body mass index (BMI) men and women between the ages of 65–80 yr were separated into normal weight (NW, BMI ≤ 24.9 kg m−2, n = 13) and overweight-obese groups (OWOB, BMI ≥25.0 kg m−2, n = 13). Subjects walked at 0.83 m s−1 on an instrumented treadmill that recorded gait parameters, and completed three, six-minute walking trials; at preferred stride frequency (PSF), at +10% PSF, and at −10% PSF. …

Developing Methodology For Efficient Eelgrass Habitat Mapping Across Lidar Systems, Victoria Price, Jennifer A. Dijkstra, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Christopher Parrish, Erin Nagal, Shachak Pe'eri

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Super Storm Sandy, the second costliest hurricane in U.S. history, made landfall on the east coast of the U.S. in October 2012. In an attempt to assess the impacts of the storm on coastal ecosystems, several U.S. mapping agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) commenced data collection efforts using a variety of remotely-sensed data types including aerial imagery and topobathymetric lidar. The objective of this study was to investigate the applicability of object-based image analysis techniques for benthic habitat mapping. Bathymetry and reflectance …

Probabilistic Reconstruction Of Color For Species’ Classification Underwater, Yuri Rzhanov, Shachak Pe'eri, A. Shashkov

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Color is probably the most informative cue for object recognition and classification in natural scenes. Difference in shades can indicate to the biologist the potential for diversity of species or stress on the habitats. However, severe color distortions may occur in underwater imagery due to wavelength-dependent attenuation of light. Affordable tri-chromatic sensors are used to record the ambient light condition and color correct the imagery, but results show that this approach works reliably only under highly controllable conditions. This paper proposes an approach that combines hyperspectral data collected for the object of interest, hardware properties of the imaging sensor, and …

Estimating Forest Structure In A Tropical Forest Using Field Measurements, A Synthetic Model And Discrete Return Lidar Data, Michael W. Palace, Franklin B. Sullivan, Mark J. Ducey, Robert N. Treuhaft, Christina Herrick, Julia Z. Shimbo, Jonas Mota-E Silva

Faculty Publications

Tropical forests are huge reservoirs of terrestrial carbon and are experiencing rapid degradation and deforestation. Understanding forest structure proves vital in accurately estimating both forest biomass and also the natural disturbances and remote sensing is an essential method for quantification of forest properties and structure in the tropics. Our objective is to examine canopy vegetation profiles formulated from discrete return LIght Detection And Ranging (lidar) data and examine their usefulness in estimating forest structural parameters measured during a field campaign. We developed a modeling procedure that utilized hypothetical stand characteristics to examine lidar profiles. In essence, this is a simple …

Baad: A Biomass And Allometry Database For Woody Plants, Daniel S. Falster, Remko A. Duursma, Masae I. Ishihara, Diego R. Barneche, Richard G. Fitzjohn, Angelica Varhammar, Masahiro Aiba, Makoto Ando, Niels Anten, Michael J. Aspinwall, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Chrisopher Baraloto, Michael Battaglia, John J. Battles, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Michiel Van Breugel, James Camac, Yves Claveau, Lluis Coll, Masako Dannoura, Sylvain Delagrange, Jean-Christophe Domec, Farrah Fatemi, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur

Faculty Publications

Understanding how plants are constructed—i.e., how key size dimensions and the amount of mass invested in different tissues varies among individuals—is essential for modeling plant growth, carbon stocks, and energy fluxes in the terrestrial biosphere. Allocation patterns can differ through ontogeny, but also among coexisting species and among species adapted to different environments. While a variety of models dealing with biomass allocation exist, we lack a synthetic understanding of the underlying processes. This is partly due to the lack of suitable data sets for validating and parameterizing models. To that end, we present the Biomass And Allometry Database (BAAD) for …

Unh Cream Students Host 2015 Open House At Fairchild Dairy Center May 3, Lori Wright

UNH Today Archive

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Biology Student Michael Neveu Named 2015 Commencement Student Speaker, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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Transfer Student Finds A Smooth Transition To Unh Manchester, Melanie Plenda

UNH Today Archive

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Graduating Biology Major Pursues Dentistry Career, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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334200 - Stormwater Management, Stephanie L. Weatherbee

Division 33 – Utilities

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 104 [105], No. 44 (Apr. 16, 2015), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 104, but it is the 105th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

State Recognizes Unh Fairchild Dairy As Quality Milk Producer, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Face Of Molecular Biology, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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2014-15 Faculty Senate Xix - April 13, 2015 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Media Advisory: Unh Celebrates Grand Opening Of New Manchester Campus, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Unh Milk: It Does A Body Gold, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Welcome To Wildcat U, Jane Harrigan

UNH Today Archive

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Mission: Monrovia, Michelle Morrissey

UNH Today Archive

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 104 [105], No. 41 (Apr. 7, 2015), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 104, but it is the 105th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 104 [105], No. 40 (Apr. 2, 2015), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 104, but it is the 105th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Estimating Plasma Volume In Neonatal Holstein Calves Fed One Or Two Feedings Of A Lacteal-Based Colostrum Replacer Using Evans Blue Dye And Hematocrit Values At Various Time Points., Peter S. Erickson, Rosemarie G. Cabral Ph.D., Colleen E. Chapman Ms, E. J. Kent

Biological Sciences

Twenty-eight Holstein calves were blocked by birth date and randomly assigned to one of two treatments to investigate the effect of colostrum replacer (CR) feeding regimen on plasma volume (PV). Treatments were: 1) one feeding of CR (C₁; 3L of reconstituted CR 675 g of powder providing 184.5 g of IgG at birth) or 2) two feedings of CR (C₂; 2L of reconstituted CR at birth and 1 L of reconstituted CR at six h). By 6 h of age, all calves had received 3L of CR providing 184.5 g …

Use Of Whole Genome Phylogeny And Comparisons In The Development Of A Multiplex-Pcr Assay To Identify Sequence Type 36 Vibrio Parahaemolyticus, Cheryl A. Whistler, Jeffrey A. Hall, Feng Xu, Saba Ilyas, Puskar Siwakoti, Vaughn S. Cooper, Stephen H. Jones

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

Vibrio parahaemolyticus sequence type (ST) 36 strains that are native to the Pacific Ocean have recently caused multi-state outbreaks of gastroenteritis linked to shellfish harvested from the Atlantic Ocean. Whole genome comparisons of 295 genomes of V. parahaemolyticus, including several traced to northeastern US sources, were used to identify diagnostic loci: one putatively encoding an endonuclease (prp), and two others potentially conferring O-antigenic properties (cps and flp). The combination of all three loci was present only in one clade of closely-related strains, of ST36, ST59 and one additional unknown sequence type. However, each locus was also identified outside this clade, …

Deconstructing And Reconstructing Rights For Immigrant Children, Erin B. Corcoran

Law Faculty Scholarship

Children rights advocates and scholars alike continue to call for the development of innovative and alternative rights models, which specifically provide for an expansive conceptualization of children’s rights. Central to their calls for reform is a simultaneous recognition that children’s rights must embody agency – a child’s voice (a proxy for autonomy) – free from governmental interference, as well as the establishment of certain fundamental “needs” that place an affirmative obligation on the State to ensure the child has, and affirmatively provide, when necessary. Reimagining children’s rights also requires reforming our laws in such a way that reflects children as …

The Promise And Peril Of Intensive-Site-Based Ecological Research: Insights From The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, Timothy J. Fahey, Pamela H. Templer, Bruce T. Anderson, John J. Battles, John L. Campbell, Charles T. Driscoll, Anthony R. Fusco, Mark B. Green, Karim-Aly S. Karrim, Nicholas L. Rodenhouse, Lindsay E. Rustad, Paul G. Schaberg, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur

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Abstract.

Ecological research is increasingly concentrated at particular locations or sites. This trend reflects a variety of advantages of intensive, site-based research, but also raises important questions about the nature of such spatially delimited research: how well does site based research represent broader areas, and does it constrain scientific discovery?We provide an overview of these issues with a particular focus on one prominent intensive research site: the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), New Hampshire, USA. Among the key features of intensive sites are: long-term, archived data sets that provide a context for new discoveries and the elucidation of ecological mechanisms; …

Effects Of Audible Human Disturbances On Koala (Phascolarctos Cinereus) Behavior In Queensland, Australia And Implications For Management, Galina Kinsella

Inquiry Journal 2015

Koala populations are declining, and a contributing factor is stress, which can lead to greater susceptibility to disease. Koalas need about twenty hours of rest daily to remain healthy and unstressed. During the summer of 2014 I spent thirteen weeks with the Koala Research Center observing koalas’ responses to audible disturbances, principally those caused by humans. My two observation sites were Mt. Byron, a “disturbed” site with farm lands and pastures; and St. Bee’s Island, a protected national park, my “undisturbed” site. Using radio tracking equipment, I found and observed wild koalas, noting audible disturbances and the koalas’ reactions to …