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Write Free Or Die: Vol. 01, No. 02, Unh Writing Program

Writing Program Newsletter

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Beehavior And Beyond: Realizations In Research, Sean Lombard

Inquiry Journal 2015

Most people would mistake the small carpenter bee Ceratina calcarata and its relatives for ants with wings,and I won’t pretend that I could tell the difference before I spent a summer researching this particular bee species. We are conditioned to associate bees with three things: black and yellow coloration, honey, and stinging pain. The small carpenter bee species that I studied, however, did not exhibit a single characteristic from that list, which I found shocking, given that they are native to North America and locally abundant. Was I asleep during the lecture on the North American native insect ecosystems in …

Spring 2015, A Unh Manchester Student Reaps Rewards From Study Abroad, Jennifer Logsdon

UNH International Educator Newsletter

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Unh Manchester Creates New Biotechnology Program, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Seasonal Movements Of American Lobsters In Southern Gulf Of Maine Coastal Waters: Patterns, Environmental Triggers, And Implications For Larval Release, Winsor H. Watson Iii, Jason S. Goldstein

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

American lobsters Homarus americanus are known to move offshore during the fall-to-winter transition and inshore, into shallower, warmer water in the spring and summer. To determine whether all types of lobsters in New Hampshire coastal waters exhibit this movement pattern, we fitted 45 lobsters (ovigerous and non-ovigerous females, and males) with ultrasonic transmitters and tracked their movements over 3 successive seasons from 2006 to 2009. The major goals of this study were to determine (1) if ovigerous females express different seasonal movement patterns than males or non-ovigerous females; (2) what environmental cues might trigger offshore movements in the fall; and …

2014-15 Faculty Senate Xix - March 30, 2015 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 104 [105], No. 38 (Mar. 26, 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. 36 (Mar. 12, 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.

2014-15 Faculty Senate Xix - March 9, 2015 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Spring Arrives At The Unh Macfarlane Research Greenhouses March 27-28, 2015, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Memorandum: Quality Assurance Of 2013 Great Bay Estuary Eelgrass Mapping Conducted By Fred Short, Matthew A. Wood

Quality Assurance Project Plans

The purpose of this memorandum is to document the results of quality assurance checks on the 2013 Great Bay Estuary Eelgrass Mapping conducted by Fred Short.

Distinct Amino Acid Compositional Requirements For Formation And Maintenance Of The [Psi+] Prion In Yeast, Kyle S. Maclea, Kacy R. Paul, Zobaida Ben-Musa, Jenifer E. Shattuck, Margaret Gruca, Eric D. Ross

Life Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Multiple yeast prions have been identified that result from the structural conversion of proteins into a self-propagating amyloid form. Amyloid-based prion activity in yeast requires a series of discrete steps. First, the prion protein must form an amyloid nucleus that can recruit and structurally convert additional soluble proteins. Subsequently, maintenance of the prion during cell division requires fragmentation of these aggregates to create new heritable propagons. For the Saccharomyces cerevisiae prion protein Sup35, these different activities are encoded by different regions of the Sup35 prion domain. An N-terminal glutamine/asparagine-rich nucleation domain is required for nucleation and fiber growth, while an …

Split-Beam Echosounder Observations Of Natural Methane Seep Variability In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Kevin W. Jerram, Thomas C. Weber, Jonathan Beaudoin

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

A method for positioning and characterizing plumes of bubbles from marine gas seeps using an 18 kHz scientific split-beam echo sounder (SBES) was developed and applied to acoustic observations of plumes of presumed methane gas bubbles originating at approximately 1400 m depth in the northern Gulf of Mexico. A total of 161 plume observations from 27 repeat surveys were grouped by proximity into 35 clusters of gas vent positions on the seafloor. Profiles of acoustic target strength per vertical meter of plume height were calculated with compensation for both the SBES beam pattern and the geometry of plume ensonification. These …

Book Review: Bourgois, Philippe, And Jeff Schonberg. 2009. "Righteous Dopefiend." Berkeley: University Of California Press, Christian Kapstad

Spectrum

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Book Review: Farmer, Paul. 2006. "Aids And Accusation: Haiti And The Geography Of Blame." Berkeley: University Of California Press, Emily Belanus

Spectrum

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Unh Research Reveals Problems With Flame Retardants, Michelle Morrissey

UNH Today Archive

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Oligotyping Reveals Stronger Relationship Of Organic Soil Bacterial Community Structure With N-Amendments And Soil Chemistry In Comparison To That Of Mineral Soil At Harvard Forest, Ma, Usa, Swathi A. Turlapati, Rakesh Minocha, Stephanie Long, Jordan Ramsdell, Subhash C. Minocha

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

The impact of chronic nitrogen amendments on bacterial communities was evaluated at Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, USA. Thirty soil samples (3 treatments × 2 soil horizons × 5 subplots) were collected in 2009 from untreated (control), low nitrogen-amended (LN; 50 kg NH4NO3 ha-1 yr-1) and high nitrogen-amended (HN; 150 kg NH4NO3 ha-1 yr-1) plots. PCR-amplified partial 16S rRNA gene sequences made from soil DNA were subjected to pyrosequencing (Turlapati et al., 2013) and analyses using oligotyping. The parameters M (the minimum count of the most abundant unique sequence in an oligotype) and s (the minimum number of samples in which …

Unh Research: Flame Retardants Found To Cause Metabolic, Liver Problems, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 104 [105], No. 29 (Feb. 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.

Cultivating The Uncultured: Growing The Recalcitrant Cluster-2 Frankia Strains, Maher Gtari, Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari, Imen Nouioui, Amir Ktari, Karima Hezbri, Wajdi Mimouni, Imed Sbissi, Amani Ayari, Takashi Yamanaka, Philippe Normand, Louis S. Tisa, Abdellatif Boudabous

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

The repeated failures reported in cultivating some microbial lineages are a major challenge in microbial ecology and probably linked, in the case of Frankia microsymbionts to atypical patterns of auxotrophy. Comparative genomics of the so far uncultured cluster-2 Candidatus Frankia datiscae Dg1, with cultivated Frankiae has revealed genome reduction, but no obvious physiological impairments. A direct physiological assay on nodule tissues from Coriaria myrtifolia infected with a closely-related strain permitted the identification of a requirement for alkaline conditions. A high pH growth medium permitted the recovery of a slow-growing actinobacterium. The strain obtained, called BMG5.1, has short hyphae, produced diazovesicles …

Brief For Professor Albert E. Scherr As Amicus Curiae In Support Of Petitioner, Albert E. Scherr

Law Faculty Scholarship

INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT Professor Scherr agrees with petitioner that review is warranted because the Maryland Court of Appeals decision is erroneous. The Fourth Amendment does not sanction police harvesting of DNA without probable cause and a warrant and without the subject’s knowledge or consent, to be used however the authorities deem appropriate and without restriction. The Maryland Court of Appeals’ decision is contrary to the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence as articulated in the Riley v. California – Maryland v. King – United States v. Jones trilogy. This case fits squarely in the center of the triangle formed by that …

Long-Term Forest Soil Warming Alters Microbial Communities In Temperate Forest Soils, Kristen M. Deangelis, Grace Pold, Begum D. Topcuoglu, Linda T. A. Van Diepen, Rebecca M. Varney, Jeffrey L. Blanchard, Jerry Melillo, Serita D. Frey

Faculty Publications

Soil microbes are major drivers of soil carbon cycling, yet we lack an understanding of how climate warming will affect microbial communities. Three ongoing field studies at the Harvard Forest Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) site (Petersham, MA) have warmed soils 5°C above ambient temperatures for 5, 8, and 20 years. We used this chronosequence to test the hypothesis that soil microbial communities have changed in response to chronic warming. Bacterial community composition was studied using Illumina sequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, and bacterial and fungal abundance were assessed using quantitative PCR. Only the 20-year warmed site exhibited significant …

Limited Access To Ap Courses For Students In Smaller And More Isolated Rural School Districts, Douglas J. Gagnon, Marybeth J. Mattingly

Carsey Publications

This brief assesses trends in access to, enrollment in, and success in Advanced Placement (AP) coursework in relation to school district poverty, racial composition, and urbanicity. It uses data merged from the 2011–2012 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), the 2012 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE), and the 2010 Decennial U.S. Census. Authors Douglas Gagnon and Marybeth Mattingly report that nearly one-half (47.2 percent) of rural districts have no secondary students enrolled in AP courses, compared with only 20.1 percent of town, 5.4 percent of suburban, and 2.6 percent of urban districts. Remote rural districts with small populations are …

Unh Manchester To Launch Region’S Only On-Campus Undergrad Analytics Degree Program, Kim Wall

Media Relations

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Unh Recognized For University Research Farms In National Ranking, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Manchester To Launch The Region’S Only On-Campus, Undergrad Analytics Degree Program, Beth Brosnan

UNH Today Archive

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Convergence Of Soil Nitrogen Isotopes Across Global Climate Gradients, Joseph M. Craine, Andrew J. Elmore, Lixin Wang, Laurent Augusto, W. Troy Baisden, E. N. J. Brookshire, Michael D. Cramer, Niles J. Hasselquist, Erik A. Hobbie, Ansgar Kahmen, Keisuke Koba, J. Marty Kranabetter, Michelle C. Mack, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Jordan R. Mayor, Kendra K. Mclauchlan, Anders Michelsen, Gabriela B. Nardoto, Rafael S. Oliveira, Steven S. Perakis, Pablo L. Peri, Carlos A. Quesada, Andreas Richter, Louis A. Schipper

Faculty Publications

Quantifying global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen (N) cycling is central to predicting future patterns of primary productivity, carbon sequestration, nutrient fluxes to aquatic systems, and climate forcing. With limited direct measures of soil N cycling at the global scale, syntheses of the 15N:14N ratio of soil organic matter across climate gradients provide key insights into understanding global patterns of N cycling. In synthesizing data from over 6000 soil samples, we show strong global relationships among soil N isotopes, mean annual temperature (MAT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), and the concentrations of organic carbon and clay in soil. In both hot ecosystems …

Influence Of Natural Inshore And Offshore Thermal Regimes On Egg Development And Time Of Hatch In American Lobsters, Homarus Americanus, Winsor H. Watson Iii, Jason S. Goldstein

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

Some egg-bearing (ovigerous) American lobsters (Homarus americanus) make seasonal inshore-to-offshore movements, subjecting their eggs to different thermal regimes than those of eggs carried by lobsters that do not make these movements. Our goal was to determine if differences in thermal regimes influence the rate of egg development and the subsequent time of hatch. We subjected ovigerous lobsters to typical inshore or offshore water temperatures from September to August in the laboratory (n = 8 inshore and 8 offshore, each year) and in the field (n = 8 each, inshore and offshore), over 2 successive years. Although the rate of egg …

Environmental Disasters Data Management Workshop Report, Coastal Response Research Center

Coastal Response Research Center

The Environmental Disasters Data Management (EDDM) project seeks to foster communication between collectors, managers, and users of data within the scientific research community,

industry, NGOs, and government agencies, with a goal to identify and establish best practices for

orderly collection, storage, and retrieval. The Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) is assisting NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) with

this effort. The objectives of the EDDM project are to:

• Engage the community of data users, data managers, and data collectors to foster a culture of applying consistent terms and concepts, data flow, and quality assurance and control;
• Provide oversight in …

Testing Of Great Bay Oysters For Two Protozoan Pathogens, Douglas E. Grout, Bruce W. Smith

PREP Reports & Publications

Two protozoan pathogens, Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) and Perkinsus marinus (Dermo) are known to be present in Great Bay oysters. With funds provided by the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP), the Marine Fisheries Division of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NHF&G) continues to assess the presence and intensity of both of these disease conditions in oysters from the major natural beds within the Great Bay estuarine system and at selected aquaculture sites. Histological examinations of Great Bay oysters have also revealed other endoparasites.