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Marine Oil Snow Sedimentation And Flocculent Accumulation (Mossfa) Workshop, Center For Spills In The Environment

Coastal Response Research Center

The MOSSFA hypothesis is that the formation of marine snow/oil aggregates and its accumulation at the seafloor is related to events associated with the oil spill, various mitigation measures (e.g., the use of dispersants and in situ burning), and increased sediment-laden fresh water releases from Mississippi River impoundments. If this hypothesis is correct then this phenomenon takes on an added global significance as 85% of deep-water oil exploration occurs adjacent to deltaic systems. To better understand the sequence of events and the oceanographic processes involved, three of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

funded Centers (C-IMAGE, DEEP-C and ECOGIG), …

Fall 2013, Ia Alumni Around The World, Center For International Education

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Youth And Vegetative Renewal In Ancient Maya Religious Ideology, Emma Pankey

Spectrum

The role of children in ancient Maya religion and ritual was predicated upon the qualities of youth and vitalization that children possess. Furthermore, their role was rooted in associations between these possessed qualities, phenomena of agricultural renewal, and broader conceptions of life forces and cycles. These shared qualities created links between religious ideas about young children, agricultural sustenance, and ensoulment processes. Ethnohistoric and ethnographic accounts relating to ritualized child socialization provide details for parallel arguments on the ancient social and religious status of Maya children. Ideological connections can also be directly inferred from ancient Maya art, and can be interpreted …

Pseudo-Archaeology: The Appropriation And Commercialization Of Cultural Heritage, Alecia Bassett

Spectrum

Heritage can be defined as the use of the past to construct ideas about identity in the present. The past that this definition references is most commonly linked to tangible objects, and therefore archaeological artifacts. As such, archaeology becomes inexorably linked with cultural heritage in that many cultures are dependent on archaeological objects helping them continue to define their identity. However, there are various threats to cultural heritage, especially as more groups of peoples attempt to evoke objects as belonging to their own cultural background. This has been happening throughout history, but in the nineteenth-century pseudo-archaeology became a new threat. …

Quality Of Olive Oils Available Locally: Chemical, Sensory And Market Investigations, Madeleine M. Gould

Honors Theses and Capstones

Olive oil is a high quality food that comes at a high-quality price. Extra virgin olive oils are obtained through specific methods created to extract the highest quality oil. The world market of olive oil is rife with accusations of adulteration and false claims regarding quality. These are serious accusations, since adulteration results in lower quality oils. True extra virgin olive oils contain higher levels of beneficial compounds including antioxidant phenolic compounds. Specific mechanisms have been identified in which phenolic compounds in the olive oil matrix exhibit antioxidant activity contributing to the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease, among other …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 103 [104], No. 07 (Oct. 1, 2013), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 103, but it is the 104th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Peter Pekins, Professor, Department Of Natural Resources & The Environment, Travels To Poland, Peter J. Pekins

Faculty Travel Reports

Professor Peter Pekins travelled to the 7th International Moose Conference in Poland to discuss research and management issues concerning moose that range west from Eastern Europe through North America.
The Bialowieza National Park and Forest in western Poland was the site of the 7th International Moose Conference where 150 biologists gathered to discuss research and management issues concerning moose that range west from Eastern Europe through North America. My travel to Poland was focused on:

1) moose research/management and serving as Chief Editor of ALCES a scientific journal dedicated to moose research and management,

2) learning about the special history …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 103 [104], No. 06 (Sep. 27, 2013), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 103, but it is the 104th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Shellfish Tissue Monitoring In Piscataqua Region Estuaries 2012, Matthew A. Wood, Philip R. Trowbridge

PREP Reports & Publications

Originally conducted by a committee of Canadian and US governments and university scientists, Gulfwatch examined the effects of decades of development and industrialization on the water quality of the Gulf of Maine as it relates to human health primarily through assessing contaminant exposure of marine organisms from 1993 to 2010. The NH Gulfwatch Program continues these efforts by collecting blue mussels at two sites in the Great Bay Estuary and one in the Hampron-Seabrook Estuary, and analyzes the organisms’ tissue for potentially harmful levels and concentrations of toxins including heavy metals, chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons …

Shellfish Tissue Monitoring In Piscataqua Region Estuaries 2010 And 2011, Matthew A. Wood, Philip R. Trowbridge

PREP Reports & Publications

Conducted by a committee of Canadian and US government and university scientists, Gulfwatch examines the effects of decades of development and industrialization on the water quality of the Gulf as it relates to human health primarily through assessing contaminant exposure of marine organisms. Gulfwatch scientists collect blue mussels at over 60 US and Canadian sites Gulfwide, and analyze the organisms’ tissue for potentially harmful levels and concentrations of toxins including heavy metals, chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

The New Hampshire, Vol. 103 [104], No. 04 (Sep. 20, 2013), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 103, but it is the 104th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Unh Launches School Of Marine Science And Ocean Engineering, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Class Has Students Crafting For Babies, And For Credit, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

On-Farm Experience Is Keystone To Capstone Course, Holly Young

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Spatially Explicit Data: Stewardship And Ethical Challenges In Science, Joel N. Hartter, Sadie J. Ryan, Catrina A. Mackenzie, John N. Parker, Carly A. Strasser

Geography

Scholarly communication is at an unprecedented turning point created in part by the increasing saliency of data stewardship and data sharing. Formal data management plans represent a new emphasis in research, enabling access to data at higher volumes and more quickly, and the potential for replication and augmentation of existing research. Data sharing has recently transformed the practice, scope, content, and applicability of research in several disciplines, in particular in relation to spatially specific data. This lends exciting potentiality, but the most effective ways in which to implement such changes, particularly for disciplines involving human subjects and other sensitive information, …

Field And Lab Conditions Alter Microbial Enzyme And Biomass Dynamics Driving Decomposition Of The Same Leaf Litter, Zachary L. Rinkes, Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Daryl L. Moorhead, A. Stuart Grandy, Michael N. Weintraub

Faculty Publications

Fluctuations in climate and edaphic factors influence field decomposition rates and preclude a complete understanding of how microbial communities respond to plant litter quality. In contrast, laboratory microcosms isolate the intrinsic effects of litter chemistry and microbial community from extrinsic effects of environmental variation. Used together, these paired approaches provide mechanistic insights to decomposition processes. In order to elucidate the microbial mechanisms underlying how environmental conditions alter the trajectory of decay, we characterized microbial biomass, respiration, enzyme activities, and nutrient dynamics during early (<10% mass loss), mid- (10–40% mass loss), and late (>40% mass loss) decay in parallel field and laboratory litter bag incubations for deciduous tree litters …

Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Fall 2013, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

No abstract provided.

Great Bay Estuary Eelgrass Monitoring Program For 2013, Philip Trowbridge

Quality Assurance Project Plans

No abstract provided.

Vegetation Response To Extreme Climate Events On The Mongolian Plateau From 2000 To 2010, Ranjeet John, Jiquan Chen, Zu-Tao Ou-Yang, Jingfeng Xiao, Richard Becker, Arindam Samanta, Sangram Ganguly, Wenping Yuan, Ochirbat Batkhishig

All Materials

Climate change has led to more frequent extreme winters (aka, dzud) and summer droughts on the Mongolian Plateau during the last decade. Among these events, the 2000–2002 combined summer drought–dzud and 2010 dzud were the most severe on vegetation. We examined the vegetation response to these extremes through the past decade across the Mongolian Plateau as compared to decadal means. We first assessed the severity and extent of drought using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation data and the Palmer drought severity index (PDSI). We then examined the effects of drought by mapping anomalies in vegetation indices (EVI, EVI2) …

Eelgrass Distribution In The Great Bay Estuary For 2012, Frederick T. Short

PREP Reports & Publications

Eelgrass in the Great Bay Estuary declined in both distribution and biomass between 2011 and 2012, continuing the long-term trend of eelgrass loss. In 2012, eelgrass was once again mainly present in the Great Bay itself with limited distribution in Portsmouth Harbor and Little Bay. Eelgrass distribution in Great Bay decreased 1.5% between 2011 and 2012 with no change in biomass. In Great Bay,eelgrass distribution has declined 36% since 1996 and biomass is a quarter of what it was in the early 1990s. Nuisance macroalgae in Great Bay continued to proliferate in 2012 and to impact eelgrass by smothering eelgrass …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 103 [104], No. 01 (Aug. 23, 2013), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 103, but it is the 104th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

The Luck Of The Irish Scholars, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Forest Stand Age Information In An Atmospheric Co2 Inversion Applied To North America, Feng Deng, Jing M. Chen, Y. Pan, W. Peters, R. Birdsey, K. Mccullough, Jingfeng Xiao

All Materials

Atmospheric inversions have become an important tool in quantifying carbon dioxide (CO2) sinks and sources at a variety of spatiotemporal scales, but associated large uncertainties restrain the inversion research community from reaching agreement on many important subjects. We enhanced an atmospheric inversion of the CO2 flux for North America by introducing spatially explicit information on forest stand age for US and Canada as an additional constraint, since forest carbon dynamics are closely related to time since disturbance. To use stand age information in the inversion, we converted stand age into an age factor, and included the covariances between subcontinental regions …

Land Blubber, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Smart Students Study Cutting-Edge Science With Project Smart, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Path To Pa, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Shaping Our Future: Integration From The Perspective Of Bhutanese Young Adults In New Hampshire, Jessica Santos, Devika Bhandari, Shyam Gautam, Dixya Mishra, And Bishnu Niroula, And The Bhutanese Community Of New Hampshire

Manchester Research Group

Report of needs and immigrant integration in New Hampshire for the Bhutanese community.

Patterns Of Activity Expressed By Juvenile Horseshoe Crabs, Winsor H. Watson Iii, Elizabeth A. Dubofsky, S. D. Simpson, Christopher C. Chabot

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

Adult American horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, possess endogenous circadian and circatidal clocks controlling visual sensitivity and locomotion, respectively. The goal of this study was to determine the types of activity rhythms expressed by juvenile horseshoe crabs (n = 24) when exposed to a 14:10 light/dark cycle (LD) for 10 days, followed by 10 days of constant darkness (DD). Horseshoe crab activity was recorded with a digital time-lapse video system that used an infrared-sensitive camera so animals could be monitored at night. In LD, 15 animals expressed daily patterns of activity, 6 displayed a circatidal pattern, and the remaining 3 were …

Summer: Sun, Fun, And Science, Melanie Plenda

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Heavenly Science: Student Balloons Video Earth Below, Space Above, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.