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Sampling Daphnia's Expressed Genes: Preservation, Expansion And Invention Of Crustacean Genes With Reference To Insect Genomes, John K. Colbourne, Brian D. Eads, Joseph Shaw, Elizabeth Bohuski, Darren J. Bauer, Justen Andrews

Hubbard Center for Genome Studies (HCGS)

Background

Functional and comparative studies of insect genomes have shed light on the complement of genes, which in part, account for shared morphologies, developmental programs and life-histories. Contrasting the gene inventories of insects to those of the nematodes provides insight into the genomic changes responsible for their diversification. However, nematodes have weak relationships to insects, as each belongs to separate animal phyla. A better outgroup to distinguish lineage specific novelties would include other members of Arthropoda. For example, crustaceans are close allies to the insects (together forming Pancrustacea) and their fascinating aquatic lifestyle provides an important comparison for understanding the …

Pleasant Point Sewer Extension, City Of Portsmouth

PREP Reports & Publications

The City of Portsmouth (City) is located in Rockingham County at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in the seacoast area of New Hampshire. The City of Portsmouth’s sewerage system consists of approximately 115 miles of sewers (excluding the Pease International Tradeport), 19 pumping stations, and a 4.8 million gallon per day (mgd) primary wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) located on Peirce Island. The City has an inter-municipal agreement with the Town of New Castle, an island to the northeast of Portsmouth, to treat their wastewater at the City’s Peirce Island WWTF. Additionally, the City has entered into a long-term Municipal …

As We See It: Ecosystem Services Related To Oyster Restoration, Loren D. Coen, Robert D. Brumbaugh, David Bushek, Raymond E. Grizzle, Mark W. Luckenbach, Martin H. Posey, Sean P. Powers, S. Gregory Tolley

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

The importance of restoring filter-feeders, such as the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica, to mitigate the effects of eutrophication (e.g. in Chesapeake Bay) is currently under debate. The argument that bivalve molluscs alone cannot control phytoplankton blooms and reduce hypoxia oversimplifies a more complex issue, namely that ecosystem engineering species make manifold contributions to ecosystem services. Although further discussion and research leading to a more complete understanding is required, oysters and other molluscs (e.g. mussels) in estuarine ecosystems provide services far beyond the mere top-down control of phytoplankton blooms, such as (1) seston filtration, (2) benthic–pelagic coupling, (3) creation of refugia …

Plantsman, June/July 2007, New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

Plantsman

A newsletter of the New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

New Nutritional Research Indicates College Students Face Obesity, High Blood Pressure, Metabolic Syndrome, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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New Nutritional Research Indicates College Students Face Obesity, High Blood Pressure, Metabolic Syndrome, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Newmarket Open Space Conservation Plan, Ellen Snyder

PREP Reports & Publications

Open spaces – forests, fields, wetlands, floodplains, salt marshes, rivers and streams – are integral to our community. These lands and waters that thread through our neighborhoods are a scenic reminder of our history, when people made their living by working the land. Yet we still depend on these open spaces for our health and our wellbeing. These places provide many “services” such as clean air, flood control, filtering pollutants and purifying drinking water, natural pest control, plant pollination, cooler summer temperatures, and areas for relaxing, exercising and recreating. Collectively these can be thought of as a “natural services network” …

Nhep Year 12 Work Plan, Jennifer Hunter

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) is part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Estuary Program which is a joint local/state/federal program established under the Clean Water Act with the goal of protecting and enhancing nationally significant estuaries. The NHEP’s Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (Management Plan)for New Hampshire’s estuaries was completed in 2000 and updated in 2005. The Management Plan outlines key issues related to management of New Hampshire’s estuaries and proposes strategies (Action Plans) to protect, enhance, and monitor the state’s estuarine resources. Local stakeholders established the NHEP’s priorities, which include water quality improvements, shellfish resource enhancements, …

Determining The Effectiveness Of The Clean Air Act And Amendments On The Recovery Of Surface Waters In The Northeastern Us, Steve Kahl, Katherine Webster, William H. Mcdowell

NH Water Resources Research Center Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Water Quality And The Landscape: Long-Term Monitoring Of Rapidly Developing Suburban Watersheds, New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center (Nh Wrrc)

NH Water Resources Research Center Scholarship

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Expert: New Birth Control That Eliminates Periods Is A Bad Idea, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Spring 2007, Cie Newsletter And Faculty Travel Insert, Center For International Education

UNH International Educator Newsletter

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U.S. Patent Literature Survey Of Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation Of Sweet Potato (Ipomoea Batatas), Jon R. Cavicchi, Stanley P. Kowalski, J. Jaya Murthy, Rahul R. Vartak

Law Faculty Scholarship

A team of researchers and patent information scientists at Franklin Pierce Law Center were asked to evaluate the patent and literature landscape related to the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in sweet potato with respect to the U.S. patents and patent applications. This report provides a patent landscape of the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of sweet potato. The report includes the applicable methods of transformation and has also included certain patents and patent applications which claim a transformed plant by virtue of these methods. In certain cases, the claim structure covers Agrobacterium-mediated transformation technology via system and composition of matter claims and not the more …

Leaching Properties Of Estuarine Harbor Sediment Before And After Electrodialytic Remediation, Kevin H. Gardner, Gunvor M. Nystroem, Deana A. Aulisio

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Electrodialytic remediation (EDR) can be used to extract heavy metals from a variety of different media. In this work, contaminated harbor sediments from two locations in the United States and one in Norway were subjected to EDR, and were compared with batch extractions conducted with the sediment. pH-dependent leaching tests were used to evaluate changes in leaching properties of treated and control sediments. Significant fractions of total concentrations were removed during treatment (35–95% with an average of 75% for all sediments and elements investigated). The release of elements in pH-dependent leaching tests, however, demonstrated equal or greater leaching from treated …

Clustering Acoustic Backscatter In The Angular Response Space, Luciano E. Fonseca, Brian R. Calder

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Backscatter mosaicking is a necessary step in the analysis and interpretation of sidescan and multibeam sonar records. However, due to limitations intrinsic to the mosaicking technique, backscatter mosaics are restricted in their capacity to unambiguously discriminate seafloor properties. A more adequate technique to characterize the seafloor is the analysis of backscatter angular responses, since those responses are intrinsic properties of the seafloor. This technique sometimes lacks spatial resolution, however, as the analysis is limited to the swath width of the sonar. In this paper, we propose an approach to combine mosaicking and angular response analysis techniques in an attempt to …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 96 [97], No. 48 (May 1, 2007), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 96, but it is the 97th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 96 [97], No. 45 (April 20, 2007), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 96, but it is the 97th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Unh Professor Wins Prestigious Guggenheim, Radcliffe Fellowships, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Unh Marks Earth Day With Energy Star Recognitions, Town-Wide Clean-Up, Fair, And Forum On Reducing Carbon, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Unh Scientists, Students, Part Of Team Exploring New "Black Smoker" Undersea Chimney, David Sims

Media Relations

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Caf1 Plays An Important Role In Mrna Deadenylation Separate From Its Contact To Ccr4, Takbum Ohn, Yueh-Chin Chiang, Darren J. Lee, Gang Yao, Chongxu Zhang, Clyde L. Denis

Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences

The CAF1 protein is a component of the CCR4 - NOT deadenylase complex. While yeast CAF1 displays deadenylase activity, this activity is not required for its deadenylation function in vivo, and CCR4 is the primary deadenylase in the complex. In order to identify CAF1- specific functional regions required for deadenylation in vivo, we targeted for mutagenesis six regions of CAF1 that are specifically conserved among CAF1 orthologs. Defects in residues 213 - 215, found to be a site required for binding CCR4, reduced the rate of deadenylation to a lesser extent and resulted in in vivo phenotypes that were less …

Spring 2007, International Educator, Table Of Contents, Center For International Education

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Winter Flounder On The Fast Track To Recovery: Unh Researchers Find Fishery Shows Promise For Stock Enhancement, Beth Potier

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 96 [97], No. 44 (April 13, 2007), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 96, but it is the 97th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

New England Aquarium Expert To Speak On Right Whales April 20, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 96 [97], No. 42 (April 6, 2007), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 96, but it is the 97th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Prestigious Nsf Career Awards Go To Four Young Unh Faculty, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Impacts Of Wastewater Treatment Facilities On Receiving Water Quality, Stephen H. Jones

PREP Reports & Publications

The Squamscott River has had extended episodes of low dissolved oxygen (DO) that have been recorded at a site near its mouth over the past few years. These episodes were recorded as a result of temporally intensive monitoring by a datasonde, whereas data for the rest of the river has been spotty. Thus, the spatial extent of low DO episodes is not known. This study was designed to better characterize the spatial extent of DO conditions along the full length of the river, as well as to determine nutrient and other water quality parameters along the transect to help understand …

Research Experience Outside The Lab, Loreen Fournier

Inquiry Journal 2007

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The Only Differences Are The Words And The Sounds: Register Variation In Modern Written Icelandic, Jim Wood

Inquiry Journal 2007

No abstract provided.