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Rural Land-Use Trends In The Conterminous United States, 1950-2000., Kenneth M. Johnson, Daniel G. Brown, Thomas R. Loveland, David M. Theobald Dec 2005

Rural Land-Use Trends In The Conterminous United States, 1950-2000., Kenneth M. Johnson, Daniel G. Brown, Thomas R. Loveland, David M. Theobald

Sociology

In order to understand the magnitude, direction, and geographic distribution of land-use changes, we evaluated land-use trends in U.S. counties during the latter half of the 20th century. Our paper synthesizes the dominant spatial and temporal trends in population, agriculture, and urbanized land uses, using a variety of data sources and an ecoregion classification as a frame of reference. A combination of increasing attractiveness of nonmetropolitan areas in the period 1970–2000, decreasing household size, and decreasing density of settlement has resulted in important trends in the patterns of developed land. By 2000, the area of low-density, exurban development beyond the …

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2004 Coastal Municipal Stormwater Infrastructure Mapping Project, Jeffrey Marcoux Dec 2005

2004 Coastal Municipal Stormwater Infrastructure Mapping Project, Jeffrey Marcoux

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) received funds in 2004 from the New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) to provide assistance to coastal communities to develop storm sewer infrastructure maps. This final report describes the grant project that was completed in Rochester. NHEP chose to fund stormwater infrastructure mapping projects for a number of reasons. Primarily, this grant was established in order to fulfill one of the water quality action plans identified in the NHEP Management Plan. In addition, the Coastal/Piscataqua watershed has been identified by DES as a priority watershed in need of restoration. Updated and comprehensive maps …

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Summary Of Coastal And Estuarine Monitoring Programs In New Hampshire (2005), Phil Trowbridge Dec 2005

Summary Of Coastal And Estuarine Monitoring Programs In New Hampshire (2005), Phil Trowbridge

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) compiles data from many coastal and estuarine monitoring programs to assess the status and trends of environmental indicators in the Great Bay and Hampton/Seabrook Harbor. The full list of NHEP environmental indicators has been published in the NHEP Monitoring Plan. The following catalog is a summary of the coastal and estuarine monitoring programs that provide data for NHEP indicators or for State water quality assessments. This list is limited to long-term monitoring programs that do not have an end date.

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2004 Coastal Illicit Connection Identification And Elimination Grant Project, Jeffrey Marcoux Dec 2005

2004 Coastal Illicit Connection Identification And Elimination Grant Project, Jeffrey Marcoux

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) received funds in 2004 from the New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) to administer grants to coastal municipalities to eliminate illicit discharges into their storm drainage systems. This final report describes the two projects that were funded under this grant. Projects in Dover, and Portsmouth involved eliminating sewage discharges into storm drainage systems from houses, apartment buildings, and commercial buildings. All of these efforts helped improve water quality in the coastal area by reducing pollution. NHEP chose to fund illicit discharge detection and elimination projects for a number of reasons. Primarily, this grant …

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Bayer Ag V. Housey Pharmaceuticals: Protection For Biotechnological Research Tools Under Section 271(G) Found Wanting, Matthew Barthalow Dec 2005

Bayer Ag V. Housey Pharmaceuticals: Protection For Biotechnological Research Tools Under Section 271(G) Found Wanting, Matthew Barthalow

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "Research tools, a subset of biotechnological inventions protected by process patents, are “tools that scientists use in the laboratory, including cell lines, monoclonal antibodies, reagents, animal models, growth factors, combinatorial chemistry and DNA libraries, clones and cloning tools (such as PCR), methods, laboratory equipment and machines.” Many companies base their business models on the ability to find pharmaceutical products using their proprietary drug discovery research tools. Research tools used for drug discovery ‘include bioinformatic methods for identifying the interaction of certain proteins and their association with disease, methods for confirming protein targets, screening assays to identify molecules active against …

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 16 (Nov. 4, 2005), The New Hampshire Nov 2005

The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 16 (Nov. 4, 2005), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 95, but it is the 96th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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Coastal Water Source Of Short‐Lived Halocarbons In New England, Yong Zhou, Ruth K. Varner, Rachel S. Russo, Oliver W. Wingenter, Karl B. Haase, Robert W. Talbot, Barkley C. Sive Nov 2005

Coastal Water Source Of Short‐Lived Halocarbons In New England, Yong Zhou, Ruth K. Varner, Rachel S. Russo, Oliver W. Wingenter, Karl B. Haase, Robert W. Talbot, Barkley C. Sive

Faculty Publications

Short‐lived halocarbon tracers were used to investigate marine influences on air quality in a coastal region of New England. Atmospheric measurements made at the University of New Hampshire's Observing Station at Thompson Farm (TF) in Durham, New Hampshire, indicate that relatively large amounts of halocarbons are emitted from local estuarine and coastal oceanic regions. Bromine‐containing halocarbons of interest in this work include bromoform (CHBr3) and dibromomethane (CH2Br2). The mean mixing ratios of CHBr3 and CH2Br2 from 11 January to 5 March 2002 were 2.6 pptv and 1.6 pptv, and from 1 June to 31 August 2002 mean mixing ratios were …

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Interannual Variability In North American Grassland Biomass/Productivity Detected By Seawinds Scatterometer Backscatter, Steve Frolking, Mark Fahnestock, Tom Milliman, Kyle Mcdonald, John Kimball Nov 2005

Interannual Variability In North American Grassland Biomass/Productivity Detected By Seawinds Scatterometer Backscatter, Steve Frolking, Mark Fahnestock, Tom Milliman, Kyle Mcdonald, John Kimball

Earth Sciences

We analyzed 2000–2004 growing-season SeaWinds Ku-band microwave backscatter and MODIS leaf area index (LAI) data over North America. Large anomalies in mid-growing-season mean backscatter and LAI, relative to 5-year mean values, occurred primarily in the western Great Plains; backscatter and LAI anomalies had similar spatial patterns across this region. Backscatter and LAI time series data for three ∼103 km2 regions in the western Great Plains were strongly correlated (r2 ∼ 0.6–0.8), and variability in mid-growing season values was well-correlated with annual precipitation (October through September). The results indicate that SeaWinds backscatter is sensitive to interannual variability in …

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 14 (Oct. 28, 2005), The New Hampshire Oct 2005

The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 14 (Oct. 28, 2005), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 95, but it is the 96th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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Controls On The Seasonal Exchange Of Ch3br In Temperate Peatlands, Marguerite L. White, Ruth K. Varner, Patrick M. Crill, Cindy H. Mosedale Oct 2005

Controls On The Seasonal Exchange Of Ch3br In Temperate Peatlands, Marguerite L. White, Ruth K. Varner, Patrick M. Crill, Cindy H. Mosedale

Faculty Publications

Measurements of CH3Br exchange at two New Hampshire peatlands (Sallie's Fen and Angie's Bog) indicate that net flux from these ecosystems is the sum of competing production and consumption processes. Net CH3Br fluxes were highly variable and ranged from net emission to net uptake between locations within a single peatland. At Sallie's Fen, net CH3Br flux exhibited positive correlations with peat temperature and air temperature during all seasons sampled, but these relationships were not observed at Angie's Bog where flux varied according to microtopography. The major CH3Br production process at Sallie's Fen appeared dependent on aerobic conditions within the peat, …

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Surveying The Stakeholder: Understanding Public Perception Of The New Hampshire Estuaries Project, New Hampshire Estuaries Project Oct 2005

Surveying The Stakeholder: Understanding Public Perception Of The New Hampshire Estuaries Project, New Hampshire Estuaries Project

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) commissioned The UNH Survey Center to conduct two surveys to assist in the implementation and evaluation of the 2004 NHEP Strategic Communication Plan. Both surveys were completed and the results are informing outreach activities. The attitudinal survey of the Planning Board members and Conservation Commissioners in coastal watershed communities suggested that there is moderate familiarity and awareness of the NHEP, with 57% of respondents expressing some level of familiarity with the NHEP. Respondents who live in Zone A seem to be much more likely to be familiar with the NHEP (13% are very familiar; …

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 9 (Oct. 7, 2005), The New Hampshire Oct 2005

The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 9 (Oct. 7, 2005), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 95, but it is the 96th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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Educational Programming In Exeter And Dover On Board The Gundalow Captain Edward H. Adams, Molly Bolster Sep 2005

Educational Programming In Exeter And Dover On Board The Gundalow Captain Edward H. Adams, Molly Bolster

PREP Reports & Publications

The Gundalow Company (a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization) sponsors maritime history and environmental education programs for school groups and the public onboard the replica gundalow Captain Edward Adams from May through November in 12-15 riverfront locations in the Piscataqua Region. Funding from the NHEP in 2005 supported the Gundalow Company’s efforts to successfully add Dover and Exeter to the towns visited by the gundalow between May and November. While the gundalow was in Dover and Exeter, collaborative educational programs were offered onboard to a total of nearly 3,000 people including youth and teen groups as well as the public during community …

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Public Outreach And Education Initiative, Joyce El Kouarti Sep 2005

Public Outreach And Education Initiative, Joyce El Kouarti

PREP Reports & Publications

Moose Mountains Regional Greenways (MMRG) undertook a comprehensive public outreach campaign designed to educate landowners, community leaders and the public about the importance of and tools for preserving critical natural resources within the MMRG region. In the process, MMRG also hoped to enhance regional awareness of and appreciation for our organization and its mission. The initiative included workshops, mailings, media outreach, information delivered online, and printed brochures and handouts. This comprehensive, targeted strategy was implemented in four MMRG communities: New Durham, Middleton, Brookfield, and Wakefield.

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Candia Land Conservation And Well Survey Project, Amanda Stone Sep 2005

Candia Land Conservation And Well Survey Project, Amanda Stone

PREP Reports & Publications

Candia’s concern over local development, its rapid growth and encroaching sprawl, and the resulting negative impacts on the natural environment led them to consider taking more serious steps towards environmental protection. This resulted in a two-pronged initiative: a land conservation program, and a survey to collect baseline data about their groundwater resources. With many of the lands overlying identified aquifers not permanently protected, conservation of these lands is critical for preserving the integrity of Candia’s current and future water supplies. The Candia Open Space Committee was a direct outgrowth of the NROC program. With NROC staff assistance, the group formulated …

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 7 (Sept. 30, 2005), The New Hampshire Sep 2005

The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 7 (Sept. 30, 2005), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 95, but it is the 96th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 2 (Sept. 13, 2005), The New Hampshire Sep 2005

The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 2 (Sept. 13, 2005), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 95, but it is the 96th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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2005-06 Faculty Senate - September 12, 2005 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate Sep 2005

2005-06 Faculty Senate - September 12, 2005 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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2005 Shellfish Indicator Report, Phil Trowbridge Sep 2005

2005 Shellfish Indicator Report, Phil Trowbridge

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 estuarine resources. The NHEP is funded by the EPA and is administered by the University of New Hampshire. The NHEP’s Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for New Hampshire’s estuaries was completed in 2000 and implementation is ongoing. The Management Plan outlines key issues related to management of New Hampshire's estuaries and proposes strategies (Action Plans) that are expected to preserve, protect, and …

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Modeling Impacts Of Farming Management Alternatives On Co2, Ch4, And N2o Emissions: A Case Study For Water Management Of Rice Agriculture Of China, Changsheng Li, Steve Frolking, Xiangming Xiao, B Moore, Stephen Boles, Jianjun Qiu, Yao Huang, William A. Salas, Ronald Sass Sep 2005

Modeling Impacts Of Farming Management Alternatives On Co2, Ch4, And N2o Emissions: A Case Study For Water Management Of Rice Agriculture Of China, Changsheng Li, Steve Frolking, Xiangming Xiao, B Moore, Stephen Boles, Jianjun Qiu, Yao Huang, William A. Salas, Ronald Sass

Earth Sciences

Since the early 1980s, water management of rice paddies in China has changed substantially, with midseason drainage gradually replacing continuous flooding. This has provided an opportunity to estimate how a management alternative impacts greenhouse gas emissions at a large regional scale. We integrated a process-based model, DNDC, with a GIS database of paddy area, soil properties, and management factors. We simulated soil carbon sequestration (or net CO2 emission) and CH4 and N2O emissions from China's rice paddies (30 million ha), based on 1990 climate and management conditions, with two water management scenarios: continuous flooding and midseason …

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Seafloor Characterization Through The Application Of Avo Analysis To Multibeam Sonar Data, Luciano E. Fonseca, Larry A. Mayer, Barbara J. Kraft Sep 2005

Seafloor Characterization Through The Application Of Avo Analysis To Multibeam Sonar Data, Luciano E. Fonseca, Larry A. Mayer, Barbara J. Kraft

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

In the seismic reflection method, it is well known that seismic amplitude varies with the offset between the seismic source and detector and that this variation is a key to the direct determination of lithology and pore fluid content of subsurface strata. Based on this fundamental property, amplitude-versus-offset (AVO) analysis has been used successfully in the oil industry for the exploration and characterization of subsurface reservoirs. Multibeam sonars acquire acoustic backscatter over a wide range of incidence angles and the variation of the backscatter with the angle of incidence is an intrinsic property of the seafloor. Building on this analogy, …

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Uvsd: Software For Detection Of Color Underwater Features, Yuri Rzhanov, Anton Mamaenko, M Yoklavich Sep 2005

Uvsd: Software For Detection Of Color Underwater Features, Yuri Rzhanov, Anton Mamaenko, M Yoklavich

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Underwater Video Spot Detector (UVSD) is a software package designed to analyze underwater video for continuous spatial measurements (path traveled, distance to the bottom, roughness of the surface etc.) Laser beams of known geometry are often used in underwater imagery to estimate the distance to the bottom. This estimation is based on the manual detection of laser spots which is labor intensive and time consuming so usually only a few frames can be processed this way. This allows for spatial measurements on single frames (distance to the bottom, size of objects on the sea-bottom), but not for the whole video …

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Arctic System On Trajectory To New State, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Matthew Sturm, Jennifer A. Francis, Donald K. Perovich, Mark C. Serreze, Ronald Benner, Eddy C. Carmack, F. Stuart Chapin Iii, S. Craig Gerlach, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Larry D. Hinzman, Marika Holland, Henry P. Huntington, Jeffrey R. Key, Andrea H. Lloyd, Glen M. Mcdonald, Joe Mcfadden, David Noone, Terry D. Prowse, Peter Schlosser Aug 2005

Arctic System On Trajectory To New State, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Matthew Sturm, Jennifer A. Francis, Donald K. Perovich, Mark C. Serreze, Ronald Benner, Eddy C. Carmack, F. Stuart Chapin Iii, S. Craig Gerlach, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Larry D. Hinzman, Marika Holland, Henry P. Huntington, Jeffrey R. Key, Andrea H. Lloyd, Glen M. Mcdonald, Joe Mcfadden, David Noone, Terry D. Prowse, Peter Schlosser

Sociology

The Arctic system is moving toward a new state that falls outside the envelope of glacial-interglacial fluctuations that prevailed during recent Earth history. This future Arctic is likely to have dramatically less permanent ice than exists at present. At the present rate of change, a summer ice-free Arctic Ocean within a century is a real possibility, a state not witnessed for at least a million years. The change appears to be driven largely by feedback-enhanced global climate warming, and there seem to be few, if any processes or feedbacks within the Arctic system that are capable of altering the trajectory …

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Mechanisms Underlying The Production Of Carapace Vibrations And Associated Waterborne Sounds In The American Lobster, Homarus Americanus, Winsor H. Watson Iii, Heidi Pye Henninger Aug 2005

Mechanisms Underlying The Production Of Carapace Vibrations And Associated Waterborne Sounds In The American Lobster, Homarus Americanus, Winsor H. Watson Iii, Heidi Pye Henninger

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

American lobsters produce carapace vibrations, which also lead to waterborne acoustic signals, by simultaneously contracting the antagonistic remotor and promotor muscles located at the base of the second antenna. These vibrations have a mean frequency of 183.1 Hz (range 87–261 Hz), range in duration from 68 to 1720 ms (mean 277.1 ms) and lead to waterborne sounds of similar frequencies. Lobsters most often produce these signals using only one pair of muscles at a time and alternate between the muscles of the left and right antennae when making a series of vibrations. Occasionally, they vibrate their carapace by simultaneously contracting …

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Unh Community Honors Life Of Prof Warren At Funeral And Memorial Service Friday, Aug 5, Erika Mantz Aug 2005

Unh Community Honors Life Of Prof Warren At Funeral And Memorial Service Friday, Aug 5, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

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Unh Professor Dies After Paragliding Accident In Canada, Kim Billings Aug 2005

Unh Professor Dies After Paragliding Accident In Canada, Kim Billings

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

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Unh Fisheries Expert Says Stay The Course With Ocean Fish Recovery Policy In Science Article, David Sims Jul 2005

Unh Fisheries Expert Says Stay The Course With Ocean Fish Recovery Policy In Science Article, David Sims

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

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Engaging Local Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) In The Response To Hiv/Aids., Helen Cornman, Curt D. Grimm, Sujata Rana Jul 2005

Engaging Local Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) In The Response To Hiv/Aids., Helen Cornman, Curt D. Grimm, Sujata Rana

Anthropology

During the past few years, a number of key donor programs have scaled up their global response to the crisis of HIV and AIDS. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Bank’s Multi-country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP), and other bilateral donors and charitable foundations have raised significant resources to fight HIV/AIDS. Spending on HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries increased from $1 billion in 2000 to $6.1 billion …

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Clca 2004 Land Conservation Technical Assistance, Dorothy Tripp Taylor Jun 2005

Clca 2004 Land Conservation Technical Assistance, Dorothy Tripp Taylor

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Estuaries Project contracted with the Center for Land Conservation Assistance, a program of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forest, to provide targeted education activities and technical support to increase the capacity of conservation groups in the New Hampshire seacoast area to achieve permanent land conservation. The target audiences were the five land trusts and two county conservation districts serving the NHEP area, municipal conservation commissions and open space committees, municipal and land use attorneys, and real estate professionals. CLCA provided 15 public educational and training events, as well a numerous individual consultations, that reached …

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Promoting Voluntary Land Conservation On The Lamprey, Exeter, And Squamscott River Corridors, Brian Hart Jun 2005

Promoting Voluntary Land Conservation On The Lamprey, Exeter, And Squamscott River Corridors, Brian Hart

PREP Reports & Publications

With the support of the New Hampshire Estuaries Project, the Rockingham Land Trust (RLT) researched the names and addresses of landowners along the Exeter, Squamscott, and Lamprey River corridors and within the target communities. Landowners were invited to participate in one of two free, land conservation and estate planning workshops. RLT followed up with each participant by letter and phone. The goal of the project was to secure the completion of three conservation easements from participants in the workshops. Due to low landowner participation and the significant decision involved in completing a conservation transaction, this goal was determined to be …

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