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Faculty Senate Xxviii 2023-2024 - November 13, 2023 Agenda, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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University Of New Hampshire 2023-2024 Faculty Senate Xxviii - November 13, 2023 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Ocean Sound Essential Ocean Variable Implementation Plan, Peter Tyack, Akamatsu Tomonari, Olaf Boebel, Lucille Chapuis, Elisabeth Debusschere, Christ De Jong, Christine Erbe, Karen Evans, Jason Gedamke, Tess Gridley, Georgios Haralabus, Reyna Jenkins, Jennifer Miksis-Olds, Hanne Sagen, Frank Thomsen, Karolin Thomisch, Edward Urban

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

This document provides guidance for the addition of acoustic observations to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) through implementation of the Ocean Sound Essential Ocean Variable (EOV). The goal of this Ocean Sound EOV Implementation Plan is to define a baseline of how ocean sound observations are collected, analyzed, managed and reported. The Implementation Plan has been produced by a Committee of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE), a project co-sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO).

Fact Sheet Air Blast Sprayer Spray Distribution, George Hamilton

UNH Cooperative Extension

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University Of New Hampshire 2023-2024 Faculty Senate Xxviii - October 30, 2023 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Majority In Maine Plan To Vote No On Question 3, Yes On Question 4; Uncertainty Reigns Over Questions 5-8 10/25/2023, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

With only a few weeks remaining before Maine's 2023 Referendum election, Mainers appear set to reject Question 3, which proposes to create a publicly-owned utility, the Pine Tree Power Company. Majorities support Question 4 on automotive right to repair and Question 2, which concerns campaign finance and corruption. A smaller majority support Question 1, a measure some argue is designed to make Question 3 difficult to implement if it were to pass. Few Mainers say they have heard much or have a solid understanding of Questions 5 through 8, with many indicating that they are unsure how they will vote …

Bolstering Fish And Dairy Consumption In The Granite State, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

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Sustaining Senegal's Future, Faina Bukher

Sustainability Institute Blog

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Expert Panel Process For Advanced Septic System Technologies, Fb Environmental Associates, Forrest Bell, Cayce Dalton, Bina Skordas, Luke Frankel, Magdalyn Kosalek, Evan Ma

PREP Reports & Publications

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Linking Food Access, Fiber Intake, Gut Microbiota & Health Outcomes Among Nh Hispanic Residents, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

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Place Your Bets: The Legal Integration Of Sports Betting With Cryptocurrency, Andrew Topps

UNH Sports Law Review

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Play Like A Girl, Get Paid Like A… Man?, Amanda M. Malool

UNH Sports Law Review

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Trump Leads, Desantis Crashes In Nh Gop Primary 9/20/2023, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Former President Donald Trump continues to lead among likely 2024 Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, followed by entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Support for DeSantis has declined considerably since January while support for Ramaswamy, Haley, and Christie has increased.

Unh Ranked Third In Nation For College Free Speech, Keith Testa

UNH Today Archive

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The Constitution And Common Law Claims, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Named Third In The Nation For College Free Speech, Thomas Cronin

Media Relations

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Appendage Abnormalities In Spiders Induced By An Alternating Temperature Protocol In The Context Of Recent Advances In Molecular Spider Embryology, Teresa Napiorkowska, Julita Templin, Pawel Napiorkowski, Mark A. Townley

Faculty Publications

In the literature there are numerous reports of developmental deformities in arthropods collected in their natural habitat. Since such teratogenically affected individuals are found purely by chance, the causes of their defects are unknown. Numerous potential physical, mechanical, chemical, and biological teratogens have been considered and tested in the laboratory. Thermal shocks, frequently used in teratological research on the spider Eratigena atrica, have led to deformities on both the prosoma and the opisthosoma. In the 2020/2021 breeding season, by applying alternating temperatures (14 °C and 32 °C, changed every 12 h) for the first 10 days of embryonic development, …

Resiliency And Sustainability Of Drinking Water Systems Under Long Term And Emergency Contamination, Taler S. Bixler

Doctoral Dissertations

This PhD dissertation is dedicated to the understanding and enhancement of the sustainability of public drinking water systems, addressing both emerging contaminants and emergency contamination events. A key focus is placed on comprehending the tradeoffs encompassing public health, economic, and environmental aspects associated with different actions aimed at improving system resiliency. By providing drinking water authorities with the tools and methodologies to evaluate available options, this research aims to empower decision-makers in their efforts to strengthen their drinking water systems against a myriad of threats.

This dissertation commences by investigating the tradeoffs related to the treatment of PFAS-contaminated water. The …

Affecting Martensitic Transformation And Residual Stress Development Through Stress Superposition And Incremental Forming, Elizabeth Marie Mamros

Doctoral Dissertations

Stress superposition is defined as the incorporation of additional stresses into an existing manufacturing process during a single operation. In this thesis, experiments, simulations, and modeling of stress superposition in sheet metal deformation were investigated. Stress superposition can be used in manufacturing to reduce forming forces, increase material formability, and tailor the final part properties of products according to their intended applications, creating so-called functionally graded materials. Austenitic stainless steels (SS) were the focus due to their susceptibility to strain-induced phase transformation from austenite to martensite based on the stress state applied. In the first chapter, a novel cruciform specimen …

Physiological And Biochemical Analysis Of The Nitrogen Metabolism And Lead Treatment In Hybrid Poplar Clone Nm6 (Populus Nigra L. X P. Maximowiczii A. Henry), Medini Weerasinghe

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACTThe first objective of my Ph.D. research was focused on understanding the reasoning for changes observed in the physiology and metabolism of the poplar plants in response to foliar application of nitrogen. Increased use of nitrogen in the soil in agriculture, in the form of nitrogen fertilizers, has helped to promote high-yield agriculture over the past decades. However, a large fraction of nitrogen applied to croplands in the form of fertilizer and manure ends up entering the freshwater system causing degradation of the water quality and eutrophication of groundwater, rivers, lakes, and coastal and marine ecosystems. Chemical fertilization is also …

Rapid Retreat Of A Marine-Terminating Margin Of The Laurentide Ice Sheet In The Seacoast Region Of New Hampshire, Usa, Julia E. Brazo

Master's Theses and Capstones

A better understanding of the transition of marine-terminating margins of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) to land-based termini is instructive for monitoring modern glaciers that are currently undergoing a similar transition and influencing sea-level. Expanded knowledge of regional ice retreat rates and the timing of deglaciation of the LIS also provides insight on mechanisms of ice sheet retreat and collapse. Here we reconstruct the style and timing of ice recession and attendant marine regression in coastal New Hampshire during the last deglaciation. Our approach involves geospatial analysis of glaciomarine deposits to assess regional marine limit variability combined with 10Be surface …

Impacts Of Human Development On Mammalian Wildlife In An Exurban And Rural Landscape, Mairi Poisson

Master's Theses and Capstones

Urbanization is increasing worldwide, with over half the world’s population living in urban areas. Urbanization impacts wildlife by fragmenting habitat and restricting space use, which can in turn lead to a decrease in biodiversity, ecosystem services, and species abundance. In some cases, wildlife can adapt to land-use change present in urban areas and will respond positively to urbanization. In these cases, urbanization can create new niches and enhance niche partitioning. With increased urban growth, suburban and exurban sprawl has also increased. Globally, this “exurbanization” is the most rapidly developing land use type, though research into the impacts of exurban development …

Replacing Ground Corn With Liquid Molasses In Diets Of Jersey Cows Fed Red Clover Baleage: Effects On Milk Production, Nitrogen Efficiency, Energy Utilization, And Enteric Methane Emissions, Adam Lee Konopka

Master's Theses and Capstones

Molasses is a food byproduct rich in sucrose commonly added to the diets of cattle which has been reported to enhance milk production, promote rumen microbial growth, and increase digestibility of nutrients. Variable results obtained when partially replacing starch sources with molasses have led to an increased interest in the dietary conditions under which molasses could optimize the production of dairy cows. We aimed to investigate the effect of partially replacing ground corn with sugarcane liquid molasses on dry matter intake, milk yield and composition, enteric methane emissions, and N utilization in lactating Jersey cows fed red clover baleage. Eighteen …

Shoreline Oil Spill Response Knowledge Gaps And Technological Development Opportunities: A Workshop Report, Crrc, Noaa, Bsee

Coastal Response Research Center

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) partnered with NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) and UNH’s Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) to plan and facilitate an in-person workshop on the NOAA WRC in Seattle, WA. This event entitled “Shoreline Oil Spill Response Knowledge Gaps and Technological Development Opportunities” identified knowledge gaps and opportunities regarding technologies and scientific research associated with oil spill shoreline response. This effort included the exploration of the current state of the science of oil spill research associated with impacts of crude oil to shoreline environments and identified countermeasures and response alternatives that may …

Habitat Suitability Modeling Long-Term Growth And Healthy Cover Trends Of Staghorn Coral (Acropora Cervicornis) Outplants In The Lower Florida Keys, Glenna Dyson

Master's Theses and Capstones

In the Florida Keys Acropora cervicornis has been targeted for restoration due to its importance as a reef building stony coral. Habitat suitability models have been utilized within restoration ecology to identify potential locations for outplanting. To date, habitat suitability models have used coarse spatial data of large areas throughout the Florida Keys, resulting in recommended outplant sites that restoration groups have financial and logistical limitations to access and regularly monitor, due to being far away. Additionally, outplanting success can vary widely within a limited space, necessitating improved predictive abilities of coral outplant success within a restoration site. With the …

The Under-Appreciated Roles Of Spatial Scale, Individual Variation, And Nonlinearity In Spatial Ecology, David Heit

Master's Theses and Capstones

Spatial ecology is a central component of ecological inquiry. In an ever-changing world facing threats including climate change, human sprawl, and novel zoonotic diseases, understanding how animals use space and make habitat decisions can be invaluable to research, management, and conservation of animal species. The techniques and technology used in spatial ecology have advanced continuously over time to provide increasingly detailed data and analyses and mitigate potential statistical biases. However, there remain many potential biases that warrant further attention in the discipline of spatial ecology. This is especially true for conceptual biases, or biases inherent to the ways in which …

“An Alarming State Of Evil Among Our Juveniles” A Case Study Of Public Education In Manchester, New Hampshire From 1845-1915, Amy Cummings Sherr

Master's Theses and Capstones

This thesis investigates the effectiveness of compulsory public education laws in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1845-1915, drawing on detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of school attendance records, legislative proceedings, and media coverage. The thesis identifies shifting objectives in the campaigns for compulsory education laws and child labor laws in New Hampshire over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which help to explain lackluster enforcement. Reformers re-defined the perceived problems over time which led to new legislation and changing priorities in enforcement. Initially, reformers focused on “idle children” causing trouble and disrupting society. Then with mass immigration to the …

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, August 30, 2023, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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2023-2024 Faculty Senate Xxviii - August 28 2023 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Faculty Senate Xxviii 2023-2024 - August 28, 2023 Agenda, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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