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Life In The Lab, Christina Casinelli

UNH Today Archive

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Omicron Comes To Nh: One In Eight Granite Staters Report Testing Positive For Covid-19 In Past Month 1/25/2022, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

COVID-19 cases have been rising across the country. Nearly three in ten Granite Staters say they have tested positive for COVID at some point and 13% say they have tested positive in the past month. Despite the number of COVID-19 cases in the state, most Granite Staters are more comfortable going to places like restaurants and barber shops, though many remain uncomfortable going to sporting events or concerts at larger venues. A majority continue to approve of Governor Chris Sununu's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bipartisan Approval Of Scott's Handling Of Covid-19 Continues As Cases Rise In Vermont 1/25/2022, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

After nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, one in eight Vermonters report having tested positive for COVID-19 at some point, nearly half of whom say they tested positive in the past month. Seven in ten Vermont residents, and majorities of both Republicans and Democrats, approve of Governor Phil Scott's handling of the pandemic. Few Vermonters say they are comfortable currently going to events with large numbers of people such as a wedding, sporting event, or concert.

Reassessing The Role Of Anthropogenic Climate Change In The Extinction Of Silphium, Paul Pollaro, Paul Robertson

Faculty Publications

The famed ancient herb, known to the Romans as silphium (Greeksilphion), is widely regarded as the first recorded instance of human-induced species extinction. Modern scholars have largely credited direct exploitation (e.g., over-harvesting; over-grazing) as the primary cause of silphium's extinction, due to an overwhelming demand for the plant in ancient times. Recent research has revealed strict cold-stratification requirements for the germination of silphium's closest living relatives, revealing the likelihood that silphium shared these same germination requirements. Documented environmental changes in ancient Cyrenaica (e.g., widespread deforestation; cropland expansion) likely resulted in accelerated rates of desertification throughout the region as well as …

Future Of Winter In Northeastern North America: Climate Indicators Portray Warming And Snow Loss That Will Impact Ecosystems And Communities, Elizabeth Burakowski, Alix Contosta, Danielle Grogan, Sarah Nelson, Sarah Garlick, Nora Casson

Faculty Publications

Winters in northeastern North America have warmed faster than summers, with impacts on ecosystems and society. Global climate models (GCMs) indicate that winters will continue to warm and lose snow in the future, but uncertainty remains regarding the magnitude of warming. Here, we project future trends in winter indicators under lower and higher climate-warming scenarios based on emission levels across northeastern North America at a fine spatial scale (1/16°) relevant to climate-related decision making. Under both climate scenarios, winters continue to warm with coincident increases in days above freezing, decreases in days with snow cover, and fewer nights below freezing. …

Passings: Professor Robert Harriss, Rebecca Irelan

UNH Today Archive

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A Striking Discovery, Rebecca Irelan

UNH Today Archive

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Acoustic Predictors Of Active Fluid Expulsion From A Hydrothermal Vent Field, Offshore Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Erica Spain, Geoffroy Lamarche, Vanessa Lucieer, Sally J. Watson, Yoann Ladroit, Erin Heffron, Arne Pallentin, Joanne M. Whittaker

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Understanding fluid expulsion is key to estimating gas exchange volumes between the seafloor, ocean, and atmosphere; for locating key ecosystems; and geohazard modelling. Locating active seafloor fluid expulsion typically requires acoustic backscatter data. Areas of very-high seafloor backscatter, or “hardgrounds,” are often used as first-pass indicators of potential fluid expulsion. However, varying and inconsistent spatial relationships between active fluid expulsion and hardgrounds means a direct link remains unclear. Here, we investigate the links between water-column acoustic flares to seafloor backscatter and bathymetric metrics generated from two calibrated multibeam echosounders. Our site, the Calypso hydrothermal vent field (HVF) in the Bay …

Seagrassnet Monitoring In The Great Bay Estuary, Nh/Mefield Season 2020, Kalle Matso, Trevor Mattera, David Burdick, Lara Martin, Amanda Giacchetti, Tom Gregory

PREP Reports & Publications

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Nominations Open For Entrepreneur Hall Of Fame, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Wildcats Sweep No. 20 Boston College For First Time Since 2009, Joshua Shaw

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Unh Women’S Basketball: Delaruelle’S Buzzer Beater Upstages Torres’ 1,000th Career Point, Brackett Lyons

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Unh Men’S Hockey: Wildcats At Uconn Huskies Matchup And Notes, Joshua Shaw

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Commentary: Divisive Concepts And Regulation By Threat Of Baseless Lawsuit, John M. Greabe

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] "At the State House, attention has returned to New Hampshire's so-called 'divisive concepts' law. The law, enacted in 2021, bars public K-12 teachers from engaging in certain forms of instruction on issues of race, gender, and other forms of discrimination. The Legislature is presently considering bills both to repeal the law and to extend it to the higher education context.

Those who support repeal tend to emphasize the vital need for classroom conversations on topics near the periphery of the restraints on speech imposed by law. And rightly so. The law's purpose and effect are to deter teachers and …

Geobowl Winners, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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The Vaccine Hesitant, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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Crop Rotational Complexity Affects Plant-Soil Nitrogen Cycling During Water Deficit, Timothy M. Bowles, Andrea Jilling, Karen Moran-Rivera, Jorg Schnecker, A. Stuart Grandy

Faculty Publications

One of the biggest environmental challenges facing agriculture is how to both supply and retain nitrogen (N), especially as precipitation becomes more variable with climate change. We used a greenhouse experiment to assess how contrasting histories of crop rotational complexity affect plant-soil-microbe interactions that govern N processes, including during water stress. With higher levels of carbon and N cycling hydrolytic enzymes, higher mineral-associated organic matter N concentrations, and an altered microbial community, soils from the most complex rotation enabled 80% more corn N uptake under two moisture regimes, compared to soil from monoculture corn. Higher levels of plant N likely …

Former Nh Listens Program Manager Now Serving As Nh Public K-12 District Director Of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, And Justice, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Field Observational Constraints On The Controllers In Glyoxal (Chocho) Reactive Uptake To Aerosol, Dongwook Kim, Changmin Cho, Seokhan Jeong, Soojin Lee, Benjamin A. Nault, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Douglas A. Day, Jason C. Schroder, Jose L. Jimenez, Rainer Volkamer, Donald R. Blake, Armin Wisthaler, Alan Fried, Joshua P. Digangi, Glenn S. Diskin, Sally E. Pusede, Samuel R. Hall, Kirk Ullmann, L. Gregory Huey, David J. Tanner, Jack E. Dibb, Christoph J. Knote, Kyung-Eun Min

Faculty Publications

Glyoxal (CHOCHO), the simplest dicarbonyl in the troposphere, is a potential precursor for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and brown carbon (BrC) affecting air quality and climate. The airborne measurement of CHOCHO concentrations during the KORUS-AQ (KORea–US Air Quality study) campaign in 2016 enables detailed quantification of loss mechanisms pertaining to SOA formation in the real atmosphere. The production of this molecule was mainly from oxidation of aromatics (59 %) initiated by hydroxyl radical (OH). CHOCHO loss to aerosol was found to be the most important removal path (69 %) and contributed to roughly ∼ 20 % (3.7 µg sm−3 ppmv−1 …

Polar Region Bathymetry: Critical Knowledge For The Prediction Of Global Sea Level Rise, Martin Jakobsson, Larry A. Mayer

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The ocean and the marine parts of the cryosphere interact directly with, and are affected by, the seafloor and its primary properties of depth (bathymetry) and shape (morphology) in many ways. Bottom currents are largely constrained by undersea terrain with consequences for both regional and global heat transport. Deep ocean mixing is controlled by seafloor roughness, and the bathymetry directly influences where marine outlet glaciers are susceptible to the inflow relatively warm subsurface waters - an issue of great importance for ice-sheet discharge, i.e., the loss of mass from calving and undersea melting. Mass loss from glaciers and the Greenland …

A Month At Winterthur, Katie Umans

UNH Today Archive

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Pine Pests, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Researchers Discover Destructive Southern Pine Beetle In Northern Forests, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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A Hypothesis, A Collaboration And A Solution, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

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Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, January 26, 2022, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, January 12, 2022, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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University Of New Hampshire Announces December 2021 Graduates, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Beijing Bound, Callie Carr

UNH Today Archive

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Sustainability Award Nominations Open, Jeremy Gasowski

UNH Today Archive

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Breaking Barriers: Carsey Alum Deqa Dhalac ‘13g Inaugurated As Nation’S First Somali-American Mayor, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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