The first LEED for Neighborhood Design Webinar will be held Thursday, June 18th at 1:00 pm in Gregg 320. This is a free webinar and a great chance to learn about the new rating system the U.S. Green Building Council is developing for neighborhoods. A summary of the webinar can be found here>> Please contact Shannon Rogers, shrogers@unh.edu or Cyndy Carlson, cyndycarlson@gmail.com, with any questions. We hope to see you next Thursday!
Congratulations WERC Team!
The students have done another amazing job at the WERC Competition in New Mexico. Their benchscale worked very well in the hot sun – making clean, pure, drinking water from brackish water – and a lot more of it than they made in NH! Competing against 10 other universities in the most popular task this year, they earned second place and Best Presentation. The team also nominated Dr. Jenna Jambeck for advisor of the year and and she won!
When you see the students, please congratulate them on a job well done!
Researchers Test Sediment-Scrubbing Technology In Cocheco River In a mud flat at the edge of the Cocheco River, just outside downtown Dover, scientists from UNH’s Contaminated Sediments Center are testing an innovative way to treat polluted sediment in coastal waterways. More>> Campus Journal, 06.25.08
River bed mats filter, cap pollution: Dredging alternative both less expensive, disruptive DOVER — Watching Jeffrey Melton spread mat after mat of textured material across the Cocheco River's muddy flats doesn't look much like groundbreaking research. More>> Fosters, 06.23.08
Welcome
Founded in 1987, The Environmental Research Group at UNH's principal
mission is applied and fundamental environmental engineering and science
research.
This year, ERG is conducting more than $24 million of externally
sponsored research in partnership
with industry, municipalities, state and Federal agencies, and international
organizations. Its 15 full and associate faculty
members come from 3 departments (Civil Engineering, Microbiology,
Chemical Engineering), reflecting the necessary interdisciplinary
team approach to problem solving in today's world.
Research Areas
The Environmental Research Group specializes in eight areas, each
an important issue to New Hampshire and New England communities
and private sector firms as well as to the nation. Research is undertaken
on other issues when expertise is sought by New Hampshire communities
or firms, but it is in these eight areas that the Group has a critical
mass of talent, demonstrated significant expertise, and concentrated
its program development efforts:
Apatite sand is deployed to
create a phosphate-based reactive barrier to deal with heavy metals.
This is part of an on-going study comparing phosphate-based barriers
to other types of barriers.
Contact
Dr. Jeff Melton
Where
Durham, NH
What
UNH Stormwater
Center director, Rob Roseen, demonstrates various ways to treat
stormwater at the Center's field site on the UNH campus. The Center's
goal is to help reduce stormwater carrying pollutants into streams,
wetlands and coastal harbors.
Contact
Dr. Rob Roseen
Where
Former Pease AFB, NH
What
Installation
of a straddle-packer to a research borehole. Hydrologic, chemical
and microbiological data can be studied from a set of isolated fractures
in bedrock. The Bedrock Bioremediation Center conducts multidisciplinary
research on the bioremediation of organically-contaminated bedrock
aquifers.
Contact
Dr. Nancy Kinner
Where
Great Bay, NH
What
ERG
grad students monitoring groundwater discharge zones on the Great
Bay, investigating the impact of land-use practices on long-term
nutrient loading into coastal and estuarine waters.
Researchers Test Sediment-Scrubbing Technology In Cocheco River