Research News
UNH Receives $35M from NOAA for Ongoing Ocean Mapping Work
The University of New Hampshire’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) has received $35.7 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue the Joint Hydrographic Center, a NOAA partnership and a national ocean-mapping research center. The funding, granted through a competitive process, provides the center with $7,151,000 per year for five years, through 2015. Learn more.
UNH Researchers in the News
New York Times: Searching for Crumbs in Syria’s Breadbasket (Jeannie Sowers)
Boston Globe Green blog: Slime eel sex mystery begins to unfurl (Stacia Sower/hagfish research)
Boston Globe North: UNH gets grant for coastal mapping (Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/JHC)
With $1.1M NIH Grant, UNH Prof Sheds Light on Blindness
Rick Cote, professor and chair of the department of molecular, cellular, and biomedical sciences at the University of New Hampshire, has received $1.1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his ongoing research on one of the proteins that causes retinitis pigmentosa, a leading inherited cause of vision loss and blindness. Learn more.
As oil continues to gush from the Gulf of Mexico spill, UNH civil and environmental engineering professor Nancy Kinner has been highly sought-after for her expertise on the environmental impact of such a spill … and for her ability to communicate that expertise to the media. TV, radio and print media across the U.S. and around the world – including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and ABC News — have interviewed Kinner, who is co-director of the UNH/NOAA Coastal Response Research Center. See what she told the PBS NewsHour. And read her thoughts in TIME.
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Bobcat Research
UNH graduate student Derek Broman and Wildlife Ecology Professor John Litvaitis are working on a cooperative project with the NH Fish and Game Department to study bobcat's health, population, and their movement throughout the southwest part of the state.
New Book
Stephen Trzaskoma, Associate Professor of Classics and Supervisor of Ancient Greek Language Courses, has published new translations of Callirhoe and An Ephesian Story. Learn more.
Paris Fulbright
Amitava Bhattacharjee, Peter Paul professor of physics, recently received a Fulbright award to spend his sabbatical year (2010-11) at the newly established Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP) in Paris. “This is a new laboratory that represents in spirit the very life in research that I have attempted to live,” says Bhattacharjee of interdisciplinary culture and focus he calls the lab’s “raison d’etre.” The LPP brings together space and astrophysical plasma physics with fusion – areas of plasma science were international collaboration has been most fruitful, Bhattacharjee adds, making this Fulbright award, with its expectations that its scholars will be cultural ambassadors, particularly relevant.
While at the LPP, Bhattacharjee will collaborate with colleagues there and at Ecole Normal Superiéure and and Universite dé Paris on magnetic reconnection and waves and turbulence. In addition, members of the Center for Integrated Computation of Reconnection and Turbulance (CICART), a UNH-Dartmouth collaboration which Bhattacharjee leads, will visit and work with members of the LPP.
Learn more about Bhattacharjee and his research.
NOAA Tests ROV Little Hercules at Chase Ocean Engineering Lab
Electrical engineer Eric Martin surveys Little Hercules, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at the Chase Ocean Engineering Lab on Thursday where film crews from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Geographic were filming a new, camera-equipped submersible nicknamed "flying eyeball," for an upcoming National Geographic oceanic exploration series hosted by Dr. Bob Ballard. (Photo: Mike Ross, Photographic Services) Learn more.
Portsmouth Harbor Observatory
In the past year, a team from the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM/JHC) (Research Engineer Glenn McGillicuddy, Research Professor Lloyd Huff, CCOM Director Larry Mayer, Research Assistant Professor Tom Weber, and graduate students Val Schmidt and Michelle Weirathmueller) has begun the development of a small-scale oceanographic observatory at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor (between New Castle Island, NH and Kittery Point, ME). This is an area of particular interest to CCOM researchers because it is frequently used as test bed for commercial hydrographic sensor systems. Learn more.
Faculty Excellence Profile: Eliga Gould
Eliga Gould’s colleagues speak of his worldwide reputation as a leading scholar on the British empire in the age of the American Revolution and, more generally, in the cutting-edge area of Atlantic history. More.
UNH Prof Receives Nearly $500,000 to Research Environmentally Significant Plants
DURHAM, N.H. – University of New Hampshire microbiologist Louis Tisa has received two grants totaling $498,115 to advance understanding of the actinorhizal plants, widespread woody plants with potential to enrich nutrient-poor and contaminated soils. More.
UNH recently received a three-year $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the advancement and leadership of women faculty in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Learn more.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Stimulus Bill)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed by President Obama on February 19, 2009. It contains exciting opportunities for the advancement of research and education, including $21.5 billion to be invested in Federally supported research and development over the next two years.
Details about agency investment priorities and application processes are emerging rapidly and will be reported on this page as they become available. If you discover information regarding stimulus-related opportunities that is particularly relevant to UNH, please contact Lynnette Hentges.
Learn more about the stimulus bill at UNH.
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Learn more about the stimulus bill in NH.
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