UNH Research 2012 - Marine & Ocean Sciences
        A digest of the year’s research news from the University of New Hampshire | ||||||
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A Clouded Eye in the Sky Satellites are allowing scientists, including those in UNH’s |
Win Watson –
research/sites/ unh.edu.research/ files/docs/RDaC/ Research_Profiles/ Research_Profile_ Win_Watson_ 12-0809.pdf
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A Rising Tide Researchers at UNH’s Center for Ocean Renewable Energy (CORE) are Related Research Areas: Engineering & Physical Sciences | |||
Excess Nutrients Collapsing East Coast Salt Marshes,
Scientists Show
http://www.eos.unh.edu/news/indiv_news.shtml?NEWS_ID=1348
http://www.unh.edu/campusjournal/2012/10/excess-nutrients-collapsing-east-coast-salt-marshes-scientists-show
In a paper published in a recent issue of the journal Nature, scientists explain why salt marshes have been disintegrating over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and other highly developed coastlines. A nitrogen flux model developed by Wilfred Wollheim was used to demonstrate potential areas of global vulnerability. Wollheim is an assistant professor in the department of natural resources and the environment and the Earth Systems Research Center (ESRC) in UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).
Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment
Final Frontier Larry Mayer and his team of ocean-mapping researchers are unlocking Related Research Areas: Engineering & Physical Sciences |  | ||
 | Is It Fresh? You Bet. http://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2012/08/it-fresh-you-bet UNH Cooperative Extension associate professor Charlie French and Erik Chapman, UNH assistant extension professor and N.H. Sea Grant fisheries specialist, continue to work with New Hampshire’s fishermen to identify alternative markets for New Hampshire-caught seafood and map out and implement marketing strategies to take advantage of those opportunities. One of their strategies: the state’s seafood brand – New Hampshire Fresh and Local. The brand represents a commitment by all of New Hampshire's major fishery stakeholders to work together Related Research Areas: Business & Technology; Sustainability & the Environment | |
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Lobster Glut Cause for Celebration, Consternation
http://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2012/07/lobster-glut-cause-celebration-consternation
Win Watson, professor of zoology and noted lobster researcher, and Erik Chapman, UNH assistant extension professor and N.H. Sea Grant fisheries specialist, worked with local lobstermen to understand the causes and potential implications of the unexpected jump in the lobster catch in northern New England in the spring and early summer of 2012.
Related Research Area: Agriculture & Biosciences
Larry Mayer – | NH Sea Grant Receives $2 Million for Marine Research,
Extension, Education New Hampshire Sea Grant, based at UNH, will receive $2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during 2012 and 2013 to support five local research projects, marine education, and Cooperative Extension activities. The research projects affect species from lobsters to alewives in the Gulf of Maine and Great Bay ecosystems. Related Research Areas: Health, Behavioral & Social Sciences | ||
NOAA, UNH Fund Projects to Investigate Effects of
Chemical Dispersants in Oil Spills The Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC), which is a partnership between UNH and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has announced that NOAA will fund three research projects aimed at better understanding the impact of dispersed oil and chemical dispersants used during oil spills. Established in 2004, the CRRC is co-directed for UNH by Nancy Kinner, professor of civil engineering. It focuses on developing new approaches to oil spill response and restoration in marine and estuarine environments through research and synthesis of information. Related Research Areas: Engineering & Physical Sciences; Sustainability & the Environment |
Notes from the Top of the World http://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2012/09/notes-top-world A team of researchers from the Center for Coastal and Related Research Areas: Engineering & Physical Sciences |
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Whales? Thanks to UNH, There's an App for That Researchers at the UNH Center for Coastal
and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM/JHC) helped develop Related Research Areas: Agriculture & Biosciences | |
Staying Afloat Under Water
http://colsa.unh.edu/article/fall-2012/staying-afloat-under-water
Ray Grizzle, professor of biological sciences, is studying the interplay between the oysters in New Hampshire's Little Bay and Gracilaria, a spaghetti-like seaweed native to those waters, in an attempt to tie together food production with environmental improvements. His research is being conducted alongside the work of four other UNH scientists who are using the results of decades of New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES)-funded research to apply sea ranching techniques to other aquaculture endeavors.
Related Research Areas: Agriculture & Biosciences; Sustainability & the Environment
Tweets Offer
Unique Glimpse of Red Tide Research Krystin Ward ’06, a research technician in UNH’s College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, Related Research Areas: Agriculture & Biosciences |  | ||
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Scientists Get Funds for Continued Coastal Water Monitoring Scientists from UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory
(OPAL) have received funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) as part of a five-year, Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment | |
UNH Ocean
Scientists Shed New Light on http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2012/feb/bp06trench.cfm An ocean mapping expedition has shed new light on the
deepest place on Earth, Related Research Areas: Engineering & Physical Sciences |  | ||
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UNH Researcher Aids in Discovery of Shipwrecked
Antarctic Explorer Terra Nova The sonar systems evaluation and calibration skills of
Jonathan Beaudoin, research assistant professor in UNH’s Related Research Areas: Engineering & Physical Sciences | ||
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