Research Snapshots

People bundled up in winter gear hold a long white tube to measure soil frost amidst a snowy forest.

Frosty Field Work

Wearing their warmest winter garb, graduate students from UNH and the University of Maine, along with three UNH faculty members, braved the extreme... Read More

Scanning electron microscope image of ant head, colored red and blue

Extreme Close-Up, Ant Edition

UNH's University Instrumentation Center imaged the head of a leafcutter ant using its scanning electron microscope. Read More

Search-and-rescue dog runs toward the camera in the snow as school children look on

Tracking Hidden STEM in NH's North Country

Is K-9 search-and-rescue a STEM skill? What about hunting, snowmobiling or cross-country skiing? That’s what... Read More

Rocket launches into the green Northern Lights.

Research Snapshot: Northern Lights

On a recent night above the Arctic circle in Norway, two rockets carrying equipment designed and built by UNH students and researchers streaked... Read More

Group of people wearing lifejackets huddle in a circle in a pool

Research Snapshot: Offshore Survival

The engineering tank in Chase Ocean Engineering Lab is no match for the chilly offshore waters of the Gulf of Maine, but it stood in ably for a... Read More

Three researchers walk through a salt marsh at sunrise

Research Snapshot: Early Birds

UNH researchers study tidal marsh sparrows to understand how they're adapted to living in the harsh environment of salt marshes. Read More

Plaster sculpture of a head lying on its side

Research Snapshot: Pox

“Pox was done in the fall of 2019 a few short months prior to the introduction of COVID 19 into the common lexicon. What had started as an... Read More

Two elderly women, one white and one Black, toss a green balloon

Research Snapshot: Pastimes With a Balloon

“Eunice and Elinah are residents of an old age home run by an Afrikaner women’s charity in small town South Africa. After white-minority rule ended... Read More