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High-impact research and scholarship from the University of New Hampshire, the state's flagship public research university. R1, Land-, Sea-, Space-Grant institution.

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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🐟 Good news, seafood lovers: UNH will lead a new NOAA effort to grow and strengthen America’s seafood supply through aquaculture research. www.unh.edu/news/unh-lea...
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UNH to Lead Major NOAA Effort to Strengthen America’s Seafood Supply
Good news for seafood lovers: The University of New Hampshire will lead a new national effort to grow and strengthen America’s seafood supply through aquaculture research.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🤖 Robbie the robot looks like a coat rack. Can this UNH-designed innovation help seniors maintain their independence? Yes, one couple tells The Associated Press. Watch Robbie in action with Brian and Brenda: apnews.com/article/robo...
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A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?
The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some develo...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
⚡️What causes lightning? We’re getting closer to solving the mystery, UNH physics professor Joe Dwyer tells @quantamagazine.bsky.social, but there’s still a lot we don’t know. www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-...
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What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. | Quanta Magazine
Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“There is this feeling that you’re supposed to read a book like this and walk away an expert. That’s actually not the point of this book at all. The point is to wander through physics,” @chanda.blacksky.app tells @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...
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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Every $100 of federal research funding to UNH — grants and contracts from agencies such as NSF, NOAA, NASA, or NIH — generates an additional $77 in economic activity. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
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Federally Funded Research Generates Significant Economic Benefit to N.H.
For every $100 in federal funding, UNH generates an additional $77 in economic activity, according to a recent report.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Keeping structures like bridges, buildings, or airplanes safe is complex and expensive. UNH’s Innovator of the Year Yashar Azam has created techniques that could save money, use fewer resources, and possibly extend the life of these structures by 500%. More: www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
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Innovator of the Year’s Technology Is Making Our Bridges and Structures Safer
Yashar Azam, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is the 2026 Innovator of the Year. His digital twinning techniques aim to make structures like bridges and airplanes safer.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This Earth Day, we celebrate clean water, healthy ecosystems, and two UNH Sustainability Institute interns working to safeguard both. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
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Student Stormwater Research Helping Keep Community Ecosystems Healthy
Allison Kish and Annie Ragland have been performing stormwater testing and research at UNH, assisting the university’s stormwater team in keeping surrounding community ecosystems – like the Great Bay ...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
⛷️ A majority of professionals working in New Hampshire’s robust ski industry are concerned about the effects of climate change on the enterprise in the Granite State and believe more should be done, a new study from UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy finds. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
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New Hampshire Ski Professionals Are Concerned About Climate Change
New research from UNH's Carsey School of Public Policy finds a large majority — 85% — of professionals working in New Hampshire's ski industry are concerned about the effects of climate change.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In the U.S. war with Iran, civilian infrastructures have become targets. What are the effects and consequences for people and the environment? UNH political science and international affairs professor Jeannie Sowers shares her insights in this Q and A. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Electrons may be negative, but they can smile! 😍 That’s what UNH researcher Jason Shuster found in the protective bubble that shields the Earth from powerful space weather events exploding from the Sun. Read the full story: www.unh.edu/news/2026/02...
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Scientists Find Electrons 'Smiling' in Earth’s Magnetic Shield
UNH research uncovers surprising patterns in how electrons move inside space weather explosions.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🪏Groundbreaking news! (Literally.) UNH has broken ground on a new 70,500-square foot building that will house the Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great Lakes Mapping and the growing number of industry partners seeking to collaborate with UNH. More: www.unh.edu/news/2026/02...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Get the lead out! UNH has developed a dashboard that tracks drinking water lead levels at schools and childcare facilities in N.H. It's a partnership w NH Dept of Environmental Services. More: www.unh.edu/news/2026/01...
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How Safe is Your Child’s Drinking Water?
New Hampshire parents can now easily access information about the lead levels in drinking water at their child’s school or child care in any part of the state.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
How clean is the Hudson River? Ph.D. student John Henkelman canoed all 315 miles, from the Adirondaks to New York City, to find out: www.unh.edu/news/2026/01...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Chilly? 🥶Take some tips on dressing warmly from a researcher whose field work takes her to the Arctic. Check out these hot takes from Ph.D. candidate Cheristy Jones: youtu.be/imMtmg0gs7I?...
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How to stay warm in the cold: Tips from an arctic researcher
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Sometimes, launching a career in space science means launching a rocket 🚀! That’s what 15 UNH students did last month in the Arctic, when NASA’s RENU 3 sounding rocket blasted off from Norway to measure the underlying physics behind the northern lights. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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RENU 3 Rocket Blasts Off With UNH Technology on Board
UNH scientists and students designed and built 10 space instruments to study atmospheric phenomena that affect satellites and GPS communications.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
DYK the concept of emotional intelligence — the ability to perceive and understand emotions — has its roots at UNH? Professor of psychology Jack Mayer and colleagues developed a widely used measure that has become a national standard among psychologists. youtu.be/Dir_E4llzkA?...
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UNH Faculty Excellence: John D. Mayer
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Last week, a satellite 🛰️ designed and built by undergraduates blasted toward the sun ☀️, where it will study solar wind and its effects on space weather. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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Tiny Satellite Built by UNH Students Blasts Off to Space
When the Falcon 9 rocket blasted off the day after Thanksgiving, it carried with it years of hard work — and the hopes and dreams — of 26 UNH undergraduate students who built a miniature satellite to ...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
With a $2.1M NIH grant, UNH researchers will develop new treatments for diseases that impact millions of people every day. Watch on News Center Maine: www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
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UNH secures $2.1M NIH grant to innovate treatment for major diseases
Over the next five years, researchers will develop new treatments for diseases that impact millions of people every day.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Why do ginkgo trees drop their leaves all at once 🍁? And what does one UNH tree tell us about climate change? Professor Serita Frey explains it all: youtube.com/shorts/23cYM...
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Did you know that a Ginkgo trees drop all their leaves at once?
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Toxic mercury 🌡️ that has long been trapped in coastal sediments is being released into the water column, due to more frequent coastal storms and an uptick in dredging, UNH researchers found. That’s bad news for marine life 🐠 and seafood consumers. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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Mercury Stored in Coastal Sediments Is Making a Comeback
Buried deep in the sediments of the world’s coastal shelves, the toxic metal mercury has, to some degree, been locked away from entering the marine food chain. Now, a study co-authored by a UNH resear...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🧲 New UNH, research published in Nature Communications, harnesses artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new functional magnetic materials, which could reduce our reliance on hard-to-obtain rare earth elements needed for the magnets that power our world. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH Researchers Harness AI to Discover Magnetic Materials
Study authors Suman Itani, a PH.D. student in physics (left) and postdoctoral researcher Yibo Zhang. Photo by Jiadong Zang. Magnets are at the core of the technology that powers our world: smartphones...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🎣 The future of fishing floats at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, where delicious steelhead trout grow alongside mussels and kelp in UNH’s innovative AquaFort. @wmur9.bsky.social follows the fish from pen to plate. www.wmur.com/article/chro...
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AquaFort fish project aims to produce more local fish, help local fishermen
Those who run this fish farm hope more fishermen will invest in small farms like this and add it to their workflow (via NH Chronicle).
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Congratulations @chanda.blacksky.app !
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
UNH's Great Bay Archaeological Survey 🪏, a community-engaged archaeology research program, recently helped a nearby landowner uncover early colonial structures on his property. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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Archaeology Dig Showcases Power of Community Connections
In partnership with a landowner in nearby Madbury, UNH Professor Meghan Howey and her colleagues were able to identify the site of a 1701 garrison known as the Meserve Garrison, completing a dig at th...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
With a $2.1 NIH MIRA award Harish Vashisth, a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, will develop innovative approaches for new therapies to treat diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and viral infections that impact millions of Americans every day. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH's Vashisth Receives $2.1 Million from NIH Aimed at Advancing Therapeutic Discovery
Harish Vashisth, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, has been awarded a five-year, $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health...
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Eos @eos.org · 08/10/2025
Zigzags in magnetic field lines might not occur only near the Sun. New #AGUPubs research by @unhresearch.bsky.social eos.org/research-spo...
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Magnetic “Switchback” Detected near Earth for First Time - Eos
Until recently, this type of zigzag shape—formed by energetic rearrangement of magnetic field lines—had been seen only near the Sun.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This summer, UNH ocean mapping researchers helped discover WWII shipwrecks in the Solomon Islands. @chronicle5.bsky.social shares the story. @nautiluslive.org www.wcvb.com/article/unco...
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Uncovering naval history in the Solomon Islands
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire and partners explored Iron Bottom Sound, uncovering naval wrecks and honoring the thousands who perished there.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🚀☀️Last week NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe spacecraft blasted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying a major instrument designed and built by UNH. Physics prof Nathan Schwadron explains its goals. youtu.be/FwLdlo4DwFE?...
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UNH and IMAP-Lo
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Did walkable neighborhoods help ease pandemic mental health declines?🚶‍♀️‍➡️UNH professor Karen Conway found found that increasing a neighborhood’s walkability was associated with a 4% reduction in mental health declines. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH Study Finds Walkable Neighborhoods Eased Pandemic Mental Health Declines
UNH economist Karen Conway’s new study finds that walkable neighborhoods helped buffer pandemic-related mental health declines. Using national data, she and collaborator Andrea Menclova showed that ev...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Greetings from the North Pole! 🥶Larry Mayer, director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, tagged the top of the world recently as part of a scientific expedition on board the Swedish icebreaker Oden. He's leading an effort to map the seabed in the Arctic Ocean.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
UNH’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice provides analysis and expertise to the state of New Hampshire, helping Granite Staters stay healthy. More on this way UNH works for NH ➡️ www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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Ocean Exploration Trust @nautiluslive.org · 03/07/2025
As we explore #IronBottomSound, we're using @unhresearch.bsky.social's #USVDriX to create a high-resolution map of the entire basin and identify potential exploration sites. #DriX has an EM712 #multibeamsonar and topside sensors to support piloting from both shoreside and onboard #EVNautilus.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
What can Nasonia, tiny wasps with a gruesome parasitic life cycle, teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental diseases? Quite a lot, our researchers found: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
UNH researchers helped solve the cold case of a N.H. woman who had been missing since 1978, recovering and identifying Alberta Leeman from a submerged car in the Connecticut River. It's another way UNH Works for NH. magazine.unh.edu/issue/winter...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What does it mean to be a Land, Sea and Space Grant university? Each designation has a unique background, but together they signify the U.S. government’s trust in UNH to produce and share solutions-focused research that improves the world around us. More in Spark: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Just 26% of the world's oceans have been mapped. Read how UNH is changing that in "What Lies Beneath": magazine.unh.edu/issue/winter...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Without collaborative R&D through a public university, it is significantly more difficult ... for private companies and industry to make that leap." A @uofnh.bsky.social industry partner's op-ed argues that support to UNH is support to N.H. businesses: newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/05/20/s...
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Support for UNH also helps support New Hampshire businesses • New Hampshire Bulletin
As the New Hampshire Senate considers the House-adopted budget for fiscal year 2026-27 — which includes a potential cut in support for the University System of New Hampshire — I want to express the im...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
UNH research works for New Hampshire! From breeding sweet potatoes 🍠 to solving cold cases 🦴 to protecting lakes from invasives 🚤, we're turning great ideas into action and impact for the Granite State. 👉https://www.unh.edu/
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"Our objective was to quantify permafrost pore structure and determine if the inverse relationship between soil hydrological pore connectivity and microbial diversity persists in permafrost." @unhresearch.bsky.social based Hubbard Brooker Alix Contosta is one of the co-authors of this 2025 paper.
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Permafrost pore structure and its influence on microbial diversity: Insights from X-ray computed tomography
Soil pore structure plays a critical role in shaping soil microbial communities, which directly influence biogeochemical cycling. A notable impact of …
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Without access to a nearby U.S. Social Security Administration field office, rural Americans had a significant decrease in access to social security disability, retirement and survivor benefits and services. New UNH research: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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Rural Americans Face Heavy Burden Accessing Social Security Benefits and Information
Low access to local Social Security Administration field offices burden rural residents with "red tape and paperwork."
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A doctoral dissertation runs about 80,000 words. On March 26, 13 UNH graduate students present their research in a zippy three minutes at UNH’s 10th annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. ⏱ gradschool.unh.edu/research/thr...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Our next Seacoast Sips of Science is 🔥! Join us April 23 at North Country Hard Cider Company in Dover when 3 ecologists talk about fire and its role on the landscape. Tickets are going fast— like wildfire! www.seacoastsipsofscience.com/event-april
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
👟 Could carbon fiber-plated (CFP) running shoes give couch-to-5K runners the same edge they do elite athletes? Yes, a team of UNH undergraduate researchers found. The runners in their study shaved an average 48 seconds off their 5K time in the CFP shoes. ⏱ chhs.unh.edu/blog/2025/02...
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The classic poster presenter pose. Patient. Poised. Prepared. Here's @unhresearch.bsky.social-based Ryan Reed at the ready during #AGU24 in Washington, D.C. last December. Read about his work using drones to study snow in Hubbard Brook: bit.ly/AGU24_C21D 🧪🛰️❄️
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Greenland ice cap is now the largest contributor to global sea level rise. Larry Mayer, director of UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, talks to @wcvb5.bsky.social Chronicle about why. www.wcvb.com/article/gree...
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Why the Greenland Ice Cap is the largest contributor to global sea level rise
UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping is traveling to the Arctic Circle to find answers
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
At Hubbard Brook, researchers are uncovering how snow depth and persistence shift across short distances. They’re using drones to map “snow microclimates.” @unhresearch.bsky.social Jeremy Johnston presented some of this work during the @agu.org 2024 Fall meeting: bit.ly/AGU24_C21E16
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A preliminary study from @nhseagrant.bsky.social and @uofnh.bsky.social prof Paula Mouser found "forever chemicals" PFAS concentrated up to 70x higher in foam on waterways in the Piscataqua watershed of NH: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH Research Team Finds Concentrated PFAS in Watershed Foams
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire used a newly designed device called a skimmer to test samples of foam formed on the top of local waterways for the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl s...
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NH Sea Grant @nhseagrant.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The deadline is approaching for two Community Engaged #GraduateResearch Fellowship opportunities! Learn more and apply today: seagrant.unh.edu/fellowships/... @unhresearch.bsky.social
An aerial view of the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary.A view of the Lamprey River as seen from downtown Newmarket, New Hampshire. Two volunteers conduct beach profiling measurements on a sandy New Hampshire beach. A view of New Hampshire's Great Bay at sunset, with shades of blue and purple.
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
UNH retained its R1 Carnegie Classification for highest research activity, securing its spot among the nation’s most productive research universities. What it means for UNH and New Hampshire: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH Retains Carnegie R1 Classification
UNH retained its R1 classification for highest research activity from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the organization announced today, securing its spot among the nat...
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UNH Research @unhresearch.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
UNH is expanding its reach to help communities worldwide develop sustainable aquaculture solutions. Students from around the world will gain experience using our innovative AquaFort integrated multi-trophic aquaculture facility. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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UNH Receives $3 Million to Expand Global Impact of Sustainable Seafood Program
Thanks to a $3 million gift, the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Sustainable Seafood Systems will expand its global reach by creating an educational program that will focus on community-based...
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