Climate Change Beliefs of Independent Voters Shift with the Weather

Climate Change Beliefs of Independent Voters Shift with the Weather

UNH News

A UNH study finds that independent voters can have their views on climate change dramatically altered, depending on the short-term weather.

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Mary Albert: Ice Snow and Many Hats

Mary Albert: Ice Snow and Many Hats

Dartmouth Now

By her own admission, Mary Albert, Thayer ’83, wears many hats in the pursuit of her three loves: education, science, and engineering. The common threads running through them are ice and snow.

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Impact of warmer winters

Impact of warmer winters

Study released on climate change's impact on snowsports industry

The report was completed by a pair of researchers at the University of New Hampshire, Elizabeth Burakowski and Matthew Magnusson -- explains that the U.S. ski, snowboard and snowmobile industries combine to create a $12.2 billion wintersports behemoth that supports 211,900 jobs across 38 states.

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What a difference a generation has made for rivers

What a difference a generation has made for rivers

Many of us can still remember in 1969 watching TV broadcasts of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio on fire. The toxic pollution that ignited in that river wasn't unique to the Cuyahoga - rivers across the nation were heavily polluted, including many right here in New Hampshire. But that image of a river afire was seared into our collective conscience and helped to change the way our nation thinks about our waterways and the environment in general.

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Composing an Aquatic Symphony

Composing an Aquatic Symphony

Earth Systems Research Center projects will provide unprecedented insight into
watershed dynamics


IN A MEMORABLE SCENE from the movie "Amadeus," Emperor Joseph II tells an incredulous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that although the young composer's symphony he'd just premiered was indeed ingenious, it simply had "too many notes" to digest in one sitting.

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Synergistic Science

Synergistic Science

Exploring the tightly coupled relationship between nitrogen, carbon, and water in terrestrial ecosystems unites three researchers in a multidisciplinary project.

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2013 Science Camp Scholarships

Tech Camp

NH EPSCoR provides scholarships to support youth participating in summer camps that engage them in science, technology, engineering, and math. Scholarships are awarded to those with financial need, are minorities, female, disabled and/or part of other underrepresented groups. Recipients are selected by the director of the camp.

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News

  • May 1 2013

    UNH Advance Hosts Panel Discussion

    The National Science Foundation project focuses on strengthening policies and pracitices to address gender imbalance, particularly in STEM disciplines. 


  • May 1 2013

    EPSCoR Researcher to Direct NSF's National Ecological Observatory Network

    Professor Scott Ollinger of the UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) and the department of Natural Resources and the Environment will serve as the first director of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).


  • May 1 2013

    Climate change: When rain, rain won't go away

    One storm at a time, 'extreme precipitation' is assaulting the USA, but especially the unprepared and especially vulnerable Northeast.


  • Apr 25 2013

    Rivers Act as "Horizontal Cooling Towers," Study Finds

    Running two computer models in tandem, UNH scientists have detailed for the first time how thermoelectric power plants interact with climate, hydrology, and aquatic ecosystems throughout the northeastern U.S. and show how rivers serve as “horizontal cooling towers” that provide an important ecosystem service to the regional electricity sector — but at a cost to the environment.


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Events

  • Jun 21 2013

    2013 Lakes Congress- Save the Date!

    Here at NH LAKES we are looking forward to spring and planning for summer - we hope you are too! In fact, we hope you will plan to spend the official first day of summer - the summer solstice on Friday, June 21 - with us at the 2013 Lakes Congress!


  • Aug 14 2013

    5th Northeast Regional IDeA Meeting
    Delaware, Aug 14-16, 2013


  • Oct 19 2013

    2013 Local River Management Advisory Committee Workshop

     The workshop is offered to strengthen the ties between you, the volunteers that make the Rivers Management Program a success, and your watershed communities. We are honored to be able to provide the workshop- it is an excellent opportunity to ask questions, share stories, and learn valuable information from a variety of experienced presenters.  

    Please save the date:
    Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
    at the DES Offices in Concord. 


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