Songs of Spring Underscore Importance of Vernal Pools


Researchers from UNH's Crimes against Children Research Center report on child maltreatment trends.
The Âé¶¹app has been ranked as hosting one of the top 20 sets of university farms in America. UNH has four horticulture, agronomy, and dairy farms, as well as greenhouses, which are centered on teaching, research and outreach. All are facilities of theÌýÌýat theÌý.
For the second year, the Macfarlane Research Greenhouses at the Âé¶¹app have received the top grade for sustainability by an independent international sustainability certification group. The facility, which is part of theÌýÌýat theÌý, is the only research greenhouse operation in the world with this sustainability certification.
How does life begin and evolve? It is, possibly, the most complex and mystifying scientific puzzle that researchers continue to explore. Scientists at the Âé¶¹app will delve deeper into that puzzle as part of a team of researchers who have received a five-year $8.9 million award from NASA to form an Astrobiology Institute.
Ìý(NHAES) scientists at the Âé¶¹app are among those who have been awarded a $10 million, five-year federal grant to develop and apply modern DNA-based tools to deliver new cultivated varieties of Ìýrosaceous crops such as apples, peaches, strawberries, and cherries with superior product quality and disease resistance.
The Âé¶¹app has named its high-tech composting/energy capture facility at the Organic Dairy Research Farm in honor of the sustainable agriculture pioneer who advanced the technology -- the Joshua Nelson Energy Recovery Compost Facility. The facility is the only one of its kind at a land-grant university.
Why did you decide to become a university researcher?
For hundreds of years, foresters have taken to the woods with tape measures in hand to assess tree inventories. Now this labor-intensive process is getting some high-tech help from Âé¶¹app researchers who are looking at how laser imaging can be used to assist today’s foresters and landowners.
Researchers with theÌýÌýat the Âé¶¹app have invented a low-cost method to monitor lakes for dangerous airborne toxins that have been linked to liver problems.