Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS)
Could microplastics impact the ocean's carbon storage?
UNH researchers have received an NSF grant to study the impacts of microplastics on the ocean's microbial food web. Read More-
04/07/25
Land. Sea. Space.
What does it mean to be a Land, Sea and Space Grant university?ÌýThe triple designation signifies a collaboration between the U.S. government partners... -
04/07/25
Mapping the Deep
In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers.ÌýThe U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical... -
04/04/25
A Career Written in the Stars
Many moons before Harlan Spence became the director for the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), his father, an amateur... -
Recent Stories
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01/23/15 - Carbon Bomb with a Long Fuse: Ph.D. Student Makes Key Finding in the Climate Change PuzzleClaire Treat funded the bulk of her Ph.D. work by winning a graduate fellowship from the Department of Energy Office of Science for her proposal titled "Future of soil carbon in... Read More
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10/22/14 - Green and WhiteThe rate of winter warming has tripled in the U.S. since 1970. The northern hemisphere has lost one million square miles of spring snowpack in the last 50 years. As many as half... Read More
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08/05/14 - Glacial RaceCourtesy Photo It only sounds like a joke: When the world’s fastest-moving glacier sped up in the summer of 2012 – suddenly surging from Greenland’s west coast at four times its... Read More
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05/08/14 - Touchdown in the OzoneOne-hundred-foot-tall white pine by the Soucook River in Loudon, NH. Photo courtesy of Phil Browne. Until this past February, Barry Rock had no idea that over twenty years of... Read More
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05/01/14 - State of FluxLucie Lepine and Frankie Sullivan on the Moore Fields tower preparing for instrument installation. Photo by Andrew Ouimette, UNH-EOS. Since 2003, the Bartlett Experimental Forest... Read More
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02/20/14 - Luna TunesArtist's rendition of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the moon. The CRaTER telescope is seen pointing out at the bottom right center of the LRO spacecraft. Illustration by... Read More
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11/07/13 - UNH Celebrates First-in-the-State Supercomputing CapabilitiesFrom left to right, Bernie Vasquez, Kai Germaschewski, Gregory Chini (front), Jimmy Raeder, Benjamin Chandran, John Gibson, and Patrick Messer. Photo by Kristi Donahue, UNH-EOS.... Read More
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09/12/13 - UNH Launches School of Marine Science and Ocean EngineeringLarry Mayer is the director of the Âé¶¹app’s new School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering. Mayer, a professor of Earth science and ocean engineering, is... Read More
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08/08/13 - Seven Hundred Feet Down, a Thousand Years BackUNH, Dartmouth College, UMaine ice core drill site on the Mt. Hunter plateau in Denali National Park, Alaska. The drill site is in the middle of the photograph, just left of the... Read More
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06/13/13 - The Yin and Yang of Coastal CarbonUNH carbon dioxide sentinel buoy off Appledore Island after January 2013 Nor'easter. Photo by Shawn Shellito, UNH-EOS. Back in the spring of 2004, when the Center for Coastal... Read More