Spring 2012
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Space Science
Riding on a Rocket
FOR HER PH.D. THESIS, Allison Jaynes spent two years working on the Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU) before it launched from Norway's Andøya Rocket Range in early December of 2010. RENU was designed to measure the complex, underlying physics behind the phenomenon of neutral upwelling, or "satellite drag," and its relationship to aurora. Read More…
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Ocean Science
A Clouded Eye in the Sky
OCEAN BIOLOGY and biogeochemistry entered a new era in 1978 when NASA launched the Coastal Zone Color Scanner satellite. For the first time, a key measurement of marine ecosystems – maps of phytoplankton biomass, or chlorophyll – could be produced via space observations instead of spotty in situ sampling from the vast global ocean. Read More…
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Earth Systems Science
Science by Smartphone
THE PRACTICE OF "citizen science," in which John and Jane Doe and their kids gather valid scientific data, has been around for a couple decades. But with the profusion of high-tech gadgets that allow instant information gathering and sharing now upon us, citizen science is entering a new realm of relevance and veracity. Read More… |
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Space Science
Moon CRaTER
THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER mission was launched in 2009 as a preliminary step towards returning man to the moon. It was a mission of exploration designed to map out possible landing sites and characterize, as never before, the radiation hazards astronauts would encounter as a result of galactic cosmic rays… Read More… |
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Earth Systems Science
Undergraduate Research: It's a Gas
WHEN JACKI AMANTE GRADUATES from UNH in May, she'll do so knowing she had a hand in potentially helping solve a big piece of the climate change puzzle: how much of the powerful greenhouse gas methane is emitted to the atmosphere through the process of ebullition – bubbling up to the atmosphere through peat (organic soil) and water. Read More… |
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