Fall 2013
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Earth Systems Science
Back to the Future
IT WASN'T UNTIL I LISTENED to the first interview with Matt Huber I recorded for this story that it dawned on me: I knew this voice, knew its distinctive delivery, and it didn't belong to Huber. I was listening to Richard Dreyfuss as the marine biologist in the movie "Jaws." Read More… |
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Space Science
North by Southwest
WHEN THE SPACE SCIENCE CENTER won a lead role in NASA's large, four-satellite Magnetospheric Multiscale mission in 2005, it did so by cleverly meeting a requirement that barred research institutes without a specific funding and administrative infrastructure to participate in missions over $50 million—a requirement that UNH by itself could not meet. Read More… |
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Earth Science
From Hydrophones to Drones
IN 2010, a chance encounter between Earth Systems Research Center scientists Ruth Varner and Michael Palace near the center's mailboxes led to a novel research project aimed at listening for methane gas bubbles in the hinterlands of Sweden. Read More… |
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Space Science
The Sky's the Limit
TWELVE YEARS AGO, when high school physics teacher Lou Broad began designing and flying small-scale, high-altitude balloon experiments with his students, video cameras were too big and heavy to make the flight. Read More… |
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Earth Science
Gone Fishin'
CALVIN DIESSNER'S master's degree work was launched in the basement of his parents' Dover, N.H. home after he received a 10-gallon aquarium for his sixth birthday. He tossed in some frogs and fish from a local pond and never looked back. Read More… |
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Ocean Science
Troubled Waters
WHEN A LAKE of nearly 10,000 square miles develops problems, they tend to show up in a big way—like a 600-square-mile blob of toxic algae that closes beaches, fowls water treatment plants, and costs millions to combat "on the ground." Read More… |
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