Fall 2011
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Space Science
From Soup to (GRAPE) Nuts
THE GAMMA RAY POLARIMETER EXPERIMENT, or GRAPE, has largely defined Ph.D. student Taylor Connor's graduate school experience. In various capacities, he's been working on several iterations of the Space Science Center (SSC) balloon-based project since 2006. Read More…
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Ocean Science
Sea Change
TWELVE YEARS AGO, when the Northeast Consortium began, New England fisheries looked radically different than they do today. In a word, back then the fishing industry was a wreck; stocks were heavily overfished, restrictions were being imposed and fishermen were being shut out from some of the places they had traditionally fished. Quotas and days at sea were reduced, and economic hardship was on the rise. Read More… |
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Earth Systems Science
Building Capacity Brick by Brick
SOFYAN KURNIANTO came to the University of New Hampshire from his native Indonesia as part of a nascent effort to build the scientific capacity to help save the island archipelago's carbon-rich peat swamps. The forested peat swamps are increasingly under siege and their ultimate fate is termed "bleak" by some in the scientific community. Read More… |
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Space Science
A One-in-Ten-Thousand Chance Encounter
IMAGINE TRYING TO CATCH plankton on the high seas using nets designed to snare blue whales. Imagine further that the plankton exist for only a matter of minutes, that you are “fishing” blindfolded, and trying to cover the global ocean. It would be mighty slim pickins’ indeed. Read More… |
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Earth Systems Science
Making a Big Leap
UNTIL RECENTLY, Matt Vadeboncoeur's Ph.D. research has focused primarily on very specific, small-scale, and somewhat narrow questions about ecosystems. Indeed, that aptly describes his particular interest on plant uptake of organic nitrogen and mineral forms of phosphorus and calcium as mediated by mycorrhizal fungi, which form a symbiotic relationship with the roots of certain vascular plants. Read More… |
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