UNH Research
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High-impact research and scholarship from the University of New Hampshire, the state's flagship public research university. R1, Land-, Sea-, Space-Grant institution.
Toxic mercury 🌡️ that has long been trapped in coastal sediments is being released into the water column, due to more frequent coastal storms and an uptick in dredging, UNH researchers found. That’s bad news for marine life 🐠 and seafood consumers. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Mercury Stored in Coastal Sediments Is Making a Comeback
Buried deep in the sediments of the world’s coastal shelves, the toxic metal mercury has, to some degree, been locked away from entering the marine food chain. Now, a study co-authored by a UNH resear...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Toxic mercury 🌡️ that has long been trapped in coastal sediments is being released into the water column, due to more frequent coastal storms and an uptick in dredging, UNH researchers found. That’s bad news for marine life 🐠 and seafood consumers. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
🧲 New UNH, research published in Nature Communications, harnesses artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new functional magnetic materials, which could reduce our reliance on hard-to-obtain rare earth elements needed for the magnets that power our world. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
UNH Researchers Harness AI to Discover Magnetic Materials
Study authors Suman Itani, a PH.D. student in physics (left) and postdoctoral researcher Yibo Zhang. Photo by Jiadong Zang. Magnets are at the core of the technology that powers our world: smartphones...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🧲 New UNH, research published in Nature Communications, harnesses artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new functional magnetic materials, which could reduce our reliance on hard-to-obtain rare earth elements needed for the magnets that power our world. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
🎣 The future of fishing floats at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, where delicious steelhead trout grow alongside mussels and kelp in UNH’s innovative AquaFort. @wmur9.bsky.social follows the fish from pen to plate. www.wmur.com/article/chro...
AquaFort fish project aims to produce more local fish, help local fishermen
Those who run this fish farm hope more fishermen will invest in small farms like this and add it to their workflow (via NH Chronicle).
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October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎣 The future of fishing floats at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, where delicious steelhead trout grow alongside mussels and kelp in UNH’s innovative AquaFort. @wmur9.bsky.social follows the fish from pen to plate. www.wmur.com/article/chro...
Congratulations @chanda.blacksky.app !
Went back to Santa Cruz on October 17 and picked up the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award! Back in September they sent a camera crew to @unhresearch.bsky.social to interview me. Here's the video they made about my journey as a physicist/astronomer and my time as a banana slug.
UCSC 2025 Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Congratulations @chanda.blacksky.app !
UNH's Great Bay Archaeological Survey , a community-engaged archaeology research program, recently helped a nearby landowner uncover early colonial structures on his property. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Archaeology Dig Showcases Power of Community Connections
In partnership with a landowner in nearby Madbury, UNH Professor Meghan Howey and her colleagues were able to identify the site of a 1701 garrison known as the Meserve Garrison, completing a dig at th...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
UNH's Great Bay Archaeological Survey , a community-engaged archaeology research program, recently helped a nearby landowner uncover early colonial structures on his property. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
With a $2.1 NIH MIRA award Harish Vashisth, a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, will develop innovative approaches for new therapies to treat diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and viral infections that impact millions of Americans every day. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
UNH's Vashisth Receives $2.1 Million from NIH Aimed at Advancing Therapeutic Discovery
Harish Vashisth, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, has been awarded a five-year, $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
With a $2.1 NIH MIRA award Harish Vashisth, a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, will develop innovative approaches for new therapies to treat diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and viral infections that impact millions of Americans every day. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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Zigzags in magnetic field lines might not occur only near the Sun. New #AGUPubs research by @unhresearch.bsky.social
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Magnetic “Switchback” Detected near Earth for First Time - Eos
Until recently, this type of zigzag shape—formed by energetic rearrangement of magnetic field lines—had been seen only near the Sun.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Zigzags in magnetic field lines might not occur only near the Sun. New #AGUPubs research by @unhresearch.bsky.social
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This summer, UNH ocean mapping researchers helped discover WWII shipwrecks in the Solomon Islands. @chronicle5.bsky.social shares the story. @nautiluslive.org www.wcvb.com/article/unco...
Uncovering naval history in the Solomon Islands
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire and partners explored Iron Bottom Sound, uncovering naval wrecks and honoring the thousands who perished there.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This summer, UNH ocean mapping researchers helped discover WWII shipwrecks in the Solomon Islands. @chronicle5.bsky.social shares the story. @nautiluslive.org www.wcvb.com/article/unco...
🚀☀️Last week NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe spacecraft blasted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying a major instrument designed and built by UNH. Physics prof Nathan Schwadron explains its goals. youtu.be/FwLdlo4DwFE?...
UNH and IMAP-Lo
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September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚀☀️Last week NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe spacecraft blasted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying a major instrument designed and built by UNH. Physics prof Nathan Schwadron explains its goals. youtu.be/FwLdlo4DwFE?...
Did walkable neighborhoods help ease pandemic mental health declines?🚶♀️➡️UNH professor Karen Conway found found that increasing a neighborhood’s walkability was associated with a 4% reduction in mental health declines. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
UNH Study Finds Walkable Neighborhoods Eased Pandemic Mental Health Declines
UNH economist Karen Conway’s new study finds that walkable neighborhoods helped buffer pandemic-related mental health declines. Using national data, she and collaborator Andrea Menclova showed that ev...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Did walkable neighborhoods help ease pandemic mental health declines?🚶♀️➡️UNH professor Karen Conway found found that increasing a neighborhood’s walkability was associated with a 4% reduction in mental health declines. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Greetings from the North Pole! 🥶Larry Mayer, director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, tagged the top of the world recently as part of a scientific expedition on board the Swedish icebreaker Oden. He's leading an effort to map the seabed in the Arctic Ocean.
September 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Greetings from the North Pole! 🥶Larry Mayer, director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, tagged the top of the world recently as part of a scientific expedition on board the Swedish icebreaker Oden. He's leading an effort to map the seabed in the Arctic Ocean.
UNH’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice provides analysis and expertise to the state of New Hampshire, helping Granite Staters stay healthy. More on this way UNH works for NH ➡️ www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
July 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
UNH’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice provides analysis and expertise to the state of New Hampshire, helping Granite Staters stay healthy. More on this way UNH works for NH ➡️ www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
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As we explore #IronBottomSound, we're using @unhresearch.bsky.social's #USVDriX to create a high-resolution map of the entire basin and identify potential exploration sites. #DriX has an EM712 #multibeamsonar and topside sensors to support piloting from both shoreside and onboard #EVNautilus.
July 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As we explore #IronBottomSound, we're using @unhresearch.bsky.social's #USVDriX to create a high-resolution map of the entire basin and identify potential exploration sites. #DriX has an EM712 #multibeamsonar and topside sensors to support piloting from both shoreside and onboard #EVNautilus.
What can Nasonia, tiny wasps with a gruesome parasitic life cycle, teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental diseases? Quite a lot, our researchers found: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
July 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What can Nasonia, tiny wasps with a gruesome parasitic life cycle, teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental diseases? Quite a lot, our researchers found: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
UNH researchers helped solve the cold case of a N.H. woman who had been missing since 1978, recovering and identifying Alberta Leeman from a submerged car in the Connecticut River. It's another way UNH Works for NH. magazine.unh.edu/issue/winter...
June 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
UNH researchers helped solve the cold case of a N.H. woman who had been missing since 1978, recovering and identifying Alberta Leeman from a submerged car in the Connecticut River. It's another way UNH Works for NH. magazine.unh.edu/issue/winter...
What does it mean to be a Land, Sea and Space Grant university? Each designation has a unique background, but together they signify the U.S. government’s trust in UNH to produce and share solutions-focused research that improves the world around us. More in Spark: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
June 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
What does it mean to be a Land, Sea and Space Grant university? Each designation has a unique background, but together they signify the U.S. government’s trust in UNH to produce and share solutions-focused research that improves the world around us. More in Spark: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Just 26% of the world's oceans have been mapped. Read how UNH is changing that in "What Lies Beneath": magazine.unh.edu/issue/winter...
May 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just 26% of the world's oceans have been mapped. Read how UNH is changing that in "What Lies Beneath": magazine.unh.edu/issue/winter...
"Without collaborative R&D through a public university, it is significantly more difficult ... for private companies and industry to make that leap." A @uofnh.bsky.social industry partner's op-ed argues that support to UNH is support to N.H. businesses: newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/05/20/s...
Support for UNH also helps support New Hampshire businesses • New Hampshire Bulletin
As the New Hampshire Senate considers the House-adopted budget for fiscal year 2026-27 — which includes a potential cut in support for the University System of New Hampshire — I want to express the im...
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May 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Without collaborative R&D through a public university, it is significantly more difficult ... for private companies and industry to make that leap." A @uofnh.bsky.social industry partner's op-ed argues that support to UNH is support to N.H. businesses: newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/05/20/s...
UNH research works for New Hampshire! From breeding sweet potatoes 🍠 to solving cold cases 🦴 to protecting lakes from invasives 🚤, we're turning great ideas into action and impact for the Granite State. 👉https://www.unh.edu/
May 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
UNH research works for New Hampshire! From breeding sweet potatoes 🍠 to solving cold cases 🦴 to protecting lakes from invasives 🚤, we're turning great ideas into action and impact for the Granite State. 👉https://www.unh.edu/
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"Our objective was to quantify permafrost pore structure and determine if the inverse relationship between soil hydrological pore connectivity and microbial diversity persists in permafrost." @unhresearch.bsky.social based Hubbard Brooker Alix Contosta is one of the co-authors of this 2025 paper.
Permafrost pore structure and its influence on microbial diversity: Insights from X-ray computed tomography
Soil pore structure plays a critical role in shaping soil microbial communities, which directly influence biogeochemical cycling. A notable impact of …
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March 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"Our objective was to quantify permafrost pore structure and determine if the inverse relationship between soil hydrological pore connectivity and microbial diversity persists in permafrost." @unhresearch.bsky.social based Hubbard Brooker Alix Contosta is one of the co-authors of this 2025 paper.
Without access to a nearby U.S. Social Security Administration field office, rural Americans had a significant decrease in access to social security disability, retirement and survivor benefits and services. New UNH research: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Rural Americans Face Heavy Burden Accessing Social Security Benefits and Information
Low access to local Social Security Administration field offices burden rural residents with "red tape and paperwork."
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March 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Without access to a nearby U.S. Social Security Administration field office, rural Americans had a significant decrease in access to social security disability, retirement and survivor benefits and services. New UNH research: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
A doctoral dissertation runs about 80,000 words. On March 26, 13 UNH graduate students present their research in a zippy three minutes at UNH’s 10th annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. ⏱ gradschool.unh.edu/research/thr...
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A doctoral dissertation runs about 80,000 words. On March 26, 13 UNH graduate students present their research in a zippy three minutes at UNH’s 10th annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. ⏱ gradschool.unh.edu/research/thr...
Our next Seacoast Sips of Science is 🔥! Join us April 23 at North Country Hard Cider Company in Dover when 3 ecologists talk about fire and its role on the landscape. Tickets are going fast— like wildfire! www.seacoastsipsofscience.com/event-april
March 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Our next Seacoast Sips of Science is 🔥! Join us April 23 at North Country Hard Cider Company in Dover when 3 ecologists talk about fire and its role on the landscape. Tickets are going fast— like wildfire! www.seacoastsipsofscience.com/event-april
👟 Could carbon fiber-plated (CFP) running shoes give couch-to-5K runners the same edge they do elite athletes? Yes, a team of UNH undergraduate researchers found. The runners in their study shaved an average 48 seconds off their 5K time in the CFP shoes. ⏱ chhs.unh.edu/blog/2025/02...
March 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
👟 Could carbon fiber-plated (CFP) running shoes give couch-to-5K runners the same edge they do elite athletes? Yes, a team of UNH undergraduate researchers found. The runners in their study shaved an average 48 seconds off their 5K time in the CFP shoes. ⏱ chhs.unh.edu/blog/2025/02...
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The classic poster presenter pose. Patient. Poised. Prepared. Here's @unhresearch.bsky.social-based Ryan Reed at the ready during #AGU24 in Washington, D.C. last December. Read about his work using drones to study snow in Hubbard Brook: bit.ly/AGU24_C21D 🧪🛰️❄️
February 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The classic poster presenter pose. Patient. Poised. Prepared. Here's @unhresearch.bsky.social-based Ryan Reed at the ready during #AGU24 in Washington, D.C. last December. Read about his work using drones to study snow in Hubbard Brook: bit.ly/AGU24_C21D 🧪🛰️❄️