NRESS News

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 26, 2026, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen joined UNH and state leaders to celebrate the expansion of Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, which added 4,500 square feet of enhanced facilities for studying estuaries.

UNH innovations in agriculture and aquaculture work around New England’s climate and landscape to boost local food production.

The Wollheim lab is investigating changes to ecosystems and water quality at three sites: before and after a dam removal and stream restoration in Durham, NH, and near a new beaver dam in northern Massachusetts.

Serita Frey, professor of natural resources and the environment at UNH, is a co-author of the commentary “Research priorities for robust climate assessments in the United States.” The paper brings together 175 authors across the United States to outline research priorities that can inform future national, regional, local, sectoral and topical climate assessments.

UNH researchers work with Wind River Reservation tribes to help preserve the Wind River ecosystem.

New funding supports a project to restore shea tree farmland in Ghana by planting thousands of early bearing shea trees on 400 participatory farms.

A new brief from UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy details how, by combining remote satellite imagery with detailed housing data from the U.S. Census, researchers can get a closer, more accurate look at housing and human activity near lakes.

Wilfred Wollheim, professor in the department of natural resources and the environment, has been awarded the Josephine A. Lamprey Professorship in Climate and Sustainability.

Maple trees don’t have a monopoly on the syrup game. David Moore, a doctoral candidate in UNH’s College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, studies tree physiology and syrup production in a variety of species – maple, yes, but also birches, walnuts, beeches, sycamores, basswoods, and hophornbeams.