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  • A black bear walking through a forest with moss-covered ground and trees in the background, approaching the camera.
    Friday, January 03, 2025
    New UNH research highlights the need for balanced research efforts to protect underrepresented species and guide future conservation
    More than one million species at risk of extinction in the coming decades due to climate- and human-driven impacts on habitats. While thousands of research projects have studied the impacts of these risks and offer mitigation strategies, scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) found that in more than a century of U.S. mammal...
  • Photo of the drone used for this study sitting on ground in front of the corn field.
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024
    Drone technology offers promising potential for earlier disease identification in corn
    Seeing the last leaves hanging on to trees in late Fall is a telling sign that New England dairy farmers have wrapped up the year’s field crop operations and are starting to think about what seeds to purchase and plant next spring. For many, the Brown MidRib (BMR) corn variety is an enticing choice because it is highly digestible by dairy cows and can improve milk production. However, it is also...
  • A coyote looks into a game camera while in the forest.
    Tuesday, November 05, 2024
    Nationwide coyote surveys highlight how hunting by humans may increase, rather than reduce, local coyote numbers
    Key Finding Human hunting may unintentionally boost coyote populations by increasing reproduction and immigration rates, while competition with larger predators affects coyote numbers depending on habitat. Once a rare sight in the northeastern United States, the eastern coyote has become a common presence across New Hampshire’s forests, farms and suburbs. First arriving in the state in the...
  • Two women look at a specimen from the Albion Hodgdon Herbarium. The specimen is an extinct form of crabgrass collected in 1902.
    Monday, August 12, 2024
    Highlighting the role of herbaria in documenting and preserving plant species
    In 1901, several peculiar specimens of crabgrass were discovered on the rocky slopes of Rock Rimmon in Manchester, New Hampshire. Initially thought to belong to the species known as slender crabgrass (Digitaria filiformis), the slender, wiry plants with small, delicate spikelets were only known from this single location. But by 1931, they were last collected from the area, and the grass has not...
  • Grandy Named Fellow of Soil Science Society of America
    Friday, July 12, 2024
    Prestigious honor recognizes achievements and service
    Stuart Grandy, professor of soil biogeochemistry and fertility and co-director of the UNH Center of Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology (Soil BioME), was recently named a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). The annual awards, which are the highest recognition given by the SSSA, are presented for outstanding contributions to soil science through education, national and...
  • A small group of brown cows stand in a clearing in the woods.
    Monday, July 08, 2024
    $10M USDA grant advances climate-smart agriculture
    How can New England, one of the nation’s most forested regions, produce more local, sustainable food while maintaining those forests’ many benefits? That’s the question UNH researchers aim to answer with a new project that studies integrating crop and animal farming in forested areas for enhanced food production, carbon sequestration and climate resilience. The five-year project, called Promoting...
  • A photo of radish cover crops sown between rows of standing corn.
    Wednesday, June 26, 2024
    Project to Explore Crop Row Orientation and Cover Cropping Strategies
    The USDA has announced $5.5 million in grant funding through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to support innovative agricultural production systems research, including a project by University of New Hampshire researchers who will investigate ways to adapt cropping systems for increasingly variable weather. The UNH project, led by Rich Smith, a professor in the department of...
  • A photo of UNH emeritus Bill McDowell, who was recently named a fellow of the Society for Freshwater Science
    Tuesday, May 07, 2024
    UNH’s William McDowell Named a Fellow of the Society for Freshwater Science
    UNH Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science William H. McDowell was recently named a 2024 Fellow of the international Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) for his research contributions to aquatic science. McDowell, whose teaching and research career spans more than four decades, serves as the director of the New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center. His research examines the impacts of...
  • Assistant Professor Rem Moll spots his first moose in Barlett Experimental Forest
    Monday, March 18, 2024
    Hired at the height of COVID, the assistant professor of wildlife ecology and management talks about his background, influences and one thing few people know about him
    Life might have been very different for Remington (Rem) Moll, assistant professor in the department of natural resources and the environment, if a leg injury suffered in his junior year of college hadn’t derailed his plans to become a professional athlete. But fortunately, Moll — who, along with his brother, was one of the first two people in his family to complete college — had already begun to...
  • Researcher David Moore collecting sap from beech trees in a forested area. Snow covers the ground. David crouches next to a bucket.
    Wednesday, March 13, 2024
    NHAES research studies producing syrups from non-maple trees
    Long before the snow melts and the heavy coats get stored for the season, the quintessential signs that spring is not too far away in New Hampshire are maple trees that become dotted with buckets and the coming alive of the sugar shacks that have been hibernating for many months. In 2022, three New England states—Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont—and New York were in the top six states producing...
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