Erika Washburn, Ph.D. graduate student in the NRESS Program successfully defended her dissertation, "Watershed Based Land Use Decision-Making: A Social Landscape Analysis For the Lamprey River Watershed." Andrew Rosenberg is her advisor.

UNH IT has announced a new version of McAfee Virus Scan for faculty, staff and students. Find it HERE.

Benefits Open Enrollment ends on Friday, November 6!

2010 Benefit Information & Links

OTEC Technology Workshop

The Coastal Response Research Center is hosting the OTEC Technology Workshop on November 3-5, 2009 at the New England Center. The purpose of this workshop (co-sponsored with NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM)) is to understand the technical readiness of a commercial scale OTEC system. The workshop will address the OTEC state-of-the-art technology, the technical feasibility and the time frame for commercial scale development. Specific group topics to be addressed at the workshop include: cold water pipe, heat exchangers, platform mooring, platform/pipe interface, pumps and turbines, platform, and power cable. The outcome of this discussion will provide insight on many of the outstanding questions in regards to the readiness, challenges and development horizons for industry and will enable NOAA to make better informed decisions of OTECA license applications. http://www.crrc.unh.edu/workshops/otec_technology_09/index.html

Seminar: Visual Ocean: A Venue for Discovery and Visualiztion of the Ocean Interior and its Substrate via the WEB

Presented by Bill Ryan and sponsored by CCOM.
November 6, 2009 in 130 Chase OE Lab.
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Seminar: West Antartic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project

Presented by Joe Souney, Project Director with the Complex Systems Research Center within EOS and sponsored by CCOM.
November 13, 2009 at 3:00 in 130 Chase OE Lab.
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2009 New Hampshire Joint Water and Watershed Conference Focusing on Water Resources: 2020 Vision

This conference will be held on November 20-21, 2009, at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.
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UNH Cooperative Extension Geospatial Outreach Program Announces November GIS Workshops.

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2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting

February 22-26, 2010
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
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2010 Northeast Regional Social Science Symposium — Save the Date!

Convened by Northeast Consortium and NH Sea Grant
Monday April 12, 2010
MUB Strafford Room
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DOE Announces ARRA-Funded Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that up to $12.5 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be awarded in early 2010 to support at least 80 graduate fellowships to U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science, mathematics, and engineering through the newly created Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship program. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applicants must be U.S. citizens and currently a first or second year graduate student enrolled at a U.S. academic institution, or an undergraduate senior who will be enrolled as a first year graduate student by the fall of 2010. Applicants must be pursuing graduate study and research in the physical, biological, engineering and computational sciences. Interested students can apply online at: http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html.

Each fellowship award will be $50,500 per year for three years to provide support for tuition, living expenses, research materials and travel to research conferences. Fellowships will be awarded on the basis of peer review. Completed applications are due November 30, 2009.

National Marine Fisheries Service — Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics

Deadline: January 15, 2010

Research & Discover Fellowships

Research & Discover Graduate Fellowships are available to college graduates with strong academic records and an interest in conducting advanced research in Earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences. Co-sponsored by NASA and EOS.
Deadline: February 10, 2010

John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Deadline: February 19, 2010

Coastal Response Research Center’s 2008 Annual Report

Available at http://www.crrc.unh.edu/annual_report_08.pdf

PREP Environmental Indicators Report

Available at http://prep.unh.edu/resources/pdf/environmental_indicators_report-prep-09.pdf

Protecting Water Resources and Managing Stormwater: A Bird's Eye View for New Hampshire Communities

Available at http://seagrant.unh.edu/stormwater.pdf

Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership Releases their September 2009 Newsletter

Available at http://www.nhep.unh.edu/get-involved/eu/eu/eu770909.htm

"The Rip Tide"

Summer/Fall 2009 Edition, the e-newsletter of the New Hampshire Coastal Program, is available online here.

DES RFP: 2010 Watershed Restoration Grants for Impaired Waters; 2010 Watershed Assistance Grants for High Quality Waters

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2010 National Sea Grant Law Center Grants Program

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Northeast Consortium - 2009 Collaborative Research Opportunities

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Anadromous Fish & Aquatic Invertebrate Research Lab Atlantic Marine Aquaculture Center Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping Center for Marine Biology Center for Ocean Engineering Center for Ocean Science Coastal Marine Lab Coastal Ocean Observing Center Coastal Response Research Center Cooperative Institute for Coastal & Estuarine Environmental Technology Jackson Estuarine Lab Jere A. Chase Ocean Engineering Lab Joint Hydrographic Center Large Pelagics Research Center NH Sea Grant College Program Northeast Consortium Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory Piscataqua Region Estuaries PartnershipR/V Gulf Challenger Shoals Marine Lab UNH Diving Program