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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/

"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...

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

👟 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...

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 🧪🛰️❄️

The Greenland ice cap is now the largest contributor to global sea level rise. Larry Mayer, director of UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, talks to @wcvb5.bsky.social Chronicle about why. www.wcvb.com/article/gree...

At Hubbard Brook, researchers are uncovering how snow depth and persistence shift across short distances. They’re using drones to map “snow microclimates.” @unhresearch.bsky.social Jeremy Johnston presented some of this work during the @agu.org 2024 Fall meeting: bit.ly/AGU24_C21E16

A preliminary study from @nhseagrant.bsky.social and @uofnh.bsky.social prof Paula Mouser found "forever chemicals" PFAS concentrated up to 70x higher in foam on waterways in the Piscataqua watershed of NH: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

The deadline is approaching for two Community Engaged #GraduateResearch Fellowship opportunities! Learn more and apply today: seagrant.unh.edu/fellowships/... @unhresearch.bsky.social

UNH retained its R1 Carnegie Classification for highest research activity, securing its spot among the nation’s most productive research universities. What it means for UNH and New Hampshire: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

UNH is expanding its reach to help communities worldwide develop sustainable aquaculture solutions. Students from around the world will gain experience using our innovative AquaFort integrated multi-trophic aquaculture facility. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

🧗🏻‍♀️Grading rock climbing routes — assigning a numerical degree of difficulty — is notoriously subjective, relying on personal judgement that can lead to inconsistencies and bias. Could artificial intelligence level the field? A new UNH study says yes. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

“Did you feel that?” Geophysics prof Sophie Coulson weighs in on the recent earthquake that shook Seacoast N.H. and as far away as Boston and R.I. The Granite State’s namesake rock amplified the shaking. More: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

🐿️❄️Subnivium! It’s the bustling ecosystem that thrives beneath a blanket of snow. UNH researchers Alix Contosta, @lizloveswinter.bsky.social and Chris Ziadeh explain the subnivium to @beebrookshire.bsky.social in @snexplores.bsky.social: www.snexplores.org/article/subn...

🚀 A space instrument from UNH is now one step closer to blast-off! After six years of extensive preparations and testing by a UNH-led team, IMAP-Lo is now aboard a spacecraft and is readying for flight later this year. It will help us learn more about heliosphere. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

What are the northern lights, and why are we seeing them so often lately? In this Q and A, two UNH space researchers share insights into the aurora borealis and how to view it. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

Bringing @unhresearch.bsky.social students to #Alaska to gain an understanding of #indigenous #research is the goal of Convergent Arctic Research Perspectives and Education and #Arctic Challenges courses. At #AGU24 Alix Contosta and program members presented ongoing work. More: bit.ly/AGU24_ED21A03

Weigh more, pay more? Weight-based travel pricing policies are controversial, but they could lead to more sustainable air travel, new UNH research finds. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

UNH researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence to categorize and label about 700 million aurora images, leading to better prediction of beautiful but potentially damaging geomagnetic storms. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

Pioneering climate scientist Berrien Moore III, who made UNH his academic home for nearly four decades, has died. Moore was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, UNH’s largest research enterprise. More: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/c...

UNH biology researcher Liz Harvey calls phytoplankton "the marine version of the canary in the coal mine – if we start seeing significant changes in phytoplankton populations, it could directly affect the rest of the marine organisms present.” More: www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

#ClimateChange in #NewHampshire means more frequent freeze/thaw events in winter. At #AGU24 @unhresearch.bsky.social's Cristhian dos Santos Teixeira presented work done alongside Hubbard Brooker Alix Contosta comparing how these events affect soils in forests & farmland. More: bit.ly/AGU24_B31Q14

#ClimateChange in #NewEngland means a longer growing season. A longer season could throw off the balance of other processes in the #ecosystem. Work presented by @unhresearch.bsky.social -based Hubbard Brooker Alix Contosta at #AGU24 is helping better how soils are reacting. More: bit.ly/AGU24_B31Q02

First stop Hubbard Brook. Next stop...Mars? Work using drones & hyperspectral observation in the Forest got a @unhresearch.bsky.social team led by Jennifer Jacobs noticed by researchers looking for ways to peer into the Martian crust. Andrew Fleming presented about it at #AGU24: bit.ly/AGU24_EP53A09

Here at the intersection of holiday travel ✈️ and holiday indulgence 🧁, a new study from #UNH Paul College looks at the polarizing issue of weight-based pricing. Could it make air travel more sustainable? www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

Will snowmelt result in flooding? Grad students like Ryan Rees are ON IT.

Alix Contosta and Liz Burakowski from @uofnh.bsky.social with University of #Alaska Fairbanks collaborators at #AGU24 share about Convergent #Arctic Research Perspectives and Education which introduces students to ways of developing relationships with #Indigenous communities. bit.ly/AGU24_ED21A03

Our #UNHatAGU researchers have snow ❄️ on the brain. @lizloveswinter.bsky.social looked at the future of snow — and the ecosystem services it provides — under different warming scenarios using varied models. More: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

❄️ Snow much fun! At #AGU24, grad student Rashik Raj Koirala used a guessing game to demonstrate how remote images of snow could develop a visual record of snow conditions. This image library could improve modeling of snow processes. #UNHatAGU More on his poster: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

Today (Weds) 10:30 #AGU24: The Future of Snow ❄️. @lizloveswinter.bsky.social brings the data to the declining snowpack phenomenon many of us observe. #UNHatAGU agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

N.H.’s Lake Kanasatka had a problem: cyanobacteria due to too much phosphorous. UNH master’s student Georgia Bunnell was part of a solution, a relatively uncommon treatment of aluminum sulfate. It worked, she shared at #AGU24. Abstract 👉 agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me... #UNHatAGU

How is climate change affecting reindeer — and the Sámi people who herd them 🦌? At #AGU24 today, Ph.D. student Else Schlerman discussed how melting permafrost affects reindeer movement in Arctic Sweden. More #UNHatAGU: www.unh.edu/research/abo...

Heliophysics. The future of snow. Marine energy. UNH Earth, space and ocean scientists will lead 150+ sessions at #AGU24. See all the presentations, connect with our booth and more: www.unh.edu/research/abo...

Need a gift? Try some UNH-made beer, smoked fish or kelp oil. NHPR reports on some extremely local gift ideas, by-products of @uofnh.bsky.social research and teaching. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024...

The northern lights -- aurora borealis -- have been putting on a spectacular show recently. On @wmur9.bsky.social 's NH Chronicle, UNH observatory director John Gianforte and graduate student Lance Davis tell us why. www.wmur.com/article/nh-c...