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UNH - University of New Hampshire Marine Program
4 Dec 07
Rep: Jonathan Pennock
Faculty updates: Andy Cooper (Research Professor in Natural Resources & EOS) has announced that he will be leaving UNH for Simon Fraser University.
Marine faculty Jeb Byers (Zoology), Jamie Pringle (Earth Sciences), David Berlinsky (Zoology) were all promoted with tenure this past year.
New Faculty Hired:
Linda Kalnejais (Chemical Oceanography in Earth Sciences)… She is expected to arrive in the summer 2008 from her current position @ WHOI. Her research focuses on coastal contaminants and chemical processes.
Tom Safford (Marine Environmental Policy & Management in Sociology)… He comes to UNH from the Coastal Services Center of NOAA.
Tom Weber has joined the faculty of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (Research Professor in Acoustics). His work focuses on high frequency acoustics and its use for biological and geological assessment in shallow waters.
Grad Announcements: Undergraduate and graduate course and research opportunities at the Shoals Marine Laboratory have been expanded over the past two years http://www.sml.cornell.edu/.
Events/Happenings:Marine related events, press releases and news articles at UNH can be found at http://www.marine.unh.edu/news_events/news.htm
Some recent highlights include: (1) Initial commercialization of offshore mussel aquaculture technologies developed through the UNH/NOAA Atlantic Marine Aquaculture Center; (2) Near Completion of Pier, initial construction of Pier Support Building, and approvals for renovation of the UNH Coastal Marine Laboratory in New Castle http://facilities-dc.sr.unh.edu/Project_Files/MarineResearchFacility/; and (3) Berrien Moore (EOS Director) on team awarded Nobel Prize for research & action on climate change.
Jonathan Pennock co-chaired the Scientific Program at the ERF07 meeting in Providence, RI in early November.
New Research activities / highlights:
Extramural funding for marine research and cooperative institutes/programs at UNH exceeded $30M in 2006. These funds included new support for the diverse programs in marine biology (estuarine ecology & restoration, aquaculture, fisheries, invasive species, large pelagics, etc…), oceanography (coastal mapping, hydrothermal vent research, continental shelf geology, etc…), and ocean engineering (offshore aquaculture, storm water management, acoustics, etc…).
New initiatives included, among others, ~$3M to support Law of the Sea related mapping by CCOM, and $1M from the NH Charitable Foundation to support Fred Short’s international SeagrassNet research & monitoring program.
Research awards granted in support of research include: $1.9M from CICEET; $1M from NH Sea Grant; and $1M from CRRC and $400K from the NH Estuaries Project.
Other News:
The New Hampshire Estuaries Project was moved from NH DES to the Marine Program at UNH.
CICEET helped support a new web site, http://www.greatbay.org , that hosted real-time date from up to 6 sites in Great Bay.
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