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NOAA, UNH create Ocean Mapping Center
NOAA and the University of New Hampshire (UNH) are expanding a 24-year ocean and Great Lakes mapping partnership through the creation of a new Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great Lakes Mapping. The Center of Excellence is funded through $10 million in...
Listen to the eclipse! (Listen?!?)
When a full solar eclipse sweeps through New Hampshire next April, I’ll be gazing at the sky through proper safety glasses. And maybe I’ll be listening, too. Listening to a solar eclipse? That seems kind of ridiculous. It seemed ridiculous at first to Allyson Bieryla,...
Squam Lake is pristine. Shame about all those chemicals
Data collected from dozens of nonviable loon eggs points to high levels of “forever chemicals” and other similar contaminants in Squam Lake, which has been lauded for its pristine water quality, reports the Laconia daily Sun (article here) The lovely lake that...
Long-term procurement law (hey – wake up!) is important for the energy transition
The energy transmission needs new and different regulation and legislation, as much as it needs new and different technologies. New Hampshire bulletin has a story (here it is) about one such law newly passed in New Hampshire, allowing long-term energy procurement...
Boston Sand and Gravel tries low-carbon cement
If you drive into Boston from NH on I-93, you know Boston Sand and Gravel, with its industrial site tucked between the highway and the train tracks just north of the Charles River. It seems like a throwback to Boston's gritty days, so it was cool to see that it's...
Dartmouth heaves a sigh, creates an online master’s degree
Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering has launched an online master's degree, the Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering, marking the school's first entry into the never-show-up-on-campus era of higher education. "The new online MEng: CE is aimed at...
N.H. patents through Sept. 21
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 17. *** Malicious Homoglyphic Domain Name Detection and Associated...
Science Cafe on Flight Safety
Science Cafe NH is back in Nashua next week: Topic is "Safety in Flight: How Safe Are We?" Thursday, September 21, 2023 from 6:30 - 8:00pm at The Millyard Brewery, 25 E Otterson St, Nashua, NH It starts slightly later than it used to. Ss always, Science Cafe New...
Cheaper rents help bring biotech to Keene
An interesting Dutch biotech firm is looking to set up in Keene for clinical trials of a bacterial-detection system for diseases, reports the Keene Sentinel. What brought them to southwest N.H., not exactly a biotech hotbed? Space and expertise at Keene State...
Return to the Concord MonitorAbout Granite Geek
Dave Brooks has written a science/tech column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on topics of geekish interest in and around New Hampshire, from software to sea level rise, population dynamics to printing (3-D, of course). He moderates monthly Science Cafe NH discussions, beer in hand, and discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio..
Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.