by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Services: The University of New Hampshire has launched the Sustainability Indicator Management and Analysis Platform (SIMAP), a tool that offers campuses an online platform for calculating, reporting, and tracking their carbon and nitrogen footprints....
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
I recently wrote a column about researchers using drones to study archaeology in NH, but that’s far from the only way scientists are using drones. They are cropping up in lots of research, from agricultural studies to creating three-dimensional models to...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Among the various videos that have caught the public attention in the past week is a really disturbing one showing a gigantic coconut crab – the world’s largest land invertebrate – eat attack a sleeping seagull-ish sea bird called a booby and eat it...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Serita Frey, a soil microbiologist and a professor at UNH in Durham, got curious and found old data about the date that a campus ginko tree dumps its leaves in late fall. (The species famously drops all its leaves at once, like a strip tease for attention-deficit...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a really complicated dance going on in Northern New England’s forests right now involving loggers – the folks who are either arboreal eco-villains or a vital part of the forest-human ecosystem, depending on your point of view. (I lean toward...
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