by David Brooks | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By DAVID HIRSCH, Dartmouth News: A citizen science program that began over a decade ago has confirmed the use of dragonflies to measure mercury pollution, according to a study co-authored by Celia Chen, director of Dartmouth’s Toxic Metals Superfund Research...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: In a new study, University of New Hampshire researchers have concluded that when assessing forest imagery collected by unmanned aerial systems, an alternative method of delineating individual forest tree crowns within those images is more...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog
(This column ran Monday with data from the previous week. Different data and different analysis can produce different conclusions, as I noted in this item in the paper Tuesday.) It’s a journalistic truism that, human nature being what it is, bad news sells papers....
by David Brooks | Jul 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a feeling that a large percentage of my readers like old-time silent films, especially comedies. There’s something about that pre-digital era that appeals to geek fans, as “steampunk” demonstrates. So let me make a pitch for my local indie...
by David Brooks | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the measures of population growth is “doubling time” – the time it takes for a population to double in size. I’ve been tracking the total number of COVD-related deaths in New Hampshire (as compared to the average daily number, which is...
by David Brooks | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A long-running attempt to resurrect the American chestnut tree from the blight that virtually exterminated it – an attempt that can be seen in a Plymouth “germplasm conservation orchard” among other places – is now running on two tracks, one with traditional...
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