by David Brooks | Apr 8, 2021 | Newsletter
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by David Brooks | Apr 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: An international development team, led by researchers at the University of New Hampshire, has created a software program that can process sound data collected from the world’s oceans in a more standardized format that will enhance research and...
by David Brooks | Apr 7, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When big trees fall over in a storm, their upended root masses can the raised six, ten or more feet in the air. They slowly rot over many years forming what’s called a tip-up or, after many decades, a pillow. (Alongside the pillow will be a depression where the...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One New Hampshire spring tradition is declaration of “ice out” on lakes, of which the most famous is on Lake Winnipesaukee, the state’s biggest body of fresh water. This year it was declared on April 5, which is pretty early. The announcement led a...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A lot of meteorological records that are kept – wind, precipitation, snowfall, temperature – but I didn’t realize that sunshine was one of them. Silly me! The Blue Hill Observatory in Massachusetts says that March tied for the sunniest on record with...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Keene was among the first – maybe the first – New Hampshire city to start testing of sewage for SARS-CoV2 viruses (here’s my story from last August). Now they’re testing for two variants, as well, as the Keene Sentinel reports. I suspect this...