Marine Sciences at the University of New Hampshire

Headlines
	Funding in the Wind for UNH Ocean Renewable Energy Research Center More Info...
	Larry Mayer, director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping quoted in the New York Times: U.S. Pushes for Law of the Sea Ratification as New Arctic Mapping Project Begins More Info...
	DES and Seacoast Youth Services Team Up to Stop the Spread of Perennial Pepperweed More Info...
	UNH Marine Docents Stay Up to Date with Changing Scientific Knowledge More Info...
	Support Your Local Fishermen, East Fresh Seafood: Community Supported Fishery (CSF) Opportunities Coming to the Seacoast More Info...
	The Great Haddock Revival In the near-empty seas, one species has surged back to life. Can the others follow? More Info...
	School teachers from NH and Maine gathered at the Urban Forestry Center on July 27 to begin developing curricula based on the Marine Debris to Energy Program. As part of the overarching goal to increase ocean literacy, representatives from the Blue Ocean Society, UNH Cooperative Extension, and NH Sea Grant are helping teachers incorporate information about derelict fishing gear and marine pollution into school lesson plans. More Info...

Worthy of Note
	Stacia Sower, director of the Center for Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology, and her team are well into her 29th lamprey season here at UNH. Despite colder-than-normal temperatures and an entirely new group of students and staff members, Stacia has collected over 200 lamprey from the Cocheco and Exeter Rivers and managed 7 separate experiments aimed to examine brain and pituitary hormones and receptors during reproduction. “We were able to get up and running so quickly this year thanks to Dr. Sower’s experience, planning and careful documentation,” says Allisan Aquilina-Beck, research scientist for the center and relative newcomer to lamprey collection and sampling. “ It’s amazing what this new group has been able to accomplish in such short order.” In addition to lamprey season’s time-sensitive nature (the result of the lamprey’s once-per-lifetime spawning and subsequent death) and the extensive effort that the experiments require, Stacia and her team have also made time to present findings at conferences and symposia across the globe. In June Stacia was invited to speak at the International Congress of Comparative Endocrinology in Hong Kong and Allisan and Mihael Freamat, former post doc in Stacia's lab, presented their work at the annual Endocrinology meetings in Washington, D.C.
	Several undergraduate students are working this summer on unique projects associated with the Coastal Response Research Center. This is what they are doing: Joseph W. Corsello, ‘11 I am working on the UNH contribution to the JIP project; examining the role of protistan predation on biodegradation of oil in brine channels that occur in Arctic sea ice. For this project, I setup and maintain experiment reactors, and collect and analyze samples for parameters including temperature, salinity, organic carbon content, and abundance of bacteria and protists using fluorescence microscopy. Luke Douglas, ‘10 This summer I have been researching water born asphalt spills. The initial part of the research involved compiling information on asphalt spills that have occurred in the past. This information was obtained from contacting companies and organizations involved in the transportation and storage of hot asphalt. In the second part of the research I will conduct test on the behavior of asphalt spilt in water over a number of variations in temperature and salinity.
	Continuing Education registration for Fall 2009 credit courses begins Monday, July 27th.

Events
	UNH Marine Docent informational meeting on August 20, 2009, 10:00 AM at Kingman Farm. For more information, call 603-749-1565.
	Second Annual Tag A Tiny Tournament on August 21-22, sponsored by the Large Pelagic Research Center (LPRC) and the North Shore Community Tuna Association More Info...
	VIP Tours of the Great Bay Estuary for planning board members, conservation commissioners, and other municipal planning officials on August 26, 2009 and September 12, 2009. More Info...
	NH Coastal Cleanup The Blue Ocean Society, organizers of the NH Coastal Cleanup, needs volunteers and site coordinators for the NH Coastal Cleanup Day scheduled for September 19, 2009. There is a student cleanup day on Friday, September 18, 2009, for any school groups who wish to participate. If you are interested, please contact Piper Bartlett at coastalcleanup@blueoceansociety.org or at 431-0260.
	1st Annual NH Fish and Lobster Festival in Prescott Park in Portsmouth on September 19, 12:00 - 4:00 PM.
	Gulf of Maine Symposium - Advancing Ecosystem Research for the Future of the Gulf Sponsored by the Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine (RARGOM) October 4th — 9th 2009 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada More Info...
	2009 State of the Estuaries Conference Sponsored by the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership October 16, 2009, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the Great Bay Gallery, Somersworth N.H. More Info...

Happenings

Condolences

To Jon Pennock, director of the Marine Program and the New Hampshire Sea Grant College program, on the passing of his mother on July 3, 2009.

Publications
	Shellfish Spotlight A large-format, three-page brochure containing information about New Hampshire shellfish resources. Copies are available from the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership at PREP.Assistance@unh.edu
	"Tagging 2008: A Report on the Northeast Regional Tagging Symposium" A summary of the symposium held on Oct. 17, 2008 in Durham, N.H. This publication provides information about fish tagging programs in New England and Canada. Available at http://www.seagrant.unh.edu/Tagging2008.pdf or through the NH Sea Grant web site.
	PREP Environmental Indicators Report Available at http://prep.unh.edu/resources/pdf/environmental_indicators_report-prep-09.pdf
	Protecting Water Resources and Managing Stormwater: A Bird's Eye View for New Hampshire Communities Available at http://seagrant.unh.edu/stormwater.pdf
	Offshore Renewable Energy: A Regulatory Primer Available at http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/SGLC/National/offshore.pdf

Research Funding Opportunities
	Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership Piscataqua Regional Estuaries Partnership has announced their 2010 Local Grants Program. More Info...
	DES RFP: 2010 Watershed Restoration Grants for Impaired Waters; 2010 Watershed Assistance Grants for High Quality Waters More Info...
	Community-Based Marine Debris Removal Project Grants More Info...
	NOAA - Harmful Algal Blooms More Info...

UNH Marine Program Centers & Programs

Anadromous Fish & Aquatic Invertebrate Research Lab Atlantic Marine Aquaculture Center Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping Center for Marine Biology Center for Ocean Engineering Center for Ocean Science Coastal Marine Lab Coastal Ocean Observing Center Coastal Response Research Center Cooperative Institute for Coastal & Estuarine Environmental Technology Jackson Estuarine Lab Jere A. Chase Ocean Engineering Lab Joint Hydrographic Center Large Pelagics Research Center NH Sea Grant College Program Northeast Consortium Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership R/V Gulf Challenger Shoals Marine Lab UNH Diving Program

End of an Era...... "It was the kind of day you dream of in July in the Gulf of Maine - a bad dream that is - with November-like cold, rain, and a milk shake of E winds, seas and swells. But the latest lineup of the COOA crew, Shawn Shellito, Chris Hunt, Sean Berry, and Amanda Hyde performed valiantly to collect the last drops of water in the 62 month/5 year Wilkinson Basin time series."

The Sea Chantey singers regaled the public with musical tales of the sea on the Gundalow at the Oyster River Festival in Durham on Sunday, July 26.

Between 100 and 150 residents of New Castle were guests of the UNH Marine Program at the New Castle Marine Facility on July 28th. In the picture above, Emily Evans, captain of the R/V Cocheco, explains some of the CCOM/NOAA research that takes place aboard this vessel.

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Funding in the Wind for UNH Ocean Renewable Energy Research Center

Larry Mayer, director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping quoted in the New York Times:

DES and Seacoast Youth Services Team Up to Stop the Spread of Perennial Pepperweed

UNH Marine Docents Stay Up to Date with Changing Scientific Knowledge

Support Your Local Fishermen, East Fresh Seafood: Community Supported Fishery (CSF) Opportunities Coming to the Seacoast

The Great Haddock Revival

School teachers from NH and Maine gathered at the Urban Forestry Center on July 27 to begin developing curricula based on the Marine Debris to Energy Program.

Several undergraduate students are working this summer on unique projects associated with the Coastal Response Research Center. This is what they are doing:

UNH Marine Docent informational meeting on August 20, 2009, 10:00 AM at Kingman Farm. For more information, call 603-749-1565.

Second Annual Tag A Tiny Tournament on August 21-22, sponsored by the Large Pelagic Research Center (LPRC) and the North Shore Community Tuna Association

VIP Tours of the Great Bay Estuary for planning board members, conservation commissioners, and other municipal planning officials on August 26, 2009 and September 12, 2009.

NH Coastal Cleanup

1st Annual NH Fish and Lobster Festival in Prescott Park in Portsmouth on September 19, 12:00 - 4:00 PM.

Gulf of Maine Symposium - Advancing Ecosystem Research for the Future of the Gulf

2009 State of the Estuaries Conference

Condolences

Shellfish Spotlight

"Tagging 2008: A Report on the Northeast Regional Tagging Symposium"

PREP Environmental Indicators Report

Protecting Water Resources and Managing Stormwater: A Bird's Eye View for New Hampshire Communities

Offshore Renewable Energy: A Regulatory Primer

Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership

DES RFP: 2010 Watershed Restoration Grants for Impaired Waters; 2010 Watershed Assistance Grants for High Quality Waters

Community-Based Marine Debris Removal Project Grants

NOAA - Harmful Algal Blooms