/unhtoday/feed/3356/rss.xml 91制片厂 Today Articles en /unhtoday/2025/09/online-discovery-desert-research 91制片厂 graduate student Anna Frisbie conducted fieldwork at Saguaro National Park, studying how natural soundscapes impact visitor experiences. Her research, part of a collaborative project with the National Park Service and Leave No Trace, explores how sound influences emotional connections to nature and informs sustainable park management. ]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:30 -0400 Aaron Sanborn /unhtoday/2025/09/online-discovery-desert-research /unhtoday/2024/04/five-graduate-students-alumni-receive-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships Three 91制片厂 graduate students and two alumni received prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation. Awarded to students pursuing master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support, with an annual stipend and tuition聽allowance.聽Current student recipients are master鈥檚 students Alexis Eaton and Callyan Lacio and Ph.D. student Else Schlerman. Alumni recipients are Eli Duggan 鈥�23, currently studying at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland; and 91制片厂 Manchester graduate Nicole Gallien 鈥�22. Alexis Eaton '24 Alexis Eaton 鈥�24 will be receiving her bachelor鈥檚 degree in environmental engineering and sustainability, and she will utilize her NSF GRFP... ]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:30 -0400 Sarah Schaier, Hayley Barnhard '23 /unhtoday/2024/04/five-graduate-students-alumni-receive-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships /unhtoday/2023/11/unh-scientist-named-2023-kavli-fellow Michelle Fournet, marine acoustic ecologist and assistant professor in the department of biological sciences, was recently named a 2023 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow. ]]> Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:00 -0400 Sarah Schaier /unhtoday/2023/11/unh-scientist-named-2023-kavli-fellow /unhtoday/2023/04/using-acoustics-genetic-testing-determine-habitat-connectivity-Gulf-of-Maine New research at the 91制片厂 College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and the Center for Acoustics Research & Education uses passive acoustic monitoring and metabarcoding seawater samples to provide a wholistic picture of marine habitat connectivity. ]]> Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:00 -0400 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2023/04/using-acoustics-genetic-testing-determine-habitat-connectivity-Gulf-of-Maine /unhtoday/2023/02/caribbean-partnership-expands Gregg Moore, coastal restoration ecologist and associate professor in the department of biological sciences, has invited Michelle Fournet and Laura Kloepper, both visiting assistant professors in the department of biological sciences, to contribute to the ecological restoration work in the British Virgin Islands that he is leading as part of a partnership with H. Lavity Stout Community College (HLSCC) in Tortola. Fournet, who is also the associate director for education at the 91制片厂 Center for Acoustics Research and Education and an accomplished marine acoustician, is monitoring the soundscape of the waters around mangrove roots in an attempt to detect key sea floor organisms that distinguish between damaged systems, recovering systems and natural healthy systems. The research builds on her... ]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:00 -0500 Sarah Schaier /unhtoday/2023/02/caribbean-partnership-expands /unhtoday/2022/11/research-snapshot-offshore-survival The engineering tank in Chase Ocean Engineering Lab is no match for the chilly offshore waters of the Gulf of Maine, but it stood in ably for a recent offshore marine survival class hosted by the Center for Acoustics Research and Education (CARE). 91制片厂 graduate students, faculty and staff joined some commercial fishermen who collaborate with CARE for the day-long course, run by Fathom Resources. CCOM's Andy McLeod, left, and Avery Mu帽oz model survival suits. (Valerie Tillinghast photo) Participants practiced abandon ship drills (pictured), fire drills and signals, life raft training and survival suit training (modeled here by Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping research project manager Andy McLeod, left, and research project engineer Avery Mu帽oz). 鈥淭his course saves lives,鈥� says CARE... ]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:15 -0500 Beth Potier /unhtoday/2022/11/research-snapshot-offshore-survival /unhtoday/2022/11/shipping-sounds 91制片厂 researchers found no significant change in the U.S. continental shelf's underwater soundscape during the COVID-19 lockdown. ]]> Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:00 -0400 Rebecca Irelan /unhtoday/2022/11/shipping-sounds /unhtoday/2022/08/hawks-hunt A study by 91制片厂 researcher Laura Kloepper recently published in Nature Communications聽aids our understanding of how predators select and track a target among thousands of potential prey. ]]> Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:00 -0400 Sarah Schaier /unhtoday/2022/08/hawks-hunt /unhtoday/2022/06/listening-marine-life Michelle Fournet still vividly recalls one of the first times she listened to humpback whales as a researcher. She was sitting in a small, 10-foot inflatable raft, bobbing on the ocean waves just off the coast of her field station at Five Finger Islands Lighthouse in Alaska, and it was raining hard. The din of the rain hitting the water鈥檚 surface made it more difficult to hear the sounds coming into her headphones from the hydrophone (an underwater microphone) lowered 25 meters into the water below her. ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2022 08:45 -0400 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2022/06/listening-marine-life /unhtoday/2022/05/differentiating-dolphin-dialects New acoustic technology designed by 91制片厂 researchers tracks dolphins' habitat shift to colder waters due to climate change. ]]> Mon, 09 May 2022 06:15 -0400 Rebecca Irelan /unhtoday/2022/05/differentiating-dolphin-dialects /unhtoday/2022/04/winds-change A new collaboration between 91制片厂 and Vineyard Wind will focus on the underwater soundscapes near the offshore wind turbines near Martha's Vineyard. ]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:45 -0400 Rebecca Irelan /unhtoday/2022/04/winds-change /unhtoday/2021/08/artist-sea A new exhibition at the 91制片厂 Museum of Art focuses on ocean research and the collaboration between art and science. ]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:15 -0400 /unhtoday/2021/08/artist-sea /unhtoday/2021/04/sound-waves-future The 91制片厂 Center for Acoustics Research and Education has received a $750,000 grant to build an ocean acoustics workforce training program. ]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:30 -0400 Rebecca Irelan /unhtoday/2021/04/sound-waves-future /unhtoday/2021/04/covid-ocean-hush New software developed by 91制片厂 will help researchers understand ocean soundscapes. ]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:45 -0400 Robbin Ray 鈥�82 /unhtoday/2021/04/covid-ocean-hush /unhtoday/2021/02/can-you-hear-me-now New research focuses on human-induced ocean noises, their impacts on marine life, and offers suggestions for healthier soundscapes. ]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:30 -0500 Robbin Ray 鈥�82 /unhtoday/2021/02/can-you-hear-me-now /unhtoday/2020/11/collaborative-core 91制片厂's Collaborative Research Excellence initiative has funded 14 interdisciplinary projects. ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:30 -0500 Maria Emanuel /unhtoday/2020/11/collaborative-core /unhtoday/2020/10/research-record 91制片厂 closed FY20 with a record-breaking $129 million in new grants and contracts for research. ]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:30 -0400 Beth Potier /unhtoday/2020/10/research-record /unhtoday/2020/06/sage-sea To celebrate World Oceans Day June 8, Jennifer Miksis-Olds will participate in an ocean-themed quiz bowl against high school champions. ]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:45 -0400 Beth Potier /unhtoday/2020/06/sage-sea /unhtoday/2019/11/making-waves Underwater sounds look like the rings inside a tree trunk, wi-fi icons, fat tubes of ziti loosely arranged on a plate. At least they do in the work of artist Lindsay Olson, who collaborated with Jennifer Miksis-Olds, director of the 91制片厂 Center for Acoustics Research and Education, to visualize the underwater soundscape of sea life in the Atlantic Ocean. Last year, the duo joined forces on an ocean-based acoustics research cruise, after which Olson turned the sounds they captured using special underwater microphones 鈥� the daily migration of zooplankton, phytoplankton and the dramatic vocalization of whales and other marine life 鈥� into images embroidered onto panels of silk. Olson, who is based in Chicago, was on campus for four days in October to showcase her work at the Paul Creative Art... ]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:30 -0500 Rebecca Irelan /unhtoday/2019/11/making-waves /unhtoday/2019/09/art-sound A new collaboration between acoustics research and art is set to make waves at 91制片厂 this autumn. ]]> Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:30 -0400 Rebecca Irelan /unhtoday/2019/09/art-sound /unhtoday/2019/09/core-support Interdisciplinary research projects receive support. ]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:15 -0400 Beth Potier /unhtoday/2019/09/core-support /unhtoday/2019/06/listen-unh 91制片厂 is launching a new center that will focus on the science of sound.聽 ]]> Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:30 -0400 Rebecca Irelan /unhtoday/2019/06/listen-unh