Department of Natural Resources and the Environment

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The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, integrates the applied social sciences and natural resources sciences, enabling a more holistic, integrated approach to education, research, and outreach about use and conservation of resources.  

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  • A field team of five people holding their ladybug collecting jars.
    Diversity
    Decolonizing Ecology for Socially Just Science
    Ecology should be a collaboration by people around the world, expanding the science community to include the Global South as well as the Global North.
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    Diversity
    Decolonizing Ecology for Socially Just Science
    Ecology should be a collaboration by people around the world, expanding the science community to include the Global South as well as the Global North.
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  • UNH student Abbie Molodetz '20 and Socks the red fox at the Ecotarium in Worchester, Massachuetts
    Internship
    Wildcat
    Career
    Abbie Molodetz '19
    A summer internship at the Ecotarium
    Abby Molodetz ’20 spent the summer interning at the Ecotarium in Worcester, Massachusetts thanks in part to a grant she received from COLSA’s donor-supported SOAR fund.
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    Internship
    Wildcat
    Career
    Abbie Molodetz '19
    A summer internship at the Ecotarium
    Abby Molodetz ’20 spent the summer interning at the Ecotarium in Worcester, Massachusetts thanks in part to a grant she received from COLSA’s donor-supported SOAR fund.
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  • Kathryn Bennett '19 presents research at the UNH Undergraduate Research Conference
    Alumni
    Sustainability
    Kathryn Bennett '19
    UNH alum on the front lines of the climate crisis
    Kathryn Bennett '19 is working to understand what will happen to our planet as millennia-old permafrost thaws, releasing methane into the atmosphere.
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    Alumni
    Sustainability
    Kathryn Bennett '19
    UNH alum on the front lines of the climate crisis
    Kathryn Bennett '19 is working to understand what will happen to our planet as millennia-old permafrost thaws, releasing methane into the atmosphere.
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  • UNH Doctoral Candidate Andrea Jilling at Examines Samples
    Doctoral Candidate
    Andrea Jilling ‘19G
    A Soil Scientist Pulls Up Roots
    Andrea Jilling will graduate with her doctorate in Earth and Environmental Sciences in September 2019. Her thesis topic is the potential bioavailability and agronomic relevance of mineral-associated organic nitrogen, and her advisor is Stuart Grandy.
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    Doctoral Candidate
    Andrea Jilling ‘19G
    A Soil Scientist Pulls Up Roots
    Andrea Jilling will graduate with her doctorate in Earth and Environmental Sciences in September 2019. Her thesis topic is the potential bioavailability and agronomic relevance of mineral-associated organic nitrogen, and her advisor is Stuart Grandy.
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  • UNH alum Lee Kantar receives award
    Alumni
    Lee Kantar '95
    Moose Biologist and UNH Alum Honored With International Award
    Lee Kantar ‘95, a moose biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW), was honored with the Distinguished Moose Biologist Award by his peers at the 53rd North American Moose Conference.
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    Alumni
    Lee Kantar '95
    Moose Biologist and UNH Alum Honored With International Award
    Lee Kantar ‘95, a moose biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW), was honored with the Distinguished Moose Biologist Award by his peers at the 53rd North American Moose Conference.
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