Spotlight

Ecology, sustainability, and environmental science were the focus of a special visit by EcoQuest’s international students to the Ramsar wetland at Pūkorokoro Miranda on 28 October 2022.

Mark Trabold, assistant farm manager of UNH's Woodman Horticultural Research and Kingman Research farms, returned to work at UNH in July 2022. A 2015 graduate of the Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science: Dairy Management program, Mark lived and worked at the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research…

Chloe Pearson's uses acoustic telemetry to better understand the habitat use of rainbow smelt, including location, usage and use timing.

Terry Bickford works as a lead farm worker for UNH's Farm Services Operation. It's a role he's been in since 2021, however, his farming experience dates back to when he was an infant, helping his family on the Stiles Dairy Farm in Strafford, NH.

Manager of Farm Services Operations Peter Davis ’16 has a long history of working for the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. After graduating from UNH in 2016, he joined Farm Services full-time as a lead farm worker. After four years, he took a brief hiatus, working for the Portsmouth…

Shelby Perry studies the effects of stocking density and light on the growth and aggression of juvenile lumpfish.

Mikayla Cote examines the influence of marine microzooplankton grazing on the production/consumption of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) and marine aggregates in general.

Faith Frings is interested in developing methods for increasing quantitative literacy in biology courses at the undergraduate level.

Researcher Sophie Wulfing uses concepts from linear algebra and evolutionary game theory to model populations of the blue octopus in the fishery of southwest Madagascar.

Valerie Eddington is studying the integration of acoustic and quantitative ecology to investigate new methods for monitoring dense populations of animals.

Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve (he/him/his) is a global change marine ecologist interested in working with data across scales of ecological organization to better understand the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems and the people that depend on them.

Researcher Matt Tyler interested in the long-term effects non-native algae and sessile animals will have on intertidal and subtidal communities in the Gulf of Maine, and what role they will play in facilitating or resisting future invasions.