Beth Potier
Beth Potier's Articles
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Prof with a Porpoise
Chris Glass wouldn’t blame you if you’ve never heard of the vaquita. The small porpoise is so secretive that it wasn’t discovered as a species until 1958. -
Artisanal Energy
It’s not just for the farmers market any more: “Fresh, local, sustainable” describes how UNH powers its five million square-foot campus. -
Union Fellow
UNH physics professor Lynn Kistler has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the largest single organization dedicated to the advancement of geophysics. -
Shiny and New
UNH has a new, state-of-the-art research vessel that will help researchers map the coastal seafloor and better understand the ocean environment while providing training in the latest oceanographic... -
Michigan's Mystery Monuments
Merging an innovative modeling technique with old-fashioned sleuthing, researchers from the University of New Hampshire have shed new light on the mystery of pre-European archaeological monument... -
Space Man Spence
Harlan Spence, director of UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, has been appointed to the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences. -
Divins Drills Down
David Divins is EOS’s first full-time associate director since 2012. -
Arctic Appointment
President Obama named Larry Mayer to a four-year term on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, an independent federal agency that advises the President and Congress. -
Smart Campus
A new grant from UNH’s Broadband Center of Excellence to an interdisciplinary team of university researchers aims to showcase innovation in broadband technology and data analytics. -
A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
When Captain Andy Armstrong learned that a basin in the Gulf of Mexico would be named in his honor, he thought it was a mistake. -
Listening to the Ocean
Asking for time off on your first day at a new job can be awkward. -
Magnetic Reconnection
On October 16, 2015, dozens of UNH scientists, space physics researchers, engineers and students made history. -
Celebrating Cycling
This month, UNH will join communities and workplaces across the nation in a celebration of car-free commuting with Bike to Work Week (May 16 – 20) and Bike/Walk to Work Day (May 20). UNH is among... -
Research Support
A senior engineering student with an eye toward bringing reliable power to developing nations and a doctoral student looking at maternal care in carpenter bees are UNH recipients of the National... -
Pier to Plate
Steelhead trout grow within nets suspended from a UNH-designed raft. -
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Making Waves
Lobsters, parasites, seabirds and sandbars were among the topics presented at the School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering’s graduate student research symposium yesterday. -
ISE ISE Baby
Ice gave way to ISE — the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Symposium — at the Whittemore Center yesterday, where 360 students presented 156 projects that spanned the disciplinary spectrum... -
Model Science
Call them the fortunetellers of climate change: Climate models, which draw on the physics and chemistry of the Earth and its oceans and atmosphere, are at the heart of understanding our changing... -
The New Normal
As our climate changes, our food and forests, our transportation, even our health will become vulnerable. From pines to pavement, weeds to wheezing, UNH researchers are working on solutions to help... -
All Eyes on the Arctic
Each summer, a handful of UNH researchers pass up New England’s hard-won summer and head to the remote glaciers, peatlands and oceans on top of the world. There, they’re exploring the Arctic’s... -
Grad Excellence
UNH’s annual celebration of student scholarship and creativity launched April 11 with the Graduate Research Conference in the Whitt. More than 200 students from all academic disciplines shared... -
Miracle in Space
Six years ago, a team from UNH’s Space Science Center performed a miracle. -
Passion for Policy
Master's student Samantha Werner '14 received the Ecological Society of America's Graduate Student Policy Award. -
CAREER Success
Three UNH faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation awards to support work that aims to understand turbulent flows, flexible biomolecules and a unique category of... -
Simulating Biomolecules
Although it could one day lead to advances in drugs that treat HIV, Harish Vashisth’s research is far more likely to use supercomputers than the pipettes or microscopes more commonly associated with... -
Tackling Turbulence
Assistant professor of mathematics John Gibson, recipient of a NSF CAREER award. -
Finkelhor: Child Abuse in Youth Organizations Is Low
Child abuse at the hands of Scout leaders, priests or coaches is far less common than abuse of children or adolescents by family members or other adults. That’s the primary finding of new research... -
Networking Honor
It’s a distinction that won’t surprise anyone who’s met UNH InterOperability Laboratory director Erica Johnson: Next week, New Hampshire Business Review (NHBR) will honor her with its Outstanding... -
UNH Solar Physicist Receives Prize
Terry Forbes, research professor emeritus in the physics department and the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, recently received the George Ellery Hale Prize from the American... -
Sundberg To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Donald Sundberg, professor emeritus of materials science and director of UNH’s Nanostructured Polymers Research Center, will receive a lifetime achievement award from the American Coatings... -
California Dreamin'
The UNH booth, hosted here by Tara Hicks Johnson, outreach specialist at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, was a popular destination for would-be graduate students and research collaborators... -
Prevention Pioneers
At its fifth annual Innovators’ Dinner, UNHInnovation (UNHI) made good on its mission to recognize the full sweep of innovation, including intellectual property and creative work as well as more... -
Not Just the Heat, It’s the Humans
When it comes to adapting to the changing environment of the Great Basin in the North American West, for small mammals, warming associated with climate change is only part of the problem: Humans have... -
Fresh, Local … Kiwis?
If Iago Hale has his way, in a few years you may be topping your breakfast cereal with a handful of fresh kiwiberries you bought at your local farmer’s market. That’s right, local kiwi. In northern... -
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Not Rocket Science
UNH’s first-ever Aerospace and Defense Technology Day on Nov. 4 was part open house, part show-and-tell, part speed dating — and, according to the organizers, full success. The day brought 70... -
Omnivore’s Delight
With the annual Local Harvest Dinner as the jewel in its locavore crown, UNH is a national leader in bringing local food — some of it grown right here on campus — to the hungry mouths of its students. -
NIH Grant Boosts NH's Biomedical Research Capacity
A five-year $18.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to a statewide partnership led by UNH and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine will expand biomedical research capacity and... -
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Inquiring Minds
The Big Burp Theory Geologists drill for climate clues About 55 million years ago, the Earth burped up a massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — an amount equivalent to burning... -
More Than Mapping
Since its founding in 1999, UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), along with the complementary Joint Hydrographic Center (a NOAA partner), has established itself as the world leader in... -
Strong Muscles, Fleet Feet
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Crew Boss Rachel Rawlinson Named Northeast Region Coach of the Year
Rachel Rawlinson '99, head coach of UNH Rowing, was named the Northeast Region Coach of the Year by the American Collegiate Rowing Association at its national championship regatta May 23 -24 in... -
A (Nuclear) Force To Be Reckoned With
UNH physicist Patricia Solvignon has received a prestigious Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. -
The Dirt on Studio Soils
In 2010, about a decade into teaching the large Introduction to Soils course, UNH soil scientist Serita Frey steered her class into uncharted territory. With inspiration from the physics department... -
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For These UNH Students, It Is Rocket Science
Long before it blasts into space March 12, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will have launched the careers of would-be rocket scientists who contributed to the mission as UNH... -
Out of the Clinic, Out of the Box
As part of her training to become a practicing occupational therapist, Risa LaPera ’14,’15G talks to her client Dan, a retiree with vision loss due to glaucoma, through a radio headset. “You still...