Five students from Puerto Rico and Mauritius are taking part in an eight-week internship this summer at UNH to conduct marine and oil research. 

In June, UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center’s autonomous surface vehicle Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator — ASV BEN — traveled Lake Huron, where it mapped the lakebed of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Operated autonomously from land, BEN is a proof-of-concept project that aims to “make it safe and practical to take robotics out to sea to do seafloor surveys and make nautical charts, without sending people to sea,” says CCOM research project engineer and ASV team leader Val Schmidt. On the bottom of the four-meter-long diesel-powered vessel is a sonar that scans the surface below it to create “beautiful maps of the lakebed,” says Schmidt. Andy McLeod, CCOM/JHC research project manager, captured this image of BEN beneath the partial solar...

The Appledore Island garden of 19th century poet Celia Thaxter blooms again at Prescott Park this summer.

​​​​​​UNH researchers have found that climate change affects deep-sea corals and sponges differently.