White sharks appear to be using New Hampshire waters as “a bit of a highway to get further up the coast,” says researcher Nathan Furey, a conclusion based on data gathered from a partnership with the town of Hampton to place acoustic receivers in the ocean in order to track local shark activity.

What are indirect costs, and how does the government's proposal of reducing them affect research at UNH? 

Ethan Hickey ’26, an ocean engineering major, has been awarded a prestigious Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART ) Scholarship, a highly competitive program that provides full tuition, summer internship, and a guaranteed job with the DOD after graduation. Hickey, a from Coronado, California native, joins a list of 35 students honored from UNH since the program’s inception in 2001, continuing to cement its position as one of the top SMART-scholarship-producing institutions in New England and the U.S. Hickey chose his internship and post-graduation placement at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, where he’ll contribute to submarine maintenance and upkeep. His career aspirations include research in the areas of ocean based renewable energy or air sea...

In a high school garage turned engineering lab, UNH President Elizabeth Chilton recently met with a team of scuba-certified students at Sanborn Regional High School (SRHS) who are building and racing human-powered submarines — thanks in part to a unique partnership with UNH.

What does it mean to be a Land, Sea and Space Grant university? The triple designation signifies a collaboration between the U.S. government partners and UNH to produce and share research grounded in solutions that understand and improve the world around us.

Meet some of UNH’s earliest-career researchers: undergraduates.

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process called the Extended Continental Shelf. To satisfy its requirements, the federal government turned to a team of the nation’s top ocean mappers: those at UNH.