Faculty Research Interests
listed alphabetically by department
Education and animal science |
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Male reproductive physiology; artificial insemination of farm animals; spermatogenesis |
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Zinc transport and utilization by mammalian cells; physiology of the blood-brain barrier; sports nutrition |
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Equine Surgery |
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Community and public health nutrition education |
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Nutrition, exercise, and adipose tissue metabolism |
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Female reproductive physiology and endocrinology |
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Nutritional Risk and Antioxidant Status in the Elderly |
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Diagnostic pathology; infectious diseases, atherosclerosis and diabetes in animal models |
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Dairy cattle nutrition; forage utilization; heifer development |
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Role of diabetes in the development and progression of atherosclerosis |
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Equine Science |
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Human nutrition; nutritional assessment. |
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Human nutrition, lipid metabolism, epidemiology |
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Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, medical laboratory science |
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Diagnostic pathology; infectious diseases |
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Human nutrition, obesity |
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Human nutrition; nutrition education; women's health |
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Dairy cattle nutrition; protein metabolism; feed analysis; systems (models) for diet evaluation |
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Atherogenesis at the cellular and molecular levels |
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Hematology/phlebotomy; coagulation and serology |
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Microbiology |
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Central Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Asthma in Women |
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Genetic Bases for Resistance and Immunity to Avian Diseases |
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Ovarian and environmental influences on embryonic/fetal mortality in ruminants; influence of the immune system in ovarian function and fertility |
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Ovarian and environmental influences on embryonic/fetal mortality in ruminants; influence of matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors on corpus luteum function |
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Nutrition education, food acquisition, food safety |
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Diagnostic pathology; infectious diseases |
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Cell Signaling in Metazoan Development; Evolution and Dynamics of Eukaryotic Genomes |
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Signal Transduction in Neuronal Cells |
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Molecular genetics of DNA repair, genome maintenance and cell-cycle regulation. |
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Regulatory pathways in mRNA degradation |
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Application software for biological sequence analysis |
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Phylogeography of native and invasive algae species; Molecular Population Genetics of Northeastern Conifer Species |
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Activation of Estrogen Receptors and Tyrosine Kinases in Breast Cancer |
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Protein-protein interactions in complex solutions |
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Cellular and tumor biology; signal transduction; notch receptor signaling in adipocyte development/function and obesity-associated disease; notch receptors/ligands in neoplasia and tumorigenesis. |
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Molecular and Biochemical Neuroendocrinology |
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Understanding genome-proteome evolution |
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Microbial evolutionary genetics: Mechanisms of pathogenic adaptation by Burkholderia cepacia |
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Public Health and Waterborne Diseases |
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Host Defenses Against Salmonella typhimurium |
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Pathogenic Microbiology |
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Marine microbiology |
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Microbial Physiology and Genomics |
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Beneficial Host-Microbe Interactions |
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Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Forest Ecosystems, Including the Effects of Atmospheric Deposition and Climate Change |
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Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Streams and Forest Soils |
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Wetland Wildlife Ecology; Amphibian Ecology and Behavior; Effects of Lanscape Changes on Wetland-Dependent Organisms |
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Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, Marine Resource Education |
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Ecology, Restoration and Assessment of Coastal Wetlands, with Emphasis on Salt Marshes and Seagrass Meadows |
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Land Ethics and the College of Agriculture, the Wisdom of Small Farms and Local Food: Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic and Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability and Spirituality |
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Spatial Data Uncertainty/Map Accuracy and Applied Research Applying the Tools of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Spatial Data Analysis to Solving Natural Resource Problems |
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Development and Application of Statistical and Mathematical Methods to Explore Ecological Processes and Natural Resource Management |
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Forest inventory, Management, and Analysis |
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Forest Community Structure, Tropospheric Ozone Effects on Native Vegetation at Acadia National Park |
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Effects of Soil Warming and Nitrogen Deposition on Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function; Interactions between Plant Diversity, Microbial Community Structure, and Biogeochemical Cycling; Soil Organic Matter Dynamicls in Natural and Managed Ecosystems; Establishment of Plant- and Microbial-Mediated Functions in Created Wetlands |
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Non-Market Economics Relating to Wildlife, Public Lands and Forestry in the U.S., Markets for Locally Made Products and Services as well as Sustainable Land Use Planning |
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Forest Management and Forest Industry in New England and Atlantic Canada |
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Theory and Application of Community and Ecosystem Ecology |
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Insect Ecology and Forest Entomology |
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Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology, Bacterial Source Tracking, Mercury Cycling |
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Molecular Ecology, Population Biology and Conservation Genetics of Vertebrates |
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The Effects of Natural and Human Disturbance -- As Well As Invasive Plants -- On the Structure and Plant Species Composition of Temperate Forest Communities |
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Biogeochemical and Environmental Studies |
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Wildlife Responses to Changes in Land Use, Especially Human Activities That Fragment Habitats |
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Human dimensions of natural resource management |
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Ecosystem Ecology and Watershed Management |
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Forest Productivity and Biogeochemistry, Ecological Effects of Air Pollution, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Forest Soils, Disturbance and Land Use History, Ecosystem Modeling and Remote Sensing, Forest Response to Multiple Environmental Stressors, Landscape Ecology, Regional Ecological Analysis |
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Bioenergetics and Management of Wildlife |
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Estuarine Biogeochemistry; Phytoplankton Ecology; Eutrophication; Harmful Algal Blooms |
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Remote Sensing of Vegetation, Specifically on Basic and Applied Research Dealing With Biophysical Properties (Pigment Concentrations, Anatomical Characteristics, and Moisture Conditions) of Leaves and their influence on Reflectance Features Which May Be Remotely Detected |
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Marine Sciences, Marine Policy, Fisheries, Marine |
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Ecology of Seagrass Ecosystems |
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Anaerobic Cyanobacterial Cell Maintenance, Growth, and Toxin Production |
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Floristic Diversity in New Hampshire Old-Growth Forests; University of New Hampshire Herbarium; Biodiversity of Aquatic Plants: Temperate Versus Tropical |
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Genetic Dissection of Economic Traits in Strawberry: A Candidate Gene Approach |
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Entomology, Integrated pest management |
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Is the Redox State in the Chloroplast Responsible for Detection of Both Par and Low Levels of UVB Radiation |
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Plant biochemistry; Enzymology and metabolism |
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Sustainable Production of Vegetable and Small Fruit Crops |
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Acyl Modification of a Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase; CDPK-GUS Fusions to Determine Gene Expression and Subcellular Localization |
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Oxygen and the Inhibition of Photosynthesis by Near-UV Radiation |
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Breeding and Physiology of Yield in Cucurbits; Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources |
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Plant Pathology, Enzymology |
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Introduced Seaweeds and Altered Biodiversity Patterns Within the Gulf of Maine |
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Genetic Manipulation of Forest Trees to Alter Stress Response; Biochemical and Molecular Aspects of Somatic Embryogenesis in Carrot |
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Nutrient Management for Production and Maintenance of Ornamental Plants |
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Photosynthesis-Light Relationships in Native Species of the Seaweed Porphyra |
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Plant Physiology |
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Turf management |
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Plant Pathology, Plant health |
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Entomology, Entomology of forest, turf and ornamental systems |
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Biochemistry, Molecular development of the moss Physcomitrella patens |
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Community Development; community planning; Tourism Planning and Development |
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Sustainable Development; Wildlife Management; Economics |
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Rural Area Development; Technology Transfer Systems |
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Economic Considerations in Municipal Solid Waste Disposal |
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fisheries and coastal management, community development, cooperative research, public participation and community involvement, sustainable community development, political communication theory (deliberative discourse), scientific and technical communication |
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Socioeconomic aspects of community gardening; impacts of terrorism |
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Private Strategies, Public Policies, and Food System Performance; Rural Economic Development: Alternatives in the New Competitive Environment; Research Administration in Resource Economics |
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Rural Economic Development; Land use and taxes, Economic Impact Analysis |
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Improvement of Rural and Agricultural Sample Survey Methods |
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Aquaculture; Fish physiology; reproduction |
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Development, evolution and their intersection; fish development; philosophy of biology |
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Biodiversity of aquatic insects: Biosystematics and ecology of haematophagous Diptera |
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Marine community and population ecology; Biological invasions; Conservation Biology |
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Research on systematics of ant-like litter beetles (Pselaphinae) and ant-like flower beetles (Anthicidae); comparisons of old-growth and managed forests; Curator of the UNH Arthropod Collection |
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Ecology and management of lakes; lake food webs and biotoxins |
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Analysis of predator-prey associations, studies of the impact of invasive species on marine benthic communities and research on the ecology and aquaculture of sea urchins |
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Fisheries Biology; Ichthyology; Aquaculture |
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Genetics and evolution of African cichlid fishes |
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Physiological ecology of marine invertebrates; polar and coral reef biology and ecology |
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Systematics and evolution of lower invertebrates, biodiversity of polyclad flatworms |
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Hormonal Control of Reproduction and Reproductive Behavior, Especially of Insects |
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Vertebrate population ecology |
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Development of novel marine model systems; clam leukemia and urchin gametogenesis |
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The behavior and physiology of marine invertebrates; neural basis of animal behavior; use of telemetry to study the behavior of marine organisms |
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Updated Fall 2006
