New Hampshire Sea Grant Research Symposium 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
12:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Holloway Commons Piscataqua Room
75 Main Street, Durham, NH
The NH Sea Grant Research Symposium will showcase recently-funded NH Sea Grant research projects and provide a forum to discuss best practices in translating cross-disciplinary science to action through integrated research, education and engagement. Symposium participants learn how successful NH Sea Grant research projects strive to address the core tenants of Sea Grant's work to be responsive, relevant, integrated, and engaged.
It is our goal for the symposium to help strengthen the sense of community and integration among current NH Sea Grant researchers, extension and education staff, students, project partners, and stakeholders, as well as to engage with potential new investigators and collaborators.
Poster Session
At the end of the research symposium, NH Sea Grant will host a reception and poster session for coastal research related to our focus areas and priorities. All symposium attendees are welcome to attend, no additional registration is required.
Researchers who have been awarded NH Sea Grant development funds will receive an invitation to submit a poster. Students (undergraduate and graduate) are also encouraged to submit posters to the session.
2026-2027 RFP
As part of the reception and poster session, NH Sea Grant will host an information session about our latest Request for Proposals (RFP). Join us for this portion of the symposium to learn about the RFP and how you can join our growing research community.
Featured Research Projects
Completed Projects (2022-2023)
Culturally tailored online seafood nutrition education program
Team LuMP — Lumpfish Mapping Project
Linking eelgrass reproduction and genetic diversity with oceanographic drivers
Diversifying the Sea Vegetable Aquaculture Industry
Improving pathogenic Vibrio management tools
Improving pathogenic Vibrio management tools
CHERYL WHISTLER – UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Recent Projects (2024-2025)
Toward a bird-friendly blue economy: Integrating seabird data into marine development planning
Elizabeth Craig – Shoals Marine Laboratory, University of New Hampshire & Cornell University
Understanding differential climatic and exploitative impacts on two Atlantic cod stocks in the western Gulf of Maine
Adrienne Kovach – Dept. of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire
Biotoxin accumulation in a changing coastal ocean: determining how feeding behavior and food selection in commercially important bivalves is altered by warming and acidification
Brittany Jellison – Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Evaluating the northern range expansion of blue crab in New Hampshire through community engagement, baseline monitoring, and trophic interactions
Chris Peter – Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Demographic representation and barriers to access in New Hampshire's blue economy
Easton White – Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Assessing and mitigating risks associated with small oyster importation
Cheryl Whistler – Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Questions?
Steve Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Director & Assistant Director for Research
stephen.jones@unh.edu
(603) 862-5124
Michelle Lemos
Administrative Coordinator
michelle.lemos@unh.edu
(603) 862-6702
