![Two researchers, a man and a woman, stand wearing wetsuits and masks and snorkels in chest deep water holding eel grass and a transect tape](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-11/cynthiahays_eelgrass_banner.jpg?itok=3XSoSWgt)
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.
2023 NH Sea Grant Research Symposium
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Holloway Commons Piscataqua Room
75 Main Street, Durham, NH
Poster Session
After the research symposium, NH Sea Grant will hold a poster session for coastal research related to our focus areas and priorities. Graduate and undergraduate students are welcomed to attend.
Students are welcomed (and encouraged) to submit posters to the session. In the event that we receive more poster registrations than we have space for, priority will be given to students who are supported by NH Sea Grant funds or who are working closely with a NH Sea Grant funded project.
2024-2025 RFP
As part of the Symposium, NH Sea Grant will host an information session about the upcoming RFP. Join us for this portion of the Symposium to learn about our latest Request for Proposals (RFP) and how you can join our growing research community.
Featured Research Projects
Current Projects (2022-2023)
![Steelhead trout harvested from an aquaculture operation in an orange basket](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-03/aquafort_timbriggs_3.jpg?itok=YJRFk76y)
Culturally tailored online seafood nutrition education program
![a juvenile lumpfish faces the camera directly in a tank. A small, green roundish fish with light stripes from its mouth to its back through its eyes](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-03/lumpfish_1200x1200_thumbnail.jpg?itok=Gcbqqzkq)
Team LuMP — Lumpfish Mapping Project
![an underwater photograph of swaying green blades of eelgrass in blue green murky water](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-11/eelgrass_2_thumbnail_square.jpg?itok=OUyhnkYv)
Linking eelgrass reproduction and genetic diversity with oceanographic drivers
![a thread seeded with algae wraps around a white and orange rope for deployment in aquaculture testing](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-03/nori_rope_neefus_thumbnail_square.jpg?itok=Y5GrTDTb)
Diversifying the Sea Vegetable Aquaculture Industry
![An oyster farmer holds a rake full of oysters while standing in the water wearing yellow gloves](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2021-12/virgin_oyster_rake_thumbnail.jpg?itok=4mM4V1GR)
Improving pathogenic Vibrio management tools
Improving pathogenic Vibrio management tools
CHERYL WHISTLER – UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Completed Projects (2020-2021)
![A researcher wearing a white lab coat, blue gloves, and safety goggles pours a beaker with brown liquid on the end of a stick into a bottle. Another researcher in the background preps samples.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-11/wwtf_cassidy_yates_thumb_square.jpg?itok=5GhKyHga)
Wastewater treatment processes and Emerging Contaminants
![A researcher releases rainbow smelt from an orange bucket into water that divides the frame horizontally](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-11/rainbow_smelt_thumb_square.jpg?itok=JHHSBGdz)
Value of estuaries to rainbow smelt in New Hampshire
![An aerial view of a rocky beach in Rye, New Hampshire where stones from the beach are washed over into a marsh on the land side of the beach.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-11/rye_overwash_aerial_coast_thumb_square.jpg?itok=6SRbKiZ7)
Sediment overwash in barrier beaches and salt marsh change
![A car drives through floodwaters encroaching a road](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2021-11/islandpath_1_thumb_square.jpg?itok=yce4QpMq)
Drivers of coastal flooding and storm surge at a tidal marsh
![A common tern adult wearing a GPS tracker passes a fish to its chick with its beak, with its wings spread standing on a rock](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_480px/public/media/2022-11/tern_fish_white_island_thumb_square.jpg?itok=-Gvl8Ab_)
Seabirds as Indicators of New Hampshire's Fisheries
Questions?
Steve Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Director & Assistant Director for Research
stephen.jones@unh.edu
(603) 862-5124
Michelle Lemos
Research Program Assistant
michelle.lemos@unh.edu
(603) 862-6702