NH EPSCoR seeks to integrate the efforts of research scientists, education and outreach professionals throughout the state to make the priorities, objectives, and outcomes of NH EPSCoR understandable, accessible, and relevant to NH citizens. 

Activities include:

NH Seacoast Science Café

NH EPSCoR is partnering with the Portsmouth Brewery for discussions on Ecosystems and Society in a Seacoast Science Café.  This monthly series offers opportunity to hear from scientists and discuss trends and perceptions of the changing climate.  Science Cafés are local and live events where people gather in a casual setting to discuss and engage in energetic conversations with scientists and experts in a particular topic.  They are open to everyone who wants to listen in or interact in a friendly discussion.  Click here for more information.

Summer Camp Scholarships

NH EPSCoR provides scholarships to support students and youth participating in summer camps that engage them in science, technology, engineering, and math.  Scholarships are awarded to those who are in financial need, first-generation, live in rural communities, minorities, women, disabled and/or part of other underrepresented or underserved groups.  Recipients are selected by the director of the camp.
Click here for more information on the camps involved in 2012.

4-H

NH EPSCoR is partnering with UNH Cooperative Extension 4-H educators and volunteers to develop after-school programs for middle and high school students.  Emerging programs will be piloted in Manchester and Nashua, NH to engage young men and women from NH’s most diverse urban cities into researching the measurements, observations, and analyses of NH’s urban hydrology and snowpack.  Click here for more information.

Volunteer Science

EPSCoR’s Ecosystem and Society project offers opportunities for community members to get involved in science first-hand.  

LoVoTECS Network

    LoVoTECS (the Lotic Volunteer Network) was established by members of the EPSCoR Water and Soil Dynamic team at Plymouth State University.  LoVoTECS is currently installing a series of aquatic sensors that will provide data on the contributions of groundwater to steams throughout the state by providing continuous record of physical conditionals and ground water quality.  Visit here for more information.

CoCoRaHS

   CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, hail, Snow Network) serves as a community-based network of weather observer volunteers and is today the single largest provider of daily precipitation observations in the United States.  This program is a joint collaborative with both NOAA and NSF.  The New Hampshire network of teachers and students measures important precipitation and snow events and is coordinated by state climatologist Mary Stampone.

CoCoRAHS Albedo Project

    This group is led by Elizabeth Burakowski, a Ph.D. candidate at UNH, and her group of self-proclaimed weather nuts who take daily measurements of precipitation during the winter months.  Burakowski’s doctoral research measures the albedo or surface reflectivity of the NH landscape in winter.  The volunteer albedo measurement network is a sub group within NH CoCoRaHS and is the first of its kind.

Visit here for more information.

Research Experiences for Teachers

NH EPSCoR supports teachers in obtaining research experiences in order to more effectively explain scientific topics to their middle and high school students.  The Research Experiences for Teachers is a summer program that provides a community for educators to learn about and implement research, as well help each other design ways to incorporate important subjects into their classroom curriculum.  This year’s focus is on the interaction between ecosystems and society and their resulting impacts on each other.  For more information contact: 

Stephen R. Hale, Ph.D.
Joan and James Leitzel Center
Parsons Hall
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: (603) 862-4758
steve.hale@unh.edu

Research Experiences for Undergraduates

NH EPSCoR also supports undergraduate students seeking research experiences to provide real-world application to the material they learned in their classrooms.  The Research Experiences for Undergraduates is a summer program offers a learning community where undergraduates can inquire more deeply upon topics of interests with faculty research advisors in their fields.  This year’s focus is on the interaction between ecosystems and society and their resulting impacts on each other.  For more information contact: 

Stephen R. Hale, Ph.D.
Joan and James Leitzel Center
Parsons Hall, Room N117
23 Academic Way
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: (603) 862-4758
steve.hale@unh.edu

Travel Awards

To encourage undergraduate student research in the physical sciences, mathematics, computing science, and engineering, NH EPSCoR is offering a limited number of travel awards of up to $500 to attend a national meeting or conference with a faculty adviser and present a paper or poster.  Awards are based on merit, integrity of the research and financial need, as determined by the student's home institution.  Undergraduate students in degree programs at two-year and four-year colleges in NH are eligible.

Read more about this program and guidelines.

Stay Work Play

NH EPSCoR partners with Stay Work Play, a nonprofit organization that was established in 2009 to support ongoing development of the state of NH’s economy, workforce, and communities. 

NH EPSCoR Challenge Grants

    Stay Work Play developed an employee retention program that would provide incentives for companies to hire recent NH college graduates while enrolling them into a student debt repayment program.  NH EPSCoR provides challenge grants to these companies, providing funding to be used for wages and benefits that is matched by company contributions to student loans.  Click here for more information.