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2008
  • Spring Issue- Tank Pollution, Unseen leaks turn out to be hard on the environment (University of New Hampshire Magazine)
  • 25 March- UNH tests the air with AIRMAP research: Do you know where your air has been? (The New Hampshire, UNH)

2007
  • Fall Issue- Winds of Change: Seeing the big picture with the help of alternative energy (EOS Spheres)
  • 14 November- Land can emit methyl iodide too (evironmentalresearchweb)
  • 30 August- Sustained, Sustainable, Atmospheric Research At UNH (Seacoast Online)
  • 22 August- Sustained, Sustainable, Atmospheric Research At UNH (UNH Media Relations)
  • 9 August- "Small" Science Puts UNH In Select League (UNH Media Relations)
  • 6 August- Island location makes Shoals an ideal case study in sustainability—from wind power to composting (Cornell University Chronicle Online)

2006
  • 6 October- Atmospheric Research Center Eyed for Whately (Daily Hampshire Gazette)
  • 26 September- "Smart" Balloons Carrying UNH-Built Ozone Instrument Probe Gulf of Mexico Air (NOAA News Online)
  • 26 September- "Smart" Balloons Carry UNH Instruments (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 21 September- UNH Equipment Aloft to Measure Air Pollution (Boston Globe/boston.com)
  • 21 September- "Smart" Balloons Carrying UNH-Built Ozone Sensor Probe Gulf of Mexico Air (UNH Media Relations)
  • 14 July- U.S. Senate Committee Approves $4.5 Million for N.H. Weather Projects (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 13 July - Senator Gregg Announces $4.5 Million for New Hampshire Regional Air Quality Research and Forecasting Efforts Moving Through Senate (Office of Senator Judd Gregg- Press Releases)
  • 31 May - The Best Road Condition Info You’ll Never Know About (Nashua Telegraph)
  • 24 May - UNH Miniature Ozone Sensors Now Part of State’s Road Weather Information System (UNH Media Relations)
  • 21 January - Governor Visits the Roof of NH (The Union Leader)

2005
  • 29 December - UNH Scientists Present Air Quality Research (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 16 December - UNH Researchers' Air Quality Study Shows High Ozone Levles Over North Atlantic (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 12 December -UNH Scientists Present Findings from Huge Summer 2004 Air Quality Study at American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco (UNH Media Relations)
  • 17 August - A First Draft of Research…with Poster Board (Nashua Telegraph)
  • 4 August - Scientists Gather at UNH to Discuss Initial Findings of Massive 2004 Air Quality Study (UNH Media Relations)
  • 2 July - Projects at UNH Set to Get $11.5 Million (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 23 January - Many are Having a Hard Time Coping with this Winter (Foster's Sunday Citizen)
  • Winter 2005 - Air Heads (University of New Hampshire Magazine, Volume 7, #2, pp.28-32)

2004
  • 13 December - UNH Supercomputer to Probe Earth, Space (Union Leader)
  • 10 December - Microway to Provide AMD Opteron Cluster to UNH Institute (HPCwire, A High Performance Computing Newsletter)
  • 9 December - UNH to Acquire Supercomputing Cluster (UNH Media Relations)
  • 23 September - UNH 'Smart Balloon' Ends Research Mission (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 7 September - Tracking Pollution, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (NH Public Television and Maine PBS)
  • 3 September - Survey Says Poor Air Quality Lowers Worker Productivity (Dover Community News)
  • 3 September - UNH Ozone Instrument on Balloon Ride Across Globe (UNH Campus Journal)
  • 3 September - Poor Air Quality Lowers Worker Productivity (UNH Campus Journal)
  • 2 September - Pollution from Asia Found Over New England (New Hampshire Public Radio)
  • September/October - International Air Quality Study Launched from New Hampshire (The Seacoast Sun: Notes and News from the Seacoast Science Center, Volume 11, No. 5)
  • 30 August - UNH Study Links Declining Worker Productivity to Poor Air Quality (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 30 August - UNH Links Air Quality, Lower Productivity (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 30 August - UNH Study Links Declining Productivity to Bad Air Days (Union Leader)
  • 29 August - UNH Links Declining Worker Productivity to Poor Air Quality (CBS 4: Boston, MA; WMUR Channel: NH; TheChamplainChannel.com)
  • 26 August - High-Tech Atmospheric Research Balloon Carrying Unique Ozone Instrument Trots Globe (UNH Media Relations)
  • 26 August - NASA to Track N. American Air Pollution (Science Blog)
  • 26 August - UNH Device Completes Trans-Atlantic Balloon Ride, Ozone Detector Drifts in Air Masses (WMUR Channel: NH)
  • 25 August - Going with the Flow (NASA)
  • 23 August - UH Scientist Hails Flight of Pollution-Monitoring Balloon (Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News)
  • 23 August - Poor Air quality Lowers Worker Productivity in New England (Newswise)
  • 19 August - Poor Air Quality Lowers Worker Productivity in New England (UNH Media Relations)
  • 12 August - Air Pollution Blowing Across Continents (The Straits Times Interactive: Singapore, China)
  • 12 August - Environmental Pollution Blowing Across Continents, Say Scientists (Vietnam News Agency: Hanoi, Vietnam)
  • 12 August - Major Air Quality Investigation Puts Focus on Seacoast (Hampton Union Local News)
  • 11 August - Pollution from Asia Now Showing Up in N.H. Air (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 9 August - Asian Grit Aloft in New England (Boston Globe; International Herald Tribune: France; Phillyburbs.com; The Intelligencer; Burlington County Times; Bucks County Courier Times; Akron Beacon Journal, OH; Newsday; Macon Telegraph, GA; Siliconvalley.com; Los Angeles Times, CA; Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, PA; ABC News; Times Picayune, LA; Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN; Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX; Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA; Duluth News Tribune, MN; Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC; Grand Forks Herald, ND; San Luis Obispo, CA; Charlotte Observer, NC; Tallahassee Democrat, FL; Kansas City Star; Biloxi Sun Herald, Biloxi, MS; Bradenton Herald, FL; Pioneer Press, MN; Miami Herald, FL; Monterey County Herald, CA; Centre Daily Times, PA; Wilmington Morning Star, NC; Times Daily, AL; Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA; The Ledger, FL; Worcester Telegram, MA; Tuscaloosa News, AL; Yahoo.com; dailycomet.com)
  • 8 August - NOAA Tracks Plume Across Atlantic Ocean (The Daily Camera: Boulder, CO)
  • 6 August - Atmospheric Research Lauded by Gregg: Midpoint of air quality study marked (UNH Campus Journal)
  • 5 August - Blowing in the Wind: Transatlantic Pollution (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • 2 August - University of Iowa Assists Air Quality Research (WOI-TV, Eyewitness News: Des Moines, IA)
  • 2 August - Airborne Air Lab Measures Pollution in Maine (AP WIRE)
  • 2 August - Airborne Air Lab Measures Pollution Around New England (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 1 August - Tracking America’s Tailpipe (Portland Press Herald)
  • 30 July - Ship in Gulf of Maine for Pollution Study (WMTW, Channel 8: Portland, Maine)
  • 27 July - Air Check!The Exchange with Laura Knoy (New Hampshire Public Radio)
  • 27 July - Global Voyage Begins to Study Air Quality (The New York Times; Kentucky.com, KY; Worcester Telegram, MA; Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX; Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN; Tallahassee Democrat, FL;San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA; Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN; The Ledger, FL; Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC; Duluth News Tribune, MN; Macon Telegraph, GA; Tallahassee.com, FL; Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA; Centre Daily Times, PA; Biloxi Sun Herald, MS; phillyburbs.com, PA; SiliconValley.com; philly.com, PA; Grand Forks Herald, ND; Monterey County Herald, CA; Pioneer Press, MN; Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA; Times Daily, AL; Akron Beacon Journal, OH; Los Angeles Times, CA; Miami Herald, FL; Charlotte Observer, NC; Bradenton Herald, FL; Kansas.com, KS; Tuscaloosa News, AL; ABC News; Yahoo News; Kansas City Star, MO; Newsday, NY; Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA)
  • 27 July - Tracking Global Air Pollution (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 27 July - Landmark Air Quality Study Marks its Halfway Point (MSNBC)
  • 26 July - Landmark Air Quality Study Marks Its Halfway Point (Union Leader)
  • 26 July - Air Quality Study Floats to Second Phase (WNNE-TV: VT)
  • 26 July - Largest Air Quality, Climate Study Offers New Insights On… (NOAA)
  • 26 July - Atmospheric Research at UNH Lauded by Senator Gregg; Midpoint of Large-scale Air Quality Study Marked (UNH Media Relations)
  • 26 July - Tracking Global Air Pollution: UNH Scientists Hope Team’s Work Will Aid Environment, Improve Forecasts (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 26 July - Air Quality Forecasts Lie Ahead in Success of UNH Test Balloon (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 26 July - Second Phase Underway in Air Quality Study (The Boston Globe; Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 26 July - Air Quality Study Floats to Second Phase: Boat to Analyze Air Masses from West Coast (WMUR Channel: NH)
  • 22 July - National Center for Atmospheric Research Chemists to Help Profile New England’s Air Quality (NCAR)
  • 16 July - Media Advisory…news conference for New England Air Quality Study, part of the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT) study (NOAA)
  • 16 July - US Pollutants Could Damage European Environment (Environmental Data Interactive: UK)
  • 15 July - Canadian Scientists Take Part in Major International Study on Air (Government of Canada Newsroom)
  • 15 July - NASA, NOAA and New Hampshire Officials Discuss Key Air Quality (NASA)
  • 15 July - Flying Labs Aim to Track Pollution Across the Atlantic (Nature, Volume 430)
  • 12 July - Scientists to Test Area’s Air Quality (Tribune-Review, PittsburghLIVE.com)
  • 12 July - Media Advisory – Canadian Scientists Take Part in Major… (CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse): Canada)
  • 12 July - Gone With the Wind? Over A Hundred Scientists Take to the Skies to Track Global Air Pollution (Innovations-Report, Germany; Natural Environment Research Council Centres for Atmospheric Science: Swindon, UK)
  • 11 July - Scientists to Test Area’s Air Quality (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA)
  • 9 July - UNH at Center of Largest-Ever Air Quality Study (UNH Campus Journal)
  • 2 July - Large-Scale Air Quality Study Launched, Scientists Will Examine How Pollutants Move Across Continent, Atlantic Ocean (The Washington Post)
  • 1 July - Seacoast Air Quality Study Under Way (Foster's Online)
  • 30 June - NASA Helps Track Global Air Quality (Science Daily)
  • 30 June - Largest-Ever Air Quality Study Poised to Begin in Seacoast, NH (Innovations-Report, Germany)
  • 30 June - Largest-Ever Air Quality Study to Launch July 5 (Energy Argus Daily, Vol. 11, No. 123, Argus Media, Ltd)
  • 30 June - Air Pollution, Major Research Program May Shed Light on Long-Range Transport Issue (Greenwire)
  • 30 June - NASA Helps Track Global Air Quality (Spatial News; EurekAlert)
  • 29 June - Largest-Ever Air Quality Study Poised to Begin in Seacoast, NH (Newswise; EurekAlert)
  • 29 June - DOE Scientists Sample the Skies (Brookhaven National Laboratory News Release)
  • 28 June - Largest-Ever Air Quality Study Poised to Begin in Seacoast N.H., Hundreds of Scientists Will Participate, Research Platforms Will Be Deployed (UNH Media Relations)
  • 28 June - NASA Helps Track Global Air Quality (Space Ref; NASA)
  • 28 June - …The INTEX-NA mission is coordinated under the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT) (Science, guide KA.Cassimally, Zongoo!com, United States)
  • Spring - Centers of Excellence (University of New Hampshire Magazine)
  • Spring - Bad Air in a Bag (University of New Hampshire Magazine)
  • 11 June - Moore Receives NOAA Recognition Award (UNH Campus Journal)
  • 21 May - Spring is the Time to Fight for Cleaner Air and Healthier Children (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 7 May - Gregg Hall is Officially Dedicated to Senator (UNH Campus Journal)
  • 21-27 April - In Brief, This week at UNH (The Wire: Portsmouth, NH)
  • 16 April - Air Quality Study to Pinpoint Pollution Sources (The New Hampshire, UNH)
  • 22 March - UNH to Lead Biggest Study of Air Quality & Climate (NH Public Radio)
  • 19 March - UNH at Center of Nation’s Biggest Air-Quality Study (Union Leader)
  • 19 March - UNH to Conduct Largest-Ever Air Study (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 18 March - UNH to Study Air Pollution Sources, Study Involves Planes, Balloons, Satellites (WMUR Channel, NH)
  • 18 March - Sen. Gregg, NOAA Chief and UNH President Announce Largest-ever Air Quality/Climate Study to Begin This Summer (UNH Media Relations)
  • 18 March - Gregg Joins UNH Scientists to Announce Next Phase of New England Air Quality Study, Senator, Researchers Also Announce Launch of Air Quality Forecasts (Senator Judd Gregg News Releases)
  • 15 March - MEDIA ADVISORY: Senator Gregg, NOAA Administrator, and UNH President to Announce Biggest Air Quality-Climate Study Ever Undertaken (UNH Media Relations)
  • 13 March - UNH Part of $9M Air Quality Study (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 26 February - N. H. Offers Clues to Improving Air, International Research Slated (Boston.com)

2003
  • 11 December - Plymouth State University Dedicates “Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute” in Boyd Science Center (Senator Judd Gregg News Releases)
  • 21 August - Gregg Presents Federal Funds to PSU Meteorology (Record Enterprise, Plymouth, NH)
  • 13 August - PSC Program Receives Half-Million Dollar Boost: Grant Will Pay for Weather Research (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 24 July - UNH Gets $4.3 Million for Atmospheric Monitoring Program (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 19 July - UNH Gets Grant for Air Quality Research (Union Leader)
  • 18 July - Senator Gregg Secures $4.355 Million for Expansion of UNH Air Quality Research Program (Office of Senator Judd Gregg)

2002
  • 29 October - Funding for UNH Research Hits $85.8 Million (UNH News Bureau)
  • Fall - Visit from a Floating Lab (University of New Hampshire Magazine)
  • 30 September - UNH to Launch Air Quality Study (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 25 September - Gregg and UNH Announce Regional Study of Impact of Air Quality on Pulmonary Health in Children (UNH Campus Journal)
  • 17 September - AIRMAP Exhibit Featured at Dimond Library (the New Hampshire, UNH)
  • 29 August - Weather Stations, Donated by UNH, Keep Watch for Fire Danger (UNH News Bureau)
  • 14 August - Drought Continues to Plague New England, Says New Hampshire State Climatologist (UNH News Bureau)
  • 12 August - Air Monitoring Yields Surprises (Union Leader Sunday News)
  • 9 August - PSC to Get $500K for Meteorology Program (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 8 August - Bad Air Days (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • 1 August - Scientists at Sea Studying Pollution’s Airborne Path (Boston Globe)
  • 30 July - Tracking Air Pollution by Sea (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 30 July - Funding Measure Would Aid Studies of Air Pollution (Union Leader)
  • 30 July - New Hampshire Outlook Television special on the “New England Air Quality Experiment”
  • 30 July - More Funds Earmarked for N.H. Air Quality Studies (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 29 July - Keeping an Eye on the Ozone (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 29 July - In Brief: Air Pollution (Eagle Tribune)
  • 29 July - UNH Announces Additional Funding for Air Quality Research, The Result of $12 Million in NOAA Funding Proposed by U.S. Senator Gregg (UNH News Bureau)
  • 29 July - Research Ship Ties up in Portsmouth (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 28 July - NOAA Research Vessel Docks in Portsmouth (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 20 July - Researchers Air Pollution Issues (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 14 July - Tracking America's Tailpipe (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 11 July - UNH, Government Studying Northeast Air Pollution (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 11 July - Research Ship to Help UNH Study Air Pollution (Union Leader)
  • 9 July - N. H. Air Pollution Monitors Picking up Strong Signals from Fires in Quebec (UNH News Bureau)
  • 9 July - UNH and NOAA Head Effort to Study N. E. Air Quality (UNH News Bureau)
  • 23 June - Keeping an Eye on the Air (Union Leader)
  • 21 June - Group Says NH Needs to Reduce Mercury (Union Leader)
  • 21 June - Business, Utility Leaders to Check UNH Air Monitors (Union Leader)
  • 19 June - UNH Business School Tour Will Focus on Economic Impact of Air Quality in New England (UNH News Bureau)
  • 7 May - An Attempt to Warn N.E. of Bad Air Days (Boston Globe)

2001
  • 6 September - Air Quality Initiative Begins (Granite State News)
  • 1 September - UNH Part of Air Quality Initiative (The New Hampshire, UNH)
  • 30 August - Gregg Visits Observatory (Carroll County Independent)
  • 30 August - Castle Part of Air Quality Network (Meredith News)
  • 30 August - Senator Judd Gregg Dedicates New Weather, Research Facility (Weirs News)
  • 23 August - Bad Air Days’ Monitoring System in Moultonboro (Laconia Citizen)
  • 23 August - Towers to Keep Tabs on State’s Air Quality (Concord Monitor)
  • 23 August - $6M NH Air Quality Study Gets Under Way (Union Leader)
  • 22 August - Sen. Gregg and UNH Announce Largest-ever New England Air Quality Research Project (UNH News Bureau)
  • 15 August - Sen. Gregg, NOAA and UNH to Announce Largest-Ever New England Air Quality Research Initiative Aug. 22 (UNH News Bureau)
  • 19 July - Senator Gregg Secures $88.06 Million for Air, Land, and Sea (Senator Judd Gregg News Releases)
  • 11 May - UNH Study: Asian Dust Storm Sending Industrial Pollution to Seacoast (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • Winter - Tomorrow's Forcast (University of New Hampshire Magazine)
  • 30 March - Global Warming—More Evidence,? (The Exchange, NH Public Radio)
  • 15 March - Senator Gregg Seeking $1Million for Innovative Weather Forecast Project Through UNH and Plymouth State College (Office of Senator Judd Gregg)
  • 30 January - Southern Oscillation Faded; But Will Return (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 30 January - UNH Project Fights Pollution (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 28 January - Mt. Washington, A Classroom in Itself (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 18 January - Stormy Forecast is Tough to Call (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 9 January - PSC Dedicates New Weather Center (Union Leader)
  • 8 January - Senator Gregg Announces $500,000 Federal Award During Dedication of Innovative Weather Center at Plymouth State College (Office of Senator Judd Gregg)

2000
  • 5 October - Forecasters: This Summer in New Hampshire Was Unusually Cool (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 25 September - Jet Stream to Blame for Region’s Wet Weather All Summer (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 23 August - UNH Receives Funds to Study Air, Weather, Climate (Portsmouth Herald)
  • 21 August - Grant Will Assist Weather Experts (Concord Monitor)
  • 15 August - Senator Gregg and University of New Hampshire Announce $5.3 Million Air Quality Program (Office of Senator Judd Gregg)
  • 15 August - UNH, NOAA Team up to Monitor Air Quality of New England (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 17 June - Unusually Cool Weather Keeping Summer at Bay (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 8 May - Durham Heat Tied 70-Year Old Record (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 13 March - State Climatologist Says Dryish Winter Not Unprecedented (Foster's Daily Democrat)
  • 6 March - No Water Shortage Anticipated, as Extra Rain Made Up for Lack of Snow (Foster's Daily Democrat)

1999
  • 22 December - State Climatologist and UNH Professor List Top 10 New England Weather Events of the 20th Century (UNH News Bureau)
  • 3 December - UNH Climatologists Look to the Past, 18th Century Diaries Offer Glimpse of Weather in Days Gone by (UNH News Bureau)
  • 7 July - UNH New England Climate Initiative Receives $4M in Federal Funding, U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg Treks to Mount Washington Summit for Announcement (UNH News Bureau)
  • 30 June - UNH and Mt. Washington Observatory Announce Weather Observing/Climate Change Research Initiatives, U. S. Sen. Judd Gregg Treks to Summit for Announcement of Federal Funding (UNH News Bureau)




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