UNH gets stimulus funds to aid Maine wind power project near Isles of Shoals
By Deborah Mcdermott – dmcdermott@seacoastonline.com DURHAM — A University of New Hampshire center that researches ocean renewable energy is getting a portion of an $8 million federal stimulus grant awarded last month to the University of Maine, and will use it to conduct wind turbine testing near the Isles of Shoals. The UNH Center for Ocean Renewable Energy will receive $700,000 in federal stimulus funds from the U.S....
Shoals Marine Lab Students Make Archaeological Discovery
http://neosec.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/shoals-marine-lab-students-make-archaeological-discovery/ The first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles of Shoals (NH and ME) has been discovered on Smuttynose Island, Maine, by students in Cornell’s Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Laboratory. “This is a special discovery,†said Dr. Robin Hadlock Seeley, Assistant Director at the Shoals Marine Laboratory and co-director...