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Granite State Poll (GSP) is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey ... more Granite State Poll (GSP) is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Each poll conducts random-sample telephone interviews with about 500 New Hampshire adults. Survey Center interviewers ask basic demographic questions that are common for all polls, along with varied political and client-proposed questions. The GSP data archived here combine results from three separate polls (conducted in February, April and August 2018), which included four questions related to preferences about dams. These questions were designed by Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Kevin H. Gardner, and Lawrence C. Hamilton as part of the "Future of Dams" project. This archived dataset includes questions about dams in New Hampshire and other background factors most relevant to this study. The first text file is the metadata file, the second file is in format ready to be open in STATA software (.dta), and the third file is in a .csv format.&...

Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center... more Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. The poll sample consists of about 500 New Hampshire adults with a working telephone across the state. Each poll contains a series of basic demographic questions that are repeated in future polls, as well as a set of unique questions that are submitted by clients. This poll includes four questions related to preferences about dams. These questions were designed by Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Kevin H. Gardner, and Lawrence C. Hamilton as part of the "Future of Dams" project. The first file is a screenshot of the survey to provide a preview for Figshare. The second file is the survey protocol in Microsoft Word format.

Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center... more Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. The poll sample consists of about 500 New Hampshire adults with a working telephone across the state. Each poll contains a series of basic demographic questions that are repeated in future polls, as well as a set of unique questions that are submitted by clients. This poll includes two questions related to preferences about dams. These questions were designed by Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Kevin H. Gardner, and Lawrence C. Hamilton as part of the "Future of Dams" project. The first file is a screenshot of the survey to provide a preview for Figshare. The second file is the survey protocol in Microsoft Word format.

Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center... more Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. The poll sample consists of about 500 New Hampshire adults with a working telephone across the state. Each poll contains a series of basic demographic questions that are repeated in future polls, as well as a set of unique questions that are submitted by clients. This collection includes three survey protocols (three separate polls), which include four questions related to preferences about dams. These questions were designed by Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Kevin H. Gardner, and Lawrence C. Hamilton as part of the "Future of Dams" project. The associated dataset includes only for the dam related questions relevant to this study (and not data for all the questions that were asked on the poll), since the data for many of the questions on the poll belongs to other clients.

Complex interactions between society, ecology, and the economy have revealed a particularly chall... more Complex interactions between society, ecology, and the economy have revealed a particularly challenging set of problems in the context of sustainability and sustainable development. Such problems are “wicked” in nature due to their high degree of uncertainty, lack of a shared definition, competing values, complex social-technical interactions, as well as the often contradictory institutional and procedural governmental regulations and frameworks. Such multi-issue, multi-party problems are prevalent in management of social-ecological systems, particularly those surrounding decisions about water resources—given that such problems cannot be tackled via a single discipline, scientists have called for production of new knowledge that informs policy making and advances societal needs. Sustainability science is a new frontier which can help organically integrate science, engineering, and planning, and ultimately support production of actionable science that helps find solutions to urgent human needs, inform long-term planning, and impact policy making at the intersection of human well-being and the protection of the planet’s life support systems. A sustainability science framework is useful for tackling problem-solving around “wicked” water resource management issues, such as decisions about dams. New England, as much the rest of the world, has been subject to vast landscape alteration and ecological degradation over the past several hundred years. While some view dams as symbols of human ingenuity, others see them as symbols of colonization and environmental degradation. Given that thousands of these dams are reaching the end of their lifespan and pose safety risks, they present unique river restoration opportunities. However, alternative management decisions about dams, such as removal, are associated with various costs and benefits, or tradeoffs. As stakeholders are faced with decisions regarding the fate of aging dams in their communities, they are often confronted with contentious and polarizing arguments about what should be done with a particular dam. Stakeholders’ conflicting interests within the context of the social, ecological, and engineering complexities surrounding dams, often lead to unsuccessful negotiations that make it challenging to make progress toward shared sustainability goals. This dissertation seeks to improve the current decision-making landscape about dams, and the hard-bargaining negotiation practices that often surround them, by bridging the science-policy divide via 1) addressing knowledge gaps about public and stakeholder perspectives, and 2) advancing collaborative decision-making theory and practice via design, implementation, and evaluation of a science-based role-play negotiation simulation, a novel process of knowledge production tested with stakeholders in New England. The dissertation structure is further organized into three distinct studies. Study 1 explores public opinion surrounding dams in New Hampshire within the context of four tradeoffs—findings reveal that the majority of respondents favor removing dams as opposed to keeping them for preservation of industrial history, property values, or flatwater recreation. Respondents favor keeping dams, however, if they are to be used for electricity generation via hydropower. Additionally, Study 1 results show that younger respondents, women, and liberal-leaning respondents are more likely to support dam removal, although this varies depending on the tradeoff. The focus of Study 2 was to develop a stakeholder assessment for the state of New Hampshire to inform whether and how fostering a collaborative decision-making process is possible. Specific objectives for Study 2 were to identify 1) the stakeholder groups, priority interests, issues, and decision-making constraints, and 2) barriers and opportunities to fostering collaboration and desired project outcomes. Results from Study 2 reveal that stakeholders are open to collaborating and reimagining the decision-making landscape around dams, but need to overcome substantive and process-related barriers by focusing on opportunities around transparent and participatory decision-making, diversity of public participation platforms and modes of engagement, trust in science and among stakeholders, effective science communication, competent technical consultants, funding availability, and joint fact-finding. Study 3 examined the extent to which science-based role-play negotiation simulations impact learning, use of science in decision-making, and innovative problem-solving around management of dams in New England. As part of this study, stakeholders engaged in a mock decision-making process (reflecting real-life institutional arrangements and scientific knowledge) for a set period. Tradeoffs between hydropower, fish passage, costs, cultural/historic benefits, recreation, and property values were at the center of this negotiation simulation. By playing an assigned role (different from…

The role-play included in this packet is a facilitated, multi-issue negotiation simulation for ei... more The role-play included in this packet is a facilitated, multi-issue negotiation simulation for eight or nine participants about the management of five dams in the hypothetical Pearl River basin. This role-play is meant to be used in conjunction with a system dynamics model, which simulates potential environmental and economic outcomes under different dam management alternatives in the Pearl River basin. The user interface for the system dynamics model can be accessed at: https://ddc.unh.edu/dam-system-dynamics/. The science-based role-play negotiation simulation provides opportunity for discussion of complex topics surrounding human-environment interactions, use of scientific data and modeling in environmental decision-making under uncertainty, and the mutual gains approach to negotiations over water resources. This PDF includes the following materials: (1) Teaching instructions, (2) Presentation slides, (3) Table place cards for each role, (4) General instructions for all players, which describe the setting of the Pearl River Basin, provide details on the status of the five dams in the basin, and outline the three decisions to be negotiated, and (5) Confidential instructions for the eight roles, which provide background information about each role, including about the role’s specific interests and constraints. A video introducing the role-play is available at: https://scholars.unh.edu/nh_epscor/3/.

William Winslow of the UNH Data Discovery Center helped with developing the web-based user interface.

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008

ABSTRACT We are in the process of building a data base of energetic particle and magnetic field m... more ABSTRACT We are in the process of building a data base of energetic particle and magnetic field measurements in the vicinity of interplanetary shocks in order to test several existing and emerging theories for particle acceleration and wave excitation in these environs. At present we have over 40 such intervals analyzed and the set is growing. We show here that there exist clear examples of shock acceleration to ~200 keV while in the presence of an intense energetic proton (SEP) population where the seed ions for shock acceleration come from the cold background protons that make up the thermal plasma. This happens in spite of the existence of a potential seed population made up of pre-energized ions. We also show that at higher energies the seed ions are formed from the pre-energized background, indicating that both sources are possible.

Propuesta de arquitectura y construcción de aprendizaje automático (AA) como estrategia para la r... more Propuesta de arquitectura y construcción de aprendizaje automático (AA) como estrategia para la reducción de los niveles de deserción universitaria debido a factores académicos Proposta de arquitetura e construção de Aprendizagem Automática (AA) como estratégia para a redução dos níveis de deserção universitária devido a fatores acadêmicos

We examine energetic particle and magnetic fluctuation spectra as measured by the Advanced Compos... more We examine energetic particle and magnetic fluctuation spectra as measured by the Advanced Composition Explorere (ACE) spacecraft, which are observed in association with interplanetary shocks over the period from 1998 to the present. We characterize the shock parameters as well as the evolving energetic particle and magnetic fluctuation spectra leading up to and following the shock crossing. We divide each observation into background SEP ions and ESP ions that are tied directly to the shock. We assume that the SEP ions were previously shock accelerated, most likely by the same shock, but escaped the confines of the foreshock only to re- encounter the shock at 1 AU. As such, they constitute an energetic background population that the shock is then able to re-accelerate to higher energies. The central question is "What ion population forms the seed population for the bulk of energetic proton events seen in association with the interplanetary shocks. Is it the energetic background of the SEP population, or the cold background of the thermal plasma?" We find instances of both and seek to characterize when one source may dominate over another.

N ew England's rivers and streams host more than 14,000 dams, 1 most of them decades or even cent... more N ew England's rivers and streams host more than 14,000 dams, 1 most of them decades or even centuries old and many built for purposes that no longer apply, such as powering long-closed mills. Aging dams require upgrades and maintenance to avoid becoming public safety risks, and many shape ecosystems and shorelines in ways that favor some human uses over others. Old dams present a policy dilemma. If nothing is done, they will continue to deteriorate, potentially with bad results. Yet maintenance and upgrades are expensive. Might public funds be directed instead toward removal of obsolete dams, opening up freeflowing rivers? Selective and strategic dam removal would require public support and, even more fundamentally, awareness about this issue. In this brief, we present results from statewide surveys in New Hampshire that explore public views about dam removal. Why Care About New Hampshire's Dams? While new dams continue to be constructed across the globe, the dominant trend across the United States and New England over the past several decades is the removal of older, unneeded dams. Almost 160 New England dams were taken out between 1990 and 2017, 2 including 34 of the approximately 4,800 dams in New Hampshire. 3 Many of New Hampshire's dams are reaching the end of their lifespan and require expensive maintenance or removal in order to meet safety standards. In fact, the state's dams are in such poor condition that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assigned them a letter grade of C-, meaning "mediocre" and requiring attention, on its 2017 infrastructure report card. 4 Over 3,200 of New Hampshire's dams, most of which are over 100 years old, are considered to be "active" and are therefore regulated by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) Dam Bureau. 5 Although the density of dams is highly concentrated in the southern part of the state (Figure 1), their distribution extends into the North Country, including the White Mountain National Forest, one of the state's premier natural resource areas. Dam removals in New Hampshire are commonly triggered by safety issues, identified in a letter of deficiency issued by the Dam Bureau, but removal

This presentation will describe the process and results of the "Stakeholder and Context Assessmen... more This presentation will describe the process and results of the "Stakeholder and Context Assessment Phase" of a collaborative stakeholder engagement process.

Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center... more Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. The poll sample consists of about 500 New Hampshire adults with a working telephone across the state. Each poll contains a series of basic demographic questions that are repeated in future polls, as well as a set of unique questions that are submitted by clients. This poll includes two questions related to preferences about dams. These questions were designed by Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Kevin H. Gardner, and Lawrence C. Hamilton as part of the "Future of Dams" project. The first file is a screenshot of the survey to provide a preview for Figshare. The second file is the survey protocol in Microsoft Word format.

Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center... more Granite State Poll is a quarterly poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. The poll sample consists of about 500 New Hampshire adults with a working telephone across the state. Each poll contains a series of basic demographic questions that are repeated in future polls, as well as a set of unique questions that are submitted by clients. This collection includes three survey protocols (three separate polls), which include four questions related to preferences about dams. These questions were designed by Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Kevin H. Gardner, and Lawrence C. Hamilton as part of the "Future of Dams" project. The associated dataset includes only for the dam related questions relevant to this study (and not data for all the questions that were asked on the poll), since the data for many of the questions on the poll belongs to other clients.

William Winslow of the UNH Data Discovery Center helped with developing the web-based user interface.

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008