Elaina Hancock


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Project Oceanology, one of the sponsors for Messing About in Boats, took participants out into Long Island Sound aboard the research vessel Envirolab II to learn about marine wildlife and try catch and release sportfishing.

A Second Year of Messing About in Boats at Avery Point

'There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats'

Muslim prayers in Sujud posture

Moving As One: Discovering How Synchronous Movements Strengthen Social Bonds

'Synchrony is all around us, subtly shaping our connections and experiences'

Image of vast permafrost

Arctic Capillaries: An Eye-Opening Symptom in a Swiftly Changing Landscape

'We identified more than 1 billion individualized ice wedge polygons, and there are billions left to be mapped, but this is the first effort'

A photo of a willow tree and Mirror Lake

Fast-growing and Versatile: UConn Researcher is Working to Plant More Willows

Multifaceted species appears everywhere from CT to the Arctic, and has a wide variety of uses, from erosion control to pollination

Horsebarn Hill taken by a drone

UConn Storrs Will Soon Welcome a New Home-grown, and Home-built, Classroom with an Iconic View

Built by UConn faculty, students, and staff from UConn Forest wood, this classroom showcases the many benefits of its surroundings

Godfrey gathering samples of organisms while on a blue water dive.

Snapshot: A Voyage to the Only Marine National Monument in the U.S. Atlantic

'This begins the real focus on how communities of marine wildlife operate in the absence of significant direct human impacts'

Elsio Wunder, assistant professor of pathobiology at his lab.

UConn Researcher Confronts a Neglected Disease

'We are creating all the perfect conditions for the number of cases to grow'

A plate of sugar kelp prepared for a meal.

Seaweed: The Superfood Frontier – Weighing the Many Benefits and Potential Risks

This overlooked food source has many benefits that can be fully realized with the help of safety regulations to reduce potential hazards

Reichgelt spotted this rock polygpody fern in Gay City State Park in Connecticut where a deciduous hardwood forest has overgrown the old waterworks. He says as evident from the graffiti, there's still quite a bit of human disturbance there, but the rock polypody seems to be ok with that, as long as it has the cover of the forest canopy.

City Fern, Country Fern: Citizen Science is Helping to Study Why Some Plants Love the City Life

If you want to create a diverse urban ecosystem, you want to include a diverse array of species because an ecosystem builds from the ground up

Graphene Atomic Structure Representation.

Seeking Higher Critical Temperatures for Superconductors

A paper recently published in Physical Review Letters details a mechanism that may help scientists develop superconductors that can perform at higher temperatures.