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San Francisco Chronicle

Jun 12, 2012

Tiny undersea plants may affect Arctic ocean life

Visiting Professor of Engineering Donald Perovich and his colleagues discovered a massive bloom of the microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton beneath the sea ice—a discovery that could affect the life of every seagoing creature in the Arctic.

Scientific American

Jun 11, 2012

Thinning Arctic Ice Allows Plankton Bloom

Visiting Professor of Engineering Donald Perovich participated in an expedition through the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska that found massive blooms of phytoplankton under the ice. The discovery upends the notion that the sea ice that forms in autumn ushers in a nearly lifeless season for the ocean below.

The Dartmouth

Jun 08, 2012

Graduate schools hold individual commencement exercises

Graduate programs at Tuck School of Business, Thayer School of Engineering, Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice will host individual graduation activities this weekend.

The Boston Globe

Jun 05, 2012

College teams compete in hybrid challenge

The brainchild of research engineer and racing enthusiast Doug Fraser, who has taught at Dartmouth for three decades, the Formula Hybrid competition has grown, with 39 teams competing in 2012, featuring entrants from around the country and the world.

Valley News

Jun 04, 2012

Report: Grad Schools Slip on Job Help

Thayer has a network of 1,100 alums through the professional networking site LinkedIn, and also uses technology to overcome geographic challenges of attracting major employers to the rural campus in Hanover.

Offshore-Technology.com

Jun 04, 2012

Polar E&P: the iceman cometh

There are major questions to be answered about the survivability of rigs, storage and transport in the Arctic. Nigel Ash talks to Erland Schulson of Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering about the behaviour of ice and its impact on engineered structures.

The Dartmouth

May 29, 2012

Profs. discuss future of climate change

Thayer School of Engineering professor Donald Perovich said that instead of focusing on predictions about when the last pieces of ice will melt, people should instead realize that the ice has already melted to a point where human activity is impacted.

The Dartmouth

May 28, 2012

College names search committee

Brian Pogue, Professor of Engineering and Dartmouth Dean of Graduate Studies, was selected as one of 14 members of the Presidential Search Committee for the College's 18th president.

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