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Water Resources Played Important Role in Patterns of Human Settlement, New UNH Research Shows

November 30, 2010

Once lost in the mists of time, the colonial hydrology of the northeastern United States has been reconstructed by a team of geoscientists, biological scientists and social scientists, including University of New Hampshire Ph.D. candidate Christopher Pastore. Full Story

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