There has been a lot of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere this year, including the recent torrential rains in Colorado, flooding in Europe, bitter cold in Florida and a heat wave in Alaska. And scientists say all of it is related to some odd b…
Archives for September 2013
Climate Scientists: IPCC Report Must Communicate Consensus
As the huge effort to compile the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report comes to a close this week, many researchers expect new certainty to emerge in such areas as sea level rise and global temperature increases. Climate scien…
Rutgers fish surveys show effects of climate change
On a dark night in the middle of a wide marsh near Tuckerton, N.J., a team of Rutgers University researchers lowered a net over the railing of an old wooden bridge. Then they turned off their flashlights and waited. Below, in Little Sheepshead Creek, t…
IMCS Plays Role in International Integrated Ocean Observatory
Starting this September, an effort will focus scientists, including those from Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and their institutions to cover gaps in ocean geography and operations that until now have prevented scientists from seeing how the different ecosystems along the coast interact, and how and when animals move between them. The observatory […]
Storm tracking by sea
The tools forecasters use to monitor tropical storms and hurricanes, now includes a team of submarine-like, underwater robots called gliders. The gliders are used for research – tracking sturgeon or shark migrations or water quality changes – but durin…
Why Climate Change Ups the Odds of Fires, Floods [AUDIO]
Colorado’s record-breaking flood was caused, in part, by a blocking pattern parked over western North America. That same pattern also led to extreme drought in the West, worsening California’s Rim Fire. Rutgers atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis ta…
Do native African crops have a future in the US?
African vegetables like amaranth and spiderplant could one day come to American farms, supermarkets and tables, thanks to a Rutgers scientist studying heat-resistant crops to meet the threat of global warming. David Rohan Byrnes of Highland Park, a gra…
The Right Grapes in the Right Place
There is a fundamental understanding in the world of viticulture (grape growing) that soil and climate should dictate what grape varietals are grown at a specific location. The operators of New Jersey’s Beneduce Winery are following this philosophy wit…
8 Things Recent Grads Waste Money On
Kasey Trenum purchased six bottles of laundry detergent, four bottles of fabric softener and two boxes of dryer sheets-all for less than $8. "Everybody needs laundry detergent, and that’s one thing that can blow your budget," she says…Rutgers…
Cork-Tainted Wine Impedes Sense of Smell
Cork taint is one of wine’s greatest enemies, and it’s usually caused by the compound 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, commonly known as TCA. Perceptible to wine tasters at varying levels, TCA-tainted wine is identified by aromas such as mold, must, cardboard a…