Camden receives ‘Environmental Excellence’ award

The Camden Stormwater Management and Resource Training (SMART) initiative has received the 2012 New Jersey Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award… It is comprised of the City of Camden, Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority, Cooper’s Ferry Partnership, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program, New Jersey Tree Foundation and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

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How Rutgers oceanographers got data from below Superstorm Sandy

While Superstorm Sandy was crashing down on the New Jersey coast, an underwater glider was miles offshore, sending back data to oceanographers at Rutgers University. It all started on Oct. 25, a few days before Sandy made landfall, with Travis Miles and Greg Seroka. The two oceanography Ph.D. students were on a boat, heading out from Belmar, N.J., under calm and sunny skies.

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Rutgers University helps food vendors keep up with latest trends

Among foodie-friendly Philadelphians, the term “farm-to-table” tends to evoke thoughts of chef-driven restaurants rather than jars of ketchup…Working on behalf of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC), an arm of the university’s Agriculture Experiment Station, veterans from the food and beverage industries, as well as a broad base of Rutgers professors,have been steering both budding entrepreneurs and multi-national companies along their journeys to bring specialty food products to the retail marketplace since 2001.

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