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Rutgers’ New Nursery Specialist Wins Grant Award From Horticultural Research Institute

January 27, 2015 by
Raul Cabrera

Raul Cabrera

The New England Nursery Association (NENA), in cooperation with the Horticultural Research Institute (HRI), announced that Associate Extension Specialist in Nursery Production and Management Raul Cabrera is the first recipient of the association’s Industry Growth Fund grant award. After a review of 60+ grant applications, NENA selected Cabrera’s research project, “Use of Alternative Irrigation Water Sources for Urban Landscapes and Nursery Crops,” as its top recommendation for funding. Read more from New Jersey Nursery and Landscape Association.

Filed Under: Commercial Agriculture, Extension, Faculty, Grants, NJAES, Research

RCE Collaborates with Hillsborough Township and Watershed Association to Win $175K DEP Grant

October 28, 2014 by
Volunteers planting a curb-cut rain garden in with the RCE Water Resources Program. RCE Water Resources Program.

Volunteers planting a curb-cut rain garden with the RCE Water Resources Program.     Photo: RCE Water Resources Program.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) continues to expand its efforts in urban extension by securing funding to work directly with municipalities and their residents to address important issues affecting New Jersey’s towns.

In one such effort, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County has partnered with Hillsborough Township and Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association (SBMWA) to obtain a $175,539 grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to address flooding problems that are associated with Royce Brook. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Environment/Natural Resources, Extension, Grants, NJAES, Somerset County

NSF Grant Awarded to Rutgers to Support Research on the Sustainability of Fisheries

October 9, 2014 by
Malin Pinsky

Malin Pinsky

Most of us enjoy eating fish and plan to continue eating fish into the future. But which local fish will be available in New Jersey? How will summer flounder and hake populations on the northeast continental shelf change as our climate warms and fisheries practices adapt? We currently do not know the answer to these questions, but we plan to learn more over the next four years thanks to a new grant announced by the NSF.

A Rutgers team, led by Malin Pinsky, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), will soon begin its research on fisheries and coastal communities in the northeastern United States under a $1.1 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This award is one of only nine national awards for the year by the Coastal SEES Research Program at NSF. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Faculty, Fisheries/Aquaculture, Grants, Research, SEBS

CIT Awarded Subcontract to Support Ocean Research

August 6, 2014 by

The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today a $50,000 subcontract with Rutgers University to provide site support for six high frequency (HF) radar systems along the Virginia-Maryland coast, as part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) project…Scott Glenn, Rutgers University Professor of Marine and Coastal Science, and Managing Director and Principal Investigator for MARACOOS, said, "We look forward to continuing to work with CIT and all our partners to build a system that greatly contributes to improving our management and use of this precious resource."

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Filed Under: Faculty, Grants, In the News, SEBS

Rutgers Researcher Malin Pinsky Awarded Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

July 2, 2014 by
Executive Dean Bob Goodman presents Malin Pinsky with Powe Award plaque

Executive Dean Bob Goodman presents Malin Pinsky with Powe Award plaque. Photo: Gary Huntzinger.

Malin Pinsky, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for marine field work in the Philippines. Pinsky, who is also affiliated with the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is studying how changing climates affect coastal marine species and how that, in turn, affects human society. He is the first Rutgers faculty member to win this prestigious honor, which was instituted in 2008. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Environment/Natural Resources, Faculty, Grants, SEBS
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