The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance (NJCAA), an initiative of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy is the recipient of a two-year award in the amount of $399,973 from The Kresge Foundation. The NJCAA will study the impacts of precipitation, temperature, storm surge, […]
Archives for December 2012
Toscano, Showplace receive awards from Rutgers
When Linda Toscano was a kid, she fell in love with horses. Her mother, she jokes, might have been hoping for a different outcome. "Mom suggested horseback riding lessons," Toscano said Tuesday night as she received the Rutgers Equine Science C…
Rutgers Offers Women’s Farm Business Program
Rutgers Cooperative Extension is offering a women’s farm business management program. RCE will present Annie’s Project: Farm Women Conference in three locations on Feb. 20, 21 and 22, 2013. This single day, intensive training session and networking opp…
Finishing What He Started: Cancer Doesn’t Stop Golf Turf Management Student
After completing his first year of the two-year certificate program at the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School, Keith ‘Skip’ Douglass returned home to Arizona and got some bad news: he had leukemia. He bravely battled the disease and seemed to recover. But just a few weeks before he was due back at Rutgers this […]
Ten Years to Rebuild Smarter, More Resilient Jersey Shore, Experts Say
It will take a decade to rebuild the Jersey Shore, and when it is done its economy may be different and there may be a much smaller population, according to a disaster expert who oversaw the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina…&#…
Continuing Education Class Leads Graduate Down New Path in Public Health
After graduating from Rutgers, Ruchi Pancholy worked on a variety of high profile public health campaigns in New York City. But she really dreamed of living in a tropical climate battling emerging infectious diseases. How would the Burlington County native get from the Big Apple to paradise? A summer class and training program, Environment & […]
SEBS Doctoral Student Jazzes up Weather Lesson in Murder Mystery for Young Adults
When a wealthy banker dies in a hailstorm, “weather detective” Kelvin McCloud and his 12-year-old nephew Henry Alabaster are called in to investigate. SEBS doctoral student in atmospheric science Michael Erb has published his first book, Kelvin McCloud and the Seaside Storm, a murder mystery for young adults. Michael’s always been fascinated with weather and climate and […]
Barnegat Bay’s fate unclear
Children’s toys and pieces of furniture are strewn across marshland thousands of feet from the closest body of water. Broken lumber and lost shoes float along channels more familiar to recreational boaters…There was a short-term risk of bacteria and …
Officials urge some parts of LBI, Toms River to vacate instead of rebuild
The ocean swallowed up swaths of the New Jersey coastline during Hurricane Sandy, washing mounds of sand across the state’s barrier islands and burying homes and infrastructure…In the future, storms significantly weaker than Sandy will produce simila…
Conference Focuses on Obesity in New Jersey
On December 11, several national and statewide speakers will present the latest research and innovative techniques to battle the obesity epidemic and outline important next steps for New Jersey at a one-day conference that addresses obesity prevention. Rutgers Department of Family and Community Health Services (FCHS) and the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and […]