Four days after 24-year old Jake Vogelman was killed by a hurricane-toppled tree, NYPD detectives came to his house with his personal effects: a black leather wallet still wet from the rain and a watch that was still working…The next critical moment …
Archives for 2012
CLIMATOLOGIST: Let’s Not Kid Ourselves, This Isn’t The Worst Storm New Jersey Could Face
Hurricane Sandy was the worst storm to hit New Jersey in modern history, but it wasn’t the storm to end all storms…David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers University, tells Stephen Stirling at the Star-Ledger: "There are a lot of lesso…
Hurricane’s Blog: So Did Global Warming Cause the Sandy Disaster?
This has already been discussed in many blogs and talk shows. Most of the commentators I’ve seen have extreme views on one side or the other. Most of the discussion has not involved science, but speculation based on personal and often political biases….
Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm
Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that what used to be once-in-a-cen…
Crabapples, berries and all kinds of fall fruit
Yew, winterberry, crabapple, and chokeberry have one thing in common at this time of year. They all bear fruit. Most of it is vivid red, but a few woody plants have dark blue, almost black, fruit…Everyone knows the American holly has the most notable…
South Jersey’s cranberry industry unlikely to return to glory days
Forests in Belleplain used to be bustling this time of year with hundreds of workers picking cranberries and hundreds more crushing and canning the fruit in nearby factories…"Farmers are starting to see this disease, which had been gone for 100 y…
SEBS Governing Council Helped Bring “Jersey Fresh” Produce to Campus
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) Governing Council, with some help from Slow Food Rutgers, worked hard to bring a Farmer’s Market to campus throughout the month of October. The students’ response was so positive that the market was extended until November 8. Every Thursday, students were able to buy fresh, seasonal, and […]
Wildlife Expert Receives USDA Grant to Study Bats and Bugs
Brooke Maslo, wildlife expert and assistant professor in the Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources was awarded a $34,501 USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Innovation Grant to study how bats might help farmers combat the brown marmorated stink bug and other agricultural pests. Using DNA analysis of insect fragments in bat guano, […]
Exploring the Role of Relaxin in Neonatal Cervical Development
Professor Carol Bagnell, chair of the Rutgers Department of Animal Sciences, was a member of the scientific committee that organized the 6th International Conference on Relaxin and Reated Peptides in Florence, Italy. Bagnell, a longtime researcher on relaxin, chaired two sessions at the conference and presented “Biology of relaxin and its role in humans.” Her […]
PBS Interviews Dena Seidel on “Generation at Risk” Video on Childhood Obesity
Dena Seidel, director of Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking, talks with Steve Adubato about the work the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health and collaborators are doing to combat childhood obesity in New Jersey. The Center produced a documentary highlighting this problem, called “Generation at Risk”.
