If you believe everything you read, eating blueberries may be just about the healthiest thing in the universe. Claims include blueberries have the highest antioxidant capacity of all fresh fruit, and they reduce belly fat, neutralize free radicals, red…
Archives for June 2013
Cape May Oyster Flats
On a tour hosted by Fair Food, the NJ Department of Agriculture and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, a group of Philadelphia and New Jersey’s seafood chefs and buyers were given a lesson on "conception to consumption" – the three year proce…
IMCS Welcomes Two New Oceanography Faculty Members
Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Science (IMCS) added two new faculty members this summer, Ben Horton, an internationally recognized scientist on sea-level and global change, and Kim Thamatrakoln, who joins as a new research faculty member. Horton’s interests are in understanding and integrating the mechanisms that have determined sea-level changes in the past so […]
N.J. storms didn’t pack the predicted punch
New Jersey didn’t exactly dodge a bullet, but today’s double dose of severe weather didn’t have nearly the impact that was forecast. "We got through this one pretty lucky," said Salem County Director of Emergency Services Jeff Pompper. The sout…
Spring in U.S. Was Cooler and More Extreme Than Average
The U.S. had a cooler and wetter than average spring that featured deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma, widespread flooding in the Midwest, and deepening drought in the Western U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In …
New Jersey Ready For Another Day Of Heavy Rain [POLL]
New Jersey is ready for the second day this week of heavy rains, flooding and high winds as the first line of storms pushes across the state. The first round brought near-continuous lightning strikes, thunder, heavy rain and winds up to 60 MPH, along w…
Area braces for more heavy rain, flash floods, possible hail, tornadoes
New Jersey is bracing for a strong storm system that’s forecast to dump heavy rain, less than a week after back-to-back soakers saturated the area. The storm system, hailing from the Midwest, may cause major river flooding and could spawn tornadoes, la…
IMCS Student Research Reveals Protein Involved in Production of Coral Skeletons
By identifying various proteins from corals that could be involved in forming their external skeletons and searching for genes that could potentially assist with production of the skeletal mineral calcium carbonate, Tali Mass, postdoctoral researcher at SEBS and colleagues in Paul Falkowski’s laboratory, develop an understanding of how coral build their skeleton. Read more about […]
SEBS Staff Rewind Time as Book Club Discusses Schatz-Waksman Controversy
It was 1943 when Albert Schatz, a doctoral student in Selman Waksman’s Lab at Rutgers College of Agriculture, discovered the soil micro-organism that produced the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. As the notoriety around this new “wonder drug” streptomycin grew, Schatz’s initial recognition as co-discoverer disappeared into the background, as all eyes and much of […]
Qualifying FSMA’s “Qualified Individual”
We know that FDA’s proposed Preventive Controls rule (Section 103) of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) includes a requirement that each plant have a qualified individual who will be responsible for the development and application of a foo…