This summer, a new service-learning internship that brings together faculty and students with members of the New Brunswick Community Garden Coalition got underway. “Gardening the Garden State” is a community gardens and urban agriculture research project based in the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture. The internship program is funded through a Rutgers Community-University Research Partnership […]
Archives for August 2013
Master Gardener Program Returns In September
A new season of Rutgers Master Gardener classes will be starting soon at the Middlesex County EARTH Center in South Brunswick. Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County will offer both daytime and evening programs. Orientation will be on Thursd…
Cresting Wave by Day, Luminescent Organisms by Night: Origins of IMCS Sculpture
Have you ever wondered where the sculpture in front of Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences building came from? Who is the artist? Does it have a name? New Jersey sculptor Clyde Lynds is known for his technique of mixing concrete sculptural forms with fiber optics, while incorporating themes from history, astronomy and science. Many […]
Researcher defends work linking Arctic warming and extreme weather
On Monday, I wrote about a study that pushed back against a theory that a warming Arctic and melting ice are leading to a more volatile jet stream and an increase in extreme weather in the U.S. and elsewhere. Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist …
Time for the Great Jersey Tomato Tasting
Does the opportunity to challenge your palette with nearly 60 varieties of freshly picked tomatoes excite you? Do you know the difference between Mortgage Lifter and Jersey Devil? Would you like to visit a 350-acre research farm on the one afternoon of…
Two Rutgers Meteorology Students Receive AMS Scholarship Awards
Two Rutgers students were among the 22 winners of the 2013 American Meteorological Society “Named Scholarships” for senior undergraduate Meteorology majors. Sherilyn Graham and James Danco, both entering their senior year at Rutgers, were announced winners of this prestiguous national award. Danco was awarded the $2,500 Dr. Pedro Grau AMS Named Scholarship and Graham the […]
Three Rahway students receive 4-H Science Week Scholarships
This summer’s 4-H Science Week at Rutgers University featured a wide variety of projects, including a sustainability-themed experiment in dividing reclaimed concrete to make landscaping blocks. Science Week is a statewide program designed to encourage …
Rutgers Water Resources Study How to Make Car Washes More “Green”
Car wash events are a popular fundraising activity for youth clubs in New Jersey and all over the nation. Often the dirty car wash runoff is directed into the storm drain system where it discharges directly to local lakes and streams. A recent study conducted by Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) and published in the Journal […]
Arctic warming and our extreme weather: no clear link new study finds
Is the dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice, spurred by manmade global warming, making the weather where we live more extreme? Several recent studies have made this claim. But a new study finds little evidence to support the idea that the plummeting Arct…
Barnegat Bay may have survived Sandy, but can it survive us?
Ship Bottom harbormaster Kenneth Baran sees some signs of hope on Barnegat Bay this summer after superstorm Sandy. "I see in the lagoons gigantic jellyfish," said Baran, who lives across the bay in Stafford’s Beach Haven West waterfront communi…