The next time Lund’s Fisheries wants to land a particular species of fish while avoiding other species they aren’t supposed to catch, a new high-tech system aboard the boats could point them in the right direction. That’s the promise of a system curren…
Archives for August 2013
Great Tomato Tasting at the Rutgers NJAES Snyder Farm
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Rutgers Cooperative Extension announce the Annual Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting at Snyder Research and Extension Farm, 140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown on Wednesday, Aug. 28 (rain…
Wrightstown academic honored for lifetime of achievement
Not all career paths are obvious right from childhood, but in the case of Mark Robson, it’s pretty much a straight line. Start with happy years growing up on a family farm in Jacobstown. Continue with studies at Rutgers University and degrees in agricu…
Farming tradition fading
In July, Sunny Red Farm in Southampton closed. Its owners, Wayne and Roberta Shontz, sold the last of their dairy cows, and an auction company drove onto their farm and removed trucks and equipment. They had been raising dairy cows on their land along …
State Climatologist at Rutgers University Awarded Nearly $50,000 in Emergency Management Subgrants
The Office of the State Climatologist at Rutgers University received an Emergency Management Open Initiative (EMOI) subgrant for nearly $50,000, the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management (NJOEM) announced on Monday…The State Climatologist at Rutg…
The Prospects and Perils of Geoengineering [audio]
The prospect of controlling the weather has for a long time lived solely in the realm of science fiction and the plots of evil villains. However, a growing number of scientists are now advocating geoengineering as a way to address climate change…We’l…
Rutgers researchers create a better bedbug detector
Three Rutgers University professors have devised a simple, yet highly effective bedbug detector and trap that might just rival anything else on the market. The do-it-yourself device consists of a dog-food bowl filled with sugar, yeast and water. It’s c…
New Jersey gardens: Hunterdon County 4-H fair to focus on native bees
There are 4,000 species of bees in North America, 400 of which are native to New Jersey. The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Somerset and Hunterdon Counties invite the public to learn more about New Jersey’s native bees during presentations at the Hunterdo…
Rutgers Professor Leads Massive Air Quality Study in Southeastern U.S.
For six weeks this summer, Anne Marie Carlton, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, led a multi-million dollar atmospheric study in the southeastern U.S., considered the largest air quality study in decades in America. A joint project that involved dozens of national and international partners, including NSF, NOAA and the EPA, the Southeast […]
What makes a hamburger and other cooked meat so enticing to humans?
According to those who tried it last week, lab-grown beef doesn’t really taste like meat. So what exactly gives meat its flavor and makes us beg for more? We’ve long known why ice cream and chocolate appeal so much to our taste buds: It’s that bl…
