The State Climatologist’s office at Rutgers has created what might be the ultimate Super Bowl weather website dashboard: BigGameWeather.com. The site is being billed as the “one-stop-shop” for critical weather and climate information relating to the Big Game. Read more about it at Rutgers Today.
Archives for January 2014
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Cooperative Extension in 2014
The Smith-Lever Act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 and was the official beginning of the Cooperative Extension Service. Come join the celebration by watching 4-H’er-turned-celebrity Reba McEntire wish Cooperative Extension a Happy Birthday on YouTube, and visit the Rutgers Cooperative Extension 100th Smith-Lever Anniversary site.
Hunterdon 4-H selling hoagies for the Super Bowl on Feb. 2
The Hunterdon Deadeyes 4-H club is holding a hoagie sale. Hoagies will be ready in time for the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 2. Hoagies must be ordered by Monday, Jan. 27 and then picked up between noon and 1 p.m. at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension at …
Did Predatory Pests Survive the ‘Polar Vortex’ in the Pinelands?
The cold didn’t snap quite hard enough to kill the hardiest bugs out there, suspect scientists from Rutgers Cooperative Extension Service. The ticks just keep on ticking, and even the freeze-sensitive Southern pine beetle may not have been stoppe…
Vernal pools thriving as part-time wetlands in Hamilton
For 10 months each year, a small patch of dirt and muck along Kuser Road simply blends in with the surrounding landscape. But two months each year, township Environmental Commission chairman Lester Finch sees the site as one of the township’s bes…
Politicizing weather shows how far parties apart
While cold weather engulfed the eastern United States, with the freeze line extending to Tampa, I was wondering how the frigid weather experienced by 180 million Americans could support the global-warming model for climate change. When I asked Jennifer…
It’s not too late to resolve to fix your finances
If new year’s resolutions were ever so easily accomplished, then there would be little need for the psychological uplift attached to Jan. 1. If they were so easy to stick with, the same resolutions would not appear year after year on our lists. And so,…
Allergies to go from bad to worse?
Bad news for allergy sufferers – the high pollen levels across the area this week may be something we have to get used to in the future. A study by Dr. Leonard Bielory of Rutgers University shows scientists expect pollen counts to more than double on a…
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Announces Excellence Awards for 2013
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) conducted its annual awards program at the 2013 Annual Joint Department Meeting of Rutgers Cooperative Extension last December 10. The awards acknowledge outstanding performances of students, faculty and staff. For 2013, the RCE Award of Excellence was given to three staff members: Judith Laganga, Michelle Teitsma and Jennifer Matthews. The purpose […]
The Flood Next Time
The little white shack at the water’s edge in Lower Manhattan is unobtrusive – so much so that the tourists strolling the promenade at Battery Park the other day did not give it a second glance. Up close, though, the roof of the shed behind a Coast Gua…