Children from HomeFront’s Camp Mercer got a taste of the 18th century yesterday as they explored the kitchen gardens at the William Trent House in Trenton. Throughout the day, volunteers from the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County taught the chi…
Archives for August 2014
The Jargonaut: What’s a Rossby Wave?
This is the year of obscure atmospheric phenomenon. The polar vortex chilled everyone’s winter. Methane releases might be carving mysterious craters in the Arctic ice. And blocking patterns got the blame for Colorado’s so-called thousand-year flood…I…
Rutgers Wraps Up Annual STEM Enrichment Program for Underserved Youth
The sixth annual Rutgers Summer Science Program, sponsored by Samsung, held its closing luncheon on July 11 at the Neilson Dining Hall on the George H. Cook Campus in New Brunswick, wrapping up a weeklong campus enrichment experience for over 60 high school students, grades 9 to 12, from across New Jersey. This year’s cohort was […]
We’re off to see . . . Bivalve
One look at the signs – what few there are – will tell you what Bivalve and Shellpile are all about. Bivalve Packing Co.; Reeves Bros Shellrock Oyster & Crab Co.; Surfside Foods; Hollinger’s Sail Loft Marina; Bateman’s Crabs…If people know Bivalv…
How to Bank on the Old Raritan: Rutgers Co-Sponsors Sustainable Raritan River Conference Valuing Natural Capital
Healthy ecosystems are ecological life-support systems providing an array of goods and services vital to human health and livelihood. These natural assets are referred to as “ecosystem services”. According to the USDA, many of these goods and services are traditionally viewed as free benefits to society, or “public goods” such as wildlife habitat and diversity, […]
HomeStyles: Helping Parents Create Healthier, Safer Homes
Nutritional science professors Carol Byrd-Bredbenner and John Worobey and research assistant Jennifer Martin-Biggers created HomeStyles, an 18-month online program that offers quick, fun tips to educate parents of preschoolers on how to shape their homes and lifestyles. Read more at Rutgers Today.
Ragweed Season Has Come Early This Year
Climate change could mean more sneezing for people like Roy Villafane. He’s at the allergist’s office today, getting shots to help him cope with the early arrival of ragweed season…Even though ragweed has arrived early, But Dr. Leonard Bielory of Rutgers University says not every allergy sufferer has started sneezing. “Ragweed pollen hasn’t been coming out in strength yet and it will probably truly come out in strength after this major rain and a nice dry spell occurs. So expect the peak to really start turning on,” he said.
Rapidly Warming Arctic Leading to Deadly Extreme Weather Events
Rapid Arctic warming since 2000 may be reshaping and rerouting the narrow current of high winds across the Northern Hemisphere known as the jet stream, forcing it to act like a giant stop light at 30,000 feet. This leads to stalled and prolonged weather systems that can bring deadly extreme heat and rainfall events, a new study has found…Jennifer Francis, a researcher at Rutgers University who first proposed the hypothesis that Arctic warming is altering the jet stream, told Mashable the new paper “is a big step forward in understanding how rapid Arctic warming affects the large-scale atmospheric circulation, and the types of extremes that will likely occur more often as global warming continues unabated.”
Alumni Story: Nick Vorsa (Cook’76), Better Cranberries Through Science
Nicholi Vorsa (Cook’76, GSNB ’85) is director of the Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension in Chatsworth, N.J. He and his team have developed new varieties of cranberries that have offered many improvements for commercial production. The story of his work in collecting cranberry germplasm and mapping its genome appeared […]
In Memory of Danny: Nutritional Sciences Preschool Grad, Now Rutgers Student, Returns Years Later to Restore Dedication
How much of our early childhood do we remember? How much exposure from when we were three or four years old do we carry with us into adulthood? For the Daddio family of South River, NJ, who sent all three of their children to the Rutgers Nutritional Sciences Preschool at the School of Environmental and […]