The Delaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit was held at Cape May’s Grand Hotel Jan. 25-28, including two panel discussions about the growing aquaculture-farming industry in the region… A special session titled: ‘Shellfish C…
Archives for January 2015
Rutgers Researchers Collect Data from Antarctica in Real Time
At a lab in New Brunswick, a team of Rutgers University researchers collects data from Antarctica in real time. The information comes from gliders. The underwater robots are part of a project to determine how water properties and surface currents can a…
Rutgers Research Named as Board of Governors Professor
The Rutgers University Board of Governors named Dipak K. Sarkar, a distinguished professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, a Board of Governors professor at a Dec. 9 meeting. The professorship was …
Rutgers Expert Weighs In On What’s Sufficient When It Comes To Food Safety
When it comes to sanitation, one size does not fit all. Associate Director for Food Safety, Quality Assurance & Training at Rutgers Food Innovation Center – South Donna Schaffner looks at what makes for sufficient food sanitation practices in commercial food production. Her article was published in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Food Safety […]
Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School Graduate Receives Industry Honor
Kristian Summerfield, a UK native living and working in the Netherlands, crossed “the pond” to attend the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School: Three-Week Preparatory Short Course in January 2013 to advance his skills. In December 2014, his skills and efforts were recognized when Summerfield was presented with the 2015 Greenkeeper of the Year award for his […]
Winter Snow Cover Must Be Weighed Against Springtime Lack, Scientists Say
News outlets pegged it as the “historic” blizzard of 2015. Snow was supposed to reach unprecedented levels. Flights were canceled, driving bans enforced. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio warned his city to “prepare for the worst.”… The data on snow cover, which have been produced since late 1966, come from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, which works with the National Ice Center in Boulder, a joint collaboration with the Navy, the Coast Guard and NOAA to produce the snow maps. The maps are produced mostly with satellite images, in addition to some measurements gathered on the ground by observers, or by checking Web cameras to see where snow is, said David A. Robinson, state climatologist for New Jersey and director of the Rutgers lab.
The Oceans Are on the Verge of Mass Extinction. Here’s How to Avoid It.
We land-based creatures live in the midst of a massive extinction crisis, just the sixth one over the past half billion years. What about the oceans?… Now, as tricky as it will be to cut back on overfishing by convincing fish farmers to mend their ways and consumers to change their habits, the even bigger challenge will be to stop trashing the place all of these critters call home. Habitat degradation, according to the Science authors, is the main trigger for the extinction wave we’re now seeing on land, and is probably the biggest threat to cause a similar catastrophe at sea. “If you cranked up the aquarium heater and dumped some acid in the water, your fish would not be very happy,” Malin L. Pinsky, a marine biologist at Rutgers University and an author of the report, told The Times’ Zimmer.
Pollination and Farming: It’s All About Bees
Of the more than 20,000 species of bees globally, over 400 call New Jersey home. On Wednesday at the Sussex County Fairgrounds, The Nature Conservancy hosted a variety of presentations on “Farms, Forests and Rivers: Sustaining Our Way of Life. One panel of speakers focused solely on the beneficial effects pollinators, such as bees, have on agriculture production and how to combat the overall decline in bee population. “They’re basically flying dust bombs,” said Dan Cariveau, a postdoctoral research associate at Rutgers University’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Offers “Prepare for Later Life Farming” Workshops
Rutgers Cooperative Extension is offering its farm transition and estate planning workshop, Preparing for Later Life Farming, in three separate locations in New Jersey, on Feb. 9-11… Educators include Dr. Bob Parsons, extension economist at the Unive…
New York Dodges Blizzard Bullet, But Weather Models Under Scrutiny
The record snow storm that was expected to pummel the Northeast on Tuesday failed to live up to its epic billing in the New York/New Jersey region- though it did hammer much of New England- putting the weather models used to predict the blizzard into question… “There were errors in the forecast and it was significant enough that it impacted the major metropolitan area in the country — therefore, there’s going to be a lot of scrutiny,” Professor David Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University, told FoxNews.com. “This is an imperfect science that is being done better than ever, but, occasionally, things aren’t going to work as accurately as forecast.”