Separated by 4,900 nautical miles but joined at the hip by the same dynamic mission on behalf of U.S. agriculture, Russell Duncan is the APHIS FS area director in Pretoria, South Africa. The Maryland native earned his undergraduate degree at Howard Uni…
Archives for March 2015
Human Activity is Leading to a “Major Extinction Event” for Sea Life, Scientists Say
Though previously thought to be impervious due to its massive size, the collective of the world’s oceans may be on the verge of a wide-scale extinction event, according to a new study. Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB) warn that, if human activity continues on its current trajectory, we could be seeing a whole lot more sea animal deaths, and possibly collapses of entire oceanic ecosystems… “We’re lucky in many ways,” said Dr. Malin L. Pinsky, a marine biologist at Rutgers University and one of the authors of the new report. “The impacts are accelerating, but they’re not so bad we can’t reverse them.”… Drs. Pinsky and McCauley tried to gain a better understanding of all this by collecting data from a wide range of sources, including discoveries logged in the fossil record and statistics on modern-day shipping activities, fish catches and seabed mining. What they found is that there’s still time to make things right.
The Gardener State: The ‘Rights’ of Spring
Do you think we finally made it? Can it really be spring that we sense in the air now that the glaciers in our backyards have finally receded?… One of the major outreach assistance programs all county programs offer is the Garden Helpline. Rutgers Ma…
Snow Possible Friday as Spring Arrives in NJ
Spring arrives on Friday, but winter won’t be letting go without a fight. Forecasters expect snow to begin early Friday morning in Monmouth and Ocean counties but change over to rain fairly quickly… David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist based at Rutgers University, said “It looks like it could be the nuisance variety of snow. But it’s the type of snow that- unless it comes down in a big burst- tends to melt on roadways and such”…. “It’s tough to get it to stick on roadways unless it’s coming down hard,” he said.
RU Survey: Summer Classes at Shore Would be Popular
Rutgers University-New Brunswicks Summer Session, with more than 2,200 course sections, already one of the nations largest summer programs, is adding a new component with 17 courses at the Jersey Shore… The decision to establish RU at the Shore for 2…
Why We Should Talk About Geoengineering Even if We Never Do it
Ben Kravitz has studied geoengineering for the past seven years and doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon, despite ongoing controversy around the issue. That’s because even if geoengineering never happens in the real world, the concept alone is already pla…
John and Anne Gerwig Endowment to Support Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Announcement by Larry Katz, director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension. A strong workforce will support a strong community. That was the topic of conversation when John and Anne Gerwig asserted their desire to help all of Rutgers Cooperative Extension by establishing a fund that will provide resources to extension professionals in perpetuity. I am pleased to […]
Local Members Participate in 4-H Leadership Conference
Sixty-nine 4-H members representing 18 counties will be participating in the 4-H Discover the Leader in You! 4-H Leadership Conference scheduled for March 21, at Rutgers University in Middlesex County… The Discover the Leader in You! 4-H Leadership C…
Rutgers to Offer Courses at the Jersey Shore This Summer
If you need to take college courses in the summer, what better place to do it than the New Jersey shore?… Rutgers University for the first time will offer 17 Jersey Shore-based courses, beginning this summmer, the university announced Monday. The decision followed a university poll of more than 4,500 students; 1,200 or nearly 27 percent said they’d be interested in earning credit for seaside learning… Other courses include: “The American City,” “Popular Culture: The Jersey Shore” and “The American Detective in Film and Fiction” (Department of American Studies), “Development of Mass Media” (Journalism and Media Studies), “Introduction to Management” (Management and Global Business), “Introduction to Oceanography” (Marine and Coastal Sciences), “Women and Public Policy” (Political Science) and “Digital Photo Image I” (Visual Arts).
Food for Thought During National Nutrition Month®
March is National Nutrition Month® and is a particularly good time to pause before making your daily food choices. In this featured video, Peggy Policastro, an instructor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, discusses a Byrne Seminar she co-teaches called “The Hunger Frames,” which explores how redesigning the dining environment can promote healthier eating. Policastro […]