On Monday morning, a Houston TV reporter rescued a man whose car got swept away by the record flooding hitting the city… “When an extreme event occurs one must factor in some role/influence that the underlying changes are exerting on things,” David Robinson, a climatologist at Rutgers University, told CBS last year. “For instance, making a wet spell somewhat wetter, a heat wave longer and more extreme, a drought more extreme and covering a larger geographic area.”
Archives for April 2016
Farmers’ Market Friendly Laws Can Be Trumped By Health Boards
Maryland-based Capital Gazette published an article recently about how the health department did a sweep of local farmers’ markets and fined several of the farmers for violating administrative rules. Since most farmers thought they were covered by cott…
Trend of no vaccines worries doctors
Parents of school-age children in Texas quickly learn the choices: Get your kids vaccinated according to the state-mandated schedule or officially opt out of the vaccines… A couple of generations ago, measles and chicken pox were most often the bane …
Terra Tech’s Subsidiary, Edible Garden, Signs Exclusive Agreement with Nutrasorb to Produce and Commercialize Nutrient-Rich Salad Blend
Terra Tech Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Edible Garden, a retail seller of locally grown hydroponic produce, herbs, and floral products, has signed an exclusive license agreement with Nutrasorb LLC, a spin-off of Rutgers University, to grow and commercialize nutritionally-enhanced lettuce varieties… “This is the first nutrient rich, health promoting, super salad blend, and we are excited to partner with Edible Garden on this initiative,” said Dr. Ilya Raskin, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences and Chair & Managing Partner of Nutrasorb.
Rutgers NJAES Board of Managers Hosts Rutgers Research Tour
The Board of Managers (BOM), an advisory group to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), is made up of representatives from New Jersey’s county boards of agriculture. The BOM also serves as advocate for the experiment station and provides input to NJAES’ directors on matters concerning the state’s agricultural enterprise. In addition to quarterly […]
Record early ice melt in Greenland due to freak warm weather
After record low amounts of sea ice across the Arctic Ocean last winter, spring has begun with an unprecedented early melt of land ice on Greenland… Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Jersey argued in February that the loss of Arctic ice w…
Mouth-puckering molecule inspires fish-catching glove
Could physical and chemical processes happening when certain foods and drinks enter our mouth be useful in catching meals in the future? That’s a prospect that Feng Zhou at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics in China and colleagues have raised b…
Post-Doc Tina Dura Completes Expedition to Study Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Chile
Tina Dura, post-doc in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, recently completed fieldwork documenting the various ways in which the 2015 Illapel earthquake and tsunami along the Chilean coast altered the coastal environment. Dura, who is part of Prof. Ben Horton’s Sea Level Research Lab, was awarded an $18,000 NSF Rapid Response Research (RAPID) […]
In a Midwestern cornfield, a scene of Chinese theft and espionage
United States law enforcement agencies are a urging farmers and businesses more broadly to be increasingly vigilant amid a rise in attempted thefts of genetically engineered seed and other commercial secrets… Carl Pray, a Rutgers University economist who specializes in Chinese agriculture, told the Monitor that “it may not ease the concerns of consumers who are largely focused on food safety.”
Alumni Story: David Earl (CC’76) – True to His School
Many alumni support their alma mater with time, talent, and treasure. But few are as true to their school as David Earl, who started giving back to Rutgers shortly after his graduation in 1976 and has continued to this day. David is a section chief in the Office of Landscape Architecture of the New Jersey […]