David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
Archives for February 2017
From record warmth to buried in snow in a day, an explanation
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
Advocates Have Given Up on Christie Administration Updating Water Supply Plan
Daniel Van Abs – Department of Human Ecology
Don’t use the b-word
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
Rutgers Doctoral Student, Michael Johnson, Named to Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ List for Science
Editor’s Note: this article was originally published in Rutgers Today. The 600 women and men selected to represent the country’s most important young entrepreneurs, creative leaders and industry stars in a number of fields, were chosen from an initial screening of more than 15,000 candidates. Johnson, a 27-year-old scientist, was selected for his role in […]
In sports, who’s really ‘old’?
Tom Brady’s Super Bowl victory continues a string of big wins for aging professional athletes — and at 39 years old, Brady has said he has no plans to retire. The second-oldest quarterback to win the Super Bowl after Peyton Manning, Brady signals what avid fans and sports experts are calling a growing trend of older athletes — from mid-30s tennis icons Roger Federer, Serena Williams and sister Venus to Florida Panthers right wing Jaromír Jágr, who turns 45 next week. “We’ve really started to notice it in the last five or six years,” said Shawn Arent, director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at Rutgers University. “Don’t be at all surprised if … (we see) some of these guys winning their sixth Super Bowl in their 40s,” he added.
Rutgers Awarded $743,000 Federal Grant for Collaborative Science Project
Three Rutgers units are set to begin work this winter on a collaborative science project that will examine the intersection between sea level rise, salt marsh structure, habitat modification and restoration, as well as nuisance mosquito populations that can pose serious health risks to humans, livestock and pets. The project, “Investigating the Interconnectedness of Climate […]
WEATHER: Thursday’s snowfall totals go up
Dave Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
IFNH Student Ambassador Alumna Presents “Cooking on a Budget” for Price Family Fellows
It’s not every Friday night students gather in the Davison Hall Food Lab on the Douglass Campus to learn how to cook delicious and nutritious meals on a budget, but on January 27 that is exactly what took place. Taylor Palm (SEBS ‘16), an IFNH Student Ambassador alumna, who is currently a dietetic intern at […]
What does muktuk in Savoonga (in January) have to do with weird weather in the Lower 48? Maybe quite a bit
Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences