By Samuel Ludescher (SAS’18). The Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership, also known as RU COOL, was commended in Senate Resolution SCR-144 by the New Jersey Senate Environment and Energy Committee on March 13 for its contributions to ocean research, data collection, technology and forecasting. In part, SCR-144 recognized RU COOL’s “leadership role in […]
Archives for March 2017
Your favorite fruits have survived NJ’s crazy weather … so far
Hemant Gohil
BYERS: Climatologist’s recipe for addressing climate change
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
RUTGERS AND THE CLEARING CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE $1,000,000 GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY
Robert M. Goodman – Executive Dean of the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Ask Well: Red Cabbage vs. Blueberries?
Amy Howell – Philip E. Marucci Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension Center
SEBS Students Transforming Blighted Housing into Valued Community Environmental Amenities
By Pat Rector, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Agent II/Associate Professor, and Tobiah Horton, Specialist in Landscape Architecture Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension, February 2017 Assistant professor Tobiah Horton is providing Rutgers landscape architecture students in his Design/Build studio a unique opportunity in the Spring 2017 semester. The class is “Transforming Blighted […]
Rutgers Scientists Help Discover Which Animals Weathered the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Scientists construct a food web of heavily oiled marshes in Barataria Bay, Louisiana Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Rutgers Today. Until now scientists didn’t know which kinds of animals were most affected and what impact their collective fates had on the food chain after the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in 2010 […]
Faculty Research: How do Human Populations Affect the Environment
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2016 edition of Explorations. At the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, faculty research often focuses on science’s most pressing questions. But in the Department of Human Ecology, these questions are further complicated and enhanced by an additional component: the human element. How do human populations […]
A new report finds much of New Jersey is drought-free
Tony Broccoli – Department of Environmental Sciences
Atlantic City and Miami Beach: two takes on tackling the rising waters
Ben Horton – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences