Sherrie Peterson – 4-H; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Archives for 2020
Research Gliders Launched to Measure Interactions Between the Ocean and Powerful Storms
With the 2020 hurricane season officially underway, the Urban Coast Institute (UCI) partnered with a team of federal agencies and research institutions, including Rutgers University, to deploy a pair of Navy research gliders that will shed new light on the interactions between the ocean and powerful storms that pass through the New York Bight. The […]
Take Time to Celebrate Earth Day Every Day in Union County
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Overcoming COVID meal fatigue
Sarah Curran – FCHS, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Research gliders measure interactions between ocean, powerful Storms
Scott Glenn – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
James Simon – A Breakthrough in the War Against Basil Downy Mildew
Sweet basil is among the most popular and economically important culinary herbs, but by 2010, US production began to feel the impact of a newly emerging destructive disease: basil downy mildew. At that time, no sweet basil varieties were resistant to basil downy mildew and growers began relying heavily on fungicide application to avoid devastating […]
Summer of 2020 was third-hottest on record in Philly as warm-night trend continues
David A. Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
National Moth Week continues to spread its wing
Liti Haramaty – SEBS
James Simon – breakthrough in the war against basil downy mildew
James Simon – Department of Plant Biology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
National Moth Week Continues to Spread its Wings: 2020 Event Drew Record Numbers
Despite worldwide restrictions and lockdowns preventing participation in many summertime activities, the ninth annual National Moth Week – held in July 2020 – broke several records and attracted hundreds of new “moth-ers.” With mothing one of the safest, most enriching activities that families and individuals could do in their own backyards during the pandemic, National […]
