Announcement from Rachel Lyons, chair of the Department of 4-H Youth Development. Please welcome Melissa Bright to her new role as County 4-H Agent in Somerset County, effective May 1, 2023. Melissa has served as a site director for the YMCA of Hunterdon and Bucks Counties leading a school age childcare program since 2018. For […]
Archives for 2023
Plant of the Month: Antiquity in Our Midst
by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission Plant blindness is a term J. H. Wandersee and E. E. Schussler coined in 1999, defining how people do not recognize the importance of plants due to their lack of mobility and motion. I suspect this issue would be even more problematic if the plant […]
Senior Story: Salvatore Fricano (SEBS’23) Studies the Ocean’s Impact on the World
Salvatore Fricano is helping plan for the first worldwide navigation of a new underwater ocean glider Salvatore Fricano grew up spending summers on the Jersey Shore, where the vastness of the ocean captivated his imagination. “I just saw the horizon with nothing on it and it looked like an adventure waiting to happen,” he says. […]
BPU approves agreement with Rutgers for dual-use solar pilot program
Margaret Brennan – Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program, NJAES
The hunted: A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?
Alvaro Toledo – Department of Entomology
Rutgers EcoComplex Improves Campus Sustainability
Serpil Guran – EcComplex
Fact check: No, the media did not ‘admit’ governments are utilizing geoengineering technologies
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Science
Prof. Pamela McElwee Co-authors Study Offering New Solutions for Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology, is co-author of a new study, “Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts,” published in the journal, Science. She is among 18 international experts who contributed to the study. “This paper emphasizes that biodiversity loss and climate change are essentially two sides […]
Rutgers EcoComplex Improves Campus Sustainability with Earth Flow™ Automatic Composting System
The program at Rutgers will be a model for other universities to follow Rutgers EcoComplex today announced the commissioning of a new automated in-vessel composting system for the university’s Cook Campus in New Brunswick, the campus home of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. The Earth Flow™ […]
Another bug to worry about! NJ faces serious threat from microscopic worm
Jean Epiphan – Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability
