By Amy Rowe, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent, Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension Reprinted from Green Knight newsletter, August 2017 Rutgers University was recently awarded a one-year planning grant to determine the feasibility of a Climate Master Volunteer program. The study will be undertaken to analyze the need for this type of volunteer education program and […]
Graduate Student’s Novel Research Secures Multiple Grants and ESA Presentation Award
Rafael Valentin, enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies’ Ecology & Evolution graduate program, has been awarded two graduate student research grants for his novel research utilizing environmental DNA (eDNA) in terrestrial systems. Valentin, who is affiliated with both the Lockwood and Fonseca labs in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources (DEENR), received […]
Farming the Ocean
“Jersey Fresh” doesn’t end at the water’s edge here in the Garden State If New Jersey’s 720,000 acres of farmland are enough to classify it as the Garden State, what do we make of its 120 miles of coastline, 420 miles of open estuary and bay waters, and 661,000 acres of freshwater wetlands? Thanks to […]
Rutgers Hosts 13th International Turfgrass Research Conference, Attracting Attendees from 24 Countries
Excerpted from International Turfgrass, The Newsletter of the International Turfgrass Society (ITS), September 2017. By Bruce Clarke, Director, Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science and ITS Immediate Past-President The 13th International Turfgrass Research Conference (ITRC) was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ from July 16-21, the first time since 1993 that the […]
The Doppler Effect: How StormTracker 4 Benefits Students, Researchers and the Tri-State Area
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in the Spring 2017 edition of Explorations, the magazine for alumni and friends of the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Since then, the NBC Storm Team visited Cook Campus, the home of the Doppler radar, and interacted with student meteorologists. The next time you visit the George […]
Kathleen John-Alder and Team Selected for the 2017 Professional Award of Excellence by the ASLA
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has given their 2017 Professional Award of Excellence in Research to a multi-national team of researchers, including team leaders Kathleen John-Alder, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Janike Kampevold Larsen from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial […]
Rutgers Scientists Explain Hurricane Sandy’s Odd Behavior
Four days before Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, scientists from the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences launched a data-collecting, submersible robot glider in front of the massive storm. The robot glider they used was one of a fleet that the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RU COOL) is deploying in […]
PARK(ing) Day: Bringing ‘Open Space’ to a Parking Spot Near You
On September 15, the Rutgers Landscape Architecture Club hosted its annual PARK(ing) Day event on Seminary Place at Rutgers College Ave Campus. By 7:30am, two parallel parking spaces had been transformed into a green space filled with a mixture of lush, woody and herbaceous plants. Wooden pallets were repurposed into benches and walls were placed […]
Siobain Duffy Awarded Virology Society’s Junior Investigator Prize
DEENR associate professor Siobain Duffy and Duke assistant professor Stacey Horner were jointly awarded the Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award at the 37th annual meeting of the American Society for Virology in Madison, Wisconsin on June 2017. These awards recognize investigators within 10 years of their PhD who have made significant contributions to the field […]
In Memoriam: Stephen A. Decter, Senior Associate Director of the Ecopolicy Center (Retired 1999)
Stephen A. Decter died on September 5, 2017, in Capital Health Regional Medical Center after suffering a sudden hemorrhagic stroke. Born in Newark, NJ, on June 21, 1937, the son of Rose Jacobson Decter and Harry Decter, he was pleased to have reached the age of 80 years. Steve was a loyal lifetime resident of […]
