Some Jersey Shore towns urged residents to leave low-lying areas Tuesday as they readied for some possibly major coastal flooding today and Thursday from a powerful nor’easter…David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers Universit…
Watchdog: Some seek buyouts of flooded properties
Floodwaters flowed into Fran O’Connor’s low-lying Sayreville home three times in the past three years, with devastating results. The first two storms – a March 2010 nor’easter and Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011 – brought about 4 to 5 feet of water…
School districts ban birthday treats
Let them eat cake? Not at some Shore area schools, where sweets or all foods are banned from classroom birthday celebrations…Experts say schools can compromise by ordering treats from the food service provider or buying commercial baked goods with in…
Rutgers team heads to Antarctica
In 11 trips to Antarctica over the years, Rutgers University Professor Oscar Schofield has witnessed changes in what he calls "the fastest-warming place on Earth" – fewer penguins, changing glaciers, new mosses and plants. Then two months…
Robot’s Sandy voyage may aid forecasts
While many at the Jersey Shore were putting gasoline in their cars and tying down patio furniture the weekend before superstorm Sandy, Rutgers University graduate students Greg Seroka and Travis Miles tracked their robot swimming around in the storm’s …
Barnegat Bay’s fate unclear
Children’s toys and pieces of furniture are strewn across marshland thousands of feet from the closest body of water. Broken lumber and lost shoes float along channels more familiar to recreational boaters…There was a short-term risk of bacteria and …
New building codes on hold until flood maps released
Superstorm Sandy could transform life on the Jersey Shore beyond the mass destruction caused by its storm swells…Though homeowners are hurrying to rebuild and resume life as it was before the storm, Michael Kennish, a research professor of estuary an…
What kind of weather’s on the horizon? Flip a coin
Meteorologists say storm-weary New Jerseyans will receive a break from the madness the rest of this week, but beyond that? The crystal ball becomes increasingly foggy. The National Weather Service predicts equal chances of having above normal, below no…
Rutgers researchers analyze ocean data from storm
Travis Miles spent most of Monday on a boat, sailing past the devastation on the Jersey Shore in a quest to retrieve something that he and others hope will help warn people about the power of future storms. Miles, a PhD candidate in oceanography at Rut…
Rutgers researchers analyze ocean data from storm
Travis Miles spent most of Monday on a boat, sailing past the devastation on the Jersey Shore in a quest to retrieve something that he and others hope will help warn people about the power of future storms. Miles, a PhD candidate in oceanography at Rut…
