By Edwin W. Gano (SEBS’18) and Giovanni A. Caputo (SEBS’20), Department of Landscape Architecture Rutgers Gardens has been an integral and indispensable resource for Rutgers University — especially for the Cook and Douglass campuses who are closely associated with the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Efforts have been made to make the Gardens more […]
ASLO honors Oscar Schofield with the 2019 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
Oscar Schofield, chair and distinguished professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, was honored with the 2019 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the Association for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). The award honors a limnologist or oceanographer who has made considerable contributions to knowledge, and whose future work promises a continued legacy of scientific […]
The Connection Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Rutgers visiting scientist Jennifer Francis was the first to identify the consequences of shrinking Arctic sea ice If the world of climate science did not know about Jennifer A. Francis before March 29, 2012, it certainly knew about her afterward. On that day, the New York Times published a front-page story under the headline “Weather […]
Climate Change Shrinks Many Fisheries Globally, Rutgers-Led Study Finds
Researchers find losses as high as 35 percent in some regions Climate change has taken a toll on many of the world’s fisheries, and overfishing has magnified the problem, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Science today. Ocean warming led to an estimated 4.1 percent drop in sustainable catches, on average, for many […]
Lockwood Lab Says Protecting Small Forests Fails to Protect Bird Biodiversity
Forests need better management to maintain ecological integrity, Rutgers-led study says. Simply protecting small forests will not maintain the diversity of the birds they support over the long run, a Rutgers-led study says. Forests need to be carefully monitored and managed to maintain their ecological integrity. A major focus in conservation is acquiring forests – […]
Rutgers’ List of Campus Plants, Animals, Other Species May be First in World
More than 1,600 species spotted by Professor Lena Struwe and her team. American kestrel. Chinese mantis. Candleflame lichen. The highly diverse list of species spotted at Rutgers University may be unique globally. Indeed, more than 1,600 kinds of animals, insects, plants and other life forms have been reported so far at 24 Rutgers campuses and […]
Somerset County 4-H Club Donates Pork to Area Food Banks
In 2017, Susie Norz, of Hillsborough, NJ, decided to help area residents who might not have access to enough protein sources. Since then, members of the Branchburg Beef, Dairy and Livestock Club, part of Somerset County 4-H Youth Development Program, have raised extra hogs to donate pork to area food banks. Club members raised the […]
Rutgers Scientists Discover Genes that Help Harmful Bacteria Thwart Treatment
Two genes may make staph infections resistant to copper, a powerful antibacterial agent. A Rutgers-led team has discovered two genes that make some strains of harmful Staphyloccocus bacteria resistant to treatment by copper, a potent and frequently used antibacterial agent. The discovery shows that Staphyloccocus aureus can acquire additional genes that promote infections and antibacterial […]
A New Community in an Old Forest: Loss of Songbirds Leads to Community Shift in an Old Growth Forest
It all started with a happy accident. When cleaning out a basement lab at Hutcheson Memorial Forest (HMF), the Lockwood Lab discovered several boxes of old bird banding records. These records provided an in depth look at what birds were present in the forest during the 1960s and 1970s. With this information in hand, the […]
The earth is warming. David Robinson’s data on snow helped prove it.
David Robinson was obsessed by snow as a child and that has never changed. For the past 27 years, Robinson, a professor in the geography department at Rutgers University, has served as the New Jersey state climatologist. This makes him the longest-serving state climatologist among the 39 states with such a title. The position gives […]
