Shawn Arent – New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health; Center for Health and Human Performance
Tick Discovery Highlights How Few Answers We Have about These Bugs in the U.S.
Tadhgh Rainey, alum
Andrea Egizi, Center for Vector Biology
New England Is Sitting on a Bed of Hot Rocks
Vadim Levin – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
The Arctic Is Breaking Climate Records, Altering Weather Worldwide
Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
The Injustice of Atlantic City’s Floods
Benjamin Horton – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
You Could Eat Off the Floor, It Was So Resistant to Bacterial Transfer
Rutgers University
Medical Labs May Be Killing Horseshoe Crabs
Drawing the crabs’ blue blood for vital medical testing can condemn the animals to die, even after they are returned to the sea… “There’s not very good science-based information on the mortality of the crabs. I’ve seen figures range from 15 percent to 40 percent but nobody has a really good handle on that,” says Michael De Luca, senior associate director at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University.
Antarctica Meltdown Could Double Sea Level Rise
A melting Antarctica alone could raise oceans by more than 3 feet by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions continued unabated, roughly doubling previous total sea-level rise estimates, according to new research… “We’ve been waiting for this paper. It has societal implications right off the bat,” said Ben Horton, a sea-level rise researcher at Rutgers University. He advises Delaware on sea-level rise, he said, and suggested to colleagues that they wait on a policy proposal to include projections from the new models.
Arctic Sea Ice Dwindles to New Record Winter Low
Every winter, the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice cover reaches a peak and then declines with the onset of spring. That peak, recorded this year on Thursday, was the lowest seen in 37 years of record keeping, federal scientists said yesterday… El Niño,…
Hurricane Intensity Forecasts Will Improve
Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane’s strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communitie…
