Rutgers University Master Gardener
Weather Nerds of New Jersey
Joe Martucci – SEBS Department of Environmental Science
Weather Nerds of New Jersey
David Robinson – New Jersey State Meteorologist
The Nuclear-Winter Debate
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
An Ancient Flower Trapped in Amber
The flowers of Strychnos electri are slim and small and trumpet-shaped. Their petals flare out at the tip to form a star, out of which a single spindly pollen tube protrudes. They look as if they might have fallen from the stalk yesterday, but they are…
Frog Phone
The ecologist Jeremy Feinberg, who discovered a new species of frog on Staten Island recently, counts himself among New York’s “quirk celebrities.” Friends call to tell him about shout-outs on “The Daily Show” or “The Leonard Lopate Show,” but he knows who’s really being feted. “It’s never about me,” he said. “It’s all about the frog,” the second new species found in North America since 1986. Feinberg is an oddball species himself: an urban ecologist. For three years, he worked as a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Long Island, where he grew up. Now he is finishing a Ph.D. at Rutgers, and lives in Brooklyn.
