David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist at Rutgers University
Faculty
Debashish Bhattacharya Produces Award-Winning Video Based on his NSF-funded Coral Genomics Research
Distinguished Professor Debashish Bhattacharya‘s four-year collaborative research project on the coral heat stress phenome is sponsored by the National Science Foundation with a $509,125 grant. His project will use genomics, genetics, and cell biology to identify and understand the corals’ response to heat stress conditions and to pinpoint master regulatory genes involved in coral bleaching due to […]
Deer ticks, other species out for blood in New Jersey
Dina Fonseca – Center for Vector Biology, Dept. of Entomology
Study: Only Rapid Action Can Avert Worst Marine Extinction in 250 Million Years
Malin Pinsky – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Peter Guarnaccia Honored with Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award by Rutgers
Peter Guarnaccia, professor in the Department of Human Ecology, was recognized with the Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award by the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (CACP). “I am thrilled to receive the Clement A. Price Human Dignity Award. I am very honored to be recognized for my more than thirty years of work on diversity, […]
Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds
Malin Pinsky – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Mass extinction in oceans can be avoided by curbing fossil fuels
Malin PInsky – Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
SEBS Faculty Harini Sampath and Kay Bidle Receive Universitywide Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the SEBS faculty who were recognized with 2021-22 Universitywide Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards announced April 26 by Rutgers Executive Vice President Prabhas Moghe and Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway. Harini Sampath, associate professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, was awarded The Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. This award recognizes the […]
Senior Story: Nolan Fehon (SEBS’22), Leaving a Legacy of Climate Activism
Throughout his time as a student at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), Nolan Fehon has made sustainability, climate change and environmental activism his passion and mission. Fehon has been a member of Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) for four years, serving as secretary for one year and as president for the past […]
New Jersey’s Temperatures Rise by 4 Degrees Fahrenheit, Twice the Global Average Since 1900
Heavy rainfall, flooding, increasing heat waves and heat-related illness are likely to become more common in New Jersey by 2100, according to a report by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist and the University of Delaware. State of the Climate: New Jersey 2021 is an annual overview for state […]
