It’s currently winter in Antarctica, but that doesn’t mean the polar region is exempt from the extreme temperatures that are scorching the world. While normally the ocean around Antarctica freezes in the winter, growing sea ice that is essential to the marine food web, this year that ice isn’t growing as usual. “What we’re seeing […]
Using Evidence From Last Ice Age, Scientists Predict Effects of Rising Seas on Coastal Habitats
Extent of future warming will dictate impacts, according to research involving a Rutgers scientist The rapid sea level rise and resulting retreat of coastal habitat seen at the end of the last Ice Age could repeat itself if global average temperatures rise beyond certain levels, according to an analysis by an international team of scientists […]
Plant of the Month: Buttonbush – A Plant in Need of Respect
By Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission To borrow and slightly adjust a phrase from Mr. Rodney Dangerfield’s comedic repertoire: “Some plants get no respect”! The irony for these belittled or overlooked plants is how many are easily grown, even under challenging conditions and how many are native! Part of the problem […]
How a “Marine Heatwave” Is Creating a More Chaotic Hurricane Season
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatogist
Middlesex County’s Garden Arts and Music Festival – A Celebration of Master Gardeners and Turning the County Green
Rutgers Master Gardeners
Scientists and Researchers Explore Immersive Science Learning for Rutgers Undergraduates
Researchers at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) have been exploring innovative ways to engage undergraduates in research and science learning. SEBS has undertaken a series of pilot projects that offer high school and undergraduate students ways to engage with STEM subjects in partnership with university scientists. “As researchers and educators, we are interested […]
Experts say technology capable of creating hurricanes doesn’t yet exist | Fact check
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Scientists and Researchers Explore Immersive Science Learning for Rutgers Undergraduates
Xenia Morin – Dept. of Plant Biology; Dena Seidel – Depts. of Plant Biology and Marine and Coastal Sciences.
Summer weather takes bites from school calendars
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
New Faces on Campus: Naydeline Navarrete (SEBS’27) Sets Her Sights on a Career Teaching Agriculture
Naydeline Navarrete – SEBS