New Jersey’s tidal marshes aren’t keeping up with sea level rise and may disappear completely by the next century, according to a study led by Rutgers researchers. [Includes Elizabeth Ravit of Rutgers’ Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability] The findings, which include potential solutions for preserving the marshlands, appear in the journal Anthropocene Coasts. The […]
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Rutgers Awarded $305,000 Grant to Support Water Quality Protection and Improvements in the Delaware River Basin
Daniel Van Abs, professor, and Karen O’Neill, associate professor, Department of Human Ecology, are co-PIs on a new grant of $305,000 from the William Penn Foundation of Philadelphia. The grant funds the second phase of a project to identify all government expenditures for the purposes of water quality protection and improvements in the Delaware River […]
To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One
Max McCarthy; Rachael Winfree – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
New Jersey Climate Change Alliance Announces Statewide Organic Material Management Plan
The New Jersey Climate Change Alliance, which is facilitated by the Rutgers Climate Institute and Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, announces the availability of a “Sustainable Organic Material Management Plan,” which coincides with the effective date of the New Jersey Food Waste Recycling Law or disposal ban legislation. October […]
Climate Change from Nuclear War’s Smoke Could Threaten Global Food Supplies, Human Health
Nuclear war would cause many immediate fatalities, but smoke from the resulting fires would also cause climate change lasting up to 15 years that threatens worldwide food production and human health, according to a study by researchers at Rutgers University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other institutions. The study appears in the Journal […]
Rutgers study confirms “cell-based” and “cell-cultured” work best
Food companies, regulators, marketers, journalists and others should use the terms “cell-based” or “cell-cultured” when labeling and talking about seafood products made from the cells of fish or shellfish, according to a new Rutgers study in the Journal of Food Science. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture require food products […]
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Awards $220,000 Grant to Rutgers to Implement Green Stormwater Improvements in Upper Salem River Watershed
Climate change is a pressing 21st century issue when it comes to flooding and amplification of water quality degradation due to increase in extreme precipitation events. Delaware River is the one of the longest rivers in the east of Mississippi, which starts from Hancock of New York, passes through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and finally […]
Rutgers Awarded $20M NSF Grant to Lead Regional Large-Scale Coastlines and People Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub
The new hub will help improve the understanding and governance of co-evolving hazard developments and coastal processes Advancing its mission and leadership role to improve climate risk management critical to societal well-being, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will lead a multi-university Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) made possible by a grant through the National Science […]
Rutgers Leads Effort to Tackle Coastal Climate Crisis Through $20M NSF Grant
Universities join together to provide the research to work towards more resilient, sustainable coastlines Rutgers will take the lead – with a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation – to develop a plan with universities throughout the country to protect coastal areas increasingly threatened by extreme weather caused by climate change. The university […]
Hurricane Science: Using Ocean Gliders to Improve Hurricane Intensity Forecasts
The year of the pandemic has been challenging for everyone. When the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences‘ COOLroom was formed, one goal was to develop an automated system that minimized the amount of time humans need to be at sea to collect ocean data and use it to educate our future generations. Given social […]
