The “ResistoJets” is one of 18 winning proposals for the High School/Middle School national division. The American Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is an annual competition – one of NASA’s Artemis Student Challenges – which requires middle/high school and college/university students to design, build, and fly a high-powered amateur rocket and scientific payload. Each year, NASA updates […]
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What happens when a neighborhood disappears? A look inside Woodbridge’s post-Sandy transformation
Brooke Maslo – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Sandy’s legacy: NJ faces imminent peril in flood plains | Editorial
Christopher C. Obropta – Department of Environmental Sciences; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers NJAES research puts autumn leaves to good use
Joseph Heckman – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers NJAES Research Puts Autumn Leaves to Good Use
By Joseph Heckman, extension specialist in the Department of Plant Biology. Autumn leaves brighten and beautify our communities before falling in abundance as fall advances. About 300,000 tons of shade tree leaves are collected by municipalities across New Jersey every fall season. In 1988, the state of New Jersey banned the dumping of shade tree […]
NJ stink bug home invasion is now underway
George Hamilton – Dept. of Entomology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Living Shoreline Combats Coastal Erosion Caused by Sea Level Rise
Rutgers Scientists and high school volunteers from Camden are using nature to mitigate the effects of coastal erosion in Southern New Jersey. Together they built a living shoreline near the New Jersey Aquaculture Innovation Center in Cape May that uses marsh grasses and recycled oyster and clam shells. The shells, incorporated into modified concrete blocks called Oyster […]
JC NERR Plays a Key Role in New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Consortium
Task One: Complete Last December, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR,) along with multiple other NJ partners and institutions, were awarded a grant to fund the implementation of the newly-established New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Consortium. In addition to the JC NERR, partners include Monmouth University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stockton University, […]
Amid rising seas, Atlantic City has no plans for retreat
Robert Kopp – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
How to Spot Early Signs of Bedbugs and Prevent an Infestation, According to Pest Experts
Changlu Wang – Department of Entomology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
