By Carol Peters, EOAS Communications A wildlife and conservation management expert for Rutgers Cooperative Extension, EOAS faculty member and Associate Professor Brooke Maslo works with local NJ municipalities to help them manage and restore properties in FEMA-established flood-prone areas purchased through the DEP Blue Acres program. Imagine the plight of families in New Jersey who […]
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Experts tout success of transforming suburban New Jersey neighborhood back to natural state for flood resiliency initiative
Brooke Maslo – Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Delma Yorimoto is New FCHS Senior Program Coordinator in Hudson County
Announcement by Sara Elnakib, chair of the Department of Family and Community Health Sciences. I am delighted to welcome Delma Yorimoto to SEBS/NJAES-RCE as our new Family and Community Health Sciences Senior Program Coordinator in Hudson County. Delma will lead our produce prescription, nutrition security and food policy efforts in Hudson County in this role. She will […]
Plant of the Month: Itea – A ‘Late Bloomer’ Most Worthy of Rediscovery
by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission It is rare for a low maintenance shrub, capable of providing the garden with close to four seasons of interest to be an uncommon plant in the home landscape. Oddly, this has been the fate of Virginia Sweetspire. It was not included in my Woody […]
How Rutgers Is Forging the Next Generation of Climate Change Problem Solvers
Training program created in wake of Superstorm Sandy brings graduate students from varied disciplines together to solve real-world climate problems As a child, Dan Blanco watched low-income neighborhoods in his native Chicago flood during storms while the more affluent enclaves did not. Now, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences at Rutgers so […]
Education, appreciation, beginner farmers find home at Rutgers’ Cream Ridge Farm
William Hlubik, Bill Errickson, Brendon Pearsall, Linnea Eberly, Alex Sawatzky – Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Lauren Erriskcon – Rutgers Gardens
Spice Containers Pose Contamination Risk During Food Preparation
A government-funded study on the potential for cross-contaminating kitchen surfaces with pathogens during food preparation has pointed to an unlikely culprit for spreading sickness: spice containers Detailing findings in the Journal of Food Protection, Donald Schaffner, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food Science at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences who co-authored the study in collaboration with […]
Morris County 4-H “ResistoJets” Rocketry Club Accepted into the NASA 2023 Student Launch Initiative
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 […]
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
