George Hamilton – Dept. of Entomology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
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Spotted lanternfly infesting NJ again
Ann Nielsen – Department of Entomology
Claudia Gil Arroyo Joins Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of RCE as County Agent III in Cape May
Dear colleagues, Please join me in welcoming Dr. Claudia Gil Arroyo as she has joined us here in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of Rutgers Cooperative Extension as the County Agent III in Cape May County, effective last Friday July 1, 2022. Claudia joins us from NC State, where she just completed her PhD […]
Offshore wind farms expected to reduce clam fishery revenue, study finds
Daphne Munroe – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences; Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory.
Plant of the Month: Bugbane—A Plant of Great Depth
by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission Bugbane is in the Buttercup Family or Ranunculaceae and has 12–18 species found throughout temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Actaea racemosa is native from southern Ontario to Georgia and west to Missouri and Arkansas, where it is typically found in woodlands and shaded rocky slopes.
New Rutgers D’Light Strawberry
Peter Nitzsche, William Hlubik – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Richard Alomar Elected to Prestigious American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows
Associate professor Richard Alomar, who serves as chair and graduate program director in the Department of Landscape Architecture, has been elected by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as one of its 2022 ASLA Fellows. Alomar, who directs the Rutgers Office of Urban Extension and Engagement, is also a core faculty member on the […]
National Urban Extension Conference hosted by Rutgers
Jennifer Shukaitis – FCHS; Angela Johnsen – Rutgers Urban Extension and Engagement
2022 National Urban Extension Conference Hosted by Rutgers Offered Opportunity to Inspire and Reconnect
The National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL) presented the 2022 National Urban Extension Conference in Camden, NJ, on May 23 -26. The conference, hosted by Rutgers Cooperative Extension and held at the Rutgers Camden Campus Center, attracted 300 participants from over 85 universities, local, state, and federal agencies as well as community groups from New Jersey, […]
Rutgers Launches Citizen-Led Project to Combat Tick-Borne Diseases
The Center for Vector Biology (CVB), part of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, launched New Jersey Ticks 4 Science!, a citizen-led science project supported by the state that asks New Jerseyans to submit tick specimens they find to help track tick populations and help prevent tick-borne illness. “The purpose of the effort […]
