Jean Epiphan – Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability
Faculty
18.2 – NUMBER OF THE DAY, Sea-level rise (in inches) in Atlantic City since 1911
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
The hunted: A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?
Alvaro Toledo – Department of Entomology
Prof. Pamela McElwee Co-authors Study Offering New Solutions for Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology, is co-author of a new study, “Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts,” published in the journal, Science. She is among 18 international experts who contributed to the study. “This paper emphasizes that biodiversity loss and climate change are essentially two sides […]
Rutgers EcoComplex Improves Campus Sustainability with Earth Flow™ Automatic Composting System
The program at Rutgers will be a model for other universities to follow Rutgers EcoComplex today announced the commissioning of a new automated in-vessel composting system for the university’s Cook Campus in New Brunswick, the campus home of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. The Earth Flow™ […]
Another bug to worry about! NJ faces serious threat from microscopic worm
Jean Epiphan – Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability
Nature Favors all Creatures Great and Small Over Medium
Rutgers researchers conduct survey on the body sizes of Earth’s organisms Life may come in all shapes and sizes, but in nature the most extreme size ranges predominate, according to Rutgers researchers. A survey of body sizes of Earth organisms, published in the science journal PLoS ONE, shows that the planet’s biomass – the material that makes […]
Rutgers Undergraduates Present Original Science-in-Action Stories at National Conference
Five Rutgers undergraduates doing independent research in immersive learning through science storytelling presented rough edits of their science-in-action films at the Planet Forward environmental storytelling summit in Washington DC on April 20. Working in teams, the undergraduates presented two student-authored science stories that they have developed in trusting partnership with scientists from Rutgers School of […]
Should You Worry About the Condensation on Your Tupperware Container Lids?
Donald Schaffner – Department of Food Science
Environmental Policies Must Manage Climate Change and Biodiversity as One
Pamela McElwee – Department of Human Ecology
