Marine cloud systems are a critical component of the Earth’s climate system because they reflect incoming sunlight that would otherwise heat the ocean below. Solid overcast over northern latitude ocean regions yields to partly cloudy skies in the tropics, while the mid-latitudes serve as a transition between these two marine cloud regimes. While there is a […]
Distinguished Professor Max Häggblom Leads $1.5 Million NSF Study on Microbiomes of Polar and Alpine Soils
Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Max Häggblom, is principal investigator of a collaborative, multinational project, “Dimensions US-China-South Africa: Establishing genetic, phylogenetic and functional mechanisms that shape the diversity of polar and alpine soil microbiomes,” funded by the National Science Foundation. Rutgers co-principal investigators are Lee Kerkhof, professor in the Department […]
U.S. Department of Education Awards $500,000 to Rutgers to Support Students Pursuing Advanced Education in Environmental Sciences
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) was awarded $500,000 in Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) funding by the U.S. Department of Education to support students pursuing a doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences. The GAANN program provides grants to academic departments and programs of institutions of higher education in the U.S. to […]
Engineering, Data Science and Mathematical Models to Optimize Wind Energy Farms
The wind energy industry could soon count on a much-needed precise analysis to achieve an optimal balance for wind farm productivity and profitability, thanks to a team of researchers working with digitization, predictive and prescriptive analytics to bring down its operational costs. Rutgers researchers led by Principal Investigator Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, assistant professor of Industrial […]
Rutgers receives NOAA funds to collect unique ocean, coastal data
Oscar Schofield, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Michael Crowley, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Nutritional Sciences Professor Tracy Anthony Awarded $2,686,804 NIH Grant in Quest to Improve Healthspan
Since she arrived at Rutgers in 2012, fresh from directing an independent research program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Tracy Anthony, professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, has focused on exploring how protein nutrition and exercise can be used to reduce disease and increase healthspan. To continue these efforts, she was recently […]
Rutgers Among Four Institutions Awarded National Grant to Combat White-nose Syndrome in Bats
Principal investigator Brooke Maslo, associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was awarded $268,081 to field-test a promising method of treating environmental reservoirs of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome in bats. The Rutgers grant is part of a total of $770,000 in grants awarded by the National Fish and […]
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 […]
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 […]