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 […]
Research
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 […]
See Gentle Giants up-close with Jersey Shore Whale Watching
Danielle Brown – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
NJAES Office of Research Analytics and the Bloustein Local Government Research Center Develop NJ Property Ownership Database
Lucas Marxen, associate director of the NJAES Office of Research Analytics, and Marc Pfeiffer, Bloustein Local Government Research Center, worked together to develop the NJ MOD IV Historical Database an online, searchable database of New Jersey MOD IV parcel information data sets from 1989 to 2022. Providing land parcel and property ownership data, the MOD […]
‘Fields of Devotion’ Wins Best Short Documentary at Garden State Film Festival
James Simon, Xenia Morin, Lara Brindisi – Dept. of Plant Biology; Micah Seidel – SEBS
Rising Waters on Our Coasts and What It Means for Public Access?
New Jersey law ensures the public’s right to access coastal shorelines and waters. To help people know where to access tidal waterways and get information about the amenities at each location, the state has an online map that shows over 3,900 public access points. However, the impacts of climate change are likely to affect public […]
In Bid to Make Child Cancer Treatments Safer, Scientists Find Possible Warning Signs of Severe Reaction
Rutgers researchers show importance of low vitamin A levels as harbinger of adverse event Scientists seeking a way to eliminate an adverse reaction to treatments for acute lymphocytic leukemia, a common childhood cancer, have found what they believe to be an early warning indicator. Mouse studies conducted by Rutgers researchers as part of a larger […]
Rutgers Scientists Identify Substance That May Have Sparked Life on Earth
Research could provide clues to extraterrestrial life A team of Rutgers scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism – a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth – has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life. The […]
SEBS Professors Study the Microbiology of Arsenic-Contaminated Agricultural Soils in the Mekong River and Red River Deltas
Distinguished Professor Max Häggblom, chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and professor John Reinfelder, Department of Environmental Sciences, visited Vietnam to initiate collaborative research on microbial arsenic metabolism in rice paddy soils with investigators at Can Tho University, College of Agriculture and Hanoi University of Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology and Food […]
Scientists think Nickelback helped kickstart life on Earth
Paul Falkowski and Jennifer Timm — Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
