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Natural disasters cause significant damage each year to our urban forests, with the resulting assessment and cleanup responsibilities a challenge for many communities. For instance, New Jersey is in the top 10 states in terms of urban tree volume, which equates to more risk for residents in the face of powerful storms like Hurricane Sandy. […]
Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
Study Shows Native, Non-Honey Bees Contribute Significantly to Crop Pollination
Research is helping to develop protocols for pollinator conservation and restoration. The lab of Rachael Winfree, associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, focuses its research on bees and pollination, including the pollination of crops, and in communicating those scientific results to the agricultural community. Her lab has focused its outreach […]
Balancing Passions, a Rutgers-trained Scientist Heads for the Future
Acquiring new knowledge and sharing it with high school students have marked Talia Young’s journey Talia Young (GSNB’16), a newly minted Rutgers Ph.D. in ecology, studies fish and their relationship to the people and communities that depend on them. She’s also passionate about acquiring new knowledge and sharing it with young people, which is what […]
New Jersey is Home to the Oldest White Oak Tree in the Country—But Probably Not for Long
The tree was there before Columbus sailed to the New World. George Washington’s troops drilled within view of this ancient oak. Countless people have sought its shade, including 35 veterans of the war that gave us our independence. It’s been there so long that everyone expected it would stand next to the colonial church from […]
Professors Bhattacharya and Falkowski Lead International Team in Analysis of Coral Genes
An international team has conducted a comprehensive analysis of coral genes, focusing on how their evolution has allowed corals to interact with and adapt to the environment. Professors Debashish Bhattacharya and Paul Falkowski led a coral gene database study that was published in the journal eLife. The study stems from an international coral genomics symposium […]
Marine Ecologist Malin Pinsky Pens Op-Ed to Mark Earth Day
To mark Earth Day on April 22, Malin Pinsky, marine ecologist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources and an affiliate of the Rutgers Climate Institute, penned an op-ed for Dow Jones & Company website, MarketWatch. He writes, “If we continue on our current path of carbon emissions, we can expect ocean warming […]
Do Pathogens Hold The Key to Understanding the Origin of Eukaryotes?
A new paper in Science, co-authored by evolutionary biologist Debashish Bhattacharya, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, helps to answer the question. A major turning point in the history of life on Earth occurred about two billion years ago – the evolution of complex cells, the so-called eukaryotes. This was the foundational lineage that […]
Prof. Richard Lathrop Named First Johnson Family Chair in Water Resources and Watershed Ecology
Richard Lathrop, professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources was appointed by the Rutgers Board of Governors as the inaugural holder of the new Johnson Family Chair in Water Resources and Watershed Ecology. In his role as Chair, Lathrop will lead an interdisciplinary program to study how human activities in upland watersheds […]
Rutgers Scientists Awarded More Than $300,000 For Bat Disease Research By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Three Rutgers researchers, assistant professor and extension specialist in wildlife ecology Brooke Maslo, molecular ecologist and assistant professor Malin Pinsky, and epidemiologist and associate professor Nina Fefferman at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, received funding of more than $300,000 dollars from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to investigate strategies to fight White-nose […]
Rutgers-bred Dogwood Hybrids Formally Named After Legendary Breeder Elwin Orton and Rutgers University
Finally, two hybrid species of flowering dogwood developed by renowned Rutgers breeder Elwin Orton have been formally named after him and Rutgers University, which supported his prolific breeding career that spanned almost 50 years. The two Rutgers dogwood hybrids, Cornus × elwinortonii and Cornus × rutgersensis, were developed by Orton decades ago and have finally been […]
