As a recent faculty hire in the Department of Environmental Sciences, assistant professor Katherine Dawson’s research primarily focuses on the interactions between organisms and their environment, as well as understanding the molecular and chemical imprints microbes leave behind in the geologic record. Dawson is an environmental microbiologist who works at the interface of geomicrobiology and […]
Environmental Sciences
Fast Track, Young Alumni on the Move: Megan Linkin (CC’04)
Explorations, the bi-annual magazine of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, features profiles of recent graduates who have launched successful careers and may well be on their way to making headlines for their work. The editors posed a series of questions about how their Rutgers experience influenced their lives. Here is one such profile […]
Rutgers Raritan River Consortium Funds Work in the Raritan River, Basin And Bay
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) has awarded a combination of eleven mini-grants and internships to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues. This is the 2nd year of the program to support work by Rutgers affiliates in the Raritan Region. Projects and recipients include: […]
Study Co-Authored by Distinguished Prof. Alan Robock Says Large Volcanic Eruptions in Tropics Can Trigger El Niño Events
According to a study published online in Nature Communications and co-authored by Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events with dramatic global impacts on climate. Damage from volcanic ash at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines after the June 15, 1991, eruption of […]
The Doppler Effect: How StormTracker 4 Benefits Students, Researchers and the Tri-State Area
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in the Spring 2017 edition of Explorations, the magazine for alumni and friends of the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Since then, the NBC Storm Team visited Cook Campus, the home of the Doppler radar, and interacted with student meteorologists. The next time you visit the George […]
Prof. Reinfelder and Colleagues Discover Deep-Rooted Plants Have the Advantage When it Comes to Adaptibility
Charles Darwin once wrote that the tips of plant roots are like the brains of plants, searching for nutrient-rich water. In their quest, some tree roots probe hundreds of feet deep and many send roots through cracks in rocks. The depth of plant roots play a key role in the plants’ adaptation to climate […]
NBC’s Storm Team 4 Meets Rutgers Future Meteorologsts
On September 17, NBC’s StormTracker 4 team visited Cook Campus, the site of the Doppler radar tower with its 1,000,000 watts of cutting-edge technology. IT’S GOT THE POWER! StormTracker 4 is powered by one million watts of cutting-edge technology. It can generate 1,000 pulses within the blink of an eye. And it has a range […]
Rutgers Atmospheric Science Graduate Program Turns 10 Years Old
Faculty, students and alumni of the Rutgers Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science (GPAS) marked the 10th anniversary of the program’s establishment with an afternoon symposium held during the Spring semester at the Cook Student Center. The event featured a keynote address by Arlene Fiore, professor and accomplished atmospheric chemist from Columbia University, as well as […]
RU a Storm Chaser?
Where are you when funnel clouds appear? Most people head inside and to the basement. Not Steve Decker’s fearless and inquisitive storm-chasing meteorological students! Steve Decker, associate teaching professor in the Meteorology Undergraduate Program in the Department of Environmental Sciences, led his students on a two-week field trip to the Midwest as part of the […]
Norwalk Connecticut to Tap Rutgers Noise Expert to Revamp Noise Ordinance
The Rutgers Noise Technical Assistance Center (RNTAC) has been training noise investigators, conducting research, and providing technical assistance to governmental agencies, industrial clients, and residents since the 1970s. For the past 25 years, RNTAC has operated under the direction of Eric Zwerling, Department of Environmental Sciences, who conducts the training and the research, regularly published […]
