Rutgers scientist helps produce world’s first large-scale study on how nuclear war would affect marine ecosystems Even the smallest nuclear war would devastate ocean systems, leading to sharp declines in fish stocks, expansion of ice sheets into coastal communities and changes in ocean currents that would take decades or longer to reverse, according to a Rutgers […]
Environmental Sciences
SEBS Faculty Win Rutgers Global Grants
SEBS faculty, representing a broad range of majors and programs at the school, were awarded 2022 Rutgers Global Grants, annual seed grants open to all Rutgers faculty, including tenured, tenure-track, clinical, and non-tenure track faculty. These grants help to support a strong core of SEBS faculty who are dedicated to international research and collaborations. […]
Jeremy Lewan (SEBS’22), Al Roker’s Former Intern, Makes His Mark in Meteorology and Modeling
Just before Al Roker gives the daily weather forecast on NBC’s Today, he gets a 4:30 a.m. briefing on the latest record-breaking temperatures, hurricanes or snowstorms from his weather producers on the show. Last summer, one of the voices giving him those weather updates via FaceTime belonged to Jeremy Lewan, a meteorology major at Rutgers graduating […]
Senior Story: Morgan Mark (SEBS’22), Studing Wildlife to Protect Human Health
Donna Fennell, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences, saw firsthand the passion of wildlife enthusiast Morgan Mark, Rutgers Honors College graduate with a dual degree in Bioenvironmental Engineering from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and School of Engineering. “During a trip by Environmental Engineering seniors to a local waterway […]
Alumna Toyosi Dickson (SEBS’20) Reflects on her Journey to Environmental Justice
From as far back as Toyosi Dickson (SEBS’20) can remember, getting a college education was non-negotiable. “First things first, my family made sure above all else that I knew I needed a college degree to succeed in life. There’d be times when I’d come home from kindergarten and complain about how long it was. My […]
NJAES Launches Soil Health Initiative as Part of Vision 2025
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) have a long history of research and education in the field of soil science including ground-breaking discoveries such as streptomycin which saved millions of lives. In the past 20-30 years, the concept of assessing overall soil quality has developed within […]
Bluefin Tuna Reveal Global Ocean Patterns of Mercury Pollution
Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can be used as a global barometer of the heavy metal risk posed to ocean life and human health, according to a study by Rutgers and other institutions. The study appears in the journal PNAS. Bluefin tuna, one of the largest and fastest fish species on […]
Maya Ziab (SEBS’22) Part of Rutgers Team That Wins the EPA Clean Indoor Air Challenge
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and 10 federal, state, tribal and local organizations recently announced the Phase 1 winners of the ‘Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge,’ which is designed to stimulate the advancement of new technologies to clean indoor air during wildfire smoke events and other high pollution days. Among the five Phase 1 […]
Rutgers Professor Mark Miller Studies Marine Cloud Systems to Better Understand Their Role in a Warming Climate
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 […]
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 […]
