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Throughout his time as a student at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), Nolan Fehon has made sustainability, climate change and environmental activism his passion and mission. Fehon has been a member of Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) for four years, serving as secretary for one year and as president for the past […]
Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers Part of New Consortium Awarded $5.4 Million to Improve Operational Forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico
Scott Glenn, Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is the Rutgers lead, and Travis Miles, assistant professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is the Rutgers co-PI, on a $5.4 million award to establish the Gulf Consortium for Offshore Risk Reduction Engaging Stakeholders (GulfCORES). GulfCORES is one of three […]
Diversifying the Geosciences
A new grant will launch a project that aims to break down barriers keeping underrepresented students from pursuing careers in earth sciences The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a $250,000 grant to Rutgers to increase the number of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students earning degrees in the geosciences. Ashaki Rouff, an associate professor of […]
The “Fishadelphia” Program from Alumna Talia Young: High School Students Bring Seafood to Low-Income Consumers
Talia Young GSNB’16 (Ecology and Evolution) started the “Fishadelphia” program in 2018 after earning her doctoral degree in Ecology with former Rutgers marine and coastal sciences professor Olaf Jensen. Currently, Young is a visiting assistant professor at Haverford College in the environmental sciences program. This article has been excerpted from High School Students Bring […]
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 […]
Science Storytelling as Community Engagement: Rutgers Releases “Fields of Devotion” Short Film Trailer
The Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Plant Biology, along with the Rutgers Center for Agricultural Food Ecosystems (RUCAFE)—a part of the New Jersey Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health—are launching a unique “Science Storytelling as Community Engagement” initiative. The intent is to increase understanding and dialogue between Rutgers scientists and the broader community. Distinguished professor Oscar Schofield, chair of Marine and Coastal Sciences noted, “it is imperative for scientists to […]
Scientists Discover Link Between Climate Change and Biological Evolution of Phytoplankton
Using artificial intelligence techniques, an international team that included Rutgers-New Brunswick researchers have traced the evolution of coccolithophores, an ocean-dwelling phytoplankton group, over 2.8 million years. Their findings, published this week in the journal Nature, reveal new evidence that evolutionary cycles in a marine phytoplankton group are related to changes in tropical seasonality, shedding light […]
Celebration of Excellence: 2020 and 2021
On November 19, faculty, staff and students attended the 27th and 28th annual Celebration of Excellence for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station held at the Cook Student Center. After the pandemic put a pause on fully celebrating the 2020 awardees, it was important to include them […]
Rutgers Receives NOAA Funds to Collect Unique Ocean and Coastal Data as Part of MARACOOS Cooperative Agreement
Oscar Schofield, chair Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (principal investigator) and Michael Crowley, MARACOOS technical director are working with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) on a $1,542,076 cooperative agreement funded through NOAA to collect unique ocean and coastal data that is transformed into information products that support jobs, the economy, safety […]
Rutgers Graduate Students Explore the Southern Ocean
Rutgers graduate students Quintin Diou-Cass and Joe Gradone joined University of Connecticut Postdoc Jessie Turner on the R/V Nathaniel Palmer to head to the West Antarctic Peninsula to conduct hands-on field research in the Southern Ocean. Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Rutgers leads a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project – entering […]
