Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
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Passaic wants to fill former industrial sites with produce farms — the vertical kind
Jim Simon – Department of Plant Biolog
Native American Acknowledgment Gardens Honor Local Indigenous Communities
Project at Rutgers Gardens celebrates the continued presence of Indigenous communities in New Jersey For generations, Native Americans’ relationships with their land have been systematically targeted through removal policies. Negative portrayals of Native American communities resulted in numerous environmental and cultural injustices, including the targeting of Native American land for waste disposal sites. But a […]
Even a small nuclear war would mean mass famine, by Faye Flam
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University develops oyster reef ecosystem to prevent beach erosion
David Bushek – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
The Science of Comfort Food
Paul Breslin – Department of Nutritional Sciences
Andrew Aldercotte’s Fulbright-Funded Indonesian Pollinator Research Taking Place at Rutgers-Affiliated Field Station
Check out the Borneo tree tops with Andrew Aldercotte in his Peat Swamp Forest Canopy Research Blog Andrew Aldercotte is a third-year doctoral student in the Rachel Winfree lab. Born in Montreal, Canada, Aldercotte left a ten-year career as a ski instructor and guide to return to academia. He has master’s degree in forestry from […]
Rutgers Sandy Operation Helps Forecasters Predict Severe Storms, Saving Livelihood Worldwide
As Superstorm Sandy approached the New Jersey coastline, a single Rutgers glider deployed off Tuckerton by hurricane scientists at Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL), provided an ominous warning. The water mass known as the “Mid-Atlantic cold pool”– an area of cool water off the coast that traditionally makes hurricanes less severe the further north they travel […]
Even a Small Nuclear War Would Mean Mass Famine
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Living at the Shore After Sandy: Should Residents Stay – or Go?
New Jersey needs to plan for at least a 3-foot sea level rise by 2100, Rutgers researchers warn Whether to buy or build a home at the Jersey Shore has become more complicated and personal for Kenneth Miller – a Rutgers expert in sea level change and global warming – since Superstorm Sandy struck New […]
