Two years ago this week, Hurricane Sandy ravaged New Jersey with a force not experienced here in a century, and the devastation it caused to coastal areas was the subject of local and national news for weeks and months after. “It was some of the worst storm surge flooding we’ve ever seen,” confirmed arborist Chris Padot, owner of Bridgewater-based Green Tree Surgeons. “But while coastal towns received much of the media attention,the extremely high wind gusts experienced in interior sections of the state wreaked incredible havoc on our area’s trees and created what seemed like a third world country here for a few weeks…” “Our trees have been taking a pounding for the past three years and there’s probably years’ worth of tree work still out there,” said Nicholas Polanin, agriculture and resource management agent with Rutgers Cooperative Extension in Bridgewater.
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Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
We congratulate these SEBS and NJAES faculty and staff on their accomplishments, appointments and awards below. For university-wide announcements, please visit the Rutgers Faculty and Staff Newsletter. 2024 Changlu Wang, extension specialist in entomology, Alvaro Toledo, assistant professor, Department of Entomology, Robert Corrigan, RMC Pest Management Consulting and Josephine Bartlett, Pest Management Department, New York […]
NJ Epsilon Sigma Phi Announces 2013 Extension Awards
In February, the New Jersey Chapter of the Epsilon Sigma Phi (ESP) honorary fraternity for cooperative extension agents announced its 2013 awards, recognizing over a dozen Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) faculty and staff. All 2013 State Epsilon Sigma Phi award winners automatically qualify as nominees for the regional and national ESP awards, which are presented […]
Rotary, Rutgers, AristaCare kick off ‘Growing Lives’
Kicking off the "Growing Lives, One Seed at a Time" campaign, the Rotary and Rutgers District 7510, in collaboration with AristaCare at Cedar Oaks, hosted a kick-off social on Dec. 19…DePrado teamed up with Nicholas Polanin as co-coordinator …