Rutgers marks its 14th consecutive year of Goldwater scholarship recipients Mariya Galochkina wants to study the ancient roots of climate change. She is fascinated by how the Earth’s systems are so interconnected and wants to know more about how each has impacted the global climate. “I want to study how ancient ocean currents and continent configurations impacted Earth’s climate throughout …
With Flower Preferences, Bees Have a Big Gap Between the Sexes
Female and male bees of the same species frequent different flowers, Rutgers-led study finds For scores of wild bee species, females and males visit very different flowers for food – a discovery that could be important for conservation efforts, according to Rutgers-led research. Indeed, the diets of female and male bees of the same species could be as different as …
Major Deep Carbon Sink Linked to Microbes Found Near Volcano Chains
Rutgers and other scientists show how microbes help store millions of tons of carbon dioxide Up to about 19 percent more carbon dioxide than previously believed is removed naturally and stored underground between coastal trenches and inland chains of volcanoes, keeping the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere, according to a study in the journal Nature. Surprisingly, subsurface microbes play a role in storing …
Global Warming Hits Sea Creatures Hardest
Marine life more sensitive to warming, less able to escape from heat, Rutgers-led study finds Global warming has caused twice as many ocean-dwelling species as land-dwelling species to disappear from their habitats, a unique Rutgers-led study found. The greater vulnerability of sea creatures may significantly impact human communities that rely on fish and shellfish for food and economic activity, according to the …
Rutgers Professor Pamela McElwee Named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
McElwee is working on an environmental history of the Vietnam War examining how nature shaped military strategy. Pamela McElwee, an associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), is working on an environmental history of the Vietnam War examining how nature shaped military strategy as a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. McElwee, …
Climate Change Is a Major Concern for Rutgers Senior
Honors student Lauren Rodgers loves chemical oceanography and wants to earn a doctorate. Rutgers senior Lauren Rodgers once dreamed of becoming a fiction writer. But then she enrolled in a high school science and math program in her native Columbia, South Carolina, where she read an article that discussed the ocean’s critical role in absorbing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse …
Apocalypse NowThis, Featuring Vadim Levin, Nominated for a Webby Award
The web series seeks to accurately explain various ways the world could end. Public voting for the Webby ends April 18, 2019. In a web series titled Apocalypse NowThis, Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) faculty member Vadim Levin is featured in a segment on supervolcanoes. According to the show’s co-producer, Jonathan Argudo of DANGERWORKS, “Apocalypse NowThis explores various ways …
The Ecological Society of America Names Malin Pinsky a 2019 Fellow
Pinsky was selected for his research on the impact of global climate change on fish populations. EOAS faculty member Malin Pinsky, an asssociate professor in the Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA). According to the ESA, Pinsky was “elected for advancing fundamental understanding of …
Medicine and Personal Care Products May Lead to New Pollutants in Waterways
Rutgers study shows how bacteria in wastewater plants transform widely used chemicals When you flush the toilet, you probably don’t think about the traces of the medicine and personal care products in your body that are winding up in sewage treatment plants, streams, rivers, lakes, bays and the ocean. But Rutgers scientists have found that bacteria in sewage treatment plants …
Talking About Climate: Build Consensus Through Shared Values and Common Ground
Can we convince climate deniers that climate change is real, caused by humans, happening now, and we need to find solutions? Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe told a Rutgers audience that we can – by engaging in conversations that are built upon shared values. By Carol Peters “Maybe Ms. Climate Genius can explain how we had an ice age despite no …