Become a citizen-scientist by joining the NJ Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network. Do you want to help scientists at Rutgers University keep track of the weather in New Jersey? The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS), a nationwide volunteer network for observing precipitation, is seeking volunteer weather observers throughout the Garden State. “Adding new observers in your community …
Marine Technology Society Names EOAS’ Travis Miles Recipient of the 2018 Ocean News and Technology Young Professional Award
The award reflects Miles’ work using ocean sensory technology to understand hurricane intensity and determine the ocean’s role in modulating hurricane energy. By Carol Peters The Marine Technology Society (MTS) has named Travis Miles, a faculty member in the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS), the recipient of the 2018 Ocean News and Technology Young Professional Award. The …
Meet EOAS’ New Faculty Member Victoria Ramenzoni
“I firmly believe that an understanding of the pathways in which adaptation occurs, its processual and operative nature, is key for advancing sustainable solutions.” By Carol Peters Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) faculty member Dr. Victoria Ramenzoni, is an environmental anthropologist who specializes in mixed methods, behavioral ecology, cognitive sciences, decision-making, climate change, advanced multivariate analysis …
Fighting Mosquitoes in Your Backyard with Scientists’ Help
Rutgers develops Citizen Action through Science approach. Thanks to an innovative mosquito control approach developed at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, residents in several Maryland neighborhoods reduced populations of invasive Asian tiger mosquitoes by an impressive 76 percent, on average. The Rutgers-led project, called Citizen Action through Science (Citizen AcTS), mobilizes neighbors guided by scientists to address local problems, according to a study …
Q&A: EOAS Director Robert Kopp Addresses the IPCC Special Report on Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C
“Rather than focus on temperature targets, climate change mitigation policy should be oriented around one of the most critical challenges of this century: Getting net global greenhouse gas emissions to zero.” – Robert Kopp. By Carol Peters On October 6, 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) approved a special report titled “Global Warming of 1.5°C, an IPCC special …
Blue Crab Baby Sizes and Shapes Influence Their Survival
Rutgers study finds crabs larval differences are unrelated to their mothers’ sizes. Like people, blue crabs aren’t all the same sizes and shapes. Now Rutgers scientists have discovered substantial differences in the body structures of larval crab siblings and among larvae from different mothers. And that can mean the difference between an early death and survival into adulthood for this …
Kenneth Able Named Recipient of the Dwight A. Webster Memorial Award
The Northeastern Division of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) has named Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) faculty member Kenneth W. Able the 2018 recipient of the Dwight A. Webster Memorial Award. Able is a Distinguished Professor in the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and the director of the Rutgers Marine Field Station. Able …
Global Sea Level Could Rise 50 feet by 2300, Study Says
Characterizing what’s known and what’s uncertain is key to managing coastal risk. Global average sea-level could rise by nearly 8 feet by 2100 and 50 feet by 2300 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high and humanity proves unlucky, according to a review of sea-level change and projections by Rutgers and other scientists. Since the start of the century, global average …
More Wet and Dry Weather Extremes Projected with Global Warming
Rutgers-led study examines role of stationary low- and high-pressure systems. Global warming is projected to spawn more extreme wet and dry weather around the world, according to a Rutgers-led study. Those extremes include more frequent dry spells in the northwestern, central and southern United States and in Mexico, and more frequent heavy rainfall events in south Asia, the Indochinese Peninsula …
Genome of Sea Lettuce that Spawns Massive “Green Tides” Decoded
The findings may help understand “winners and losers” under climate change. Sea lettuce, a fast-growing seaweed that spawns massive “green tides,” is a prolific thief, according to research that for the first time sequenced the genome of a green seaweed. An international team including Rutgers scientists found 13 cases where the sea lettuce Ulva mutabilis stole genes from bacteria. Remarkably, …