By Carol Peters, EOAS Communications Ashaki Rouff, Grace K. Saba, and Erin Vogel, faculty members at the Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, have been awarded 2023 University-Wide Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. This year, 29 Rutgers University faculty members received recognition …
Prof. Pamela McElwee Co-authors Study Offering New Solutions for Combating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Pamela McElwee, professor in the Department of Human Ecology, is co-author of a new study, “Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts,” published in the journal, Science. She is among 18 international experts who contributed to the study. “This paper emphasizes that biodiversity loss and climate change are essentially two sides of the same coin. But our …
Rutgers Undergraduates Present Original Science-in-Action Stories at National Conference
Five Rutgers undergraduates doing independent research in immersive learning through science storytelling presented rough edits of their science-in-action films at the Planet Forward environmental storytelling summit in Washington DC on April 20. Working in teams, the undergraduates presented two student-authored science stories that they have developed in trusting partnership with scientists from Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) about New …
State of the Climate Report: Temperature, Sea Level Continue to Rise in NJ
Rutgers-led report details 2022 climate trends for state and local leaders. New Jersey’s summer of 2022, with the warmest August on record and the lowest rainfall levels seen in more than 50 years, offers a glimpse into how climate change may affect future summers in the Garden State, according to a new report being released by researchers from Rutgers and …
Senior Story: Mox Engelman (SEBS’23) – A Contemporary Polymath!
The Student Mox was a Scarlet Knight even before their freshman year. Pursuing a Phd. in marine science has been a dream of theirs since they were eight years old. During their senior year in high school one of their teachers told them about a Stockton University professor who studies microplastics in fresh water at Stockton University, Mox was immediately …
Rutgers Partners With New Jersey Schools to Develop Historic Climate Change Curriculum
Experts from the university to launch series of workshops in collaboration with teachers throughout the state. Rutgers will play a central role in New Jersey’s historic move to become the first state in the nation to teach all public school students – from K-12 – about climate change across all subjects. Experts in climate science, science communication and science, technology, …
Celebrating Mosasaurs at the Rutgers Geology Museum
By Carol Peters, EOAS Communications At the 150th anniversary of the Rutgers Geology Museum, Mosasaurs, giant lizards who lived at the time of the dinosaurs, were explored and celebrated. Mosasaurs were enormous lizards and apex predators who ruled the Earth’s waters at the time of the dinosaurs, at the very end of the cretaceous period ~95-66 million years ago. The …
Rutgers Senior Studies the Ocean’s Impact on the World
Salvatore Fricano is helping plan for the first worldwide navigation of a new underwater ocean glider. Salvatore Fricano grew up spending summers on the Jersey Shore, where the vastness of the ocean captivated his imagination. “I just saw the horizon with nothing on it and it looked like an adventure waiting to happen,” he says. “I was interested in exploring …
“Fields of Devotion” Wins Best Short Documentary at Garden State Film Festival
On March 26, Fields of Devotion was shown to a packed house and won the Best Short Documentary Award at the 2023 Garden State Film Festival. This is the second award for the film, which was awarded Best Climate Film by the New York Science and Nature Feedback Film and Screenplay Festival in late 2022. In attendance at the Garden State Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony were the film’s associate …
Rising Waters on Our Coasts and What It Means for Public Access?
New Jersey law ensures the public’s right to access coastal shorelines and waters. To help people know where to access tidal waterways and get information about the amenities at each location, the state has an online map that shows over 3,900 public access points. However, the impacts of climate change are likely to affect public access to New Jersey’s coast. Many locations …