Coastal communities are increasingly threatened by severe weather. The Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience initiative trains Rutgers graduate students to collaborate with local decision-makers and help vulnerable communities prepare for the impact of climate change. In 2012, New Jersey residents got an alarming tutorial on what unmitigated climate change portends when Hurricane Sandy, one of the worst storms in state …
Rutgers University to Participate in The 2021 STEM for All Video Showcase: COVID, Equity & Social Justice
Building Resilience Through Co-Production” from Rutgers University with the NJ Climate Change Resource Center and Borough of Atlantic Highlands will be featured May 11th-18th at http://videohall.com/p/2023 Carrie Ferraro, Associate Director of the Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience Initiative from Rutgers University will be featured in the 2021 STEM for All Video Showcase funded by the National Science Foundation. The event …
Water and Industry: Rutgers Student Screening and Discussion of “Brave Blue World”
By Carol Peters During the April 13 online event, a panel of Rutgers undergraduate students from different academic backgrounds will discuss their visions for solutions to issues surrounding global water and sanitation. “What can we do to help solve the global water crisis in both our personal and professional lives?” This is the pivotal question a panel of Rutgers University-New …
A Look at Climate Change and the IPCC as the U.S. Re-enters the Paris Agreement
Climate change is one of the most serious global problems today. Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, acidification of the ocean, damaging hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and other extreme events have caused devastating human, environmental and economic damage. In response to escalating climate change concerns, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) …
Fishes Contribute Roughly 1.65 Billion Tons of Carbon in Feces and Other Matter Annually
Scientists have little understanding of the role fishes play in the global carbon cycle linked to climate change, but a Rutgers-led study found that carbon in feces, respiration and other excretions from fishes – roughly 1.65 billion tons annually – make up about 16 percent of the total carbon that sinks below the ocean’s upper layers. Better data on this key part …
A New Year’s Message from EOAS Director Robert Kopp
Dear EOAS Community, I am sure many of you have, as I have, found it difficult to focus during this extraordinary afternoon, coming at the end of a year of mass fatalities with few precedents in American history. The videos of the ongoing but doomed coup attempt in Washington, DC, puts yet another exclamation mark on the intertwining crises facing …
Robock Elected to lead the AGU College of Fellows
Professor Alan Robock has been elected Chair-Elect of the College of Fellows of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU is the world’s largest professional organization of atmospheric, earth, and ocean scientists. The College of Fellows is has been organized to provide a venue where Fellows can contribute to the AGU and to society through specific activities. Selection as an AGU …
Rutgers’ New Global Environmental Change Grants Provide Seed Funding to Seven Projects
By Carol Peters Rutgers’ New Global Environmental Change Grants Provide Seed Funding to Seven Projects How will the Amazon forest respond to a warmer climate and more frequent droughts? How can the environmental humanities, critical social sciences, law, and planetary observation creatively collaborate to reimagine effective, just, and legitimate governance for the Anthropocene? These are just a few of the …
Revisiting a Volcano’s Wrath
By Craig Winston 40 years ago Mount St. Helens unleashed its fury with devastating results but much has been learned from the eruption since. Four decades have passed, yet Alan Robock and Clifford Mass are still intertwined by a rare geological occurrence: a major volcanic eruption in the United States. The 40th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens’ eruption recently …
New Data Discloses Flood Risk of Every Home in the Contiguous US
The data, based on decades of peer-reviewed research, provides the cumulative risk of flooding for more than 142 million homes and properties over a 30-year mortgage. The nonprofit research and technology group First Street Foundation has publicly released flood risk data for more than 142 million homes and properties across the country. The data, based on decades of peer-reviewed research, …