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, …
Outer Limits
By Craig Winston Bermingham studies meteorites to help determine the elements that built Earth. Hearing about the challenges of geochemistry and cosmochemistry from Assistant Professor Dr. Katherine Bermingham sometimes sounds like the discourse from an episode of Rick and Morty, the animated series. For Bermingham, the subjects are not the stuff of outlandish sci-fi, but rather are hard science of …
You Can See Clearly, For Now
By Craig Winston and Matthew Drews Opening Up States Will Reignite Air Pollution The skyline is more visible. The air looks and smells cleaner. There are “before” and “after” pictures of heavily polluted cities like New Delhi and São Paulo’s on the internet. Is the reduction in traffic and industry brought about by the COVID-19 lockdown responsible for these otherworldly …
Inside the Hutcheson Memorial Forest
By Craig Winston Only 15 minutes from campus, you’ll find the oldest laboratory of its kind at Rutgers and perhaps the country, yet many students and the community are probably unaware of its existence. Off Amwell Road in Somerset County stands the Hutcheson Memorial Forest, listed on the National Park Registry of Natural Landmarks, whose 500 acres of forest and …
Robert Chant awarded CERF’s 2019 Pritchard Award
Congratulations to Dr. Bob Chant on winning the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation’s 2019 Pitchard Award. This award was established to honor Dr. Donald W. Pritchard, whose insightful research on the physical dynamics of coastal systems set the stage for much of the research in physical oceanography that is being conducted today. The Pritchard Award recognizes the author(s) of the …
Samantha Bova wins L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship
The L’Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship program awards five women postdoctoral scientists annually with grants of $60,000 each for their contributions in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields and commitment to serving as role models for younger generations. The program is the U.S. component of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Fellowships program. Celebrating its sixteenth year …