If you’ve been here in New Jersey for the last few months, chances are you’ve probably noticed that temperatures seem to fluctuating wildly from week to week. From 70° (F) on 12/24/15 down to 8° (F) overnight on 1/5/16, a clash between warm El Niño driven air from the south and cold polar air for the north has led to …

Sometimes it pays to look at the sky! Matt Drews, who is an M.S. student in the Atmospheric Science Graduate Program happened to look up at the night sky at the right moment on November 20th over Somerville, New Jersey. The interplay cirrus ice clouds and a bright moon produced a wonderful halo display that lasted just long enough for …

Our own Dr. Paul Falkowski, who holds the Bennett L. Smith Chair in Business and Natural Resources, has written a wonderful new book that is receiving rave reviews. Paul’s book explores how microbes are truly the engines of life, the actual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on Earth. He shows how evolution works …

Joint projections of US East Coast sea level and storm surge. Christopher M. Little, Radley M. Horton, Robert E. Kopp, Michael Oppenheimer, Gabriel A. Vecchi, and Gabriele Villarini. Nature Climate Change (2015) Future coastal flood risk will be strongly influenced by sea-level rise (SLR) and changes in the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones. These two factors are generally considered independently. …

Richard Lutz has been recognized by Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences in recognition of his lifelong contributions to ocean sciences, and for making those sciences accessible to the public. Last week joined luminaries such as filmmaker James Cameron and the late oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and received the academy’s highest award – the NOGI. NOGI stands for New Orleans Grand …

Bryan Raney recently conducted two informal “Pizza and Programming” seminars at the Department of Environmental Sciences. We recorded these two instructional videos to assist students, staff, and faculty who would like to learn how to program in Python, which is a popular and powerful programming language that is being used for a variety of scientific purposes. Introduction to Python Programming …

Major Events in Earth History (3-credits) A new capstone course in Geological Sciences, Spring Semester, 2016, M-Th, 10:20 – 11:40 AM, Wright Labs Rm 231.  Register for 01:460:480. Climate Change Risk Analysis (3-credits), Robert Kopp and Enrique Curchitser, Spring Semester Thursdays from 1:10 pm-4:10 pm in Civic Square, Building 168, Rutgers Downtown New Brunswick campus. Natural/social science and engineering students …