Rutgers Professor Pamela McElwee Named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

McElwee is working on an environmental history of the Vietnam War examining how nature shaped military strategy. Pamela McElwee, an associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), is working on an environmental history of the Vietnam War examining how nature shaped military strategy as a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. McElwee, …

Climate Change Is a Major Concern for Rutgers Senior

Honors student Lauren Rodgers loves chemical oceanography and wants to earn a doctorate. Rutgers senior Lauren Rodgers once dreamed of becoming a fiction writer. But then she enrolled in a high school science and math program in her native Columbia, South Carolina, where she read an article that discussed the ocean’s critical role in absorbing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse …

Apocalypse NowThis, Featuring Vadim Levin, Nominated for a Webby Award

The web series seeks to accurately explain various ways the world could end. Public voting for the Webby ends April 18, 2019. In a web series titled Apocalypse NowThis, Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) faculty member Vadim Levin is featured in a segment on supervolcanoes. According to the show’s co-producer, Jonathan Argudo of DANGERWORKS, “Apocalypse NowThis explores various ways …

The Ecological Society of America Names Malin Pinsky a 2019 Fellow

Pinsky was selected for his research on the impact of global climate change on fish populations. EOAS faculty member Malin Pinsky, an asssociate professor in the Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA). According to the ESA, Pinsky was “elected for advancing fundamental understanding of …

Medicine and Personal Care Products May Lead to New Pollutants in Waterways

Rutgers study shows how bacteria in wastewater plants transform widely used chemicals When you flush the toilet, you probably don’t think about the traces of the medicine and personal care products in your body that are winding up in sewage treatment plants, streams, rivers, lakes, bays and the ocean. But Rutgers scientists have found that bacteria in sewage treatment plants …

Talking About Climate: Build Consensus Through Shared Values and Common Ground

Can we convince climate deniers that climate change is real, caused by humans, happening now, and we need to find solutions? Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe told a Rutgers audience that we can – by engaging in conversations that are built upon shared values. By Carol Peters “Maybe Ms. Climate Genius can explain how we had an ice age despite no …

Climate Change Shrinks Many Fisheries Globally, Rutgers-Led Study Finds

Researchers find losses as high as 35 percent in some regions Climate change has taken a toll on many of the world’s fisheries, and overfishing has magnified the problem, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Science today. Ocean warming led to an estimated 4.1 percent drop in sustainable catches, on average, for many species of fish and shellfish from 1930 …

Protecting Small Forests Fails to Protect Bird Biodiversity

Forests need better management to maintain ecological integrity, Rutgers-led study says Simply protecting small forests will not maintain the diversity of the birds they support over the long run, a Rutgers-led study says. Forests need to be carefully monitored and managed to maintain their ecological integrity. A major focus in conservation is acquiring forests – often at great expense – …

EOAS Director Robert E. Kopp Testifies to U.S. Congressional Committee: “Climate change is real, it is here now, and humans are responsible for it”

In his testimony, Kopp said, “To stabilize global climate, we need to bring net global greenhouse gas emissions to zero; the sooner we do this, the smaller the risks – to our economy, infrastructure, health, and national security – that we will have to manage.” Director of EOAS Robert E. Kopp testified to the United States House of Representatives Committee …

Rutgers’ List of Campus Plants, Animals, Other Species May be First in World

More than 1,600 species spotted American kestrel. Chinese mantis. Candleflame lichen. The highly diverse list of species spotted at Rutgers University may be unique globally. Indeed, more than 1,600 kinds of animals, insects, plants and other life forms have been reported so far at 24 Rutgers campuses and properties across New Jersey as part of a new long-term “Flora and …