A $3 million grant will kickstart a new program for graduate students interested in climate change and its impact on coasts. Rutgers received nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship Program for research and training in coastal resilience. The program is designed to create and instill “bold, new and potentially transformative models for STEM graduate …
Atlantic Surfclam Study Results to be ready in 2018
By the summer of 2018, researchers from Rutgers University’s Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory in Bivalve, NJ hope to have the results of an exciting new project aimed at culturing Atlantic surfclams (Spisula solidissima), as a potential robust new farm species. Preliminary results have been positive, showing high rates of clam survival during the culturing and growing processes. “A pilot program that we …
Rep. Bob Inglis Visits Rutgers University
Former South Carolina Congressman and climate change advocate Bob Inglis recently spoke a crowded room on the Cook Campus of Rutgers University, sharing his relatively unique story in his role to combat climate change. A heavily conservative politician, Inglis has been fighting an uphill battle as one of the few prominent conservative Republicans who agrees that anthropogenic climate change is …
July 2016 Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded
Whether you live in Northern Siberia or Northern New Jersey, chances are you experienced the heat and in some places the oppressive humidity that dominated the weather patterns over most of the summer. July 2016 smashed the global records, as by far and away the warmest month ever recorded by man, as well as the 9th hottest July ever recorded in …
Climate Tipping Points — What Do They Mean for Society?
Article originally published in Rutgers Today on 7/11/16 by Todd B. Bates The phrase “tipping point” passed its own tipping point and caught fire after author Malcolm Gladwell’s so-named 2000 book. It’s now frequently used in discussions about climate change, but what are “climate tipping points”? And what do they mean for society and the economy?Scientists at Rutgers University …
Holocene’s Earthquake Record Preserved Thanks to Rising Sea Level
Rutgers University researcher Tina Dura, along with EOAS researchers Ben Horton & Bob Kopp as well as additional collaborators from several different universities, have published a paper analyzing the well-intact Holocene earthquake history found in ice sheets around the Pacific subduction zone. Their conclusions included that towards the end of the Holocene, these records were the best kept during periods where …
Rutgers Scientists Help Create World’s Largest Coral Gene Database
Coral reefs – stunning, critical habitats for an enormous array of prized fish and other species – have survived five major extinction events over the last 250 million years. Now, an international team of scientists led by Rutgers faculty has conducted the world’s most comprehensive analysis of coral genes, focusing on how their evolution has allowed corals to interact with …
EOAS Scientist Works to Better Understand Future Flood Risks when considering Sea-Level Rise
Living in a world with a rising sea-level has proposed an interesting challenge to scientists: What exactly is the best way to factor sea-level rise (SLR) into estimates for future flood hazards? According to EOAS Scientist Robert Kopp and his collaborators, the answer lies in incorporating many factors. Using simple assumptions such as a stationary or fixed increases in sea …
Impacts of Land-Atmosphere Interactions for Changes in Terrestrial Aridity Under Global Warming
Although global climate models generally reflect increasing precipitation over land with anthropogenic warming, the projected faster increase in evaporative demand actually leads to an overall increase of aridity. Studies of the land region aridity increase with warming have largely emphasized the driving role of oceanic warming and associated atmospheric processes in leading to land surface drying. However, a recently …
Changing Migration Patterns Wreaking Havoc on East Coast Fisheries
In a changing global climate where average ocean temperatures have been continuing to rise, fisheries along the Atlantic Coast of the United States have found themselves having to travel significantly further north to find the same cold-preferring species that recently existed much further south than they do today. EOAS scientist Malin Pinsky is part a of a group of …