Postdoc Laura Haynes cruises the world searching for core samples By Craig Winston It’s hard to pinpoint where you might find Laura Haynes, an EOAS post-doctoral fellow, for an interview. During a telephone chat she sounded far away. She explained why in a subsequent email. “I was actually in Fiji, eating breakfast before we headed out to board the ship,” she wrote. …
LED Lighting in Greenhouses Helps But Standards are Needed
Rutgers research reveals information gaps on LED lighting for indoor crops While LED lighting can enhance plant growth in greenhouses, standards are needed to determine the optimal intensity and colors of light, according to Rutgers research that could help improve the energy efficiency of horticultural lighting products. Many lighting companies market their LED (light-emitting diode) products with claims of delivering …
A Postdoc’s Quest to Solve a Climate Mystery
Kyle Mattingly studies a cause for the melting of the all-important Greenland Ice Sheet By Craig Winston It was late afternoon on Jan. 3, 2000, when an F3-tornado, with wind speeds of about 180 mph, struck Owensboro, Kentucky, a city of about 57,000, leaving hundreds homeless. Kyle Mattingly, age 10, witnessed the tornado’s wrath at close range. Its fury made an indelible impression on …
Rising Temperature
U.N. Climate Change Conference brought no breakthroughs, just concerns By Craig Winston Citing rising temperatures, shrinking ice caps, and excessive greenhouse gases, international leaders in the fight against climate change spoke both defiantly and dispiritedly at a conference in Madrid about the lack of progress world powers who signed on to the Paris Agreement have made in preventing global warming …
New EOAS Faculty Member Rebecca Jackson Researches Ocean/Glacier Interactions
By Mary Ellen Dowd Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) faculty member Rebecca Jackson is a physical oceanographer with specialized interests in ocean-glacier interactions, coastal dynamics, and polar processes. Her research focuses on the underwater melting of glaciers, specifically in Greenland and Alaska, and ocean dynamics in the polar regions where various components of the climate system – …
Climate Change is Reshaping Communities of Ocean Organisms
Warm-water species are rapidly increasing and cold-water species are decreasing Climate change is reshaping communities of fish and other sea life, according to a pioneering study on how ocean warming is affecting the mix of species. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, covers species that are important for fisheries and that serve as food for fish, such as copepods …
Meet new EOAS Faculty Member, Andrea Marston, Ph.D.
Andrea Marston joins the faculty of the Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) and Rutgers Geography as an Assistant Professor following the completion of her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has a BA from Duke University and an MA in Geography from the University of British Columbia. Marston’s research focuses on the material politics of resource …
EOAS Faculty Member Nicholas Beaird Focuses on the Physics of High-Latitude Oceans
By Carol Peters Beaird seeks to understand small and regional processes that have a global impact on ocean circulation and climate. “Understanding some key small-scale processes that transfer heat and salt between the polar oceans, ice sheets, and the atmosphere,” are the research focus of Nicholas Beaird, a new member of the faculty at the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric …
EOAS Faculty Member Juliane Gross Opens Lunar Samples Collected by Apollo 17 Nearly 50 Years Ago
NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample of rock and regolith from the Apollo era has been opened. It sets the stage for scientists to practice techniques to study future samples collected on Artemis missions, according to …
Josh Kohut Named Fellow of Marine Technology Society
Josh Kohut, professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, was named a Fellow of the Marine Technology Society (MTS). He was recognized for fundamental contributions in the development of novel technologies that allow for the sampling of marine systems. Kohut has been at the forefront of the deployment and operation of a range of technologies that are helping science, …