Congratulations to RCEI affiliate and Distinguished Professor Alan Robock on the publication of his new book, “Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter.” With this book, Robock expertly crafts a discussion about the death of the dinosaurs millions of years ago and how it is still relevant …
The New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center (NJCCRC) at Rutgers University has released the Proceedings of its March 2025 conference Sustaining Innovation in New Jersey Climate Change Policy: Past, Present, and Future which brought together 200 New Jersey leaders to engage in a dialogue about the state’s climate change goals and policies, challenges to reaching those goals, relevant lessons that …
Congratulations to RCEI affiliate Pamela McElwee for her contributions in editing the “The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services”. This book discusses the impact and role of these Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), “the nonmaterial aspects of benefits that people derive from nature”, in the relationship between humans and the environment across the world, in a multitude of contexts and biomes. …
In the midst of alarming international conflict and war, the issue of nuclear weapons is becoming more and more of a priority for many. Though their abolition was not as strongly pursued in the past, recently fear has been rising at the thought of their dire impact. Numerous studies have also repeatedly reported the ugly truth, such as one conducted …
A network of undergraduate professors is creating a new edition of an open-source online laboratory manual, full of free educational data activities for anyone to use in undergraduate or graduate oceanography classes. Developed by the Ocean Data Labs project, each chapter of the online lab manual focuses on different oceanographic concepts typically taught in an Introduction to Oceanography textbook. The activities are …
To direct Rutgers climate and energy scholarship towards smart systems that harness the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools, RCEI hosted 70 Rutgers faculty, staff and graduate students in April 2025 in a Convergence Cafe to mobilize interdisciplinary teams for potential collaborations around this theme. Two plenary talks …
In collaboration with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJ BPU), RCEI is establishing a Clean Energy Graduate Certificate Program to provide Rutgers master’s degree students with foundational knowledge in three areas: Energy-Based Engineering, Energy Public Policy, and Applied Energy Economics, focusing primarily on clean energy. RCEI anticipates the first cohort to enter …
A breakthrough by a collaboration between Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory could improve crop resilience In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized protein and are proceeding to develop tools that can capitalize on its ability to help …
Lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2021 assessment report, member of NASA’s Sea Level Change Team, and one of the directors at the Climate Impact Lab, RCEI affiliate Robert Kopp weighed in his thoughts on the changes the Trump administration’s science budget cuts would bring. He called it “a tragedy not just for the US but …
Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute hosted a hybrid symposium on May 14, 2025 showcasing advances in research at the intersection of seaweed science, climate resilience, and marine resource management in the Caribbean. Dr. Kevon Rhiney, Associate Professor in Geography and RCEI’s Area Lead for Human Dimensions of Climate Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience, teamed with RCEI Affiliate Debashish Bhattacharya, …
