A new article from WRNJ details the significance of a recent major rainfall event across multiple portions of New Jersey, calling it a “once-in-a-generation event.” According to official measurements from the Rutgers University New Jersey Weather Network, rain reached up to 4 and more inches in towns such as North Haledon, Haworth, and Little Falls – a massive amount of precipitation …
“We are all experiencing sea level rise here in New Jersey and that it’s not just a scientific story, it’s a personal story,” said RCEI affiliate Lisa Auermuller, in a new article published by NBC Philadelphia. The article discusses recent changes in New Jersey’s weather patterns, with a strong focus on the heavy flash-flooding and sea level rise from multiple angles. …
Week-long program brought together researchers working on ocean and fisheries governance, energy justice, Indigenous land rights, food systems, and climate policy from institutions across the United States and the globe From August 24 to 28, the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University–New Brunswick hosted its second annual Summer School on Sustainability Governance, bringing nearly 30 doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, …
In New Jersey alone, climate change has triggered a summer of damaging heavy rains and extreme flash flooding. Emergency managers rely on a single projected storm track based on a total rainfall prediction to issue evacuations, stage rescues, and close roads. If the forecast is off by even a few miles, the results can be catastrophic. RCEI affiliate Efthymios Nikolopoulos, …
RCEI affiliate Fiorella Prada, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences was recently awarded a U.S.–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grant for a collaborative project with Tali Mass at the University of Haifa. According to Prada, the project will investigate how corals maintain strong, functional skeletons under long-term ocean warming and acidification. Using naturally resilient Mediterranean coral populations living across thermal gradients and at volcanic CO2 …
RCEI affiliate Shishir Chundawat, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, is the principal investigator, or PI, on one of ten projects selected through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science, or FICUS, program, able to conduct research using resources from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User facilities. “This is an in-kind user …
In early August, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) hosted the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) 2026 Research Fellowship Kickoff at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center. Organized by SEBS Associate Dean of Research Impact and RCEI affiliate Janice McDonnell and ARIS Executive Director Susan Renoe, associate vice chancellor for research, extension and engagement …
In a new article published by NJ Spotlight News, RCEI affiliates Corday Selden and Joe Gradone detail what they hope to learn on their 25 day ocean expedition into the tropical North Atlantic. Their research focuses on the impact of ocean warming on phytoplankton – microscopic organisms that serve a key role in most marine food chains and in carbon …
School of Engineering researchers comprise one of two Rutgers teams selected to receive the Research and Development Council of New Jersey (RDNJ) 2026 Edison Patent Award, the state’s highest recognition for inventors and innovation. The teams, representing the fifth consecutive year where two Rutgers groups were chosen, will be recognized with other winners at a ceremony and banquet in November. …
The Jersey Shore may look familiar from summer to summer, but it is never truly fixed. It is an evolving coastal system in which sand color, beach width, water clarity and even ocean temperature can change quickly.
Few scientists know this shifting landscape as well as Rutgers geologist and RCEI affiliate Kenneth Miller. A Board of Governors Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, Miller is a stratigrapher, paleoceanographer and micropaleontologist whose research …
