In its ongoing campaign against climate change research, the Trump administration is proposing budget cuts of about 1.8 billion dollars per year from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), taking away 2,000 full time jobs and closing down the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton. This laboratory, engaged in its mission since 1955, is a key center of …
The board named RCEI affiliate Kenneth G. Miller, acclaimed for his pioneering research on sea level and climate change, a Board of Governors Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Internationally recognized for his expertise in past sea levels, especially his research on carbon cycle and sea level, Miller has garnered more than 24,000 citations on his work on ancient sea …
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 …
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 …
A year ago, Rutgers botanist and RCEI affiliate Lena Struwe received a call from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York asking her to participate in a research collaboration investigating a set of recently discovered botanical drawings by Hilma af Klint, the esteemed early 20th century artist from Sweden, whose oversized abstract paintings were hidden for many decades …
The innovative program connects students with researchers in the Antarctic, inspiring a love of science Wearing overalls, layered sweatshirts, and a knit cap to fend off the chilly weather, Rutgers biological oceanographer Mya Sharpe stood on a deck of Palmer Station on Anvers Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, broadcasting live to students, some more than 6,000 miles away. As the wind whipped, she fielded …
