On November 12, 2025, researchers, faculty, and student scholars from academic and research institutions across the Mid-Atlantic gathered for Rutgers’ annual Climate Symposium, designed to foster collaboration among the climate change and energy research communities in our region. Rutgers-New Brunswick Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Jason Geary welcomed the full house
The German Ruhr Region and the State of New Jersey share both a rich industrial history as well as a transition from an industrial to service economy as noted in Climate Bridge: An International Perspective on How to Enact Climate Action at the Government Public Interface, a new book from Rutgers University Press that discusses climate change …
RCEI awarded Groundwork Grants to faculty affiliates Kay Bidle, Benedict Borer, Xiaomeng Jin, Robert Mieth, Roger Wang, Lucas Marxen, and Efthymios Nikolopoulos to support development of research proposals that leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address climate and energy challenges. Below are descriptions of each of the winning proposals. Elucidating Emergent Rules Governing Marine Snow Properties and Carbon …
A founding principle of the Growing Convergent Research (GCR) project led by RCEI Affiliate Kay Bidle (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences) is to address the complex global challenge of climate change through transdisciplinary collaboration and convergence of diverse knowledge and methods to generate innovative solutions. As a multi-institutional, transdisciplinary initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the project seeks to understand
Atif Akin (Associate Professor of Art and Design and RCEI’s Area Lead for Environmental Communications and the Humanities) and Kevon Rhiney (Associate Professor in Geography and RCEI’s Area Lead for Human Dimensions of Climate Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience) organized an April 2025 gathering of Rutgers faculty and research staff whose interests lie at the intersection of the human dimensions of climate and energy, …
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 …
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, …
