On Wednesday, October 21, 2026, RCEI and the Rutgers Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science welcomed Arlene Fiore as speaker for the 2026 Richard and Linda Turco Endowed Lecture. Fiore, the Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte Stone Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke on “New viewpoints on atmospheric oxidation from fire plumes …
RCEI has awarded six Groundwork Grants to faculty affiliates to support development of research proposals that advance scholarship at the intersection of climate, energy, and sustainability governance. Today’s sustainability challenges are defined by intertwined ecological and socio-economic systems, uncertainty, and the possibility of irreversible tipping points. Existing institutional frameworks, policy responses, and research agendas often struggle to keep pace with …
Focusing on Sustainability Governance, the arrangement of systems, processes, and formal and informal rules used to coordinate actions and make decisions on how to manage resources sustainability considering social, environmental and economic tradeoffs in order to serve future generations, represents a critical shift in how we approach planetary crises. To mobilize interdisciplinary teams for potential collaborations, and inform further development …
RCEI intern Edith Zhao, a student in the Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Program, has received the Alpha Zeta Student of the Year Award for her graduating class, Class of 2028! With this award, she is being recognized as a student leader who has contributed greatly to the SEBS, Rutgers, and greater New Brunswick community. Check out the news feature at the Environmental Science …
Annually, the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters (LCV) presents their top award, the Sustainability Award, to “an institution or business that is at the forefront of building a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable future for New Jersey.” This year, that prestigious commendation has been given to Rutgers University, for its active and substantial initiative in integrating climate and sustainability …
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, …
