The Immersive Learning through Science Storytelling Lab, developed by SEBS scientists, science storytellers, STEM learning researchers and youth educators, has been awarded the Broader Vision Award by the Garden State Film Festival. In early January, Diane Raver, founder of the Garden State Film Festival and Executive Director of the New Jersey Film Academy, came to the Rutgers School of Environmental …

By Aleen Mirza A study by a team of researchers from Stanford University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Rutgers, including Rutgers professor and RCEI Affiliate Kay Bidle, has uncovered new insights regarding the properties of “marine snow” (aggregated marine organic matter) that rapidly descends from surface waters into the deep ocean and is a critical component of carbon sequestration.  In …

Community Engagement and Research Development experts from over 15 universities reviewed the Rutger-designed ARIS Broader Impacts (BI) Toolkit in the November Special Issue of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES). This 13-article edition dives deep into the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Broader Impacts merit criterion, showcasing the transformative and capacity building resources of the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) and its ARIS BI Toolkit.  Why …

A Rutgers scientist says isolated attempts to address interconnected issues will not succeed RCEI affiliate Pamela McElwee, a professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has spent the last 25 years studying human adaptation to global environmental change.  She has served as an adviser on environmental policy to the White House, …

Rutgers researchers shine in competition designed to produce rapid and autonomous technologies to identify vanishing species The challenge posed by organizers of the XPRIZE Rainforest competition to the international scientific community was formidable. Devise a way to document the biodiversity within a remote Amazonian rainforest without stepping foot within, they said. Design a tent-size, portable laboratory that includes miniature versions …

By Aleen Mirza Kevon Rhiney is captivated by how globalization and climate change disproportionately impact smallholder farmers in the Caribbean. As a human-environment geographer passionate about climate justice, Rhiney’s research examines the development and justice implications of global environmental change, with a particular focus on this region.   The Caribbean, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable areas, is predicted to face …

The academic journal Nature Communications published new research this month authored by RCEI affiliate Chi Chen, assistant professor and faculty member in the Rutgers University Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources.   The paper, titled “Biophysical effects of croplands on land surface temperature,” draws on two decades of satellite data to analyze the biological and physical mechanisms by which croplands affect land …

By Steven Rodas | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com You can look to the rising seas, raging wildfires and the lack of snow. A harbinger for the changing climate has also arrived for New Jerseyans in the form of something more innocuous but by no means less glaring: home insurance policies. Or, rather, the lack of them in some cases. Non-renewals, …

Announcement from Laura Lawson, Executive Dean and Executive Director, SEBS/NJAES I’m delighted to announce that Dr. Josh Kohut, Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, has accepted the position of SEBS Dean of Research/NJAES Director of Research, effective January 1, 2025. Please join me in congratulating him on this new role and giving him a warm welcome. Josh …

In Mark Robson’s science class, hands-on learning brings students into the heart of nature It was Cranberry Night for the students of RCEI affiliate Mark Robson’s evening science course, “Plants and People,” and the instructor wasn’t entirely happy with himself. On this cool fall evening, the professor and administrator at Rutgers University-New Brunswick had toted in whole cranberries and a …