News and Events Archive
Kiera Malone Awarded the 2019 Cookingham Scholarship »
George H. Cook Honors Scholars Give Research Presentations »
Article Highlights Backyard Bird Feeder Cameras and How Birds Respond to Climate Change »
A New Jersey resident put a high-tech spotlight on the dozen bird (and mammal) species dining at his Atlantic Highlands bird feeder. He suspects some are returning early due to climate change. Rutgers postdoctoral researcher Mike Allen weighs in and explains why the Red-winged Blackbird (pictured) may be a species to watch.
It's on Again! 2020 Personal Bioblitz »
2020 Personal Bioblitz Project on iNaturalist
Chrysler Herbarium, a Wealth of Treasures for the Future »
Max Piana et al. publish in Frontiers in Ecology, "Plants in the city: understanding recruitment dynamics in urban landscapes »
Warm-Water Species Are Rapidly Increasing and Cold-Water Species Are Decreasing »
Article in Nature Climate Change
Malin Pinsky has been selected as one of Science News' 2019 Scientists to Watch! »
Dramatic Increase in Whales in NJ/NYC Raises Safety Concerns»
Danielle Brown's Research - YouTube Video
Lena Struwe Receives American Society of Plant Taxonomists' 2019 Peter Raven Award for Exceptional Outreach to Non-Scientists »
Exotic Pet Trade Leads to Several Hundred Non-Native and Invasive Animal Species »
News Story in Mongabay | Article in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Switching It Up: Striped Maple Trees Change Sex, with Females More Likely to Die »
News Story in NewScientist | Article in Annals of Botany
Female and Male Bees' Flower Preferences Differ, Sometimes as If They Were Different Species »
Paper by Roswell et al. in PLoS ONE
Jean-Pierre Jacob (SEBS '19) Delivers the Class Representative Remarks at the SEBS 2019 Convocation on May 20, 2019! »
Dorothy Lee Founded the Compost Club and Is a Leader in Social and Environmental Sustainability on the SEBS Campus »
Congratulations to Our 2019 Senior Graduation Award Winners »
Danielle Brown's Research on Humpback Whales and Potential Vessel Encounters Was Published in Marine Policy »
Marine Species Are Hit Harder by Warming Than Are Species on Land — Paper by Pinsky et al. in Nature »
Free access to the full paper via the Pinsky lab website
Dr. Selden Discusses Climate Change as an Emerging Issue for Fisheries in Front of House Subcommittee »
Melding New and Old Tech: Herbaria Illuminate Urban Plant Diversity »
EENR Undergraduate Research Student Aliya Caldwell Wins First Place in Poster Competition at the Rutgers Microplastics Conference »
The Rutgers Urban Forestry Program Will Host the 2019 NJ State Arbor Day Celebration »
"Seed to Saw" - From Bur Oak to Lumber (Video)
Malin Pinsky Announced Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America »
Climate Change Shrinks Many Fisheries Globally »
Oh, All the Species You Can Find! Students and Faculty Lead Discovery of All Biodiversity at Rutgers »
Story in Rutgers Today | Sixth Personal Bioblitz starts March 1
A New Community in an Old Forest: Loss of Songbirds Leads to Community Shift in an Old Growth Forest »
Story in The Wildlife Society | Publication in Biodiversity and Conservation
Brooke Maslo's Efforts to Increase Climate Resiliency in NJ Communities Featured on PBS »
Edward Tekwa et al. Publish a Study on Why Fish Conservation Succeeds or Fails »
Story in Rutgers Today | News Release from the Princeton Environmental Institute
Brooke Maslo's Interview About Her Work on Flood Plain Restoration Broadcast on German Public Radio »
Rick Lathrop Opens New Wildlife Loop Trail in Rutgers EcoPreserve »
Brooke Maslo's Research Evaluates the Impacts of Severe Storms on Endangered Beach Fauna »
Dr. Rachael Winfree Joins the Duke Farms Scientific Advisory Board »
Rutgers Students Darrell Jones and Jack Kellogg Accompany Cape May Raptor Banding Project »
Dr. Malin Pinsky Interviewed in Podcast "The Atlantic Cod Is Leaving U.S. Waters" Presented at Yale Climate Connections»
Dr. Henry John-Alder awarded NSF grant »
The project will investigate reversals in testosterone's control of growth and underlying genes across male-larger and female-larger lizards.
Julie Lockwood and Oliver Stringham publish a paper on the exotic pet trade »
Article in Rutgers Today » | Article in The Ecologist » | Article in Journal of Applied Ecology »
DEENR alumnus Chris Martine gets national outreach award »
Mapping Endangered Red Knots' Remote Breeding Habitat »
Lena Struwe Receives the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award by the Botanical Society of America »
Congratulations by IAPT president Pat Herendeen »
Brooke Maslo and Jeremiah Bergstrom Are Featured in a Scientific American Article for Their Work on the Restoration of Floodplain Habitat to Achieve Climate Resilience »
Rachael Winfree:
Crop Pollination Depends on Communities of Wild Bees »
Climate Change Means Fish Are Moving Faster Than Regulations
Article in the SEBS Newsroom » | Article in Science »
See the RU Wildlife Society Student Chapter's Activities Highlighted in the NJ TWS Newsletter (620k PDF)
Lucia Weinman's Research on Bees Featured in Great Lakes Research and Education Center's Facebook Post »
Congratulations to Our 2018 Senior Graduation Award Winners »
Rachael Winfree's NSF Grant and Recent Science Paper Are Featured on the NSF Biological Sciences Web Site
Say What?
Fish Have Ears and People Study Them? »
Rafael Valentin's and Dr. Julie Lockwood's Research Highlight in Nature »
Article in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment »
James Duffy (SEBS '18) Delivers the Class Representative Remarks at the SEBS 2018 Convocation on May 14, 2018! »
Malin Pinsky Was Appointed to Oceana Science Advisor to Promote Dialogue and Collaboration Around Oceana's "Save the Oceans, Feed the World" Campaign »
Marci Meixler wins Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching »
Julie Lockwood wins the SEBS Research Excellence Award »
Malin Pinsky was interviewed on NPR about a new paper published by his lab »
Sam Fagundez wins first prize in poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting »
Malin Pinsky gives the "Rising Star in Ecology" talk at the University of Toronto's Atwood Colloquium »
When an invasive species is a recreational fisherman's dream catch »
Does biodiversity really matter to human well-being? »
Lathrop tied in knots at the end of the world »
Rutgers Today | SEBS/NJAES Newsroom Story | Conserve Wildlife Blog
Arborists' Work Day at Rutgers »
The president's proposed budget would eliminate an agency that has been protecting crucial species for more than 40 years »
Article in Scientific American
Trees having sex, but taking their own sweet time to work out that male/female thing »
Article in Springer | Washington Post | Smithsonian Magazine | Northjersey.com
Alice In Wonderland has lessons for climate adaptation »
Science paper finds the more bee species, the better the pollination »
Article in Science | SEBS/NJAES Newsroom Story
The Personal Bioblitz starts March 1st, 2018 »
Article in Rutgers Today | Instructions how to sign up
Lena Struwe launches Botany Depot – global botanical education resource »
Botany-Depot website link | Rutgers Today coverage | SEBS/NJAES Newsroom story | Botany-Depot facebook page
E&E Grad student selected for CERF's Rising TIDES conference mentoring program »
Former EENR student presents at GIS day »
Forests are critical habitat for diverse communities of native bees »
Link to full paper in Global Change Biology
Appalachian Mountain Club's AMC Outdoors magazine features the Hutcheson Memorial Forest »
Siobain Duffy awarded virology society's Junior Investigator Prize »
Urban plant research featured on cover of August 2017 issue of American Journal of Botany »
Graduate student's novel research secures multiple grants and ESA presentation award »
Jennifer Blake-Mahmud Awarded Best Oral Paper in the Physiology Section at Botany 2017 Conference »
Dr. Katalin Malcolm is joining our faculty
on Sept 1
Dr. Juan Bonachela will be joining our faculty on Jan 1, 2018 »
Distinguished Professor Tim Casey Retires After 40-Year Career at Rutgers »
Dr. Brooke Maslo discusses an upcoming 24 hour Bioblitz public event on Greenable Woodbridge TV »
Dr. Nazia N. Arbab Awarded at National Modeling Symposium »
Congratulations to the 2017 Senior Graduation Award Winners »
Most cities plan to protect biodiversity yet lack mechanisms to measure success »
See the SEBS/NJAES newsroom feature
Cara Faillace receives all three graduate student awards offered by the Graduate School New Brunswick »
Another win, but we're not bored yet! »
See coverage on the award in the SEBS/NJAES News Room
Megan King, EENR undergrad from Chrysler Herbarium wins Student Employee of the Year at Rutgers and in the State of NJ »
Feature about Megan in Rutgers Today | SEBS/NJAES News Room
Glad they didn't brush their teeth! »
Graduate student LaShanda Williams studies the human oral microbiome using the Cleveland Museum's Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection.
Centuries of human observations of lake and river ice chronicle hastened climate warming »
National Geographic Voices blog | Publication in Scientific Reports
(picture by J.J. Magnuson)
New paper in PNAS reveals how hunting can lead to species extinction »
Publication in PNAS | (picture by Aziz Saltik)
"Evolution in Action" poster exhibition will showcase student research and creativity (42k PDF) »
When it comes to extremes, biology puts up bigger numbers than the environment »
UW-Madison Press Release | "Extremes" Paper in PNAS
Personal Bioblitz starts on March 1 – how many species can you find? »
Brooke Maslo to investigate if rapid evolution rescues bats infected with white-nose syndrome »
Sorensen wins Outstanding Student Paper Award at AGU Conference »
Winter Ecology Students Experience the Snowy Central Adirondacks »
Life in the Cold Song
Rutgers undergraduates improve public access to scientific knowledge through Wikipedia »
Lena Struwe elected council member to the International Association of Plant Taxonomists (IAPT) »
Bhattacharya lab hosts 4-H Rutgerscience Saturday on Coral Reef Genomics »
Henry John-Alder Named AAAS Fellow »
Henry John-Alder portrayed in the SEBS/NJAES News RoomMeet the newest AAAS member in the Spring 2017 Explorations Magazine (page 7/8) (PDF).
The Maslo Lab Goes Batty on Halloween »
Batty YouTube Video
New paper from the Pinsky lab: where did Nemo go? »
Myla Aronson attends international workshop on urban
invasion ecology »