News and Events Archive
![Kiera Malone](images/spotlights/Kiera-Malone-3.jpg)
Kiera Malone Awarded the 2019 Cookingham Scholarship »
![Photo: Michael Bolan, Marila Xie, Nanina Bryan, Connor Anderson, Hailey Conrad, and Adam Yawdoszyn](images/spotlights/2020-Honors-Students-research-team.jpg)
George H. Cook Honors Scholars Give Research Presentations »
![Photo: Red-winged blackbird . Photo courtesy of JudaM from Pixabay](images/spotlights/blackbird-cc-JudaM-from-Pixabay.jpg)
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.
![Photo: Sarota acantus photo courtesy of Lena Struwe](images/spotlights/Sarota-acantus-cc-Lena-Struwe.jpg)
It's on Again! 2020 Personal Bioblitz »
2020 Personal Bioblitz Project on iNaturalist
![Photo: Herbarium plant samlpe](images/spotlights/DSC_0159-sm.jpg)
Chrysler Herbarium, a Wealth of Treasures for the Future »
![2019 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment front cover](images/spotlights/2019-Frontiers_in_Ecology_and_the_Environment-1.jpg)
Max Piana et al. publish in Frontiers in Ecology, "Plants in the city: understanding recruitment dynamics in urban landscapes »
![Photo: School of fish in aquarium](images/spotlights/pixabay-21668-1280.jpg)
Warm-Water Species Are Rapidly Increasing and Cold-Water Species Are Decreasing »
Article in Nature Climate Change
![Photo: Malin Pinsky](images/spotlights/Malin-Pinsky-science-news.jpg)
Malin Pinsky has been selected as one of Science News' 2019 Scientists to Watch! »
![Photo: Humpback whale - Pixabay](images/spotlights/humpback-whale-pixabay.jpg)
Dramatic Increase in Whales in NJ/NYC Raises Safety Concerns»
Danielle Brown's Research - YouTube Video
![Photo: Pam Soltis, professor Lena Struwe, and president Mark Fishbein](images/spotlights/Lena-Struwe-Perer-Raven-Award-2019.jpg)
Lena Struwe Receives American Society of Plant Taxonomists' 2019 Peter Raven Award for Exceptional Outreach to Non-Scientists »
![Photo: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment front cover June 2019](images/spotlights/exotic-pet-cc-lockwood.jpg)
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
![Photo: acer male this year female last year. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Blake-Mahmud](images/spotlights/acer-male-this-year-female-last-year-3.jpg)
Switching It Up: Striped Maple Trees Change Sex, with Females More Likely to Die »
News Story in NewScientist | Article in Annals of Botany
![Photo: Bees Virescens male. Photo courtesy of Michael Roswell](images/spotlights/bees-virescens-male-cc-Michael-Roswelll.jpg)
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](images/spotlights/2019-Convocation-Class-rep-Jean-Pierre-Jacob.jpg)
Jean-Pierre Jacob (SEBS '19) Delivers the Class Representative Remarks at the SEBS 2019 Convocation on May 20, 2019! »
![Photo: Dorothy Lee. Photo courtesy of Phia Trinidad](images/spotlights/Dorothy-Lee-1.jpg)
Dorothy Lee Founded the Compost Club and Is a Leader in Social and Environmental Sustainability on the SEBS Campus »
![Photo: Senior gradution award winners Robert Helsel, Casey Hamilton, Emily Conway, Darrell Jones, Mary Powley and Tanner Yuhas. Photo courtesy of Suzanne Sukhdeo](images/spotlights/2019-senior-gradution-awards.jpg)
Congratulations to Our 2019 Senior Graduation Award Winners »
![Photo: Gotham Whale. Photo courtesy of Celia Ackerman](images/spotlights/gotham-whale-cc-Celia-Ackerman.jpg)
Danielle Brown's Research on Humpback Whales and Potential Vessel Encounters Was Published in Marine Policy »
![Black sea bass at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Georgia.](images/spotlights/black_sea_bass_grnms-large.jpg)
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. Becca Selden](images/spotlights/Selden-testimony.jpg)
Dr. Selden Discusses Climate Change as an Emerging Issue for Fisheries in Front of House Subcommittee »
![Photo: Prostrate knotweed. Photo by Lena Struwe](images/spotlights/l-struwe-prostrate-knotweed.jpg)
Melding New and Old Tech: Herbaria Illuminate Urban Plant Diversity »
![Aliya Caldwel holding award](images/spotlights/alya-caldwell-poster-award.jpg)
EENR Undergraduate Research Student Aliya Caldwell Wins First Place in Poster Competition at the Rutgers Microplastics Conference »
![Arbor Day Photo Contest finalist, photo courtesy of Tushar Roy](images/spotlights/2019-arbor-day-photo-contest-1.jpg)
The Rutgers Urban Forestry Program Will Host the 2019 NJ State Arbor Day Celebration »
"Seed to Saw" - From Bur Oak to Lumber (Video)
![images/spotlights/MalinPinsky-1.jpg](images/spotlights/MalinPinsky-1.jpg)
Malin Pinsky Announced Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America »
![Black Sea Bass, photo credit Orion Weldon](images/spotlights/Fisheries-Black-Sea-Bass-1.png)
Climate Change Shrinks Many Fisheries Globally »
![birds nest fungus Crucibulum laeve cc Lena Struwe](images/spotlights/birdsnestfungus-Crucibulum-laeve-cc-Lena-Struwe.jpg)
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
![Banded Blue Jay. Photo courtesy of Jeff Brown](images/spotlights/Banded_Blue_Jay_Jeff_Brown-sm.jpg)
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
![storm surge, image courtesy of Dr. Brooke Maslo](images/spotlights/restored-meadow-Watson-Ave-Nov-2018.jpg)
Brooke Maslo's Efforts to Increase Climate Resiliency in NJ Communities Featured on PBS »
![Commercial fishing boat](images/spotlights/commercial-fishing-boat-pixabay.jpg)
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
![storm surge, Dr. Brooke Maslo](images/spotlights/storm-surge-3735936-1920-pixabay.jpg)
Brooke Maslo's Interview About Her Work on Flood Plain Restoration Broadcast on German Public Radio »
![Trail map](images/spotlights/lathrop-new-trail2.jpg)
Rick Lathrop Opens New Wildlife Loop Trail in Rutgers EcoPreserve »
![Dr. Brooke Maslo holding an American oystercatcher](images/spotlights/maslo-oystercatcher1.jpg)
Brooke Maslo's Research Evaluates the Impacts of Severe Storms on Endangered Beach Fauna »
![Dr. Rachael Winfree](images/spotlights/Rachael-Winfree-advisory-board.jpg)
Dr. Rachael Winfree Joins the Duke Farms Scientific Advisory Board »
![Raptor on table - Cape May Raptor Banding Project](images/spotlights/raptor1-cape-may-raptor-banding-project.jpg)
Rutgers Students Darrell Jones and Jack Kellogg Accompany Cape May Raptor Banding Project »
![Cod](images/spotlights/cod-pixabay.jpg)
Dr. Malin Pinsky Interviewed in Podcast "The Atlantic Cod Is Leaving U.S. Waters" Presented at Yale Climate Connections»
![Dr. Henry John-Alder](images/spotlights/Henry_John-Alder.jpg)
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.
![Students looking at plants during class](images/spotlights/boa-constrictor-pet-pixabay-webherper.jpg)
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 »
![Chris Martine](images/spotlights/Chris-Martine-Victoria-xing.jpg)
DEENR alumnus Chris Martine gets national outreach award »
![red knot, Photo credit: Mark Peck, Royal Ontario Museum](images/spotlights/rufa-red-knot-cc-Mark-Peck.jpg)
Mapping Endangered Red Knots' Remote Breeding Habitat »
![Dr. Lena Struwe](images/spotlights/Lena-Struwe-Bessey-Teaching-Award.jpg)
Lena Struwe Receives the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award by the Botanical Society of America »
Congratulations by IAPT president Pat Herendeen »
![Design Plans](images/spotlights/maslo-design-plans-woodbridge.jpg)
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 »
![Photo of a bee, courtesy of F. Benjamin](images/spotlights/andrena_blueberry_fbenjamin-sm.jpg)
Rachael Winfree:
Crop Pollination Depends on Communities of Wild Bees »
![Photo of a fishing boat](images/spotlights/fishing-boat-pixabay-detmold.jpg)
Climate Change Means Fish Are Moving Faster Than Regulations
Article in the SEBS Newsroom » | Article in Science »
![Members of TWS Rutgers Chapter haul wood down the trail for the new boardwalk.](images/spotlights/RU-TWS-student-chapter-hauls-wood.jpg)
See the RU Wildlife Society Student Chapter's Activities Highlighted in the NJ TWS Newsletter (620k PDF)
![Photo of a Lucia Weinman](images/spotlights/Lucia-Weinman-field-work.jpg)
Lucia Weinman's Research on Bees Featured in Great Lakes Research and Education Center's Facebook Post »
![2018 senior graduation award winners group photo](images/spotlights/2018-senior-gradution-awards.jpg)
Congratulations to Our 2018 Senior Graduation Award Winners »
![Photo of a bee](images/spotlights/winfree-bee10.jpg)
Rachael Winfree's NSF Grant and Recent Science Paper Are Featured on the NSF Biological Sciences Web Site
![Joyce Ong](images/spotlights/Joyce-Ong.jpg)
Say What?
Fish Have Ears and People Study Them? »
![Photo of Rafael Valentin](images/spotlights/Rafael_Valentin_field_work2.jpg)
Rafael Valentin's and Dr. Julie Lockwood's Research Highlight in Nature »
Article in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment »
![Photo of James Duffy](undergrad/images/2017/spotlights/Duffy_ResearchPic.jpg)
James Duffy (SEBS '18) Delivers the Class Representative Remarks at the SEBS 2018 Convocation on May 14, 2018! »
![Photo School of fish](images/spotlights/school-of-fish-pixabay-NickJack.jpg)
Malin Pinsky Was Appointed to Oceana Science Advisor to Promote Dialogue and Collaboration Around Oceana's "Save the Oceans, Feed the World" Campaign »
![Photo of Marci Meixler](images/Marci-Meixler-Presidential-Award-for-Excellence-in-Teaching-sm.jpg)
Marci Meixler wins Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching »
![Photo of Julie Lockwood](images/Julie-Lockwood-research-excellence-award-sm.jpg)
Julie Lockwood wins the SEBS Research Excellence Award »
![Photo of fishing boats and lobster traps pixabay Richard442](images/fishing-boats-pixabay-Richard442-sm.jpg)
Malin Pinsky was interviewed on NPR about a new paper published by his lab »
![Photo of Max Nausbaum, Sam Fagundez, Rita Grunberg (grad student) and Elise McKean](images/Nausbaum-Fagundez-Grunberg-McKean-poster-presentation-sm.jpg)
Sam Fagundez wins first prize in poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting »
![school of permits pixabay](images/school-of-permits-pixabay-sm.jpg)
Malin Pinsky gives the "Rising Star in Ecology" talk at the University of Toronto's Atwood Colloquium »
![Photo of a Brown Trout](images/lockwood-brown-trout-iStock-147076805-2018-03-12-sm.jpg)
When an invasive species is a recreational fisherman's dream catch »
![Photo of Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs](images/brown-marmorated-stink-bug-cc-JLockwood-sm.jpg)
Does biodiversity really matter to human well-being? »
![Photo: Group photo in Tierra Del Fuego, Chile](images/team-in-Chile_Lathrop-sm.jpg)
Lathrop tied in knots at the end of the world »
Rutgers Today | SEBS/NJAES Newsroom Story | Conserve Wildlife Blog
![Pruning the oaks on Lipman Drive](images/pruning-the-oaks-on-Lipman-Drive-sm.jpg)
Arborists' Work Day at Rutgers »
![Photo: killer whale orca breaching the ocean, CC0 Pixabay Skeeze](images/killer-whale-1945421_640_cc0_pixabay_skeeze-sm.jpg)
The president's proposed budget would eliminate an agency that has been protecting crucial species for more than 40 years »
Article in Scientific American
![young seedlings growing out of bottles](images/Jennifer-Blake-Mahmud-bottles-1-sm.jpg)
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
![Photo: Fishing boats.](images/Malin_Pinsky_IMGP0176_thumbnail_sm.jpg)
Alice In Wonderland has lessons for climate adaptation »
![bombus veronicastrum photo courtesy of M Macleod](images/bombus_veronicastrum_sm_cc_mmacleod.jpg)
Science paper finds the more bee species, the better the pollination »
Article in Science | SEBS/NJAES Newsroom Story
![image of a hard fern](images/hard_ferns_cc_by_nc_Lena_Struwe-sm.jpg)
The Personal Bioblitz starts March 1st, 2018 »
Article in Rutgers Today | Instructions how to sign up
![view of plants on a lab bench with learning materials, image courtesy of Susanne Ruemmele](images/botany-depot-spotlight-DSC_0092-sm.jpg)
Lena Struwe launches Botany Depot – global botanical education resource »
Botany-Depot website link | Rutgers Today coverage | SEBS/NJAES Newsroom story | Botany-Depot facebook page
![Johnny Quispe in the field](images/Johnny-Quispe-spotlight-Rising-TIDES-sm.jpg)
E&E Grad student selected for CERF's Rising TIDES conference mentoring program »
![Eden Buenaventura presents during the GIS Day 2017 event](images/GIS_Day_2017_Eden_Buenaventura_sm2.jpg)
Former EENR student presents at GIS day »
![Yellow trout lily (Erythronium americanum), photo courtesy of Tina Harrison](images/Erythronium_americanum_c_Tina_Harrison-sm.jpg)
Forests are critical habitat for diverse communities of native bees »
Link to full paper in Global Change Biology
![HMF students identify forest plants](images/HMFstudents-sm2.jpg)
Appalachian Mountain Club's AMC Outdoors magazine features the Hutcheson Memorial Forest »
![Siobain Duffy, Ann Palmenberg, Stacey Horner](images/Duffy-Junior-Investigator-Prize-sm2.jpg)
Siobain Duffy awarded virology society's Junior Investigator Prize »
![cover photo of American Journal of Botany August 2017](images/AJBAugustCover_Aronson-sm2.jpg)
Urban plant research featured on cover of August 2017 issue of American Journal of Botany »
![Rafael Valentin](images/Rafael_Valentin_news_events_page.jpg)
Graduate student's novel research secures multiple grants and ESA presentation award »
![Acer pensylvanicum leaves](images/Acer-pensylvanicum-DSCN1890-n-and-e.jpg)
Jennifer Blake-Mahmud Awarded Best Oral Paper in the Physiology Section at Botany 2017 Conference »
![Katalin Malcolm](images/Katalin_Malcolm_news_events_sm.jpg)
Dr. Katalin Malcolm is joining our faculty
on Sept 1
![Juan Bonachela](images/Juan_Bonachela_sm.jpg)
Dr. Juan Bonachela will be joining our faculty on Jan 1, 2018 »
![Tim Casey](images/Tim-Casey-sm.jpg)
Distinguished Professor Tim Casey Retires After 40-Year Career at Rutgers »
![Dr. Brooke Maslo on Greenable Woodbridge](images/Maslo_Greenable_Woodbridge_Bioblitz2017_sm.jpg)
Dr. Brooke Maslo discusses an upcoming 24 hour Bioblitz public event on Greenable Woodbridge TV »
![Dr. Nazia N. Arbab](images/Nazia_Arbab_PEA_ABM_sm.jpg)
Dr. Nazia N. Arbab Awarded at National Modeling Symposium »
![award winners image courtesy of Suzanne Sukhdeo](images/Baccalaureate2017_sm.jpg)
Congratulations to the 2017 Senior Graduation Award Winners »
![Dr. Myla Aronson and group of scientists](images/SESYNC_12_3013_201_sm.jpg)
Most cities plan to protect biodiversity yet lack mechanisms to measure success »
See the SEBS/NJAES newsroom feature
![Cara Faillace](images/Cara_Faillace_GSNB_award_winner2017_5.jpg)
Cara Faillace receives all three graduate student awards offered by the Graduate School New Brunswick »
![Jason Grabosky](/images/Jason_Grabosky_Excellence_teaching2017_sm.jpg)
Another win, but we're not bored yet! »
See coverage on the award in the SEBS/NJAES News Room![Megan King](/images/Megan_King_Rutgers_student_employee2017_sm.jpg)
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
![teeth, photo courtesy of LaShanda Williams](/images/human_oral_microbiome3.jpg)
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.
![priests on Lake Suwa. Image courtesy of J.J. Magnuson](/images/Magnuson_lake_river_ice3_Priests.jpg)
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)
![bluefin tuna, photo by Aziz Saltik (flickr)](/images/bluefin_tuna_flickr_aziz_saltik_sm.jpg)
New paper in PNAS reveals how hunting can lead to species extinction »
Publication in PNAS | (picture by Aziz Saltik)
![Fundamentals of Evolution: poster exhibit. Photo credit: Susanne Ruemmele](/images/2016_fundamentals_evolution_poster_exhibit_sm.jpg)
"Evolution in Action" poster exhibition will showcase student research and creativity (42k PDF) »
![Ryan Batt takes a reading of oxygen levels in a Center for Limnology study lake in Northern Wisconsin. Photo courtesy of STEVE CARPENTER](/images/ExtremesPaper_Batt_Carpenter_sm.jpg)
When it comes to extremes, biology puts up bigger numbers than the environment »
UW-Madison Press Release | "Extremes" Paper in PNAS
![Photo: stilt legged fly; photo taken in Costa Rica during the 2015 Bioblitz; Image courtesy of Lena Struwe (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/](/images/stiltlegged_fly_2015_cc_Lena_Struwe.jpg)
Personal Bioblitz starts on March 1 – how many species can you find? »
![student examining a bat](images/little_brown_bats_tissue_sample_collection_sm.jpg)
Brooke Maslo to investigate if rapid evolution rescues bats infected with white-nose syndrome »
![Amanda Sorensen](images/Amanda_Sorensen_Outstanding_Student_Paper_Award_AGU_sm.jpg)
Sorensen wins Outstanding Student Paper Award at AGU Conference »
![Students hiking](images/winter_ecology_2017_hike1_sm.jpg)
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 »