www.nytco.com
, 10/21/2015
The New York Times concludes today its second annual Food for Tomorrow conference at Stone Barns
Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, NY. The sold-out event has brought together the country's top food executives, food policy makers, farmers and chefs for discussions addressing a new
American food policy. Speakers and delegates have explored topics ranging from smarter school lunches and the future of food giants, to food legislation and the global water crisis... This year's expert lineup featured: Robert Kopp, associate director, Rutgers Energy Institute; associate professor, Earth &
Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University... The New York Times’s second annual Food for Tomorrow conference is presented in collaboration with Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, an innovative non-profit farm and education center.
www.sciencemag.org
, 11/13/2015
In the early 2000s, trawler crews working the Celtic Sea off Ireland noticed something unusual. Small, spiny, bright orange fish, called boarfish, began appearing in their nets in huge numbers. Previously, the intruders had been a minor nuisance; their sharp spines jammed equipment and damaged the soft flesh of more valuable species, such as cod and hake. Irritated crews tossed them overboard... Corals, crustaceans, seagrasses, and phytoplankton are among the many groups of organisms already showing effects from warming seas, researchers say. And fish are on the move, scientists have concluded in numerous studies, including a major survey led by ecologist Malin Pinsky of Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, in New Jersey.
After studying more than 40 years of census data on some 350 fish species found off North America, his team concluded that some 70% of the species were shifting their ranges, or moving to deeper or shallower waters, in response to changes wrought by warming...
Laboratory
Director Ken Able, a biologist at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, started methodically catching the hatchlings 26 years ago in a nearby estuary. Originally, the goal was to learn more about populations of summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus), a much-prized catch.

www.njtvonline.org
, 11/17/2015
For three years, 11 research projects studied the brackish Barnegat Bay from top to bottom. At Ocean
County College, they revealed their findings... The good: "Based upon the kinds of animals that are living in the sediment, their abundance, how tolerant they are to stresses that Barnegat Bay is in good shape," said Gary Tacghon, Director, Marine Science, Rutgers University... The bad: "Bird reproductivity has declined with these personal watercrafts getting too close. The birds flush, they leave their nests, every time a boat comes too close, it could be a few minutes, that's a couple minutes the birds are not sitting on their nests, and incubating the eggs," said Eden Buenaventura, graduate student at Rutgers
University... The state calls the Barnegat Bay research so important and so extraordinary, that it's making it available to world and plans to use this research for years to come, because as it says, improving Barnegat bay won't happen over night.
www.burlingtoncountytimes.com
, 11/18/2015
This article is written by Barbara and Wolf Skacel, Rutgers Master Gardeners of Burlington County since 2014 and active volunteers and gardeners in their community... What is a green roof? It's not a roof covered with moss, although it could be, if that is what you planned. A green roof is essentially a roof where plants are being grown... Technically, it is the creation of a naturally functioning meadow of plants grown on a rooftop. Did you know Moorestown has a green roof? It is one of the best-kept secrets in town, and was created by Sustainable Moorestown's Green Team under a Water Resources Grant from
Rutgers University (more info from Rutgers Fact Sheet FS1197)... A green roof will reduce the stormwater runoff. The soil on a green roof acts like a sponge and absorbs excess rainwater, slowly releasing it over days rather than letting it immediately discharge to the street below.
www.app.com
, 11/18/2015
While portions of Barnegat Bay's ecosystem appear strained by pollution, life remains resilient under its murky waves... The risks to bay life if phytoplankton disappear would be catastrophic. Native phytoplankton is eaten by zooplankton and other creatures, which feed clams, crabs and fish, Buchanan said... Yet, the same species that lived in Barnegat Bay in 1973 are still here now, said Gary Taghon, a professor of marine ecology at Rutgers University... "Their abundances have shifted, but they haven't disappeared," he said during a panel discussion at Ocean County College where researchers and environmentalists discussed the studies' results... The changes in the bay's ecology are speeding up, and are now noticeable within the span of a single human lifetime.

www.huffingtonpost.com
, 11/18/2015
With the catapulting trend of organoleptic analysis (tasting) of olive oil, many consumers are being distracted from the point of including super foods such as extra virgin olive oil in our diet in the first place.
Do we use it for the taste or for the many phenolic compounds bursting with medicinal qualities? Why not both?... As long as it is not rancid, all olive oil is good for you. It has monounsaturated fat, which is the
"good" fat and can replace animal fats for health and longevity. The latest scientific research in olive oil focuses on the health promoting aspects and uses of phenolic compounds, in particular oleocanthal.
Recent research at Rutgers University led by nutritional scientist Paul Breslin has shown oleocanthal to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
www.thesandpaper.com
, 11/18/2015
Since Superstorm Sandy, the most popular buzz-words among planners and municipal officials are
"resiliency" and "green infrastructure," said Lisa Auermuller as she opened Tuesday's conference focused on those very words, held at the Jacque Cousteau Estuarine Research Reserve Education Center in
Tuckerton. Planners, officials and concerned citizens from as far away as Staten Island and as close as
Tuckerton came, hoping to "make a better world, even if global warming is a hoax," to paraphrase a popular joke... Green infrastructure can be many things. It can be creating green spaces, new storm water practices and rules, building a rain garden, collecting water in a rain barrel or mitigating wetlands and shorelines with oyster reefs or coconut-fiber wave barriers... Chris Obropta from Rutgers
University's Water Resources Program and the Rutgers Cooperative Extension discussed green infrastructure in the urban landscape. He said it was his job to help people solve problems as cheaply as possible.
www.thetyee.ca
, 11/19/2015
"I see a screw-up coming." John Pomeroy shook his head in disbelief as the rainfall warnings arrived at his research station in southwestern Alberta. Environment Canada had predicted 100 millimetres of rain or more might fall in the Canadian Rockies. And now they were issuing a "high flow advisory, instead of the flood warning" that he fully expected. Where were the clanging alarm bells?... A compelling explanation comes from Jennifer Francis, a research professor at the Institute of Marine and
Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University.
Because the Arctic regions are heating up faster than any place on earth, she explains, the temperature difference between north and more temperate regions is shrinking... "Theory tells us that a decrease in the west-east flow tends to slow the eastward progression of waves in the jet stream," she says. "Because these waves control the formation and movement of

storms, slower wave progression means that weather conditions will be more persistent. In other words, they will seem more "stuck."
www.northjersey.com
, 11/21/2015
"It's only once a year," Bob Cratchit tells Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol." And it's that kind of un-Scrooge-like thinking that can turn the merriest holiday season into one that piles on months of debt...
As Barbara O'Neill, personal finance professor at Rutgers Cooperative Extension, notes, "People could save themselves a whole lot of stress and money if they just had a plan. But so many don't."... If paperwork gives you migraines, O'Neill recommends using online planners. Google "holiday spending calculator" and several options will come up. The budget planner at practical moneyskills.com has spaces for all of your holiday expenses, from gifts and home entertaining to travel and charitable donations... As far as holiday entertaining is concerned, O'Neill says a potluck is a time-honored option, but why not add a little fun to it? Have your guests vote for the best soup, entree or dessert, with a $50 gift card going to the top vote-getter.
www.dailyrecord.com
, 11/23/2015
For most families, Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without turkey. Or cranberries... Cranberry cultivation soon caught on in New Jersey, since cranberries grow wild on long-running vines in South
Jersey's sandy bogs and marshes. The Pine Barrens proved a perfect place for the beginning of a new cranberry industry... Because of the cranberry's importance to New Jersey agriculture, Rutgers
University maintains the Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and
Extension in Chatsworth.
Visit the center's website at http://pemaruccicenter.rutgers.edu/ . For more cranberry lore and and tasty recipes, go to www.pineypower.com/cranberries.htm
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www.sciencenews.org
, 11/23/2015
Even when the Arctic goes dark and cold, thinning ice could keep the North Pole from cooling off... The loss of insulating ice between the ocean and atmosphere increases the amount of heat-trapping water vapor and clouds in the Arctic air. That extra moisture keeps air temperatures relatively warm during fall and winter and melts even more ice, new climate simulations suggest. This self-reinforcing cycle could partially explain why Arctic warming has outpaced the global average over recent decades, researchers report online November 11 in the Journal of Climate... The work "demonstrates that it's really the Arctic that's causing the Arctic to warm so fast," says atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers

University in New Brunswick, N.J. "There's a lot more going on up there than just this [summer sea ice melting] that we've been hearing about for so long."
www.fi2w.org
, 11/23/2015
Tomatoes, corn, and peaches are the staples of New Jersey agriculture. But at Morris Gbolo's farm in the state's southern tip, crimson-hued amaranths and plump Liberian bitter ball are the prized crops... The
Gbolos are believed to be New Jersey's only African-born farm owners. They devote nearly 80 percent of their acreage to specialty crops like nightshade, jute leaves, roselle, Ghanaian pea eggplant (a berry-size vegetable, which Gbolo calls "kittley"), okra, habanero peppers, and a Liberian variety of bitter ball (a type of eggplant)... "Ethnic farms like Morris's cater to recent immigrants who cannot find the fresh specialty produce [of] their homelands," said Richard VanVranken, an agricultural agent at Rutgers
Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County who has studied New Jersey's ethnic food industry since the
1980s... VanVranken hired Gbolo to work in his extension program in 2006 and soon realized it was an opportunity to study African crops and learn from Gbolo, who had been a farmer and agriculture educator in Liberia.
www.nj.com
, 11/23/2015
In case you're wondering why the sky over New Jersey and New York City looked so spectacular Sunday evening as the sun began its descent, it all came down to perfect timing by broken clouds... A colorful sunset like Sunday's - with pretty shades of pink blending in with brilliant shades of orange, red and purple - happens from time to time in our region... David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers
University, attributed the scenic sunset to an abundance of broken clouds - primarily altostratus clouds, those that form in the middle level of the atmosphere and resemble sheets or layers — in the New Jersey sky Sunday evening.
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