Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources

09/01/2023

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Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Ruters, SEBS

04/23/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Julie Lockwood

Julie Lockwood, chair and professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was elected a 2020 fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The society’s fellowsh…

02/24/2020

Hot off the Press! NJAES just published our brand new factsheet titled "Attracting Ruby-throated Hummingbirds to Your Yard" As spring grows closer, think about planting a few of the native species listed in the factsheet to increase hummingbird habitat in your own backyard!

https://njaes.rutgers.edu/fs1316/



photo credit: Bud Hensley

02/12/2020

Congratulation to Kiera Malone!

Kiera Malone (SEBS’20), a senior in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was awarded the 2019 Cookingham Scholarship, an annual $1000 scholarship made possible by an e…

12/24/2019

See what DEENR is up to in the first digital version of Explorations.

12/04/2019

Dr. Malin Pinsky's work is highlighted

Warm-water species are rapidly increasing and cold-water species are decreasing The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, covers species that are important for fisheries and that s…

12/02/2019

Centuries ago naturalists and scientists were busy cataloguing and collecting specimens of the natural world. Driving this may have been a desire to tame the wildness of nature, or perhaps the comf…

10/31/2019

10/11/2019

Join the Herbarium Open House!

Join the Herbarium Army at Chrysler Herbarium for a night!

17 October 2019

OPEN HOUSE and WeDigBio night at the Chrysler Herbarium

Become an Herbarium Army intern for a few hours and help us discover and write down label data from thousands of our specimens as part of WeDigBio 2019 – a global, annual volunteer event for biodiversity science. Bring a laptop and we will train you on the spot. Food, buttons, and stickers for all participants! All students, staff, faculty and other volunteers welcome.

PLEASE REGISTER before Oct 13 (late registrations will be accepted if there is space): https://tinyurl.com/CHRBWeDigBio2019

WHEN? Thursday October 17, 2019; 4.00-8.00 PM (arrive when you can = drop in!)

WHERE? Chrysler Herbarium, Biological Sciences Building Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, Room 001 (basement); 32 Bishop Street, New Brunswick, NJ

Visit the last internationally recognized herbarium in New Jersey! Home to more than 200,000 museum specimens of plants, fungi and algae dating back to the early 1800s, and used in biodiversity and climate research.

Contacts and Information:
E-mail Megan King ([email protected]) or Lena Struwe ([email protected])
Homepage: https://herbarium.rutgers.edu/

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10/08/2019

Dr. Brooke Maslo and her work with Blue Acres program

But even as state’s buyout program recently made its 700th purchase, critics say it has barely scratched the surface

10/08/2019

Getting to know Dr. Malin Pinsky and how he came to the science he does today.

As global temperatures rise, Malin Pinsky’s research attempts to understand how marine ecosystems are changing and why.

10/04/2019

Wetland Ecology students exploring a storm water wetland in Livingston Campus. Students are learning essential vegetation sampling and analysis techniques for wetland identification and delineation.