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HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" N.J. weather: A brutally cold Valentine's Day is on the way, but where's the snow?, 2/11/2020It finally will feel like winter in New Jersey on Valentine's Day, as a blast of Arctic air drifts down from Canada and brings some of the coldest temperatures we've had the past few weeks. But sorry, all you snow lovers and plow operators out there — no big snowstorms are looming... In case you're wondering if this winter has been the least snowiest on record in New Jersey, here's the answer. The Garden State had one winter with a statewide average of only 4 inches of snow falling the entire season, according to data from?New Jersey State Climatologist David Robinson, whose office is based at?Rutgers University.?That was back in the winter of 1972 to 1973.Marine experts investigate manatee death in N.J.WHYY, 2/11/2020Officials on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused the death of a manatee in southern New Jersey... “Generally with these guys, especially up in this area, if we find them deceased, it’s somehow associated with the cold water,” Jay Pagel of the New Jersey-based Marine Mammal Stranding Center told WCAU-TV. “It’s quite possible this could be related to climate change,” Pagel said. The center suspects the manatee had been dead for at least a month.?The Rutgers Cape Shore Laboratory?is helping with the investigation. “Typically we just work with oysters and shellfish and we don’t expect anything this large on the beach,” said lab official?Sam Ratcliff.What happens in a nuclear apocalypse?Fox News, 2/11/2020Endless films and books have dealt with the nuclear apocalypse and its aftermath, but what would a nuclear apocalypse really look like??Rutgers University Professor Alan Robock?spoke with Fox News about the Armageddon and his team's new study regarding a nuclear war's effects on ocean life... "A nuclear bomb is like bringing a piece of the sun to the surface of the earth for a fraction of a second, and everything within a certain distance would just flash into fire," Robock said. "In Hiroshima, there was a bomb that was 15 kilotons of explosive power, and everything within several square miles just burned and produced smoke."Why Singapore has so many coronavirus casesThe Washington Post, 2/11/2020Singapore often receives praise for its health-care system, which has been singled out as a possible model for other countries, including the United States. Singapore's willingness to face the coronavirus outbreak head-on has earned it some praise. But some experts said that the number of cases in Singapore was reason to worry. "Singapore has sustained community transmission despite most capable government on planet, best healthcare system on planet, and warm weather,"?Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at?Rutgers University, tweeted Tuesday.Kiera Malone awarded the 2019 Cookingham ScholarshipMorning Ag Clips, 2/11/2020Kiera 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 endowment from Russell A. Cookingham, former Director of the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife.Hillsborough 4-H Member Represents Somerset County at State ConventionTap into Hillsborough, 2/12/2020Somerset County 4-H member Susie Norz?represented Somerset County at the New Jersey Agricultural Convention recently. As an honored Somerset County Outstanding 4-H'er and the member of four separate clubs; she met with several state leaders, including? August Wuillermin. state Board of Agriculture president, Stephen Sweeney, New Jersey Senate president and Doug Fisher, New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture.N.J.'s 20 most romantic spots for Valentine's , 2/13/2020Passion Puddle, Rutgers University?- It sounds so Jersey, doesn't? More a pond than a puddle, it's located between the Cook and Douglass campuses and is as much a Rutgers tradition as the infamous grease trucks, which, unfortunately, are no longer. Legend goes that if a male student from Cook College and a female student from Douglass College hold hands and walk three times around the pond, they'll get married. Seems like it should work for any couple — student or otherwise. The Puddle is nationally known: It ranked sixth on a list of the nation's 25 most romantic college campus spots.Scarlet Knights Compete in the 2020 GCSAA Turf BowlMorning Ag Clips, 2/13/2020Wearing matching polo shirts, seven students from Rutgers University represented the Scarlet Knights at the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) annual Turf Bowl event in Orlando, Florida. In 2020, for the first time, the GCSAA allowed 2-Year Certificate students to compete and?Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School?is thrilled to have sent an inaugural team!.. "Having Rutgers place in the top half shows how invaluable the 2-year program stacks with top schools," said?Maxwell Lyons, a 2-Year Certificate student from Milburn Golf & Country Club in Overland Park, Kansas. "My returning teammates and I will prepare all year for a definite shot at Top 5 in Las Vegas 2021."Rutgers Researches Celebrate Their Chemistry on Valentine's Day vTapInto New Brunswick, 2/14/2020This Valentine's Day,?Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello?and Martin Blaser will likely be at home doing what they do most nights. They'll make dinner, spend time on their laptops, writing and editing research papers, thinking about their most recent discoveries and feeling lucky that they found each other. "I was lucky to marry someone as wonderful as Gloria," says Blaser, the director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and professor of medicine and microbiology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "There's a lot of respect and love between us," says Dominguez-Bello, director of the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, the Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health in the?Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology?at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and in the Department of Anthropology at the School of Arts and Sciences.Winter has returned (for two whole days), as Philly flirts with records for lack of coldThe Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/14/2020Snow? Sorry, wrong winter, and the lack of it probably has contributed to the lack of cold, said?David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist?and keeper of the Rutgers University SnowLab. Of course, most of the time it hasn't been cold enough to snow, and the absence of either might well be related to the other. "You don't know whether it"s the dog wagging the tail, or the tail wagging the dog," said Paul Walker, a meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. In any event, that dog likely is not a Siberian Husky.Despite climate change, no dropoff in average snowfall in South JerseyThe Press of Atlantic City, 2/16/2020Even in a climate-changing world, the lack of snow this season in South Jersey is more the exception than the rule, experts say. "Just because this season hasn't produced much in the way of snowstorms, it doesn't mean one should give up on a future without snow," said?David Robinson, the state climatologist and distinguished professor at?Rutgers University.Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunkedThe Washington Post, 2/16/2020Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China... "There's absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered," said?Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at?Rutgers University.?"The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded."Phytophthora-tolerant and -resistant bell pepper variety trial reportsMorning Ag Clips, 2/16/2020Phytophthora blight caused by Phytophthora capsici is one of the most economically important diseases in pepper, tomato, and cucurbit production in New Jersey. Each year for the past few decades Rutgers has evaluated new bell pepper cultivars and breeding lines for their resistance to P. capsici in field trials at the?Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center?(RAREC) near Bridgeton, New Jersey, and in some years at research trials on farms near Vineland, NJ.Sen. Tom Cotton Still Pitching Debunked Theory About CoronavirusHuffpost, 2/17/2020Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) continues to push a debunked conspiracy theory that the coronavirus is linked to a biological lab in China and may have started as an unleashed biological weapon...?Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at?Rutgers University, told the Post that there was nothing in the genome sequence of the coronavirus that indicated it had been engineered. "The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded," Ebright added.Cotton repeats coronavirus conspiracy theory, despite evidenceMSNBC, 2/17/2020Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China... The problem with the pitch, of course, is that the question has already been asked -- and answered. As?Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at?Rutgers University, explained, "There's absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered. The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded."How coronavirus is worsening U.S.-China tensionsThe Washington Post, 2/18/2020In the early stages of the crisis, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called for a full shutdown of commercial travel between China and the United States. He later repeatedly floated the possibility that the outbreak could be the result of a deliberate Chinese bioweapon... Experts soon poured cold water on Cotton's speculative claims. "There's absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered,"?Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at?Rutgers University, told my colleagues. "The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded."We invite you to send an email to?InTheNews@aesop.rutgers.edu?alerting us when you are quoted in a story or if your program is mentioned in the news. Please send links of news,?as it happens, as some media outlets do not retain online links beyond a week.Visit the newly redesigned SEBS and NJAES Newsroom at?sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu. ................
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