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HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Experts debunk fringe theory linking China's coronavirus to weapons researchThe Washington Post, 1/29/2020As China attempts to contain the spread of a new coronavirus that has left more than 100 people dead, rumors and disinformation have spread amid the scramble for answers... "Based on the virus genome and properties there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus," said?Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University.A snow drought? Here's where our low-snow January ranks in N.J. history., 1/29/2020January is almost over, and no snow is in the New Jersey weather forecast the next three days. No big surprise. That's how most of this month has been. In fact, January 2020 is virtually guaranteed to be the 11th least-snowy January ever recorded in the Garden State, according to?New Jersey State Climatologist David Robinson, whose office at Rutgers University oversees the state's weather stats. The data goes all the way back to 1895.Robot kayaks discover that the basin of a 20-mile long glacier in Alaska is melting 100 TIMES faster than previously thoughtDaily Mail, 1/30/2020Seaborne robots have made a startling discovery beneath a 20-mile glacier in Alaska. The technology found the massive rivers of ice may be melting under the LeConte Glacier much faster than previously thought... Lead author?Rebecca Jackson, a physical oceanographer and assistant professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, said: "With the kayaks, we found a surprising signal of melting: Layers of concentrated meltwater intruding into the ocean that reveal the critical importance of a process typically neglected when modeling or estimating melt rates."The Worst Climate Scenarios May No Longer Be the Most LikelyScientific American, 1/30/2020One of the most fundamental questions in climate research asks the following: What will the world look like when we reach a certain point of warming? How will it change after 2 degrees? 4 degrees? Even warmer?.. The scenario in question - dubbed Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5, or RCP8.5 - is often referred to in climate studies as a "business-as-usual" trajectory.?Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at?Rutgers University, has previously pointed out on Twitter that "from a climate science perspective, RCP 8.5 is very useful, since we would like to know how models simulate a 5C world," adding that climate models rarely run beyond the year 2100.Gloucester County teen named 2020 Equestrian of the , 1/30/2020Grayson Link, an 18-year-old Paul VI High School senior from Franklinville in Gloucester County, was named the 2020 New Jersey Equestrian of the Year by the New Jersey Equine Advisory Board... Grayson started riding on her third birthday and began riding lessons at age 5. She went on to be the?4-H?Equestrian of the Year in 2019, the Gloucester County Equestrian of the Year in each of the last two years and to be involved in the 4-H horse program for 14 years.4-H members represent NJ at National Agri-Science Youth , 1/30/2020Fourteen?4-H?members represented New Jersey at the National Agri-Science Youth Summit held Jan. 9 to 12 at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center located in Chevy Chase, Maryland... The 4-H Youth Development Program is part of Rutgers, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station - Cooperative Extension.Book examines numerical models on climate change researchMorning Ag Clips, 1/30/2020Syukuro Manabe and?EOAS faculty member Anthony Broccoli, longtime associates, have co-authored a book published by Princeton University Press titled "Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change." The book chronicles the history of climate modeling and how it can forecast climate change with amazing accuracy and contribute to more accurate predictions about the Earth's health in the decades to come. Broccoli is a professor and chair of the?Department of Environmental Sciences?at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and is also co-director of the?Rutgers Climate Institute.Pompton Lakes plans to restore rivers' ecosystems to fight , 1/31/2020The Floodplain Restoration and Implementation Master Plan, prepared in partnership with the?Rutgers Cooperative Extension, lays out strategies to protect residents and business owners from floodwaters through the restoration and improvement of the riverside ecosystem.NJ lawmakers seek better menu of school foodsNJ101.5, 2/3/2020Daniel Hoffman, professor of nutritional sciences at?Rutgers University, said while school meals are a key vehicle towards preventing obesity, it should not be the overriding rationale for setting school food guidelines - food insecurity, he said, remains a major public health problem for about 300,000 children in New Jersey. "There is a disconnect between what we offer our children and what they actually eat. Just because we provide nutritious foods does not necessarily mean that they will actually eat it," Hoffman added. "Our menus reside at the mercy of their moods, behaviors, attitudes, past experiences, even friends, and perhaps most importantly, not enough time to eat."As Punxsutawney Phil takes his turn, winter is still nowhere in sight, real forecasters sayThe Morning Call, 2/3/2020Regardless of whether Punxsutawney Phil does or does not see his shadow Sunday morning, the winter of 2019-20 indisputably has been a shadow of itself... "The fact that snow comes so infrequently, it has such a huge interannual variability," said?David. A. Robinson, a?Rutgers University?professor who has become an international go-to person on snow matters. In the winter of 2009-10, a record 78 inches was measured in Philadelphia, or 260 times what has fallen so far this winter.NJ weather: After a mild January, days of snow, rain and iceAsbury Park Press, 2/3/2020An uncommonly mild January has given way to a calm start to February, but that tranquility is not going to survive the week, according to the National Weather Service and private meteorologists... "According to preliminary data, January 2020 in New Jersey was the ninth mildest since records commenced in 1895, averaging 37.3 degrees - 6.6 degrees above average," according to a prepared statement from Rutgers University Professor?David A. Robinson, who is also the?New Jersey State Climatologist. With just 1.3 inches of average snowfall statewide, January 2020 clocked in as the 11th-least-snowy January on record, Robinson said.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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