Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources

• Restoring American Chestnut Trees to Northeastern Forests

  

  Drs. Steven Handel, Belén Sánchez Humanes and Christina Kaunzinger from the department’s Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE) are planting hybrid chestnut trees in forest gaps at Duke Farms, Hillsborough, NJ. Their goal is to determine if forest gaps, created by removal of non-native species, provide a viable re-entry location for chestnut’s return to northeastern forests. READ MORE

• Symposium on Applied and Environmental Genomics

  DEENR partnered with NJAES, SEBS Office of Grants Facilitation, and Illumina Inc. recently to host a symposium on Applied and Environmental Genomics at SEBS. Invited speakers included Andreas Weber from the Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düesseldorf, Germany, Dr. Michael Thompson (Illumina) who discussed the use of genome data in plant breeding and crop improvement, and Dr. Eric Alm from MIT (hosted by RU Environmental Sciences) who discussed how genome data can be used to understand the response of genomes to large-scale environmental change. Speakers from Rutgers also presented vignettes of their research in genomics. Read more about the SEBS Genome Cooperative.

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Our interdisciplinary department specializes in ecology, evolution, and natural resource conservation. We study the evolutionary origins and maintenance of biodiversity, conserving and restoring native ecosystems, and issues of global change such as managing natural resources within urban ecosystems.

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