Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences [Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources]

Research and Project Highlights
 

Highlights of the 5th Annual SER Mid-Atlantic Conferencee held on Cook Campus included a keynote address by Steven Handel, and posters presented by graduate students Amy Karpati, Elena Tartaglia with Katie Barry, and Brooke Maslo.

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Community Ecology: Processes, Models, and Applications Peter Morin and Herman Verhoef (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) have edited a book published by Oxford University Press. The book is based in part on a graduate course that Morin, Verhoef and colleagues taught in the Netherlands. The book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in both the theory and applications of community ecology. It pays special attention to topology, dynamics, and the importance of spatial and temporal scale while also looking at applications to emerging problems in human-dominated ecosystems.

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eukaryogenesis In Nature Reviews Genetics Jeferson Gross and Debashish Bhattacharya proposed a host-driven model of organelle evolution.   Alternatively, the necessary protein transport mechanisms might arisen from the symbiont.  Just how did eukaryote cells evolve?
Read Gross, Bhattacharya  Read a response in Science
 

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Watershed Management Areas

The New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program is a community-oriented AmeriCorps environmental program designed to raise awareness about watershed issues in New Jersey. Through this program, AmeriCorps members are placed in watershed management areas across the state to serve their local communities.

Lisa Dunne and Lindsay Harrington, both '09 grads of the Ecology and Natural Resources Program, are Watershed Ambassadors.

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 Kira Dacanay ('06) interned at the Mote Marine Lab after graduating. She became a NJ Watershed Amabassador (see above) and then was hired by the NJ DEP to review coastal land-use permitKira Dacanay in the Pinelands applications. Now, she is studying bivalve aquaculture policy at URI. Her work could influence the permitting process in that growing industry. There is more: Kira is spending 4 months in the Philippines to collect data to evaluate the community benefits of population, health, and environment interventions in place there.

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Imagine if this was your job: Ray Dodd is working with the USGS in Superior National Forest, MN under David Mech.  They are trapping and radio-collaring wolves as part of the 2nd longest wolf study in the US.  Pictured here is Ray with their first wolf after three weeks of trapping.  It's a 65lb male.        Read more.
 

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Julie Lockwood Dr. Lockwood is an author of a new book:

Avian Invasions:

Tim M. Blackburn, Julie L. Lockwood, and Phillip Cassey
 

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