Bingru Huang examines Rutgers turfgrass cultivars in greenhouse. Photo credit: Courtesy of Bingru Huang

October 2011

Spotlight Bingru Huang Named Ralph Geiger Endowed Chair in Turfgrass Science Bingru Huang (Plant Biology and Pathology) was approved as the Ralph Geiger Endowed Chair in Turfgrass Science by the Rutgers University Board of Governors (BOG) on October 12. Huang succeeds Bruce Clarke (Plant Biology and Pathology; director of the Rutgers' Center for Turfgrass Science), who was named the inaugural chair in 2005. Huang, an expert in turfgrass stress physiology, joined the faculty in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in 2000 and has served as the Director of the Graduate Program in Plant Biology. “Bingru Huang is among a cadre of outstanding young scientists at Rutgers who are

enthusiastically and deeply engaged in teaching and mentoring our students,” said Bob Goodman (executive dean). “Her particular expertise in turfgrass tolerance to environmental stresses was highly sought by Rutgers and has led to fruitful collaborations with several institutions across the globe,” added Goodman. The BOG resolution praised Huang for having “greatly expanded our understanding of how environmental stress affects plant health through her outstanding work, which has solved complex problems in basic research and applied that research to practical problems in turfgrass management.”

Huang earned her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. Prior to coming to Rutgers, she

was an assistant professor at Kansas State University for four years.

The Ralph Geiger Endowed Chair in Turfgrass Science was funded by an endowment from Ralph Geiger, an avid golfer and philanthropist who donated generously to the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science.

The center is regarded as one of the premier research, teaching, and outreach institutions of its kind in the world and its cultivars can be found everywhere from New York's Central Park to the White House and Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers. Read more.

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Sebahat Kilinc, left, a Turkish farmer, is interviewed by Robin Brumfield and Burhan Ozkan of Akdeniz University, Turkey. Photo: Mick Minard @REEF Reports

The local strategic partners for the pilot project include (first row, second from left) Robin Brumfield; Burhan Ozkan, professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Advisor to Rector and Coordinator for Bologna Process Coordination Office at Akdeniz University; Bedrullah Ercin, Provincial Director of Food, Agriculture and Livestock in Antalya Province; Mick Minard, and a select team of Agricultural Extension Educators working at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock in Antalya Province, Turkey.

Spotlight Robin Brumfield Leads Project for Turkish Women Farmers A pilot program conducted by a Rutgers-led partnership to train approximately 45 Turkish women farmers who are small-scale citrus and tomato greenhouse producers is being

conducted in Kumluca, Turkey, from October 24 to November 18. Robin Brumfield (extension specialist in farm management, Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics) and Mick Minard, photographer and communications strategy consultant with an expertise in reporting the impact of market-based strategies for social change formed this important partnership with Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey. Inspired by the impact of Annie’s Project, a nationally recognized risk management educational program for female farmers operating in the United States, Brumfield and partners will adapt the Annie’s Project model to train Turkish women farmers on the basic skills and best practices necessary for them to sustain and scale profitable

agricultural businesses. "Women currently account for approximately 45% of Turkey’s agricultural workforce,” said Brumfield. “We’re implementing the Women Farmers Project in recognition of women farmers as critical agents for enhancing agricultural and rural development and food security in Turkey,” she added. The project aims to develop the technical and managerial capacities of Turkish women farmers through education, while supporting the region’s economic advancement toward sustainable agriculture and gender equality. Read more.

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Speaker Peter Nathanielsz

Speaker David Barker

The audience enjoyed the engaging presentations. Malcolm Watford (Nutritional Sciences) is in the foreground

Spotlight 4th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop The Rutgers Endocrine Program held its 4th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop titled

“Developmental Programming of Adult Disease” on September 28 at the Busch Campus Center. Dipak Sarkar (Animal Sciences; director, Endocrine Program) welcomed over 100 participants while Bob Goodman (executive dean) presented opening remarks. Sarkar introduced the first speaker of the day-long program, David Barker, professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southampton, UK, whose lecture was titled “Chronic disease originates in the womb.” A question-and-answer session following this talk was led by Carol Bagnell (chair, Animal Sciences). Larry Katz (director, Rutgers Cooperative Extension) introduced the

second speaker, Peter Nathanielsz, professor and director of the Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research, University of Texas Health Science Center. Nathanielsz’s topic was “Developmental programming resulting from poor and excess fetal nutrition.” Sue Shapses (Nutritional Sciences; director of the New Jersey Obesity Group) led the question-and-answer session that followed the Nathanielsz presentation. After these two featured scientific presentations, the workshop participants enjoyed a special gazpacho-making demonstration during lunch by Rutgers Chef Sebastian Nieto.

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Chef Sebastian Nieto prepares his gazpacho

Troy Roepke and Mehmet Uzumcu (Animal Sciences) discusses research with Sue Shapses (Nutritional Sciences)

Changqing Zhang (Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences; Sarkar lab) explains her research to Peter Nathanielsz

Carol Bagnell, Dipak Sarkar, Karyn Malinowski, and Nadka Boyadjieva (Animal Sciences) celebrate a successful Endocrine Workshop

The afternoon poster presentations featured state-of-the-art endocrine research at Rutgers and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in the following areas: Nutrition and Metabolic Health; Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Disease; Environmental Toxicants; Genes and Environmental Impact; Cancer Diseases; Stress Control and Drug Abuse; and Steroids and Reproduction. Approximately 50 posters were presented. New this year were special late-afternoon breakout sessions hosted by Bagnell and Shapses, during which the two invited speakers met with faculty and graduate students from the School for continued discussions. The 4th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop was organized by the following partners: the Rutgers Endocrine Program; Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Department of Animal Sciences; UMDNJ-RWJMS Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition; and the New Jersey Obesity Group. To learn more, contact Dipak Sarkar. Photos courtesy of Kathy Manger (Animal Sciences)

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Agriculture and Landscape colloquium students at Howell Living History Farm

Student Nick Holdorf energetically flailing wheat at Howell Living History Farm

Sherry Dudas explains farming at Honey Brook Organic Farm

Students Zeina Zahalan and Stacey Delgado speak with Sherry Dudas, at left

Spotlight

Agriculture and Landscape Colloquium Field Trips Mark Robson (Entomology; dean, Agricultural and Urban Programs) and Holly Nelson (instructor, Landscape Architecture), who developed the course, led students enrolled in the Agriculture and Landscape Colloquium on several field trips to local farms. The first trip was held on September 30 to the Howell Living History Farm. Tour guide Larry Kidder, shared with the students the evolution of the farm and instructed them in harvesting methods from the turn of the century, such as how to flail wheat to separate wheat from the chaff.

On October 14, Nelson took some of the students on a visit to Honey Brook Organic Farm to learn how community supported agriculture (CSA) works. The students were very intrigued about farming in the protected Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed and were delighted to discover that the farm delivers boxed organic vegetables weekly to its members in nearby Highland Park. In addition to walking the productive fields, the students saw the washing and processing stations.

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At left, Gary Mount speaks with students Adam Cesanek, Chris Jurgensen, Leila Ashour, and Alex Kozar at Terhune Orchards

Gary Mount (seated) makes a point to students Adam Cesarnek, Nick Holdorf, and Kenny Macnish

Sherry Dudas and her husband Jim Kinsel, both Rutgers graduates, grow local, seasonal organic produce at the farm, one of the largest CSAs in the nation. The farm, which has five sites that also include parcels in Hopewell and Chesterfield, is a national model for sustainable farming and an important example of a partnership between farming and an environmental group.

Also on October 14, Robson took another set of students to Terhune Orchards in Princeton where they interacted with owner Gary Mount who was extremely generous with his time in discussing his operation and answering questions from the students. Mount is the 10th generation of his family to pursue farming. He and his wife Pam purchased Terhune Orchards about 30 years ago. Together they farm over 200 acres on preserved farmland and operate a very successful farm market, bakery, cider press, and winery. Mount, a graduate of Princeton University, did a stint in the Peace Corps before choosing to farm for a living. His daughter and

her family now comprise the 11th generation of Mounts involved in farming. Mount, a very motivated, entrepreneurial, and generous person, is considered by many to be a positive role model and an inspiration to young farmers.

The George H. Cook Campus community is invited to join the colloquium and the Agroecology class for the November 14 screening of King Corn from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Cook Student Center, MPR Rooms A, B, and C. The film’s director/producer Aaron Woolf won a Peabody Award for this entertaining feature documentary “about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation…What they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.” Woolf, who questions our culture and our agriculture in the film, we will lead a discussion about his work. Learn more.

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Faculty and Staff Activities and Accomplishments Mark Robson (Entomology; dean, Agricultural and Urban Programs) has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA). HERA is an internationally respected scientific journal that publishes research findings in risk assessment and management, debates and commentaries, and perspectives articles. Robson, an expert in risk assessment and environmental science, will be serving a three-year, renewable term on the board.

Donna Fennell (Environmental Sciences) was appointed a Fellow at the Laboratorium van Microbiologie at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. The fellowship is provided through the Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research.

Alan Robock (Environmental Sciences) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) for a three-year term beginning February 2012. UCAR runs the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In addition, he was elected to the UCAR Members’ Nominations Committee for a one-year term. Robock represented the university at UCAR’s annual meeting in Boulder, CO, on October 4-5 and served on its President’s Advisory Committee on University Relations on October 5.

Rachael Shwom (Human Ecology) was chosen as one of 32 early career climate change scholars out of 240 applicants to participate in the dissertation initiative for advancement of climate change research (DISCCRS VI).

Winner of the 2011 International Cosmos Prize The Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life (CoML) has been chosen as the winner of the 2011 International Cosmos Prize. Fred Grassle (Marine and Coastal Sciences) is the first chairperson and co-founder of CoML. The steeting committee "provided overall governance to the CoML, a grand global project.” The objective of the census was to survey and analyze changes from past to present in marine life biodiversity, distribution and abundance. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System – known as OBIS – was created as the data integration component of the census. A one-week celebration was held in Tokyo, Japan, to mark CoML’s success. The award ceremony was held on October 18 in Shiromi, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan. A medal will be placed in the Smithsonian Institution National

History Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Michael Coraggio, Mary Greeley, teacher from the school, and Ryan Burrows stand in front of the mobile unit

Elizabeth Barnes, student at the High School with the mobile unit

One of EcoWalls’ displays at Disney’s Epcot Center

Student Activities and Accomplishments EcoWalls – A Student-Inspired “Green” Success EcoWalls, an innovative and decorative vertical planting system that serves as a natural air and water purification system, is the brain child of Michael Coraggio, who graduated in 2006 from the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Ryan Burrows (graduate student, Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources). After successful and, in some cases, ongoing collaborations

to create living walls for Walt Disney World, Atlantis Resort, The Palmyra Resort, and The Philadelphia Flower Show, the company has expanded its “green” footprint into the urban classroom as well, thanks to the integration of fish and plant materials to create a mobile classroom.

Coraggio and Burrows, founding principals of EcoWalls, LLC, recently debut a mobile version of its vertical planting system at the Barack Obama Green Charter High School in Plainfield, NJ. Burrows, who has an extensive research background in environmental toxicology, embraces the living wall concept for its aesthetic value and well as its practical use as a tool to improve the environment. "Our dual focus in design and science has been instrumental in creating a unique

sustainable living system that will not only visually enhance a space but can also be used as a useful tool to accomplish goals of improving water and air quality or creating habitat and corridor space for native wildlife,” said Burrows. EcoWalls is one of several small businesses located at the Rutgers EcoComplex, a business incubator that assists start-up companies, including "green" businesses. Students from the Barack Obama Green Charter High School paid their first visit to the EcoComplex on October 18 to tour the EcoWalls operation and to get a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the living walls. Read more.

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Debora Esposito (graduate candidate, Plant Biology and Pathology) won the Brennan Research Award from the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology. Lisa Beirn (graduate candidate, Plant Biology and Pathology) won the Davis Research Award from the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology. Debora Esposito (graduate candidate, Plant Biology and Pathology) was invited to present “Three-dimensional osteogenic differentiation on polystyrene scaffolds imaged with the LightCT Imaging System” at the Stem Cell Global Symposia 2011, Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, Boston, MA, on September 26. Esposito was also invited to present “Use of cranberry polyphenols to produce edible concentrated matrixes with proteases and protease inhibitors” at the International Workshop on Anthocyanins, Charlotte/Concord, NC, on September 11. Grants and Gifts A complete list of grants received can be found here.

The following faculty from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station were listed among the Rutgers members to be awarded the 15 largest competitive awards for the first quarter of FY11-12, according to Michael J. Pazzani, vice president for research and economic development at Rutgers. See the School and experiment station faculty below, listed by size of award:

• Jerry Baron (IR-4) - $3,364,921.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for “IR-4 minor crop pest management.”

• Scott Glenn (Marine and Coastal Sciences) - $2,082,235.00 from the Department of Commerce for “Towards a comprehensive Mid Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARCOOS).”

• Jim Simon (Plant Biology and Pathology) - $1,866,558.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for “Strategies for improving the U.S. responses to fusarium, downy mildew and chilling injury to production of sweet basil (10784435).”

• Paul Falkowski (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; Earth and Planetary Sciences; director, Rutgers Energy Institute) - $1,478,287.00 from the National Science Foundation for “Ocean acidification category 1: The Molecular basis of ocean acidification effects on calcification in zooxanthellate corals.”

The New Jersey Sea Grant Program has awarded $80,000 to $100,00 to Robin Leichenko PI (Geography) and team members Richard Lathrop (Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources; director, Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis ), Lisa Auermuller (Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve), and Melanie McDermott (Human Ecology) for a two-year project titled “Economic vulnerability to climate change on the Jersey Shore: Promoting adaptation, resilience, and sustainability in Coastal New Jersey.”

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Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events Website for Community of Practice in Companion Animals Launched In late September, the website for the Community of Practice in Companion Animals was officially launched. Its integration in the Companion Animal Science option of the Animal Sciences major will begin in spring 2012. Students will be able to benefit from interacting with this national network of companion animal experts, not only receiving information about their own needs but also learning about the challenges and benefits of companion animals from people in different regions across the United States. The webinar series began on October 20 with Daniela Sharma (Animal Sciences) acting as moderator of a discussion on veterinary science careers. Sharma will serve as a co-presenter in future webinars. Food Policy Institute Hosts Seminar On October 21 the Food Policy Institute (FPI) hosted the seminar titled "Understanding Consumers Acceptance of Food Nanotechnology: Research and Dialogue." Guest speaker Dominique Brossard of University of Wisconsin-Madison opened the seminar with a talk titled "Nanotechnology and the consumer: Where are we and where are we going?" Dietram Scheufele, also of Wisconsin-Madison, joined Bill Hallman (Human Ecology; director, FPI), Rick Ludescher (Food Science; dean of Academic Programs), Beverly Tepper (Food Science), and Mary Nucci (Human Ecology) in presenting the results of the USDA/CSREES multi-institutional grant "Food nanotechnology: Understanding the parameters of consumer acceptance." Hallman served as PI on the grant. Cara Cuite (Human Ecology; FPI), Hartmut Mokros (School of Communication and Information), and Jorge Schement (dean, School of Communication and Information) served as invited participants in a roundtable discussion titled "Open dialogue on the future of food nanotechnology." Ken McKeever and Sarah Ralston (Animal Sciences) were invited lecturers at The Equine Nutrition and Training Conference, called ENUTRACO 2011 by attendees, at the Institute Curie in Paris, France, on October 13-14. McKeever presented “Feed supplements to maintain performance and health” and “Practical news on performance diagnosis and training of horses. Ralston presented "Will total mixed rations cubes be the future of horse feeding?" and "Practical news on advances in nutrition for performance horses and ponies.” On October 21, Sarah Ralston (Animal Sciences) presented a seminar for the Endocrinology and Biosciences Lectures series. Her lecture was titled “NMR-based metabonomic analyses of horse serum: Detection of metabolic markers of disease.” Ralston also presented a one-hour online webinar on "Hot topics in equine nutrition" for the Ontario Association of Equine Practitioners on October 26. Wendie Cohick (Animal Sciences) attended a special symposium at Cornell University on October 20-21 that was held in honor of Cohick’s Ph.D. advisor Dr. Dale Bauman, an endowed Chair at Cornell and a member of the National Academy of Sciences who is retiring from Cornell’s Animal Science Department. Cohick gave a talk titled “The growth hormone-IGF connection in lactating dairy cows.”

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Albrecht Koppenhöfer (Entomolgy) was invited to present “From ecology to application: Integrating entomopathogenic nematodes into turfgrass management” at a symposium honoring Lerry Lacey and Harry Kaya at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology in Halifax, Canada, on August 10. Cesar Rodriguez-Saona (extension specialist in entomolgy) was invited to present the following:

• “Herbivore-induced plant volatiles: Functions and potential uses in IPM” to the Department of Entomology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

• “Managing the invasive oriental beetle with mating disruption in blueberries” at the 6th Asian Pacific Conference on Chemical Ecology, in Beijing, China.

• “Can plant volatiles help in crop protection against herbivores?” at the Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI.

Changlu Wang (Entomolgy) was invited to present “Detecting bed bugs sooner using monitors” at Bed Bug University North American Summit, Chicago, IL, on September 26. Annmarie Carlton (Environmental Sciences) was invited to present "Atmospheric brown clouds: Multiphase chemistry produces brown carbon aloft" at Dalhousie University Physics and Atmospheric Science Department in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on September 29. Donna Fennell (Environmental Sciences) was invited to speak at the First Arab-American Frontiers of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium sponsored by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the U.S. National Academies, in Kuwait City, October 17-19. Fennell discussed "Water and energy" during the "Linkages" session intended to foster discussion for future cooperative research between U.S. and Arab academic researchers. Alan Robock (Environmental Sciences) was invited to present the following:

• “Smoke and mirrors: Is geoengineering a solution to global warming?” at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, September 23 and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, on September 27.

• “Climatic consequences of nuclear conflict” at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, on September 29.

William Hallman (chair, Human Ecology; director, Food Policy Institute) was an invited participant in the Advancing Global Health Decision-Making Conference sponsored by the Academy of Business in Society, Johnson & Johnson, and Rutgers University. The conference was held in Fontainebleau, France, October 26-29. Peter Gillies (Nutritional Sciences; director, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health) presented “Omega-3 fatty acids in food and pharma: The enabling role of biotechnology” at the invitation of the University of California–Davis Biotechnology Program, College of Biological Science and the College of Engineering, at the UC-Davis campus, October 14. Peter Rona and Karen Bemis (Marine and Coastal Sciences) were invited participants at the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative Workshop where they reported on results of a new sonar system

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developed in partnership with the Applied Physics Lab-University of Washington and connected to the NEPTUNE Canada seafloor observatory to quantitatively image seafloor hot springs at a site in the northeast Pacific with major NSF support. The workshop was held in Seattle, October 5-8. Mike Kennish (Marine and Coastal Sciences) was invited to give the following presentations:

• “Climate change, sea-level rise, and coastal impacts in New Jersey” at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ, September 26.

• “Human impacts on the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary” at the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History, Beach Haven, NJ, September 24.

• “Assessment of eutrophic conditions in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary, New Jersey” to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Edison, NJ, September 20.

• “Observations on historical changes in the ecology of the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary” to Bishop Library, Ocean County Library, Toms River, NJ, September 20.

Mike DeLuca (senior associate director, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; director, Multispecies Aquaculture Development Facility) was invited to participate in a NOAA workshop with a group of select coastal managers from across the U.S. on September 7-8. The meeting was designed to strengthen the alignment of state and NOAA capacities to address priority coastal issues. Key topics of discussion centered on adaptation to climate change, shoreline stabilization in an era of sea level rise, coastal and marine spatial planning, and modeling tools to support hazard mitigation. Several project opportunities were identified for potential funding including habitat mapping with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in shallow water systems as a component of coastal and marine spatial planning. Joseph Heckman (Plant Biology and Pathology) was a delegate to the 5th International Conference on Silicon in Agriculture, in Beijing, China, September 13-16. At the conference, he presented “Soil and crop responses to silicon supplements in New Jersey.” Joan Bennett (Plant Biology and Pathology; associate vice president, Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Mathematics and Engineering) was invited to give the following presentations:

• “Promotion of women in science” at the Gender Equality Symposium, National Agricultural and Food Research Organization, National and University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba City, Japan, in September.

• “Jokichi Takamine: Japanese father of American biotechnology” at the Sacred Heart School, Sapporo, Japan, in September.

• “Jokichi Takamine and the birth of biotechnology” at the International Union of Microbiological Societies, Sapporo, Japan, in September.

• “Promotion of women in science: USA and Japan” to the Support Office for Female Researchers at the Hokkaido University (FResHU) F3 Symposium, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in September.

• "Model systems and fungal volatile organic compounds" at the University of Maryland’s Department of Entomology in October.

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Ben Pearson and Caitrin Higgins (Water Resources Program) were invited to speak at the Rain Garden Training for Public Works at the Brandywine Valley Association, Kennett Square, PA, on September 20‐21. Amy Boyajian (Water Resources Program), Michele Bakacs (environmental and resource management agent, Union and Middlesex counties), and Madeline Flahive DiNardo (agricultural and resource management agent, Union County) were invited to present “Stormwater management in the Robinson’s Branch Watershed” at the Arthur L. Johnson High School, Clark, NJ, on September 20‐21. Elaine Rossi‐Griffin, Amy Boyajian, and Christine Boyajian (Water Resources Program) were invited to present information on “Water Champions” at the USEPA Region 2 Headquarters, New York City, NY, on September 22. Jeremiah Bergstrom and Sara Mellor (Water Resources Program) were invited to conduct a Build a Rain Barrel Workshop for Princeton Township residents at the Princeton Township Municipal Building, Princeton, NJ, on September 24. Christopher Obropta (Environmental Sciences; director, Water Resources Program) was invited to present “Nitrogen in Barnegat Bay: Issues, problems and solutions” at Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County, Toms River, NJ, on September 27. Jeremiah Bergstrom, Ben Pearson, and Sara Mellor (Water Resources Program) installed a demonstration rain garden at the Ewing Township Municipal Fields, Ewing, NJ, on September 28.

Jillian Thompson, Ben Pearson, and Sara Mellor (Water Resources Program) installed a demonstration rain garden at the Sparta Public Library, Sparta, NJ, on October 5. (This rain garden is pictured, at left) Amy Boyajian, Sara Mellor (Water Resources Program), and Rich Padgitt (undergraduate student intern, Bioenvironmental Engineering) planted a demonstration rain garden at the Ewing Township Municipal Fields, Ewing, NJ, on October 6.

Jillian Thompson and Amy Boyajian (Water Resources Program) were invited to present information on the efforts of the RCE Water Resources Program at Coast Day New Jersey, Cape May Lobster House, Cape May, NJ, on October 9.

Amy Boyajian and Sara Mellor (Water Resources Program) were invited to conduct a rain garden educational program and installed a demonstration rain garden for the “One Team Making a Difference” week with Johnson & Johnson employees at the Titusville Campus, Titusville, NJ, on October 11. (Johnson & Johnson employers are pictured with the demonstration rain garden, at left)

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Publications and Editorships Bello, N.T. (Animal Sciences), J.W. Coughlin, G.W. Redgrave, E.E. Ladenheim, T.H. Moran, and A.S. Guarda. 2011. “Dietary conditions and highly palatable food access alter rat cannabinoid receptor expression and binding density.” Physiology & Behavior [Epub 15 October]. McKeever, K.H. (Animal Sciences). 2011. “Feed supplements to maintain performance and health.” In Applied Equine Nutrition and Training – ENUTRACO 2011, edited by Arno Lindner, 179-191. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Press. Ralston, S.L. (Animal Sciences) and Anderson H. 2011. “Will Total mixed rations cubes be the future of horse feeding?” Pferdeheilkunde. In press. Julliand, V. and Ralston, S.L. (Animal Sciences). 2011. “Practical news on advances in nutrition for performance horses and ponies published between 2009 and 2011,” Pferdeheilkunde 135-157. In press. Lonsdorf, E., T.H. Ricketts, C. Kremen, Rachael Winfree (Entomology), S. Greenleaf, and N.M. Williams. 2011. “Crop pollination services.” In Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services, edited by P. Kareiva et al., 168-187. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bartomeus, I. (postdoc, Entomology) and R. Winfree (Entomology). 2011. The Circe Principle: Are pollinators waylaid by attractive habitats? Current Biology 21: 652-654. Ebssa, L. and Koppenhöfer A.M. (Entomology) 2011. Efficacy and persistence of entomopathogenic nematodes for black cutworm control in turfgrass. Biocontrol Sci. Technol. 21, 779-796. Winfree, R. (Entomology), B Gross, and C Kremen. 2011. Valuing pollination services to agriculture. Ecological Economics. Published online September 2011.

Bartomeus, I. (postdoc, Entomology), J. Ascher, S. Colla, D. Wagner, B. Danforth, S. Kornbluh, and R. Winfree (Entomology. Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. B. H. Henderson, R. W. Pinder, J. Crooks, R. C. Cohen, A. G. Carlton (Environmental Sciences), H. O. T. Pye, and W. Vizuete. 2011. "Combining Bayesian methods and aircraft observations to constrain the HO. + NO2 reaction rate.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 11, 24191-24231. Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock (Environmental Sciences), Adam Bourassa, Terry Deshler, Decheng Wu,

Ina Mattis, Fanny Finger, Anne Hoffmann, Christoph Ritter, Lubna Bitar, Thomas J. Duck, and John E. Barnes. 2011. Simulation and observations of stratospheric aerosols from the 2009 Sarychev volcanic eruption. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D18211. DOI:10.1029/2010JD015501.

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Shwom, R. (Human Ecology). 2011. A middle range theory of environmental politics: The U.S. struggle for energy efficient appliances. Environmental Politics, 20(5), 705-726. McDermott, M., Mahanty, S., and Schreckenberg, K. (Human Ecology). 2011. Defining equity: A framework for evaluating equity in the context of ecosystem services. McDermott, M., Moote, M. A., and Danks, C. (Human Ecology). 2011. “Building effective collaboratives.” In Effective collaboration for environmental change: Making sense of an emerging socio-ecological movement edited by F. Dukes, J. Birkhoff, and K. Firehock, 81-110. University of Virginia Press. Elena V. Shabrova, Olga Tarnopolsky, Ajay P. Singh (Plant Biology and Pathology), Jorge Plutzky (Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Nicholi Vorsa(Plant Biology and Pathology; director, Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension), and Loredana Quadro (Food Science). 2011. Insights into the molecular mechanisms of the anti-atherogenic actions of flavonoids in normal and obese mice. PLOS One. Esposito, D., Komarnytsky S. (Plant Biology and Pathology), Shapses, S. (Nutritional Sciences), Raskin I. (Plant Biology and Pathology). 2011. Anabolic effect of plant brassinosteroid. FASEB J 25(10):3708-19. Esposito, D. (Plant Biology and Pathology), Rathinasabapathym,T., Poulev, A., Komarnytsky, S., and Raskin, I. (Plant Biology and Pathology). 2011. Akt-dependent anabolic activity of natural and synthetic brassinosteroids in rat skeletal muscle cells. J Medicinal Chemistry 54, 4057-4066. Cai, L., Giraud, T., Zhang, N. (Plant Biology and Pathology), Begerow, D., Cai, G. (Plant Biology and Pathology), and Shivas, R. G. 2011. The application of species criteria in plant pathogenic fungi. Fungal Diversity 50:121–133. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-011-0127-8. Novy, A. (Plant Biology and Pathology) and K.C. Jones. 2011. Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci for Tripterygium (Celastraceae), a monospecific genus of medicinal importance. American Journal of Botany 98:e280-e281. This report is produced by the Office of Communications. For information or to provide comments, please contact Paula Walcott-Quintin at quintin@aesop.rutgers.edu, or 848-932-4204.