“I need to thank [Congressman Pallone] on behalf of the ocean because people are increasingly recognizing the climate-ocean nexus,” MacDonald said. This is a real issue. Twenty-five percent of carbon that is emitted goes into the ocean. Ninety percent of the excess heat that comes from greenhouse gases goes into the ocean, and we can’t handle much more of it.”
Take a state-by-state tour of active federal offshore wind energy leases from New York through Virginia in 
A poster co-led by Monmouth University students Erin Conlon and Skyler Post earned the top prize for work presented by undergraduates at the 10th U.S. Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Symposium, held in November in Orange Beach, Alabama. The poster highlighted the students’ ongoing research on low-oxygen conditions and toxic organisms in Branchport Creek, a Shrewsbury River tributary located in Oceanport and Long Branch, New Jersey.
“Last year over the summer we were researching Sandy Hook Bay, the Navesink River and the Shrewsbury River, and every time we went out there was a hot spot of chlorophyll in Branchport Creek,” said Conlon (seen in photo sampling the creek). “We didn’t really have any stations set up there and we wanted to look at that more.”Randall S. Abate, professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology and Rechnitz Family/Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy, delivered a keynote presentation at the second annual Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Environmental Law Scholars’ Conference in Casablanca, Morocco held Nov. 4-5. The theme for this year’s conference was “Climate Change Law in the Middle East and North Africa.”
Abate, the only invited speaker from the U.S., delivered his presentation, “Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources,” to an audience of more than 75 attendees, which included climate change law and policy scholars from the MENA region and Moroccan law students.
Co-sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Law School, and Hassan First University-Settat in Morocco, the conference featured two days of presentations from climate change law and policy scholars from 13 countries (Algeria, Egypt, India, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and the U.S.).
Additional Links
Abate’s blog entry: Climate Change(d): Reflections on Climate Change Law and Justice
2019 Middle East And North Africa (MENA) Environmental Law Scholars’ Conference
The Kislak Real Estate Institute and Department of Economics, Finance and Real Estate at Monmouth University are seeking applications for an open rank Professor in Economics. This position is for the 2020-2021 academic year and is tenure-track.
The UCI welcomes Christopher Haak as a postdoctoral researcher focused on fisheries science. In this role, Haak will split time working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) James J. Howard Laboratory in Sandy Hook and the Monmouth University campus.
Citizen scientists, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) representatives, and Monmouth University researchers who’ve been participating in the 
Monmouth University was among nine businesses, organizations, and individuals recognized at the 39th Annual Association of New Jersey Recyclers symposium held Oct. 10 at the Jumping Brook Country Club in Neptune, New Jersey. The university was recognized as an institutional leader for its broad-based program that resulted in recycling 46% of the waste generated on campus in 2018. UCI Associate Director Thomas Herrington, the co-chair of the university’s Sustainability Advisory Council, accepted the award on Monmouth’s behalf. 
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