COP27: Oceans Featured More Prominently, but Carbon Reduction Commitments Waver in the Face of Energy and Economic Realities UCI Director Tony MacDonald shares his observations from November's UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt.

Ecotherapy: Improving Mental Health through Spending Time with Nature If you consider the beach your happy place, there’s a growing body of evidence showing you’re right. Read about Dr. Megan Delaney's research and courses on ecotherapy at Monmouth University.

Watch: UCI and MEBP Club at SUBMERGE Marine Science Festival Members of the Marine and Environmental Biology and Policy (MEBP) Club and UCI staff sailed to New York City aboard the R/V Heidi Lynn Sculthorpe to take part in the event at Hudson River Park’s Pier 84.

CLONet Summit Focuses on Next Steps for Restoring Monmouth County’s Coastal Lakes Now entering its fifth year, the Coastal Lakes Observing Network has shifted its attention from solely collecting data on the health of Monmouth County waterbodies to tapping that information for restoring them.

Superstorm Sandy 10 Years Later

Panel on Lessons Learned and Not Learned Since Sandy UCI Director Tony MacDonald moderated conversation with NJDEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette, Climate Central Senior Advisor Don Bain, and FEMA Region II Mitigation Division Director Michael Moriarty.

Documenting and Interpreting Superstorm Sandy Moderated by Monmouth U. Specialist Professor in Public History Melissa Ziobro, this virtual panel explored some of the ways the disaster is being documented for the historical record and interpreted for the public.

Herrington Presents on Coastal Resilience in N.J. Since Sandy UCI Associate Director Tom Herrington was the featured speaker in a webinar series offered through the Rutgers Cooperative Extension entitled “Weathering the Storm: Increased Resiliency a Decade After Superstorm Sandy.”

Call for Abstracts: Sustainability in Teaching and Research (STAR) Symposium Abstracts are now being accepted for June 2-3 event at Monmouth University exploring the core themes of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The deadline for submissions is Jan. 15.

Monmouth University Featured in “The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2023 Edition” “Monmouth demonstrates an exemplary commitment to sustainability and to green practices—and it offers excellent academic programs,” the guide's editor writes.

Report: Defense Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions UCI Ocean Policy Fellow and former Monmouth U. President Paul Gaffney serves on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that authored this report addressing key questions around why the Department of Defense has not harnessed HBCUs and MIs as vital resources in developing its research portfolio.

Agreement to Enable Monmouth MEBP Majors to Matriculate into Stockton U. Coastal Zone Management Graduate Program Will ease the pathway for Monmouth undergraduates interested in pursuing master of science (M.S.) or professional science master’s (P.S.M.) degrees.

Watch: Monmouth Football Broadcast Team Profiles UCI UCI Associate Director Tom Herrington interviewed during halftime of Nov. 19 Monmouth-Stony Book game.

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