Daylin Leiva’s first in-person view of Hurricane Sandy’s carnage came last week. The tall beech and cherry trees uprooted and still littering the grounds of the Rutgers University Ecological Preserve in Piscataway initially shocked the 17-year-old girl, whose view of the storm’s damage was limited to her Trenton neighborhood and the evening news…For many of the teens, it was the first time they’d done such work, a science project courtesy of a weeklong science camp held jointly by Samsung, 4-H and Rutgers. And it’s key work that could help Rutgers determine how it can restore the Sandy-chewed preserve.
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