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With the aid of new technologies, researchers at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station are able to understand more about the coastal migration of striped bass--what types of habitats they need to survive and when they need them. Through the "Adopt a Fish" program, the excitement of these new technologies are extended to anyone interested who wants to adopt, name and track. Read more about the program... |
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The Coastal Ocean Observation Lab is highlighted in a NY Times article on the new national program, the Ocean Observatories Initiative, financed by the National Science Foundation. Oscar Schofield discusses the Rutgers coastal observatory developing in the Mid-Atlantic Bight.
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Scientists Kay Bidle and Paul Falkowski have reawakened 8 million-year-old microbes in ancient ice taken from an Antarctic glacier. Read more from Philadelphia Inquirer and the Rutgers press release.
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Mike Kennish's research is
presented in August 13th's Philadelphia Inquirer. "Trying to reverse decline of Barnegat Bay", by Sandy Bauers, explains how nitrogen impacts the bay and its organisms. Read more from The Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Photo credit: Ron Tarver/Philadelphia Inquirer
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Each census expedition reveals new marvels of the ocean and, with the return of each vessel, it is increasingly clear that many more discoveries await marine explorers for years to come." said J.Frederick Grassle, director of the Institute. He is heading the effort's scientific steering committee of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System or OBIS. Read more from the Star Ledger... |
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Scientists at the Coastal Ocean Observation
Laboratory (COOL) in Rutgers’ Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
have launched a computer-guided, underwater robot glider off the
coast of Antarctica. The “flight” is part of the International Polar
Year a multinational effort to study the polar regions.
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The Heat is On: Stubborn enough to still
dismiss global warming? Come look at what Paul Falkowski has seen
on his travels across the world's oceans. Glaciers receding in Alaska.
Greenlanders worrying that their hunting season has shrunk... Read
more from Rutgers Magazine.
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Volcanoes of the Deep Sea has won best film in the category
of Scientific Exploration at the 5th Anniversary Explorers Club Documentary
Film Festival. The film, produced by The Stephen Low Company in association
with Rutgers University, reveals the astounding sights that lie 12,000
feet below the surface of the ocean. Richard Lutz served as the film's
science director.
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