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| Coastal Ocean Observation Lab is the Recipient of the 2006 Rutgers' President's Recognition Program Bridge Award |
The Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, otherwise known as “RU COOL,” is recognized as the world’s most advanced coastal observatory. The RU Cool team established Rutgers as the first university to operate both L-Band and X-Band satellite receivers to access the full international constellation of ocean color satellites...more | 10/17/06 |
| CNN Weather Report - The COOLroom ocean weather reports used on CNN | CNN 2006-06-12.avi (39 MB) CNN 2006-06-12.mov (6.1 MB) |
6/12/06 |
| TRENTON TIMES - Marine scientists honored for work | A team of marine scientists at Rutgers' Cook College and Instistute of Marine and Coastal SCiences was honored during the Cook College and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station's 13th annual awards dinner April 27. The award was presented by Bob Goodman, executive dean of agriculture and natural resources. | 6/3/06 |
| STAR LEDGER - A 'plume' with a view of an oceanic experiment | When scientists try to reinvent something, they live dangerously. They rely on custom-made, tempermental equipment and things often go in an unexpected direction... | 5/30/06 |
| STAR LEDGER - Technology opens wider 'window to the ocean' | Like space, the Earth's oceans present a vast canvas for discovery. And for decades, oceanographers gathered their scientific information mostly through manned expeditions. Now researchers believe ocean research is on the verge of a great transformation.....more | 5/29/06 |
| Boatingandfishing.com - It's a bird, it's a plane - it's a red tide glider | The latest weapons in the battle against red tide launched this week. On Wednesday, April 12, Mote Marine Laboratory, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute let loose three yellow torpedo-llike deviced about a mile offshore of Sarasota. Each is designed to detect thet alga that causes red tide - Karenia brevis. | 4/20/06 |
| CBS: Gliders tracking whale calls, ocean waves | HONOLULU - Ocean scientists can now plunge into the middle of the sea without leaving their offices. Six-foot, 100-pount underwater gliders are swimming the oceans of the world and dutifully sending data home on everything from whale calls to the massive waves produced by hurricanes. | 3/4/06 |
| Rutgers Scientist, Paul Falkowski, featured on NPR in response to "Scientists Find Bacteria that Converts Light into Energy" | Scientists exploring the black waters around a deep-sea vent have discovered a bacterium that can convert light into energy. This is the first discovery of an organism that uses a source of light, other than the sun, in the process of photosynthesis. |
6/21/05 |
| New York Times Article featuring Dr. Frederick Grassle | In 1989, Rutgers was heardly pre-eminent in marine science, a shame considering that New Jersey is almost as much an ocean state as the Ocean State, surrounded mostly by water... | 6/5/05 |
| State of New Jersey Assembly Resolution No. 209 - As of 1/24/2003 | On March 3, 2003, the Secretary of State for the State of New Jersey filed and passed the Assembly Resolution No. 209. This assembly resolution was first introduced and referred to the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on November 25, 2002. It was then reported by the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on January 16, 2003 to the State. | 10/19/04 |
| Rutgers Scientists Make Annual Visit to Long Beach Island Center for Arts & Sciences | A group of Rutgers Graduate Students and Staff Researchers traveled to the Long Beach Island Center for Arts & Sciences for their annual presentation to the local community - "A Night With RU Cool". | 7/14/04 |
| ORION Newsletter | A Short History of the Long Term Ecosystem Observatory (LEO) Coming from the field of deep-sea ecology, Frederick Grassle appreciated the limited time scientists have to observe natural phenomena in the ocean and that this fundamentally inhibited understanding.........click here to read more! | 6/04 |
| CAP helps to recover glider for Rutgers | Article courtesy of The Times, Trenton. The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) assisted a team of ocean scientists from Rutgers University in the May 12 recovery of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) off the coast of New Jersey. | 5/31/04 |
| Northeast Region aircrew members locate missing Rutgers research vehicle | Article courtesy of the Civil Air Patrol. Members of the New Jersey and Main wings assisted a team of ocean scientists from Rutgers University in the recovery of an autonomous underwater vehicle off the coast of New Jersey May 12. | 5/25/04 |
| Civil Air Patrol aids in recovering Rutgers Research underwater glider | Article courtesy of News of the Force, Yahoo Groups. The Civil Air Patrol assisted a team of ocean scientists from Rutgers University in the recovery of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) off the coast of New Jersey on May 12, 2004. | 5/21/04 |
| Civil Air Patrol Aids in Recovering Rutgers Research Underwater Glider | Article courtesy of Atlantic Highlands Herald. The Civil Air Patrol assisted a team of ocean scientists from Rutgers University in the recovery of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) off the coast of New Jersey on May 12, 2004. The AUV lost communication with Rutgers scientists on May 2, 2004 during a Hudson River plume experiment. | 5/20/04 |
| Air Patrol helps find underwater ocean glider | Article courtesy of Asbury Park Press. The Civil Air Patrol helped Rutgers University ocean scientists recover a costly underwater glider about 37 miles off Sandy Hook on Wednesday, a project coordinator at a Rutgers lab said yesterday. | 5/15/04 |
| Glider Craft can travel for weeks and go hundreds of miles | Article courtesy of the MSNBC Science News. THE FLEDGLING technology, barely a decade old, has already produced robotic submarine gliders that move slowly, with the nimbleness of a blimp. Now next-generation gliders are being developed to fly just as gracefully as their airborne counterparts, diving and climbing on broad wings that slice not air but water. | 11/03 |
| RU Forum Offers Glimpse of Anti-Terrorism's Future | Article courtesy of the Home News Tribune. Scientists devising tools that can sense a terrorist's plans from the movements of his eyebrows, track ships carrying questionable cargo and protect hospital workers from dangers posed by bio-terrorism compared notes at Rutgers forum. | 10/03 |
| Cook College Turns An Eye to The Sky | Article courtesy of the Home News Tribune. The X-band dish will be used to track three satellites in orbit. The satellites will collect data on the optical properties of the sea and will feed information back on water from as far south as Cuba to the lower Hudson Bay in Canada. The data will be posted at www.thecoolroom.org and will be used by fishermen, the National Weather Service, the U.S. Coast Guard and others. | 10/03 |
| X-Band Makes Its Permanent Mark | On October 11, Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab installs a new X-Band satellite system, which will work in conjunction with their existing L-Band satellite system. | 10/03 |
| Ocean monitoring during Hurricane Isabel (Rutgers experts) | Whether Isabel affects New Jersey as a hurricane, tropical storm or just a passing shower, ocean conditions off shore will be monitored and posted on the Web at http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/ by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Science (IMCS) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. | 09/03 |
| Cold Water, Hot Tempers | Article courtesy of CBS News. Scientists are now studying why the surf is taking a dip, from water temperatures that should be in the 70's to sometimes reaching lows in the 50's. Rutgers University oceanographer Bob Chant is calling it a severe case of coastal "upwelling." | 08/03 |
|
Chill
out at the beach 'Upwelling' blamed for colder water off the coast of Delaware |
Article courtesy of The News Journal. The Atlantic Ocean was take-your-breath-away cold - a bracing 62 degrees, much colder than the average for this time of year of about 76 degrees and a far cry from the 80 degrees measured a year ago. The water turned suddenly colder because of an "intense upwelling". | 08/03 |
| Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) Chooses COOL Classroom as Curriculum Resource | Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) identifies effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. COOLClassroom was identified as a useful learning resource. | 07/03 |
| Semi-Annual Meeting for the North East Observing System (NEOS) | On July 15 - 16, 2003, the semiannual meeting of the Northeast Observing System (NEOS) was be held at the Browne Center in Durham, New Hampshire. It was hosted by the University of New Hampshire Center of Excellence in Coastal Observation and Analysis (COOA). The meeting provided a forum for presenting and discussing the two NEOS proposals that were recently submitted to NOAA. | 07/03 |
| Watery world getting clearer | Article courtesy of Home News Tribune. The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences is leading a 5-year, $4.2 million study to chart the untold history of microscopic plants that have lived and died in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years. The study aims to explain how some plant species adapt to change and beat out rivals in the quest for sunlight and nutrients that get churned up from the ocean floor. | 05/03 |
| Hudson River Plume - Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment (LATTE) | On May 7, 2003, Dr. Bob Chant and a team of Rutgers scientists surveyed the Hudson River plume. This survey was performed as an all-day event. After returning back to shore, data was analyzed for preparation of May 2004's dye injection. | 05/03 |
| Rutgers begins five-year study of Hudson River contaminants and their fate in the Atlantic Ocean | On May 7, 2003, an initial voyage from Staten Island to Barnegat Inlet, N.J., is intended to survey the plume and test systems that will be used when dye is first injected in May 2004. While following the dye patches, wide variety of equipment and testing methods will be used to determine how nitrogen, lead, cadmium, mercury and other substances are transported at different depths and under different conditions. | 05/03 |
| Rutgers team helping to remap the trek of Hudson River toxins | Article courtesy of The Star-Ledger Newspaper. A team of Rutgers University scientists launched a five-year study yesterday of just how far the sewage-tainted Hudson River crawls down the New Jersey coastline before it merges with the ocean. | 05/03 |
| Nantucket CODAR Long-range Site Installation | On March 31, 2003, Drs. Josh Kohut and Hugh Roarty, along with Dr. Mike Muglia from the University of North Carolina, went up to Nantucket, Massachusetts to install a new CODAR long-range system. This will be a new field site for Rutgers' CODAR group to collect data. | 04/03 |
| RU helps turn the tide for oceans | Article courtesy of Home News Tribune. Rutgers University ecologists, microbiologists, geologists and chemists were praised March 10 for reaping an ocean of research grants for undersea studies and setting new standards in marine and coastal sciences. | 03/03 |
| 10th Anniversary of IMCS | On March 10, 2003, the faculty, staff, friends, and families of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences gathered together at the Trenton War Memorial Ballroom to celebrate the 10 years of the Institute. The Institute was first founded in 1993. Since then it has flourished and grown. | 03/03 |
| Assembly Resolution No. 209 Filed & Passed by Secretary of State | On March 3, 2003, the Secretary of State for the State of New Jersey filed and passed the Assembly Resolution No. 209. This assembly resolution was first introduced and referred to the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on November 25, 2002. It was then reported by the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on January 16, 2003 to the State. | 03/03 |
| Oil Barge Explodes on Staten Island | On Friday, February 21, 2003, an explosion occurred while a barge was unloading barrels of gasoline and sparked a massive blaze at an ExxonMobil petroleum storage facility on Staten Island. | 02/03 |
| Eye of the Blizzard of 2003 |
RU COOL Visible Satellite Imagery
picked up this intense nor'easter as it moved up along the East
Coast. The satellite image shows the development of an
'eye-like' feature, common in hurricanes, off the coast
of Virginia. Only a few of the most intense winter storms
develop an "eye", as it is caused by
a strong pressure gradient, and a large temperature difference
between the ocean and atmosphere. |
02/03 |
| An Assembly Resolution (AR209) commending Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab on their research projects to better understand New Jersey’s coastal waters, and encouraging them to employ new technologies to enhance oceanographic research and maritime safety. | 02/03 | |
| Statement of Assembly Resolution AR209 |
The State of New Jersey Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee provides a statement to Assembly Resolution No. 209 with committee amendments, Dated January 16, 2003. |
02/03 |
| The revamped COOL Machin | The COOL Machin was tired of being a typical white van. It decided it needed a new look for the new year, something with spunk and personality. Thus, it paid a visit to Typestries Sign & Design in Manahawkin, NJ. And wow, is it very happy with its new look! Take a look! | 02/03 |
| COOLroom called to action by the Coast Guard | On Friday, January 31, 2003, a ship in distress off Cape Lookout, North Carolina, was successfully evacuated of all personnel. Even though all lives in immediate danger were saved, the Coast Guard was left with a problem. The abandoned ship was adrift. At 4:00 pm that Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard called the COOLroom. Could the COOLroom provide them with any data to tell them which direction the shift would be drifting, and provide them some relief? | 02/03 |
| Slocum Gliders — a new tool in marine exploration | Article courtesy of Naples Daily News (Naples, FL). Robots, called Slocum Gliders and looking much like guided missiles with fins, are being lowered into the Gulf of Mexico to track, study, forecast and shed new light on solving the mysteries of red tide in Southwest Florida. | 01/03 |
| Glider may be a red tide finder | Article courtesy of Florida Today online newspaper. Cruising slowly through the green Gulf of Mexico on January 15, 2003, the bright yellow Slocum glider looked menacingly military. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is nothing more than a sophisticated scientific instrument with which Mote Marine Laboratory hopes to detect red tide. Mote scientists and scientists from Rutgers University concluded three days of field tests on the glider. | 01/03 |
| Mote tests new red tide tool | Article courtesy of The News Press online newspaper. Mote scientists and scientists from Rutgers University concluded three days of field tests on the glider from January 13-16, 2003. Mote would like to have three AUVs, which would greatly increase the ability to monitor red tide in Southwest Florida. Rutgers already has instruments on the gliders to test for things such as salinity, temperature and dissolved oxygen, and Rutgers scientists will be working with Mote on the red tide detection project. | 01/03 |
| Robots in the deep | Article courtesy of Nature.com about how AUVs are designed to tackle tasks too dangerous for crewed vessels, or too time-consuming for remotely operated craft that must be steered from the surface. AUVs can also be sent to ocean regions that would otherwise be inaccessible. Scott Glenn's team is now starting to deploy graceful long-duration devices called Slocum gliders in combination with REMUS, to study the formation of toxic 'red tides', caused by algal blooms, in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida. | 01/03 |
| Operation Gulf Cast | The Rutgers Glider group collaborated with Dr. Gary Kirkpatrick and his research team from MOTE Marine Laboratory during the week of January 13-17,2003. During this operation, they had great success in deploying two autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs or Gliders) in the Gulf of Mexico. From their week long day-deployments, they gathered various data, digital images, and underwater footage. | 01/03 |
| Robot gliders to watch red tides | Article courtesy of
Nature.com about how winged underwater vehicles
could forecast toxic blooms of plankton. Movie Clip (mpeg format): Crash-testing the gliders in Florida |
01/03 |
| Device looks like a torpedo, but it sniffs out harmful red tide | Article courtesy of the Sarasota Herald Tribune online newspaper. The AUV or drone is adapted to red tide duty by MOTE Marine Laboratory, and houses a prism-like device that "sees" red tide molecules. With more tests, the drone could buy time to clean up red tide fish kills before they reach shore, or allow shell fishermen time to harvest their crops before the bloom poisons the beds. | 01/03 |
| Underwater Gliders | Article courtesy of Discover.com about Webb's Slocum Glider, which is an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV. The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research, which partially funds the creation of the AUV, hopes the glider could help Navy operations (i.e., hunt for underwater mines), as well as help scientists prowl underwater depths and provide real-time data on every aspect of ocean chemistry and biology. | 01/03 |
| Science News | "Ocean View: Scientists are going 24–7 in their studies of the deep" (Carol Marzuola, Science News). Ocean observatories are finding new features in coastal waters, such as Rutgers University's Coastal Ocean Observation Lab in New Brunswick and Tuckerton, N.J. | 12/02 |
| The COOL "MACHIN" | This November (Nov. 5, 2002) the COOL gang purchased a van to transport equipment, tools, systems, etc. primarily for the CODAR project. It shall be used in conjunction with the other research platforms and field work. | 11/02 |
| Continued Ocean Studies in Tuckerton | Article courtesy of Asbury Park Press about COOL's continued ocean studies and its Long-term Ecosystem Observatory, or LEO-15, in Tuckerton, NJ. | 10/02 |
| Site Visit by Rear Admiral Richard D. West |
On October 16, 2002 Rear Admiral Richard D. West, of U.S. Navy, and President of the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE - a Washington, D.C.-based association of the leading marine science institutions in the country) visited Rutgers University's Coastal Ocean Observation Lab. | 10/02 |
| SCOTS Report | Scientific
Cabled Observatories for Time Series (SCOTS) report
based on a community workshop at the
Portsmouth Renaissance Conference Center Portsmouth, VA August
26-28, 2002. **NOTE: File is large; may take some minutes
to open
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10/02 |
| Ocean
Color Imagery Returns |
Presently, Rutgers University's
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab is the only one in the country
conveying data out to the research audience from the Chinese
FY-1D satellite. |
09/02 |
| The Remote Sensing Lab has been acquiring AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature data for 10 summers now at IMCS. This year's temperatures are the warmest in this time span. | 08/02 | Scott and Oscar addressed the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy about establishing a national network of coastal ocean observatories. The focus of the observatories will be for research while also serving societal needs. The Commission was appointed by President Bush to recommend a comprehensive national ocean policy by next spring. | 07/02 |
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Outstanding
Student Award Macromedia Freehand Required to view poster |
Shelley Blackwell won an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation at the 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spokesperson for the Ocean Sciences Section of the AGU said, "Shelley set an excellent example for her fellow students and the entire AGU membership." | 07/02 |
| Mark Moline, Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic
State University, received a Presidential Award.
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07/02 | |
| New Doctor at IMCS | On Monday June 10, 2002, Joshua T. Kohut submitted his dissertation on Spatial Current Structure Observed With a Calibrated HF Radar System: The Influence of Local Forcing, Stratification, and Topography on The Inner Shelf. Josh is on his way to becoming a Doctor of Philosophy here at IMCS. Way to go Dr. Kohut! | 06/02 |
| Fire Along the GSP | On Sunday June 2, 2002, a fire consumed around 1,300 acres in Berkeley Township along the Garden State Parkway. The smoke trail was captured by the NOAA-16 satellite several miles up in space. | 06/02 |
| Visible Satellite Images Now Available! | On Friday May 24, 2002, the COOL lab began posting visible satellite imagery in addition to the ocean temperature data that has been on for 8 years. These will give meteorologists more detail of storms than they can get from typical weather satellites. | 05/02 |
| Mesocyclone Strikes NJ | On Monday May 13, 2002, a large scale mesocyclone swept through southern New Jersey. The storm brought tremendous winds and hail across the state. Satellite imagery at RU COOL captured the storm. | 05/02 |
| RU COOL on Call | On Thursday May 2, 2002, a Tanker carrying 40 million gallons of crude oil grounded just outside of Delaware Bay. While the tanker was able to break free without incident, the scientists at RU COOL remained on call as a large storm swept through the area. | 05/02 |
| Sea Breeze Study | The New Jersey Sea Breeze and its Relationship to Coastal Upwelling - View the results of one of our latest projects, in partnership with the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Mount Holly, NJ. | 04/02 |
| Newark Bay | The Newark Bay Project page is now online. The experiment is funded by the NJ DEP to identify the sources of toxins in this system. This study focuses on how toxic levels are related to variations in river discharge. This web site presents some of the results of the hydrographic observations for each of the surveys. | 11/01 |
| 2002 AGU / 2001 AMS | Check out our new talks page devoted to our presentations and posters to delivered at the 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting, the 2001 Fall AMS meeting and other invited talks. | 11/01 |
| HyCODE Times | Read along as over a hundred researchers investigate the ocean off the Jersey Coast. Features live coverage and stories directly from the scientists. | 07/01 |
| 2001 HyCODE Experiment Site | Our Summer Experiment site is now live. Check out all the plans and data coming in live. | 06/01 |
| Ocean Color Satellite Imagery | Data from the FY1-C satellite is now online. | 05/01 |
| Satellite Temps and Currents in 1 image! | Combined imagery of our sea surface temperature (SST) and ocean surface current (CODAR) data are now online. | 04/01 |
| The Congressional Visit | Congressmen receive award IN OUR LAB and the Presidents of Rutgers and Princeton come too! | 04/01 |
| Jay Speaks | Jay Leno, yes the Jay Leno, comments on us in his nightly monologue... | 11/00 |
| 2000 Leatherman Awards | Awards for the super wonderful people involved in our 2000 summer research, and Bob Arnone | 08/00 |
| 2000 Rutgers University Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award | President gives award to phenomenal Professor/Researcher for his devotion and zest. | 05/00 |
| Letter to "Dr." Crowley | VP Al Gore's Letter of love to us, or more specifically, Dr. Crowley | 05/00 |
| Hurricane Floyd | Hurricane Floyd rips the east coast, but is captured by us as it passes along the Jersey shore | 09/99 |
| 1999 Leatherman Awards | Awards for the super wonderful people involved in our 1999 summer research, and Alan Weideman | 08/99 |
Last reviewed: February 6, 2008
