Three Rutgers Alumni

David Aragon, Tina Haskins, and Ethan Handel, three Rutgers alumni now turned staff aboard the R/V Arabella for the Scarlet Knight Test Deployment. Read more about Scarlet Knight Transatlantic Challange - it started April 27!

Oceanographers for a Day

On April 23, the children of IMCS family members participated in a  full day of activities and learned how to be "Oceanographers for a  Day" as part of the national Take our Daughters and Sons to Work  program.

Deep-sea diving expedition

The Deep-Submergence Vehicle Alvin at the surface after a dive to a depth of 2,500 meters. Between 2004 and 2008 Rutgers scientists  participated in a series of expeditions to investigate the macro and microbiological communities of deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The study site is located on a section of the mid-oceanic ridge system in the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean, called East Pacific Rise.

Marine Field Station Tuckerton, NJ

The Rutgers University Marine Field Station is uniquely situated across from Little Egg Inlet in Mullica - Great Bay estuary, one of the most pristine estuaries on the east coast.

Slocum Gliders

IMCS has the largest fleet of Slocum Underwater Autonomous Vehicles, which continuously patrol the coastal oceans. Gliders use buoyancy to move underwater in sawtooth patterns to collect data, and satellite radios to transmit information back to home-base.

IOOS and Offshore Wind Power Meeting - February 2nd, 2009

Rutgers President Richard McCormick delivered the Welcoming Remarks at the Offshore Wind Energy Meeting on February 2, 2009

Trans-Atlantic Connection

Rutgers Undergraduates Shannon Harrison, Emily Rogalsky, and Dakota Goldinger visit oceanography professors and students from the University of Azores, building partnerships for the trans-atlantic glider mission.

Trip to Svalbard, Norway

Dani Holden, Nilsen Strandskov and Katie Bianchini travled to Longyearbyen, Svalbard to participate in the NORUS program, a initiative to create corporations between American Universities and Norweigen Universities.

Brian Tracey

Scarlet Knight Brian Tracey helps to capture and tag winter flounder with acoustic transmitters for subsequent tracking in the Navesink River estuary. Unlike most other coastal marine fish in New Jersey, winter flounder move into estuaries in winter to lay eggs on the bottom, which leaves them vulnerable to winter dredging necessary to maintain safe water ways. This work is funded by the NJ Department of Transportation's Office of Maritime Resources

Mission in Antarctica

Alex Kahl and Elizabeth Leonardis are participating in the 2008-09 annual Antarctic summer collection of data at the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site.

HOV Alvin

Research Vessel Atlantis and Alvin in San Diego prior to their departure for the Gulf of California. The deep-sea vents located in the Guaymas Basin, at a depth of 2,000 meters on the bottom of the Gulf of California, are characterized by organic-rich sediments whose temperature may reach over 100°C.

Rutgers Red in the Southern ocean

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, and NASA, IMCS scientists are part of multi-institution effort to understand how climate change will affect the Antarctic ecosystem. (photo courtesy of Alex Kahl)

Antarctic Collaboration

Antarctic Collaboration

Members of the British Antarctic Survey picked up an underwater glider dubbed "RU05" about a half mile offshore of the Rothera Research Station. Deployed ten days earlier, by Rutgers scientists aboard the R/V Gould, the glider navigated its way through the icy waters of the Antarctic Penninsula and collected 1,000 water column profiles. (photo cortesy of John Loins)

CODAR Antenna on NJ Coast

A network of high fequency coastal radars is one component of the Ocean Monitoring System controlled from the Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory. This photo is of a Brant Beach, Long Beach Island antenna.