Technicians Tina Haskins and Chip Haldeman from the IMCS, Dina Seidel from Rutgers' Writers House and diver/photographer Dan Crowel with researchers from the University of the Azores pose for the group photo.
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.
As part of Homeland Security Center Of Excellence project IMCS installed new CODAR site at Club
Deportivo, Puerto Rico. Boat on the background is about to run an antenna pattern measurement.
We have no whales in the Passion Paddle, but on August 7, one (named Eleanor) appeared on the Lipman House lawn. It took 350 Gloucester County 4-H program students to give it a big welcome hug! Young scientists visited COOLRoom and spent some time sorting seaweed and observing invertebrates.
A beautiful view of the Scarlet Knight from the depth of the Atlantic ocean, as researcher Chip Halderman approaches her for the inspection off the Azores.
A colony of the tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila, thrives in a sulfide-rich diffuse flow vent on the East Pacific Rise at 9° North. These tubeworms rely on chemosynthetic symbiotic bacteria to convert carbon dioxide into organic molecules.
Researchers place fyke nets over clam farms near Tuckerton, NJ to
investigate use of aquaculture gear by fish and other motile fauna.
[Pictured left to right:
Jen Gius - HSRL Technician
John Kraeuter - Associate Director, HSRL
David Bushek - Associate Professor, IMCS
George Matthis - Clam farmer]
RUCOOL is at it again with another exciting Antarctic summer research season. Follow Tina, Alex, and Brian's adventures in science as they spend 5 months at Palmer Station, Antarctica!
US-based science team on board the New Zealand Research Vessel "Tangaroa." Left to right: Brian Popp (U Hawaii), Karen Arthur (U
Hawaii), Michelle Hardee (IMCS), Liz Sikes (IMCS), Elizabeth Gier (U Hawaii), and Aurora Elmore (IMCS). Read reports from on board at
IMCS Blog
HSRL and the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary work to develop
methods to curtail shoreline erosion in the Delaware Bay as part of
the Delaware Estuary Living Shoreline Initiative (DELSI)
Undergraduates! As one of your “spring” classes, consider 11:628:317 AQUACULTURE (3 CR.), taught by Professors Ximing Guo and Dave Bushek, Jan. 4-15, 2010 at the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab., Bivalve, NJ
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.
The IMCS robot Scarlett Knight became the first underwater robot in history to cross the Atlantic Ocean Basin.Read More...
Mike Kennish Receives National Award
Mike received the 2009 award from NOAA and the National Estuarine Research Reserve Association for outstanding contributions to the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS). Read More...
Mystery of Phytoplankton Death Explained
Scientists from Rutgers and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have found a chemical culprit responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean.Read More...
Aquaculture Course offered at IMCS
Aquaculture is an intensive 3-credit course taught at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory in Bivalve, NJ January 4-15, 2010. The course stresses the role of science in aquaculture and includes hands-on training as well as visits to active aquaculture facilities. Read More...
New Faculty Member - Debashish Bhattacharya
We are glad to welcome a new Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Ecology,
Evolution and Natural Resources and the Institute of Marine and Coastal
Sciences.Read More...
