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IMCS in the Press: 2009 PDF Print E-mail
Press of Atlantic City Area students get lesson in World Water Monitoring Day -  Melanie Reding, education coordinator at Tuckerton's Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, traced for students the water's path from Batsto Lake, to the Mullica River, to the Great Bay Estuary and, finally, to the Atlantic Ocean. arrow_right.png read more 10/15/09
Nature.com
2,000-year-long temperature and hydrology reconstructions from the Indo-Pacific warm pool - Northern Hemisphere surface temperature reconstructions suggest that the late twentieth century was warmer than any other time during the past 500 years and possibly any time during the past 1,300 years arrow_right.png read more 08/15/09
Press of Atlantic City Bay watchers talk of inlet, pipeline - It sounds like a bold stroke: Solve upper Barnegat Bay's pollution problems by creating a new inlet between the bay and the sea. The concept dates back to the 1960s, when the bay was polluted by effluent from obsolete municipal sewer plants and home septic systems. Now the idea is being kicked around again informally as anxiety increases over the bay's problems with suburban runoff pollution and mounting nitrogen levels in the water. arrow_right.png read more 10/16/09
Daily Targum
Ocean levels continue to rise, coast lines dwindle - As the climate continues to change, University researchers foresee the state shoreline sitting one football field inland within the next 75 years. Current models that are trending show a sea level rise of greater than two feet, said University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Research Professor Michael Kennish, who is among other professors researching the effects climate change on sea level rise in New Jersey. arrow_right.png read more 09/21/09
Press of Atlantic City
Ocean undergoing a thorough checkup - "Up until the late 1980s, most of what we did in the coastal ocean was public-health related," testing for bacteria and physical water conditions, said Connell, whose bureau's core mission has been watching for bacterial contamination of shellfish. arrow_right.png read more 09/15/09
Press of Atlantic City Researchers hit the (sea) floor: Team from Rutgers collects samples to assess pollution - The research vessel Arabella departs from the Rutgers University Marine Field Station carrying an array of scientific equipment and a crew determined to change the way we look at our oceans. arrow_right.png read more 09/01/09
The New York Times
Diving Deep for a Living Fossil - After a 33-year deep sea quest, an oceanographer is more hopeful than ever that he will capture one of the world’s oldest living fossils. arrow_right.png read more 08/25/09
The Star-Ledger  Unmanned submarines glide across the ocean, putting Rutgers at leading edge of exploration - As millions of people watched Hurricane Bill batter the Dominican Republic via satellite last week, Drake sought a different view: from 3,000 feet beneath the pounding seas.  arrow_right.png read more 08/22/09
Press of Atlantic City
Saving Barnegat Bay / Who will act? - Scientists have been saying it for years. They said it again last month at a legislative hearing in Lacey Township on the fate of the bay. "We've actually reached a critical threshold where action is required to protect the bay," said Michael DeLuca, of the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Science.  arrow_right.png read more 08/13/09
National Marine Sanctuaries   Motz Grothues and Joe Dobarro are participating with REMUS in the Graveyard of the Atlantic Expedition 2009 to the wreckage site of the USS Monitor. Check the daily (weather permitting) video logs.  arrow_right.png read more 06/22/09
Asbury Park Press
Warmer water and loss of sea ice along the west Antarctic peninsula is driven in part by a complex climate pattern that's also increased sea ice across the continent in the Ross Sea, says Jennifer A. Francis, a research professor at Rutgers University who specializes in satellite sensing of polar regions. "The peninsula is warming very rapidly," she said. "It is a complicated situation, though." arrow_right.png read more 03/04/09
Asbury Park Press
A pair of New Jersey-built undersea probes and eight Rutgers University researchers are documenting a dramatic climate shift near the bottom of the world, where warming currents off west Antarctica are remaking the ocean ecosystem — and dealing a wild card for predictions of global sea level rise. "It's the fastest-warming area on Earth," said Oscar Schofield, a professor at the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, who recently returned from weeks at sea off the Antarctic Peninsula. arrow_right.png read more 03/04/09
Asbury Park Press 
Federal grant to allow study of Barnegat Bay pollution - A new $480,562 federal grant obtained by Rutgers University scientists could be the long-sought bankrolling of comprehensive research into the causes of — and potential solutions to — nutrient pollution that's disrupting the ecosystem of Barnegat Bay. arrow_right.png read more 01/27/09
Asbury Park Press Sea-level rise poses threat to back bays - With sea level rising here by an inch every six years or so, beach replenishment has bought time for Cape May's stately Victorian homes and hotels. arrow_right.png read more 01/20/09
 
IMCS in the Press: 2008 PDF Print E-mail
Ocean County Gazette
Free Fun For All The Family At Jacques Cousteau Center - Ocean County has winter tourists, too. Among them are seals, frequently seen as bobbing heads in the ocean, but who, from time to time, crawl up and sun themselves on our shores and jetties. arrow_right.png read more 12/26/08
SandPaper
An article which appeared in the Sandpaper, a local news magazine of Southern Ocean County-Long Beach Island, highlights an education program held on December 6, 2008 at the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve Coastal Center. This program is one of many offered throughout the year by the JC NERR Education Staff.arrow_right.png read more
12/16/08
The Star-Ledger Underwater 'workhorse' gives kids a lesson in remote technology - research and education program held by Rutgers/Cousteau Reserve scientists and educators at Sandy Hook.  The research project resulted from an interagency initiative on Seamless Networks of Marine Protected Areas, and the accompanying education program was conducted by staff of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve.  This represented an excellent team effort including Tom Grothues, Joe Dobarro, Rose Petrecca, Lisa Auermuller, Melanie Reding and Madeline Gazzale.arrow_right.png read more  11/20/08
The Asbury Press Advocates: It's actually not so bad "going green" -  "Green Building at the Jersey Shore" conference and technology fair that was held in Toms River, New Jersey. Co-sponsored by Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, the day long conference educated business owners and municipal officials on topics such as incentives and rebates available through the state's Clean Energy Program, planting rain gardens, how "going green" is good for small businesses, and becoming Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified. arrow_right.png read more
10/30/08 
The Asbury Press Bay's nitrogen flows from Jackson - Researchers say the Metedeconk and Toms rivers, which flow through Jackson, are the biggest contributors of nearly 1.6 million pounds of excess nitrogen compounds flowing into the bay every year, acting as fertilizer that fuels algae blooms and gradually rearranges the bay's ecology. arrow_right.png read more 10/20/08 
The Asbury Press  State eyes new test for Barnegat Bay water - For years, state and federal pollution assessments showed Barnegat Bay's water quality was improving - to the disbelief of boaters and fishermen who watched declines in shellfish and underwater eelgrass meadows. arrow_right.png read more
09/16/08 
NY Times
A Painfully Early Arrival for a Summer Nuisance - Kenneth W. Able, director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station in Tuckerton, N.J., said the early arrival could have something to do with recent winds from the south that blew away the sea’s warmer surface water, allowing an upwelling of cold water, which the lion’s mane loves. arrow_right.png read more 07/22/08