| 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.  read more |
10/15/09
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Nature.com
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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 read more |
08/15/09
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| 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. read more |
10/16/09
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Daily Targum
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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. read more |
09/21/09
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Press of Atlantic City
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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. read more |
09/15/09
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| 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. read more |
09/01/09
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The New York Times
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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. read more |
08/25/09
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| 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.
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08/22/09
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Press of Atlantic City
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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.
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08/13/09
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| National Marine Sanctuaries
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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.
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06/22/09
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Asbury Park Press
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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." read more |
03/04/09
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Asbury Park Press
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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. read more |
03/04/09
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Asbury Park Press
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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. read more |
01/27/09
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| Asbury Park Press
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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. read more |
01/20/09
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