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October 24, 2008

Highlights

Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS) Open House - On Saturday, September 20, 2008 a record breaking 738 people investigated the research happening in that “mystery building” at the end of Great Bay Boulevard in Tuckerton during the Rutgers University Marine Field Station Annual Open House. The open house is a chance for the local community to learn about the research and science happening in and around the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR) which is right in their own backyard.

Researchers and staff from the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences introduced the public to a variety of research subjects including blue crabs, marine mammal acoustics, LEO-15, StriperTracker, the dive program and the fascinating creatures of the wet lab. Visitors learned about the history of the Field Station from its days as a U.S. Coast Guard facility to its transformation into a marine field station. The Coast Guard Auxiliary was on hand to answer questions.

The causeway was lined with informational material for a wide range of public programs offered by the JC NERR, which include recreational and educational programs, the Life on the Edge Exhibit and JC NERR volunteer recruitment. Visitors tried their hand at Gyotaku, a traditional form of Japanese fish printing dating from the mid 1800s. While fisherman once used gyotaku as a way to record their catches, many of the visitors used it as a way to record a day well spent discovering the Rutgers University Marine Field Station.

The MARE Summer Institute - IMCS, with its partners the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve aim to bring current science research to the K-12 classroom through the Marine Activities Resources & Education (MARE) Program. This summer, MARE brought twenty-five educators from six schools to the Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center in Tuckerton, where they were trained to improve ocean literacy in our schools. To read more about the program and its achievements click here.

  • Michael Kennish, Rutgers University, Research Professor at IMCS was quoted in the September 1 Asbury Park Press. The article titled "N.J. Water Quality Up and Down, Report Says" discussed the draft report findings of the water quality condition of New Jersey's lakes, streams, estuaries and coastal ocean. The article mentions that the DEP is actively working with Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences scientists in formulating new measures of assessment of estuarine and marine waters. IMCS continues to play an increasingly important collaborative role with state and federal government agencies in ecosystem assessment and remediation of New Jersey's coastal waters. The article link is http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809010352 or click here. Mike Kennish also served on the US EPA’s STAR Research Grant Review Panel, entitled “Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality” held at Silver Spring, Maryland from September 22-26, 2008.
  • Dave Bushek of HSRL was quoted by Eric R. Olson of Scienceline in "Restoring New York's Oysters," September 10, 2008. Olson writes, "The ultimate goal of the effort is to restore the oysters so that they can filter particles out of New York City's murky waterways and begin to restore balance to a fractured ecosystem. However, the initiative faces almost insurmountable odds. Although the waters around the five boroughs once supported a thriving ecosystem teeming with life, they are now largely polluted wastelands inhospitable to oysters and other marine creatures. But even those outside of the movement remain hopeful. "It is well within the realm of possibility that oysters could return to populations from a century or two ago," says David <http://www.marine.rutgers.edu/faculty_dbushek.html> Bushek, a marine scientist at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers University in New Jersey, a stone's throw away from New York Harbor. And yet, that "realm of possibility" remains a long way from certainty." To read more click on http://scienceline.org/2008/09/10/env-olson-oysters/ or click here.
  • John Dighton, Director of Rutgers University's Pinelands Field Station and Walt Bien, Director of Drexel University's Pinelands Research Center appeared on Sounds of Science with Patrick Regan of NJN New Jersey Public Television and Radio on August 26, 2008. If you missed this broadcast on "Pine Barrens Ecology" you can listen to the interview by clicking here to access a podcast of the show (Episode 6) on www.njn.org.
  • Paul Falkowski was on NPR's All Things Considered August 28, 2008, where the subject was "Study: Oxygen Levels Have Varied Little Over Ages." The podcast is available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94076329
  • Peter Rona was appointed to serve on the American Geophysical Union Fellows Committee.
  • Anthony Broccoli gave an invited presentation, ''Climate Change: What We Know and Don`t Know'' at the Fourth National Integrity in Science Conference, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC, July 2008. In August he was interviewed and quoted by The New York Times in ''Tropical Warming Tied to Flooding Rains,'' and interviewed by NJ 101.5 WKXW radio (Trenton, NJ) about the seasonal hurricane forecast and effects of climate on hurricanes.
  • Alan Robock was quoted by Gregory M. Lamb in the Christian Science Monitor, July 16, 2008, "Can we engineer a cooler earth?" http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/07/16/can-we-engineer-a-cooler-earth/ and July 25, 2008 by Sara Goudarzi for National Geographic News, "Wildfires may briefly slow Arctic warming, study says" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-wildfires-arctic.html and copied at http://www.inform.kz/showarticle3.php?lang=eng&id=167661

Meetings Attended

  • Presentations given by Drs. Richard Lathrop and Michael Kennish at the Barnegat Bay "State of the Bay" Conference were highlighted in "Bay's Nitrogen Flows from Jackson" by Kirk Moore and Keith Ruscitti of the Asbury Park Press, October 20, 2008. These presentations drew an important and clear link between changes in the land use of the coastal watershed due to population growth and human activities (Rick Lathrop) and the insidious decline in the bay's ecology (Mike Kennish). This two-day conference held at Georgian Court University was one of the most important conferences on the estuary in the past decade. The full article containing quotes from Michael Kennish, Rutgers University, Research Professor and Research Coordinator for the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve; and Richard Lathrop, Rutgers University, Professor and Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis can be found at http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008810200310 or click here.
  • Ken Able presented a talk about the impact of overwater structures in New York Harbor on fish habitat at New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation. There has been an ongoing effort since the 1990's to evaluate the impact of overwater structures in this area. Most of our recent efforts, in collaboration with Tom Grothues, have used state of the art "acoustic video" to provide enhanced insights into fish use of these structures.
  • Peter Rona was the keynote speaker and co-convened a symposium and panel on "Recent Developments and Future Potential of Marine Minerals," at the International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway on 8 August. He also presented a seminar on Paleodictyon nodosum and Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, discussing the enigmatic living fossil with a group of marine biologists and paleontologists at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany on August 14th.
  • Anthony Broccoli gave a presentation, "Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Solutions," at the 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, August 2008.
  • Peter Rona presented ongoing research on the Hudson Canyon, hydrothermal systems on ocean ridges and connections with our solar system in an invited keynote talk, "Ocean Exploration and Discovery: New Jersey and Beyond," at the 2008 New Jersey Science Convention at the Garden State Convention Center on October 14th.
  • Peter Rona and Karen Bemis gave the presentation "Conceptual framework for processes operating at a vent site in the Main Endeavour Field, Juan de Fuca Ridge," at NST Endeeavour Integrated Study Site Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, September 18-19, 2008.
  • Alan Robock gave the presentation "Volcanic Forcing of Climate over the Past 1500 Years: An Improved Ice-Core-Based Index for Climate Models" (with Chaochao Gao and Caspar Ammann; IAVCEI General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 18-22, 2008). He also convened the conference session "Volcanism and the Earth`s Atmosphere."

New Grants

  • Able, K. NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation, "Behavior of Fishes Associated with Piers: Responses in the Lower Hudson River." 06/01/07-09/30/08, ($308,572)
  • Bidle, K. National Science Foundation, "Role of Metacaspases in Mediating Cell Fate During Viral Infections." 08/01/07-07/31/09, ($175,672 addnl)
  • Bricelj, M. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Effects of Aureococcus Anophagefferens Brown Tides in Coastal Lagoonal Systems." 09/01/04-08/31/09
  • Bushek, D. NJ Turnpike Authority, "Garden State Parkway Widening Project: MP30 to MP80/Mullica River Bridge." 06/01/08-01/01/11
  • Chant, R. NJ Turnpike Authority, "Garden State Parkway Widening Project: MP30 to MP80/Mullica River Bridge." 06/01/08-01/01/11, ($155,193)
  • Curchitser, E. National Science Foundation, "Col. Res.: Climate Variability and Change in the US GLOBEC Regions as Simulated by the IPCC Climate Models: Ecosystem Implications." 09/01/08-08/31/11, ($83,389)
  • Curchitser, E. National Science Foundation, "Col. Res.: Downscaling Global Climate Projections to the Ecosystems of the Bering Sea." 09/15/07-08/31/09, ($49,882 addnl)
  • DeLuca, M. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,"Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve Operations Budget for FY08." 10/01/08-03/31/10, ($555,000)
  • DeLuca, M. National Park Service, "Sediments and Benthos at the Proposed Ferry Dock Site - Sandy Hook Gateway National Recreation Area." 07/29/08-12/31/10, ($58,352)
  • DeLuca, M. National Park Service, "Development of a Coastal Geormorph Monitoring Protocol, Year 3." 06/03/04-08/31/10, ($102,554 addnl)
  • DeLuca, M. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Mid-Atlantic Bight National Undersea Research Center." 03/01/05-02/28/09, ($900,500 addnl)
  • Falkowski, P. Alfred Wegener Institute, "Plankton Tech." 03/01/08-04/30/11, ($118,487)
  • Glenn, S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Phased Deployment & Operation of the Mi-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System." 10/01/07-09/30/09, ($1,700,000 addnl)
  • Haidvogel, D. National Science Foundation, "Col. Res.: The Effect of Varying Freshwater Inputs on Regional Ecosystems." 07/01/08-06/30/10, ($204,001)
  • Haidvogel, D. National Science Foundation, "Col. Res.: Climate Forcing of Calanus Finmarchicus Populations of the North Atlantic." 09/01/08-08/31/11, ($149,192)
  • Haidvogel, D. National Science Foundation, "US GLOBEC Coordinating Office at Rutgers University." 09/15/07-02/02/11, ($150,070 addnl)
  • Kohut, J. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Rutgers CMER Fate Program 2008." 09/01/08-08/1/09 , ($128,014)
  • Rona, P. National Science Foundation, "Col. Res.: Acoustic Instrumentation for Imaging and Quantifying Hydrothermal Flow in NEPTUNE Canada Regional Cabled Observatory." 11/01/08-10/31/10, ($199,597)
  • Schofield, O. Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, "From Microbes to Mammals: Studying Climate-Induced Changes in the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem with a Robotic Cluster." 06/01/08-12/31/11, ($1,347,416)
  • Schofield, O. University of California, San Diego, "Rutgers Participation in Cyber Infrastructure Implementing Organization for the ORION Program." 07/01/07-09/30/08, ($34,687 addnl)
  • Schofield, O. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Bioinformatic Mapping of Biogeochemical Provinces." 05/01/06-04/30/09, ($168,423 addnl)
  • Seitzinger, S. National Science Foundation, "RCN: Denitrification - Integrating Landscapes & Waterscapes Year 3." 05/01/07-04/30/09, ($60,250 addnl)
  • Sikes, E. National Science Foundation, "Col. Res.: Radiocarbon Content of the Southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean Waters in the Holocene and Late Quaternary." 09/01/08-08/31/10, (($296,926)
  • Taghon, G. Vanderbilt University, " EcoChip: A Microfluidic Device to Characterize Microbial Responses." 05/01/07-04/30/09, ($60,250 addnl)
  • Wilkin, J. Virginia Inst. of Marine Science, "US Eastern Continental Shelf Carbon Cycling (USECoS): Modeling, Data Assimilation and Analysis." 05/05/08-04/30/09, ($86,250)
  • Wilkin, J. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Improving Coastal Circulation Analysis and Prediction through Refined Altimeter Data Processing." 06/01/08-05/31/12, ($49,746)
  • Wilkin, J. University of Miami, "US GODAE: Global Ocean Prediction with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model." 06/03/04-09/30/08, ($77,424 addnl)
  • Zavala-Garay, J. University of Miami, "A Study of the MJO-ENSO Problem: Phase II." 06/01/06-05/31/09, ($40,392 addnl)

Publications

  • Bemis, K. and A. Borgia, A. 2008, Magma supply rates inferred from cinder cone radii. IAVCEI 2008 General Assembly, Understanding Volcanoes, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • Chao, Y., L. Zhijin, J.D. Farrara, M.A. Moline, O. Schofield, S.J. Majumdar. 2008. Synergistic applications of autonomous underwater vehicles and regional ocean modeling system in coastal ocean forecasting. Limnology and Oceanography 53(6): 2251-2263.
  • Bemis, K., P. Bagchi, K. Kottam, P. Rona, 2008, Comparison of particle dispersion paterns in models and acoustic observations, NSF Ridge 200 Program Events Newsletter, Summer 2008, 10-13.
  • Chichester, K. D., M. Sebastian, J.W. Ammerman, C.L. Colyer. 2008. Enzymatic assay of marine bacterial phosphatases by capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection. Electrophoressis 29: 3810-3816.
  • Gao, C., A. Robock, and C. Ammann, 2008: Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice-core-based index for climate models. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
  • Glenn, S.M., C. Jones, M. Twardowski, L. Bowers, J. Kerfoot, D. Webb, O. Schofield. 2008. Studying resuspension processes in the Mid-Atlantic Bight using Webb slocum gliders. Limnology and Oceanography 53(6): 2180-2196.
  • Gruber, D.F., H. Kao, S. Janoschka, J. Tsai, V.A. Peiribone. 2008. Patterns of fluorescent protein expression in Scleractinian corals. Biological Bulletin 215: 143-154.
  • Lipa, B., B. Nyden, D. Barrick, and J. Kohut. 2008. HF Radar Sea-echo from Shallow Water. Sensors 2008, 8, 4611-4635 DOI: 10.3390/s8084611
  • Kennish, M.J., R.J. Livingston, D. Raffaelli, and K. Reise. 2008. Environmental Future of Estuaries. Pp. 188-208, In: N. V. C. Polunin (ed.), Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
  • Powell, E.N., K.A. Ashton-Alcox, J.N. Kraeuter, S.A. Ford, D. Bushek. 2008. Long-term trends in oyster population dynamics in Delaware Bay: Regime shifts and response to disease. Journal of Shellfish Research. 27(4):729-755.
  • Robock, A.. 2008: We should really worry about nuclear winter. Bull. Atomic Scientists, Roundtable discussion, http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/roundtables/has-the-time-come-geoengineering
  • Robock, A, 2008: Geoengineering: It`s not a panacea. Geotimes, 53, no. 7, 58.
  • Robock, A., L.. Oman, and G. Stenchikov, 2008: Regional climate responses to geoengineering with tropical and Arctic SO2 injections. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16101, doi:10.1029/2008JD010050.
  • Robock, A. and S. Slanina, 2008: Nuclear winter. In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Cutler J. Cleveland, Ed. (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth July 21, 2008; Last revised July 22, 2008]. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Nuclear_winter
  • Scott, S., P. Rona et al., 2008, Mineral deposits in the sea: Second Report of the Engineering Committee on Ocean Resources, National Research Council of Canada.
  • Taylor, J., D. Bushek. 2008. Intertidal oyster reefs can persist and function in a temperate North American Atlantic estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 361:301-306. doi: 10.3354/meps07429
  • Voordeckers, J.W., M. Do, M. Hügler, V. Ko, S.M. Sievert, and C. Vetriani. (2008). Culture dependent and independent analyses of 16S rRNA and ATP citrate lyase genes: a comparison of microbial communities from different black smoker chimneys on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Extremophiles 5:627-640.
  • Warner, J.C., C.R. Sherwood, R.P. Signell, C.K. Harris, and H.G. Arango. 2008. Development of a three-dimensional, regional, coupled wave, current, and sediment-transport model. Computers and Geosciences, 34: 1284-1306, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.012
  • Yoshimori, M., and A.J. Broccoli, 2008: Equilibrium response of an atmosphere-mixed layer ocean model to different radiative forcing agents: Global and zonal mean response. J. Climate, 21, 4399-4423.

Student News

  • Andrew Reed (Ecology & Evolution Graduate Program) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation “Molecular Analysis of Microbial 16S rRNA, mcrA, dsrAB and pmoA Genes From Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent and Cold Seep Sites” on September 19, 2008. His committee consists of Dr. Richard Lutz (advisor), Dr. Costantino Vetriani, Dr. Michael Kennish, and Dr. Timothy Shank (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).
  • Katye Altieri (Ph.D. Candidate advised by Drs. Seitzinger, IMCS and Turpin, Environmental Sciences) was this year's winner of the Wagner Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences, a national honor, based on her publication entitled "Oligomers formed through in-cloud methylglyoxal reactions: Chemical composition, properties, and mechanisms investigated by ultra-high resolution FT-ICR mass spectroscopy," 2008, Atmos. Environ. 42;1476-1490.
  • Sindia Sosdian (Graduate Program in Oceanography) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Climate Transitions across the Cenozoic: Insight from Elemental Ratios in Benthic Foraminifera and Marine Gastropods” on August 27, 2008. Committee members were Yair Rosenthal (advisor), Tony Broccoli, Ken Miller, Jim Wright, and Maureen Raymo (Boston University).
  • Lora Smith (John Reinfelder, advisor) defended her doctoral dissertation, "Land-Atmosphere Exchange of Mercury in Temperate Wetlands," July 2, 2008.
  • Derek Wright (John Reinfelder, advisor) defended his doctoral dissertation, "The Transport and Bioaccumulation of Trace Metals in an Urban Impacted Buoyant River Plume," July 22, 2008.
  • Let's welcome our new Graduate Program in Oceanography (GPO) Students:
    Nicole Abdul:" I am an international student from Trinidad and Tobago and am interested in the application of microfossil isotope geochemisty for paleoceanographic/plaeoclimatological reconstructions. I received my Undergraduate degree at the College of Charleston, (Charleston SC) in Geology and my Master's Degree at Savannah State University, (Savannah GA) in Marine Sciences. At Rutgers I am a part of a pilot project between the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (temporary advisor - Dr. Ken Miller) and Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (temporary advisors Drs. Paul Falkowski and Yair Rosenthal) on a three year track towards a PhD." (Room 304)
    Elizabeth Diamond comes to IMCS from Bryn Mawr College. She will be pursuing a Ph.D. in marine sciences with an interest in crustacean biology. (Room 304)
    Katherine Korotyky: "I was born and raised in one New Jersey town – Toms River – so I’m no
    stranger to the Garden State. I obtained my undergraduate degree at Boston University in Earth Sciences. Without taking time off, I continued my academic career by spending one year as a graduate student in oceanography at the University of New Hampshire where I conducted foraminiferan oxygen isotope and paleomagnetism work on sediment cores from the Bay of Bengal. I decided after this to join Karl Nordrstrom at Rutgers in studying aeolian transport on the backshore and dune environments in Avalon, NJ. I made this move because my research interests are centered around the beach and shallow water – sediment-fluid dynamics and coastal ecosystems. I find that I enjoy biology more than most geologists, physics more than most ecologists, and water as much as oceanographers, so I believe I’ve finally found my niche here at IMCS. In the rest of my life, I SCUBA dive, sail, and knit as much as I can." (Room 114A)
    Livia Montone joins IMCS as a joint Ph.D. student in Oceanography and Geology. This past May, Livia received her B.S. degree in Geology with a concentration in Paleobiology from the University of Delaware. Currently,
    her advisors are Dr. Yair Rosenthal, Dr. Paul Falkowski, and Dr. Ken Miller. Her research interests include, but are not limited to: stable isotope and trace metal geochemistry, biogeochemistry, earth systems, and climate change. In her spare time, Livia enjoys travelling in the National Parks and playing the guitar and handbells. Her office is located in room 304, and she is delighted to be a part of the IMCS community. (Room 304)
    Laura Palamara: "My name is Laura Palamara, and I'm a Masters student working with Josh
    Kohut on a project linking physical ocean data with fish distributions. I got my undergraduate degree in biology at The College of New Jersey, and I'm especially interested in marine animals and how they interact with each other and their environment - and I really like manatees!" (Room 305F, ext. 307)
    Xinzhong (Peter) Zhang: "Hi, all! My name is Xinzhong (Peter) Zhang, a new student from China. My advisor here is Dale Haidvogel. Just about two months ago, I obtained my B.S. from Ocean University of China with a major in Marine Science. My research interest is mainly in coastal and estuarine modeling. During my undergraduate years, I also processed some ADCP and LADCP data, which I feel is also very interesting and valuable. I have two primary hobbies, soccer and tennis, both sports! I really like the feeling of running energetically on the field and court. In addition, I like traveling a lot, especially to places with special and interesting history or story behind it, and now I am looking forward to seeing those places of interest in the U.S. Finally, very glad to come to study and work with all of you here. It’s my great pleasure! Hope we can enjoy our being here together in the future. (Room 114B, ext. 534)

Let's Welcome

Dr. Sung-Keun Rhee is a visiting scholar from Chungbuk National University, Korea. At IMCS, Dr. Rhee is working with Drs. Lee Kerkhof and Max Haggblom. He is interested in cultivating non-extremophilic archaea such as ammonia-oxidizing archaea (MGI). His research topics here are cultivation- and molecular-based characterization of ecological roles of archaea in marine environments. In particular, he will focus on elucidation of archaea involved in nitrogen cycle in oxic-anoxic interface of the Black Sea and marine sediments. Dr. Rhee welcomes any comments and discussion about these topics. (Room 303B, ext. 334)

Congratulations

Congratulations to Gregg and Clarissa Sakowicz on the birth of their baby girl, Sage Grier Sakowicz! Sage was born on August 7, 2008, and weighed 7lb 10oz and measured 20 inches long.

Upcoming Events

Symposium honoring J. Frederick Grassle - On November 20 - 21, 2008 an International Symposium is being held at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences to honor J. Frederick Grassle. Colleagues in Fred's field who have interacted with him in a variety of capacities over the years will be making a series of presentations at the Symposium. The Proceedings of the Symposium will be published in a special volume of Deep-Sea Research. Anyone wishing to attend or receive more information concerning the Symposium should contact Rich Lutz at: rlutz@imcs.rutgers.edu.
Green Building Conference - The “‘Green Building’ at the New Jersey Shore Conference and Technology Fair” will be held on October 29, 2008 from 9:00am until 4:00pm at the Holiday Inn in Toms River, New Jersey. This event co-sponsored by JC NERR, the Barnegat Bay Estuary National Estuary Program, and the Urban Coast Institute will inform decision makers about “Green Building” options that are available for their municipalities and workplaces.
Conference sessions will address the importance of sustainability and will highlight clean energy alternatives, rebates and incentives, grants to promote sustainable designs in municipalities, LEED Certification, site-based low impact design strategies and water conservation measures.
Vendors will provide product information on ultra low flow fixtures, practical renewable energy devices, energy efficient lighting, rainwater catchment systems, durable roofing systems, fiber cement panels and many other environmentally friendly products and services.
Admission is free to attendees. Fees apply for vendor exhibits which can be reserved by contacting Gina at 609-812-0649 ext. 216 or gina@marine.rutgers.edu. For additional information visit www.jcnerr.org.