RUMFS-Ongoing Research

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A field facility of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

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Ongoing Research Activities

Life History of Fishes
- Ecology of Estuarine Fishes: Temperate Waters of the Western North Atlantic
Authors: Able and Fahay
- The First Year in the Life of Estuarine Fishes in the Middle Atlantic Bight
  Authors: Able and Fahay
- CCOR projects - Myrophis and Lieostomus

Recruitment of Estuarine Fishes
- Juvenile Fish Monitoring (Trapping)
  Location: RUMFS boat basin, New Jersey
  1990-Present
- Larval Ingress (Plankton Sampling)
  1 meter plankton net, 1 mm mesh
  Location: Little Sheepshead Creek (see map)
  1989-present
- Juvenile and Adult Fish Monitoring (Otter Trawling)
16' otter trawl
Location: Various locations (see map)
1988-1990, 1997-present
- Delaware Bay Ichthyoplankton
- Barnegat Bay
- Physical Water Quality
YSI 6600 data loggers
Location: Little Sheepshead Creek - 1997-present (see map)
Tuckerton Creek - 1999-present
Evaluation of Impacts on Fish Habitat and their Restoration
- Barnegat Bay Eel Passage
- Hudson River Foundation Project
- NY City Pier - Hudson River Project
- Hudson River shorelines
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Barnegat Bay

Wind Energy

Habitat Dynamics of Juvenile and Adult Fishes
- Large Fish Predators in Delaware Bay
- restoration effects on large predators - white perch habitat use Location: Delaware Bay Principal investigator(s): Able and Fox (RUMFS)
- Fish Residency and Egress
  Location: Mullica River and Great Bay Estuary
  Principal investigator(s): Able and Grothues (RUMFS)
- Weakfish Telemtry
  Location: JCNERR
  Principal investigator(s): Turnure, Able, Grothues (RUMFS)
- Small Striped Bass
  Location: Middle Atlantic Bight
  Principal investigator(s): Able, Turnure, and Grothues (RUMFS)
- Estuarine Predators Telemetry -sturgeon
- Winter Flounder Telemetry

Development of InSitu Techniques

Dual Frequency Indentification Sonar (DIDSON) reference image manuscript (Further Information)

Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS (REMUS)

Underwater video (Kimball and Able)

Fisheries/Population Dynamics of economically Important Species

Tainan

Mexican billfish

Summer flounder - otolith microchemistry

Summer flounder natural mortality workshop

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