On Dec 16 2014, Mansha successfully defended her thesis entitled Biochemical and physiological characterization of caspase activity in Haloarchaea
Exploring the Oceans: 20,000 Colleagues Under the Sea
Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography. SAILING the seven seas is old hat. The latest trick is to glide them. Sea gliders are small unmanned vessels which are now cruising the briny by the hundred. They use a minuscule amount of power, so they can stay out for months....
Lisa Calvo selected by the NJMEA as this year’s Outstanding Marine Educator
Congratulations Lisa Calvo on being awarded the New Jersey Marine Education Association's Outstanding Marine Educator of the Year Award! She recieved the award at the Teach at the Beach 2014 annual professional development workshop held at Stockton College's Campus Center on May 20th for a number of efforts including linking local NJ...
Amanda Wenczel awarded NJ Sea Grant Stew Tweed Scholarship for 2014
Amanda Wenczel, a doctoral candidate in Ecology and Evolution working at the Haskin Lab, is the winner of the New Jersey Sea Grant Stew Tweed Scholarship Award for 2014. Many of you may remember Stew who was a student of Hal Haskin at Rutgers and then spent a productive career...
Lauren Seyler awarded a Fulbright Fellowship
Lauren Seyler, a graduate student in the Graduate Program in Oceanography, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Roscoff, France with Dr. Colomban de Vargas. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between...
Peter Rona, 79, Dies; Explorer Found Hot Springs on Ocean Floor
Peter A. Rona, an oceanographer who dived into the depths of the world’s seas and surprised his peers by discovering vast mounds spewing hot smoke at the bottom of the icy Atlantic, exciting interests in deep-sea mining and the origins of life on earth, died on Feb. 20 in Plainsboro,...
Two Rutgers Assistant Professors Will Use Sloan Foundation Fellowships to Enhance Research Investigations
Experts in high energy physics, marine science to receive $50,000 awards. Two assistant professors who recently joined Rutgers are already making names for themselves in their fields, whether by helping to explain the makeup of mysterious dark matter in the universe or examining how climate-induced changes to fish migration patterns...