At the 2015 fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, Donato Giovannelli, a Postdoctoral researcher in the Marine Microbiology & Microbial Ecology lab was awarded the Deep Carbon Observatory emerging leader award for leading the second DCO Early Career Scientist Workshop in the Azores and pushing the boundaries...
Brittany Schieler
Though I was born and raised in the concrete jungle of New York City, I developed a love and curiosity for the natural world at an early age. As a kid, I delighted in family vacations to the Jersey Shore and trips to the New York Aquarium in Coney Island....
Rutgers Scientist Michael Kennish is Editor of International “Encyclopedia of Estuaries”
Mike Kennish, research professor in the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is the editor and a contributing author of the Encyclopedia of Estuaries, an international volume of the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary research knowledge and advances in estuarine science, to date. Newly published by Springer (Dordrecht, The Netherlands),...
New Paper from Bob Kopp, Ben Horton ‘Temperature-Driven Global Sea-Level Variability in the Common Era’ Picked Up Nationally
The paper, Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era goes into detail on how in the past century, sea level has risen more rapidly than it had in nearly 3,000 years. Kopp outlines in his blog the four main take aways of the article as: global sea-level change in the...
Diane Adams receives Bergmann Award
Photo Courtesy Embassy of Israel: (From left to right) Director General of UNESCO, Irena Bokova; Chair of the BSF Board of Governors, Prof. Albert Teich; Bergmann Award winners Prof. Michael Richter, Yeshiva University, and Prof. Diane Adams, Rutgers University; Israel's Minster of Science, Technology and Space, Ofir Akunis; and Director...
LEHT marine station’s history dates back to Coast Guard
As you drive east on Great Bay Boulevard in Little Egg Harbor Township, the newly rebuilt houses become fewer, painted lines on the road disappear and the view ahead becomes blue sky, marshes and open water.After crossing several one-lane wooden bridges with a speed limit of 10 miles per hour,...
Ben Horton awarded Plinius Medal
The European Geosciences Union awarded Dr. Ben Horton the 2016 Plinius Medal for his contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. "The Plinius Medal has been established by the EGU Natural Hazards (NH) Division to recognise interdisciplinary natural hazard research. The name of Gaius Plinius Secundus (~23 - 79...
Jessica Valenti
Growing up along the coast of New Jersey my interests in the ocean reach as far back as I can remember. Going to the beach was always my favorite thing to do no matter the season. To this day I still have boxes upon boxes filled with sea shells and...
Who’s out there in this weather?
November-December in the North Atlantic can be a brutal time of year to conduct scientific research, with winds reaching 50 knots and waves higher than 20 ft. Researchers aboard the R/V Atlantis answered the challenge to conduct science in these conditions as part of the North Atlantic Aerosol and Marine...