PhD candidate Jennifer Walker was awarded the Louis Bevier Fellowship. This award supports graduate students in completing their dissertation thesis. Jennifer studies past sea-level change to bridge the gap between short-term instrumental records and long-term geological reconstructions and to better understand future sea-level rise under changing climate. Her research focuses...
April 2018 Promotions
April is promotion month for faculty at Rutgers and we are proud of Daphne Munroe, Malin Pinksy, and David Bushek all of whom received promotions this year. Daphne Munroe (left) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She arrived at Rutgers from Vancouver Island University in 2010. She has distinguished...
Bravo Zulu to Dr. Chris Free
Bravo Zulu to Dr. Chris Free Congratulations to Chris for the successful defense of his PhD thesis! And if that wasn’t enough, he has also just been awarded the Rutgers Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. This is the highest award bestowed on graduate students at Rutgers involving 75 PhD programs. Below is...
Mike Acquafredda
I’m originally from Matawan, New Jersey. As a young man, scouting gave me the opportunity to explore and fall in love with nature. My favorite camping trip every year was to Sandy Hook, a peninsula that separates the Raritan Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. There, I caught fish, dug in...
Scientific Diving Class Opens Doors for Rutgers Undergraduates
Breathing through their scuba gear, Ailey Sheehan and her classmates dropped a new and improved lionfish trap – a hinged net that will help scientists study that invasive fish in the Caribbean – into the dive pool at Rutgers. Sheehan, a junior marine science major, discovered the opportunity to help...