DMCS Graduate Student Michael Brown Awarded Mistletoe Research Fellowship

Michael Brown, a DMCS PhD Candidate in Oceanography, was awarded a 2018 Mistletoe Research Fellowship. This is the inaugural year of the program, which is run by the Mistletoe Foundation. The fellowship consists of 1) a $10,000 Unfettered Research Grant to support university research, and 2) a Startup Collaboration to...

NASA Funds Rutgers Scientists’ Pursuit of the Origins of Life

Iron- and sulfur-containing minerals found on the early Earth (greigite, left, is one example) share a remarkably similar molecular structure with metals found in modern proteins (ferredoxin, right, is one example). Did the first proteins at the dawn of life on Earth interact directly with rocks to promote catalysis of...

The Ocean Is Getting More Acidic—What That Actually Means

By Eric Niller - National Geographic Thanks to carbon emissions, the ocean is changing, and that is putting a whole host of marine organisms at risk. These scientists are on the front lines. ATLANTIC CITY, NJ Grace Saba steadies herself on the back of a gently rocking boat as she...

Special Issue On How Oceans Are Changing

The seas around the Antarctic Peninsula are biologically extremely rich, but are climatically sensitive, having experienced some of the fastest warming globally in recent decades. A special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A published this week (14 May 2018) puts this region in the spotlight...

DMCS Oceanography graduate students Jennifer Walker and Stanley Ko awarded Louis Bevier and NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

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...