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…
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…
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…
Viruses that lubricate ocean carbon flux
The paper in Nature Microbiology is here: http://go.nature.com/2Ikbt8S One of the most invigorating feelings in science occurs when multiple layers of observation are unified to not only tell a compelling…
Throwing back the big ones saves a fishery from hot water
Just out last week, Malin has a Commentary in PNAS, “Throwing back the big ones saves a fishery from hot water.” In it, he explains why a recent paper by…
Catching Clownfish
Diving is well underway here in the Philippines - members of the Pinsky lab are back for another season studying metapopulation dynamics of reef fish, focusing on the yellowtail clownfish…
Glider-Based Ecosystem Study
On January 9, 2018, a post-doctoral researcher and undergraduate student of Dr. Grace Saba (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Center for Ocean Observing Leadership) deployed a Teledyne Webb Slocum Glider with…
Paul Falkowski Awarded Prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Sciences
One of the world’s greatest pioneers in the field of biological oceanography, Dr. Paul Falkowski is a distinguished professor in the Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and…
The Legos of Life
Rutgers scientists have found the "Legos of life" -- four core chemical structures that can be stacked together to build the myriad proteins inside every organism -- after smashing and…
Scallop Genome Insights
Ximing Guo and a team led by Dr. Zhenmin Bao at Ocean University of China have sequenced the genomes of two scallops. Their studies, which are recently published in Nature…