Underwater robot gliders are measuring air and sea interaction during hurricanes in the mid-Atlantic region. The little yellow submarines are part of a collaborative effort between Rutgers and Monmouth universities. Rutgers marine and coastal sciences expert Travis Miles says these 6-foot long gliders safely collect temperature data. "Ahead of a storm,...
Is Theory on Earth’s Climate in the Last 15 Million Years Wrong?
Rutgers-led study casts doubt on Himalayan rock weathering hypothesis A key theory that attributes the climate evolution of the Earth to the breakdown of Himalayan rocks may not explain the cooling over the past 15 million years, according to a Rutgers-led study. The study in the journal Nature Geoscience could...
Robert Chant Named Recipient of the Pritchard Award – Physical Oceanography Paper
Pritchard Award - Physical Oceanography Paper This award was established to honor Dr. Donald W. Pritchard, whose insightful research on the physical dynamics of coastal systems set the stage for much of the research in physical oceanography that is being conducted today. The Pritchard Award recognizes the author(s) of the...
Marine Science Family Night at McKinley Community School
In New Brunswick, Rutgers scientists teamed up with the local school district to develop a series of Science Family Nights. Funded by Rutgers’ 4-H Department of Youth Development and Cooperative Extension, and AT&T, this series sets out to inspire and engage the next generation of science-informed students. Students and their families had...
Rutgers RIOS Student Deploys an Ocean Glider in the US Virgin Islands
This glider was deployed on the 2nd international mission from the US Virgin Islands and is transiting to the British Virgin Islands in order to study heat flow through the Anegada Straight. Equipped with temperature, salinity, depth and current measuring instruments, this glider will monitor water transport and heat content...
RU26 In Support of NASA SWOT CALVAL Program
Sea Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) is a radar interferometry mission making SSH measurements over a swath 120 km wide. There is a nadir gap of 20 km where the error from interferometry is not meeting science requirement. The current candidate for the in-situ measurement is an array of gliders along...
Grace Saba Awarded NOAA Project for Ocean Acidification Monitoring on the U.S. Northeast Shelf
Optimizing Ocean Acidification Observations for Model Parameterization in the Coupled Slope Water System of the U.S. Northeast Large Marine Ecosystem Lead by Grace Saba, Rutgers University The U.S. Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem supports some of the nation’s most economically valuable coastal fisheries, and most of this revenue comes from...
Rutgers Oceanographers Set the Precedent for a New Program in U.S. Ocean Coring
In July 2019, Rutgers postdoc Samantha Bova and Rutgers professor Yair Rosenthal led a team of 33 scientists on a month-long ocean expedition aboard the JOIDES Resolution to study the oceanographic and hydrologic history of the northern margin of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the South American continent. The expedition...
Yair Rosenthal named AGU Fellow
Established in 1962, the Fellows program recognizes American Geophysical Union (AGU) members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space sciences as valued by their peers and vetted by a committee of Fellows. AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence in the Earth and space sciences. Their breadth...
Rutgers-led University Consortium Awarded Funding for Atlantic Seaboard Fisheries Research
Led by Rutgers University, a consortium of 14 shellfish geneticists from 12 East Coast universities and government agencies has won a five-year, $4.4 million grant funded by NOAA Fisheries through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to develop new tools to accelerate selective breeding to support oyster aquaculture. Ximing Guo,...