We are happy to announce the 2019 winners of the awards as follows: INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD: Yair Rosenthal | Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences DMCS is excited and proud of Yair Rosenthal who has been awarded the 2019 School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Award for International Excellence. This...
Climate Change Is a Major Concern for Rutgers Senior
Honors student Lauren Rodgers loves chemical oceanography and wants to earn a doctorate. Rutgers senior Lauren Rodgers once dreamed of becoming a fiction writer. But then she enrolled in a high school science and math program in her native Columbia, South Carolina, where she read an article that discussed the...
Investigating a Sea Scallop Pest
Researchers Dave Bushek and Daphne Munroe, from the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab, in collaboration with colleagues from Virginia Institute of Marine Science recently completed studies of a parasite that has recently been found in the federal sea scallop fishery. This fishery is a major economic driver in New Jersey and...
Janice McDonnell Interviewed on News12 NJ
Janice McDonnell Interviewed on News12 NJ: Family Science Night was held at Great Brunswick Charter School in New Brunswick on April 4. The students were taught about outer space. The family night was funded through a grant from NASA and AT&T.
RIOS Student and Munroe Lab at the Haskin Shellfish Lab Presents Research Poster at ASLO Aquatic Sciences 2019 in Puerto Rico
Villanova undergraduate, and NSF Research Internship in Ocean Science (RIOS) intern Niki Cleary recently traveled to Puerto Rico to attend the ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting, where she presented her summer research poster about horseshoe crabs and oyster farms. In 2018, Niki joined the Munroe Lab at the Haskin Shellfish Lab...
Rutgers Team Leads Pioneering Coring Expedition in the Indian and Southern Oceans
Getting mud from the bottom of the ocean is not easy. For decades, oceanographers have used tough, seemingly indestructible trawl wire to get samples -- but to get bigger and better cores it takes something stronger. DMCS professor Liz Sikes recently led the first successful US coring voyage using stronger...
The Connection Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Rutgers visiting scientist Jennifer Francis was the first to identify the consequences of shrinking Arctic sea ice The Rutgers Climate Institute comprises more than 100 distinguished researchers representing 17 schools and programs in the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. As observers of the natural world, they...
Climate Change Shrinks Many Fisheries Globally, Rutgers-Led Study Finds
Researchers find losses as high as 35 percent in some regions Climate change has taken a toll on many of the world’s fisheries, and overfishing has magnified the problem, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Science today. Ocean warming led to an estimated 4.1 percent drop in sustainable...
Horseshoe Crabs on Oyster Farms
We know that fences around farms and homes can change how wildlife species move across a landscape, but what happens if the farms are under water? In 2018, the Munroe Lab began experiments and surveys to look at this question on oyster farms in the lower Delaware Bay. The wildlife...
School of Barracuda Tracking Remus
A school of barracuda follows an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as seen from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone). The AUV team of New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station (NJAES) and Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS) staff and faculty was supporting a mission by the Florida Institute of...