The rate of sea-level rise in the 20th century along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast was the fastest in 2,000 years, and southern New Jersey had the fastest rates, according to a Rutgers-led study. The global rise in sea level from melting ice and warming oceans from 1900 to...
Congratulations to Dr. Chuning Wang for Successfully Defending his PhD Thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Chuning Wang for completing his Ph.D. on the topic of Modeling Buoyancy - Driven Circulation in an Idealized Tidewater Glacier Fjord.
Ximing Guo, Distinguished Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, received the Honored Life Member Award
I’m please to share with you that Ximing Guo, Distinguished Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, received the Honored Life Member Award today from the National Shellfisheries Association at the 113th Annual Meeting of the NSA. Oscar and I put forth his name with several international colleagues and the Association approved...
1,500 Wind Turbines. 2,700 Square Miles. Offshore Wind in the Atlantic Will Be Big. Really Big
Off the coast of New Jersey these days, surveillance vessels hired by European energy companies are taking measurements of the ocean depths, and underwater research drones are analyzing water temperatures to accumulate data on the Mid-Atlantic "Cold Pool." Onshore in places like the Port of Paulsboro along the Delaware River...
Weather Research Priorities Study Spinning Up
This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) approved the plan for a new study that will recommend weather research priorities for the next decade. The effort will be led by Brad Colman, director of weather strategy at the Climate Corporation, and Scott Glenn, an oceanography professor at Rutgers University....
Offshore Energy Gets a Second Wind Under Biden
The Biden administration is betting that green energy produced by new offshore wind farms will help slow climate change, but fishers and some scientists say there are too many uncertainties about how the massive structures will affect the ocean and its marine life. The first big test of how the...
A Conversation with Polar Oceanographer Rebecca Jackson
By John Dos Passos Coggin This article continues Climate.gov’s series of interviews with current and former fellows in the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Program about the nature of their research funded by NOAA and what career and education highlights preceded and followed it. Over the past 30 years, the Postdoctoral...
Two of our grad students won presentation awards at the biennial Delaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit! Well done Janine and Elizabeth!
Janine Barr is a second year graduate student pursuing a Master’s in Oceanography with Dr. Daphne Munroe as her advisor. Based at the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab (HSRL), she is studying the ecosystem services provided by oyster aquaculture in the Delaware Bay region. Elizabeth Bouchard is a first year MS student in Ecology...
Rutgers University Uses Slocum Glider for Ocean Acidification Study
Assistant Professor Grace Saba discusses the value of the Slocum ocean glider and pH sensor technology in the study of ocean acidification. Links to the full article and video of an interview with Grace by Marine Technology Magazine are below. Marine Technology Video Interview with Grace on her pH Glider...
Congratulations to Vince Clementi who was awarded the NRC Research Associateship Award
Congratulations to Vince Clementi who was awarded the NRC Research Associateship Award as part of the National Energy Technology Laboratory Methane Hydrates Fellowship Program. As per the award: “The NRC Research Associateship award will provide Vince an opportunity to pursue his research plan in association with Yair Rosenthal, who is an...