Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory of evolution, noted that corals form far-reaching structures, largely made of limestone, that surround tropical islands. He didn’t know how they performed this feat. Now, Rutgers scientists have shown that coral structures consist of a biomineral containing a highly organized organic...
Congratulations to Jessica Valenti who has been awarded a School of Graduate Studies Merit and Achievement Award
Congratulations to Jessica Valenti who has been awarded the School of Graduate Studies Merit and Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership and Teaching. This award recognizes Jessica’s excellent leadership and teaching at Rutgers, and her research in understanding the ecology of coastal fisheries and how they may respond to urbanization....
Slocum Glider “Silbo” Circumnavigates the Atlantic Ocean – Part 3
This episode is the third in a four-part series on "Silbo", Teledyne Webb Research's autonomous underwater glider that recently made the first ever circumnavigation of the Atlantic Ocean by an unmanned underwater vehicle. In this episode of Marine Tech Talk, Joe Gradone, Rutgers graduate student, discusses Silbo's journey from St....
Theodore Thompson
As a young Bahamian, I was always within walking distance to the beach. However, my interest in marine science did not begin until I moved to the outer Island of Eleuthera. Eleuthera, meaning freedom, is a sparsely populated island only a mile in width with the Caribbean Sea on one...
Sea-Level Rise in 20th Century Was Fastest in 2,000 Years Along Much of East Coast
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...