This week Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) Assistant Professor Dr. Travis Miles and PhD Student Joe Gradone deployed RU36, the newest addition to our glider fleet, off St. Thomas. This glider will be measuring temperature, salinity, oxygen, and subsurface currents in the passage way between St. Thomas...
Congratulations to Elizabeth Sikes
Congratulations to Elizabeth Sikes who has been elected to the position of Vice president of the Geochemical Society. The position of vice president is an executive position on the governing board of the Society. She will be promoted to President in 2024. The Geochemical Society has nearly 4,000 members from...
Antarctic Long-Term Ecological Research site turns 30
The Long-Term Ecological Research site at Palmer Station, Antarctica, celebrates its 30th field season this year. Thanks to this long-running research program, scientists have consistently tracked environmental changes taking place along the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, over the past several decades. Researchers have also seen...
US sea levels will rise rapidly in the next 30 years, new report shows
(CNN) -- A new report provides an alarming forecast for the US: Sea level will rise as much in the next 30 years as it did in the past 100 -- increasing the frequency of high-tide flooding, pushing storm surge to the extreme and inundating vulnerable coastal infrastructure with saltwater....
Sam Coakley is a Master!
Congratulations to RUCOOL grad student Sam Coakley on successfully completing his Masters defense entitled “The evolution of a stratified upper ocean under tropical cyclone forcing.” Sam will be moving on to work at the US Climate Variability and Predictability Program. Well done Sam, and we wish you the best of...
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Life on the Edge Report
Lauren Cook
My interest in the marine world stemmed from a childhood in the Tidewater region of Virginia and family trips to neighboring North Carolinian beaches. There was nothing more thrilling to me than digging holes in the intertidal zone and collecting anything living I could find – coquina clams, moon jellies,...
Rutgers Unveils New Palmer LTER Website
The National Science Foundation has funded RUCOOL to update their Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Website. The Palmer LTER study area is located to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula extending South and North of the Palmer Basin from onshore to several hundred kilometers off shore. Palmer Station is one...