When: Fall 2022, M/Th period 2, 10:20-11:40 Where: Alampi Room in the Marine Science Building (71 Dudley Road) Instructors: Profs Oscar Schofield and Daphne Munroe Do giant squid eat people or whales? Mermaids, a sailor’s dream or nightmare? If someone released the Kraken, should we be scared. What is Cthulhu? ...
Congratulation Grace Saba who was granted tenure by Rutgers
Congratulation Grace Saba who was granted tenure by Rutgers. This is a well deserved honor. Dr. Grace Saba joined the Rutgers faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2015. Grace is one of the most dedicated and talented teachers in the Department. She has been anchor teacher in several upper division...
SGS Merit and Achievement Awards – Awardees!!!!
Congratulations to Janine Barr (and Daphne) who received the Outstanding Master's Student Award. The Outstanding Master's Student Award recognizes excellence in master's research and scholarship across the disciplines. The winner of the Outstanding Master's Student Award will receive a commemorative plaque at our annual Awards Ceremony. Congratulations to Emily Slesinger...
Haverford/Bryn Mawr College tour of RUMFS
On Friday 4/1, SEBS alums Dr. Talia Young and Dr. Jennifer Walker brought a group of undergraduate students from Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges (in PA) plus staff from the Fishadelphia Community Seafood Program to visit the Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS) in Tuckerton. The visitors toured, learned about...
Lauren Cook Awarded a Scholarship from the International Women’s Fishing Association
Congrats to RUCOOL Ph.D student Lauren Cook for receiving the Frank Marmin Memorial Scholarship from the International Women's Fishing Association. The mission of the International Women’s Fishing Association Scholarship Trust is to grant research scholarships to graduate students who are committed to studies of the chemical, physical and biological processes...
Liza Presents the Commemorative Lecture for the Walter Munk Scholar Award from MTS
On March 29th, Elizabeth (Liza) Wright-Fairbanks (right in the photo) presented her Commemorative Lecture for the Walter Munk Scholar Award from Marine Technology Society. Laura Lawson, the Interim Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources (School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station), introduced Liza...
Alex Ambrose Awarded Summer Graduate Research Fellowship
Good news - Alex Ambrose was just awarded a fellowship to do summer research at the Downeast Institute in Beals Maine! This fellowship comes with a summer stipend, lodging and a research supply budget. Alex will spend 13 weeks in residence at DEI conducting research on habitat provisioning at shellfish...
Joe Gradone Wins the NDSEG Fellowship Award
RUCOOL grad student Joe Gradone was selected to receive the 2022 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award. This fellowship is awarded in recognition of academic excellence and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) achievements, from over 3,000 applicants. The award will cover all of his graduate school...
Texas A&M and Rutgers Awarded $5.4 Million From National Academies Gulf Research Program
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has announced $5.4 million in research funding awarded to Texas A&M University from the Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems (UGOS) program. Dr. Scott Glenn will lead the Rutgers effort including underwater glider deployments in the Gulf of...
A Global Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory Becomes a Reality
The ocean is a central part of Earth’s climate system. For example, it regulates temperatures and surface–atmosphere exchanges of gases around the planet. Yet the ocean is chronically undersampled, leaving vast gaps in our knowledge of its behavior. This lack of data presents a fundamental barrier to understanding, predicting, managing,...