As Chair of the Marine Technology Society New Jersey Student Section, PhD Candidate Joe Gradone recently hosted a research symposium at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station and Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve in Tuckerton, NJ. This symposium brought together over 25 undergraduate and graduate students as well as...
MOO Spring Glider Deployment Success & Alex López selected as a Provost’s Teaching Fellow
Following the Fall mission of RU23 by the MOO students along the Rutgers Endurance Line out of RUMFS, the students have successfully deployed, piloted, and recovered RU23 for a Spring mission. This allows for a seasonal comparison of the NJ shelf waters and served as vital experience of working with...
Welcome Fulbright Scholar Afonso Ferreira
Afonso Ferreira is a marine biologist at MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre with an interest in marine phytoplankton ecology and phytoplankton variability and bloom phenology through satellite ocean color. A graduate from the University of Lisbon (Portugal), Afonso has participated in several research projects in the Portuguese coast,...
Rutgers Senior Studies the Ocean’s Impact on the World
Salvatore Fricano is helping plan for the first worldwide navigation of a new underwater ocean glider Salvatore Fricano grew up spending summers on the Jersey Shore, where the vastness of the ocean captivated his imagination. “I just saw the horizon with nothing on it and it looked like an adventure...