Congratulations to Travis Miles and Kim Thamatrakoln who are being promoted to Associate Professors and granted tenure. They have worked so hard and are important to our marine nerd family, so we celebrate their well deserved success! Travis’s research is focused on processes that are associated with physical ocean boundaries,...
Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear – and Rebound
Rutgers scientists point to improved environmental conditions as possible reason The Atlantic surf clam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that started more than two decades ago. In...
Alex López speaks at OTEAR Classroom Inclusivity Workshop
Alex López was one of three faculty speakers for OTEAR's "Inclusive Practices Spotlight: Strategies from Rutgers’ Instructors" workshop this Friday, highlighting the value of student-led learning and sharing implementation strategies used in the MS of Operational Oceanography degree program. Faculty across Rutgers are incorporating various strategies to create inclusive learning...
Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, 2nd Edition
The Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science is the most significant comprehensive publication on estuarine and coastal science to date, and it is highly relevant to academic programs and research conducted at DMCS. Mike Kennish, Professor Emeritus at DMCS, is the lead editor and contributing author to Volume 6 of...
Upwelling systems: thermal refugia for reef-building corals in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
Fiorella Prada, Grace Saba and Maxim Gorbunov Awarded Rutgers Global Grant Project for studying upwelling systems as potential thermal refugia for corals Upwelling systems: thermal refugia for reef-building corals in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Team: Fiorella Prada, Grace Saba, and Maxim Gorbunov The eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) is an oceanographically...
Ecological & Oceanographic Survey of the Outer Shelf of the Mid Atlantic Bight
Ecological & Oceanographic Survey of the Outer Shelf of the Mid Atlantic Bight: A Rutgers underwater Slocum glider will be deployed in and around the Leading Light Wind lease area off the NJ coast. This glider will have a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute DMON sensor on board that will listen...
Atlantic Cod & North American Right Whale Monitoring at Revolution Wind
Atlantic Cod & North American Right Whale Monitoring at Revolution Wind: A Rutgers underwater Slocum glider will be deployed in the Revolution Wind lease area just southwest of Martha’s Vineyard, equipped with a Jasco OceanObserver instrument. The OceanObserver will detect cod spawning locations and identify whales in the areas where...
Deepwater-Irrigated Open-Ocean Seaweed Mariculture: Field Studies and Modeling
Deepwater-Irrigated Open-Ocean Seaweed Mariculture: Field Studies and Modeling: Several ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches accelerate or enhance natural processes to remove CO2 from the surface ocean, in order to drive oceanic absorption of atmospheric CO2. “Open ocean seaweed mariculture with deep-water nutrient supply” (OMDN) is the cultivation of seaweeds...
Film Shows Why Creativity Is an Essential Tool of Science
Eighth educational video in Rutgers-led series tracks science in action to illustrate how imagination fuels discovery Creativity is essential in every step of the scientific process, asserts a team of Rutgers researchers. To illustrate their point, they have put together a short film showing how biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and...
DMCS Distinguished Seminar Speaker, Mick Follows
Mick Follows seeks to understand how the interactions of physical, chemical and biological processes modulate the structure and function of marine microbial communities and regulate the oceanic cycles of carbon and nutrient elements on global and climate scales. Using idealized theory, numerical models and the analysis of observed data he...