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...
Graduate Student Adventures in Antarctica
Rutgers has been participating in the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project at Palmer Station Antarctica for over 30 years. During the fall of 2021, graduate students Quintin Diou-Cass and Joe Gradone joined UConn Postdoc Jessie Turner on the R/V Nathaniel Palmer to head to the West Antarctic...
Congratulations to Dr. Schuyler Nardelli for successfully defending her dissertation
Congratulations to Dr. Schuyler Nardelli on defending her PhD thesis entitled "Seasonal dynamics of plankton ecology in coastal Antarctica." Schuyler will be moving on to a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship at NOAA IOOS focused on marine policy. Through the fellowship, Schuyler hopes to step outside her comfort zone. "I am...
New NSF Award for Lagrangian transport and patchiness of buoyant material in estuarine systems
Collaborative Research: Lagrangian transport and patchiness of buoyant material in estuarine systems. Physical Oceanography. NSF Physical Oceanography with University of Delaware. Total Budget $866,850. Rutgers $292,300. March 2022-Feb 2025 Understanding processes that transport material in estuarine systems is central to fundamental studies of estuarine physics as well as to management...
New Event from Rutgers DEI Committee
The DMCS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is hosting a panel discussion on experiences of underrepresented minorities in education and academia. This event invites Rutgers faculty who specialize in ethnic studies to provide context and insight into the relationship between identity and higher education while also reflecting on their own...
EXCTING SCIENCE findings by the Rutgers Astrobiology Team
EXCTING SCIENCE findings by the Rutgers Astrobiology Team. Life is a special, very complex form of motion of matter, but this form did not always exist, and it is not separated from inorganic nature by an impassable abyss; rather, it arose from inorganic nature as a new property in the process...
Uncrewed Ocean Gliders and Saildrones Support Hurricane Forecasting and Research
Travis Miles (lead author) and Scott Glenn partnered with dozens of other scientist on this paper that provides a broad overview of the ongoing US hurricane glider project and details of a new effort with the Saildrone USV during the 2021 hurricane season. While this article focuses on the US...