Congratulations to John Wiedenmann for being selected to receive the CINAR Fellowship in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science. Please see attached memo for additional information.
Rutgers Giving Day 2021
Hi, Department Chairs and Center Directors. Rutgers Giving Day will be Wednesday, March 24, 2021 and applications to participate are due on December 11. Rutgers Giving Day is an online 24 hour fundraising campaign that is driven by social media and email. A department or center with an existing gift...
Autonomous Minisubmarine Measures Seawater Conditions
Since the Industrial Revolution began in the mid-18th century, Earth’s oceans have absorbed about one third of the carbon dioxide emitted through human activities. The ensuing roughly 30% increase in ocean acidity has reduced the amount of carbonate available for calcifying organisms such as corals and oysters to construct their...
Congratulations to Silke Severmann for receiving the Team Excellence Award
In March 2020, the COVID-19 crisis forced Rutgers University to shift spring 2020 courses, in a mere instant, to remote instruction. During the summer of 2020, Rutgers engaged in an intense effort of planning for a fall semester of remote instruction. Each school was tasked with providing technological and pedagogical...
Congratulations to the Rutgers 4-H STEM Ambassador Team
The Rutgers 4-H STEM Ambassador Program was established in 2009 by a team of faculty and staff from multiple SEBS/NJAES departments and units. Since then, this dedicated team has learned how to utilize the strengths and resources of each member to best serve traditionally underserved urban youth throughout the state...
Congratulations to Yair Rosenthal on his 2020 Research Excellence Award
Yair Rosenthal is a globally recognized leader focused on exploring and studying the composition/structure of Earth's ocean basins. His overarching research has documented past changes in Earth climate change helping us to understand the mechanisms that underlie the observed changes. He has been a leader in understanding the importance of...
Atlantic invertebrates are going the wrong way
Rutgers Faculty Heidi L. Fuchs (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Robert J. Chant (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences) , and Enrique N. Curchitser (Department of Environmental Sciences) along with researchers Elias Hunter (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences - Rutgers), Emily Chen (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences...
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve: A Living Laboratory
A short film was made for the NERRS film festival featuring the Mullica River as a sentinel estuary. It features the station and many current and former Station personnel and volunteers including Motz, Pat Filardi, Steve Zeck, Katie Nickerson, Roland and several others. Miranda and TJ are listed in the...
FANFARE of Excitement for our NEW ENIGMA TOOLS of SCIENCE VIDEO!
As part of the NASA funded ENIGMA project we produced an 8 minute video with Tilapia Films during these challenging times. To share this exciting science research, please view our new video at https://youtu.be/DGTPPy2fNyc. We ask for your help in promoting this new video through your network. Below is a sample...
Ben Sollee Pens “message in a bottle” to His 10-year-old Son On “Slackwater”
Along the southern coast of New Jersey, stationed at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, Kentucky-native Ben Sollee spent a week perched on the Great Bay’s edge, where the Mullica River empties. As a selected partner with Sustain Music and Nature, the Americana artist and cellist commissioned a ‘songscape’ inspired...