All the Fish We Cannot See

The ocean has a way of upending expectations. Four-story-high rogue waves peak and collapse without warning. Light bends across the surface to conjure chimeric cities that hover at the horizon. And watery wastelands reveal themselves to be anything but. So was the case for the scientists aboard the USS Jasper...

USDA-NIFA Grant Supports Storytelling Project for N.J. Youth

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — What does the future hold for food security through agriculture and marine technologies? New Jersey high school students will discover the answers as part of an innovative USDA-funded 4-H afterschool program that provides youth with immersive science learning through digital storytelling, made in trusting partnership with...

Congrats to Jackie and Hails!

The Rutgers Student Subunit of the American Fisheries Society would like to extend our Congratulations to Jackie Veatch and Hails Tanaka for winning Best Student Presentation and Best Student Poster, respectively, at the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Jackie's presentation was titled: "Finding Marine Grocery...

The Department of Marine & Coastal Sciences and The School of Graduate Studies showcase the University’s varied research opportunities at the SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference

Assistant Teaching Professor Alexander López and Associate Dean Evelyn Erenrich host an exhibitor booth for Rutgers University at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Diversity in STEM Conference in Portland, Oregon this past week. They were joined by Associate Dean Kinna Perry,...

Undergraduates Discover New Ways of Exploring the Ocean … With Data

Silke Severmann, associate professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, teaches the introductory course in oceanography at Rutgers. Her role in this first-year seminar is to introduce students to the application of technologies used in ocean observing systems. She helps undergraduates understand the relationships among the biological, physical,...

Rutgers Scientists Help Shore Fish Harvesters Implement Adaptive Strategies to Climate Change

New Jersey’s coastal fishers vulnerable to some of global warming’s harshest effects For hundreds of years, business owners engaged in New Jersey’s commercial fisheries industry have weathered adversity, from coastal storms to species shifts. Recognizing this resilience, and acknowledging the challenges posed by global climate change, Rutgers scientists have come...

Meet the Early Career Ocean Scientists Working to Improve Hurricane Forecasts

The Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program (GOMO) received funding through the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act to support a focused ocean-atmosphere observing experiment during the 2023 hurricane season. This research experiment, called the Coordinated Hurricane Atmosphere-Ocean Sampling (CHAOS) is an integrated field campaign led by GOMO’s new Extreme Events...