April is promotion month for faculty at Rutgers and we are proud of Daphne Munroe, Malin Pinksy, and David Bushek all of whom received promotions this year. Daphne Munroe (left) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She arrived at Rutgers from Vancouver Island University in 2010. She has distinguished...
Bravo Zulu to Dr. Chris Free
Bravo Zulu to Dr. Chris Free Congratulations to Chris for the successful defense of his PhD thesis! And if that wasn’t enough, he has also just been awarded the Rutgers Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. This is the highest award bestowed on graduate students at Rutgers involving 75 PhD programs. Below is...
Mike Acquafredda
I’m originally from Matawan, New Jersey. As a young man, scouting gave me the opportunity to explore and fall in love with nature. My favorite camping trip every year was to Sandy Hook, a peninsula that separates the Raritan Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. There, I caught fish, dug in...
Scientific Diving Class Opens Doors for Rutgers Undergraduates
Breathing through their scuba gear, Ailey Sheehan and her classmates dropped a new and improved lionfish trap – a hinged net that will help scientists study that invasive fish in the Caribbean – into the dive pool at Rutgers. Sheehan, a junior marine science major, discovered the opportunity to help...
Viruses that lubricate ocean carbon flux
The paper in Nature Microbiology is here: http://go.nature.com/2Ikbt8S One of the most invigorating feelings in science occurs when multiple layers of observation are unified to not only tell a compelling story, but also reveal hidden complexities that challenge our previous assumptions. The story of the arms race between Emiliania huxleyi,...
Throwing back the big ones saves a fishery from hot water
Just out last week, Malin has a Commentary in PNAS, “Throwing back the big ones saves a fishery from hot water.” In it, he explains why a recent paper by Arnault Le Bris on the Maine lobster fishery provides important insight into efforts to create climate-ready fisheries management. Practices like...
Catching Clownfish
Diving is well underway here in the Philippines - members of the Pinsky lab are back for another season studying metapopulation dynamics of reef fish, focusing on the yellowtail clownfish (Amphiprion clarkii). We tag and fin-clip fish for genetic and mark-recapture studies. We've started with the northern sites in our...
Glider-Based Ecosystem Study
On January 9, 2018, a post-doctoral researcher and undergraduate student of Dr. Grace Saba (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Center for Ocean Observing Leadership) deployed a Teledyne Webb Slocum Glider with an integrated ASL Environmental Sciences Inc. Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) 38, 125 and 200 kHz instrument in the Terra...
Paul Falkowski Awarded Prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Sciences
One of the world’s greatest pioneers in the field of biological oceanography, Dr. Paul Falkowski is a distinguished professor in the Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University. Focusing primarily on phytoplankton, coral, and the primary production of aquatic organisms, Dr. Falkowski studies...
The Legos of Life
Rutgers scientists have found the "Legos of life" -- four core chemical structures that can be stacked together to build the myriad proteins inside every organism -- after smashing and dissecting nearly 10,000 proteins to understand their component parts. The four building blocks make energy available for humans and all...