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...
Scallop Genome Insights
Ximing Guo and a team led by Dr. Zhenmin Bao at Ocean University of China have sequenced the genomes of two scallops. Their studies, which are recently published in Nature Ecology and Evolution and Nature Communications, provided insights into the evolution of early bilaterians and unique adaptations in bivalve molluscs....
Chana Kranzler awarded Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
Dr. Chana Kranzler, current postdoc working with Kim Thamatrakoln, was recently awarded a 2017 Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology. Learn more: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/
To Help Understand Climate Change, Rutgers Roommates Head for Antarctica
“As soon as I heard that undergraduates could do this, I wanted to go.” Taylor Dodge and Rachael Young, Rutgers University-New Brunswick seniors, are friends, roommates, South Jersey natives – and headed to opposite ends of Antarctica this month for separate research projects to gather data on the effects of...
RUCOOL Spotlight in New Rutgers TV Commercial
Check out RUCOOL (Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership) in the Rutgers TV Commercial below:
Remembering Susan E. Ford
The Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory lost a beloved faculty member, researcher, mentor, colleague and friend on December 5, 2017 when Susan E. Ford lost a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. Susan began her professional career working as a lab technician under Harold (Doc) Haskin in 1966. She left the lab...
Diane’s Vent – a seafloor tribute to Diane Adams
On November 2017 the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution lead an expedition to some recently discovered hydrothermal vents fields in the Gulf of California. During this expedition they placed a special marker near one of the active vents in memory of our colleague and friend Diane Adams, who passed away in June...
Dr. Scott Glenn Named MTS Fellow
Scott Glenn was named a Fellow of the Marine Technology Society at the society’s Oceans 2017 meeting held from September 18 to 21 in Anchorage, Alaska. Designation as a Marine Technology Fellow is one of the highest accolades an individual can achieve. Since 1975, this title has been awarded to...
Ghost Forests
The earth is getting warmer, sea levels are rising, and this is reflected in the occurrence of “ghost forests” in the Mullica Valley in southern New Jersey. The increase is obvious in most of our lifetimes and especially since Superstorm Sandy, when salty water was pushed far upstream. One result...
Climate Change in NJ
The below videos discuss climate change in New Jersey, public health, agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries, plant breeding, living shorelines and conservation plants.