This summer Rutgers will mark the 23rd year of measuring the surface currents off New Jersey. The measurements were started at three locations Sandy Hook, Loveladies and Wildwood. The surface currents are measured using High Frequency Radar, a remote sensing instrument that can measure currents over the horizon. The instruments...
DMCS and EPS field trip to the American Musuem of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City
On May 11th, a joint DMCS and EPS field trip to the American Musuem of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City was enjoyed by our students, faculty, and staff. The group was treated to a special guided tour of the Hall of Minerals by George Harlow (Curator, Division of...
Is your university profiting from climate change?
At Rutgers, a committee of faculty, students and staff helped create a divestment policy that put an end to all investments in fossil fuels, moved those investments to environmentally friendly index funds which actively seek investments in renewable energy. "If we don't do this work for the future that we're...
RUMFS Pride on full display at Rutgers Day
Rutgers Day participants felt the spirit of the Marine Field Station on full display in the Rutgers “R” Garden. The Rutgers staff working out of RUMFS used the decades of marine research and monitoring that has occurred at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, as their creative inspiration. A artistic...
Climate change: Rutgers helps teachers to include it in curriculum
New Jersey is the first state in the country to make climate change a part of the public school curriculum. Rutgers University hosted a workshop Thursday to help educators integrate the topic across the curriculum. The workshop included hands-on and interactive sessions with other teachers. “These tools are designed to...
Rutgers Day 2023
This past Saturday, the Department of Marine and Coastal Science opened their doors to hundreds of community members during the annual Rutgers Day event. Visitors of all ages become "Ocean Explorers", navigating through interactive science exhibits, from the fossils of ancient climates buried deep in the ocean floor, through density-drive...
New Jersey Hosts Their First Annual Marine Technology Society Student Section Research Symposium
As Chair of the Marine Technology Society New Jersey Student Section, PhD Candidate Joe Gradone recently hosted a research symposium at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station and Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve in Tuckerton, NJ. This symposium brought together over 25 undergraduate and graduate students as well as...
MOO Spring Glider Deployment Success & Alex López selected as a Provost’s Teaching Fellow
Following the Fall mission of RU23 by the MOO students along the Rutgers Endurance Line out of RUMFS, the students have successfully deployed, piloted, and recovered RU23 for a Spring mission. This allows for a seasonal comparison of the NJ shelf waters and served as vital experience of working with...
Welcome Fulbright Scholar Afonso Ferreira
Afonso Ferreira is a marine biologist at MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre with an interest in marine phytoplankton ecology and phytoplankton variability and bloom phenology through satellite ocean color. A graduate from the University of Lisbon (Portugal), Afonso has participated in several research projects in the Portuguese coast,...
Rutgers Senior Studies the Ocean’s Impact on the World
Salvatore Fricano is helping plan for the first worldwide navigation of a new underwater ocean glider Salvatore Fricano grew up spending summers on the Jersey Shore, where the vastness of the ocean captivated his imagination. “I just saw the horizon with nothing on it and it looked like an adventure...