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...
Arctic Relations blog – Polar Literacy Initiative
This week was #ScienceLiteracyWeek in Canada, and as part of the campaign, the Arctic Relations blog asked Janice McDonnell, STEM Agent in the Department of Youth Development, to share her thoughts on developing and Using the Polar Literacy Principles in Science Communication. We encourage you to check out her thoughts...
The 2020 4‑H STEM Challenge is a Race to Land Humans on Mars this year!
The race to land humans on Mars is on! The annual 4-H STEM Challenge in connection with Rutgers looks a little different this year but the enthusiasm remains. The 2020 challenge will explore sending a mission to Mars with the activity, Mars Base Camp. Developed by Google and Virginia Cooperative...
SEBS Virtual Science Cafe Series: Hot Days in a Melting West Antarctic Peninsula
Travel down to the West Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest warming locations on Earth. The rising temperatures are decreasing the amount of sea ice present and changes are now rippling through the food web. We discuss the findings of a 30-year effort to document the changing ecology of this...
Congratulations to Joe Anarumo for his successfully Masters Defense
Congratulations to Joe Anarumo who successfully presented his Masters work on Wednesday. Joe is a member of the first cohort of the Operational Oceanography masters program. During his time in DMCS Joe became an expert in using open-source drifter simulation code. His thesis plugged local observational resources into the drifter...
Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valenti successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on Tuesday August 25, 2020 entitled “Fishes of a Temperate Estuary: Ecology and Response to an Urbanized Watershed”. The defense seminar was virtually attended by about 35 individuals including her committee composed of outside members Dr. John Waldman (Queens College, NY) and Dr....
Congratulations to Julia Engdahl for her successful Masters defense
Congratulations to Julia Engdahl who successfully defended her Masters thesis! Part of the first cohort of DMCS’ new program in Operational Oceanography, Julia has developed deep expertise in observing systems and cutting edge ocean data processing. Her thesis developed and tested algorithmic and machine learning approaches to analyzing underwater video....