Honors student Lauren Rodgers loves chemical oceanography and wants to earn a doctorate. Rutgers senior Lauren Rodgers once dreamed of becoming a fiction writer. But then she enrolled in a high school science and math program in her native Columbia, South Carolina, where she read an article that discussed the...
RIOS Student and Munroe Lab at the Haskin Shellfish Lab Presents Research Poster at ASLO Aquatic Sciences 2019 in Puerto Rico
Villanova undergraduate, and NSF Research Internship in Ocean Science (RIOS) intern Niki Cleary recently traveled to Puerto Rico to attend the ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting, where she presented her summer research poster about horseshoe crabs and oyster farms. In 2018, Niki joined the Munroe Lab at the Haskin Shellfish Lab...
The Connection Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Rutgers visiting scientist Jennifer Francis was the first to identify the consequences of shrinking Arctic sea ice The Rutgers Climate Institute comprises more than 100 distinguished researchers representing 17 schools and programs in the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. As observers of the natural world, they...
Climate Change Shrinks Many Fisheries Globally, Rutgers-Led Study Finds
Researchers find losses as high as 35 percent in some regions Climate change has taken a toll on many of the world’s fisheries, and overfishing has magnified the problem, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Science today. Ocean warming led to an estimated 4.1 percent drop in sustainable...
RUCOOL featured on BigTen LiveBIG YouTube Channel
How Rutgers is keeping an eye on our oceans: LiveBIG 2018-2019 Working to help shape our future, the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) uses cutting-edge technology, such as deep-diving drones, to monitor the status of oceans and seas around the globe. Who is BigTen (BTN) LiveBIG?...
Congratulations to Ximing and Josh on your Promotions
We are happy to announce the DMCS promotions as follows: Congratulations to Dr. Ximing Guo has been promoted to highest rank among faculty, Distinguished Professor. Ximing is a world leading shellfish scientist, who has made fundamental advances in shellfish genetics and aquaculture breeding. His research innovation in developing the most...
A New Way to Predict Sea Breezes May Benefit Offshore Wind Farms
Rutgers-led team uses new technique to make wind a more reliable energy source The proposed, multimillion-dollar offshore wind farms industry may benefit from a Rutgers-led study that used sophisticated forecasting to understand sea breezes and make them a more predictable source of energy. The behavior of offshore sea breezes, and...
In Underwater Drones, a New Weapon for Hurricane Hunters featured on UNDARK
A researcher’s decision to put an underwater drone in Hurricane Irene’s path is helping to transform the science of hurricane intensity prediction. Jan Ellen Spiegel | UNDARK.org In August 2011, with Hurricane Irene bearing down on the mid-Atlantic coast, Scott Glenn, an ocean engineering researcher at Rutgers University, made a...
Dredging commences in the Rutgers University Marine Field Station boat basin
Dredging of the boat basin at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station in Tuckerton, NJ has been begun. At approximately 8:53 a.m. on Monday morning, December 3rd, 2018, the dredge operation began cutting into the mud that has prevented the University’s research vessels from berthing at their typical location at...
Congratulations Katherine H. Korotky
Congratulations Katherine H. Korotky on the successful defense of her Ph.D. Thesis in Oceanography, "Evolution of the morphology surrounding deteriorating shore-parallel protection structures on sandy estuarine beaches".