For being selected as a 2024 NCAR Advance Studies Program Bridge program! In the month long program she’ll get to spend a week at NCAR exploring research collaborations and opportunities for the future!
All the Fish We Cannot See
The ocean has a way of upending expectations. Four-story-high rogue waves peak and collapse without warning. Light bends across the surface to conjure chimeric cities that hover at the horizon. And watery wastelands reveal themselves to be anything but. So was the case for the scientists aboard the USS Jasper...
Mysteries of 9 North
Join us as we travel to the bottom of the ocean to study how biological communities form among deep-sea hydrothermal vents with active underwater volcanoes. Mysteries of 9 North
USDA-NIFA Grant Supports Storytelling Project for N.J. Youth
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — What does the future hold for food security through agriculture and marine technologies? New Jersey high school students will discover the answers as part of an innovative USDA-funded 4-H afterschool program that provides youth with immersive science learning through digital storytelling, made in trusting partnership with...
Congrats to Jackie and Hails!
The Rutgers Student Subunit of the American Fisheries Society would like to extend our Congratulations to Jackie Veatch and Hails Tanaka for winning Best Student Presentation and Best Student Poster, respectively, at the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Jackie's presentation was titled: "Finding Marine Grocery...
The Department of Marine & Coastal Sciences and The School of Graduate Studies showcase the University’s varied research opportunities at the SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference
Assistant Teaching Professor Alexander López and Associate Dean Evelyn Erenrich host an exhibitor booth for Rutgers University at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Diversity in STEM Conference in Portland, Oregon this past week. They were joined by Associate Dean Kinna Perry,...
Undergraduates Discover New Ways of Exploring the Ocean … With Data
Silke Severmann, associate professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, teaches the introductory course in oceanography at Rutgers. Her role in this first-year seminar is to introduce students to the application of technologies used in ocean observing systems. She helps undergraduates understand the relationships among the biological, physical,...
Three U. researchers selected as Ocean Decade Champions by National Science Foundation
Last month, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation (KADF) selected three Rutgers faculty members to be named 2023 Ocean Decade Champions, according to a press release. They are among the 31 scientists who have been honored with this recognition this year, all of whom are associated...
Rutgers Scientists Help Shore Fish Harvesters Implement Adaptive Strategies to Climate Change
New Jersey’s coastal fishers vulnerable to some of global warming’s harshest effects For hundreds of years, business owners engaged in New Jersey’s commercial fisheries industry have weathered adversity, from coastal storms to species shifts. Recognizing this resilience, and acknowledging the challenges posed by global climate change, Rutgers scientists have come...
Rutgers Shellfish Researcher Investigates the Link between Horseshoe Crabs and Oyster Farming in the Delaware Bay
Marine ecologist Daphne Munroe, associate professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has a deep respect for New Jersey’s Delaware Bay and its unique ecosystem that supports an abundance of life. Munroe, a shellfish researcher working out of the Haskin...