After 282 days at sea, on March 31, 2016 the Rutgers Slocum Electric Underwater Glider, RU29, "Challenger" was recovered off the coast of South Africa completing the first crossing of the South Atlantic by an autonomous underwater vehicle. The glider was launched from Ubatuba, Brazil on June 23, 2015. This...
President Obama References Rutgers Study on Social Media
Last week, President Barack Obama tweeted a link referring to a study done by Rutgers' Ben Horton and Bob Kopp on the rate at which the sea levels are rising. Sea-level rise projected for the coming decades presents a hazard to intense concentrations of population, economic production, and static infrastructure...
Rutgers Scientist Michael Kennish is Editor of International “Encyclopedia of Estuaries”
Mike Kennish, research professor in the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is the editor and a contributing author of the Encyclopedia of Estuaries, an international volume of the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary research knowledge and advances in estuarine science, to date. Newly published by Springer (Dordrecht, The Netherlands),...
New Paper from Bob Kopp, Ben Horton ‘Temperature-Driven Global Sea-Level Variability in the Common Era’ Picked Up Nationally
The paper, Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era goes into detail on how in the past century, sea level has risen more rapidly than it had in nearly 3,000 years. Kopp outlines in his blog the four main take aways of the article as: global sea-level change in the...
LEHT marine station’s history dates back to Coast Guard
As you drive east on Great Bay Boulevard in Little Egg Harbor Township, the newly rebuilt houses become fewer, painted lines on the road disappear and the view ahead becomes blue sky, marshes and open water.After crossing several one-lane wooden bridges with a speed limit of 10 miles per hour,...
Falkowski Named to BOEM Committee on Ocean Energy Management
National Academies select leading scientists for BOEM committee on ocean energy management The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced today that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have selected 14 distinguished experts to serve on the new standing committee on environmental science and assessment for offshore energy...
Antarctic Edge Now Available
"Antarctic Edge: 70° South is a science-in-action feature film, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, following a renowned team of scientists studying climate change in the fastest winter-warming place in the world. This documentary combines innovative science, dramatic imagery and two decades of scientific collaboration into a compelling...
Kay Bidle promoted to full Professor
Research Interests: My research explores the impact of marine microorganisms on the ocean. Marine microbes (i.e., phytoplankton, bacteria, viruses) account for >95% of all oceanic biomass and their dynamic activities drive oceanic biogeochemical cycles. Yet, we are faced with fundamental open questions about their activity, molecular diversity, and evolution. As...
Silke Severmann Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor
Research Interests: My principal research interests lie in the cycling of metals, nutrients, carbon and sulfur as they relate to the Earth’s biogeochemical evolution. In my research I study chemical and isotopic tracers in the ocean, lakes and rivers to gain a better understanding how the interactions between physical, chemical...
Rutgers Marine Biologist: There Are Ways to Reverse Negative Impacts on Ocean Life
“We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event.” That quote from a member of the research team that published “Marine Defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean” just published in the journal Science. Ecologists and scientists from Rutgers University, the University of California system and Stanford...