Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography. SAILING the seven seas is old hat. The latest trick is to glide them. Sea gliders are small unmanned vessels which are now cruising the briny by the hundred. They use a minuscule amount of power, so they can stay out for months....
Peter Rona, 79, Dies; Explorer Found Hot Springs on Ocean Floor
Peter A. Rona, an oceanographer who dived into the depths of the world’s seas and surprised his peers by discovering vast mounds spewing hot smoke at the bottom of the icy Atlantic, exciting interests in deep-sea mining and the origins of life on earth, died on Feb. 20 in Plainsboro,...
Two Rutgers Assistant Professors Will Use Sloan Foundation Fellowships to Enhance Research Investigations
Experts in high energy physics, marine science to receive $50,000 awards. Two assistant professors who recently joined Rutgers are already making names for themselves in their fields, whether by helping to explain the makeup of mysterious dark matter in the universe or examining how climate-induced changes to fish migration patterns...
New Jersey Shore Likely Faces Unprecedented Flooding by Mid-Century
Scientists project shore sea level to rise 11 to 15 inches higher than global average for next century. Geoscientists at Rutgers and Tufts universities estimate that the New Jersey shore will likely experience a sea-level rise of about 1.5 feet by 2050 and of about 3.5 feet by 2100 –...
Liz Sikes is a 2012 – 2013 Hanse Fellow
The issue of carbon cycling is of societal relevance as we face a future impacted by the human alteration of that cycle and the resulting impacts on climate. One of the most important transition zones on earth is that of land to sea. One of the fundamental uncertainties in our...
Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paul Falkowski spent a week in China as an Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Twenty Einstein Professorships are awarded each year to distinguished international scientists actively working at the frontiers of science and technology, for conducting lecture-tours to China. The goals of the program are to:...
Living Shorelines
Preliminary installation of a living shoreline using coir fiber logs and shell bags in the Maurice River, NJ. Smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) was planted directly into the logs. Photo courtesy of the Partnership for the Delaware Eestuary. As sea levels rise and storms build in frequency, researchers are looking for...