Janine Barr is a second year graduate student pursuing a Master’s in Oceanography with Dr. Daphne Munroe as her advisor. Based at the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab (HSRL), she is studying the ecosystem services provided by oyster aquaculture in the Delaware Bay region. Elizabeth Bouchard is a first year MS student in Ecology...
Congratulations to Vince Clementi who was awarded the NRC Research Associateship Award
Congratulations to Vince Clementi who was awarded the NRC Research Associateship Award as part of the National Energy Technology Laboratory Methane Hydrates Fellowship Program. As per the award: “The NRC Research Associateship award will provide Vince an opportunity to pursue his research plan in association with Yair Rosenthal, who is an...
Congratulations to John Wiedenmann
Congratulations to John Wiedenmann for being selected to receive the CINAR Fellowship in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science. Please see attached memo for additional information.
Congratulations to Silke Severmann for receiving the Team Excellence Award
In March 2020, the COVID-19 crisis forced Rutgers University to shift spring 2020 courses, in a mere instant, to remote instruction. During the summer of 2020, Rutgers engaged in an intense effort of planning for a fall semester of remote instruction. Each school was tasked with providing technological and pedagogical...
Congratulations to the Rutgers 4-H STEM Ambassador Team
The Rutgers 4-H STEM Ambassador Program was established in 2009 by a team of faculty and staff from multiple SEBS/NJAES departments and units. Since then, this dedicated team has learned how to utilize the strengths and resources of each member to best serve traditionally underserved urban youth throughout the state...
Congratulations to Yair Rosenthal on his 2020 Research Excellence Award
Yair Rosenthal is a globally recognized leader focused on exploring and studying the composition/structure of Earth's ocean basins. His overarching research has documented past changes in Earth climate change helping us to understand the mechanisms that underlie the observed changes. He has been a leader in understanding the importance of...
Congratulations to Liz Sikes who will be presenting the annual Cesare Emiliani Lecture at this year’s Fall AGU
Congratulations to Elisabeth Sikes who has been recognized by the American Geophysical Union by being awarded the Cesare Emiliani Lecture. The Cesare Emiliani Lecture is presented annually and recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of paleoceanography. The Emiliani Lecture honors the life and work of the renowned paleoceanographer and the...
Congratulations Rebecca Jackson for a New NSF Award (2 of 2)
Title: "How fast do tidewater glaciers melt? Quantifying the processes that control boundary layer transport across the ice-ocean interface" NSF Arctic Natural Sciences, Office of Polar Programs PIs: Rebecca Jackson & collaborators at Oregon State University (lead) and University of Oregon Submarine melting at marine-terminating glaciers plays a key role...
Congratulations Rebecca Jackson for a New NSF Award (1 of 2)
Title: "Investigating the exchange flow in glacial fjords through an estuarine lens" NSF Physical Oceanography, Division of Ocean Sciences PIs: Rebecca Jackson, Bob Chant & John Wilkin Fjords connect Greenland’s marine-terminating glaciers to the continental shelf ocean, forming long, narrow conduits for the export of glacial freshwater and the import...
Congratulations to Marine Science Graduate Students
Heidi Yeh was informed of awards from Hudson River Foundation, Mark B. Bain Graduate Fellowship of the Hudson River Foundation ($20,000) for her project on "Phylogeography and Nutrient Dynamics of the Oyster Microbiome in NYC Harbor" for which she will work with the Billion Oyster Project. She received award from...