A marine biologist from Electra, Texas, Dr. Nancy Foster dedicated 23 years of outstanding service to NOAA, leaving a remarkable imprint on the agency. After earning a masters in marine biology from Texas Christian University and a doctorate in marine biology from George Washington University, Dr. Foster began her tenure...
Lisa Calvo selected by the NJMEA as this year’s Outstanding Marine Educator
Congratulations Lisa Calvo on being awarded the New Jersey Marine Education Association's Outstanding Marine Educator of the Year Award! She recieved the award at the Teach at the Beach 2014 annual professional development workshop held at Stockton College's Campus Center on May 20th for a number of efforts including linking local NJ...
Amanda Wenczel awarded NJ Sea Grant Stew Tweed Scholarship for 2014
Amanda Wenczel, a doctoral candidate in Ecology and Evolution working at the Haskin Lab, is the winner of the New Jersey Sea Grant Stew Tweed Scholarship Award for 2014. Many of you may remember Stew who was a student of Hal Haskin at Rutgers and then spent a productive career...
Lauren Seyler awarded a Fulbright Fellowship
Lauren Seyler, a graduate student in the Graduate Program in Oceanography, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Roscoff, France with Dr. Colomban de Vargas. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between...
Graduate Assistant Wins Prestigious Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
Research Assistant Anna Hermes, a master’s of oceanography candidate in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, was recently selected for the prestigious Knauss Fellowship by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC). The Knauss Fellowship Program, created in 1979 as a Sea Grant vehicle to match marine science-interested graduate...
Bonnie McCay Receives American Fisheries Society’s 2013 Award of Excellence
Bonnie McCay, professor and graduate certificate director in the Department of Human Ecology, has been selected by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) for its 2013 Award of Excellence. One of AFS’s most prestigious awards, the excellence award is presented for “original and outstanding contributions to fisheries and aquatic biology.” McCay...
Chris Free awarded NOAA Sea Grant Fellowship
The NOAA-Sea Grant Population Dynamics Fellowship provides three-years of funding to PhD candidates interested in the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status. The goals of the program are to (1) encourage students to pursue careers in population dynamics...
Jacqueline McSweeney is 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellow
As a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Jacqueline McSweeney will be developing a comparative project to study sediment transport and consequent effects on productivity in the Alvarado lagoon-estuary and the Delaware estuary – 2 radically different systems. This project will expand upon work that Jacqueline began in 2010 that investigated...
Susan E. Ford & John N. Kraeuter Honored Life Members of the NSA
Please join us in congratulating two of our own as Honored Life Members into one of the oldest scientific associations in North America - The National Shellfisheries Association (NSA). Yesterday, at the 104th Annual Business Luncheon (yes the 104th!) of the NSA in Seattle, WA, Susan Ford, Professor Emeritus of...
Mike Kennish received the 2011 Pearl S. Schwartz Environmental Award
September 14, Mike Kennish received the 2011 Pearl S. Schwartz Environmental Award given by the League of Women Voters for academic research and public outreach in New Jersey. Named for Pearle S. Schwartz, statewide advocate for coastal environments, Kennish is honored for outstanding achievement in estuarine and marine environmental research....