Rutgers has been participating in the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project at Palmer Station Antarctica for over 30 years. During the fall of 2021, graduate students Quintin Diou-Cass and Joe Gradone joined UConn Postdoc Jessie Turner on the R/V Nathaniel Palmer to head to the West Antarctic...
A Busy Week for the RUCOOL Grad Student Field Team
Over the last week, our graduate students got some hands on field work in the mid-Atlantic. On October 25th, Jackie Veatch, Joe Anarumo and Julia Engdahl deployed RU28 for its NJDEP funded water quality testing mission along the NJ coast. This glider mission, deployed by the all-grad-student crew, can be...
Rutgers RIOS Student Deploys an Ocean Glider in the US Virgin Islands
This glider was deployed on the 2nd international mission from the US Virgin Islands and is transiting to the British Virgin Islands in order to study heat flow through the Anegada Straight. Equipped with temperature, salinity, depth and current measuring instruments, this glider will monitor water transport and heat content...
RU26 In Support of NASA SWOT CALVAL Program
Sea Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) is a radar interferometry mission making SSH measurements over a swath 120 km wide. There is a nadir gap of 20 km where the error from interferometry is not meeting science requirement. The current candidate for the in-situ measurement is an array of gliders along...
Rutgers Oceanographers Set the Precedent for a New Program in U.S. Ocean Coring
In July 2019, Rutgers postdoc Samantha Bova and Rutgers professor Yair Rosenthal led a team of 33 scientists on a month-long ocean expedition aboard the JOIDES Resolution to study the oceanographic and hydrologic history of the northern margin of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the South American continent. The expedition...
Investigating a Sea Scallop Pest
Researchers Dave Bushek and Daphne Munroe, from the Haskin Shellfish Research Lab, in collaboration with colleagues from Virginia Institute of Marine Science recently completed studies of a parasite that has recently been found in the federal sea scallop fishery. This fishery is a major economic driver in New Jersey and...
Rutgers Team Leads Pioneering Coring Expedition in the Indian and Southern Oceans
Getting mud from the bottom of the ocean is not easy. For decades, oceanographers have used tough, seemingly indestructible trawl wire to get samples -- but to get bigger and better cores it takes something stronger. DMCS professor Liz Sikes recently led the first successful US coring voyage using stronger...
School of Barracuda Tracking Remus
A school of barracuda follows an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as seen from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone). The AUV team of New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station (NJAES) and Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS) staff and faculty was supporting a mission by the Florida Institute of...
Rutgers Students Go on Antarctic Adventure
Some students will do anything to get out of homework - even go to the end of the Earth. Actually, seniors Rachael Young and Taylor Dodge are traveling to Antarctica with Rutgers scientists to research climate change. Watch our video to learn about the many hoops they had to jump...
Coring to Reconstruct Ocean Currents and Carbon Dioxide Across 2 Seas
DMCS members Vince Clementi, Liz Sikes and Eli Hunter on the Thomas G.Thompson. Professor Liz Sikes is leading a coring cruise to the Southeast Indian and Southern Oceans to collect deep sea sediments. This will be one of the first US expeditions to attempt to core withline. The Rutgers team...