Piecing Together Coastal Protection: A Mosaic Approach
By Jenny P. Shinn, Field Researcher, Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, Rutgers University In the art world, individual tiles of glass or stone combine to create mosaics that are strong and…
New paper in Communications Earth and Environment
The biological productivity of the Southern Ocean is limited by the availability of iron, a critical micronutrient for phytoplankton. However, in the ocean waters overlying the Antarctic continental shelf, productivity…
Mysteries of 9 North
Join us as we travel to the bottom of the ocean to study how biological communities form among deep-sea hydrothermal vents with active underwater volcanoes. Mysteries of 9 North
Adsorptive exchange of biominerals facilitates viral infection
A defining characteristic of marine coccolithophores is the ability to produce nanopatterned calcite biominerals (coccoliths), which profoundly impact the marine carbon cycle. These coccoliths, which are produced intracellularly and extruded…
Scientists’ findings suggest corals will withstand climate change
Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory of evolution, noted that corals form far-reaching structures, largely made of limestone, that surround tropical islands. He didn’t know how they…
Slocum Glider “Silbo” Circumnavigates the Atlantic Ocean – Part 3
This episode is the third in a four-part series on "Silbo", Teledyne Webb Research's autonomous underwater glider that recently made the first ever circumnavigation of the Atlantic Ocean by an…
Atlantic invertebrates are going the wrong way
Rutgers Faculty Heidi L. Fuchs (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences), Robert J. Chant (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences) , and Enrique N. Curchitser (Department of Environmental Sciences) along…
How Stable is Deep Ocean Circulation in Warmer Climate?
While instabilities of the Atlantic meridional ocean circulation (AMOC) are known to occur during cold glacial periods, warm interglacials such as the last 10,000 years were considered to be more…
The simple protein that started all life
By Natalie Parletta Scientists believe they have discovered a simple protein that started all life 3.5 to 2.5 billion years ago, publishing their findings in the journal Proceedings of the…