Growing up in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York, I fell in love with the outdoors at an early age. Most of my childhood was spent exploring the mountains and rivers near my home, and by high school I knew I wanted to pursue an education in environmental science....
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Polarizing your Science Impacts: Turning your Research into Science Stories and Take Your Science Stories to the Classroom
Good storytelling is a powerful way to bring public attention to our science – especially when it happens in remote areas like the Polar Regions. Stories about the changing poles are common, but don’t capture the complexity of the data. On January 10-11 a team from Rutgers University and the...
In Underwater Drones, a New Weapon for Hurricane Hunters featured on UNDARK
A researcher’s decision to put an underwater drone in Hurricane Irene’s path is helping to transform the science of hurricane intensity prediction. Jan Ellen Spiegel | UNDARK.org In August 2011, with Hurricane Irene bearing down on the mid-Atlantic coast, Scott Glenn, an ocean engineering researcher at Rutgers University, made a...
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...
Oscar Schofield 2019 Hutchinson Award Recipient
The G. Evelyn Hutchinson award honors a limnologist or oceanographer who has made considerable contributions to knowledge, and whose future work promises a continued legacy of scientific excellence. Dr. Oscar Schofield is the 2019 recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award for transforming our understanding of the physical and chemical...
Dredging commences in the Rutgers University Marine Field Station boat basin
Dredging of the boat basin at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station in Tuckerton, NJ has been begun. At approximately 8:53 a.m. on Monday morning, December 3rd, 2018, the dredge operation began cutting into the mud that has prevented the University’s research vessels from berthing at their typical location at...
Congratulations Katherine H. Korotky
Congratulations Katherine H. Korotky on the successful defense of her Ph.D. Thesis in Oceanography, "Evolution of the morphology surrounding deteriorating shore-parallel protection structures on sandy estuarine beaches".
Kenneth Able Named Recipient of the Dwight A. Webster Memorial Award
The Northeastern Division of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) has named Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) faculty member Kenneth W. Able the 2018 recipient of the Dwight A. Webster Memorial Award. Able is a Distinguished Professor in the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences,...
Assistant Professor Travis Miles is named the 2018 Ocean News and Technology/Marine Technology Society Young Professional
Assistant Professor Travis Miles is the 2018 Ocean News and Technology/Marine Technology Society Young Professional Award. This award which recognizes an MTS Member, 35 years old or younger, who has demonstrated leadership in MTS and work in a professional capacity in management, engineering or research and development in a marine...
Ocean Data Explorations Community Newsletter
Ocean Data Explorations *New* Community Newsletter September, 2018 Welcome to the Data Explorations Community! As someone who has been involved in one of our prior projects, we are inviting you to be part of our next adventure... Starting this fall, you can look forward to this newsletter for monthly updates, opportunities,...