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The Legos of Life

Rutgers scientists have found the "Legos of life" -- four core chemical structures that can be stacked together to build the myriad proteins inside every organism -- after smashing and…

Scallop Genome Insights

Ximing Guo and a team led by Dr. Zhenmin Bao at Ocean University of China have sequenced the genomes of two scallops. Their studies, which are recently published in Nature…

Chana Kranzler awarded Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology

Dr. Chana Kranzler, current postdoc working with Kim Thamatrakoln, was recently awarded a 2017 Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology. Learn more: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/

To Help Understand Climate Change, Rutgers Roommates Head for Antarctica

“As soon as I heard that undergraduates could do this, I wanted to go.” Taylor Dodge and Rachael Young, Rutgers University-New Brunswick seniors, are friends, roommates, South Jersey natives –…

RUCOOL Spotlight in New Rutgers TV Commercial

Check out RUCOOL (Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership) in the Rutgers TV Commercial below:

Remembering Susan E. Ford

The Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory lost a beloved faculty member, researcher, mentor, colleague and friend on December 5, 2017 when Susan E. Ford lost a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer.…

Diane’s Vent – a seafloor tribute to Diane Adams

On November 2017 the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution lead an expedition to some recently discovered hydrothermal vents fields in the Gulf of California. During this expedition they placed a special…

Dr. Scott Glenn Named MTS Fellow

Scott Glenn was named a Fellow of the Marine Technology Society at the society’s Oceans 2017 meeting held from September 18 to 21 in Anchorage, Alaska. Designation as a Marine…

Ghost Forests

The earth is getting warmer, sea levels are rising, and this is reflected in the occurrence of “ghost forests” in the Mullica Valley in southern New Jersey. The increase is…

Climate Change in NJ

The below videos discuss climate change in New Jersey, public health, agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries, plant breeding, living shorelines and conservation plants.