Kelli Mullane joined Costa Vetriani’s Deep-Sea Microbiology Lab in the spring of 2015 and she is currently completing her George H. Cook honors thesis. Kelli has been working on various aspects of the microbiology of marine geothermal environments, from the production of quorum-sensing signals by deep-sea bacteria to the isolation...
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Heidi Fuchs and Olaf Jensen Promoted to Associate Professor
On April 7, 2016 it was announced that Drs. Heidi Fuchs and Olaf Jensen of the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences would be awarded tenure and be promoted to positions as Associate Professors.
DMCS Distinguished Seminar Speaker 2016
Dr. Rick Spinrad, Chief Scientist, NOAA Title: Making Ocean Science Matter: Life on the Edge of Oceanography and Policy Bio: Among his accomplishments, Dr. Spinrad was a co-lead of the White House Committee that developed the nation’s first set of ocean research priorities and oversaw the revamping of NOAA’s research...
The Challenger Glider Mission: South Atlantic Mission Complete
After 282 days at sea, on March 31, 2016 the Rutgers Slocum Electric Underwater Glider, RU29, "Challenger" was recovered off the coast of South Africa completing the first crossing of the South Atlantic by an autonomous underwater vehicle. The glider was launched from Ubatuba, Brazil on June 23, 2015. This...
Stratified coastal ocean interactions with tropical cyclones
This week, a paper by members of Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership was released in Nature covering how the coastal ocean can dictate the intensity of tropical cyclones. The cooling of coastal surface waters ahead of hurricanes has the capacity to reduce their intensity, according to a study...
President Obama References Rutgers Study on Social Media
Last week, President Barack Obama tweeted a link referring to a study done by Rutgers' Ben Horton and Bob Kopp on the rate at which the sea levels are rising. Sea-level rise projected for the coming decades presents a hazard to intense concentrations of population, economic production, and static infrastructure...
Donato Giovannelli awarded the Deep Carbon Observatory emerging leader award
At the 2015 fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, Donato Giovannelli, a Postdoctoral researcher in the Marine Microbiology & Microbial Ecology lab was awarded the Deep Carbon Observatory emerging leader award for leading the second DCO Early Career Scientist Workshop in the Azores and pushing the boundaries...
Brittany Schieler
Though I was born and raised in the concrete jungle of New York City, I developed a love and curiosity for the natural world at an early age. As a kid, I delighted in family vacations to the Jersey Shore and trips to the New York Aquarium in Coney Island....
Rutgers Scientist Michael Kennish is Editor of International “Encyclopedia of Estuaries”
Mike Kennish, research professor in the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is the editor and a contributing author of the Encyclopedia of Estuaries, an international volume of the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary research knowledge and advances in estuarine science, to date. Newly published by Springer (Dordrecht, The Netherlands),...
New Paper from Bob Kopp, Ben Horton ‘Temperature-Driven Global Sea-Level Variability in the Common Era’ Picked Up Nationally
The paper, Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era goes into detail on how in the past century, sea level has risen more rapidly than it had in nearly 3,000 years. Kopp outlines in his blog the four main take aways of the article as: global sea-level change in the...