Amanda Wenczel awarded NJ Sea Grant Stew Tweed Scholarship for 2014
Amanda Wenczel, a doctoral candidate in Ecology and Evolution working at the Haskin Lab, is the winner of the New Jersey Sea Grant Stew Tweed Scholarship Award for 2014. Many…
Lauren Seyler awarded a Fulbright Fellowship
Lauren Seyler, a graduate student in the Graduate Program in Oceanography, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Roscoff, France with Dr. Colomban de Vargas. The Fulbright Program…
Peter Rona, 79, Dies; Explorer Found Hot Springs on Ocean Floor
Peter A. Rona, an oceanographer who dived into the depths of the world’s seas and surprised his peers by discovering vast mounds spewing hot smoke at the bottom of the…
Two Rutgers Assistant Professors Will Use Sloan Foundation Fellowships to Enhance Research Investigations
Experts in high energy physics, marine science to receive $50,000 awards. Two assistant professors who recently joined Rutgers are already making names for themselves in their fields, whether by helping…
New Jersey Shore Likely Faces Unprecedented Flooding by Mid-Century
Scientists project shore sea level to rise 11 to 15 inches higher than global average for next century. Geoscientists at Rutgers and Tufts universities estimate that the New Jersey shore…
Graduate Assistant Wins Prestigious Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
Research Assistant Anna Hermes, a master’s of oceanography candidate in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, was recently selected for the prestigious Knauss Fellowship by the New Jersey Sea…
Bonnie McCay Receives American Fisheries Society’s 2013 Award of Excellence
Bonnie McCay, professor and graduate certificate director in the Department of Human Ecology, has been selected by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) for its 2013 Award of Excellence. One of…
Chris Free awarded NOAA Sea Grant Fellowship
The NOAA-Sea Grant Population Dynamics Fellowship provides three-years of funding to PhD candidates interested in the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods…
Liz Sikes is a 2012 – 2013 Hanse Fellow
The issue of carbon cycling is of societal relevance as we face a future impacted by the human alteration of that cycle and the resulting impacts on climate. One of…
Jacqueline McSweeney is 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellow
As a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Jacqueline McSweeney will be developing a comparative project to study sediment transport and consequent effects on productivity in the Alvarado lagoon-estuary and the…