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SEBS Excellence Awards 2016

Congratulations Jennifer Francis for receiving the 2016 School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Research Excellence Award for 2016! The SEBS Research Excellence Award is given annually to a faculty member…

Sushmita Patwardhan Successfully Defends her Thesis Proposal

Sushmita Patwardhan graduated from the University of Pune, India, in May 2012 with a double major in microbiology and zoology. She was then admitted to the Graduate Program in Oceanography…

Outstanding Senior Award 2016

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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…

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…