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. When it was time to […]
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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), the 760-page tome contains nearly […]
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 20th century was the fastest […]
Diane Adams receives Bergmann Award
Photo Courtesy Embassy of Israel: (From left to right) Director General of UNESCO, Irena Bokova; Chair of the BSF Board of Governors, Prof. Albert Teich; Bergmann Award winners Prof. Michael Richter, Yeshiva University, and Prof. Diane Adams, Rutgers University; Israel’s Minster of Science, Technology and Space, Ofir Akunis; and Director of NSF, Dr. France Cordova […]
LEHT marine station’s history dates back to Coast Guard
As you drive east on Great Bay Boulevard in Little Egg Harbor Township, the newly rebuilt houses become fewer, painted lines on the road disappear and the view ahead becomes blue sky, marshes and open water. After crossing several one-lane wooden bridges with a speed limit of 10 miles per hour, a compound in the […]
Ben Horton awarded Plinius Medal
The European Geosciences Union awarded Dr. Ben Horton the 2016 Plinius Medal for his contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. “The Plinius Medal has been established by the EGU Natural Hazards (NH) Division to recognise interdisciplinary natural hazard research. The name of Gaius Plinius Secundus (~23 – 79 A.D.) acknowledges the role of […]
Jessica Valenti
Growing up along the coast of New Jersey my interests in the ocean reach as far back as I can remember. Going to the beach was always my favorite thing to do no matter the season. To this day I still have boxes upon boxes filled with sea shells and other beach treasures. I decided […]
Who’s out there in this weather?
November-December in the North Atlantic can be a brutal time of year to conduct scientific research, with winds reaching 50 knots and waves higher than 20 ft. Researchers aboard the R/V Atlantis answered the challenge to conduct science in these conditions as part of the North Atlantic Aerosol and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES), a five […]
They’re On The Move
On November 13th the Science Magazine published a special issue highlighting the effects that climate change has on the oceans. An article by Marianne Lavelle examines how climate change is creating problems for fisheries by causing valuable fish stocks to move in response to a warming ocean. The article features Rutgers scientists Ken Able, Director […]
Project Converge
Science Research Context: Scientists from 5 institutions – Rutgers University, University of Delaware, Oregon State University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Polar Oceans Research Group – collaborated on a multidisciplinary project between 2013-2016. The team used a field study to investigate the impact of local physical processes on Adélie penguin foraging ecology in the vicinity of […]