Congratulations Lisa Calvo on being awarded the New Jersey Marine Education Association’s Outstanding Marine Educator of the Year Award! She recieved the award at the Teach at the Beach 2014 annual professional development workshop held at Stockton College’s Campus Center on May 20th for a number of efforts including linking local NJ shellfish communities and scientists as […]
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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 of you may remember Stew who was a student of Hal Haskin at Rutgers and then spent a productive career as a County Extension Agent […]
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 is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United […]
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 icy Atlantic, exciting interests in deep-sea mining and the origins of life on earth, died on Feb. 20 in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 79. 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 to explain the makeup of mysterious dark matter in the universe or examining how climate-induced changes to fish migration patterns disrupt commercial and recreational fishing. […]
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 will likely experience a sea-level rise of about 1.5 feet by 2050 and of about 3.5 feet by 2100 – 11 to 15 inches higher […]
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 Grant Consortium (NJSGC). The Knauss Fellowship Program, created in 1979 as a Sea Grant vehicle to match marine science-interested graduate students with hosts in the […]
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 AFS’s most prestigious awards, the excellence award is presented for “original and outstanding contributions to fisheries and aquatic biology.” McCay was recognized for her scientific […]
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 for assessing their status. The goals of the program are to (1) encourage students to pursue careers in population dynamics and stock assessment, (2) increase […]
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 the most important transition zones on earth is that of land to sea. One of the fundamental uncertainties in our understanding of the carbon cycle […]