Rich Lutz Honored Life Member of the NSA
At the 107th Annual Meeting of the National Shellfisheries Association Richard Lutz was inducted as an Honored Life Member. This is the highest honor bestowed by the Association and in…
Robert Kopp Awarded Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal
The International Union for Quarternary Research has established the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal in recognition of the many contributions of Nick Shackleton, a giant in the field of Quaternary science.…
Rutgers Marine Biologist: There Are Ways to Reverse Negative Impacts on Ocean Life
“We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event.” That quote from a member of the research team that published “Marine Defaunation: Animal loss in the global…
Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
Life's Engines How Microbes Made Earth Habitable | Princeton University Press For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms…
Ben Horton recipient of 2014 AGU Ocean Sciences Voyager Award
The Ocean Sciences Voyager Award is given in even-numbered years to mid-career scientist (8 to 20 years post-degree) in recognition of significant contributions and expanding leadership in ocean sciences. Significant…
Handbook of Sea-Level Research
Handbook of Sea-Level Research Professor Ian Shennan (Editor), Professor Antony J. Long (Editor), Dr Benjamin P. Horton (Editor) ISBN: 978-1-118-45258-5 600 pages March 2015, Wiley-Blackwell Measuring sea-level change – be…
New Research May Solve Puzzle in Sea Level’s Rise
A team of researchers reported Wednesday that the ocean did not rise quite as much as previously believed in the 20th century. They proposed a seemingly tiny adjustment that could…
Ken Able to receive the prestigious Nancy Foster Habitat Conservation Award
A marine biologist from Electra, Texas, Dr. Nancy Foster dedicated 23 years of outstanding service to NOAA, leaving a remarkable imprint on the agency. After earning a masters in marine…
Congratulations Dr. Mansha Seth-Pasricha
On Dec 16 2014, Mansha successfully defended her thesis entitled Biochemical and physiological characterization of caspase activity in Haloarchaea
Exploring the Oceans: 20,000 Colleagues Under the Sea
Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography. SAILING the seven seas is old hat. The latest trick is to glide them. Sea gliders are small unmanned vessels which are now…