In this installment of Saving Seafood Radio, Dr. Olaf P. Jensen, assistant professor at the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, discusses research from his global fisheries research database that dispels misconceptions that dep…
Fisheries/Aquaculture
SEBS Faculty Honored with 2013 “Inventor of the Year” Award
With oyster beds and cranberry bogs as their laboratory, two SEBS researchers are using genetics to improve breeds for the shellfish and cranberry industry, respectively. Ximing Guo and Nicholi Vorsa are recipients of a 2013 “Inventor of the Year” Award from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.
Rutgers helps horseshoe crabs get a leg up on repopulation
By now, a quarter-million tiny horseshoe crab hatchlings have made themselves at home in the mud of the Cape May Canal and nearby waters, where they will spend the winter. The hatchlings, about half the size of a pinkie fingernail, were part of an ongo…
Rutgers fish surveys show effects of climate change
On a dark night in the middle of a wide marsh near Tuckerton, N.J., a team of Rutgers University researchers lowered a net over the railing of an old wooden bridge. Then they turned off their flashlights and waited. Below, in Little Sheepshead Creek, t…
Ocean-Sampling Robot Gliders Tracking Animals, Providing Storm Data
Researchers from U.S. and Canadian institutions are teaming up for a coordinated launch of up to 14 autonomous ocean-monitoring gliders. The gliders will collect a unique and extensive set of oceanographic and animal-tracking data along the North Ameri…
Marine Creatures Migrations Determined by Climate After All
Scientists had long assumed warming oceans would generally drive species’ geographical ranges toward higher latitudes. But some studies have found just the opposite, says Malin Pinsky, a marine ecologist at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jer…
Cape May County 4-H Offers Youth Marine Science Exploration Activities
The Cape May County 4-H Youth Development Program is offering a series of free, hands-on marine science presentations at the Ocean City Library, September 24, 27 and 30 from 3–5 p.m. For more information, call the Cape May County Rutgers Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development Program at 609-465-5115, ext. 610 or email Julie Karavan at […]
Ecology and Evolution Graduate Student Awarded $10,000 Scholarship
Jenny Paterno, who just completed her first year in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, was awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the BrickLayers & Allied Craftworkers Local Union No. 7, the highest financial award from this organization. Paterno graduated from Richard Stockton College in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and a […]
Barnegat Bay Gains New Crop of Oysters, Clams and Volunteers
Now in its eighth year, the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program (BBSRP) has enrolled another round of volunteers who are trained to conduct educational outreach and expand the effort to grow hard clams and oysters in land-based nurseries along the bay. These hard clams and oysters are eventually transferred into the bay. BBSRP is a […]
NOAA takes a step back on fluke science
For the last several years, things have been relatively stable in the summer flounder fishery, especially when you consider that the recreational sector was on the brink of being shut down in 2008. Back then, with livelihoods and a way of life at stake…
