Stand by for increased shelling at a Monmouth County, N.J., naval base. State environmental officials are allowing an experimental oyster colony at a Navy pier in Middletown to expand. The goal of researchers from Rutgers University and the New York/Ne…
Fisheries/Aquaculture
Haramaty Elected to ANJEC Board of Trustees
East Brunswick resident Liti Haramaty was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Association of NJ Environmental Commissions (ANJEC) at the organization’s 39th annual Environmental Congress on Saturday, Oct. 20, at Middlesex County College…She…
RU COOL on ESPN
This short video spot aired on national TV during ESPN’s coverage of the Rutgers vs. Louisville football game on November 29, 2012.
Girl Scouts Explore Wonders of the Ocean in “Ship to Shore” Program Dec. 15
Close to 50 Girl Scout Cadettes will join Rutgers faculty, staff and students in an event on Dec. 15 that connects the middle school girls with research currently being done on board the research vessel JOIDES Resolution, now sailing in the Pacific Ocean. The JOIDES Resolution is an ocean-drilling vessel that supports climate change, geology, […]
Barnegat Bay’s fate unclear
Children’s toys and pieces of furniture are strewn across marshland thousands of feet from the closest body of water. Broken lumber and lost shoes float along channels more familiar to recreational boaters…There was a short-term risk of bacteria and …
New building codes on hold until flood maps released
Superstorm Sandy could transform life on the Jersey Shore beyond the mass destruction caused by its storm swells…Though homeowners are hurrying to rebuild and resume life as it was before the storm, Michael Kennish, a research professor of estuary an…
Marine Scientist Kay Bidle Wins Prestigious Moore Foundation Award
Rutgers’ marine scientist Kay Bidle, associate professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, joins 15 other scientists from institutions like Harvard, Cal Tech and MIT, who received a Marine Microbiology Initiative Investigator Award on Dec. 3. The scientists will share up to $35 million in […]
Oysters Eyed as Help for New York Harbor
They are soft to the touch, but surrounded by a hard rough shell. Known as filter feeders, many as small as your thumb, they use their tiny cilia to draw in plankton, sediment and other particles over their gills and spit out cleaner water…These ecol…
Di Ionno: Generations of fishermen stuck on the shore after Sandy walloped their business
Like most people impacted by Hurricane Sandy, Rich Isaksen says he’s never seen, or heard, of such high seas sweeping inland and leaving such a swath of destruction…Perhaps not, but close. Bonnie McCay, a Rutgers professor of human ecology and …
Protecting a ‘Wolf’ of a Salmon
They call them "river wolves" – hundred-pound salmon large enough to snack on ducklings and on mice and muskrats fording the rivers…"They’re iconic in Mongolian folklore," said Olaf Jensen, an ecologist with the Institute of Marine an…
