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Mike Kennish, professor emeritus in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is the author of the newly published fourth edition of the marine science book, Practical Handbook of Marine Science. The volume adds a new, in-depth section devoted to “Climate Change and Climate Change Effects” and includes highly revised sections on Estuaries, Beaches, Barrier […]
Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers Researchers Identify the Origins of Metabolism
A Rutgers-led study sheds light on one of the most enduring mysteries of science: How did metabolism – the process by which life powers itself by converting energy from food into movement and growth – begin? To answer that question, the researchers reverse-engineered a primordial protein and inserted it into a living bacterium, where it […]
Havishk Tripathi Wins NASA Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award
Rutgers undergraduate Havishk Tripathi was awarded a NASA Astrobiology Institute Early Collaboration Award earlier this spring. Typically most of these awards go to graduate students and post-docs, and is usually awarded to a small number of individuals of the highest merit each year. Tripathi has been working in the laboratory of Distinguished Professor Paul Falkowski […]
Marine Science Family Night at Greater Brunswick Charter School Attracts Close to 200
The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences along with 4-H Department of Youth Development and Rutgers Cooperative Extension with a grant from AT&T, launched a “Marine Science Family Night” at Greater Brunswick Charter School on May 30. As part of a broader series called “Family Science Nights” that was launched by Rutgers–New Brunswick to engage […]
Warming Waters in Western Tropical Pacific May Affect West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Rutgers study finds weather patterns that may influence global sea-level rise Warming waters in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have significantly increased thunderstorms and rainfall, which may affect the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and global sea-level rise, according to a Rutgers University–New Brunswick study. Since the mid-1990s, West Antarctica – a massive ice […]
Celebration of Excellence: 2019
On April 30, faculty, staff and students attended the 26th annual Celebration of Excellence for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station held at Neilson Dining Hall. According to executive dean Bob Goodman, this signature event acknowledges contributions that meet carefully-considered criteria, including creativity, original work and ideas, […]
Major Deep Carbon Sink Linked to Microbes Found Near Volcano Chains
Rutgers and other scientists show how microbes help store millions of tons of carbon dioxide Up to about 19 percent more carbon dioxide than previously believed is removed naturally and stored underground between coastal trenches and inland chains of volcanoes, keeping the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere, according to a study in the journal […]
SEBS Class of 2019: Joshua Daw, A Great Eye for Detail
Joshua Daw, a Marine Biology major with a minor in Anthropology, is a unique combination of creative and meticulous, traits that are highly valued in painstaking data collection research projects like the one he’s worked on alongside his thesis advisor Daphne Munroe, associate professor at Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (HSRL) in Bivalve, NJ. As Munroe […]
Climate Change Is a Major Concern for SEBS Senior
Honors student Lauren Rodgers loves chemical oceanography and wants to earn a doctorate Rutgers senior Lauren Rodgers once dreamed of becoming a fiction writer. But then she enrolled in a high school science and math program in her native Columbia, South Carolina, where she read an article that discussed the ocean’s critical role in absorbing […]
ASLO honors Oscar Schofield with the 2019 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
Oscar Schofield, chair and distinguished professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, was honored with the 2019 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the Association for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). The award honors a limnologist or oceanographer who has made considerable contributions to knowledge, and whose future work promises a continued legacy of scientific […]
