The Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS) is a field facility of the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS). It is a working lab with on-going graduate and postdoctoral level research occurring year-round. RUMFS is uniquely situated, across from the Little Egg Inlet in the Mullica River-Great Bay estuary: one of the most pristine estuaries on the east coast.
Crew from the Rutgers Marine Sciences are examining the use of habitat enhancement features placed on the Hudson River near Tarrytown, NY. The features, placed on otherwise bare bottom by the Hudson River Foundation, consist of concrete reef balls and oyster shell-filled gabion seeded with young oyster. Young white perch,...
