Rutgers Marine Field Station stands at the heart of where climate change is happening the fastest in the world, providing a unique and crucial window into the future for researchers. A former U.S. Coast Guard station, the building located on the Mullica Hill Estuary in Tuckerton, New Jersey, was transformed...
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RUMFS and JCNERR Open House
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rutgers Marine Field Station & the 25th anniversary of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve at our Open House event on September 17th, 10am-3pm! Meet our scientists and explore the exciting research happening in the Great Bay/Mullica River estuary & beyond: with interactive...
Celebrating Rutgers Marine Field Station with new Apparel Collection
University Communications and Marketing has introduced a new initiative to showcase points of pride at Rutgers through a limited-edition collection of retail merchandise, only available online and at the University Bookstore. We’re excited that SEBS and NJAES has been selected to kick off the series! The Special Collection for 2022 features...
Breaking the Surface
These photos are from filming days at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, for a new dance film, Breaking the Surface, which will bring attention to climate change and specifically sea level rise in the region. The multidisciplinary film is a collaboration between artists from the Rutgers Mason Gross School of...
Haverford/Bryn Mawr College tour of RUMFS
On Friday 4/1, SEBS alums Dr. Talia Young and Dr. Jennifer Walker brought a group of undergraduate students from Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges (in PA) plus staff from the Fishadelphia Community Seafood Program to visit the Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS) in Tuckerton. The visitors toured, learned about...
SubUAS conducts Naviator demonstration at Tuckerton Marine Field Station
The Naviator is an air-water hybrid UxS platform capable of swimming underwater, flying in the air, and seamlessly transitioning between these mediums.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve: A Living Laboratory
A short film was made for the NERRS film festival featuring the Mullica River as a sentinel estuary. It features the station and many current and former Station personnel and volunteers including Motz, Pat Filardi, Steve Zeck, Katie Nickerson, Roland and several others. Miranda and TJ are listed in the video...
Ben Sollee Pens “message in a bottle” to His 10-year-old Son On “Slackwater”
Along the southern coast of New Jersey, stationed at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, Kentucky-native Ben Sollee spent a week perched on the Great Bay’s edge, where the Mullica River empties. As a selected partner with Sustain Music and Nature, the Americana artist and cellist commissioned a ‘songscape’ inspired...
Rutgers and Atlantic Shores Deploy Wind Lidar
The Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) and the Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS) has collaborated with Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind to install a wind LiDAR (light detection and ranging) instrument alongside the causeway leading to RUMFS in Tuckerton, NJ. This fully autonomous sensor platform, owned and...
Seeking a Director of Rutgers University’s Marine Field Station
The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is seeking a motivated tenure-track, academic year, faculty to join a collaborative statewide community as Director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS). While the full range of faculty positions will be considered, preference...