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...
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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...
Ecology and Conservation of Sharks
(above) A tagged male pelagic thresher shark returns to a seamount in the Philippines to be cleaned of parasites. Two cleaner fish (wrasse) can be seen grooming the shark’s flank and cloaca. The acoustic transmitter tag is visible trailing from the dorsal fin, where it was inserted by a diver...
Climate Change Shrinks Many Fisheries Globally, Rutgers-Led Study Finds
Researchers find losses as high as 35 percent in some regions Climate change has taken a toll on many of the world’s fisheries, and overfishing has magnified the problem, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Science today. Ocean warming led to an estimated 4.1 percent drop in sustainable...
School of Barracuda Tracking Remus
A school of barracuda follows an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as seen from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone). The AUV team of New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station (NJAES) and Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS) staff and faculty was supporting a mission by the Florida Institute of...
Infrastructure Improvements
The last two years have seen an increase in infrastructure improvements at the Marine Field Station. The much-needed boat basin dredging was completed in December 2018 after being on hold since Superstorm Sandy. Several other large projects have recently begun. A complete renovation of the wet lab, including new fish...
JCNERR/AUV Collaborations
The Station remains central to the function of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JCNERR), part of a unified federal reserve system, for which Rutgers University is the state custodian. Long-term monitoring of estuarine water quality, weather, salt marsh vegetation, and coastal geomorphology are core reserve functions with nationally...
Dredging commences in the Rutgers University Marine Field Station boat basin
Dredging of the boat basin at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station in Tuckerton, NJ has been begun. At approximately 8:53 a.m. on Monday morning, December 3rd, 2018, the dredge operation began cutting into the mud that has prevented the University’s research vessels from berthing at their typical location at...