Issue 21 • sePT. 2014

Grants Awards :

Michael DeLuca Jacques Cousteau national Esturine Reserve Operations FY 2014. NOAA $593,000

Jessica Fitzsimmons. Assessment of colloidal Fe size spectrum in coastal and open ocean waters, NSF $198,737

Gary Taghon. Research Internships in Ocean Sciences (RIOS). NSF $89,244

Michael DeLuca. Sandy Impacts. Geo-morphological Maps, GATE, FISS, ASIS. Dept. of Interior. $161,873

Michael DeLuca. Coastal onitoring in the wildlife refuges. Dept. of Interior. $49,932

Donato Giovannelli. Alternative carbon fixation strategies in the model organ-ism Thermovibrio Ammonificans. USC $60,000

Paul Falkowski . Mechanisms of coral mineralization. NSF $1,393,973

Ben Horton, Microfossil, sedimentary and geochemical analyses of inferred tsunami deposits, Aceh Province, Indo-nesia. Earth Observatory of Singapore, $32,289

John Wilkin. Coastal ocean modeling of nonlinear internal-wave physical and acoustic effects. WHOI $144,000

Ben Horton. Heterogenous rupture of great Cascadia earthquakes inferred from coastal subsidence estimates. NSF $129,503

Oscar Schofield. Climate driven impacts on marine ecology, biogeochemistry and carbon cycles of the WAP. WHOI $70,468

Rutgers Oceanography

Celebrating Rutgers History While Looking to a Great Future.In the mid-1980’s, Rutgers’ presence in the marine scientific community was non-ex-istent. Rich Lutz, Norb Psuty and Ken Able acted on a dream to form a new Institute of Marine and Coastal sciences (IMCs) to propel Rutgers in the field of marine sci-ences. Working together with Governor Thomas H. Kean and stephen Kleinschuster, funds were secured for construction of a new building and the recruitment of new faculty. While financial support is critical, leadership is what makes the magic hap-pen. Rutgers was lucky to secure the leadership of Fred Grassle who built and guided a young team to become a global leader in technology, science, and education. When Fred decided to return his focus to his lifelong love of science, Rutgers was able to lure Francisco Werner who guided the continued prolific growth of ocean sciences. under his tenure the faculty grew and provided the strategic blueprint of modern collabo-ratories that is still guiding the Rutgers growth. Francisco talents were quickly recog-nized and he was called to fill national needs, and his departure left a leadership void. Rich Lutz seeing the need came back to meet the call. under his tenure, Lutz expand-ed the facilities, education programs, faculty, and has guided the marine sciences in an evolving Rutgers. Rich provided vision and leadership to rejuvenate marine sciences with the new formation of Institute of earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric sciences (see back of newsletter). While cutting edge of technologies and facilities are the import-ant structural bones of a unit, the faculty/students are the muscle, the brains/heart are the leaders. so looking back we salute and thank our brains/heart (Rich, Norb, Ken, Fred, and Fracisco), who have guided us to a bright, wonderful and exciting future..

Diving along coral in the Banda Sea. Rutgers has a growing presence in Indoensia.

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS OF THE IMCS FROM OVER THE DECADES

A full history of the exciting adventures, discoveries, and field expeditions is beyond the scope of any newsletter. Over the next year we will continue to celebrate our his-tory while charting an exciting path forward!

EXPLORING THE DEEP SEA. From the inception of IMCs, Rutgers has been at the forefront of the study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents and, since the early ‘80’s, Rutgers scientists have made over 100 dives in a variety of deep-diving u.s., Japanese, French and Russian sub-mersibles (DsV Alvin, shinkai 6500, Nautile, the Mirs) leading to over 200 peer-reviewed publications.

UNDERSTANDING THE MICROBIAL FORESTS IN THE SEA. Marine microbes have shaped the earth’s biology and chemistry. Rutgers over the last two decades has de-veloped arguably the most comprhensive marine micro-bial research community world wide. Results from the team are providing fundamental insights into the evolu-tion of the earth, the structure of the marine food webs and is offering a wide range of applied applications that include the development of new anti-cancer drugs to the cost effective production of biofuels.

OBSERVING AND MODELING THE WORLD’S OCEAN. From deployment of the first dedicated science seafloor cable, HF Radar networks, to NAsA preferred primary production satellite algorithms, to the global comunity ocean modeling system, and autonomous underwater vehicles and gliders, Rutgers has been at the forefront of the development of new technologies. These develop-ments sre shaping the development of the global ocean observing system, NOAA’s Integrated Ocean Observing system, and NsF’s Ocean Observatory Initiative.

Deployment  of  the  first  science  electro-­‐op3cal  seafloor  cable  (LEO-­‐15)  at  Tuckerton  NJ  in  late  1990s  

UNDERSTANDING A RISING SEA. The Mid-Atlantic Bight has in the past and is projected to see significant sea level rise in the wake of local and global human activ-ity. Rutgers has assembled an internationally recognized dream team of scientists focused on where the ocean has been and where it expected to go in the coming centuries both locally and throughout the world.

Rutgers Oceanography

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ENABLING NEW JERSEY”S MARINE ECONOMY. Many of the research efforts at Rutgers has direct impact on the states economy. Research in shellfish at Rutgers be-gan in 1888 with Julius Nelson and has conitnued to help the shellfish industry to thrive despite numerous chall-nges over the last century. Current research areas at the Haskins Labs include aquaculture, fisheries, bacteriolo-gy, ecology, genetics and breeding, numerical modeling, pathobiology and shellfish restoration. The laboratory has a variety of outreach programs, participates in in-ternational projects, provides a number of services for industry members, including an annual oyster stock as-sessment for Delaware Bay, New Jersey.

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TEACHING EXCEL-LENCE AND IMPACT. undergraduate ocean glider pilots complete the first ocean basin crossing by an autono-mous robot in human history. The glider traveled from New Jersesry to spain, and upon recovery was declared a historic artifact by the White House. The glider was displayed in the smiothosian Ocean Hall until its now permanent home in the National Aquarium in Baltimore was established in the Fall of 2014. students have ex-panded this effort now with the global Challenger mis-sion (http://challenger.marine.rutgers.edu/).

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SCIENCE EXCEL-LENCE AND IMPACT. In 2014, based on essential sci-ence Indicators (from January 2000 to December 2010) Thompson Reuters ranked the top 30 Oceanograpic academic and federal institutions in the world. Rutgers was ranked fourth in the world based on the impact of its science findings. see the information at http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/416012.article.

SUPPORTING THE SEAFOOD STATE. Fisheries are big business on the Jersey shore, supporting more fisher-ies jobs than any other state in the mid-Atlantic (43,000 people by last count), and fisheries have value-added im-pacts for the state economy totaling $2.4 billion. Though not widely recognized, the economic impact from fisher-ies is substantially higher than agriculture. A robust fish-ing industry, however, relies on science for guiding de-velopment, management, and conservation. The Rutgers Fisheries Cluster provides scientific research, advice, and training to serve the state, the nation, and the world.

RUTGERS OUTREACH EXCELLENCE. Rutgers has been in an innovator in outreach carrying important science lessons to the general public. This includes feature length films viewed by millions of people world-wide.

New PublicationsSchofield, O., Kohut, J., Saba, G., Yi, X., Wilkin, J., Glenn, S. 2014. Oceans: Observation and Prediction. In Encyclopedia of Natural Resources: Water. Taylor

and Francis: NY, p. 802-807. doi/book/10.1081/E-ENRW

Pilarczyk, J. E., Dura, T., Horton, B., Engelha, S. E. 2014. Microfossils from coastal enironments as indicators of paleo-earthquakes, tsunamis and stotrms . Palaeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.033

Bricelji, M. V., Cembella A. D., Laby, D. 2014. Temperature effects on kinetics of paralytic shellfish toxin elmination in Atlantic surfclams, Spisula solidiss-ma. Deep-Sea Research Reearch II. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.014

Fodrie, J. F., Able, K. W., Galvez, F., Heck, K. L., Jensen, P. P., Lopez-Duarte, P. C., Martin, C. W., Turner, E. R., Whitehead, A. 2014. 2014. Intregrating organis-mal and population responses of esturarine fishes in Macondo spill research . Biogeoscience. 64(9):778-788. doi:10.1093/biosci/biu123

Rolton, A., Vignier, J., Soudant, P., Shumway, S. E., Bricelji, M. V., Volety, A. 2014. Effects of the red tide dinoflaggelate, Crassostrea virginica and norther quahog Mercenaria mercenaria . Aquatic toxicology. 155: 196-206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.06.023

Meet our New Institute DirectorProfessor Mark Miller steps in to lead the new Rutgers Insti-tute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. He is an in-ternationally rocognized leader in atmospheric research. He studies the mechanisms through which clouds and aerosols interact with the Earth’s incoming and outgoing radiation streams. These mechanisms are one of the largest sources of uncertainty in global and regional climate simulations. He has agreed to step in and oversee the rejuvenation and re-vitalization of the exciting programs at Rutgers. The goal is accelerate the meteoric rise of Rutgers leadership in the Earth sciences. Exciting opportunities facilitated by great faculty, staff, and students will lead to great adventures and discov-eries in the coming decade. We all salute Mark for stepping in and look forward to an exciting year of new initatives .

Please help us enable Rutgers oceanogra-phy to support the next generation!

Rutgers oceanography needs your support to meet the environmental and educational challenges facing the world today. Your support is critical to enabling high risk and high reward research, developing students to be the leaders of tomorrow and bringing the public with our scientists into the ocean. Your private gifts will cre-ate new laboratories, student fellowships, endowments and feed ambitious new programs. Come join us!