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(Photo Courtesy Rebecca Gilpin)
Gilpin and Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Labs Support Thriving Shellfish in Local Waters
(Photo Courtesy Rebecca Gilpin)
(Photo Courtesy Rebecca Gilpin)
Introducing High School Students to the Aquaculture Industry
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New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium and Rutgers University have partnered up with numerous shellfish farms throughout the Jersey Shore for the Apprenticeship In Shellfish Aquaculture Program (ASAP).
Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear – and Rebound
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The Atlantic surf clam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that started more than two decades ago.
Credit: D. Munroe
Congratulations, SEBS students!
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Micah Seidel (Biological Sciences major, left), Angie Catt (Agriculture and Food Systems major, right), and Natalie Radu (SEBS Plant Science minor, not pictured) won best “Home Grown Student Short Documentary” in the college category at the 2024 Garden State Film Festival. The film, Life on the Edge: Exploring New Jersey’s Coastal Ecosystems features Dr. Munroe’s research.
RUCOOL receives The Oceanography Society’s (TOS’) Observing Team Award
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Congratulations to the Rutgers Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) team on its selection as the recipient of the TOS Ocean Observing Team Award!
Congratulations, Hails Tanaka!
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Congratulations to doctoral candidate, Hails Tanaka, who was awarded Best Student Poster at the 2023 MAC AFS meeting. Hail’s poster was titled, “Examining Size and Abundances of Juvenile Atlantic Surfclams (Spisula solidissima) over the Last Four Decades in New Jersey State Waters.”
The New Jersey Aquaculture Growers Forum is back!
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The next speaker in the rebooted series will be Janine Barr, Unit Administrator/Specialist at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
Rutgers Scientists Help Shore Fish Harvesters Implement Adaptive Strategies to Climate Change
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Rutgers scientists are devising strategies for state businesses to successfully weather future adverse effects from climate change.
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Student-led science story, Life on the Edge, expands reach, status, and impact
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A student-led science story, Life on the Edge, which was funded by pilot grants featuring the research of Dr. Daphne Munroe, has now been accepted into 4 science film festivals, with possibly more to come:
• Cut International Short Film Festival
2023 HSRL RIOS Interns
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HSRL RIOS interns finished their summer internships strong during the capstone poster presentation on Cook Campus in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. All four completed outstanding projects providing data that will advance the research they were involved in, while also learning about the basic process of conducting science and communicating the information revealed.
- Michele Bulnes of Monmouth University who worked with Dr. Daphne Munroe and PhD Candidate Alexandria Ambrose on how fish and other organisms use oyster farm gear as habitat.
- Molly Honecker of Duke University who worked with Post Doctoral Fellow Dr. Laura Steeves and Dr. Munroe to understand impacts of ocean acidification on coastal shellfish.
- Aisling O’Connell of Georgetown University who helped Drs. Jason Morson and Doug Zemeckis determine the effectiveness and appropriateness of a novel sampling method for understanding offshore fish communities where wind energy turbines are proposed for installation.
- Nina Coli of the University of South Carolina who worked with Field Researcher Jenny Shinn and Dr. David Bushek to test the settlement of oysters to novel concrete formulations and modules designed for use in hybrid living shorelines to protect coastlines from storms and erosion.
Molly and Nina were selected by an independent faculty review committee to present their posters at the next Ocean Sciences meeting and Michelle and Aisling’s mentors are discussing presenting their posters to relevant regional conferences. Congrats to all and thanks to everyone that helped support them.