Coastal Ocean Observation Lab is the Recipient of the 2006 Rutgers' President's Recognition Program
Bridge Award
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The Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, otherwise known as “RU COOL,” is recognized as the world’s most advanced coastal observatory. The RU Cool team established Rutgers as the first university to operate both L-Band and X-Band satellite receivers to access the full international constellation of ocean color satellites...more |
10/17/06 |
| CNN Weather Report - The COOLroom ocean weather reports used on CNN |
CNN 2006-06-12.avi (39 MB)
CNN 2006-06-12.mov (6.1 MB) |
6/12/06 |
| TRENTON TIMES - Marine scientists honored for work |
A team of marine scientists at Rutgers' Cook College and Instistute of Marine and Coastal SCiences was honored during the Cook College and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station's 13th annual awards dinner April 27. The award was presented by Bob Goodman, executive dean of agriculture and natural resources. |
6/3/06 |
| STAR LEDGER - A 'plume' with a view of an oceanic experiment |
When scientists try to reinvent something, they live dangerously. They rely on custom-made, tempermental equipment and things often go in an unexpected direction... |
5/30/06 |
| STAR LEDGER - Technology opens wider 'window to the ocean' |
Like space, the Earth's oceans present a vast canvas for discovery. And for decades, oceanographers gathered their scientific information mostly through manned expeditions. Now researchers believe ocean research is on the verge of a great transformation.....more |
5/29/06 |
| Boatingandfishing.com - It's a bird, it's a plane - it's a red tide glider |
The latest weapons in the battle against red tide launched this week. On Wednesday, April 12, Mote Marine Laboratory, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute let loose three yellow torpedo-llike deviced about a mile offshore of Sarasota. Each is designed to detect thet alga that causes red tide - Karenia brevis. |
4/20/06 |
| Margate now opposes groin planned by Ventnor - by Michael Pritchard at The Press |
The city retained Norbert P. Psuty, of the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, to study the plan. During a presentation to the city commissioners last month, Psuty said he believes that initially the project would have little effect on Margate's beaches, but over time would lead to erosion. |
3/03/06 |
| Underwater gliders follow everything from whales to hurricanes
By TARA GODVIN, Associated Press Writer
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"The ability to be in the ocean all the time and do it over a sustained period - people are doing it now. And this is revolutionary," said Oscar Schofield, professor at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Science at Rutgers University. |
2/22/06 |
Oceans still hold vast secrets - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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SCIENTISTS who study the ocean described their latest findings in 3,200
papers at meetings here last week. Yet, one said, "We are only
scratching the surface of the system.
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2/26/06 |
Catholic Online: Science Does Not Need God. By Father George V. Coyne, SJ
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Text of talk by Vatican Observatory director on ‘Science Does Not Need God. Or Does It? A Catholic Scientist Looks at Evolution’ |
2/01/06 |
| CBS: Gliders tracking whale calls, ocean waves |
HONOLULU - Ocean scientists can now plunge into the middle of the sea without leaving their offices. Six-foot, 100-pount underwater gliders are swimming the oceans of the world and dutifully sending data home on everything from whale calls to the massive waves produced by hurricanes. |
3/4/06 |
| Hydrothermal "Megaplume" found in Indian Ocean - Kazinform.org |
An enormous hydrothermal "megaplume" found in the Indian Ocean serves as a dramatic reminder that underwater volcanoes likely play an important role in shaping Earth's ocean systems, scientists report. |
12/13/05 |
| Rutgers Scientist, Paul Falkowski, featured on NPR in response to "Scientists Find Bacteria that Converts Light into Energy" |
Scientists exploring the black waters around a deep-sea vent have discovered a bacterium that can convert light into energy. This is the first discovery of an organism that uses a source of light, other than the sun, in the process of photosynthesis.
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6/21/05 |
| New York Times Article featuring Dr. Frederick Grassle |
In 1989, Rutgers was heardly pre-eminent in marine science, a shame considering that New Jersey is almost as much an ocean state as the Ocean State, surrounded mostly by water... |
6/5/05 |
| State of New Jersey Assembly Resolution No. 209 - As of 1/24/2003 |
On March 3, 2003, the Secretary of State for the State of New Jersey filed and passed the Assembly Resolution No. 209. This assembly resolution was first introduced and referred to the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on November 25, 2002. It was then reported by the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on January 16, 2003 to the State. |
10/19/04 |
| Rutgers Scientists Make
Annual Visit to Long Beach Island Center for Arts & Sciences |
A group of Rutgers Graduate
Students and Staff Researchers traveled to the Long Beach Island
Center for Arts & Sciences for their annual presentation to the local
community - "A Night With RU Cool". |
7/14/04 |
|
ORION Newsletter |
A Short
History of the Long Term Ecosystem Observatory (LEO)
Coming from the field of deep-sea ecology, Frederick Grassle
appreciated the limited time scientists have to observe natural
phenomena in the ocean and that this fundamentally inhibited
understanding.........click
here to read more! |
6/04 |
|
CAP helps to recover
glider for Rutgers |
Article courtesy of
The Times, Trenton. The
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) assisted a team of ocean scientists from
Rutgers University in the May 12 recovery of an autonomous underwater
vehicle (AUV) off the coast of New Jersey. |
5/31/04 |
|
Northeast Region aircrew members
locate missing Rutgers research vehicle |
Article courtesy of the
Civil Air Patrol.
Members of the New Jersey and Main wings assisted a team of ocean
scientists from Rutgers University in the recovery of an autonomous
underwater vehicle off the coast of New Jersey May 12. |
5/25/04 |
|
Civil Air Patrol aids in
recovering Rutgers Research underwater glider |
Article courtesy of
News of the Force, Yahoo
Groups. The Civil Air Patrol assisted a team of ocean
scientists from Rutgers University in the recovery of an autonomous
underwater vehicle (AUV) off the coast of New Jersey on May 12, 2004. |
5/21/04 |
|
Civil Air Patrol Aids in
Recovering Rutgers Research Underwater Glider |
Article courtesy of
Atlantic
Highlands Herald. The Civil Air Patrol assisted a team
of ocean scientists from Rutgers University in the recovery of an
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) off the coast of New Jersey on May
12, 2004. The AUV lost communication with Rutgers scientists on May 2,
2004 during a Hudson River plume experiment. |
5/20/04 |
|
Air Patrol helps find underwater
ocean glider |
Article courtesy of
Asbury Park Press. The
Civil Air Patrol helped Rutgers University ocean scientists recover a
costly underwater glider about 37 miles off Sandy Hook on Wednesday, a
project coordinator at a Rutgers lab said yesterday. |
5/15/04 |
| Glider
Craft can travel for weeks and go hundreds of miles |
Article courtesy of the
MSNBC
Science News. THE FLEDGLING technology, barely a decade old, has
already produced robotic submarine gliders that move slowly, with
the nimbleness of a blimp. Now next-generation gliders are being
developed to fly just as gracefully as their airborne counterparts,
diving and climbing on broad wings that slice not air but water. |
11/03 |
|
RU
Forum Offers Glimpse of Anti-Terrorism's Future |
Article courtesy of the
Home
News Tribune. Scientists devising tools that can sense a
terrorist's plans from the movements of his eyebrows, track ships
carrying questionable cargo and protect hospital workers from
dangers posed by bio-terrorism compared notes at Rutgers forum. |
10/03 |
|
Cook
College Turns An Eye to The Sky |
Article courtesy of the
Home News Tribune. The X-band dish will be used to track three
satellites in orbit. The satellites will collect data on the optical
properties of the sea and will feed information back on water from
as far south as Cuba to the lower Hudson Bay in Canada. The data
will be posted at
www.thecoolroom.org
and will be used by fishermen, the National Weather Service, the
U.S. Coast Guard and others. |
10/03 |
|
X-Band
Makes Its Permanent Mark |
On October 11, Rutgers University Coastal Ocean
Observation Lab installs a new X-Band satellite system, which will
work in conjunction with their existing L-Band satellite system. |
10/03 |
|
Ocean
monitoring during Hurricane Isabel (Rutgers experts) |
Whether Isabel affects New Jersey as a hurricane,
tropical storm or just a passing shower, ocean conditions off shore
will be monitored and posted on the Web at
http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/
by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Science (IMCS) at Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey. |
09/03 |
|
Cold
Water, Hot Tempers |
Article courtesy of
CBS
News. Scientists are now studying why the surf is taking a dip,
from water temperatures that should be in the 70's to sometimes
reaching lows in the 50's. Rutgers University oceanographer Bob
Chant is calling it a severe case of coastal "upwelling." |
08/03 |
Chill
out at the beach
'Upwelling' blamed for colder water off the coast of Delaware |
Article courtesy of
The
News Journal. The Atlantic Ocean was take-your-breath-away cold
- a bracing 62 degrees, much colder than the average for this time
of year of about 76 degrees and a far cry from the 80 degrees
measured a year ago. The water turned suddenly colder because of an
"intense upwelling". |
08/03 |
|
Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)
Chooses COOL Classroom as Curriculum Resource |
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and
Science Education (ENC) identifies effective curriculum resources,
create high-quality professional development materials, and
disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12
mathematics and science teaching and learning. COOLClassroom was
identified as a useful learning resource. |
07/03 |
| Semi-Annual Meeting for the
North East Observing System (NEOS) |
On July 15 - 16, 2003, the semiannual meeting of the
Northeast Observing System
(NEOS)
was be held at the Browne Center in Durham, New Hampshire. It was
hosted by the University of New Hampshire Center of Excellence in
Coastal Observation and Analysis (COOA). The meeting provided a
forum for presenting and discussing the two NEOS proposals that were
recently submitted to NOAA. |
07/03 |
|
Watery
world getting clearer |
Article courtesy of
Home
News Tribune. The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences is leading
a 5-year, $4.2 million study to chart the untold history of
microscopic plants that have lived and died in the oceans for
hundreds of millions of years. The study aims to explain how some
plant species adapt to change and beat out rivals in the quest for
sunlight and nutrients that get churned up from the ocean floor. |
05/03 |
|
Hudson
River Plume - Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment
(LATTE) |
On May 7, 2003, Dr. Bob Chant and a team of Rutgers
scientists surveyed the Hudson River plume. This survey was
performed as an all-day event. After returning back to shore, data
was analyzed for preparation of May 2004's dye injection. |
05/03 |
|
Rutgers
begins five-year study of Hudson River contaminants and their fate
in the Atlantic Ocean |
On May 7, 2003, an initial voyage from Staten Island
to Barnegat Inlet, N.J., is intended to survey the plume and test
systems that will be used when dye is first injected in May 2004.
While following the dye patches, wide variety of equipment and
testing methods will be used to determine how nitrogen, lead,
cadmium, mercury and other substances are transported at different
depths and under different conditions. |
05/03 |
|
Rutgers
team helping to remap the trek of Hudson River toxins |
Article courtesy of
The
Star-Ledger Newspaper. A team of Rutgers University scientists
launched a five-year study yesterday of just how far the
sewage-tainted Hudson River crawls down the New Jersey coastline
before it merges with the ocean. |
05/03 |
| Nantucket CODAR
Long-range Site Installation |
On March 31, 2003, Drs. Josh Kohut and Hugh Roarty,
along with Dr. Mike Muglia from the University of North Carolina,
went up to Nantucket, Massachusetts to install a new CODAR
long-range system. This will be a new field site for Rutgers' CODAR
group to collect data. |
04/03 |
|
RU
helps turn the tide for oceans |
Article courtesy of
Home
News Tribune. Rutgers University ecologists, microbiologists,
geologists and chemists were praised March 10 for reaping an
ocean of research grants for undersea studies and setting new
standards in marine and coastal sciences. |
03/03 |
|
10th Anniversary
of IMCS |
On March 10, 2003, the faculty, staff, friends,
and families of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences gathered
together at the Trenton War Memorial Ballroom to celebrate the
10 years of the Institute. The Institute was first founded in
1993. Since then it has flourished and grown. |
03/03 |
| Assembly Resolution
No. 209 Filed & Passed by Secretary of State |
On March 3, 2003, the Secretary of State for the
State of New Jersey filed and passed the Assembly Resolution No.
209. This assembly resolution was first introduced and referred
to the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on November
25, 2002. It was then reported by the Assembly Environment and
Solid Waste Committee on January 16, 2003 to the State. |
03/03 |
|
Oil Barge
Explodes on Staten Island |
On Friday, February 21, 2003, an explosion occurred
while a barge was unloading barrels of gasoline and sparked a
massive blaze at an ExxonMobil petroleum storage facility on Staten
Island. |
02/03 |
|
Eye of the Blizzard
of 2003 |
RU COOL Visible Satellite Imagery
picked up this intense nor'easter as it moved up along the East
Coast. The satellite image shows the development of an
'eye-like' feature, common in hurricanes, off the coast
of Virginia. Only a few of the most intense winter storms
develop an "eye", as it is caused by
a strong pressure gradient, and a large temperature difference
between the ocean and atmosphere.
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02/03 |
|
RUCOOL
receives an assembly resolution
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An Assembly Resolution
(AR209) commending
Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab on their research
projects to better understand New Jersey’s coastal waters, and
encouraging them to employ new technologies to enhance oceanographic
research and maritime safety. |
02/03 |
|
Statement
of Assembly Resolution AR209 |
The State of New
Jersey Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee
provides a statement to Assembly Resolution No. 209 with
committee amendments, Dated January 16, 2003.
|
02/03 |
| The revamped COOL Machin |
The COOL Machin was tired of being a typical white
van. It decided it needed a new look for the new year, something
with spunk and personality. Thus, it paid a visit to Typestries
Sign & Design in Manahawkin, NJ. And wow, is it very happy
with its new look! Take a look! |
02/03 |
|
COOLroom
called to action by the Coast Guard |
On Friday, January 31, 2003, a ship in distress
off Cape Lookout, North Carolina, was successfully evacuated of
all personnel. Even though all lives in immediate danger
were saved, the Coast Guard was left with a problem. The
abandoned ship was adrift. At 4:00 pm that Friday afternoon, the
Coast Guard called the COOLroom. Could the COOLroom provide them
with any data to tell them which direction the shift would be
drifting, and provide them some relief? |
02/03 |
| Slocum
Gliders — a new tool in marine exploration |
Article courtesy of
Naples
Daily News (Naples, FL). Robots, called Slocum Gliders and
looking much like guided missiles with fins, are being lowered
into the Gulf of Mexico to track, study, forecast and shed new
light on solving the mysteries of red tide in Southwest Florida. |
01/03 |
|
Glider
may be a red tide finder |
Article courtesy of
Florida
Today online newspaper. Cruising slowly through the green
Gulf of Mexico on January 15, 2003, the bright yellow Slocum glider
looked menacingly military. The autonomous underwater vehicle
(AUV) is nothing more than a sophisticated scientific instrument
with which Mote Marine Laboratory hopes to detect red tide. Mote
scientists and scientists from Rutgers University concluded three
days of field tests on the glider. |
01/03 |
|
Mote
tests new red tide tool |
Article courtesy of
The
News Press online newspaper. Mote scientists and scientists
from Rutgers University concluded three days of field tests on
the glider from January 13-16, 2003. Mote would like to have three
AUVs, which would greatly increase the ability to monitor red
tide in Southwest Florida. Rutgers already has instruments on
the gliders to test for things such as salinity, temperature and
dissolved oxygen, and Rutgers scientists will be working with
Mote on the red tide detection project. |
01/03 |
|
Robots
in the deep |
Article courtesy of
Nature.com
about how AUVs are designed to tackle tasks too dangerous for
crewed vessels, or too time-consuming for remotely operated craft
that must be steered from the surface. AUVs can also be sent to
ocean regions that would otherwise be inaccessible. Scott Glenn's
team is now starting to deploy graceful long-duration devices
called Slocum gliders in combination with REMUS, to study the
formation of toxic 'red tides', caused by algal blooms, in the
Gulf of Mexico off Florida. |
01/03 |
|
Operation
Gulf Cast |
The Rutgers Glider group collaborated with Dr. Gary
Kirkpatrick and his research team from
MOTE
Marine Laboratory during the week of January 13-17,2003. During
this operation, they had great success in deploying two autonomous
underwater vehicles (AUVs or Gliders) in the Gulf of Mexico. From
their week long day-deployments, they gathered various data, digital
images, and underwater footage. |
01/03 |
|
Robot
gliders to watch red tides |
Article courtesy of
Nature.com about how winged underwater vehicles
could forecast toxic blooms of plankton.
Movie Clip (mpeg format):
Crash-testing
the gliders in Florida |
01/03 |
|
Device
looks like a torpedo, but it sniffs out harmful red tide |
Article courtesy of the
Sarasota
Herald Tribune online newspaper. The AUV or drone is adapted
to red tide duty by MOTE Marine Laboratory, and houses a prism-like
device that "sees" red tide molecules. With more tests,
the drone could buy time to clean up red tide fish kills before
they reach shore, or allow shell fishermen time to harvest their
crops before the bloom poisons the beds. |
01/03 |
|
Underwater
Gliders |
Article courtesy of
Discover.com
about Webb's Slocum Glider, which is an autonomous underwater
vehicle, or AUV. The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research, which
partially funds the creation of the AUV, hopes the glider could
help Navy operations (i.e., hunt for underwater mines), as well
as help scientists prowl underwater depths and provide real-time
data on every aspect of ocean chemistry and biology. |
01/03 |
|
Science
News |
"Ocean View: Scientists are going 24–7 in their
studies of the deep" (Carol Marzuola, Science News).
Ocean observatories are finding new features in coastal waters,
such as Rutgers University's Coastal Ocean Observation Lab in
New Brunswick and Tuckerton, N.J. |
12/02 |
| The COOL "MACHIN" |
This November (Nov. 5, 2002) the COOL gang purchased
a van to transport equipment, tools, systems, etc. primarily for
the CODAR project. It shall be used in conjunction with the other
research platforms and field work. |
11/02 |
|
Continued
Ocean Studies in Tuckerton |
Article courtesy of Asbury Park Press about COOL's
continued ocean studies and its Long-term Ecosystem Observatory,
or LEO-15, in Tuckerton, NJ. |
10/02 |
Site Visit by
Rear Admiral
Richard D. West |
On October 16, 2002 Rear Admiral Richard D.
West, of U.S. Navy, and President of the Consortium for Oceanographic
Research and Education (CORE - a Washington, D.C.-based association
of the leading marine science institutions in the country) visited
Rutgers University's Coastal Ocean Observation Lab. |
10/02 |
|
SCOTS
Report |
Scientific
Cabled Observatories for Time Series (SCOTS) report
based on a community workshop at the
Portsmouth Renaissance Conference Center Portsmouth, VA August
26-28, 2002. **NOTE: File is large; may take some minutes
to open
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10/02 |
Ocean
Color
Imagery Returns |
Presently, Rutgers University's
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab is the only one in the country
conveying data out to the research audience from the Chinese
FY-1D satellite.
On September 9th, the COOL lab began posting ocean color images
once again. The images are from China's FY-1D satellite, and
specifically show chlorophyll, which is produced by phytoplankton.
These plankton are microscopic plants which are the base of
the food chain.
|
09/02 |
|
Ocean
Temps. Are the warmest in years!!
|
The Remote Sensing Lab has been acquiring AVHRR
Sea Surface Temperature data for 10 summers now at IMCS. This
year's temperatures are the warmest in this time span. |
08/02 |
|
COOL
speaks to the U.S. Ocean Commission
|
Scott and Oscar addressed the U.S. Commission on Ocean
Policy about establishing a national network of coastal ocean observatories.
The focus of the observatories will be for research while also serving
societal needs. The Commission was appointed by President Bush to
recommend a comprehensive national ocean policy by next spring. |
07/02 |
Outstanding
Student Award
Macromedia
Freehand Required to view poster |
Shelley Blackwell won an Outstanding Student Paper
Award for her presentation at the 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting
in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spokesperson for the Ocean Sciences Section
of the AGU said, "Shelley set an excellent example for her
fellow students and the entire AGU membership." |
07/02 |
|
Presidential Award
RealOne Player Required
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Mark Moline, Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic
State University, received a Presidential Award.
|
07/02 |
| New Doctor at IMCS |
On Monday June 10, 2002, Joshua T. Kohut submitted
his dissertation on Spatial Current Structure Observed With a
Calibrated HF Radar System: The Influence of Local Forcing, Stratification,
and Topography on The Inner Shelf. Josh is on his way to becoming
a Doctor of Philosophy here at IMCS. Way to go Dr. Kohut! |
06/02 |
| Fire Along the GSP |
On Sunday June 2, 2002, a fire consumed around 1,300
acres in Berkeley Township along the Garden State Parkway. The
smoke trail was captured by the NOAA-16 satellite several miles
up in space. |
06/02 |
| Visible Satellite Images
Now Available! |
On Friday May 24, 2002, the COOL lab began posting
visible satellite imagery in addition to the ocean temperature
data that has been on for 8 years. These will give meteorologists
more detail of storms than they can get from typical weather satellites. |
05/02 |
| Mesocyclone Strikes
NJ |
On Monday May 13, 2002, a large scale mesocyclone
swept through southern New Jersey. The storm brought tremendous
winds and hail across the state. Satellite imagery at RU COOL
captured the storm. |
05/02 |
| RU COOL on Call |
On Thursday May 2, 2002, a Tanker carrying 40 million
gallons of crude oil grounded just outside of Delaware Bay. While
the tanker was able to break free without incident, the scientists
at RU COOL remained on call as a large storm swept through the
area. |
05/02 |
|
Sea
Breeze Study |
The New Jersey Sea Breeze and its Relationship to
Coastal Upwelling - View the results of one of our latest projects,
in partnership with the National Weather Service Forecast Office
in Mount Holly, NJ. |
04/02 |
| Newark Bay |
The Newark Bay Project page is now online. The experiment
is funded by the NJ DEP to identify the sources of toxins in this
system. This study focuses on how toxic levels are related to
variations in river discharge. This web site presents some of
the results of the hydrographic observations for each of the surveys.
|
11/01 |
|
2002
AGU / 2001 AMS |
Check out our new talks page devoted to our presentations
and posters to delivered at the 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting, the
2001 Fall AMS meeting and other invited talks. |
11/01 |
|
HyCODE Times |
Read along as over a hundred researchers investigate
the ocean off the Jersey Coast. Features live coverage and stories
directly from the scientists. |
07/01 |
|
2001 HyCODE Experiment
Site |
Our Summer Experiment site is now live. Check out
all the plans and data coming in live. |
06/01 |
| Ocean Color Satellite
Imagery |
Data from the FY1-C satellite is now online. |
05/01 |
|
Satellite Temps
and Currents in 1 image! |
Combined imagery of our sea surface temperature
(SST) and ocean surface current (CODAR) data are now online. |
04/01 |
| The Congressional Visit |
Congressmen receive award IN OUR LAB and the Presidents
of Rutgers and Princeton come too! |
04/01 |
| Jay Speaks |
Jay Leno, yes the Jay Leno, comments on us in his
nightly monologue... |
11/00 |
| 2000 Leatherman Awards |
Awards for the super wonderful people involved
in our 2000 summer research, and Bob Arnone |
08/00 |
| 2000 Rutgers University
Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award |
President gives award to phenomenal Professor/Researcher
for his devotion and zest. |
05/00 |
| Letter to "Dr." Crowley |
VP Al Gore's Letter of love to us, or more specifically,
Dr. Crowley |
05/00 |
|
Hurricane
Floyd |
Hurricane Floyd rips the east coast, but is captured
by us as it passes along the Jersey shore |
09/99 |
| 1999 Leatherman Awards |
Awards for the super wonderful people involved
in our 1999 summer research, and Alan Weideman |
08/99 |
