Typhoon Soulik Approaches Korea
Typhoon Soulik, currently a category 3 storm, approaches Japan and Korea. Rutgers glider RU22 is deployed ahead of the eye in the Yellow Sea off of Korea’s Jeju Island. Glider…
RUCOOL Hosts The Mandela Washington Fellowship
RUCOOL hosted The Mandela Washington Fellowship—a flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI)— which empowers young African changemakers and leaders through academic and hands-on training and networking. Representatives…
Special Issue On How Oceans Are Changing
via British Antarctic Survey The seas around the Antarctic Peninsula are biologically extremely rich, but are climatically sensitive, having experienced some of the fastest warming globally in recent decades. A…
Rutgers Scientists Explain Hurricane Sandy’s Odd Behavior
Four days before Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, scientists from the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences launched a data-collecting, submersible robot glider in front of the massive…
Challenger Glider Sets New World Record in the Indian Ocean
An international team of scientists and students has just completed the first of three legs in a three-year effort to be the first to navigate an autonomous underwater robot completely…
Rutgers deploys underwater glider (RU28)
Deployment of NJ Department of Environmental Protection funded underwater glider (RU28). It will provide data from the ocean floor to surface on temperature, salinity, waves, chlorophyll, sediment and oxygen, and…