Meeting Date Presenter(s) Title of Presentation Advanced Oceanography ClassRutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Dec 19, 2011 Collin Dobson, Amanda Jones, Tejas Shah, Amelia Snow, Cynthia Taylor Glider Operations (and the Progression of a Scientific Project) Chris Filosa, Nick Giraldi, Robert Jackson, Danielle Neidich, Melissa Nick, Erica Kolton Fall Weather Variations of the Mid-Atlantic Bight Conor O’mara, Heather Coulson, Mario Garcia & Oliver Ho Conditions Around the Azores/Canaries Jason Werrell, John Huffstickler, Lisa Schardien, Kara Millaci, Nicole Del Monaco, Tom Osbourne Hurricane Irene Jess Castoro, Chris Puskas, Eva Pena, Holly Broadus & Nilsen Strandskov The Challenger Mission Leg 1: Reykjavik, Iceland to The Azores Dave Kaminsky, Jason Sigismondi Challenger Mission: The Next Leg Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM)Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium Nov 29, 2011 Hugh Roarty, Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut, Erick Rivera, Laura Palamara, Ethan Handel, Mike Smith Results from the Mid Atlantic High Frequency Radar Network EU-NJ Business Forum on Alternative EnergyRutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Oct 27, 2011 Hugh Roarty The Application of High Frequency Radar for Mapping Offshore Wind Resources Board of OverseersRutgers University,New Brunswick Oct 26, 2011 Scott Glenn The Historic Flight of RU27: The Scarlet Knight – The First Underwater Robot to Cross the Atlantic Wave and Current measurement system for traffic safety in the Gulf of GdanskSopot, Poland Oct 3, 2011 Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut & Hugh Roarty – Rutgers University, Jack Harlan – U.S. IOOS Program, Art Allen – U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Search and Rescue, Eric Terrill – Scripps Institution of Oceanography Development and Status of the U.S. National HF Radar Network – PPTmovie – Irene_NI_Amp.movmovie – Floyd_LR_fig_1.avimovie – divtrend_2009_blue_red.avimovie – Curly_vector_IreneTRK_long.mov U.S. IOOS Response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: The Critical Role of Modern Ocean Observing Networks Palmer LTERMarine Biological Labs, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Sep 26 – 28, 2011 Oscar Schofield, Grace Saba, Mike Crowley, Kaycee Coleman, Travis Miles, Tina Haskins B-019 in four acts Glider Measurments of Phytoplankton Physiology in Palmer Deep Visions 11 Axial Seamount Cruise Sep 1, 2011 Tina Haskins Slocum Glider at Axial – movieWhat is glider? – movie Lab SeriesRutgers, New Brunswick, NJ Aug 11, 2011 Oscar Schofield Hot Days Along the West Antarctic Peninsula – PDFOriginal keynote presentation IOOS Roundtable with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction, Dr. Kathyrn SullivanRutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Aug 9, 2011 Carolyn Thoroughgood, Larry Atkinson, Bill Boicourt, Wendell Brown, Scott Glenn, Plus >35 Additional Co-PI’s from >20 Institutions MARACOOS 2011-2016: From Observations to Forecasts Neal Pettigrew, Ru Morrison, Tom Gregory and others Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) Debra Hernandez Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) C-MORE lecturesHawaii June 28 – July 1, 2011 Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut along w/ collaborators (100s) from Rutgers, WHOI, UNC, U. Maryland, U. Mass., Cal Poly, U Delaware, NRL, Scripps, JPL, MIT, Lamont, U. Florida, USGS, MBARI, Stevens, U Conn Grad students & Postdocs: Gong, Zhang, Kahl, Gryzmski, Bergmann, Miles, Xu, Durski, Oliver, Sipler, Garzio, Tozzi, Moline, Saba, Montes-Hugo C-MORE 1: Dawn in the age of robotic oceanography C-MORE 2: Observing life, measuring the phytoplankton C-MORE 3: Hot Days Along the West Antarctic Peninsula C-MORE 4: Our view from the COOL room: Building technology & hopefully knowledge in the coastal ocean Science advisory board meeting for Coastal Observation System for Northern and Arctic Seas Hamburg, Germany June 13 – 14, 2011 Oscar Schofield An overview of some of the larger United States ocean observing efforts Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry MeetingWHOI May 23 – 24, 2011 Oscar Schofield Cyberinfrastructure: Rise of the Machines Data Acquisition, Synthesis, broader Impacts and Public Outreach New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Project Kickoff Meeting, NJBPU Trenton Office, Trenton, NJ May 24, 2011 Scott Glenn, Rich Dunk, Josh Kohut, Louis Bowers, Greg Seroka, John Kerfoot, Lisa Ojanen, Ethan Handel An Advanced Atmosphere/Ocean Assessment Program: Reducing the Risks Associated with Offshore Wind Energy Development as Defined by The NJ Energy Master Plan and The NJ Offshore Wind Energy Economic Development Act OOI Annual ReviewWHOI May 15 – 17, 2011 Oscar Schofield, Anthony Ferlaino OOI Annual Review Year 2 Ocean Prediction Networking (OPNet) Final SeminarOslo Innovation Park Oslo, Norway May 11 – 12, 2011 Scott Glenn, L.Atkinson, A.Blumberg, W.Boicourt, W.Brown, N.Georges, A.Gongopadhyay, E.Howlett, J.Kohut, J.O’Donnell, M.Oliver, O.Schofield, R.Signell, C.Thoroughgood, J.Wilkin, Plus >30 Additional Co-PI’s from >20 Institutions Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System: From Observations to Forecasts SAFER SEAS III 2011 “For safer and cleaner seas”Brest, France May 10 – 13, 2011 Hugh Roarty, Ethan Handel, Michael Smith, Erick Rivera, John Kerfoot, Josh Kohut, Scott Glenn Results from the Mid Atlantic High Frequency Radar Network Radiowave Operators Working Group Meeting – HF Radar Ocean Remote SensingSanta Barbara, CA April 26 – 28, 2011 Hugh Roarty, Erick Rivera Lemus, John Kerfoot, Mike Smith Investigation of First Order Line Settings for MARACOOS High Frequency Radars Quality Assurance Measures for High Frequency Radar Systems Application of 13 MHz SeaSonde Systems for Vessel DetectionMARACOOS High Frequency Radar Network Operations Pemberton High School Program for the Exceptionally GiftedPemberton Township, NJ April 15, 2011 Chip Haldeman Antarctica Seminars at WHOIMassachusetts April 6 – 7, 2011 Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut Hot Days Along the West Antarctic PeninsulaThe view of the Mid-Atlantic Bight Ecosystem from the COOL room Capital Rutgers MeetingNaples, Florida Mar 26, 2011 Scott Glenn The Historic Flight of RU27: The Scarlet Knight – The First Underwater Robot to Cross the Atlantic Movies Attachments Gordon ConferenceVentura, California Mar 24, 2011 Oscar Schofield Hot Days in Polar Seas: Can We Tackle Sampling Program? 5th EGO Meeting and Glider SchoolGranCanaria, Spain Mar 14 – 18, 2011 Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut, Oscar Schofield Observatory Simulation Experiment: Rise of the Machines Coordinated Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Southern Operations: Gliders On Ice Science SaturdayPrinceton, NJ Mar 5, 2011 Oscar Schofield My journey in studying the world’s oceans and challenges Meeting on Ocean Coastal Radar to explore Cooperation Ideas between NORWAY-PORTUGAL-US-SPAIN Madri, Spain Feb 23, 2011 Hugh Roarty,

Meeting Date Presenter(s) Title of Presentation AGU Fall Meeting 2012San Francisco, CA December 3, 2012 Greg Seroka Impact of Ocean Observations on Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy Forecasts IOOS SummitDulles, VA Nov 14, 2012 Scott Glenn IOOS Summit Special Session: MARACOOS Response to Hurricane Sandy Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) International Users MeetingRio de Janiero, Brazil Oct 23-25, 2012 Scott Glenn The Rise of Regional-scale Ocean Observatories for Science, Society and Security; and the Development of Collaborative Global Networks OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEEVirginia Beach Convention CenterVirginia Beach, VA Oct 14-19,2012 Scott Glenn IOOS & Hurricanes & Fish – Oh My!Impact Of Ocean Observations on Hurricane Irene Intensity Forecasts Josh Kohut Using ocean observing systems and local ecological knowledge to nowcast butterfish bycatch events in the Mid-Atlantic Bight longfin squid fishery – PPT version(620Mb).– smaller PDF version (6.2Mb) Oscar Schofield Phytoplankton Dynamics and Bottom Water Oxygen During a Large Bloom in the Summer of 2011movie – red_green_blue_tails.mov Greg Seroka Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory (RU-COOL) Advanced Modeling System Developed to Cost-Effectively Support Offshore Wind Energy Development and Operational Applications Colin Evans Examination of the SeaSonde Wave Processing Parameters and the Effects of Shallow Water on Wave Measurements Mike Crowley How Can We “Sea” the Ocean? – Building New Windows for Discovery and Education Ocean Observatories Initiative: Education & Public Engagement Hugh Roarty Expanding the Coverage of HF Radar Through the Use of Wave Powered Buoys Automated Quality Control of High Frequency Radar Data Analysis of the Wind Resource off New Jersey for Offshore Wind Energy Developmentmovie – OPT_Buoy_2011-08-11.mov Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Seminar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Oct 3,2012 Dr. Louis W. Uccellini, Director of National Centers for Environmental Prediction National Centers for Environmental Prediction: Entering a New Era in Earth System Prediction “From the Sun to the Sea” movie – IreneTracks-WaterMark.wmv Seminar at Department of Geology, Colgate University,Hamilton New York Sept 25, 2012 Oscar Schofield Hot Days Along The West Antarctic Peninsula Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce Stakeholder Engagement MeetingStevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ Sept 19,2012 Rutgers University – Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut, Hugh Roarty, Mike Crowley, John Kerfoot, Ethan, Handel, Mike Smith, Colin EvansCODAR Ocean Sensors – Don Barrick, Pete Lilleboe, Laura Pederson, Belinda Lipa, Chad Whelan, Bruce Nyden, Bill Rector, Jimmy IsaacsonUniversity of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez Jorge Corredor Applied Mathematics, Inc – Bill BrowningUniversity of Alaska – Tom Weingarter, Hank StatskewichOcean Power Technologies – Debbie MontangnaNaval Research Laboratory – Michael Lovellette, Dan Newton The Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR)movie – calusa_coast_new.movmovie – snr-annotated.mov Long term Ecological Research (LTER) All Hands MeetingEstes Park, Colorado Sept 10-13, 2012 Travis Miles Physical forcing of a Western Antarctic Peninsula ecosystem: observations from a coastal ocean observing network at Palmer Station. Grace Saba Large-scale forcing through the Antarctic food web: Physical drivers of the interannual variability at Palmer Station Oscar Schofield Climate induced shifts in the phytoplankton community biomass and community structure along the West Antarctica Peninsula Ocean Observatories Summer Research Institute Posters PresentationIMCS, New Brunswick, NJ Aug 15,2012 Kristen Holenstein Comparison of CODAR and ADCP Surface Current Velocity Data Robert Forney Bistatic Systems: Preparing for Multistatic Nilsen Strandskov Growth Analysis of Pollicipes pollicipes on Slocum Gliders Ru 27 and Silbo Joe Riscica Correlation between CODAR Currents and Wind Measurements for Offshore Wind Energy Dave Kaminsky, Shannon Harrison Integration Of New Fluorometry Sensors And Propulsion Technologies Into Slocum Gliders Collin Dobson Combining Ocean Observing Systems with Statistical Analysis to Account for a Dynamic Habitat Amelia Snow Sea Surface Temperature as a Trigger of Butterfish Migration: A Study of Fall Phenology Amanda Williams Investigating Thermal Lag in Slocum Glider CTD Data Compared to YSI Castaway and SeaBird 19 Data Thesis Proposal DefenseIMCS, New Brunswick, NJ Aug 15,2012 Travis Miles Surface and water-column response to extreme storms in the coastal ocean: observations on the Mid-Atlantic Bight and Western Antarctic Peninsula. US IOOS National Glider Strategy Development Workshop, ScrippsLa Jolla, CA Aug 1-3,2012 Scott Glenn MARACOOS 2011-2016: From Observations to Forecasts US Coastal Guard Meeting at Juneau, Alaska July 27,2012 Molly McCammon Alaska Ocean Observing System Hank Statscewich and Tom Weingartner New Technology Developments for Increased Maritime Domain Awareness In the Chukchi Sea Scott Glenn U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Scientific Committee of Ocean ResearchPortland, Oregon July 18-19,2012 Mike Meredith, Oscar Schofield The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Euroscience Open Forum 2012North America & Europe SymposiumDublin, Ireland July 11 – 15,2012 Scott Glenn, John Delaney What once divided – now unites The Longest River – keynote and PPT version Energy and Sustainability Course, Guest Lecture, NJ Gov. School in Engineering, IMCS, New Brunswick, NJ July 10,2012 Greg Seroka Exploring Offshore Wind Energy: Why is it important and what is being done at Rutgers? – PPTX and PDF version movie – CODAR_seabreeze.mp4movie – RUWRF_seabreeze.mov American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Lake Biwa, Japan July 9-13,2012 Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut Dawn in the age of robotic oceanography: Utility in studying extreme eventsmovie – Curly_vector_IRENETRK.movmovie – winds_coldest.mov winds_warm.mov Summer Course on Microbial Oceanography,Center for Microbial OceanographyHonolulu, HI July 1-3,2012 Oscar Schofield Lecture 1Lecture 2Lecture 3 Navy Students PresentationsNew Brunswick, NJ June 22,2012 Brittany Henley RU29 E-Line Mission Chris Dendor RU07 NJDEP Mission Hannah Mayer Hawaii to Guam NJ Board of Public Utilities Offshore Wind Project ReviewTrenton, NJ June 06,2012 Scott Glenn, Rich Dunk, Josh Kohut, Dr. Hugh Roarty, Louis Bowers, Greg Seroka, John Kerfoot, Laura Palamara, Mike Crowley, Ethan Handel, Colin Evans An Advanced Atmosphere/Ocean Assessment Program: Reducing the Risks Associated with Offshore Wind Energy Developmentmovie – irene_currents_hd.mp4movie – wavelet_2band.avi Teen Climate Change SummitIMCS, New Brunswick, NJ May 31,2012 Oscar Schofield Hot days along in Antarctica The 1st Ocean Radar Conference for AsiaSeoul, Korea May 17,2012 Scott Glenn U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing SystemAbstract movie – irene_currents_hd.mp4movie – wavelet_2band.avi Princeton Plasma LabPrinceton, NJ May 23,2012 Oscar Schofield, Scott Glenn, Josh Kohut Dawn in the age of ocean observatories Rutgers SEBS Staff MeetingCook Campus CenterNew Brunswick, NJ May 21,2012 Oscar Schofield Hot days along the West Antarctic Peninsula

This is a picture of the NOAA AVHRR satellite. NOAA stands for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration run by the United States government, and AVHRR stands for Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. The spacecraft flies at approximately 20,000 mph above the earth at an altitude of about 500 miles, and simply circles the earth about the poles. It flies overhead every 12 hours. Since it’s only 500 miles up, it can only see small pieces of the earth at a time (the red band on the globe). We begin gathering data from it once it rises above our horizon, and stop collecting data when it drops below the next horizon (see the horizon image). The total coverage area (shown below) is the area we can see on any given day. The satellite “sees” the earth somewhat like we do, looking at visible light (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet). But, it can also see temperatures, which is what we use it for. At any given time, there are usually three of these AVHRR satellites up in orbit, and we track all three of them here at the COOL room. That gives us 6 passes over New Jersey each day. The overpass times (give or take 1 hour) are 1:30 AM, 4:30 AM, 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM and 7:30 PM.

What is that, a cloud? The satellites that send us data are travelling 500 miles above Earth. These satellites cannot see through clouds, so when there is a cloud above the earth, the satellite senses the temperature of the cloud and not the earth below it. Clouds are high up in the sky and are almost always cooler than the earth below. The farther you go up in altitude, the cooler it gets. Just ask a mountain climber. So, knowing that clouds are cool, look at the image below (figure 2). The white areas are definitely clouds. They are so cold that they are off the temperature scale. Meanwhile, the ocean around them is green and yellow and orange. Figure 1 If you see an image with a straight line that divides the sea surface temperatures from a white area, this is the edge of the area that the satellite was capturing information. Compare the left-side image in figure 2 to the one on the right-side. Clouds aren’t usually super straight! Figure 2 Unless something very strange is going on, white areas in our imagery are RARELY water. Figure 3 has a couple more examples of what we might see. In many of the images you will notice dark pink areas, marked A. These are cloudy areas that were not cold enough to be eliminated by the computer. The location, shape, and surrounding temperatures can help you tell them apart from very cold water. Sometimes the cloud cover doesn’t completely hide the sea tempertures below them, it just makes some areas look a bit cooler, like the area marked B. In these cases you might see some things don’t make sense as sea surface temperatures. Figure 3 There is another way to help identify clouds if you’re still not sure. Clouds move rapidly over the earth at speeds between 15 to 50 mph. Water currents move at less than 3 mph. So, the temperature patterns in the ocean should not change quickly. If you can compare two images that are less than 24 hours apart, you will know if a pattern is a cloud because it will not be in one of the two images. THE TEMPERATURE EXCEPTION- Upwelling – Sometimes during the summer, water from the ocean floor rises quickly from the bottom and can cool water temperatures 15 degrees in one day. The two images below (figure 4) show one such upwelling event. They are only 22 hours apart, but the coastal water temperature dropped 10 degrees! In our area, these upwellings only occur along the coast. Find out more about upwelling. Figure 4 So… how do you know the difference between all these things? Practice! As you see more and more images, you will learn to recognize the differences. Is the temperature in the right location? One important thing to know is that the satellites we use to get sea surface temperatures are 500 miles up in space and moving at speeds of around 20,000 mph. Now that’s fast! The SST images are auto-navigated using the predicted satellite position but… because of this excessive speed and some tilt and roll in the satellite, sometimes the image isn’t exactly in the right spot. How will you know that? Take a careful look at the image in figure 5. Figure 5 This SST image is not quite right. If you look point A, you will see the coastline in the Cape May area. Now look carefully at the image itself. Notice the gap that follows the coastline. The coastline is the same shape as the temperature data, but doesn’t match up. You can see that the coastline near points A, B, and C should be matched up with the same points on the sea surface temps. The algorithms that line the satellite imagery up with the land are pretty darn good, but exact navigation all the time requires human intervention. As a web site user, you can’t move the coast, but you can now estimate how much error there is in the image navigation when planning your boat trip. Where are the fish? Well, we aren’t biologists here. In fact, most of us don’t fish at all. But, many of the people who have used our web site over the years are fishermen and fishing boat captains. Everything we are about to tell you, is based on what we have learned from them. Thank you to the sea-goers who use our site! On any day of the year, plenty of algae are floating on the ocean surface. These plants are food for small fish. The small fish are food for medium size fish. Finally, the medium fish are food for the big boys (Tuna, Mahimahi, etc). So, if you think about it, generally speaking, wherever there’s a lot of seaweed at the surface, you will probably find some sort of big fish down below. The tough part is finding these seaweed lines. When you see huge temperature differences in an image, there are usually surface currents pushing toward each other in an area we call a convergence zone. The surface water, and everything in it, pushes together. When two water masses push towards one another, it’s kind of like two conveyor belts facing each other (figure 6). But seaweed and algae float so they begin to pile up at the surface in large lines. Got it? The bottom line: Temperature fronts generally equal some fish. Figure 6 All of our Sea Surface Temperature (SST) images come from NOAA/AVHRR satellites which you can learn more about by clicking here .

On Thursday November 10th, Craig McLean, Assistant Administrator of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spoke at the Marine and Coastal Sciences as part of a series of talks in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Rutgers University. McLean gave his talk “Thoughts on the Discovery of a New Water Planet: Earth” to an audience ranging from freshman undergraduates to Distinguished Professors on how he went from being a Zoology student at Rutgers to the position he holds today and what initiatives within NOAA he pushes to further research of our planets oceans. As head of NOAA Research—the research office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—Craig McLean J.D. directs the agency’s entire research enterprise, including all programs and laboratories. Over a 30-year career with NOAA, he has served as a commissioned officer on board hydrographic, oceanographic, and fisheries research ships and was the founding director of its Office of Ocean Exploration. An attorney practicing marine resource law, he has been awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver and Bronze Medals. During his visit, McLean was awarded the Challenger RU-COOL award in recognition of his effort to bridge international communities through the exploration of the world’s ocean. He was also awarded by Rutgers University a Distinguished Alumni award for his devotion to the field of Oceanography.

In Celebration of the 250th anniversary of Rutgers University, Rutgers Today, an online source for news around the university has periodically released articles celebrating Rutgers people and innovations that have changed lives around the world. The following is an article by Ken Branson on the impacts RUCOOL has made world wide over the past two decades. Nearly 20 years ago, Josh Kohut, a rising college senior, walked onto the ground floor of a revolution starting at Rutgers—the art and science of observing the world’s oceans. Kohut got a summer job working for Scott Glenn, a Rutgers University–New Brunswick marine scientist who was just starting to use high-frequency radar designed to hug the surface of the ocean and “see” over the horizon. It was one of several new technologies Glenn and his colleagues at Rutgers would go on to adopt and share with the world over the next two decades, forever changing the field of oceanography and the way scientists understand weather, marine life, and related areas. “The development of ocean observing was championed here,” says Kohut, now an Associate Professor of Marine Science at Rutgers and a cofounder of what was the Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory that is is now the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RU COOL). “The benefits have been in understanding storms, water quality, fisheries, and search and rescue.” For decades, oceanographers had gathered data by observing a spot in the ocean over a period of time with buoys or a tide gauges, or by surveying a swath of ocean by pulling sensors behind a ship. The ocean is under-sampled, to put it mildly,” says Glenn, Distinguished Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences and another RU COOL cofounder. “We needed spatial data—not just a time series at a point or a shipboard sample that was a one-off. Nobody could afford 1,000 moorings or 1,000 ships.” Glenn and his team first set out to work with satellite imagery, then on the high-frequency radar called CODAR (Coastal Ocean Dynamics Application Radar). Then they started working with sensors on drifters, buoys, and robot gliders. Their work made it possible—and practical—to study different points in the ocean simultaneously. They also decided to make their findings public, posting the data online for others to use for their own work. Other universities “wanted to use [CODAR] data for research papers, but they wouldn’t put it up on their websites for others to look at,” says Donald Barrick, CODAR’s inventor and CEO of CODAR Ocean Sensors. “Rutgers has always been very open about this, not proprietary. They were the beginning in the United States of using our radars for societal applications, not just research.” The work has helped rescuers improve their search-and-rescue strategies, environmental agencies monitor water quality more precisely, fisheries officials manage fisheries better, and meteorologists better understand the underwater dynamics of hurricanes. “Before, we could accurately predict a hurricane’s direction but not the intensity of its landfall,” says Oscar Schofield, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and another cofounder of RU COOL. “Now, we know how to do that, which has huge implications for emergency preparedness, landuse planning, and lots of other activities.” The program drew international attention in 2009 when Rutgers scientists achieved the world’s first transatlantic crossing of an undersea robotic glider. The media likened the feat to Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, and the glider, dubbed the RU27 Scarlet Knight, was put on display at the Smithsonian Institution. Now, gliders fly underwater in all the world’s ocean basins, and CODARs line both coasts of the United States and are deployed in several other countries. Going forward, RU COOL is at the heart of the effort to manage and understand all that data. In June 2016, the National Science Foundation awarded $11.8 million to Rutgers to design, build, and operate the data system for the Ocean Observatories Initiative, which collects and shares data from more than 800 sophisticated instruments deployed in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The data are transmitted to labs ashore by submarine cable or satellite. The Rutgers team includes RU COOL and the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute. The goal: provide a holistic view of the world’s oceans. “The view of the world before was that we’re data-limited, and if we just had the data, the ocean would make sense to us,” says Matt Oliver, professor of marine science at the University of Delaware who did his graduate work with RU COOL. “Now, there is so much data going in, we’ve gone from being blind to staring into the sun, and we’re still blind.” Like Oliver, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students have started their careers at RU COOL to get hands-on experience. In 2009, when the lab sent the Scarlet Knight glider on its historic journey across the Atlantic, the professors often knew no more than their students, and weren’t afraid to admit it. “There were times when [Glenn] just gave us the keys and told us to drive,” student Shannon Harrison told Rutgers Today in 2011. The Rutgers scientists say they have been deliberate in choosing top students in hopes of identifying others from Rutgers who will go on to do revolutionary work. “We need a new generation of oceanographers,” Glenn said. “That’s why we developed our undergraduates as researchers. They’re still explorers. They’re still trying out new things.”

Original article from SEBS NJAES Newsroom, July 14, 2016 by Office of Communications Educators L to R: Tom Grych, Jennifer Smolyn, Dolores Taylor, Carolyn Laymon, Kimberly Kellam, Kelly Terry, Denise Hardoy, Sue Morrow, and Stacia Lothian. Dr. Bridgette Clarkston – workshop co-facilitator from California State University – is bending down in the front row. The best way to teach science is hands on, right? That’s the conventional way, but the polar regions and the obstacle of over 9,000 miles between cutting-edge polar science and the scientists, teachers and students who could benefit from this interaction demand another way. In June, Rutgers University departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and 4-H Youth Development kicked off a unique Science Investigations (Sci-I) project, a four-day workshop for 21 educators in New Jersey and California who participated first-hand in an open-ended polar science investigation. The response was enthusiastic. “The best part of this project is that it will help me bring real world experiences into my classroom and will support me thinking about how to teach authentic science,” said Matthew Fichter of Cranford Middle School, New Jersey. Through hands-on activities, group discussions, scientist panels and field trips the teachers explored the data to make sense of it and to develop questions and hypothesis that were testable and finally to communicate their initial results. The project is part of the Polar Interdisciplinary Coordinated Education (ICE) funded by the National Science Foundation. Polar-ICE’s mission is to connect polar scientists with broader audiences to further the impact of their research, while connecting educators and students with data and cutting edge science. The workshop helped the educators understand the scientific process using and working with the Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project and its data. Palmer Station is one of three U.S. research stations located in Antarctica and studies polar marine community, its habitats and the plants and animals that live there. The workshop is only the beginning of this Sci-I project, which will target students from a wide range of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. “The exciting part of this project is that the data skills and process of science practices that we collaborated on during the week will be integrated into each classroom differently,” said Kristin Hunter-Thomson, Rutgers 4-H program coordinator in the Department of 4-H Youth Development. “All of it can augment what the teachers are already doing rather than being another thing to add on to their already packed curriculum.” In 2017, up to 60 students from each school will attend the annual Student Polar Research Symposium to present their research to peers, teachers and students from other schools in the project, and polar scientists. These symposia will be held at California State University, Monterey Bay, in February and followed by a similar session at Rutgers in June. “The Department continues with our Summer Science program for urban teens, which is designed to increase knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) while stimulating interest in STEM career paths,” said Janice McDonnell, associate professor and science engineering technology (SET) agent in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. “Then we finish out the summer with our EARTH workshop where 20 educators from all over the country will work with polar scientists to create new classroom activities using authentic science data.” original article from SEBS NJAES Newsroom, July 14, 2016 by Office of Communications