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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.
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.
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.
Ocean Monitoring During Hurricane Isabel (Rutgers Experts)
Article courtesy of University
Relations. 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.
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."
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".
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.
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. (read
more...)
Project COOL (Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory)
On Monday, March 3, 2003, the COOLroom.org was chosen to be part
of this week’s “Sites of the Week”. The Earth Science
"Site of the Week" features ocean lesson plans, geography
facts, Lake Vostok, earth history, and storm tracks.
A weekly e-mail featuring reviews of some of the best sites in
earth science, environmental science, and geography is sent out
through a listserv, which is operated by Dr.
Mark Francek at Central Michigan University.
IMCS 10th Anniversary Celebration
On Monday, March 10, 2003 the faculty, staff, friends, and
families of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
commemorated the Institute's 10-year anniversary. The event was held
in the Trenton War Memorial, which is located on Memorial Drive in
Trenton, New Jersey's historic Capitol Complex along the Delaware
River. Inside, everyone gathered in the War Memorial Ballroom for
the main event.
Oil Barge Explodes
on Staten Island
At about 10:00 a.m. EST on February 21, 2003, an oil refinery
barge exploded and caught on fire. The explosion, which could be
heard several miles away, occurred at the edge of Port Mobile, near
the Outerbridge Crossing that links the island to Woodbridge, N.J.,
in the southwestern part of Staten Island.
RUCOOL Receives An
Assembly Resolution
On Thursday, February 20, 2003, the Institute of Marine and
Coastal Sciences department receives notification that an assembly
resolution was made on behalf of the Rutgers University Coastal
Ocean Observation Lab (RUCOOL).
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. They now had to
keep track of a pilotless ship so that it did not pose a threat to
others. At 4:00 pm on Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard called the
COOLroom.
Underwater Weather with your Beach Weather
This coming summer, you can turn to your local TV weather station
to find the latest ocean water temperatures and beach forecasts
at the Jersey shore. NBC10 and the COOLroom.org have partnered
for a second year to bring you the latest Ocean Weather forecasts
right to your TV. NBC10 will be incorporating this data into
their daily weather casts.
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