Rutgers Awards Three EOAS Faculty Members 2023 University-Wide Year End Excellence Awards

From Left to Right: Ashaki Rouff, Erin Vogel, & Grace Saba

By Carol Peters, EOAS Communications Ashaki Rouff, Grace K. Saba, and Erin Vogel, faculty members at the Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, have been awarded 2023 University-Wide Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.   This year, 29 Rutgers University faculty members received recognition …

RU COOL Awarded $2.5 Million Funding for New Jersey Offshore Wind Studies

Grace Saba prepares to deploy an autonomous underwater glider equipped with sensors to monitor for ocean acidification on the New Jersey coastal shelf. Photo credit: Eric Niiler, WIRED.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) recently announced the award of funding for studies to provide enhanced scientific information on the impacts of offshore wind energy development off New Jersey’s coastline as well as the state’s entry into a regional offshore-wind science collaborative. The development of New Jersey’s offshore wind resources is …