Rutgers Senior Studies the Ocean’s Impact on the World

Salvatore Fricano’s curiosity about the ocean fueled his research on everything from ocean observation modeling technology in Antarctica to the effect of climate change on fish in the mid-Atlantic. Courtesy of Salvatore Fricano

Salvatore Fricano is helping plan for the first worldwide navigation of a new underwater ocean glider. Salvatore Fricano grew up spending summers on the Jersey Shore, where the vastness of the ocean captivated his imagination. “I just saw the horizon with nothing on it and it looked like an adventure waiting to happen,” he says. “I was interested in exploring …

NOAA Launches New Marine Species Mapping Tool Developed in Collaboration with Rutgers

Scientists conduct a trawl survey off the coast of New England. (NOAA)

NOAA Fisheries has launched the Distribution Mapping and Analysis Portal, a new tool developed in collaboration with the Global Change Ecology and Evolution Lab at Rutgers University, to better track the location and movement of marine fish in U.S. waters. An interactive website, this tool reveals that the ranges of many marine species are shifting, expanding and contracting in response to changing ocean …