Fall 2024 Issue
Get all the latest news on everything NAMS.
September 2023 - September 2024
Highlights
馃帲鉀礎 Call to Saltwater Anglers from 淫性视频
That鈥檚 something that the researchers at 淫性视频 are hoping to learn in an ongoing study directed at the recreational fishing community in New Jersey. Dr. Dana Christensen is an adjunct professor at 淫性视频 and Ocean County College who has given presentations to saltwater fishing clubs throughout the state, and her latest work through 淫性视频 is geared towards angler satisfaction, or dissatisfaction, as the case may be.
鈥泪苍 , we hope to explore the patterns and preferences of our anglers separately from law enforcement and regulators,鈥 Dr. Christensen said, explaining how this brief voluntary survey will provide an opportunity for anglers to share their wants, needs, opinions and concerns directly with the research community.
馃Κ Shellfish Farmers Foster Oysters for Conservation
New Jersey shellfish farmers from Tuckerton to Mantoloking are getting paid to for conservation alongside market oysters sold in seafood restaurants through a $961,227 award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture鈥揘atural Resources Conservation Service鈥檚 Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).
The RCPP funds private and public partnerships for conservation; in this case, contributing to the restoration of rare and declining natural communities of oysters.
Kristin Adams 鈥17, who studied oysters as a graduate student, was awarded the grant to involve commercial growers in the restoration of the bay. The oysters that grow up on commercial leases will move to two restoration reefs monitored by the 淫性视频 Marine Field Station.
Adams is a conservation and aquaculture specialist for the Ocean County Soil Conservation District and a U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service partner. She brought 淫性视频 on board to help monitor changes in water quality and to sample marine life on and off the participating oyster leases with seine and gill nets.
Adams first studied biodiversity surrounding oyster farms in the Barnegat Bay as a Professional Science Master鈥檚 graduate student.
She sees bivalves as a beacon of hope for bringing back a healthy bay ecosystem with their ability to filter water and provide habitat.
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馃Υ Paleoanthropologists Describe Ethipia Truly "Land of Origin"
The name 鈥淟and of Origins鈥 appropriately describes Ethiopia said Paleoanthropologists who visited the country.
The 50th anniversary of the discovery of Lucy鈥檚 fossil is being commemorated with various events in Addis Ababa.
Over 240 researchers from 34 countries have visited Ethiopia as part of the event.
During their stay, the participants visited Adwa Memorial Museum and Unity Park and saw ancient artifacts and fossils in the country.
The visitors who spoke to ENA highlighted that Ethiopia鈥檚 name, 鈥淟and of Origin,鈥 aptly describes the country due to its significance in human origins and its ancient history.
Professor Margaret Lewis, a researcher at the Department of Biology at 淫性视频 in the United States, mentioned about the researches that have conducted in Ethiopia, particularly in the Afar area since 1997.
She said Ethiopia is definitely the land of origins of so many things citing the contribution of Lucy鈥檚 discovery as it really changed our understanding of human evolution and origins of people.
馃洢锔 Students Study Ocean Depths on Inaugural NOAA Cruises
Lora Panepinto has always been comfortable on the water. The 淫性视频 sophomore spends her summers teaching kids boat safety at the Liberty Nautical Education Center on the Rahway River.
鈥淚鈥檓 pretty used to nasty weather and being on a boat,鈥 said the Staten Island, New
York, native.
But nothing prepared her for spending a week 140 miles offshore, studying the ocean
floor 1,500 feet deep on a 186-foot research vessel.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 even think there鈥檚 enough words to explain it,鈥 said the double major in Marine Science and Environmental Science. 鈥淚t changes your view of what being on the water can look like. When you are out in the open water and you don鈥檛 see land, it kind of opens up your world a bit.鈥
Panepinto was one of six 淫性视频 students who in a first-time series of cruises with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster in July. The students lived and worked with a NOAA crew as it mapped the ocean floor off the coast of South Carolina. Alanna Weeks, Mackenzie Briggs and Seth Sims sailed from July 5 to July 12, and Dustin Horensky, Hannah Elliott and Panepinto traveled from July 15 to July 21.
Conservation Efforts Help Our Osprey Mascot
When 淫性视频 chose the osprey as its official mascot in the early 1970s, the fish hawk was an endangered species with only 50 or so nesting pairs left in New Jersey. Bald eagles were down to one nesting pair that repeatedly failed to hatch eggs.
Now, five decades later, the effects of statewide conservation efforts have the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to consider delisting the osprey and the bald eagle from the state's list of endangered species.
DDT, a pesticide used in agriculture, caused reproductive failure for both ospreys and bald eagles as well as other birds of prey.
"Being at the top of the food chain, DDT concentrated in their prey items and unfortunately one of the end results was thinning of the eggshells. The eggs would be laid, and if they did not break at the onset, usually a couple days into incubation, they would crack under the parents' weight," explained John Rokita '78, assistant supervisor of academic lab services and a 淫性视频 Biology graduate.
Picture 淫性视频... surveying the New Jersey coast 馃彇锔
The 淫性视频 Coastal Research Center (CRC) offers a job for students that takes them to 171 New Jersey beaches to swim, and they're hiring. Wetsuits and fins are provided.
Student workers dive in to the state's coastline and collect data that determines the future of New Jersey's beaches.
Kimberly McKenna, interim executive director of the CRC, started as a student worker in 1984, two years before the New Jersey Beach Profile Network (NJBPN) was established to monitor the state's shoreline conditions. She has witnessed four decades of coastal processes and continues to document the evolving shoreline with the help of students and staff.
"(Initially), it was me, Stew (Farrell, the former director of the CRC) and Gus (Stew's dog). Back then we used the Emery method for beach profiling," she recalled.
Picture 淫性视频 鈥 shellebrating marine invertebrates 馃悮
B.J. Bingham collected shells for four decades, sharing them with local enthusiasts from her home exhibit in Vineland, but she wanted their impact to reach further. She chose 淫性视频 as the new home for , which gives students the opportunity to curate a campus display.
Bingham donated thousands of shells from around the world to the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics where Camilla Alves Souto, assistant professor of Marine Science, has been organizing them with students. Many of the shells are from St. Croix, an island in the Caribbean, where she and her husband stayed at a remote field station for research.
Samantha Gransee, a Marine Science major from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, went to Bingham鈥檚 home to help move the collection to campus. 鈥淲hen you ask her about a shell, she can tell you when she found it, how she found it, and what it is. Her house was like a miniature museum,鈥 she recalled
馃悽Rescue Project Gives Terrapins New Life
Reed Herr carefully stepped down into the marsh. The 6-year-old tightly grasped a 3-inch terrapin that hadin 淫性视频鈥檚 Animal Lab, and he eagerly awaited his chance to return it to the wild.
鈥淒o you have a name for your turtle?鈥 asked Lisa Ferguson, the Wetlands Institute鈥檚 director of Research and Conservation.
鈥淧uddles!鈥 Herr replied with a smile on his face.
He proudly wore a new T-shirt with the words 鈥淪ave a terrapin today. SLOW DOWN鈥 emblazoned on the back and a turtle 鈥淴-ING鈥 sign on the front.
鈥淧uddles is our first turtle to go back into the marsh!鈥 Ferguson announced as Herr waved goodbye to the turtle he placed in the tall grass next to the institute.
Puddles was just one of hundreds of injured turtles collected annually by the institute and nurtured and rehabbed by 淫性视频 students and staff as part of the Diamondback Terrapin Rescue Project. The project was started more than 30 years ago by Roger Wood, a former 淫性视频 faculty member and a former research director at the Wetlands Institute.
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馃殻馃徑鈥嶁檧锔廤omen鈥檚 Rowing Christens Dr. Stewart Farrell Shell
淫性视频 Women's Rowing held a ceremony at the Brigantine Beach Rowing Club on May 18 to the program's newest shell. The boat was named Dr. Stewart Farrell in recognition of the retired faculty member who helped found the Marine Science program in the early days of the University's existence.
The boat is a 2023 Vespoli VHP 8+ that is rowed by the 淫性视频 women's varsity eight, which recently earned the bronze medal in the DIII V8 Grand Final at the famous Dad Vail Regatta, the largest collegiate regatta in the nation.
The donation to secure the boat was made by Jack Scheurich, a student of Dr. Farrell's at 淫性视频 in the 1970's. Scheurich is the owner of The Cove Restaurant, a local eatery in Brigantine that has supported the 淫性视频 rowing program and the Battle of Brigantine regatta for the past two years.
馃崄馃New Effort to Kickstart the Maple Syurp Industry in New Jersey
Faculty Members at 淫性视频 are using a million-dollar grant to kickstart the .
This Jersey syrup will use Red Maple Trees, which has less sugar than the trees used in the Maple Syrup Capital of the U.S., Vermont.
University officials say they like their status as the underdogs.
鈥淲e鈥檙e also brining a whole new culture to South Jersey. We have people who have never tasted pure maple syrup coming to our events, people who didn鈥檛 know you get maple syrup from maple trees,鈥 said Judith Vogel, director of the Maple Project at 淫性视频 University.
淫性视频 says it takes about 60 gallons of sap from red maple trees to make one gallon of syrup. They estimate that they can get 55 gallons of sap from around 400 trees this year
馃寧馃寠World Ocean Day - June 7, 2024
淫性视频 staff and faculty from the Marine Field Station, with the help of summer student researchers, provided a day of ocean-related activities to the entire school body (110 students grade K-8) to celebrate World Ocean Day. Port Republic teacher Kayleigh Friend initiated the concept and is the POC for the event, alongside Steve Evert of 淫性视频鈥檚 Marine Field Station. The event will be a rain or shine effort with plan A scheduled as an all-outdoor event on the neighboring grounds and beaches of the Port Republic school.
馃枼锔 淫性视频 Offers Eight in-person, Online Classes for Lifelong Learners
The 淫性视频 Institute of Lifelong Learning, which is part of the 淫性视频 Center on Successful Aging, has announced its March and April programming that includes eight classes both in-person and online.
Here is a brief look at all eight classes, which met weekly for four weeks:
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- Sylvia Plath & Intimate Partner Violenceby Professor Emily Van Duyne
- Streams, Swamps and Spungs, by Professor Emma Witt
- Chemistry Through Art, by Professor Sarah Gray, Fridays
- The Conversation Project: Discussions about Death & Dying by Professor Christine Ferri
- Contemporary American Short Story by Professor Kristin Jacobson
- Mediums & Mediumship: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by Professor Jennifer Lyke
- Women in the Holocaust: Rescuers and Resistersby Professor Patty Chappine
- Quilts: Storytellers of the United Statesby Professor Cynthia Arrieu-King
For more information email Gina Maguire at gina.maguire@stockton.edu or Christine Ferri at christine.ferri@stockton.edu or call 609-652-4311 and leave a message.
Welcome to Data Labs 2024 馃帄
淫性视频 works worked with Rutgers University on the , developing and testing ways for undergrads and their professors to easily use all the raw data we get from (OOI).
Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert co-facilitated a four day workshop focusing on: Leanring about the OOI and the data it collects, exploring how to use OOI data in undergrad lesson plans, and creating an implementation plan for the classroom!
馃崹Second Saturdays - Make Your Own Ice Cream' on May 11
Second Saturdays in Atlantic City are a series of family-friendly events hosted by 淫性视频 Alumni Relations. They are held on the second Saturday of every month at 淫性视频 Atlantic City.
Joseph Trout, associate professor of Physics, make you want to say goodbye to Breyer鈥檚 and hello to homemade treats at this Second Saturdays session from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, May 11, in the Fannie Lou Hamer Event Room at 淫性视频 Atlantic City.
馃 H.S. Students Get Hands-On Look at Marine Field Station's Work
Denise Jenkins shrieked as one of her fellow Atlantic City High School students pulled the metal crab pot on board the boat.
The Atlantic City native the trap to be filled with blue crabs. The first cage the 淫性视频 professors removed from Nacote Creek on a recent rainy and gloomy day only had one of the crawly critters.
Jenkins was one of about 20 marine and environmental science students from two classes taught by Emily Loeb 鈥23 to take a tour of 淫性视频鈥檚 Marine Field Station on May 16.
The outreach is an educational component of three research studies by three 淫性视频 professors. Students helped build water drifters with Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, 鈥渇lew鈥 a new underwater remote operated vehicle (ROVs) with Peter Staub and used sonar to identify shipwrecks and marine debris with Stephen Nagiewicz and Mark Sullivan.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Lauren Seyler was live from the R/V Falkor Too, an ocean research vessel that traveled the coast of Chile in search of living fossils along the seafloor. This very special episode of Ask an Astrobiologist will dive into their incredible research, its connection to ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus, climate change science, and a live tour of the research ship itself, including the ROV hangar, mission control, lab spaces, and the bridge. If you're interested in ocean exploration, ocean worlds in our solar system, and what it's like living and working on a research vessel, then you do not want to miss this episode!
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program Recognized
淫性视频鈥檚 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program (BCMB) has been as one of the top programs in the country by a national scientific and educational organization.
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) recently awarded 淫性视频鈥檚 BCMB major with a full, seven-year accreditation 鈥 one of only two in New Jersey. Since 2013, the society has granted accreditation to only 101 programs nationwide, ranging from R1 research schools to liberal arts institutions like 淫性视频.
鈥淲e are proud of our program and thrilled to earn the full accreditation,鈥 said Amanda Norvell, 淫性视频鈥檚 dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. 鈥淥ur program provides students with a hands-on education that focuses on experiential learning. BCMB students participate in original research, alongside faculty mentors, with opportunities to present their work at regional and national conferences.鈥
馃尣馃敟Intensifying Wildfire Seasons Ignite a Need to Train Forest Managers
Morgan Kahn, a junior Environmental Science major from Hammonton, as a visitor services assistant at Wharton State Forest this summer when much of the East Coast experienced unhealthy air quality and hazy visibility from wildfire smoke that drifted from Canada.鈥
The record-breaking wildlife season in Canada burned more than 44 million acres in 2023 with hundreds of fires exceeding 24,000 acres, which qualifies them as megafires. 鈥
Images captured from space showed smoke surging down the eastern United States and into Europe where it impacted people living thousands of miles from where lightning strikes ignited the flames.
鈥淭here were days where it was just too dry for people to light fires for barbecues. If people left fires going, it was our job to put them out, and that happened a lot,鈥 Kahn recalled. Intensifying Wildfire Seasons Ignite a Need to Train Forest Managers
Morgan Kahn, a junior Environmental Science major from Hammonton, as a visitor services assistant at Wharton State Forest this summer when much of the East Coast experienced unhealthy air quality and hazy visibility from wildfire smoke that drifted from Canada.鈥
The record-breaking wildlife season in Canada burned more than 44 million acres in 2023 with hundreds of fires exceeding 24,000 acres, which qualifies them as megafires. 鈥
Images captured from space showed smoke surging down the eastern United States and into Europe where it impacted people living thousands of miles from where lightning strikes ignited the flames.
鈥淭here were days where it was just too dry for people to light fires for barbecues. If people left fires going, it was our job to put them out, and that happened a lot,鈥 Kahn recalled.
馃悮 Picture 淫性视频... Exploring the Cape May Coastline
During fall migration, warblers, raptors and monarchs flying down the East Coast funnel through the Cape May peninsula. Jason Kelsey and students in his Coastal Ecosystems class a sliver of their migratory route to learn more about habitats and differences in natural and developed coastlines.
With Cape May on National Geographic's top 10 list of birding destinations in the world, students packed binoculars for the field trip.
The class, part of 淫性视频's Coastal Zone Management master's program, met at Higbee Beach wildlife management area to explore the natural bayshore and then took a short drive downtown to look at how beach engineering can reshape the coast.
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Student, Faculty and Staff Dinner Brings Campus Together 馃嵔锔
Laughter, companionship and good cheer were in the Campus Center Event Room during the 39th annual Student, Faculty and Staff Dinner on Nov. 16.
Brian K. Jackson, chief operating officer for the Atlantic City campus and emcee for the evening, kicked off the program by encouraging the audience to remember the founders of the dinner, which included Yitzhak Sharon, distinguished professor of Physics, Vera King Farris, the former president of 淫性视频 from 1983 to 2003, and Gail Rosenthal, the late director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center. According to Jackson, they created this dinner as a way for the campus community to engage with one another shortly before the holidays.
PHOTO: Steven Kalman, associate professor of Chemistry; Marques Johnson, associate dean of students; and student Ariel Graziano were awards recipients this year.
SPOTLIGHT ON: Patrick Hossay
Patrick Hossay, professor of Sustainability at 淫性视频, has of the University community for 25 years and initially taught Political Science for 13 of those years. He and his colleagues formed the Sustainability Program about 12 years ago 鈥 one of the first such degree programs in the nation. He has been the chair of the program ever since.
His immense knowledge and passion for sustainability was at the forefront of a luncheon hosted by Visit Atlantic City, which he was asked to present in Washington, D.C, recently.
Hossay鈥檚 participation at the event came about when a group from Visit Atlantic City came to campus as part of an Office of Continuing Studies & Adult Education program.
鈥淚 met and spoke with them in my lab, and I guess they were impressed, as they later invited me to speak at this luncheon,鈥 Hossay said.
During his presentation, Hossay wanted to provide a short overview of sustainability by engaging some of the misconceptions and facile notions that often define 鈥渟ustainability鈥 in the public mind.
Hemp Growing Class Tries to Dispel Stigma Of Cannabis
In the back of 淫性视频's 1.2-acre Sustainability Farm is some call 鈥渟in corner.鈥
Just a short distance from a row of 20-foot-tall hops vines and next to a line of tobacco plants is a 62-foot-long plot surrounded by a fence and a locked gate. Inside are about 150 cannabis hemp plants 鈥 believed to be the only ones grown outside by a New Jersey university.
鈥淲hen it comes to universities, I would definitely say we stand out by doing what we are doing right now,鈥 said Rob Mejia, a teaching specialist in 淫性视频鈥檚 Cannabis Studies program.
Hemp is a botanical class of cannabis sativa grown specifically for industrial or medicinal use. The plants have little to almost no THC 鈥 the major psychoactive component of cannabis.
It鈥檚 the second year 淫性视频 has grown the plants as part of its Cannabis and Hemp Research Initiative (CHRIS), which was created in 2021 to conduct agricultural and nonmedical cannabis and hemp research. This fall is also the second time Valentina Fiero, a 2021 淫性视频 graduate with a degree in Science and Environmental Science, has taught a class in hemp cultivation
THROWBACK 鈥 Ten years ago today, we celebrated the ribbon-cutting of the !
馃摲 Picture 淫性视频...Sciences Up Close
When the lights go off, chemistry experiments glow. At nearly 30,000mm, a telescope brings the details on the surface of the moon into focus. Fossils, cast replicas, rock samples, taxidermy specimens and pinned insects fill shelves and drawers with a museum of natural history that goes on display for classroom and lab presentations.
This brings viewers macro and telephoto views of the sciences at 淫性视频.
The Paleontology, Geology, Entomology and Ornithology collections share stories from centuries ago, offer students the chance to explore how animals evolved, offer clues from the fossil record and put specimens into students' hands for close-up observationTrading Laps in the Pool for Labs at School 馃強馃徑
Summer as we know it is usually reserved for vacations, trips to the beach, sitting by the pool and leisurely strolls on the Boardwalk. But for some undergraduate students in 淫性视频鈥檚 School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NAMS) and high school seniors in the Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP), summertime is the for research.
Thanks to Barry Pemberton, assistant professor of Chemistry, the 11 students got the opportunity to network and present their research to each other in the new Celebration of Summer Research presentation series on Thursday, Aug. 10.
According to Pemberton, the series鈥 purpose is to have students give an informal presentation to a wider audience, allow them to reflect on the progress they鈥檝e made and give them the chance to see what other students are doing on and off campus over the summer
馃摙 GONE VIRAL: Footage of 150+ hammerhead sharks captured aboard the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center's American Star was 2.6 million times when this reel went viral during #SharkWeek. Thank you to Garrett Testut, a Marine Science junior, for sharing these scenes from his internship
Student Discusses Waterborne Diseases at National Conference 馃樂
Environmental Science major Jayden Hamlet original research at a national conference in Salt Lake City in June.
Hamlet鈥檚 research centered on waterborne diseases, like E. coli, and the areas where it is concentrated. He took samples from urban, rural and forested areas and tested the samples to see if the E. coli bacteria was resistant or susceptible to antibiotics. After conducting his research, Hamlet concluded that urban areas had a higher E. coli concentration than others, demonstrating that cities are where water contamination happens the most
$500,00 Grant Will Equip Coastal Zone Management Program 馃寠
As climate change makes storms stronger and sunny-day flooding more prevalent, educating the next generation of coastal zone managers becomes even more important.
淫性视频 created its graduate-level Coastal Zone Management program in 2020, and a from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will provide new resources to enhance research opportunities, said Peter Straub, professor of Biology and Coastal Zone Management.
鈥淐oastal resilience is very important now with climate change,鈥 Straub said. 鈥淭he biggest concern on the shore is flooding. Besides storm floods, we are now getting a large number of flooding days per year that have nothing to do with storms. They are just high tides that have been reaching up because sea level is rising.鈥
