A. Center/Institute/Program

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences/Rutgers University

Institute of Marine Coastal Sciences Building

71 Dudley Road, Cook Campus

New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Phone: 732-932-6555

Fax: 732-932-8578

E-mail: rossi@imca.rutgers.edu

Director/Chairperson: Dr. J. Frederick Grassle

Representative to AERC: Dr. Mark Morgan

Alternate: Dr. J. Dighton

B. Major objectives of the Center/Institute/Program

1. Provide national and international leadership in marine science and serve as the focal point for New Jersey’s education, research, and service efforts in estuarine, coastal, and oceanic environments.

2. Develop and communicate an understanding of processes governing change and stability in marine and coastal ecosystems.

3. Provide information that fosters the informed use and protection of vital marine and coastal resources.

C. Major ecosystem research emphases

1. Long-term research and monitoring of coastal and ocean processes.

2. Nutrient cycling.

3. Fisheries and aquaculture.

4. Ecology and evolution.

5. Atmsopheric deposition.

6. Watershed and land use management.

7. Science education and enrichment.

D. Staff

Permanent scientific staff: PhD: 27

Scientific support staff: Postdocs: 22, Technicians: 8

Other support staff: Clerical: 9, Administrative: 11

Graduate students: PhD: 20, MS: 5

Summer undergraduates: 28, Faculty: 42

E. Approximate annual funding (recent year)

Core funding: $4,219,000/yr, Source: University

Grants: $12,948,000/yr, Major sources: NSF, NOAA, NPS, USDOI (USGS&FWS), New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, private foundations

F. Areas and facilities for ecosystem research studies

1. Rutgers Marine Field Station (consisting of labs, offices, shop, dorm, small boats, running seawater), Tuckerton, New Jersey, Mullica River, Great Bay Estuary; 2.5 ha surrounded by 3,500 ha protected salt marsh.

2. Rutgers Pineland Field Station, Murray F. Buell Biosphere Reserve Research Lab, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Lebanon State Forest, New Lisbon, NJ; 2.5 ha administrative site, 295 ha experimental forest as part of the Pineland Biosphere and Natural Reserve, 400,000 ha coastal plain ecosystem.

3. Rutgers/Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center, Tuckerton, New Jersey (labs, offices, dormitory, classrooms, library, coastal repository, small boat), National Estuarine Research Reserve, 115,000 acres.

G. Research staff directly involved in ecosystem research (names and specialty areas)

Able, Kenneth W. – continental shelf and estuarine ecosystems, coastal and estuarine ecology, fish biology and ecology, fish feeding patterns, marine ecology

Ashley, M. Gail – coastal geomorphology, coastal geology

Bochenek, Eleanor – fish biology and ecology; fish industry, commercial and recreational; zebra mussels

Burger, Joanna – pollution, effects on marine wildlife, waterfowl

Chant, Robert – coastal physical oceanography, estuarine dynamics

Cooper, Keith – pollution, effects on marine wildlife

Crowley, Mike – coastal physical geography

De Luca, Michael – aquaculture, coastal management, environmental education, marine and coastal policy, undersea technology

Dighton, John – soil ecology, nutrient cycling

Ehrenfeld, Joan G. – nutrient cycling; ecology, plant community and ecosystems; pinelands; pollution, effects on marine wildlife; water resources, freshwater

Falkowski, Paul – climate change, global; ecology, plant community and ecosystems; environmental biophysics and molecular ecology; geochemical cycles and fluxes; phytoplankton ecology and physiology

Farmanfarmaian, Allahverdi – aquaculture; marine physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and toxicology

Flimlin, Gef – fishing industry, commercial; seafood quality; shellfish

Ford, Susan – genetics, mollusks, pathogens,shellfish

Francis, Jennifer – air/sea interaction, meteorology, polar meteorology and oceanography

Gao, Yuan – air/sea interaction; climate change, global; geochemical cycles and fluxes; nutrient cycling

Glenn, Scott – benthic boundary layers, coastal geomorphology, coastal physical geography, estuarine dynamics, coastal geology

Goldfarb, William – water resources, freshwater

Gorbunov, Maxim Y. – ecology, plant community and ecosystems; environmental biophysics and molecular ecology; phytoplankton ecology and physiology; undersea technology

Grassle, J. Frederick – population and community ecology of marine benthos; benthic ecology, deep-sea organisms; marine and coastal policy

Grassle, Judith – population genetics and ecology of marine mammals, benthic ecology, marine ecology, mollusks

Guo, Ximing – aquaculture, biotechnology and marine microbiology; genetics; mollusks; shellfish

Haidvogel, Dale – climate change, global; coastal physical oceanography; ocean circulation models; parallel computations; polar meteorology and oceanography

John-Alder, Henry – pinelands

Kennish, Mike – coastal and estuarine ecology; deep sea geology; coastal geology; marine ecology; mollusks; pollution, biological cleanup and effects on marine wildlife; shellfish

Kerhof, Lee – biotechnology and marine microbiology; ecology and genetics, evolutionary; coastal and estuarine ecology; hydrothermal vents; marine ecology; nutrient cycling

Kils, Uwe – feeding energetics, microturbulence, phytoplankton ecology and physiology, plankton, polar meteorology and oceanography, undersea technology

Kraeuter, John – aquaculture, benthic ecology, coastal and estuarine ecology; fishing industry, commercial; mollusks; shellfish

Lathrop, Rick – remote sensing and spatial analysis, coastal and watershed processes

Lee, Tung-Ching – seafood quality

Lutz, Richard A. – continental shelf ecosystems; deep sea organisms, marine ecology; hydrothermal vents; marine ecology; mollusks; shellfish

Mazurek, Monica – atmospheric chemistry and air/coastal sea chemical exchange; environmental analytical chemistry, geochemistry; organic molecule markers

McCay, Bonnie Jean – fishing industry, commercial; marine and coastal policy

McDonnell, Janice – science education, coastal management

Miller, Jim – air/sea interaction; climate change, global; oceanography, physical; polar meteorology and oceanography

Mitchell, James K. – disasters and hazards

Morgan, Mark D. – ecosystem effects of acid precipitation, pinelands

Nordstrom, Karl – coastal geomorphology; coastal management; coastal geology; marine and coastal policy; process-response, beach-dune models

Petrecca, Rosemarie – benthic ecology, deep sea organisms

Powell, Eric – aquaculture; benthic ecology; coastal and estuarine ecology; fishing industry, commercial fishing processing and marketing; marine ecology; mollusks; pathogens; pollution, effects on marine wildlife; seafood quality; shellfish

Psuty, Norbert P. – coastal ecosystem processes; coastal geomorphology; coastal management; coastal management; coastal geology; marine and coastal policy; process-response, beach dune models, sea level rise

Quinlan, John – fisheries population dynamics and modeling, coastal estuarine processes

Roman, Charles T. – ecosystem perturbation

Rona, Peter – deep sea geology, hydrothermal vents

Rosenthal, Yair – climate change, global; geochemistry; sediment chemistry

Schofield, Oscar – marine ecology, marine biotechnology and microbiology; plankton

Seitzinger, Sybil – atmospheric chemistry and air/coastal sea chemical exchange; benthic boundary layers; climate change, global; coastal and estuarine ecology, plant community and ecosystems; environmental analytical chemistry; geochemical cycles and fluxes; geochemistry; marine ecology; marine biotechnology and microbiology; nutrient cycling; pinelands; plankton; sediment chemistry; water resources, freshwater

Shelton, Theodore B. – water resources, freshwater

Sherrell, Robert – climate change, global; environmental and analytical chemistry; geochemical cycles and fluxes; geochemistry; hydrothermal vents; nutrient cycling; phytoplankton ecology and physiology; pinelands; sediment chemistry; undersea technology

Smouse, Peter – biology, population; genetics

Taghon, Gary – benthic boundary layers, benthic ecology, coastal and estuarine ecology, plant community and ecosystems, fish feeding patterns, geochemical cycles and fluxes, stable isotopes, marine ecology, nutrient cycling, plankton

Weis, Judith – pollution, effects on marine wildlife

Weiss, Lisa – coastal management, environmental education, watershed management

Zhang, Phoebe Y. – marine and coastal policy

H. Long-term data sets (code name, number of years of data, computer accessibility)

1. Beach changes (Sandy Hook shoreline changes), 10 years.

2. Mullica/Great Bay (nutrients and productivity), 30 years.

3. Pine fragments (Pinelands upland forest fragments), 5 years.

4. Ichthyoplankton (Great Bay/Little Egg Inlet), 15 years.