Malin was out in San Francisco last week to talk on a panel, “Can We Save the Oceans from Ourselves?” at the World Conference of Science Journalists. He came back inspired by a room full of science journalists inspired to
Fall here in New Jersey, and time for apple picking!
Zoë Kitchel, René Clark, and Lisa McManus joined this fall as new PhD students (Zoë and René) and as a new postdoc (Lisa). We’re excited to welcome them on board! Zoë’s interests are on the impacts of climate change and
Just had a wonderful couple days in Lacawac Sanctuary for a writing retreat with our lab and the Jensen lab. Beautiful setting, good food cooked by all, and productive space for thinking and collaborating!
Jennifer, Malin, and Chris Chambers of NOAA Sandy Hook received funding from the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium for their project, “Quantifying the effects of a changing climate on summer flounder recruitment.” Marine species that occupy a wide thermal gradient may
Nice interview with Becca on her research showing that warming is transforming predator-prey interactions in the Northeast US: https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/community/2017/09/22/as-cod-head-for-cooler-waters-new-englands-fisheries-face-upheaval
2017 field season was a big success, with Michelle, Katrina, Allison, Malin, Gerry, Apollo, and Rodney. Check out some photos here.
The Rutgers Climate Institute and the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance have put together two videos that do a nice job illustrating the impacts of climate change on the Jersey shore and fisheries: Climate Change and the Jersey Shore: Impacts on
Lots of great presentations this month: Jennifer presented 25 years of changes in population genetic patterns of summer flounder at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Portland, OR Sarah presented on genomic evidence for evolutionary rescue in little
New paper just out online in Global Change Biology, led by postdoc Becca Selden: functional diversity among predatory fish helps protect ecosystems from the impacts of warming. Becca showed that warming has helped make Atlantic cod a much less important
