Stockton University School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

🔜VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE ALERT🕐

💻Virtual Open House for the AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors Program will be held on 7/18 at 1 PM; and, an in-person open house on 7/24. The program is great for those interested in any aspect of environmental science/studies, biology, hydrology, geology, watershed science, community outreach, and public service (but any interested person is welcome to apply regardless of academic major). This is an impactful program for recent grads, those looking to make a career change, and those looking to gain experience in the environmental field. Sign up for one of the Open Houses - 🔗 in the bio.

This program is a full-time commitment of 35-40 hours a week, for a total of 1700 hours over a ten-month span (September - July). While outside activities like graduate school and other jobs are allowed, members are asked to make NJWAP their priority while they are serving.

Program Benefits:
• $25,000 living stipend evenly distributed bi-weekly over the 10 months of service
• Segal Education Award upon completion of 1700 hours (up to $6,895). You can use the award to repay qualified student loans and to pay current educational expenses at eligible institutions of higher education and training programs.
• Health coverage provided
• Childcare assistance if eligible

NJWAP Open Houses 2024 The virtual NJWAP Open House will be on Thursday July 18 at 1 PM. The meeting link will be sent out in advance to those registered. The in person NJWAP Open House ("Walk and Talk") will be on Wednesday, July 24. Time and location TBD. The virtual Open House will be structured, while the Walk and Tal...

🌊🧪Classroom knowledge came to life for Ecology students Andrew Genovese, Nicola Tutschek, Briana Cajeira, Luisa Pimienta, Nicole Matta, Cassidy Karlak, and Jalea Wood!

Last week, biology professor Melanie Shroer and our .marine.field.station staff took the students out on the water where they had the chance to sample water quality along a salinity gradient from the inlet to Lower Bank. Students gained hands-on experience and valuable data on how salinity affects aquatic ecosystems. They also had the opportunity to explore the succession [change in vegetation over time driven by disturbances and the maturation of plant species. - USGS.] in the marshes.

🎣🌟Big News Alert🌟🎣

NAMS is making waves in the fishing world! 🐟🏆 Environmental Studies major Grant Johnson was featured on the cover of magazine New England Edition. Both Johnson and Biology professor Adam Aguiar have snagged the cover MULTIPLE times and are now tied for NAMS' lifetime cover shots! 📷

From catching 👾 stripers to sharing eco-friendly fishing tips, these two are "reeling" in the recognition they deserve.

Are you an angler? Drop a comment with your best catch or tag a friend who needs to see this awesome accomplishment! Check out the 🔗in the bio to learn more about the research Dr. Aguiar conducts with fish migration

Thanks for coming to - Wilmington! These past four days, educators from across the United States came to witness how the Ocean Observatories Initiative collects all
sorts of raw data. They collaborated to create various ways each one of them could use this data in their own classrooms. Now, we have bid them adieu as they go back home to test it out!

Thank you to all our Enthusiastic participants, peer presenters, facilitators, evaluator, and hosts! Thank you to the for funding this work!

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To keep up about Data Labs, join our mailing list. 🔗Link in the bio.

Thanks for coming to - Wilmington! These past four days, educators from across the United States came to witness how the Ocean Observatories Initiative collects all sorts of raw data. They collaborated to create various ways each one of them could use this data in their own classrooms. Now, we have bid them adieu as they go back home to test it out!

Thank you to all our Enthusiastic participants, peer presenters, facilitators, evaluator, and hosts! Thank you to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding this work!

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To keep up about Data Labs, join our mailing list: https://datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/join-our-community/mailing-list/

Learn more about the OOI here: https://oceanobservatories.org/

Learn more about Rutgers’ involvement: https://datalab.marine.rutgers.edu/

🌟Celebrating NAMS Faculty/Student Engagement in Science Education! 🌟

You might have run into NAMS faculty who were out promoting science and outdoor adventures with youth this past week/end.

➡️Sustainability professor Ron Hutchison was one of many professors exhibiting at NatureFest.🌱

➡️Dr. Adam Aguiar helped the kids compete for fishing prizes at the Scouting America Jersey Shore Council at Citta Reservation in Barnegat, and the Lake Lenape run hosted by Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs.🎣

➡️Dana Christensen, Dr. Aguiar, and newly graduated marine biology alumnus Jared Handelman presented at the Cape May Science symposium.🐟

➡️ Dr. Lauren Seyler was live on NASA's "Ask a Astrobiologist" YouTube show from the Schmidt Ocean Institute R/V Falkor Too, as it travels the coast of Chile in search of living fossils along the seafloor. Watch a replay of the episode on YouTube. 🔗in the bio.

We're incredibly proud of NAMS' faculty and students' commitment to STEM education and applaud their efforts to continue to foster connections with our local community.👏🏽🌟

🎉 Welcome to Data Labs 2024🎉
Stockton University works with Rutgers University
on The Ocean Observatories Initiative OOI Ocean Data Labs Project, developing and testing ways for undergrads and their professors to easily use all the raw data we get from (OOI).

This week, join our very own Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert as she co-facilitates a four day workshop focused on
● Learning 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!

Follow on Instagram to see what we will be doing in real time!

Learn more about the OOI here: oceanobservatories.org

Learn more about The OOI Ocean Data Labs Project here: datalab.marine.rutgers.edu

💥Exciting News! 💥 Adjunct professor of Biology and Data Science , along with graduate student Kelly Glenn and undergraduate students Mackenzie Briggs, Michelle Carranza and Ceara Reilly, presented their research at the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Marine Mammal Symposium at in Beaufort, North Carolina! This student-focused conference is an excellent opportunity to explore graduate school opportunities and network in the field of marine mammal science. Their projects focused on recreational vessel interactions and environmental parameters impacting Bottlenose dolphins off Cape May, 🐬🌊New Jersey with data collected by .

Get your 🔭 out and dusted off for a SPECTACULAR 🤩 event on June 3. Get outside and watch the “Planet Parade” where Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will appear in a rare alignment in the night sky. This rare occurrence happens by coincidence when the orbits of the planets bring them to roughly the same side of the sun at the same time.

Be sure to show us your photos!

Stockton Geology Club trip seeing volcanoes and Sinaguan/Puebloan ruins!

Stockton Geology Club Trip to Arizona - Grand Canyon National Park

Attention recent Sustainability majors

Hiring Alert! We’re hiring a Senior Program Manager for Schools (full-time).

🟢Learn more, apply, and share this job listing: https://bit.ly/SeniorPM_Schools

The Sustainability Institute at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is seeking candidates for the Senior Program Manager for Schools role. The position will be responsible for leading the Sustainable Jersey for Schools Program.



New Jersey Association of School Administrators
New Jersey Science Teachers Association (NJSTA)
New Jersey Technology and Engineering Educators Association
New Jersey Library Association
New Jersey Council for the Social Studies
New Jersey School Boards Association
New Jersey PTA
New Jersey Education Association

The 2024 NAWEA / WindTech Conference will be hosted by Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The all-inclusive event period is Oct. 28 (Mon) – Nov. 2 (Sat), 2024. The main conference will take place Oct. 30 (Wed) – Nov. 1 (Fri), at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ. Software workshops, the Graduate Student Symposium, and many side events will be on various Rutgers–New Brunswick locations.

***Abstract submission is now open, and we encourage wind energy students, faculty members, researchers, industry, governmental, and nongovernmental representatives from around the world to apply. ***

The 2024 conference theme is focused on enabling the renewable energy transition through research and technology development aimed at addressing the Grand Challenges of wind energy.

Those interested in presenting their research at the conference will need to submit a two-to three-page abstract for podium or poster presentation by May 17, 2024.
To submit an abstract, please visit our website: https://naweawindtech2024.org (Link in the bio).

****Alumni and graduating seniors****

Apply now to become a New Jersey Conservation Police Officer! Applicants can submit their resume, letter of interest and college transcripts now through May 31 by following the instructions here: https://dep.nj.gov/njfw/jobs-2024-05-01-conservation-police-officer-1-fw-2024-13/

All applicants who meet the position requirements must pass a Physical Training Assessment as required by the New Jersey Police Training Commission prior to undergoing the requisite background checks and interview. Learn more about the physical training requirements here: https://vimeo.com/772117605/71dc84e846

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3 years worth of regeneration…simply by digging holes!! The ‘earth smiles’ dug slow down rainfall runoff, allowing vegetation to take hold and water to infiltrate into the soil.

Work undertaken by Justdiggit in Tanzania

✅Check this out. Biology professor Matthew Bonnan and fellow science majors Justin Andell, Jenna Patterson, Aidan Schwartz, and Madison Schwartz presented their research exploring how elbow shape is correlated with posture in reptiles and mammals, which involved collecting data at the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Joelle Maio, Helen Shim, and Rebecca Yamoah presented a talk on their research modeling how well body shape predicts the death posture/limb posture in small fossil 🦎 animals. The students presented alongside other undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and professors from around the Northeast region.
Kudos to you all!

7️⃣0️⃣ years ago, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin discovered DNA's double helix 🧬 and it's been 20 years since the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003. Today we celebrate these life-changing scientific advancements with some fun facts about DNA.
❓ Did you know ... ❓
-humans share about 50% of our genes with plants🌱
-despite our appearance, how we behave, or vulnerable to disease, humans are 99.9% identical in our genetic makeup?
-DNA is our genetic material and carries all instructions from generation to generation
-Every time a cell divides in two (which can be as often as every 4-8 days in some organs such as the intestinal lining), the entire DNA within each cell copies itself exactly, making less than one in a million copying mistakes (mutations). This is how our genetic information is preserved over time

📣 Calling all science majors❗ Show your support for your fellow science peers and faculty in a celebration of their research achievements during the Scholarship, Teaching, and Research Symposium (STARS) ⭐. Symposiums start next week, April 22 through April 26.

👉🏽MONDAY, 4/22 | 12 PM: 🐬 Marine Science Program Student Research Symposium - Campus Center Meeting Room 5

👉🏽TUESDAY, 4/23 | 11:30 AM: 🧪Chemistry Senior Symposium - Campus Center Meeting Room 5

👉🏽TUESDAY, 4/23 | 3:00 PM: 🧫 🔭 NAMS Undergraduate Symposium - Campus Center Main Event Room

👉🏽THURSDAY, 4/25 | 1:00 PM: 🦠 Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Senior Symposium - Campus Center Meeting Room 5

Kudos to all our presenters and their faculty/staff mentors!

In the spirit of SPRING, we wanted to highlight the Entomology 🦋collection here at Stockton. The group of specimens were established and maintained by Dr. William Cromartie until his retirement and is now under the care of Dr. Steven Shaak.

The collage showcases as:

Upper Left Hymenoptera: bees, wasps, ants-Upper Left

Upper Right: Butterflies from the family Nymphalidae mostly (some examples are: morning cloak, red admiral, painted lady, & monarch)

Left Middle: highlights drawer labels with the orders Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies) & Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers, & Katydids)

Central Picture: includes moths from the family Saturniidae

Bottom left: Students in Dr. Steven Shaak’s Entomology lab.

Bottom right: a picture of a female (top) and male (bottom) monarch butterfly.
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🌟Student Highlight! Students in the Stockton Marine Technology Society attended the second annual NJ Marine Technology Society Student Chapter Research Symposium in Tuckerton on April 5. The symposium is a low-pressure event where both undergraduate and graduate students are free to collaborate and network 😊 with others in the New Jersey technology community and share their research. Marine Science/Oceanography major and graduating senior Matt Raps presented a poster titled “Detection of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae behavior under hatchery conditions using a particle size analyzer”. Kudos to Matt and all the students! Rutgers University Institute of Marine & Coastal S 📄✏🎓

Today’s the solar eclipse. The eclipse will be starting in New Jersey around 2:09 and the peak coverage will be at 3:24 PM. Please take precaution and protect your 👀. Do not look directly at the ☀️ without the proper protective eye wear. Don’t forget, viewing party in the quad today with an interactive blow up planetarium for all.