A new wave of marine technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous underwater gliders, environmental DNA, and acoustic telemetry is rapidly changing how we study and what we know about our oceans.
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Clean Ocean Action: The Environmental Victory in the NESE Methane Gas Project Defeat
Environmentalists from various contingents all over the state called it a victory for ocean and sea life health.
With Clean Ocean Action at the helm, that victory against what they dubbed a Goliath methane gas project was celebrated on the Keyport waterfront on Monday by the large, broad-based coalition of organizations from the Delaware River to the sea.
After nearly eight years of permit filings and extensions, Williams Transco’s Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project finally expired.
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Making Waves: MU Study Finds Rain-Driven Pollution Plagues Ocean Surf Zones
Surfers at beaches where stormwater drainage pipes discharge into the ocean risk catching more than waves on a rainy day.
Monmouth University researchers studying the influence of weather and ocean conditions on microbial pollution found that within six to 24 hours of moderate rainfall, enterococcus bacteria levels exceeded state health safety standards about half the time at these beaches. While rain is a known driver of illness-causing microbial pollution at New Jersey beaches, this was the first peer-reviewed study to formally investigate the linkage.
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Unconscious Man Dies After Attempted Rescue from Ocean on Sandy Hook
An as-of-yet unidentified man has died after being pulled, unconscious, from the ocean at the unguarded Gunnison Beach, also known as the nude beach, on Sandy Hook, National Park Service’s spokesperson Daphne Yun said.
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Scene Around: COA Beach Sweeps & Ridiculous Finds
It was a shore thing. On Saturday, volunteers hit the beaches from Sandy Hook to Cape May for Clean Ocean Action’s slightly stalled Beach Sweeps.
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Focus: Clean Ocean Action & Inspiring Young Ocean Advocates
It’s all about offering youth a close-up view of their ocean world as inspiration to protect it.
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Retro RFH Gal Pals’ Springing for Beach Time
Photo/George Day
While Rumson-Fair Haven area folks know better than anyone that there’s nothing quite like a good locals’ summer, there are always great days on the beach in any season in this area.
When you grow up nestled between the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers and the ocean is a short ride, walk or run away, beaching it is never solely a summer seasonal jaunt. It’s a rite of passage, no matter what time of year.
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Meet the New National Academies’ Ocean Studies Board Member
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has appointed Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Director Tony MacDonald as a member of its Ocean Studies Board (OSB).
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Focus: Serenity, Sun, Surf & Seagulls
As Hurricane Michael makes his menacing way up the coast, the weather forecast says that the Rumson-Fair Haven area will see some spill-over downpours on Thursday. But, there’s also hope of a clear, crisp sunny weekend, especially on Sunday.
Focus: Southern Cloud & Sea Exposure
Sometimes there’s a call for a little jaunt along the coastline south of the Rumson-Fair Haven area.
And sometimes the timing is just right. Tuesday was that time.
The sun blazing along the Atlantic in southern Monmouth County, clouds were rising from the sea and reaching toward formations that looked like an ethereal netherworld.
Take a look …
— Elaine Van Develde
Focus: Southern Coastal Exposure
Sometimes you just have to get out of the ol Rumson-Fair Haven area proverbial Dodge. Or something like that.
Well, there’s nothing like a warm day to take a trek down south and capture some scenes along the coast with the lens.
Take a look … Can you identify each spot? (Don’t forget to click on each to enlarge!)
— Elaine Van Develde
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