RUMFS-Ongoing Research

Rutgers University Marine Field Station
(RUMFS)

A field facility of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

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Ongoing Research Activities

Recruitment of Estuarine Fishes
- Fundulus heteroclitus movements and residency
  Location: Hog Islands (Mullica River), New Jersey
  Principal investigator(s): Able, Hagan and Brown (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: PSEG
- Ichthyoplankton Sampling
  1 meter plankton net, 1 mm mesh
  Location: Little Sheepshead Creek (see map)
  1989-present
- Physical Water Quality
  YSI 6600 data loggers
  Location: Little Sheepshead Creek - 1997-present (see map)
  Tuckerton Creek - 1999-present
- Otter Trawling
  16' otter trawl
  Location: Various locations (see map)
  1988-1990, 1997-present
- American Eel Early Life History
  Location: Great Bay-Mullica River and Great Egg Harbor Estuaries
  2004- Present
  Further Information
- Recruitment dynamics of bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix): coastwide patterns of juvenile recruitment
  Location: Estuarine, surf-zone, and inner continental shelf habitats within New Jersey
  Principal investigator(s): Able and Wuenschel (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: Rutgers/NMFS Bluefish-Striped Bass Dynamics Program
  Further Information
Evaluation of Marsh Restoration
- Fish Utilization
  Location: Delaware Bay marshes
  Principal investigator(s): Able and Grothues (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: PSEG
- The influence of low dissolved oxygen on predatory fishes: comparisons between restored and impacted marsh creeks in the Hackensack Meadowlands
  Location: Meadowlands
  Principal investigator(s): Able, Ruess and Neuman (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: MERI /MRI
- Fundulus heteroclitus movements and residency
  Location: Hog Islands (Mullica River)
  Principal investigator(s): Able, Hagan and Brown (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: PSEG
- Distribution, Abundance, Movement, and Diet of Large Fish Predators in Marsh Creeks
  Location: Alloway Creek
  Principal investigator(s): Able and Jones (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: PSEG
  Further information
Life History of Fishes
- Essential fish habitat for young-of-the-year goosefish (Lophius americanus) in the Middle Atlantic Bightt
  Location: New York Bight
  Principal investigator(s): Able (RUMFS), Chambers (NMFS, Sandy Hook)
  Funding Agency: CMER

Essential fish habitat for marsh fishes: behavioral ecology of larval and juvenile Fundulus heteroclitus and Cyprinodon variegatus
Location: JCNERR
Principal investigator(s): Sakowicz (RUMFS)
Funding Agency: NERR

Fish Habitat Ecology
- Assessing and monitoring of estuarine habitat diversity: developing the tools to protect and restore estuarine habitats
  Location: Great Bay/Little Egg Harbor
  Principal investigator(s): Able (RUMFS), Ross (North Carolina NERR), Flood (SUNY -Stony Brook)
  Funding Agency: CICEET
- Bluefish, striped bass interactions
  Location: Delaware Bay/JCNERR
  Principal investigator(s): Able and Fox (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: Rutgers/NMFS Bluefish-Striped Bass Dynamics Program
- Striped bass contingents
  Location: JCNERR
  Principal investigator(s): Able and Grothues (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: Rutgers/NMFS Bluefish-Striped Bass Dynamics Program
- Oyster reef restoration
  Location: JCNERR
  Principal investigator(s): Flimlin, Able (RUMFS)
  Funding Agency: NOAA
- Effects of mobile fishing gear on the nursery and tilefish habitats associated with the shelf edge of the New York Bight
  Location: Middle Atlantic Bight
  Principal investigator(s): Cowen (U. Miami), Able (RUMFS), Fahay (NMFS-Sandy Hook)
  Funding Agency: NURP - NOAA/Mid-Atlantic Bight National Undersea Research Center

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