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How is Climate Change Impacting Our Oceans?

Since 1896, when a Swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius, described the detrimental effects of carbon dioxide on our climate, we have known the effects of our actions.  Since humans took over planet Earth, our global temperatures have been rising because of our CO2 emissions.  Within the past 100 years, the temperature has increased at a much…

Investigating Trends and Patterns of Surface Water Temperature in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off Cape May, New Jersey

Stockton University Research Symposium – Spring 2017 To view a high quality PDF, please email Melissa Laurino at [email protected]

Phytoplankton Bloom of Cape May, New Jersey; July 2016

As the Atlantic Star rocked back and forth the blue-green tinted water glared back up at me. I could see hundreds of Atlantic Menhaden and countless Cownose Rays swimming several feet beneath the surface. No, I was not in the Bahamas or the Caribbean or even remotely close for that matter. This was the coast…