Trenton Public Policy Seminar Series

FREE SEMINAR - No. 80

“ROBOTS, RADARS & REMOTE SENSING:

Transforming Ocean Science, Education & Extension

through Innovative Technologies”

presented by

Drs. Scott Glenn & Oscar Schofield

Co-Directors, Coastal Ocean Observation Lab

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Sponsored by:

Rutgers Office of State Relations

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

STATE HOUSE ANNEX

Committee Room 1, 1st Floor

9:30 A.M. to 10:30 A.M.

SESSION SYNOPSIS

The Presidents of Rutgers, Stevens and Monmouth Universities recently signed a collaborative agreement to construct the New Jersey component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System. Federal investments by NOAA ($8.7 M), DoD ($5 M) and NSF ($2.5 M) in New Jersey-led ocean observing science, education and extension programs are now being leveraged to support new initiatives in Climate Change and Energy at Rutgers and Homeland Security at Stevens. Professors Glenn and Schofield will discuss New Jersey’s recent advances in the evolution of the world’s leading coastal ocean observatory, and how New Jersey has become the launching point for new global missions of undersea exploration, discovery and stewardship.

For more information, contact the Office of State Relations by phone at

(732) 932-7741 or by email at staterel@oldqueens.rutgers.edu