To the Bottom of the World: Rutgers Scientists, Students Head for Antarctica

Every austral summer – our winter in the Northern Hemisphere – scientists from around the world converge on Antarctica to study everything about the continent. This year, Rutgers will send an unusually large delegation to study the physical oceanography and geochemistry of its seas, and to document and explain what they’re doing for 24 middle- and high-school teachers and their students with blogs, photos and phone calls. “This is the largest group Rutgers has ever sent,” says Oscar Schofield, professor of marine science in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. “We’ll have a presence from the Western Antarctic Peninusla all the way to the Ross Sea, beginning at the end of November and ending in February.” Click on the names and titles to read more.

Oscar Schofield,

co-director of the Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is going to Antarctica for the eighth time.

Robert Sherrell,

professor of marine science and earth and planetary sciences, is making his second trip south.

assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Rutgers in Newark, are headed for the Ross Sea in mid-January.

Antarctica in the classroom: Rutgers and Liberty Science Center have collaborated to bring the adventure of Antarctic Research to middle school teachers and classrooms, pretty much as it happens.