Rutgers Marine Station faces rising tides

 https://coastalhub.org/2025/08/22/marine-field-station-the-retreat/

Marine Field Station: The Retreat

 August 22,  2025

MACH is proud to announce the completion of our first documentary, Marine Field Station: The Retreat, directed and produced by Thomas Lennon—Academy Award-winning filmmaker, MACH senior personnel member, and head of the Documentary Film Lab at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Marine Field Station: The Retreat is a MACH-supported film that serves the purpose of capturing perspectives on climate change and sharing climate information with a broader audience while simultaneously providing training to the next generation. The film’s production crew was predominantly made up of Rutgers film students who, guided by Lennon, had the opportunity to hone their skills in science-based documentary storytelling while capturing regionally-critical climate adaptation interactions between researchers, stakeholders, and community members.

The documentary features the Rutgers Marine Field Station (RUMFS), a preeminent research facility of  Rutgers  New Jersey Agricultural Research & Education Station (NJAES). RUMFS functions as a central hub for marine and coastal research and also houses the MACH administrative team. 

Click the video link below to watch the film and discover a powerful story of Rutgers’ own resilience and adaptation.

Please follow this link to share your thoughts about the documentary film. This survey should only take a couple of minutes unless you choose to also provide a written review of the film. Thank you.

Two women row 6,900 miles across the Pacific!

 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775109/2025/11/06/british-rowers-pacific-ocean-jess-rowe-miriam-payne/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne

Looking pretty damn good after 165 days at sea.

Six fundamental exercises

 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/well/move/range-of-motion-exercises.html?smid=url-share

exercise alzheimer risk

Topol

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In older adults (mean age 72) with elevated Aβ amyloid, 5,000-7,500 steps/day (&lt;-a plateau) were associated with less Tau accumulation, improved cognition

@naturemedicine.bsky.social 

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GOAT - Ohtani Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats

 In the 150 years that baseball has been played NO ONE hss done what Shohei Ohtani of the LA Dodgers just did.

Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats.

https://x.com/i/status/1979523615436460231

 

RING park ready for Halloween

NR2 hauled ahead of Nor'easter

 NOAA predicts a strong Nor'easter will form, with fifty mph winds and huge seas offshore.  So despite a spare sailing season for me [crocodile tears ...we were in Maine for five weeks] my sister Nancy and I sailed North River 2 around to the east side of City Island where it was ahauled at Barron's boat yard.  The last all sail yard in the Bronx - where America;s Cup contenders once reigned and wer built - like commodore Vanderbilt's Vim, and Ted Turner's Courageous.

 

Vim built by 

Henry B. Nevins, City Island, NY

Courageous - the last City Island, NY built 12 metre

Captain - Ted Turner

22 on the line! Hudson River Race

 Just north of the GWC Bridge 22 J-24s and J-80s gather for the start in light air.

9/11/2025

 

Saltatempo - an S boat - N.G. Herreshoff, designer

 

Arctic Currents - aboard the r/v Roger Revelle - Dallas Murphy - correspondent

 Going with the flow

Roger Revelle, Some Particulars:

Owner: Office of Naval Research, USN
Operator: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Built:  9 December 1993, launched 20 April 1995
Propulsion:  Twin 3,000 hp Diesel electric motors
Length:  277 ft (84.4 m)
Beam:  52 ft. (16 m)
Cruising Speed: 12 knots
Range: 15,000 nautical miles (28,000 km)
Endurance: 52 days

Dallas Murphy reports from the sea 

[T]he North Atlantic Current (NAC), a sort of offshoot arm of the Gulf Stream itself.  Twenty to 40 million cubic meters of warm, salty water deliver to the west-facing shores of Europe a moderate climate they don’t deserve, given their latitudes.  For instance, the latitude of Bantry Bay, Ireland, is 51° North, where palm trees can survive, and farther north, much of the coast of Norway above the Arctic Circle remains ice-free year-round.  (On the west side of the Atlantic, that latitude slices across the frigid coast of Labrador.)  So here’s a clear-cut example of how the ocean, in collaboration with the west wind, strongly influences climate over a large swath of the Northern Hemisphere.  And it’s only one example.

MacLean Bros - Trans-pacific Row - they've done it.

Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan MACLEAN.

For practice they rowed 3,000 miles from the Canaries to Antigua.  Piece of cake. 

Now they've done 9.000 miles across the Pacific, Peru to Australia.  140+ days.

And they look the part - all three of them.

And being Scotsmen they've branded it the Rare Whisky 101 Row.

All for charity. And, of course, they've reached their goal.

Row for Clean Water

We’ve set an ambitious target of £1 million for clean water projects in Madagascar.. This would result in 40,000+ people having access to clean water for life.

https://www.themacleanbrothers.com/

https://www.themacleanbrothers.com/tmb/challenges/pacific

Labor Day weekend 2025, Friendship Maine

At our place

Marilyn's herb garden below

Hatchet Cove, Muscongus Bay:

Hatchet Cove

Rockland Harbor