{"id":40802233781,"date":"2019-01-03T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802233781"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:23:21","slug":"monmouth-students-take-marine-science-lessons-to-rumson-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-students-take-marine-science-lessons-to-rumson-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth Students Take Marine Science Lessons to Rumson School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Why do dead fish float? Does the Navesink River have a pollution problem? And what\u2019s that smell coming off the water with the breeze? Rumson seventh graders came up with a long list of questions during a recent field trip to the Navesink, but Jason Adolf\u2019s, Ph.D., Principles of Marine Biology (BY 341) students had the answers.<\/p>\n

The Monmouth University juniors and seniors delivered lessons to six of science teacher Jenn Crow\u2019s seventh grade classes at the Forrestdale School on Nov. 27. Adolf, an endowed associate professor of marine science, said part of his course assignment was for his students to answer as many of the questions as possible while giving presentations on topics they\u2019re studying at Monmouth. They included discussions on the impacts of plastics in marine environments, bioluminescence, biofluorescence, marine food chains and more.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Monmouth students came up with some hands-on exercises to make the lessons engaging for the young scientists. In a lesson on stratification in the ocean, students mimicked the layering that naturally occurs by filling jars with household liquids like vegetable oils, honey and water.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of our marine and environmental biology and policy majors go into teaching, so this was directly applicable to what they\u2019re doing,\u201d Adolf said. \u201cI also want students to learn not only how to communicate science to a K-12 audience, but to understand that\u2019s part of science, no matter what level you\u2019re working at.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Monmouth University School of Science and Urban Coast Institute have partnered with Rumson on several educational initiatives, most notably a joint plan to develop the Monmouth Marine and Environmental Field Station<\/a> on municipal property along the Navesink River. Monmouth faculty and students are also working with the borough to transform a pond<\/a> on the Forrestdale property into an outdoor educational space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why do dead fish float? Does the Navesink River have a pollution problem? And what\u2019s that smell coming off the water with the breeze? Rumson seventh graders came up with a long list of questions during a recent field trip to the Navesink, but Jason Adolf\u2019s, Ph.D., Principles of Marine Biology (BY 341) students had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,215,212,1,41],"tags":[],"person":[655],"audience":[14,17,11,8,29],"school":[68],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802233781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life","category-experiential-education","category-giving-back","category-uncategorized","category-urban-coast-institute","mediacontact-karl-vilacoba-monmouth-university-urban-coast-institute","person-jadolf","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-media","school-school-of-science"],"squareimage":{"id":40802233782,"rendered":"\"\"","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/forrestdale-square.jpg","width":600,"height":600}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802233781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802233781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802233781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802233795,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802233781\/revisions\/40802233795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802233781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802233781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802233781"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802233781"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802233781"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802233781"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802233781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}