Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is a major research and teaching university with approximately 1000 faculty members and over 30,000 students. The Atmospheric Science program in the Department of Environmental Sciences was recently ranked 4th in the nation in Faculty Scholarly Productivity (Chronicle of Higher Education). The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences is an interdisciplinary marine science center committed to discovering and communicating exciting and critical science about our planet for the benefit of society.