Rutgers' "LaTTE" Ocean Dye Experiment

April 27, 2004

EDITOR'S NOTE: Your coverage is invited. If you plan to attend the shipboard events, please contact Joseph Blumberg, Office of Media Relations, (732) 932-7084, extension 652, or by e-mail, blumberg@ur.rutgers.edu.

WHAT:	A combination of in-person and online press opportunities as Rutgers marine scientists prepare for and undertake a five-day research cruise in which they will release a tracer dye into the Atlantic Ocean and follow the dye patch as it drifts down the coast of New Jersey.
WHO:	Physical oceanographer Robert J. Chant of Rutgers' Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and fellow marine scientists. WHEN:
WHEN:	Friday (April 30), 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Ocean scientists will prepare their research vessel and equipment for the cruise. Chant will be available all day for interviews and comments. Saturday (May 1), beginning at 9 a.m., weather permitting. The press is invited to join scientists for an all-day cruise in the New York/New Jersey harbor region. Please e-mail Emily Romana at to reserve a place on the cruise. Week of May 2. Ongoing live streaming video and audio will be available online as the five-day dye injection experiment proceeds. Scientists are available to be interviewed online. Pool aerial photographers are expected to provide video and still images of the dye patch. The Webcast and more information are available at http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/latte.
WHERE:	For the Friday and Saturday shipboard events: Miller's Launch, Pier 7 ½, Staten Island, N.Y. Visit www.millerslaunch.com for directions.

BACKGROUND: This dye-injection experiment is part of Rutgers' five-year Langrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment (LaTTE) project funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to determine the contents and fate of Hudson River water after it reaches the Atlantic Ocean.

Contact: Joseph Blumberg
732/ 932-7084 ext. 652
E-mail: blumberg@ur.rutgers.edu