The major goal of The Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS), and the parent institution, the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS), is to create a corridor for research, from the upper reaches of the Mullica River drainage basin, down through the Great Bay estuary, to the inner continental shelf, where a Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory (LEO-15) at 15 m depth has been established.
Rutgers University Marine Field Station field facility of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences Marine Field Station (RUMFS) is a field facility of the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS). It is a working lab