Celebrate the work of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station and the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve – and “explore the amazing marine science taking place in your backyard,” the university encourages – at an open house event on Saturday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will take place at both locations this year.

RUMFS, a field facility of Rutgers’ Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, is a working lab situated across from the Little Egg Inlet in the…