Rebecca Gilpin, laboratory researcher and shellfish aquaculture manager at the Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Center, currently lives between Egg Harbor Township and her family house in Harvey Cedars. But even when she’s in Egg Harbor or at the center in Cape May, her heart belongs to LBI.

Rebecca Gilpin is a laboratory researcher and shellfish aquaculture manager at the Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Center. (Photo Courtesy Rebecca Gilpin)

And she has found some of the most important relationships Rutgers Aquaculture has around the whole state are those near the Island.