Rutgers University Professor Emeritus Ken Able, ichthyologist and director of the Rutgers Marine Field Station at the end of Great Bay Boulevard in Little Egg Harbor, is retiring after 42 years of teaching. On Friday, June 28, well wishers gathered at the refurbished Coast Guard Station, lovingly chronicled by Able in his book, From Lifesaving to Marine Research: Station 119 (Down The Shore Publishing, 2015).
Former students, colleagues, friends, interns and loved ones drove in or flew in from far and wide to celebrate the end…
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