Sixth-grade students from the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District have been invited to work with Stockton University scientists on a two-year Ocean Drifter Study to measure the ocean currents off the coast of LBI. The work is made possible through a grant proposal from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

“Our students will be involved in building and monitoring several ocean drifters over two years to engage in a scientific investigation using real-time data,”…