The Rutgers Marine Field Station rises on weathered pilings overlooking a fragile wetland, surrounded by a sea of tall salt grass brushed here and there into sweeping hypnotic patterns by the wind. White herring gulls dot the brown marsh as they stand over dark, brackish tidal pools, hunting for fiddler crabs. Ten years ago, this was Ground Zero for Superstorm Sandy, which roared over the inlet when it made landfall in New Jersey. Today, the estuary around the remote research facility in Little Egg Harbor is mostly healed. Yet the ecology of the marsh itself has changed, in response to the ris…