Be it drought, flood, excessive heat or cold, climate variability and change, or simply the more “normal” day-to-day conditions in the basin, it is...
Raritan River Initiatives
Discards and Fishery Dynamics Data to Inform Raritan Bay Recreational Summer Flounder Fishery Management Policy
Summer flounder (Paralichtys dentatus) is a key species for New Jersey’s fisheries, including being the most commonly captured species by...
Temporal Heavy Metal Distribution and Bioaccumulation in the Lower Raritan River
With the surge of urbanization and industrialization, the Raritan River, and particularly its 15-mile long lower portion, has experienced profound...
Shore protection strategies for estuarine beaches: a case study of Cliffwood Beach, NJ
The shoreline of Raritan Bay is developed with homes and recreation sites that are vulnerable to erosion and flooding exacerbated by increased rates...
Study of ecoenzymes and bioavailability of methylmercury in the Lower Raritan
The Reinfelder lab and high school students from Malcolm X Shabazz High School (MXSHS) in Newark, NJ were awarded a Rutgers Raritan River Consortium...
Creating a rich digital environment to support resilience on the Lower Raritan
The Raritan River region is the home of many businesses, residential communities, critical facilities, and wildlife species. Flooding is a...
R3C Mini-grant Supports Rutgers Undergraduate Internship on Fish Passage Analysis
Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) minigrant funds allowed the expansion of fish passage analysis on the Raritan by hiring Kiera Malone, a...
Assessing Forest Status in the Lower Raritan Watershed
Forest fragmentation is a process by which large forest areas are broken into smaller forest areas. Fragmentation is often a result of human...
Student engagement on microplastics in the Raritan River
Students from Dr. Jill Lipoti and Mary Nucci's environmental studies practicum formed a team to investigate microplastics in the Raritan. They...
10th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference
Micro to Macro The Future of the Raritan Friday, June 8, 2018 Kathleen G. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, Rutgers Douglass Campus, New...
Recent Products
New Jersey Residential Appliance Saturation Survey
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) contracted with NMR to implement a Residential Appliance Saturation Survey (RASS) for the state of New Jersey. The objective of the study was to document current...
Comparing ambient and personal measurements of exposure to urban heat stress
This paper reports on a field study of personal exposures to summer heat stress in Elizabeth, NJ, USA, a medium-sized city that hosts an international airport, a shipping port, a petrochemical refinery complex, and a major transportation corridor in a densely...
Tenant Perspectives on Building Electrification in Affordable Housing
Low-and Moderate-Income (LMI) tenants are at risk of being left behind in the clean energy transition. While building electrification's environmental and health benefits are evident, it can pose accessibility challenges for LMI residents, who already bear a...
Assessing the Public Health Impacts: A Comprehensive Analysis of Health Externalities Related to Power Grid Expansion Plans
Power grid expansion decisions often are made based on models that minimize market costs, ignoring externalities that may have significant harmful financial and societal impacts. Such approaches portray an incomplete assessment of the effects of potential...