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
The traffic calming effect of delineated bicycle lanes
We analyze the effect of a bicycle lane on traffic speeds. Computer vision techniques are used to detect and classify the speed and trajectory of over 9,000 motor-vehicles at an intersection that was part of a pilot demonstration in which a bicycle lane was...
AI in Local Government, Helpful or Harmful?
Chatbots are software programs that use natural language processing to have conversations with people. Also called conversational agents, they can answer questions, provide recommendations, and complete tasks. Leading companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, and...
TECH UPDATES: What Municipal CAOs Need to Know, Part 1: Tech Fitness and Cyber Hygiene
There are two basic elements of technology that every municipality must have. Most places already do this, but it doesn’t hurt to highlight them. The first is an expert to advise you and your governing body on technology issues. As with other experts you hire—a police...
Monitoring summertime indoor overheating and pollutant risks and natural ventilation patterns of seniors in public housing.
Abstract Indoor heat and air pollution pose concurrent threats to human health and wellbeing, and their effects are more pronounced for vulnerable individuals. This study investigates exposures to summertime indoor overheating and airborne particulate matter (PM2.5)...