The third video in a series on Restoring the Manalapan Brook is now available. This video focuses on shoreline restoration along a lake or pond....
Raritan River Initiatives
Fish Cam
Have you ever wondered what a fish ladder looks like underwater? From April to late June, 2017, Rutgers Professor Olaf Jensen and his research team...
9th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference
State of the Raritan Status and trends from across the region, where do we go from here? Friday, June 9, 2017 Douglass Student Center, New...
Advanced Environmental Geomatics Students Explore the Lower Raritan
In Spring 2017, Dr. Richard Lathrop's Advanced Environmental Geomatics class explored the Lower Raritan River from the R/V Rutgers. In addition to...
Stakeholder Engagement for NJDEP 2016 Integrated Water Quality Report
The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) collaborated with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Water...
State of the Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony – 9th Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony
State of the Raritan Status and trends from across the region, where do we go from here? Friday, June 9, 2017 Douglass Student Center, New...
Bloustein MPP Students Explore Water Quality Policy for the Raritan
Six Master of Public Policy students at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy spent the 2017 Spring semester exploring...
Perth Amboy SWIM works with RU Cooperative Extension on Green Infrastructure Solutions
Perth Amboy has over 50 percent impervious cover and faces issues with flooding and combined sewer overflows (CSOs). In 2015, the Rutgers...
RU Extension Service works with Woodbridge on Plan to Increase Storm Resilience
Rutgers Cooperative Extension has been working with Woodbridge Township on the development of an Open Space and Floodplain Restoration Plan. ...
Hydrologic Model Evaluates Effects of Green Infrastructure on Floods in the Raritan
Dr. Qizhong (George) Guo and Mr. Carlos Correa from Rutgers Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, developed a...
Recent Products
Research Summary of State Policies for Increasing Access to Nature for People with Disabilities
First, we discuss federal policies that increase public recreation access to the outdoors, in order to understand how states have used this context to inform their own efforts to increase outdoor access. Using policy examples from twelve states (Alaska, California,...
Access to Nature for People with Disabilities: Barriers, Challenges, and Opportunities
This white paper explores the physical and mental health benefits of outdoor recreation and nature, focusing on those with disabilities. The paper has four sections. Section 1 examines the physical health benefits of access to outdoor recreation and nature, such as...
How income, efficiency, and curtailment behaviors shape energy consumption dynamics in US households
The objective of this study is to analyze the role of energy efficiency and curtailment behaviors and examine how these behaviors are mediated by annual household income to explain overall energy consumption dynamics in US households using a nationally representative...
Implementing the energy transition: lessons from New Jersey’s residential solar industry
Abstract A desire to shift from fossil fuels to non-carbon-emitting energy sources has become an imperative supported by national, state, and local policies. In the U.S., a diverse array of policies at multiple levels of government have helped the solar industry...