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EPA Rutgers Raritan Data Project
The EPA Rutgers Raritan River Project was conducted to compile data related to point source and non-point source pollution and Superfund, Brownfield and other contaminated sites into a comprehensive database. In addition, the project developed an interactive tool that assists federal, state, and local stakeholders to make decisions related to environmental...
Bloustein Local, NJMEL collaborate to promote Cybersecurity Month
To promote October 2019 as Cybersecurity Month, Bloustein Local and its partner, the Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund collaborated on two articles in NJ Municipalities, the monthly magazine of the NJ State League of Municipalities. Bloustein Local Assistant Director Marc Pfeiffer wrote about the obligation of local elected officials and...
EAC director Jeanne Herb to participate in new project designed to develop an interactive shellfish aquaculture siting tool for New Jersey
Jeanne Herb, Executive Director of the Bloustein School's Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, will be working with Rutgers scientists David Bushek and Michale DeLuca, among others, to develop a GIS based tool for spacial planning and management of shellfish aquaculture in New Jersey. The project was one of 42 projects awarded funding by NOAA...
EAC team produces report on health impacts of New Jersey’s draft Energy Master Plan
Rutgers scholars have been at the forefront of promoting Health in All Policies (HiAP) as a collaborative approach to reducing disparities and improving the health of all communities and people by incorporating health considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. As part of the EAC team's continuing HiAP efforts in New Jersey, they...
EAC Staff Develops Indicators of Health Inequities in New Jersey
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders program, EAC staff are working to develop a set of health inequity indicators for New Jersey. The focus of this project is on examining "upstream" or social determinants of health. The EAC team developed a screening approach to better understand disproportionate environmental...
Ten Mini-Grants Awarded for Research on the Raritan River, Basin and Bay
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) has awarded ten mini-grants to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues. The recipients, award amounts and project titles are: Michele Bakacs (Dept. Agriculture and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences...
EAC Group with Other Rutgers Experts Provide Recommendations on Climate Change Resilience
Rutgers experts, including Jeanne Herb of the Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, provide sound science and evidence-based recommendations on how to be more resilient to climate change-related impacts in four essays. Read their recommendations here and access online resilience tools that can help New Jersey, counties, towns, businesses and...
Resilience and the Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony – 11th Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony
Resilience and the Raritan Friday, June 7, 2019 Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Piscataway, New Jersey 11th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony The theme of our 2019 annual conference was Resilience and the Raritan and was a joint program with Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and...
SRRI releases State of the Raritan Report, Volume 2
Rutgers University’s Sustainable Raritan River Initiative has released a second report on the status of watershed health for the Raritan River. The State of the Raritan Report, Volume 2 continues efforts to update key indicators of water quality and watershed health for the Raritan River basin. The health of the Raritan basin was originally assessed in...
EAC’s Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw Produces Story Map to Inform Offshore Wind Planning
Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw produced a new story map that shows how the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal is being used to inform discussions on potential locations for offshore wind farms in the New York Bight. The story map was produced for Monmouth University's Urban Coast Institute where Dr. Whytlaw is an Instructor of GIS. View the Story Map here. For more...
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Energy Technologies as Social Innovations
Framing the Issue Commercial building owners introduce energy- saving technologies based on relative advantage This means that they expect that it costs less (incremental and/or life cycle costs), functions better and provides an overall benefit to the building...
Hometown Dashboard: Smart Cities Technologies for Improving Quality of Life
Hometown Dashboard is a proposed set of smart city technologies for improving Quality of Life (QoL) in small towns and cities, which often cannot afford custom apps and in-house smart-community capabilities. This platform – the Hometown Dashboard – establishes 3-way...
Change of Occupancy Building Code Change Proposal
RECON Forecast August 2020 – NJ’s Pandemic Recovery and the Revised State Budget
R/ECON’s New Jersey forecast for August 2020 reveals a state still recovering from an economic lockdown caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Global, national, and state forecasts have experienced significant downward revision for 2020 employment growth.Those revisions cut...