News & Events
History of the Raritan River Timeline
During Spring Semester, 2019, Jenny Schneider, a candidate for the Rutgers Public History Program Certificate (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History), developed a dynamic historic timeline of major events and happenings around the Raritan region. It is a project we hope to continue to develop in the coming semesters. View the timeline here....
Sustainable Raritan Conference to focus on climate resilience
This year’s Sustainable Raritan River conference will be a joint effort with Rutgers Climate Institute, New Jersey Climate Change Alliance, and Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience program to explore the impacts of climate change on Raritan basin communities and environs, and to advance renewed watershed planning efforts that will promote...
Rutgers-Eagleton Poll indicates New Jerseyans are concerned about climate change but lack knowledge
Two-thirds of New Jerseyans are concerned about the impact that climate change will have on them, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll conducted in collaboration with the New Jersey Climate Change Alliance at Rutgers University. The Alliance is facilitated by Rutgers University through the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Environmental Analysis...
EAC Executive Director discusses climate change and health equity with Comcast Newsmakers
Jeanne Herb was interviewed by Jill Horner of Comcast News on April 18, 2019 about the lessons on health and climate change equity that Jeanne brought back from a recent trip to Cuba with the Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leaders Program. View the video here: https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2019/4/22/NJ190418-2
Call for Lightning Talks and Posters for June Conference
Promote your work or solicit input. It’s open to everyone! Do you have a Raritan based project you want to tell others about? The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative’s annual conference attracts 200 Raritan stakeholders from local and regional NGOs, federal, state and local governments, academia, and the private sector. The conference includes a series...
Tracking Genes and Bacteria Responsible for Organohalide Reduction in the Raritan River Basin
The Raritan River receives wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent, stormwater runoff, combined sewer overflow (CSO), and groundwater infiltration from a variety of sites contaminated with organohalide pollutants. Organohalides are known or suspected carcinogens and some bioaccumulate and enter the food chain, leading to human exposure. In New Jersey,...
Assessing Exposure of Water-Dependent Uses to Coastal Flood Hazards
Water-dependent uses along the New Jersey coast rely on access to the water that increasingly threatens to damage their facilities and support infrastructure in the surrounding community. Mal-adaptive planning strategies to enhance resilience could fail to recognize the interrelated systems of benefits and risks that face water-dependent uses, including...
Take out the Rutgers’ research vessel!
The R/V Rutgers is back in the water! We are now taking reservations for spring and summer excursions. The Rutgers is capable of supporting a wide range of educational and scientific needs. This fully equipped 20 passenger vessel can navigate through the lower river and estuary, providing passengers with the opportunity to experience the Raritan ecosystem...
Mini-grant Research Projects
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) Mini-grant and Internship Pool program encourages collaboration between Rutgers affiliates and stakeholders throughout the Raritan basin to address research, public information, and planning needs and to promote best management practices for a more sustainable Raritan River, basin and bay.
Video Series Explores Restoration of the Manalapan Brook Watershed
An “Restoring the Manalapan Brook Watershed”, a series of videos produced by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, examines restoration efforts within the Manalapan Brook watershed. The Manalapan Brook is part of the Lower Raritan watershed management area (WMA09) in central New Jersey. This video series was developed for New Jersey...
Recent Products
An integrated model of the real estate market responses to coastal flooding
Understanding and improving how humans adapt to climate change are priorities in our research community, and coastal settlements are good places to study adaptation. Severe storm events and sea-level rise are threatening coastal communities with increasing levels of...
Designing to Engage Children in Monitoring Indoor Air Quality: A Participatory Approach
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is especially important for children because they are more susceptible to the deleterious impacts of poor air quality compared to adults. While devices to monitor IAQ are increasingly available, these are designed primarily for adults, and...
Environmental Justice and Social Injustice: Ethnic, Racial, Economic and Other Marginalized People and Communities
This virtual issue provides a compendium of papers from the 1980's through the present that examine some of the risks and disadvantages that people and communities experience as a result of environmental injustices. Environmental injustice is one form of social...
Transition Plan for the Return of Local Control to Newark Public Schools Final Report
In a unanimous vote, the New Jersey State Board of Education gave final approval to returning the Newark Public School system to full local control on July 1, 2020, after 25 years of state intervention. The Newark school board regained full control of the school...