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Join Jennifer Whytlaw at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Join Jennifer Whytlaw at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 3-7 2019 in Washington, D.C. Follow this link for more information: https://annualmeeting.aag.org/
EAC’s Karen Lowrie co-authors article in Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment journal
EAC's Karen Lowrie and Leigh Ann Von Hagen of the Voorhees Transportation Center wrote an article about the training sessions that they have conducted for professionals on Health Impact Assessment in conjunction with the Rutgers Office of Continuing Education. This "Perspectives from the Field" article is in the November 2018 issue of the Chronicles of...
Where chaos rules. Why politics in three North Jersey towns got totally weird
“New Jersey residents are among the nation’s best educated and most affluent voters, but they have appeared content over the years to leave politics to local political bosses,” according to the 1974 American Political Almanac, which remains definitive, said Marc Pfeiffer, an expert in New Jersey government. “And the bosses, it turns out, have been the most...
America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s
“New Jersey residents are among the nation’s best educated and most affluent voters, but they have appeared content over the years to leave politics to local political bosses,” according to the 1974 American Political Almanac, which remains definitive, said Marc Pfeiffer, an expert in New Jersey government. “And the bosses, it turns out, have been the most...
Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making
Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making Feb. 1, 2019 Offered by Rutgers Continuing Professional Education Instructors: Karen Lowrie and Leigh Ann Von Hagen CEU's Available Download Flyer Here
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 Rutgers undergraduate, as a student intern to research the movement patterns of a wide range of fish species that inhabit the Raritan River. In the process of working on this internship, Kiera gained valuable...
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 development such as the creation of housing or roads. When fragmentation occurs, forest patches decrease in size. In addition, the amount of forest core decreases and the relative amount of forest edge increases. The...
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 studied the technique used by the NY/NJ Baykeeper to gather samples to count microplastics utilizing a Manta sampling net. Noting that the cost of the Manta net could be prohibitive, they invented a simplified...
Join Jeanne Herb at annual Restore America’s Estuaries Summit in Long Beach
Join EAC Executive Director, Jeanne Herb, at the annual Restore America's Estuaries Summit, December 8-13 in Long Beach, California. Follow this link for more information or to register: https://www.estuaries.org/2018-summit-general-info
State Sea Level Rise Policies
Jeanne Herb, EAC Executive Director, joined Rutgers Climate Institute Associate Director Dr. Marjorie Kaplan in presenting insights regarding state sea level rise policies at a Coastal Resilience Summit organized by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. See the slide presentation here. Photo credit: AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool
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Humanizing Building Technology and Experience: a Collaborative Forum for Re-envisioning Sustainable, Healthy Buildings and Occupants
The routes that evidence follows into the design process are often tortuous, and their relative merits are not well understood. Most common is the establishment of a heuristic, a rule of thumb that gets passed from master to apprentice. Field studies using...
Annual Report on the Economic Impact of the Federal Historic Tax Credit for FY 2018
The Federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC) is a Federal income tax credit that promotes the rehabilitation of income-producing historic properties. This study examines the economic impacts of the HTC (a 20-percent credit since 1986) by analyzing the economic consequences...
Using Computer Simulations to Understand Sustainable Lifestyles and Behaviour