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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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Transition Plan for the Return of Local Control to Jersey City Public Schools, First Annual Report
The Jersey City school board regained full control of the school district in early 2017, after a 20 plus-year state takeover. Dr. Leila Sadeghi of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center analyzed and evaluated the documentation provided by the district and...
Home Energy Efficiency and Health: Connections for Vulnerable Populations
Economic, environmental and societal forces contribute substantially to our health – as much as, studies show, or more than genetics, individual behavior and access to healthcare. Examples of these Social Determinants of Health include quality of housing and schools,...
Application of three different data streams to study building deficiencies, indoor air quality, and residents’ health
This pilot-level project investigated the potential to use, integrate, and correlate traditional indoor air quality investigation data and the use of questionnaires with spatially resolved infrared thermography imaging to investigate building deficiencies and their...
Transition Plan for the Return of Local Control to Paterson Public Schools, First Annual Report
The Paterson school board regained full control of the school district in early 2018, after a 20 plus-year state takeover. Dr. Leila Sadeghi of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center analyzed and evaluated the documentation provided by the district and...