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EAC Team to help integrate coastal hazards mapping tools into unified platform
EAC team members will work on an interdisciplinary team at Rutgers to integrate an existing suite of coastal hazards mapping tools into a unified platform. This new platform will integrate the latest climate science, exposure assessment techniques, and best practices in resilience planning. The project will include stakeholder engagement to identify...
EAC’s Dr. Whytlaw to Present Poster at American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting
Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw will be presenting a poster in the inaugural year for a new Geohealth track at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting (December 10-14). She will be presenting EAC's work on examining data on environmental factors to inform community-based efforts to address “upstream” determinants of health through the use of existing...
Bloustein Hosts Forum on Building Communities for All Ages
The Bloustein School, in conjunction with the School of Social Work and AARP, is hosting a discussion on the benefits of building communities of all ages in New Jersey at the Special Events Forum at the Bloustein School at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. Speakers include Mayor Brian Whaler, Danielle Arigoni, Karen Alexander and Dr. Emily...
Senate president’s group proposes ambitious economic, fiscal reforms
Senate President Steve Sweeney put together an Economic and Fiscal Policy Review Committee of lawmakers, academics and private sector experts to say New Jersey must change course in many areas including funding for public pensions. Among the group’s 80-plus recommendations: merge school districts. Dr. Ray Caprio, a professor at the Bloustein School of...
How a Rutgers lecturer is helping local governments secure their systems: BTN LiveBIG
With increasing speculation about the role the Russian government may have played in the 2016 election and what tactics they might have used, cyberattacks on government entities have become a prominent issue at the forefront of the American conscious. Rutgers University’s Marc Pfeiffer, whose career in the public sector spans decades, is uniquely qualified...
New Jersey’s “property tax problem” and high number of municipalities: a video presentation with Q&A
Marc Pfeiffer of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center gave a presentation on New Jersey's “property tax problem” and the number of municipalities in New Jersey to the NJ State Society of Certified Public AccountantsState Taxation Interest Group in July 2018.
Infrastructure Networks & Energy Events
View a list of historic events from 2004-2018. June 26, 2018 Viability of offshore wind energy touted at NJBIZ panel | NJBIZ New Jersey could benefit from harnessing offshore wind, and its educated workforce offers a competitive advantage in promoting energy development projects in the state. April 18, 2018 Forum on the Path to 2050: New Jersey’s Clean...
EAC’s Dr. Whytlaw developed/teaches GIS Applications in Marine Science and Policy class to Monmouth University students
EAC's Dr. Whytlaw has developed and teaches a GIS Applications in Marine Science and Policy class to Monmouth University students. The course has students gather and analyze spatial data to critically examine uses of the ocean in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States, including working through NOAA's Ocean Economics Methodology to examine coastal...
EAC Produces TNJ Resilient Webinar Series
EAC created and presented a three-part webinar series on resiliency planning co-sponsored by the Together North Jersey (TNJ) Resilience Task Force and the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA). Webinar 1: “Climate Change and Wetland Restoration” Rutgers University’s current projections estimate a 1.4-foot rise in water by 2050, leaving...
10th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference
Micro to Macro The Future of the Raritan Friday, June 8, 2018 Kathleen G. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, Rutgers Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ 10th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony Our 2018 conference explored emerging contaminants affecting the Raritan and renewed watershed planning efforts that will address new and...
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Heat Waves, Seniors, and Low-Income Housing: Organizational Factors in Individual Adaptive Behavior
A presentation on Heat Waves, Seniors, and Low-Income Housing: Organizational Factors in Individual Adaptive Behavior IFoU 12th Annual Conference Beyond Resilience Universitas Tarumanangara, Jakarta 27-29 June 2019
Cost-Effective Methods for Detection and Improvements of Energy Performance & Indoor Air Quality
A presentation by Dr. Jennifer Senick on the Cost-Effective Methods for Detection & Improvement of Indoor Air Quality.
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...