The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium has awarded five minigrants to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on...
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Sustainable Raritan River Initiative
Rutgers launched the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) in 2009 to convene scientists, engineers, business and community leaders,...
Rutgers 2030 Master Plan Seeks to Improve Campus Connectivity and Open Space Access
Rutgers New Brunswick has the largest university housing and transit systems and at 2,700 acres, one of the largest college campuses in the United...
Rutgers Raritan River Consortium Summary
2016 Sustainable Raritan Award Recipients
Eight individuals and organizations received Sustainable Raritan River Awards at the 8th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony...
Coastal Sediment Archives Can Guide Resilience Planning
Coastal wetlands are beneficial to our natural and human ecosystems. They are incredibly important during intense weather events, like hurricanes,...
Dr. Ken Mitchell Describes History of Raritan Flooding at Annual Conference
The Raritan River Basin has a long history of flooding events. Communities along the river have documented high water over the past three...
Questionnaire Provides New Jersey Communities with Resilience Evaluation Tool
Many communities in New Jersey are facing problems from flooding whether or not they are along the coast. The New Jersey Department of Environmental...
Dr. Robert Chant Researches Raritan River Estuary Sediment Transport
Dr. Robert Chant, a professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is researching sediment and...
8th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference
RU on the Raritan Conference Exploring an agenda for Rutgers’ stewardship of the Raritan River, basin and bay Friday, June 10, 2016, Douglass...
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Co-Creation of New Jersey’s 1st Health and Food Systems Municipal Master Plan Element
Senick, J. Co-Creation of New Jersey’s 1st Health and Food Systems Municipal Master Plan Element. PLAN4Health APA Baltimore Regional Meeting, June 22, 2016
Using synthetic population data for prospective modeling of occupant behavior during design
This paper addresses the challenge of incorporating occupant behavior into building performance simulation models used during the design process—that is, before the actual occupants are known. It proposes the use of synthetic population data, an approach that is novel...
Non-Consumptive Recreational Use Survey Results
The objective of this analysis was to understand non-consumptive recreational uses in the Mid- Atlantic Region and to identify specific conflicts identified by users as well as to highlight topics of interest to the same groups. The Mid-Atlantic Region includes New...