Congratulations to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance for winning the Coastal and Ocean Champion Award from the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute. The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance is facilitated by the Environmental Analysis and Communications Group in partnership with the Rutgers Climate Institute. Over the past year, the Alliance has also won […]
Compiled by EAC’s Dr. Karen Lowrie, (Managing Editor of Risk Analysis) and Dr. Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, this special virtual issue of Risk Analysis, prepared a year after Harvey and in the wake of Florence, offers insights on how best to anticipate, communicate, manage, mitigate, respond to, recover from, and learn from such disasters. The […]
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In the Fall of 2018, EAC’s Dr. Karen Lowrie is leading a class of MCRP students in a studio class that focuses on Farley Towers, a senior living facility managed by the City of Elizabeth Housing Authority. Students will examine the opportunities to improve and expand outdoor areas to accommodate passive and active recreation for […]
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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 suggested improvements to the new […]
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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 authoritative data, […]
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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 […]
CJA1@rutgers.edu Clinton Andrews is a professor of urban planning, director of the Rutgers Center for Green Building, and associate dean for faculty at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School. He was educated at Brown and MIT in engineering and planning, and worked previously in the private sector and at Princeton University. He teaches environmental planning and quantitative […]
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 economies. This course will be […]
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