The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance was one of eleven recipients of the 19th Annual Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards given in Trenton on Tuesday, December 10, 2018. The Alliance received the award in the Environmental Education (Educator-led) category. The award description read, “Facilitated by the Rutgers Climate Institute and Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School […]
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4th National Climate Assessment identifies NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance as key collaborator in regional climate adaptation strategies

The Fourth National Climate Assessment identified the NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance as a key program to develop and implement climate adaptation strategies that assist Northeast municipalities, counties and states in efforts to build resilience to environmental changes and adapt to a changing climate (Chapter 18, Executive Summary). The NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance is co-facilitated by the […]
Climate, NJADAPT, Rutgers Climate InstituteJoin 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
Herb, Restore America's Estuaries, SummitState 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
Climate Institute, Coastal Resilience Summit, Herb, Kaplan, NJDEPSocial Vulnerability in New Jersey’s Coastal Zone

EAC Executive Director Jeanne Herb, along with Senior Research Specialists Matt Campo and Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw, presented an analysis of social vulnerability in New Jersey’s 239 coastal municipalities at a Coastal Resilience Summit convened by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. See their slide presentation here.
New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance wins Coastal and Ocean Champion Award

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 […]
EAC’s Lowrie teams with Tony Cox on Risk Analysis special issue: Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering from Hurricane Flooding Disasters

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 […]
2018, Climate, hurricane, Lowrie, risk, Risk AnalysisEAC 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 suggested improvements to the new […]
Climate, coastal, Herb, platform, resilience, tools, WhytlawEAC’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 economies. Learn more about the […]
course, GIS, Monmouth, NOAA, ocean, WhytlawEAC Karen Lowrie co-facilitates PHCI workshop in southern NJ

Karen Lowrie co-facilitated a workshop on May 9 at the Rutgers Atlantic Cape campus with Leigh Ann Von Hagen as part of the Planning Health Communities Initiative. Health Department members from four Southern New Jersey counties learned about Health Impact Assessment and Health in All Policies, in preparation for selecting projects in their counties that could benefit […]
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