Malone, S.J., R.G. Lathrop, E. Pyshnik, J. Blum, J. Whytlaw, and J. Bognar. 2019. State of the Raritan Report, Volume 2. Sustainable Raritan River Initiative, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University’s Sustainable Raritan River Initiative has released a second report on the status of watershed health for the Raritan […]
2019, Malone, Raritan, report
Rutgers experts, including Jeanne Herb of the Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, provide sound science and evidence-based recommendations on how to be more resilient to climate change-related impacts in four essays. Read their recommendations here and access online resilience tools that can help New Jersey, counties, towns, businesses and residents adapt to climate change-related impacts. […]
2019, Climate, coastal, Herb, resilience, Rising Tide
Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw produced a new story map that shows how the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal is being used to inform discussions on potential locations for offshore wind farms in the New York Bight. The story map was produced for Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute where Dr. Whytlaw is an Instructor of GIS. View the […]
2019, Monmouth, storymap, Whytlaw, wind
This year’s Sustainable Raritan River conference will be a joint effort with Rutgers Climate Institute, New Jersey Climate Change Alliance, and Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience program to explore the impacts of climate change on Raritan basin communities and environs, and to advance renewed watershed planning efforts that will promote resilience throughout the Raritan […]
Climate Institute, conference, Raritan, resilience
With support from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hosted by the University of Wisconsin, EAC staff Jeanne Herb, Dr. Jennifer Whytlaw and Dr. Karen Lowrie examined strategies to add additional indicators regarding the environment and climate change to the county Health Rankings and Roadmaps platform. Read […]
CHR&R, county, health, Herb, Lowrie, RWJF, Whytlaw
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 Analysis
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 […]
Elizabeth, health, Lifelong Elizabeth, Lowrie, senior
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, Whytlaw
Seven graduate students participated in this Fall 2017 studio through the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy led by lecturer Sara Malone to analyze two key elements for public access to the Raritan River as proposed in the Rutgers University Physical Master Plan – the RU 2030 Master Plan. The key elements […]
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