Michael Greenberg, Director
Michael Greenberg studies environmental health and risk analysis. He is professor and associate dean of the faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. He has written 30 books and more than 300 articles. His two most recent books are The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations: Managing Environmental Power, New York: Routledge (2011), and Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy Choices: Public Preferences, Perceptions, and Trust, London: Springer (2012). Currently, professor Greenberg is writing Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters: From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience. He has been a member of National Research Council Committees that focus on the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile and nuclear weapons; chemical waste management; and the degradation of the U.S. government physical infrastructure. Dr. Greenberg has received awards from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Society for Professional Journalists, the Public Health Association, the Association of American Geographers, and Society for Risk Analysis. He served as area editor for social sciences and then editor-in-chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal during the period 2002-2103, and continues as associate editor for environmental health for the American Journal of Public Health.
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Henry J. Mayer, Ph.D., Executive Director
Henry Mayer has extensive experience in the corporate, academic, and government arenas, with a focus over the past ten years on the large and complex environmental, infrastructure, and capital financing issues associated with the redevelopment of many of the country’s older cities and towns. His recent work has included using GIS based modeling tools to estimate the environmental, transportation and economic impacts of alternative land-use decisions at the county, region and state level; assisting economically distressed communities in Plainfield, Franklin and New Brunswick in visioning and developing neighborhood revitalization plans; and examining the causes and long-term impacts of poorly planned and managed large government funded environmental cleanup efforts.
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Jeanne Herb, Associate Director
Jeanne Herb leads a variety of projects and programs related to environmental policy and sustainability. Her work includes:
Co-facilitating the NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance (http://climatechange.rutgers.edu/njadapt) which is a public-private partnership in New Jersey that is building capacity in New Jersey to prepare for climate change impacts and to develop public policies that promote resilience;
Supporting the Transportation and Climate Initiative a 12-state effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector facilitated by the Georgetown Climate Center (www.georgetownclimate.org);
Developing guidance on land use and other strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector and increase capacity to promote resilience for more than 100 communities in New York State;
Engaging a five state regional stakeholder process to develop a transparent and public portal to support regional ocean planning, including engagement of citizens in participatory and consensus-based processes geospatial processes;
Incorporating health in all policies (HIAP) approaches into the North Jersey Sustainable Communities Consortium (http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/njscc/), including organization of a Health in all Policies conference in spring 2013; Development of capacity in New Jersey for Health Impact Assessments and enhancement of capacity to apply integrated environmental public health data.
Prior to joining the Bloustein School, Jeanne was Assistant Commissioner for Policy, Planning and Science at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. While at NJDEP, she oversaw programs related to climate change, environmental justice, sustainable development and “green” design, state planning, environmental health tracking, smart growth, and coastal and ocean policy. Jeanne began her career at NJDEP in the mid 1980’s through the late 1990’s when she was engaged in the state’s landmark Worker and Community Right to Know and Pollution Prevention Acts. In between her two “tours of duty” at NJDEP, Jeanne spent six years as the Manager of the public policy program at Tellus Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit consulting “think-do” tank which focuses on environmental policy, sustainable development, corporate governance and energy planning. She holds a BA degree from Rutgers University and an MA from New York University.
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Karen Lowrie, Ph.D., Associate Director
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Matt Campo, Senior Research Specialist
Mr. Campo has experience in transportation planning and modeling, business strategy, real estate investment and market analysis, and risk assessment modeling. Matt’s current research is focused on understanding tools and methods to assess the resilience and security of infrastructure systems and supply chains. He has also worked for Ernst & Young and TranSystems on the behalf of public agencies and private companies to develop growth and consolidation strategies for commercial, residential and industrial real estate assets. Matt received a Master of City and Regional Planning Degree from the Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. Matt has been invited to give presentations for the Transportation Research Board and other institutions.
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Stacy Krause, AICP/PP, Senior Research Specialist
Stacy Krause began her planning career with the NJ Office of Smart Growth where she administered the Plan Endorsement Program and assisted in the update to the NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan. More recently, she worked as a Senior Planner for Ocean County, NJ where she managed many projects including the County Water Quality Management Planning Program and the Joint Land Use Military Study Initiatives with the Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment. At EAC, Ms. Krause conducts research on health policy as part of NJ’s Healthy Homes Program, as well as flood hazard mitigation and federal disaster assistance grant programs for the FEMA project. She also conducts research in the area of sustainable planning and local “green” planning and land use ordinances. She received a B.A. from Rutgers University with a double major in Political Science and Urban Studies and a Master of City and Regional Planning Degree from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with a concentration in Community Development. Ms. Krause is a licensed professional planner for the State of New Jersey and also certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a member of the American Planning Association.
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Sara Malone, Senior Research Specialist
Sara Malone is a Professional Research Manager in the EAC Group at Bloustein where she works with the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative, the New Jersey Healthy Homes Initiative and on several land use planning projects including a Brownfield to Greenfield project in Perth Amboy and a Statewide climate adaptation/habitat vulnerability assessment project. She is a part-time lecturer at Bloustein and co-taught a graduate planning studio on wetlands and habitat restoration for a working waterfront in the Raritan Center. She has a background in regional planning, project management, accounting, and human resources management and has training in ecological restoration and landscape design. Ms. Malone holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts/Boston and she received a Master of Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 where her academic focus was on ecology, wetlands restoration, and damaged lands reuse. She is a member of the Franklin Township Shade Tree Commission in Somerset County.
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Jennifer Whytlaw, GISP, GIS Manager
Jennifer Whytlaw, GISP is a GIS Manager in the EAC Group at the Bloustein School. Her work is focused on the development and use of GIS tools and applications as components to environmental health and planning projects. Jennifer has worked with the Department of Homeland Security and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop decision support systems to enhance planning capabilities and risk management strategies of maritime stakeholders. She assisted the US Environmental Protection Agency Region II in developing a database of facilities to aid in prioritizing pollution prevention technical assistance for facilities vulnerable to flood hazards, and is the Bloustein lead member of the development team on a New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance initiative to develop a NJ based all climate hazards web-based application and associated website (NJADAPT.org). Jennifer is the Project Manager of a NJ Department of Health funded Healthy Homes Project as well as a FEMA funded mapping project. Prior to joining Bloustein in 2009, Jennifer worked in the fields of maritime safety, environmental policy and planning, and environmental engineering. She received a Master of Science Degree in Geographic and Cartographic Sciences from George Mason University and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Policy and Political Science from Albright College. She is also an active member of MAC URISA, the Chair of the Executive Committee of the NJ Geospatial Forum, and a member of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association (NHMA).
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