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  • Sustainable Raritan River Initiative

    – bringing together partners from across the region to craft an agenda to restore and preserve New Jersey’s Raritan River, basin and bay

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  • Rutgers Raritan River Consortium

    – a university-wide collaborative effort to enhance the student experience and to apply Rutgers research and scholarship to advance improvements in regional planning, policy and decision-making for the Raritan region

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  • Johnson Family Chair for Water Resources and Watershed Ecology

    – studying impacts of human activities on aquatic ecosystems and applying that knowledge to promote better stewardship of water resources

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  • Watershed Partners – The Sustainable Raritan River Collaborative

    – basin-wide stakeholders working together to balance social, economic and environmental objectives towards the common goal of restoring the Raritan for current and future generations

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  • Sustainable Raritan River Initiative

    sustainableraritansoniaszczesna007

    – bringing together partners from across the region to craft an agenda to restore and preserve New Jersey’s Raritan River, basin and bay

  • Rutgers Raritan River Consortium

    students on boat

    – a university-wide collaborative effort to enhance the student experience and to apply Rutgers research and scholarship to advance improvements in regional planning, policy and decision-making for the Raritan region

  • Johnson Family Chair for Water Resources and Watershed Ecology

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    – studying impacts of human activities on aquatic ecosystems and applying that knowledge to promote better stewardship of water resources

  • Watershed Partners – The Sustainable Raritan River Collaborative

    WMA_Comp_FINAL-sjm

    – basin-wide stakeholders working together to balance social, economic and environmental objectives towards the common goal of restoring the Raritan for current and future generations

Welcome The Raritan River has a rich history, which includes strong ties to Rutgers University. A number of entities from across the university are collaborating to transform the Raritan Basin into an interactive field laboratory that enhances the student experience, encourages and supports transdisciplinary research, and addresses real-world concerns of regional stakeholders.

SRRI
Rutgers University launched the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative in 2009 to bring together concerned scientists, environmentalists, engineers, businesses, community leaders and governmental entities to restore and preserve New Jersey’s Raritan River, its tributaries and its bay. The Initiative conducts conferences and topical workshops, provides technical assistance, and develops anchor projects that raise the profile of the Raritan River.

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R3C
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium is comprised of multiple schools, programs and departments across Rutgers New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses that recognize the critical value of the Raritan and its environs to the social, economic and ecological integrity of the region that Rutgers calls home. Organized as a ‘virtual’ network, the R3C leverages resources and capabilities to advance higher educational programming and research as well as improvements in planning, policy and decision-making for a more sustainable Raritan.

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JFC
Richard G. Lathrop Jr., professor of environmental monitoring at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is the inaugural holder of the Johnson Family Chair in Water Resources and Watershed Ecology. As the Johnson Family Chair, Dr. Lathrop leads an interdisciplinary program to study how human activities in upland watersheds affect downstream aquatic ecosystems and how that knowledge can be applied to promote better stewardship of water resources.

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Our information clearinghouse assists stakeholders in efforts to study, explore and plan for a more sustainable Raritan.
Research & Data
Raritan River Hydrological Observatory
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Recent Posts

  • R3C Webinars on Recent Raritan Research

  • 2020 and 2021 Raritan River Conferences Canceled

  • Rutgers Raritan River Initiative to partner with NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program on Coastal Watershed Grant

  • Influence of biogeochemistry on the availability of toxic metals in iron-replete New Jersey sediment

  • New video on removal of Weston Mill Dam highlights preservation of historic artifacts

  • A Watershed-Based Approach to Flood Hazard Mitigation in the Raritan Region

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  • raritan@ejb.rutgers.edu

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