Micro to Macro The Future of the Raritan Friday, June 8, 2018 Kathleen W. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, Douglass Honors College, New Brunswick, NJ 10th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony Our 2018 conference explored emerging contaminants affecting the Raritan and renewed watershed planning efforts that will address new and ongoing threats […]
A real-time water quality monitoring station has been deployed on the bottom of the Raritan River in the mid-channel in front of the Rutgers Class of 1914 Boathouse (at approximately Lat/Long 40.488960, -74.33184). YSI/Xylem EXO2 Sonde sensors include: conductivity, temperature, depth, dissolved oxygen, salinity, chlorophyll, turbidity. A Sontek Argonaut-XR ADCP measures pressure, temperature, and current […]
A new study by Dr. Dan Van Abs provides a variety of water demand scenarios for New Jersey’s 584 Public Community Water Supply (PCWS) systems, targeting the year 2040, including, of course, those utilities operating within and dependent upon the Raritan Basin. The study includes an assessment of how changes in population trends could alter […]
Professor Max Häggblom and his team of researcher received a R3C mini-grant to investigate the biodegradability of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in Raritan River Sediments. The team was comprised of Dr. Häggblom (Dept. Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS), Professor Lee Kerkhof (Dept. Marine & Coastal Sciences, SEBS), Professor Donna Fennel (Dept. Environmental Sciences, SEBS), Dr. […]
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The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) has awarded a combination of eleven mini-grants and internships to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues. The recipients and project titles are: Kaizuan Bu (Dept. Marine & Coastal Science, School of Enviromental & Biological Science (“SEBS”)) and Jeffra […]
The study of microplastics and their negative effects as water pollutants has led to multiple opportunities for research and partnership. Through the Rutgers Raritan River Consortium minigrant program, Dr. Nicole Fahrenfeld led a study with the Raritan Headwaters Association (RHA) over this past summer. The goal of the study was to better understand microplastic transport […]
This summer, Rutgers undergraduate student Laura Wiltsee, advised by Dr. Josh Kohut, worked with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to produce a profile of the water column at different sites along the Raritan River, as marked on the map (click to view full map). The profiles of the temperature and salinity shown on […]
A new research vessel, R/V Rutgers, has given undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of academic programs at Rutgers the opportunity to get out on the water and learn valuable data collection methods from members of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). Throughout the months of April, May, and July, Dr. Josh […]
The Raritan Scholars program provides Rutgers students with internships related to watershed management in the Raritan River watershed. The program was originally proposed in 2013 by Dr. Judy Shaw, who then worked for the Bloustein School and coordinated the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI). The course has been taught by Dr. Daniel Van Abs, a […]
