The New Jersey County Planners Association (NJCPA) hosted its regular meeting on February 19, 2016 at Thompson Park Visitor Center in Lincroft, NJ. Dom Elefante of MRRI, illustrated the life cycle of a development permit from a GIS planning perspective. His presentation highlighted how permit tracking software and GIS are used to find property records … Read more
A planning tools expo organized by the New Jersey Planning Association was held on January 28, 2016 in New Brunswick; planners and other officials from State, County and education were present to share information about new tools for planning, transportation and emergency management. Dom Elefante, GIS Administrator from MRRI presented the NJSEA Emergency Response Information … Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded funding to the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MRRI) to conduct research within the Meadowlands District . MRRI will measure the exchange rate of carbon dioxide and nitrogen gases in marshlands that receive tidal waters of different levels of salinity. These factors influence the natural storage of carbon and … Read more
MRRI GIS is assisting members of the East Rutherford Police Department in creating detailed building floor plan maps of the town’s critical facilities. These maps provide the East Rutherford Police important information for emergency response situations. With the police department’s help, the MRRI-GIS team is constructing maps highlighting building access points and other features that … Read more
MRRI and Natural Resources scientists are working to collect samples of benthic fauna from mudflats in the Meadowlands District as part of an EPA grant designed to assess the contaminant levels of mud dwelling critters that are the main source of food for some birds migrating through the Atlantic flyway. As the summer season comes … Read more
NJDEP Office of Natural Lands Management staff members visited with MRRI and the Natural Resources Management Department on August 4, 2015. Presentations and discussions were provided by both Departments on their respective activities. Participants also toured the MRRI laboratory, Library and GIS lab and Scientific Education Center. The day was complete with a pontoon boat … Read more
The AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors Year-end Meeting was held at the Meadowlands Environment Center. Guest speaker, Dr. Francisco Artigas, Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MRRI) gave an overview of the functions of MRRI. The Program Manager from NJDEP and all the Ambassadors from the State all attended the meeting.
The GIS Team from Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MRRI) visited the Borough of East Rutherford’s Fire Station on Herman Street to show mapping tools available from the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority’s (NJSEA) Emergency Response Information System (ERIS). ERIS is a mapping tool provided to each member municipalities of the Authority focused on emergency … Read more
MRRI’s ballooning campaign for the summer of 2015 has begun with acquisitions from Fish Creek, Hawk property and River Bend. The goal is to acquire high resolution true color aerial images of marsh surfaces in the Meadowlands estuary. This season more than 300 acres of marsh surface are planned to be photographed from a tethered … Read more
As green leaves emerge and plants start photosynthesizing early in the growing season there is a shift from a winter condition where marsh ecosystems emit C02 to a growing season condition where marsh ecosystems capture more atmospheric C02 that they emit. In other words, ecosystems shift from being a source of C02 during the winter … Read more