Office of NJDEP Natural Lands Management visits MRRI

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

MSU’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Visit MRRI

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.

MRRI GIS Outreach-East Rutherford/Ridgefield

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

2015 Balloon Imagery Acquisition Season Begins in the Meadowlands

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

Marshlands go into carbon dioxide sink mode

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

MRRI scientists present study at the HDC-SETAC 2015 Annual Meeting

Parts of the towns of little Ferry, Moonachie and Carlstadt are located in a low lying basin of the Hackensack River Estuary with an historical original elevation of about 1.5 feet above sea level. During super storm Sandy, flood waters from the sea surge moved over berms and tide gates and up tidal creeks and … Read more

GIS Team Creates Interactive Paddle Map Application

Working in tandem with Riverkeeper and our Commission’s Parks Department, the MRRI GIS team has developed an interactive web mapping application that details a boating trail along the Hackensack River within our district. The map application was created with ArcGIS Online services and includes the main path, secondary paddling trails, and seventeen points of interest … Read more

Meadowlands marsh soils to be characterized and mapped by USDA-NRCS

Dr. Richard Shaw, the State Soils Scientist from USDA-NRCS and his staff along with Kathleen Strakosch Walz, a wetland ecologist from the Office of Natural Lands and Management, NJDEP visited one of MRRI’s sediment elevation tables monitoring sites in anticipation of a marsh soil mapping project. According to Dr. Shaw “The objective of this project … Read more

Super computer to forecast District sea surge warnings

Environment scientists from the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MRRI) visited the installations of the Urban Ocean Observatory at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. Data from MRRI’s water elevation monitoring stations in the lower Hackensack River estuary are now contributing real-time water elevation information to the Davidson Laboratory Storm Surge Warning System. As a … Read more

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