Over the past few months MRRI has had the wonderful opportunity to work with the expert drone team from Warren County Community College’s UAS (unmanned aircraft system) department in order to improve our own drone
The Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute (MRRI) has officially received New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) certification for dissolved oxygen (DO) measurement using the luminescence-based method SM 4500-O H-21, marking an important milestone in
Join us this Sunday, January 11 2026, from 10AM–2PM for the NJ Meadowlands Eagle Festival. This special free of charge event welcomes all nature lovers, families, and bird enthusiasts alike. Co-hosted by the NJSEA and
NJSEA staff attended and presented at the 20th annual New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management conference in Atlantic City. The NJAFM conference allows hundreds of floodplain managers to network and learn new ways to mitigate
The 2024 water quality data collected in the Meadowlands Lower Hackensack Estuary have been reviewed through QA/QC and shared with the public via the national Water Quality Exchange (WQX) platform. The Meadowlands Research & Restoration
MRRI’s GIS division welcomed the members of NJGF for the nonprofit’s general fall meeting in the morning of October 2nd. The meeting was followed by a boat tour that took adventurous members, wanting to connect
Ildiko C. Pechmann, Ph.D., Senior Environmental Scientist with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority’s Meadowlands Research and Restoration Institute (MRRI), recently shared her team’s work at the annual Mid-Atlantic Wetland Workgroup Meeting, held at
On June 5, MRRI GIS personnel attended the NJ Geospatial Forum. Christopher Blackley presented his animated flood models created using a software called HEC-RAS. These flood simulations use the most recent terrain elevation available to
From April 7th to the 11th our GIS specialist Eric Manke had the opportunity to attend the 2025 JACIE workshop on remote sensing, held at the USGS headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The workshop is an
MRRI scientists have kicked off the field season by deploying the first of six sediment traps at Anderson Creek Marsh (Secaucus, NJ). A complex cluster of sensors, designed to monitor the mass of sediment carried
At the Delaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit on February 11, 2024, MRRI’s senior environmental scientist Joe Grzyb presented the marsh sediment elevation data from the Meadowlands District. MRRI is part of the New Jersey
NJSEA hosted the Harbor Herons annual meeting on January 24, 2025, which was attended by 40 people in person and 40 virtually. The Harbor Herons Work Group is a subcommittee to the NY&NJ Harbor &