Monmouth University will serve as the newest partner in the Surfrider Foundation’s Blue Water Task Force (BWTF), a nationwide network dedicated to monitoring water quality at public beaches.
An collaborative opinion piece from Tony MacDonald, director of the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute and Dr. Barbara Brummer, state director of The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey …
As New Jersey’s coastal communities prepare for summer boating and hurricane season, a unique public-private partnership is advancing a smart, sustainable approach to protecting our coast.
Continue reading NJ Turns the Tide with Innovative Coastal Sediment Strategy
Surfers at beaches where stormwater drainage pipes discharge into the ocean risk catching more than waves on a rainy day.
Monmouth University researchers studying the influence of weather and ocean conditions on microbial pollution found that within six to 24 hours of moderate rainfall, enterococcus bacteria levels exceeded state health safety standards about half the time at these beaches. While rain is a known driver of illness-causing microbial pollution at New Jersey beaches, this was the first peer-reviewed study to formally investigate the linkage.
Continue reading Making Waves: MU Study Finds Rain-Driven Pollution Plagues Ocean Surf Zones
It’s all about offering youth a close-up view of their ocean world as inspiration to protect it.
Continue reading Focus: Clean Ocean Action & Inspiring Young Ocean Advocates
Friday was a day for hundreds of area residents, elected officials, business owners, volunteers championing environmental action to gather with Clean Ocean Action (COA) at Bayshore Waterfront Park, in the Belford section of Middletown, and call on NJ Gov. Phil Murphy to permanently deny all permits for the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline.
Clean Ocean Action maintains that the 23.4-mile project would “rip Raritan Bay in half, contaminate waters, kill marine life and destroy decades of efforts to improve waterways.”
Continue reading Clean Ocean Action: The Anti-Fracking Fight & the NESE PipelineThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has appointed Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Director Tony MacDonald as a member of its Ocean Studies Board (OSB).
Continue reading Meet the New National Academies’ Ocean Studies Board MemberMonmouth University has named Randall S. Abate its inaugural Rechnitz Family Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy.
In this new position, Abate will conduct research and teach courses on environmental, climate change, marine and coastal, animal, and constitutional law and policy.
Continue reading Monmouth U Names Urban Coast Institute Chair in Marine & Environmental Law & Policy
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