MACH Administrative Director, Lisa Auermuller and Senior Personnel, Lucas Marxen will be overseeing two elements of a newly funded National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)- grant titled “Building a Climate Ready NJ.” Led by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP), Auermuller and Marxen are two of a handful of Rutgers University staff and faculty receiving about $16 million of the $72 million grant to lead several program components in partnership with NJ DEP and others statewide.
Auermuller, affiliated with the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers, will be responsible for managing a $3 million education and outreach element, “which includes K-12 teacher training and expanding the use of a crowdsourced coastal monitoring app called MyCoast NJ.” Marxen, affiliated with the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, will lead a $2 million project to enhance the New Jersey Resilience Toolkit for municipal-level planning.
Read the full story in Rutgers Today.
Read more about the NOAA Award here.
Read more about the “Building a Climate Ready NJ” initiative here.