More than ten years have passed since Hurricane Sandy exposed New York City to devastating coastal flooding. Several cost-effective flood megaprojects, including levees and storm surge barriers, have been presented to the NY-NJ region to prevent future billion-dollar disasters, but none have moved forward. Researchers studying climate adaptation have put forward theories about why so few cities have built cost-effective …

Training program created in wake of Superstorm Sandy brings graduate students from varied disciplines together to solve real-world climate problems. As a child, Dan Blanco watched low-income neighborhoods in his native Chicago flood during storms while the more affluent enclaves did not. Now, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences at Rutgers so he can further explore – …

A recent article posting by the National Science Foundation, highlighting a recent study in Nature Communications, found that burying just 5% of power lines near the roots of the distribution network, could reduce the expected percentage of residents without power after a major hurricane from 18.2% to 11.3%. The results of this work is part of NSF’s Coastlines and People …

Two recent news stories highlighting different important topics related to climate risk were recently published while citing recent publications with ties to MACH. The first article, Future Hurricanes Likely to Pose Much Greater Flood Risk to US East and Gulf Coasts, published by Phys.org, references the work of graduate students Avantika Gori and Dazhi Xi, who are part of Princeton …

Jeanne Herb was recently featured on the Rutgers University Edward J Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy’s Podcast EJB Talks, where she provides an overview of the Bloustein School’s Environmental Analysis and Communications Group (EAC) as well as the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH). Listen Here

Covered by an article by Princeton University, a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, is among the first to assess how climate change could impact the frequency of extreme rainfall-surge events. The researchers hope the findings will help better inform policymakers as well as bolster overall preparedness for the severe storms to come. Read the Full News Article Here …