Stevens Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Sustainable and smart structures and infrastructure that are adaptive to and help mitigate climate changes
Key Questions: How can we mitigate climate change through sustainable and smart structures? How can we design sustainable and adaptive engineering structures?
Email me: yi.bao@stevens.edu
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Environmental Engineering, STEM Education
Key Questions: How do you research information? How can we spread the word and educate people in our neighborhood?
Email me: ashish.borgaonkar@njit.edu
Rutgers University
Sustainability Expertise: Coastal Resilience, Sustainable Development
Key Question: How can we prepare for the effects of climate change, such as sea level rise, and practice sustainable development in ways that are rooted in equity and environmental justice?
Email me: maravilla.clemens@rutgers.edu
University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
Sustainability Expertise: STEM Education, Sustainability Education
Key Questions: How can we educate others about sustainability concepts? How can we use STEM to teach others about sustainability and solve problems?
Email me: jesscordaro16@gmail.com
Rutgers University
Sustainability Expertise: Plant and Community Ecology, Water Resources and Water Quality, Green Infrastructure
Key Questions: Conceptual: What is the role of plants in urban sustainability? Methodological: How do I visualize and analyze ideas and data?
Email me: kdd56@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Princeton University
Sustainability Expertise: Climate science, climate change impacts, economics, inequality, costs & benefits of environmental policy
Key Questions: What are sustainable, scientifically sound, and economically efficient policies for addressing climate change? How can we account for uncertainty about the future as well as concerns for equity in these policies?
Email me: fce@princeton.edu
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Electric vehicles and infrastructure, renewable/alternative energy, strategy and policy, environmental compliance and regulation, site remediation, corporate social responsibility.
Key Question: How does energy production and use affect the environment? What can we do to solve climate change?
Email me: hornsby@njit.edu
ReVireo
Sustainability Expertise: Green Building
Key Question: How do we reduce carbon emissions from buildings?
Email me: mkaplan@revireo.com
Rutgers University
Sustainability Expertise: Marine biology, coastal development, warming oceans, marine conservation
Key Question: How can we make the Hudson River cleaner? How will sea level rise impact my community? What types of plants and animals are coming into or leaving NY Harbor? How do human activities on land impact the ocean?
Email me: zoe.kitchel@rutgers.edu
Princeton University
Sustainability Expertise: Healthy human-nature relationships; water, food & climate; resilience; community building; urban design
Key Questions: How can we live sustainably? Where does our water come from, where does it go, and how can we protect it? How do we prepare for and respond to shocks, such as Covid-19 or sea level rise?
Email me: ekrueger@princeton.edu
Director of Sustainability, City of Jersey City
Sustainability Expertise: Citywide Sustainability
Key Questions: How can we reduce food waste? How can we reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we emit as a community?
Email me: klawrence@jcnj.org
Stevens Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Sustainable construction materials
Key Question: How can cementitious materials support CO2 utilization and mitigation?
Email me: wmeng3@stevens.edu
Hudson County Improvement Authority
Sustainability Expertise: Sustainable Communities, Recycling, Sustainability Careers
Key Questions: How can you get involved in your community? Why is recycling important? What career options are there in the field of sustainability?
Email me: amandan@hcia.org
Rutgers University
Sustainability Expertise: Urban environmental planning
Key Question: How do we make sustainable, livable cities?
Email me: angela.oberg@rutgers.edu
Cornell Aktinson Center for Sustainability; The Dept. of Natural Resources & the Environment at Cornell University
Sustainability Expertise: Social interactions with the environment, environmental science policy, planning, urbanization, global sustainability
Key Questions: How do you practice sustainable consumption? How can you plan for sustainable cities? How do you create local, national, and international policies that protect the environment and promote environmental justice?
Email me: rodenbiker@cornell.edu
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Environmental contaminants; recovery of resources; green technologies
Key Questions: How will a changing environment affect the distribution of pollutants in water, soil, or plants? How can we promote sustainable development? How can we convert waste into valuable resources?
Email me: lrfreire@njit.edu
Princeton University
Sustainability Expertise: Strategic interactions, Game Theory, Dynamics of cooperation and collective action to promote sustainability
Key Questions: How can we incentivize individuals to cooperate with each other towards sustainable outcomes? How can we overcome selfish behaviors that obstruct sustainability?
Email me: fernandopedrosantos@hotmail.com
ThinkGreener, LLC
Sustainability Expertise: Carbon Emission Reduction, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Design, Sea Level Rise & Resiliency
Key Questions: How can we reduce fossil fuel consumption by implementing renewable energy solutions and sustainable design? What are the principles of a circular economy? How can living shorelines prevent storm surge damage?
Email me: Rob@Think-Greener.com
Chalmers University of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Sustainable production system, sustainable material selection
Key Questions: How can we manufacture/produce a product in a sustainable way? How do you select alternative materials to make a product sustainable?
Email me: gurugoodly@gmail.com
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