City University of New York, Brooklyn College
IN-48: Innovation B
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Carrie
Sadovnik Director of Environmental Health and Safety Environmental Health & Safety |
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Name or title of the innovative policy, practice, program, or outcome:
Science + Resilience Institute - Jamaica Bay
A brief description of the innovative policy, practice, program, or outcome that outlines how credit criteria are met and any positive measurable outcomes associated with the innovation:
The Institute is a partnership among the National Park Service, the City of New York, and a Consortium of eight research institutions lead by Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and including Columbia University, Cornell University, Rutgers University, Stony Brook University, New York Sea Grant, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Our mission is to produce integrated knowledge that increases biodiversity, well-being, and adaptive capacity in coastal communities and waters surrounding Jamaica Bay and New York City.
The Institute leads three large programs: Community Flood Watch; Cycles of Resilience; and Statewide Shoreline Monitoring. Each of the programs offers faculty and students with sustainability-related research opportunities and community engagement. While aspects of the these programs were intiated after Superstorm Sandy in 2011, innovative research/outcomes from the past couple of years are noteworthy. For one, new coastal flood sensors captured recent tidal flooding around Jamaica for the first time, after the sensors were installed as part of a pilot project funded by the University Office of Research under their Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Research Grant program. A second project led by a fellow and masters candidate at a sister campus sought to study how heat affects residents of public housing.
The Institute leads three large programs: Community Flood Watch; Cycles of Resilience; and Statewide Shoreline Monitoring. Each of the programs offers faculty and students with sustainability-related research opportunities and community engagement. While aspects of the these programs were intiated after Superstorm Sandy in 2011, innovative research/outcomes from the past couple of years are noteworthy. For one, new coastal flood sensors captured recent tidal flooding around Jamaica for the first time, after the sensors were installed as part of a pilot project funded by the University Office of Research under their Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Research Grant program. A second project led by a fellow and masters candidate at a sister campus sought to study how heat affects residents of public housing.
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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The flood sensor community science project is now part of a larger cooperative of organizations and communities: https://www.floodnet.nyc/.
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