Update May 2025
Overview
A diverse coalition of state agency, non-governmental organization and academic partners has been collaborating on the development of a Coastal Ecological Restoration and Adaptation Plan (CERAP) for New Jersey’s coastal marshes, estuaries and back-bays. NJResTOrS is one component of a larger strategy to equip coastal municipal planners and non-profit partners with the resources to plan, coordinate and implement coastal restoration projects that support community resilience, ecosystem health and carbon sequestration.
To support this effort, this same coalition has been building the NJ Restoration Tool Organization Suite (NJResTOrS) to provide a more seamless integration of web-based decision support tools so that users can work directly from project scoping through evaluation. The NResTOrS work flow proceeds from the statewide perspective of the CERAP tool to a landscape scale evaluation of the marsh landscape with the Marsh Explorer and Living Shorelines Explorer tools to more detailed site level assessment and guidance provided by the Wetlands Assessment Tool for Condition & Health (WATCH) and the Living Shoreline Feasibility Model (LSFM).
Work Flow
Viewers and Tools
Link to Restoration Explorer Launch Site>
Video
This short video illustrates how the Restoration Explorer can be used to examine which living shoreline techniques are most appropriate in a particular location. It features the work that Barnegat Bay Partnership is doing with Tuckerton to stabilize an area of shoreline along the bay front. Link to the video >
Contact @ CRSSA
Rick Lathrop
Director, Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA)
lathrop@crssa.rutgers.edu
Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA)
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
14 College Farm Road, Cook Campus
New Brunswick, NJ USA 08901-8551
Tel: 848/932-1582
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