Call for Proposals for Raritan Conference Sessions

March 23, 2016

The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) announces a call for presentations from faculty, staff and graduate students for its annual conference at the Douglass Student Center on Friday, June 10, 2016.

In celebration of Rutgers 250th Anniversary, this year’s conference will highlight important work going on throughout the university including Raritan related research, courses, studios, educational and recreational opportunities, technical support, community based watershed work, etc. in the SRRI’s key focus areas of public access, water quality/quantity concerns, habitat restoration and stewardship, climate resilience, and land use patterns affecting the river and bay.

Submit proposals by March 31, 2016 to: raritan@ejb.rutgers.edu.

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