Land Use and Offsets

President’s Task Force on Carbon Neutrality and Climate Resilience
Working Group on Land Use and Offsets

 

The Working Group on Land Use and Offsets (Working Group 5) focuses on 1) approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with University land use and maintenance, including both on campus grounds and at off-campus facilities, such as New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Farms and Research Stations; 2) approaches to reducing the University’s energy demand through land use; 3) approaches to increasing carbon dioxide storage in University-owned land through increased carbon sequestration in soils and woody vegetation, and; 4) other approaches to offsetting University emissions.

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Land Use and Offsets Working Group Members

 

Co-Chairs

Richard Lathrop
Director, Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis
Director, Rutgers Ecological Preserve
Professor of Environmental Monitoring, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Frank Wong 
Assistant Vice President, University Planning and Development, Institutional Planning and Operations

 

Members

Myla Aronson
Director, Hutcheson Memorial Forest, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Alvin Chin
Graduate Student, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Brian Clemson
University Landscape Architect, Institutional Planning and Operations

Julia DeFeo
Undergraduate Student, College of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers University-Camden

Panos Georgopulos
Professor, School of Public Health
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

Paul Gottlieb
Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Pat Harrity
Director, Grounds Operations, Institutional Planning and Operations

Marjorie Kaplan
Associate Director, Rutgers Climate Institute
Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Karina Schäfer 
Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers University–Newark

Laura Schneider 
Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers University–New Brunswick

David Schulz
Vice President and University Architect, Institutional Planning and Operations

Fiona Sergeant
Undergraduate Student, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University–New Brunswick