Mar 19, 2025
by Dr. Lenore Tedesco, Executive Director These past few months have seen a lot of changes in policies and priorities coming down from the federal level and rippling through society. Some view these as good; others see them as detrimental. I have always been crystal...
Mar 19, 2025
by Dr. Lenore Tedesco, Executive Director We are pleased to report that the construction phase of the marsh rehabilitation project on Scotch Bonnet Island was successfully completed this fall. This project beneficially used clean sediment dredged from the NJ...
Nov 5, 2024
by Dr. Lenore Tedesco, Executive Director This past winter, NJDEP and The Wetlands Institute were awarded a two-year planning grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Coastal Resilience Fund through the Department of the Interior. Funds from the...
Nov 5, 2024
by Devin Griffiths, Marketing & Communications Specialist The number of challenges facing the natural world today can be overwhelming, and caring for it often seems daunting. Sometimes just deciding where to focus is a Herculean effort. What’s most important, and...
Nov 5, 2024
by Brian Williamson, Research Scientist Each year at The Wetlands Institute we incorporate new projects designed to investigate emerging and long-standing questions about the organisms we study. While we have been working with terrapins for decades, much remains to be...
Nov 5, 2024
by Sean Burkholder, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania The Wetlands Institute (TWI) has been collaborating with The Environmental Modeling Lab (EMLab) at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design over the past 5 years to collect data,...
