Lisa Auermuller
Assistant Manager
Rutgers University, Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center
Biography
Lisa Auermuller is the Assistant Manager of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR) in Tuckerton, NJ where she has been employed there since 2002. Lisa oversees the day-to-day management of JC NERR’s Coastal Center as well as the Reserve’s education, outreach, communications, and Coastal Training Program. Lisa’s primary areas of interest have coastal community vulnerability and resilience as they relate to current and future coastal hazards. Lisa’s work combines natural and social science aspects of the coastal decision-making process.
Currently, Lisa is collaborating with NOAA OCM and state and regional partners to assess how well NOAA’s Water Initiative tools and products meet stakeholder needs.
Rutgers Climate Bridge Panel 5: The Impact of Sea Level Rise
Abstract
Superstorm Sandy made landfall along the New Jersey coastline nearly a decade ago. Since this time, sea level rise science has advanced, there has been an acknowledgement of the need for an interdisciplinary approach to address sea level rise and there has been a heightened recognition that under-resourced individuals will be unequally impacted by climate change. In service of making state-based climate science useful and useable, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey has committed to regularly assess the needs of practitioners and decision makers and meet their needs through tools, technical assistance, and science-based services. While science is at the center of Rutgers’ approach, it is one piece of a complex puzzle of diverse ways that the Rutgers hosted New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center is addressing the challenges of climate change adaptation at the state, county, and local levels.