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Climate Change Impacts on Human Health & Communities : Addendum to the 2020 New Jersey Scientific Report on Climate Change
(Trenton, N.J. : Department of Environmental Protection, 2022-09) New Jersey. Department of Environmental Protection; Bonventre, Josephine A.; Lester, Lori A.
Since the middle of the twentieth century, the changes in weather patterns in combination with global population growth have led to an increase in human exposure to more severe heat waves, forest fires, severe storms, droughts, and infectious disease vectors, with dire consequences to human health and communities. From a greater incidence of cardiovascular and respiratory dysfunction associated with extreme weather, to population displacement caused by rising sea-levels and increased flooding events, to the often-overlooked mental health toll that climate change has on individuals and communities, the vulnerability of the human population to climate change is tangible. The following sections describe how the impacts of climate change described in the 2020 New Jersey Scientific Report on Climate Change may affect the human health and communities of New Jersey residents.
New Jersey Scientific Report on Climate Change
(Trenton, N.J. : Department of Environmental Protection, 2020-06-30) New Jersey. Department of Environmental Protection; Hill, Rebecca; Rutkowski, Megan M.; Lester, Lori A.; Genievich, Heather; Procopio, Nicholas A.
DEP's first scientific report on climate change summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding the effects of climate change on New Jersey’s environment to inform state and local decision-makers as they seek to understand and respond to the impacts of climate change. This report identifies and presents the best available science and existing data regarding the current and anticipated environmental effects of climate change globally, nationally, and regionally.
Statistical Analysis: Metal Concentrations in Soil
(Trenton, N.J. : Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Division of Science and Research, 2020-06-25) Lester, Lori A.
The Site Remediation and Waste Management Program (SRWMP) collected soil samples from 2016 to 2017 to characterize the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and metal concentrations in New Jersey. Previously, the SRWMP and the Division of Science and Research (DSR) produced a report detailing the results of the PAH analyses. Now, the main objective of this report is to statistically analyze and interpret the metal concentrations in soil at various sites across New Jersey. Another goal is to assess potential relationships between metal concentrations and other parameters including depth of sample, county, population density, distance to nearest known contaminated site, and forested versus open areas.
Water Quality Trends in Nutrients in New Jersey Streams, Water Years 1971-2016
(Trenton, N.J. : Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Division of Science and Research, 2020-04-21) Lester, Lori A.; Kunz, Chris; Lager, Leigh; Procopio, Nicholas A.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s (NJDEP’s) Division of Science and Research (DSR) and Bureau of Freshwater & Biological Monitoring (BFBM) collaborated on this study to update a previous report by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on the trends of water quality parameters measured at stations on streams in New Jersey from water years 1971-2011. This report updates the trends valuated for nutrients with five years of additional data (2012-2016). Trend tests were performed on nitrate plus nitrite as nitrogen, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus at 28 water quality stations. Although the previous report also performed trend analyses on 28 stations, four stations differ between the original report and this update. In this report, water quality trends were assessed at four new stations and four other stations were not assessed because they have been discontinued. Two different statistical methods were utilized to identify trends: Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) and Seasonal Kendall (SK) tests.