Resource: The Princeton, NJ Area

Resource Type:

Fieldwork

Summary:

The Princeton area provides a wealth of opportunities for field-based projects in environmental science, including -- but not limited to -- coastal erosion, ground water management, soil and ground water contamination, stream hydrology and erosion, habitat fragmentation, ecosystem disturbance, suburbanization and its effects on runoff and ground water quality, and resource extraction and management.

Princeton area fieldwork sites (maps by MapBlast):

• Lake Carnegie and the Delaware-Raritan Canal fieldwork site, at cross on map.
• Institute for Advanced Study woods fieldwork site, at cross on map.

References:

New Jersey

NJ environmental web links (Garden State Environet)
Hydrology of NJ (USGS)
Flora and fauna of NJ, including endangered species (NJ Natural Heritage Program)

Mercer County

Mercer Co. land use statistics (Mercer Co. Office of Econ. Devel.)

Princeton

Nearby parks, lakes, canals, etc. -- list 1 (PrincetonInfo), list 2 (Princeton Online)
Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Assoc.

Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Environmental Science lpt@www.woodrow.org
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation webmaster@woodrow.org
CN 5281, Princeton NJ 08543-5281 Tel:(609)452-7007 Fax:(609)452-0066