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Help us design Technology for Nature

Are you a maker? A genius at computer algorithms? Can you whip up a mobile app before breakfast? Instead of…

6Sep 20169 Jan 2023

What is Structural Ecology?

Structural Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with the 2- and 3-dimensional structure of their environment. In practice,…

Help us design Technology for Nature

9 Jan 20239 Jan 2023

Are you a maker? A genius at computer algorithms? Can you whip up a mobile app before breakfast? Instead of building the next ethically questionable social media platform, how would…

Introducing the Urban Ecology Lab

September 2021 saw the inauguration of the Urban Ecology Lab at NJIT. The UEL is an undergraduate research lab and acaedmic community run by four faculty members of the Department…

Hardware: Field imaging boxes

8 Feb 20218 Feb 2021

This is a design and engineering project, to develop a 3D printed 'light box' for taking pictures of flat objects, such as leaves, in the field. The image would be…

App: “Forest Mapper”

26 Jan 20218 Jun 2021

Forest Mapper is an iOS smartphone app that attempts to identify trees from images of the trunk, and stores the identification alongside the location to enable the efficient mapping of…

Baselines Project

Twenty Hill Hollow

9 Jan 202111 Jan 2021

Location: California Central Valley, USA. Recent — 2014 This image comes from an anonymous blog written by someone who works in interpretation at Yosemite National Park. It shows a portion…

Baselines Project

Introducing the Baselines Project

9 Jan 202126 Jan 2021

What Nature Should Be Like What Nature Could Be Like The Baselines Project is an attempt to assemble evocative side-by-side depictions of 'baseline' and 'degraded natural' ecosystems. Acknowledging that ecosystems…

New updates coming

16 Nov 202016 Nov 2020

Hello. I have revamped the template for the site, and plan on updating content over the new few days. Stay tuned for new information and opportunities.

App: “Tour Guide”

5 Jan 20202 Feb 2021

A smartphone app and backend hosting solution which makes it easy to record audio walking tours for others to listen to. In 'guide' mode the app tracks your path using…

A Call to Action: sign the petition

We invite you to join our call for NJIT to make addressing the current environmental and climate crisis an urgent, institution-wide priority. You can read and sign it here. Anyone…

NJIT Environment Week 2019

12 Sep 201916 Nov 2020

September 20-27, 2019 was a week of global climate activism, and also "Environment Week" at NJIT. Hop on over to its dedicated page to see what went on.