![]() ![]() ![]() “In the beginning, they were skeptical about climate change. “There has been a sea change – if you will – of students’ attitudes since the course was first introduced,” Miller said. The findings were reinforced in the 2019 New Jersey Science and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) report New Jersey’s Rising Seas and Changing Coastal Storms, and discussed in Miller’s Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences signature course, “ Sea Change: The Rise and Fall of Sea Level and the Jersey Shore,” which he has offered since 2007. ![]() Miller and his team have published sobering findings about sea level change in New Jersey, noting that the state needs to plan for at least a 3-foot sea level rise by 2100 – three times the rise in the past 50 years. T he three previous storms – in 1991, 19 – reached but did not exceed the 100-year mark.” The mark on my sheetrock testified that the surge was 19 inches above the 100-year mark. “During Sandy, my house was in Barnegat Bay. “In the other storms, my house was an island in Barnegat Bay,” he said. “Superstorm Sandy was the fourth 100-year storm we weathered at the Jersey Shore since 1991,” said Miller, a Distinguished Professor in the Rutgers Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, who lived in the coastal community of Waretown, New Jersey, until 2015. Whether to buy or build a home at the Jersey Shore has become more complicated and personal for Kenneth Miller – a Rutgers expert in sea level change and global warming – since Superstorm Sandy struck New Jersey’s seaside communities a decade ago. ![]() New Jersey needs to plan for at least a 3-foot sea level rise by 2100, Rutgers researchers warn ![]()
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