Hurricane Barriers in New England and New Jersey: History and Status after Five Decades

Arbitrarily considered, the Northeastern geographical area embraces the Maritime Provinces of Canada, lower Quebec and Ontario (exclusive of the peninsula), and all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Obviously such a large territory (some 485,000 square miles) constitutes neither a single physiographical nor cultural province, but in a general way it was the domain, in both historic and prehistoric times, of two far flung ethnic groups: the Algonkian and the Iroquoian.

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Ampere, New Jersey [History]

IEEE Power and Energy Magazine ◽

10.1109/mpe.2011.940407 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 78-91

Author(s):

Thomas Blalock

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

New Jersey History

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The Origins of Centenary Collegiate Institute: A Story of Industrialization, Wealth, and Natural Resources

New Jersey Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.14713/njs.v7i1.234 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 226-249

Author(s):

Sean Graham

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

Public Library ◽

Annual Conference ◽

Department Of State ◽

Special Collections ◽

Rutgers University ◽

Public Servant ◽

University Archives ◽

New Jersey History ◽

Cash Award

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Public Library. The Stellhorn Awards consist of a framed certificate and a modest cash award, presented at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Annual Conference. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; and the New Jersey Caucus, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. The Stellhorn Award Committee members are Richard Waldron (chair), Mark Lender, and Peter Mickulas. The advisory committee consists of Ron Becker, Karl Niederer, Elsalyn Palmisano, and Fred Pachman. Click here for more information. The following paper was one of two 2020 winners.

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The Radical Pietism of Count Nicholas Zinzendorf as a Conservative Influence on the Awakener, Gilbert Tennent

Church History ◽

10.2307/3164638 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 35-46

Author(s):

Milton J Coalter

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

New Jersey ◽

New England ◽

Immigrant Population ◽

The South ◽

Delaware River ◽

Northern European ◽

The City

Unlike the religious dominance of Puritans in New England and Anglicans in the South, the mid-Atlantic colonies of eighteenth-century America were covered with an assortment of northern European churches and sects. By the 1740s, an overflow of New England Puritans shared New York with an earlier immigrant population of Reformed Dutch and French Huguenots. In the Raritan valley of New Jersey, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians lived alongside enclaves of more Dutch, and coexisted with English Quakers, Swedish and German Lutherans, and a variety of sectarians along the lower Delaware River and in the city of Philadelphia. On the upper Delaware were further German settlements while along the western frontiers of Penn's colony additional Scotch-Irish Calvinists were to be found.

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Rates of Hospitalization for Dehydration Following Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1017/dmp.2015.169 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 188-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Joel N. Swerdel ◽

George G. Rhoads ◽

Nora M. Cosgrove ◽

John B. Kostis ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

New Jersey ◽

Electrical Power ◽

Hurricane Sandy ◽

Health Concern ◽

Extreme Weather Events ◽

Linear Modeling ◽

Volume Depletion ◽

New Jersey History ◽

Log Linear

AbstractObjectiveHurricane Sandy, one of the most destructive natural disasters in New Jersey history, made landfall on October 29, 2012. Prolonged loss of electrical power and extensive infrastructure damage restricted access for many to food and water. We examined the rate of dehydration in New Jersey residents after Hurricane Sandy.MethodsWe obtained data from 2008 to 2012 from the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS), a repository of in-patient records from nonfederal New Jersey hospitals (N=517,355). Patients with dehydration had ICD-9-CM discharge diagnosis codes for dehydration, volume depletion, and/or hypovolemia. We used log-linear modeling to estimate the change in in-patient hospitalizations for dehydration comparing 2 weeks after Sandy with the same period in the previous 4 years (2008–2011).ResultsIn-patient hospitalizations for dehydration were 66% higher after Sandy than in 2008–2011 (rate ratio [RR]: 1.66; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.50, 1.84). Hospitalizations for dehydration in patients over 65 years of age increased by nearly 80% after Sandy compared with 2008–2011 (RR: 1.79; 95% CI: 1.58, 2.02).ConclusionSandy was associated with a marked increase in hospitalizations for dehydration. Reducing the rate of dehydration following extreme weather events is an important public health concern that needs to be addressed, especially in those over 65 years of age. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:188–192)

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Ringwood Mines Superfund Site: Implications for Local Flora and Fauna

New Jersey Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.14713/njs.v4i2.141 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 326

Author(s):

Barbra Walker

Keyword(s):

Community College ◽

New Jersey ◽

Historic Preservation ◽

Superfund Site ◽

New Jersey History ◽

Passaic County

Barbra Walker's poster, Ringwood Mines Superfund Site: Implications for Local Flora and Fauna, won the undergraduate poster contest at the 2018 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference. The conference was held June 7-8 at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ.

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