# Presentation: 047062

## The New Jersey Pinelands ...

**A GLOBE Earth Day 2008 Project**
- Presented by the Students of the:
- Burlington County Institute of Technology - Medford Campus
- Geospatial Technologies Program
- 10 Hawkin Road
- Medford, New Jersey 08055  USA

- A Case Study for Sustainability

## “The CMP implements, and is an exercise of, the powers granted to the Pinelands Commission by the 1979 New Jersey Pinelands Protection Act  and the Federal National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978.  The regulations and standards it contains are designed to promote orderly development of the Pinelands so as to preserve and protect the significant and unique natural, ecological, agricultural, archaeological, historical, scenic, cultural and recreational resources of the Pinelands.”

- “The CMP implements, and is an exercise of, the powers granted to the Pinelands Commission by the 1979 New Jersey Pinelands Protection Act  and the Federal National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978.  The regulations and standards it contains are designed to promote orderly development of the Pinelands so as to preserve and protect the significant and unique natural, ecological, agricultural, archaeological, historical, scenic, cultural and recreational resources of the Pinelands.”
- Source: NJ Pinelands Commission

## Slide 3

## The Importance of the N.J. Pinelands:

-  The Nation’s First National Reserve
-  Habitat for Endanger Species
-  Largest Undisturbed Forest Region on the
-   East Coast
-  17 Trillion Gallon “*pristine*” Freshwater
-   Aquifer

**Areas of Concern:**
-  NJ is the most densely populated State in the
-    USA
-  Pinelands boundaries are being challenged
-  Severe Land-Use stress in the State
-  Economic Development stress to develop
-  Feared Compromise of Environmental Quality
-  Increase of Invasive Species

## GLOBE Graphs*

- GLOBE DATA from Burlington County Institute of Technology

**GLOBE Graphs*******

**GLOBE Graphs*******

-             Monitoring Air Temperature
- Changing Temps impact Green-up/down

- C   Surface H20 Temperature vs. pH
- Changing Land-Use may alter runoff. The Pinelands are pH sensitive

- Using Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photography to document Land-Use change. How much change can occur before the MUC changes?

## SUMMARY:

- The Geospatial Technologies Program students at the Burlington County Institute of Technology used lessons learned from two of GLOBE’s ESSPs, i.e. **Watershed Dynamics** and **Seasons and Biomes**, to begin work with the NJ Pinelands Commission. The Commission is currently working on two projects with BCIT GLOBE students, the Medford/Evesham Township Land-Use Plan, and the Backyard Habitat Project. Both of these projects are designed to address sustainability throughout the NJ Pinelands region. As the NJ GLOBE Partner, we are exploring ways for other schools to join the effort of scientific monitoring of environmental change in the State of New Jersey.
- We encourage international dialog on environmental sustainability with us.
- You can contact us through GLOBE Mail, or email our Teacher, Mr. John D. Moore (jmoore@bcit.cc).
- BIBLIOGRAPHY/RESOURCES:
- The New Jersey Pinelands Commission
- (www.state.nj.us/pinelands/index.shtml)
- The GLOBE Program
- ( www.globe.gov)

- Narrated by:
- Tejay Marsh, Class of 2011