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Welcome to the NJIT TAB Webinar Archive!

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Recent Webinars

Luck Favors the Prepared: Grant Writing Webinar, June 19, 2024

Interested in EPA Grants to help revitalize your community's underutilized and potentially contaminated sites (also known as brownfields) and not sure where to start? Waiting on this year's criteria and want to get a head start on what you can do to make your application better with key data and community support? Well, this is the webinar for you! Join Sean Vroom, Director, NJIT TAB to learn more about the following topics:

✓ EPA MARC Grants
✓ Community Engagement Strategies
✓ Data Collection and Utilization
✓ EPA Brownfield Grant Writing (Including Common Mistakes)
 

Life After BOA, March 28, 2024

New York State communities, do you have a Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) designation and are unsure what your next steps should be? Don’t have a designation yet, but would like some insight on the process after designation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this webinar is for you! Our panelists, Carrie Martin, AICP, Environmental Sustainability Planner for NJIT TAB and Lesley Zlatev, Revitalization Specialist for New York State Department of State's Office of Planning, Development, & Community Infrastructure hosted this virtual workshop for New York State communities with Brownfield Opportunity Area designations to learn how to continue the brownfield revitalization process after designation.

Brownfields: A Story to Tell, March 21, 2024

Mr. Rogers carried a note in his wallet that said: "There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story." Believe it or not, this can be true even for those abandoned old industrial sites that plague almost every community. This webinar focuses on the significance of being able to tell the history of the impacts of contamination to your neighborhoods, and the humanity in redevelopment potential.

Our Brownfield Redevelopment Specialist, Elise Molleur, walked through the different factors in effective storytelling and why it's an important step in the brownfield redevelopment process. Hydrotechnology Consultants, Inc President and NJIT Adjunct Professor, Maria Coler, brought the American brownfields story into context and focused on the concepts of deep history and path dependency with brownfield sites. By sharing some stories, tips, and tricks, they explored the importance of brownfields in our nation's history and how effectively telling your story can be critical to gaining funding, developing relationships, and engaging the community!

Climate Change and Brownfields 101, March 7, 2024

The impacts of extreme weather events are everywhere. NJIT TAB's own Carrie Martin began her journey towards becoming a climate resilience practitioner due to her family's experience in Superstorm Sandy. The storm knocked out power to her family home for days, and other friends and neighbors fared far worse. Nowadays, events like Superstorm Sandy are not infrequent or one-off events. In this webinar Carrie hopes to equip you all with the tools to help your community build resilience by transforming it's brownfield sites. You'll also get to hear examples of how other communities have seized the opportunity presented by their brownfield sites to install renewable energy to lower their greenhouse gas emissions, and build green infrastructure to handle heavier rains and hotter summers.

Brownfield Contaminants & Human Health, February 29, 2024

When passion meets purpose, things gets interesting. In this webinar Joseph M. Reiner, Brownfield Redevelopment Specialist for NJIT Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities (NJIT TAB), discusses a longtime personal interest that informed his career path into environmental science: brownfield sites, the historic contamination associated with them, and what it means for our health when we have contaminated sites in our communities. Mr. Reiner will be covering what brownfields are, and give an overview on common contaminants found at brownfield sites, why they ended up there, how these chemicals can enter our bodies, and some of the community screening tools that are available to help us get a fuller picture of environmental health impacts. Quantifying impacts is useful for public health tracking, but that information can also be an asset for municipal planning or obtaining funding for cleanup and redevelopment from the government.

Pop-Up Progress: Unveiling the Magic of Temporary Brownfield Makeovers, February 8, 2024

Redeveloping vacant and polluted sites can be a long process. Some communities have had success with temporary, interim site uses related to pop-up economic, social, or artistic experimentation. This webinar will present the benefits, special considerations, and a toolkit to help local governments, non-profits, and practitioners embark on their own brownfield Cinderella story!

EPA Effective Brownfield Grant Writing Tips, September 28, 2023

Redeveloping Brownfields into Community Assets: New York State Brownfield Programs, November 16, 2022

Brownfields for Beginners Boot Camp, July 20, 2022

Mapping for Success: Using GIS & Remote Sensing to Inventory & Prioritize Your Brownfields, April 5, 2022

Adelantarse Con Su Solicitud De Subvencion Brownfields de la EPA Comience Temprano Es Una Ventaja, 28 de Marzo de 2022

Roadmap To Mill Redevelopment Webinar Series

Webinar #1: New England Mills: Then and Now (September 24, 2020)
Webinar #2: Challenges and Solutions to Redevelopment (October 6, 2020)
Webinar #3: The Funding Stack (October 15, 2020)
Webinar #4: Adapting to Changing Times (October 27, 2020)

Brownfield 101 Webinar - Piedmont Triad Brownfield Program, May 13, 2020

Winning and Managing Brownfield Grants, March 1, 2018

EPA Brownfields Grantees: "How to Get the Right Contractor on Board", December 11, 2015

​Creating Living Shorelines to Enhance Brownfield Sites, May 29, 2014

ASTM Phase I Changes and AAI Webinar, March 13, 2014