High Water Line: New Jersey
Christina Gerhardt, HMEI's 2021-22 Barron Visiting Professor in the Environmental Humanities, talks about the motivation behind High Water Line: New Jersey, a public-facing project she organized for spring 2022 to walk and chalk the future shoreline of New Jersey as projected by climate scientists.
The video documents the experience of and responses to one of a series of walking tours in Sayreville, New Jersey, that were central to the project. Princeton faculty, staff and students observed how the riverside town is adapting — and will need to adapt — to sea-level rise, while outlining its future shoreline and the neighborhoods yet to be inundated in a future shaped by climate change.
An online archive for the project includes a downloadable self-guided walking tour map of Sayreville, links to media coverage about the project, and video from the series of related expert panels held on Princeton's campus that engaged the public in understanding the impacts of sea-level rise on the New Jersey shoreline.
Visit the archive on the HMEI site: https://environment.princeton.edu/highwaterline.
(Video by Orangebox Pictures)