Dr. Meixler, a professor at Rutgers DEENR, has two current projects with members of the CURE (Center for Urban Restoration and Ecology) group at Rutgers and with Eric Sanderson (Wildlife Conservation Society) to study resilience and restoration of Jamaica Bay, New York. She is also working with Mike Kennish on the study of plant community characteristics and their changes in response to climate change and anthropologic alterations in the Tuckerton Peninsula, New Jersey. Her background is in aquatic ecology and I have published in the areas of wetland ecology, watershed impairment, landscape ecology, water quality and restoration/vulnerability.