Meet Tom Herrington
Sustainability Advisor
I am the associate director of the Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University and serve as the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium resilient communities and economies specialist. I have 30 years of experience in coastal resilience and hazard mitigation research, including the monitoring and analysis of coastal system changes to storm surge and wave impacts, and the analysis of Nature and Nature Based Features for ecosystem restoration and community resilience.
Email: therring@monmouth.edu
Meet Jasmine Barzin
Student Sustainability Ambassador
I am a marine and environmental biology and policy (MEBP) major and I plan to graduate in May 2024. I am involved on campus via the club field hockey team, First to Fly club, MEBP club, and surf club. Besides being a student ambassador for our Sustainability Council, I am also an orientation leader and a greenhouse assistant in our campus greenhouse. A fun fact about me is that I have three recreational and one AAUS scientific scuba diving certifications.
Email: s1282288@monmouth.edu
Meet Riya Ajmera
Student Sustainability Ambassador
I am a pre-med majoring in chemistry with a concentration in biochemistry and a minor in journalism, graduating in May 2023. I stay involved on campus by being the former vice president of the Student Government Association and the vice president of Friends of Animals at Monmouth. A fun fact about me is that I received the 2019 Gold Award Girl Scout award for my created project, “Simply Saving the Planet.”
I wrote a white paper on mitigating offshore wind farm impacts on marine environments in the Mid-Atlantic with the support of an Urban Coast Institute Heidi Lynn Sculthorpe Scholars grant. I also served as the first-ever student perspective on the closing panel of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Forum hosted by MACO.
Email: s1287822@monmouth.edu