Henry Mayer is the former Executive Director of the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group (EAC) and the Center for Transportation Safety, Security and Risk (CTSSR) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University. He has extensive experience in the corporate, academic, and government arenas, with a focus over the past fifteen years on the large and complex environmental, infrastructure, and land use issues associated with the redevelopment of many of the country’s older cities and towns. Dr. Mayer is currently the Principal Investigator on a two-year “New Jersey Urban Rivers Mitigation, Modeling and Implementation Project” being funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency and the NJ Office of Emergency Management and a three-year “Supporting Secure and Resilient Inland Waterways” project being funded by the Department of Homeland Security.