NJ-AWRA Annual Meeting

Date: Monday, December 2, 2024

Where: USGS, 3450 Princeton Pike, Suite 110 Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Cost: Members - Free

Non-Members - $20

This meeting is a hybrid meeting, link to be provided to registrants via email upon registration and prior to the event.

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees at the beginning of the meeting

Come join us for a Seminar, presentation of the Homack Award, and 2025 Board Elections.

Schedule:

12:00 pm Lunch and in person networking

12:30 pm Presentation by Nick Angarone and Vince Mazzei

1:15 pm Q&A Session

1:30 pm Review of the 2025 Election Results and Homack Award

2:00 pm Meeting Adjourned

Nick Angarone is New Jersey’s Chief Resilience Officer and manager of the DEP’s Office of Climate Resilience. As Chief Resilience Officer, Nick coordinates statewide resilience policy and serves as Vice-Chair of the Interagency Council on Climate Resilience. He also leads and directs the development of the Statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy, and provides technical guidance and support to local governments in their efforts to address the impacts of climate change. As manager of the Office of Climate Resilience, Nick oversees the Bureau of Climate Resilience Planning and the Blue Acres buyout program, and administers the New Jersey Coastal Management Program in cooperation with a network of programs across DEP. He also represents Commissioner Shawn LaTourette on the State Planning Commission, ensuring that climate resilience, natural resource protection, and infrastructure capacity is incorporated into the planning process.

Vince Mazzei, PE, is New Jersey’s State Floodplain Administrator, appointed in 2022 after serving for two and a half years as NJDEP’s Assistant Commissioner for Watershed and Land Management. Vince started his DEP career after graduating from Stevens Institute of Technology with a bachelors in civil engineering in 1988. An expert in flood risk analysis and mitigation with over 35 years of experience, Vince is the author of New Jersey’s Flood Hazard Area Control Act rules, which are the most stringent Statewide flood hazard area and stream corridor protection regulations in the nation, and has a leading role in the development of NJPACT, our transformative regulatory reform initiative that will improve our land use rules to protect against climate threats. Vince was named 2018 Government Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers, North Jersey Branch, and the 2016 Civil Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Central Jersey Branch, and is a two-time recipient of the State of New Jersey Teamwork and Partnership Award.