Areas of Expertise:

Jennifer Cherrier is a professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and also the President and Founder of Waterway Ecologics. Her 26 years of research experience are in aquatic carbon and nitrogen cycling and flux with a more recent focus on water resource sustainability and ecosystem-based approaches for offsetting the human impacts on aquatic systems.

Jennifer’s research group has developed a novel and cost effective 'blue' technology (eco-WEIR, patent pending) that augments green infrastructure (GI) to maximize stormwater runoff-related pollutant removal and also allows for water storage and reuse. In addition to evaluating the efficacy of this and other GI approaches for mitigating stormwater impacts and protecting/conserving water resources, she and her colleagues have also been working to see how these approaches can reduce demands on urban energy systems.

She is a Leopold Leadership Fellow for Sustainability as well as a National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Kalvi Fellow.