Local residents and visitors tend to take it for granted, the beautiful sea of green salt marshes that surrounds and buffers the coast, but these natural areas are vulnerable to sea level rise, and the effects of even a small, 6-millimeter a year rise are visible with edge erosion and interior ground settling.

Such was the news Rutgers Professor Emerita Judith Weis presented at a seminar hosted by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Monday evening.