Core Faculty Member

Richard Alomar

Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Associate Director, Office of Urban Extension and Engagement, Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension

Richard Alomar is an associate professor of landscape architecture, associate director of the Office of Urban Extension and Engagement, and a registered landscape architect. He has worked on public projects ranging in scale from urban planning to community gardens and has won international competitions for landscape designs.

Through his role with the Office of Urban Extension and Engagement, part of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), Alomar works to create awareness about the expertise and resources available within NJAES and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences to address issues affecting urban residents and their communities. The office coordinates and facilitates programming to address food security, individual and community health, resource stewardship, urban agriculture and food chains, environmental planning and design, and other concerns facing our state’s urban communities.

In 2019, Alomar became involved with a partnership in Las Carolinas, Puerto Rico, in which the community’s residents are collaborating with University of Puerto Rico, RWJBarnabas Health, and Rutgers to build resilience following the devastation brought by hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017. Alomar’s role has centered around helping the residents develop a vegetable garden on the site of a volunteer-run community kitchen.

Alomar has an undergraduate degree in agronomy from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and a master’s in landscape architecture degree from Louisiana State University. Before joining Rutgers, he was an associate at Stantec Planning and Landscape Architecture and senior associate at di Domenico + Partners.


Core Faculty Member

Richard Alomar

Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Associate Director, Office of Urban Extension and Engagement, Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension


richard.alomar@rutgers.edu

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