Cities across the United States are beginning to direct significant investment towards implementation of green infrastructure (GI), commonly articulated in the US as a distributed approach to reducing urban runoff and the problems it causes. Because GI programs are typically structured as adaptive management, the performance of early projects is used to improve successive designs. Performance monitoring can also help to adjust GI siting and design strategies so that these projects can simultaneously adjust to other challenges faced by contemporary cities (e.g. climate change, urban revitalization, social justice, etc). In this presentation, Dr. Franco Montalto, P.E. will present some of the interdisciplinary research his group at Drexel University has been performing on GI systems in the northeastern US.