HUDSON-DELAWARE REGIONAL CHAPTER
24th ANNUAL MEETING

May 8-9, 2008
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ

Meeting Agenda

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Time Thursday May 8, 2998 - Presentations/Activities
8:00-8:30 am Registration/Breakfast and Poster Set-up
8:30-9:00 am Assessment of Risks in Small Tidal and Non-Tidal Watersheds - Session I
8:30-9:00 am Assessing Contemporary Sediment Supplies from Headwater Basin Areas
Sean Smith, Geologist - Maryland Department of Natural Resources
9:00-9:30 am The Distribution, Residence Time, and Fate of Hg and Sediment in Fine-Grained Channel Margin (FGCM) Deposits Within a Steep, Gravel- Bed River
Katie Skalak, PhD Candidate - University of Delaware
9:30-10:00 am Sediments in the Estuarine Environment: Uncertainty in Sources, Measurement, and Fate
Jeff Halka, Acting Director - Maryland Geological Survey
10:00-10:30 am BREAK
  Emerging Contaminants - Session II
10:30-11:00 am Emerging Contaminants: Identification, Concern and Action
Roland Hemmett, Science Advisor - EPA-R2
11:00-11:30 am Reconnaissance Sampling for Emerging Contaminants in Pennsylvania
Andrew Reif, Water Quality Biologist - USGS PA Water Science Center
11:30-12:00 Fate and Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Agents in NY/NJ Harbor Estuary
Anne McElroy, Associate Professor
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences - Stony Brook University
12:00-1:00 pm LUNCH
1:00-1:20 pm Ecological Land Reuse at Contaminated Sites - Planning at the Landscape Scale
Damian V. Preziosi, John Sullivan and Deborah Rudrick
Integral Consulting, Inc.
1:20-1:40 Evaluations of Biomagnification in Small Tidal Estuaries
Judi L. Durda, Damian V. Preziosi and Peter Jensen
Integral Consulting, Inc.
1:40-2:10 pm BREAK
2:10-2:30 Restoration in the Hackensack Meadowlands and its Potential Effect on Aquatic Biota
Celine Santiago Bass - Great Eastern Ecology, Inc.
2:30-2:50 pm Risk-Based Remedy Selection Considerations for a Non-Tidal Watershed
P. Stephen Finn and Andrew P. Joslyn - Golder Associates, Inc.
2:50-3:10 Emerging Contaminants in the TIdal Delaware River: A Pilot Monitoring Survey
Ron MacGillivray - DRBC
3:10-3:30 Defining the Biologically Active Zone in Sediments: A review of Approaches and Current Data
Timothy Iannuzzi - Arcadis
Robert Diaz - Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Robert Romagnoli - Arcadis
Paul Bluestein - Tierra Solutions, Inc.
4:00-6:00 pm Poster Social and Student Judging
5:00-6:00 pm Volleyball Classic
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Dinner
Speaker: Paul Reale presenting "An Inconvenient Truth"

 

Time Friday May 9, 2008 Presentations/Short Course/Activities
8:00-8:30 am Registration/Breakfast and Poster Set-Up
  Short Courses
8:30-11:30 am Nanomaterials: Use, Risk and Regulation
J
ohn Schupner and Laurie Gneiding - AMEC
8:30-11:30 am A Fugacity-Based Model for the Fate and Transport of Emerging Contaminants
Dr. Darrel Lauren
Environ Corp
8:30-11:30 am Dammed Estuaries: Implications for Flow, Sediment Transport and Risk Analysis
Dr. Peter Brussock
ELM, Inc.
8:30-11:30 am Environmental Ethics
Dr. Judith Stark
Seton Hall University
11:30-12:30 Poster Session and Student Judging
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch/Business Meeting/Student Awards
  Short Courses/Field Trip
1:30-4:30 pm Field Study on urban Streams
(field course)
Dr. Carolyn Bentivegna
Seton Hall University
1:30-4:30 pm Detection of Pharmaceuticals in Water
(laboratory course)
Dr. Nicholas Snow
Seton Hall University
4:30 pm Meeting Adjourn

 


We look forward to seeing you! If you have any questions about the meeting, please feel free to contact the meeting co-chairs Ron MacGillivray or Peter Brussock.
 

Ron MacGillivray
(609) 883-9500, ext 252 (phone)
(609) 883-9522 (fax)
ronald.macgillivray@drbc.state.nj.us

Peter Brussock
(215) 794-6920 (phone)
(215) 794-6921 (fax)
(609) 462-3755 (cell)
ppbrussock@elminc.com