HUDSON-DELAWARE REGIONAL CHAPTER
24th ANNUAL MEETING
May 8-9, 2008
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
Meeting Agenda
| 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 John 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 |
Peter Brussock |