| Schedule for The Hudson River Watershed 2009 |
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| Instructor:
Karin Limburg; TA: Stephen Tysko |
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WebInfo at: |
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| Mon, June 8th 2009 |
1:00 PM |
Arrive at Huntington Forest (ESF
field station) |
http://www.esf.edu/aec/ |
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3:00 PM |
Set net in one of the lakes |
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6:00 PM |
Dinner |
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7:00 PM |
Welcoming remarks; Intro to the
course (Limburg) |
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7:30 PM |
Jon Erickson,
University of Vermont: The Adirondacks as a crucible for ecological economics |
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| Tues, June 9th 2009 |
6:45 AM |
Breakfast, pack bag lunches |
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8:00 AM |
Stacy McNulty,
AEC: Introduction to Huntington |
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8:45 AM |
Pull the net, process fish, do limnological
things |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch - Colin Beier, AEC, introduces forest
Ecoservices exercise |
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1:00 PM |
Colin Beier and
KL lead ecosystem services exercise |
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5:00 PM |
Free time |
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6:00 PM |
Dinner |
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Link to the Quadricentennial: |
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| Wed, June 10th 2009 |
6:45 AM |
Breakfast, pack bag
lunches |
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7:45 AM |
Pack the vans, get ready to go |
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8:00 AM |
Depart Huntington |
Click here to see map of region |
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10:00 AM |
Meet Richard Bopp, RPI, and
Jim Sullivan, Geotrans,
at Hudson Falls PCB water treatment site |
Recent
article about the remediation project |
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1:00 PM |
Lunch |
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2:00 PM |
Depart for Cohoes Falls and Troy
Dam |
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3:00 PM |
Meet Gary Wall (USGS) and Simon Litten (DEC) - sediments, paleohydrology, the role of the Mohawk |
http://ny.water.usgs.gov/htmls/pub/projects.html |
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5:00 PM |
Depart for shopping, then settle
in to Huyck Preserve |
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6:00 PM |
Dinner (made by the group) |
http://www.huyckpreserve.org/ |
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| Thurs, June 11th 2009 |
7:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:00 AM |
Depart for Catskills |
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10:00 AM |
Meet Rene
VanSchaak either in the field or at the Greene
County IDA |
Read
about Rene's job |
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Discuss the goals of the
Community and Environmental Programs, Business Park, sustainable development,
master plan |
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1:00 PM |
Lunch |
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Tour of Sleepy Hollow Lake
development, discuss consequences of poor development, and how this might be
saved |
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3:15 PM |
Depart for Olana |
http://www.olana.org/ |
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4:00 PM |
Olana tour |
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5:00 PM |
Shop, then depart for Mills-Norrie Point State Park |
http://nysparks.state.ny.us |
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6:00 PM |
Bunk in, make dinner |
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| Fri, June 12th 2009 |
7:00 AM |
Breakfast, pack lunch |
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8:30 AM |
Meet Sarah
Fernald, Hudson River National Estuarine Research
Reserve, at Norrie Point |
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4915.html |
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Orientation to the HRNERR,
HRECOS monitoring there and at Tivoli North Bay |
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9:30 AM |
Drive to Bard College Field
Station and Tivoli Bays |
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10:00 AM |
Meet Bob
Schmidt, Simon's Rock College; go eeling in Saw
Kill |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch |
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1:00 PM |
An afternoon in the Tivoli Bays |
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(canoe around Tivoli North Bay;
make measurements; visit another monitoring station) |
Click
here to view a map of Tivoli bays |
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5:00 PM |
Return to Mills-Norrie Point
State Park |
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6:00 PM |
Make and eat dinner |
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8:30 PM |
Night seining at Norrie Point |
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| Sat, June 13th 2009 |
7:30 AM |
Breakfast, pack lunches |
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9:00 AM |
Depart for Cary IES |
www.ecostudies.org |
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9:45 AM |
Meet Dave Strayer for
Wappinger Creek ecology |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch |
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Afternoon |
Travel with Peter
Groffman to Poughkeepsie to study the urbanization
gradient and ecological effects; possibly meet John
Mylod, commercial fisherman |
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Evening |
Fish fry! |
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| Sun, June 14th 2009 |
7:00 AM |
Breakfast, make lunches, pack up
to leave |
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8:30
AM |
Depart for Black Rock Research
Forest |
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10:00
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Meet Bill
Schuster, Director, Black Rock Forest Research
Consortium; brief tour then hike |
http://www.blackrockforest.org/ |
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12:00 PM |
Lunch |
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2:00 PM |
Meet Wade
McGillis (or proxy), Lamont-Doherty Earth
Institute - learn about monitoring and more |
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/ |
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5:00 PM |
Check in to Doubletree Inn, Tarrytown |
455 S. Broadway, Tarrytown,
NY; phone (914) 631-5700 |
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6:00 PM |
Dinner out |
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| Mon, June 15th 2009 |
6:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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6:55 AM |
Depart for ferry dock, Yonkers |
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7:50 AM |
NY Water Taxi departure for Pier
11 |
http://www.nywatertaxi.com/commuters/hudsonriver/ |
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8:50 AM |
Arrive at Pier 11, lower
Manhattan |
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9:00 AM |
Meet Mike
Levandowsky, Pace University, for tour of Old New
York |
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12:30 PM |
Lunch at Hudson River
Foundation; intro to HRF by Clay Hiles, executive director |
http://www.hudsonriver.org/ |
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1:30 PM |
Jim Lodge:
Restoration programs for New York Harbor |
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2:30 PM |
Student presentations (in teams) |
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4:00 PM |
Adjourn! |
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5:30 PM |
Catch ferry at Pier 11 back to
Yonkers |
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6:30 PM |
Depart for Syracuse; eat dinner
on the way |
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