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MODULE 1- Transect from NY Harbor to Albany 7/19-7/24/08
Embark: 79th St. Boat Basin
Disembark: Albany
Saturday '7/19/08 1700 Module 1 participants arrive
Orientation by Boat Captain
Evening Activity: Alexandra Dunn (Pace Law School) "Science, Economics & Law: Policy Recommendations for Non-Point Source Pollution in the Hudson River"
Sunday 7/20/08 Offshore - the New York Bight
Free Write Activity during the day.
0800-1700 - Frank Nitsche (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Title of curriculum: Acoustic Mapping and interpretation of sediment features in the Lower Hudson River & the NY Bight
Brian Jensen (College of St. Rose) Fisheries Biology
Title of curriculum: Trawling in Marine Waters
Brian Mailloux (Barnard College) & River Summer Staff & Boat Crew
Activity: Enterococcus, CTD, Coring, Plankton, Water samples
1900-2000 - Eve Roger Panetta (Fordham University)
Title of curriculum: Preserving the Message - Oral Histories
2000-2100 Activity: All
Monday 7/21/08 Transect to Poughkeepsie
0800-1700 - Steve Schimmrich (SUNY Ulster County Community College)
Title of curriculum: Geology of the Hudson Valley
Alexandra Dunn (Pace Law School) Site locations & Points of Concern non-point source pollution policy discussion
River Summer Staff & Boat Crew
Coring, Enterococcus & water samples
1900-2100 - Eve - John Mylod, Hudson River Fisherman
Title of curriculum: History, Change & Impacts in the Hudson River Fisheries
Tuesday 7/22/08 Poughkeepsie to Albany
0800-1100 - Peter Groffman (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies)
Title of curriculum: Riparian Ecology & field work
1200-1700 - Brian Jensen (College of St. Rose) - Fisheries Biology
Title of curriculum: Seining & Trawling in Freshwater
1900 Eve - Stephanie Pfirman (Barnard College)
Title of curriculum: Concept Mapping Activity
Wednesday 7/23/08 The lower Adirondacks
0800-1030 - Karin Limburg (SUNY ESF)
Title of curriculum: Watershed Urbanization assessing impact indicators
1030-1500 - (includes break for lunch) Steve Schimmrich (SUNY Ulster)
Title of curriculum: Introduction to the Geology of the Lower Adirondacks
Title of curriculum: Tour of the Troy Dam William Petronis, US Army Corps
Title of curriculum: PCBs in the Hudson - Steve Stanne, Hudson River author, & educator
1500-1700 - Rik Scarce (Skidmore College)
Title of curriculum: GIS examination of environmental justice issues throughout the Hudson region
1900-2000 - Eve Frances Dunwell, 30 year River Conservationist
Title of curriculum: The Hudson, Americas River, Columbia University Press 2008 *
*This is a recently published book by Dunwell, with all proceeds donated to the conservation of the Hudson River. This years River Summer participants will receive copies of the book.
Thursday 7/24/08 0900 Module1 participants final wrap up of project
"Science, Economics & Law: Policy Recommendations for Non-Point Source Pollution in the Hudson River"
Concluding free write
Evaluation
1200 Students depart
MODULE 2- Albany to New York Harbor 7/26-7/31/08
Embark: Albany Seawall
Disembark: Piermont Pier, Piermont
Saturday 7/26 /08
1700 - Module 2 participants Arrive
Orientation by Boat Captain
Evening Activity: Ann Powers (Pace Law School) "Science, Economics & Law: Policy Recommendations for Non-Point Source Pollution in the Hudson River"
Sunday 7/27/08 Lower Adirondacks
0800-1700 Bruce Selleck (Colgate University)
Title of curriculum: Introduction to Geology of the Adirondacks
Evening Free Write
Transit down to Catskill
Monday 7/28/08 Catskill to Piermont
0800-1100 The Hudson River School of Art
Transit begins to Piermont
1100-1700 - Lucy Johnson (Vassar College)
Title of curriculum: Native American Settlements along the Hudson River: Why are they where they are? Developing a predictive model
Ann Powers (Pace Law School) Site locations & Points of Concern non-point source pollution policy discussion.
River Summer Staff & Boat Crew
Activity: Enterococcus, CTD, Coring, Plankton, Water samples
Tuesday 7/29/08
0800-1200 - Marilyn Power (Sarah Lawrence College) & Meryl Nadel (Iona College)
Title of curriculum: The Yonkers Waterfront an exercise in combining urban communities, political economics, ecology & environmental justice
1300-1700 Water Quality in the Hudson Harbor
Yonkers Wastewater Treatment Program Facility Tour
Alan Molof (Polytechnic University) Wastewater Management in the Hudson River Watershed
Kevin Farley (Manhattan College) - Water Quality in the Hudson Harbor
Title of curriculum: Tour of Yonkers Wastewater Treatment Facility & Discussion of wastewater management in the Hudson River watershed
1900-2100 Eve Robert Goldstein (Riverkeeper)
Legal challenges on the Hudson River
Wedneday 7/30/08
0800-1200 - Boat Crew - Title of curriculum: Trawling in the marine environment
1300-1700 - Dorothy Peteet (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, NASA GISS)
Title of curriculum: Tidal Marshes of the Hudson: archives of anthropogenic impact, climate change and carbon storage
Eve Activity
Thursday 7/31/08
0900 Module2 participants final wrap up of project
"Science, Economics & Law: Policy Recommendations for Non-Point Source Pollution in the Hudson River"
Concluding free write
Evaluation
1200 Students depart
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