Hudson River Watershed Alliance Watershed Breakfast Series
Featured Speaker: Steve Hamilton, Ecosystem Ecologist/Biogeochemist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies / Michigan State University
Sometimes examples from a completely different place with similar issues inspires our work in the Hudson River valley. Dr. Hamilton led the Kalamazoo River Watershed Council for ten years and has done some of his most detailed ecological research in that watershed. He today shares a split assignment between the Cary Institute and Michigan State University. The Kalamazoo River flows some 130 miles from south-central Michigan westward to Lake Michigan. Environmental issues include a Superfund site (PCBs), removal of old dams, a very large oil spill, and a recent emergency dam drawdown that released massive quantities of sediment. All of these are issues that have been—or could be—faced in the Hudson River valley. Please join this breakfast session to appreciate that the efforts we advance locally are similar those that need to be addressed in rivers across the United States.