Views on the Hudson: Environmental Perspectives (NYC)

Learn more about the ongoing efforts to preserve and reclaim the Hudson River through the work of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the NYC Bird Alliance.

Heather Gierloff, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator, NYS DEC
Dorothy Peteet, NASA/GISS and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Biology and Paleo Environment.
Dustin Partridge, Director of Conservation and Science, NYC Bird Alliance

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Heather Gierloff, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Heather Gierloff assures the collaboration across four Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) programs, Hudson River Estuary Advisory Committee (HREMAC), and state/federal partners in managing the Hudson River Estuary and its watershed. She values building meaningful relationships with partners and stakeholders to protect, preserve, restore, and enhance the Hudson River Estuary and watershed. When not working on key Hudson River issues, you can find her spending time with family, cheering on the side lines of an athletic field, gardening, crafting, or hiking.

Dorothy Peteet, NASA/GISS and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Biology and Paleo Environment.

Dorothy Peteet directs the Paleoecology Division of the New Core Lab at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia and in collaboration with GISS climate modelers and LDEO geochemists is studying the Late Pleistocene and Holocene archives of lakes and wetlands (peatlands, salt marshes, tidal freshwater marshes, bogs, fens). Documenting past vegetational change using pollen and spores, plant and animal macrofossils, loss-on-ignition, carbon, and charcoal in conjunction with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating, her research provides local and regional records of vegetational and climate history and carbon sequestration.

Dustin Partridge, Director of Conservation and Science, NYC Bird Alliance

Dr. Dustin Partridge is the Director of Conservation and Science at NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon), a nonprofit that protects wild birds and their habitats in New York City. As the organization’s lead scientist, Dr. Partridge oversees all conservation efforts in three major focus areas: making the city’s buildings safer for migratory birds, protecting the city’s robust waterbird colonies, and improving and promoting habitat and green infrastructure. Dr. Partridge is also a founder of the NYC Green Roof Researchers Alliance and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. Like his dissertation work, which examined the ecology of green roofs and their role in wildlife conservation, his approach to conservation is based in using science to drive solutions that benefit both wildlife and people.