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Hudson River Environmental Society Symposium - Environmental History

As a part of the Official Celebration of the Quadricentenial of Henry Hudson's historic sail up the River that bears his name.

Environmental History of the Hudson River:
Human Uses that Affected the Ecology and Changing
Ecology that Forced Changes in Human Uses

November 5 & 6, 2009
Holiday Inn, Motel & Conference Center
Fishkill, NY

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Congressman Maurice Hinchey (invited)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Thomas Lewis
noted
Hudson River Historian
Skidmore College

Program

Registration

A two-part symposium examining the past 400 years of how natural attributes of the Hudson River Valley influenced human uses and consequences for the ecology and environmental health

of the Hudson River Valley. Invited experts will describe ecosystems during the period of human occupation and use, that changed the river ecology. All authors will discuss both aspects as they examine the interactive effects. On the second day a select panel will evaluate how such feedback mechanisms play out over the next 400 years. A companion paper of transactions will be published with all presentations and conclusions.

We hope to foster new discussions and new ways of reasoning among historians, biologists, economists and other disciplins. The context should be of great value to regulatory and administrative agencies. All authors will orient their discussions around the conceptual feedback relationships between extant ecosystem character and how human uses affect those ecosystems.

SPEAKERS (subject to minor changes)

November 5^th
SCOPE OF CONFERENCE
8:30	Registration and Coffee
9:30	Welcome Lucille Johnson, President, HRES
	Historical Facts, Biological Questions Robert Henshaw Program Chair NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation (ret.), SUNY Albany
	Feedback Between Ecosystems and Human Uses Stuart Findlay Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
	Recognizing the Symbiosis Between Biologists and Historians Lucille Johnson Vassar College
10:50	BREAK
11:20	The Earliest Twelve Millennia of Cultural Adaptation Along the Hudson River Estuary Chris Lindner Bard College
12:00	LUNCH
	Guest Speaker: Congressman Maurice Hinchey
HUMAN EFFECTS ON ECOSYSTEMS
1:30	Hudson River Floodplain Change Over the 20th Century Mathias Collins and Daniel Miller New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
	Human Impacts on Hudson River Morphology and Sediments - a Result of Changing Use and Interest Frank Nitsche, A. Slagle, W.B.E. Ryan, S. Carlotte and R. Bell Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia Univeristy
	14,000 Years of Vegetation Change - the Record From Rhododendrom Swamp, Mohonk Preserve, NY Dorothy Peteet, D. Peterson, S. Sritrairat, C. Schud-mehl, and C. Chou Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
	Vegetation Dynamics in the Northern Shawangunk Mountains: the Last 300 Years. John Thompson and Paul Huth Daniel Smiley Laboratory Mohonk Preserve
3:10	BREAK
	Archaeological Indices of Colonial Environmental Trauma in 17^th Century Dutch New Amsterdam Joel Grossman Geospacial Archeology
	Agriculture in the Hudson River Basin Since 1609: Change and Globalization Simon Litten New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
	The Introduction and Naturalization of Exotic Ornamental Plant Species in the Hudson River Valley Chelsea Teale Pennsylvania State University
EVENING PROGRAM
5:00	SOCIAL HOUR and NETWORKING
6:00	BANQUET Keynote Speaker: Tom Lewis Hudson River Historian Skidmore College
November 6^th
9:00	Hudson River Fisheries: From abundant to Rare in 400 Years Robert Daniels, Robert Schmidt and Karen Limburg NYS Museum
	Herpetofauna of the Hudson River Valley Alvin Breisch New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (ret.)
EFFECTS OF ECOSYSTEMS ON HUMANS
	Aesthetics - Literary: Thy Fate and Mine Are Not Repose: the Hudson and its Human Tide G.L. Brackett Pace University
	Aesthetics - Art: The Influence of the Hudson River School of Art in the Preservation of the River and its Natural and Cultural Landscape Harvey Flad Vassar College
11:25	BREAK
	18th Through 21st Century Agriculture Along Columbia County Tributaries: Shaped by Topography and Molding the Landscape Conrad Vispo and Claudia Knab-Vispo Farmscape Program, Hawthorne Farm
	The Rise and Demise of the Hudson River Ice Harvesting Industry: Urban Needs and Rural Responses Wendy E. Harris & Arnold Pickman Cragsmoor Consultants
1:30	LUNCH
2:15	The Hudson River Brick Industry: A Reflection of 15,000 Years of Environmental Change Roy T. Budnick Roy T. Budnick & Associates
	Historical and Environmental Impact of the Rosendale Natural Cement Industry Stephen Schimmrich and Karen Helgers SUNY Ulster County Community College
	Human Sanitary Wastes and Waste Treatment in New York City David Tonjes and Lawrence Swanson SUNY Stony Brook
	Impacts of a Major Introduction of A Toxic Substance and the Aftermath of its Cleanup Jeffrey Levinton SUNY Stony Brook
	Transportation and the Tappan Zee Bridge Roger Panetta and Joel Grossman Fordham University
	History in All its Contexts Thomas Lewis Skidmore College

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Congressman Maurice Hinchey (invited)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Thomas Lewis
noted Hudson River Historian
Skidmore College

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Historians, anthropologists, archeologists, artists, economists
Biologists, ecologists, agriculturists, agronomists, environmentalists
Hydrologists and water quality engineers
Decision makers, administrators, regulators
Educators at all levels
Hudson River Enthusiasts

REGISTRATION - Includes all breaks, 2 lunches, grand banquet, abstracts
	Until Sept. 8th	Sept. 8th - Oct 22nd	At Door
HRES Members	$80.00	$90.00	$115.00
Non-members	$95.00	$115.00	$135.00

Pre-Register now and save! Seating will be limited.

Registration by Credit Card credit card registration provided by
Registration by check - Please follow this link for an Adobe pdf registration form that may be completed and mailed.

Non-members may join HRES now to recieve the member rate.

Holiday Inn Motel and Conference Center

The Holiday Inn Motel and Conference Center is located on Rt. 9 at the intersection of I-84 in Fishkill, just south of Poughkeepsie.

Pre-registrants may reserve a motel room at special conference pricing. Contact the hotel at (845) 896-6281
Use code: "HRE"

PARTIAL SUPPORT FROM:

The NYS Assembly
The NYS Senate
Hudson River Improvement Fund
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Council on the Humanities
Consortium of New York Colleges and Universities
Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries