Proceedings from the 2010 Mohawk Watershed Symposium

Preface to Volume: We are making progress. The Mohawk River Basin Program Action Agenda has emerged from the DEC and primary stakeholders, and in that initial blueprint for action has emerged a mission that is at the heart of much of what we are all concerned with: The mission of the Mohawk River Basin Program is to act as coordinator of basin-wide activities related to conserving, preserving, and restoring the environmental quality of the Mohawk River and its watershed, while managing the resource for a sustainable future. Vital to the success of the program is the involvement of stakeholders and partnerships with established programs and organizations throughout the basin. An important emerging consensus is that integrated watershed management is the key to our future success. Ecosystem Based Management is a clear and explicit guiding principal that now appears to be integrated and fully woven into the fabric of our future direction. With the NYS Department of State's decision to support the Mohawk River Watershed Coalition of Conservation Districts' proposal to implement a Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Mohawk Basin. We can now look to the Mohawk Watershed Coalition of Conservation Districts, recently funded by NYS Department of State, to implement the different facets of the Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Mohawk Basin. This is the second annual symposium on the Mohawk Watershed and we are proud to present a full and interesting program with excellent papers and ideas that cover a wide range of topics in the Watershed. We hope that the continued spirit of information exchange and interaction will foster a new and better understanding of the intersection between Science, Engineering, and Policy in the watershed. Talks: - Introductory remarks to the second annual Mohawk Watershed Symposium - John I. Garver, Geology Department, Union College - Mohawk River: Erie Canal; Its one in the same (Invited) - Howard Goebel, Canal Hydrologist, New York State Canal Corporation - EST: Linking watershed protection with youth development through community based volunteer stream monitoring programs in the Mohawk Watershed. - John McKeeby, Executive Director, Schoharie River Center - Comparative analysis of volunteer and professionally collected monitoring data - Kelly Nolan, Director of Environmental Services, Watershed Assessment Associates - Ice jam history, ice jam mitigation training and ice jam mitigation efforts in the Mohawk River Basin - John Quinlan, Lead Forecaster, National Weather Service, Albany, NY - Learning through experiments and measurements: the Mohawk Watershed as an outdoor classroom - Jaclyn Cockburn, Geology Department, Union College - A new look at the formation of Cohoes Falls (Invited)- Gary Wall, Hydrologist, United States Geological Survey - Weather and climate of the Mohawk River Watershed - Steve DiRienzo, Senior Service Hydrologist, NOAA - National Weather Service - Landslides in Schenectady County - John Garver, Geology Department, Unoion College - Use of high-resolution LiDAR images to identify slopes with questionable stability along the Mohawk River banks - Ashraf Ghaly, Department of Engineering, Union College - Historic flooding at selected USGS streamgages in the Mohawk River Basin. - Thomas Suro, Hydrologist and Engineer, United States Geological Survey - FEMA flood maps, flood risk and public perception (Invited) - William Nechamen, DEC NYS - Peak shaving: An approach to mitigating flooding in the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys- Bob Price, Dam Concerned Citizens - US Army Corps of Engineers approach to watershed planning - Jason Shea, Civil Engineer/Watershed Planner, US Army Corps of Engineers - The Hudson and the Mohawk: working together - Frances Dunwell, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

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