The Mohawk Watershed Research Group at Union College is focussed on a number of problems related to watershed analysis, floods, the effect of climate change on the water budget, erosion and sedimentation. Our effort includes developing a network for monitoring the health and flow of the river and the analysis of real-time data from that network. Details about the 2009 Mohawk Watershed Symposium are here.

Participating faculty at Union College:

JOHN I. GARVER (University of Washington) Floods, ice jams, Slumps and erosion. Research on geologic hazards, the effects of hazards on society including flooding and ice jams on the Mohawk River, the evolution of the Mohawk watershed, the analysis of slumps and landslides.

JACYLN COCKBURN (Queens University), Watershed analysis and Climate. Transport of Sediments in watersheds, impact of Climate change, the sedimentary record of climate change.

LAURA MACMANUS-SPENCER, (University of Minnesota) Environmental Chemistry. Research on the fate and transport of organic contaminants in natural waters and soils. Courses in Environmental Chemistry.Quantitative Chemistry, Chemical Instrumentation.

ASHRAF GHALY (Concordia University), Soil Mechanics , Dams, watershed analysis. Research on Soil Mechanics, erosion and degration of bridges and dams, Foundation Engineering, Geosynthetics and Applications in Environmental Geotechnology, Geographic information Systems.

ANDREW MORRIS (University of Virginia), History. Research interests include the history of public policy, and environmental history. Part of his current research focuses on the history of the Mohawk Corridor, and the Erie Canal.

HOLLI M. FREY (University of Michigan), Geochemistry of natural waters. Research interests include the relationshiip between soils, bedrock, and chemistry of suface water.

VALERIE BARR (Rutgers University), Computational science andcomputational methods. Research interests include software testing, particularly applied to various kinds of artificial intelligence and language processing systems.

DONALD T. RODBELL (University of Colorado), Geology of Climate change, analysis of lake sediments and flooding. Geologic record of Climate change, glacial records of climate change, landscape evolution, Lakes and environmental change.

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