May 13, 2008 |
Reactive N - Roundtable on Acidified Surface Waters of New York State |
April 12, 2008 |
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April 8-9, 2008 |
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February 8, 2008 |
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February 6, 2008 |
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December 13, 2007 |
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December 7, 2007 |
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December 4, 2007 |
Strategies for Adapting Water Resource Management to a Changing Climate: New Challenges for Risk Management and Community Education |
October 30, 2007 |
Climate Change and Conservation Districts - NYACD Annual Meeting 2007 |
October 16, 2007 |
Date: May 13, 2008
Time: 9AM to 12PM
Location: 133 Emerson Hall Cornell University
Co-sponsors: WRI
Speakers and Participants: Gary Lovett, Charley Driscoll, Myron Mitchell, Doug Burns, Greg Lawrence, Karen Roy, Christy Goodale, Jed Sparks, Bob Howarth
Link to Website: http://wri.eas.cornell.edu/
Contact: Julie G. Lauren (jgl5@cornell.edu)
The program will involve a roundtable discussion on the current status of atmospheric nitrogen deposition issues, knowledge gaps, management strategies and legislative/policy needs in New York State.
Date: April 12, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM - noon
Location: First Unitarian Church, Ithaca, NY
Co-sponsors: Cayuga Lake Watershed Network
Speakers and Participants: Susan Riha, Elizabeth Moran, Paul Lord, Dan Segal, Win McIntyre
Who Should Attend: Residents, visitors, just plain curious
Link to Website: http://www.cayugalake.org/
Contact Information: 607-532-4104
Learn about taking care of Cayuga Lake
Date: April 8-9, 2008
Time: All day
Location: The Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY
Co-sponsors: The Nature Conservancy
Speakers and Participants: Multiple insitutions with interest in climate change in Hudson River Valley
Who Should Attend: Invitation only
Link to Website: http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/newyork/science/art23583.html
Contact Information: http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/newyork/science/art23583.html
Rising Waters will use a series of scenarios, designed by workshop participants with the help of experts, to explore the expected impact of climate change on communities and the environment in the Hudson River Valley.
Date: February 8th, 2008
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: 109 Rice, Cornell Campus & Cornell's Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center
Co-sponsors: NYS Water Resources Institute (WRI), Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE)
Speakers and Participants: Bob Howarth, Bob Kent and others
Who Should Attend: Those interested in controls on nitrogen levels in the Peconic estuary.
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss nitrogen trends in the Peconic Estuary in light of hypotheses discussed at the latest Estuarine Research Federation meeting and rationales for current TMDL's. We will use the polycam system that connects the Cornell campus with Cornell Cooperative Extension offices throughout the state to facilitate the meeting.
Date: February 6th, 2008
Time: 10am-2pm
Location: Belhurst Castle, Geneva, NY
Co-sponsors: Finger Lakes Institute
Speakers and Participants: Jeff Meyers, NYSDEC
Who Should Attend: All interested in water quality.
Link to Website: http://fli.hws.edu/
Discussion of the Oswego River Finger Lakes Basin Waterbody Inventory and Priority Waterbodies List (PWL), an assessment and inventory of monitoring efforts and water quality information for waterbodies within the Finger Lakes basin.
Date: December 13th, 2007
Time: 10-11:30AM
Location: 133 Bradfield Hall, Cornell Campus & Cornell's Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center
Co-sponsors: NYS Water Resources Institute (WRI), Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE)
Speakers and Participants: Bob Howarth, Bob Kent and others
Who Should Attend: Those interested in controls on nitrogen levels in the Peconic estuary.
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss nitrogen trends in the Peconic Estuary in light of hypotheses discussed at the latest Estuarine Research Federation meeting and rationales for current TMDL's. We will use the polycam system that connects the Cornell campus with Cornell Cooperative Extension offices throughout the state to facilitate the meeting.
Date: December 7th, 2007
Time: 11 AM-12PM
Location: 133 Bradfield Hall, Cornell Campus
Sponsors: NYS Water Resources Institute (WRI), Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE)
Speakers and Participants: Dennis Swaney, Bob Howarth, Peter Woodbury
Contact: Andrew Mcdonald (ajm9@cornell.edu)
The purpose of this meeting is to review existing tools and data resources for modeling the mass balance of reactive nitrogen. Discussions will consider the application of different modeling approaches for assessing reactive nitrogen in regions of New York with extensive animal agriculture.
Date: December 4th, 2007
Location: Cornell University
Co-sponsors: NYS Water Resources Institute (WRI), Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), Cornell Climate Impacts Initiative, Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI), Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
Knowledge of climate change is nearly universal, but strategies for anticipating and adapting to risks and opportunities posed by climate change have not been well-articulated at the region to local levels. Municipal planners, natural resource managers, and many business owners could benefit from improved access to information regarding potential climate change impacts and adaptation strategies. This one-day workshop will address the following: 1.What does climate change mean for New York? 2. What types of climate change information / risk management strategies are being communicated by CCE? 3. What are the information needs, perceptions of risk, and decisions that will be faced by CCE's present and emerging stakeholder groups?
Date: October 30th, 2007
Location: Owego, NY
Sponsor: New York Association of Conservation Districts
The objective of this meeting is "to make District board members aware of the connection between conservation and climate change, and to regard the Districts as agencies that should be actively involved in halting climate change." NYS WRI Director Susan Riha will speak on "Cornell's Impacts of Climate Change Program: Addressing Challenges for Soil and Water Conservation."
Date: October 16, 2007
Location: Cornell University
Co-sponsors: NYS Water Resources Institute (WRI), Cornell Climate Impacts Initiative, Hudson River Estuary Program (NYS DEC)
Speakers and Participants: Click here
Post-workshop synthesis: Visit our discussion forum
In addition to addressing specific scientific issues such as flooding, sedimentation, and climate change projections, this one-day workshop emphasized topics including the selection of appropriate modeling techniques, issues of scale, model confidence and certainty, and data requirements.
