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GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY

2008 Annual Conference and Field Trip
Joint Meeting with the Passaic River Institute
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GANJ XXV  Environmental and Engineering Geology of Northeastern New Jersey

Thursday October 16, Friday October 17 and Saturday October 18, 2008
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey

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Thursday, October 16th:  Third Passaic River Symposium Schedule

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Friday, October 17th
:   Twenty-fifth GANJ Conference

Student Center Ballroom A
8:30 - 9:30 am          Registration/Check-in and continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:20 am        Teachers Workshop: Watershed Awareness - Teaching geography, geology, public policy, and chemistry through monitoring water quality in local streams - Marian Glenn (Seton Hall University)
10:30 - 10:40 am      Welcoming Remarks from the GANJ President - Dr. Matthew Gorring (Montclair State University)
10:40 - 12:00 pm      Technical Session 1 (see below)

Student Center Ballroom B
12:00 - 1:30 pm        Lunch and Business Meeting

Student Center Ballroom A
1:30 - 3:10 pm          Technical Session 2 (see below)
3:15 - 4:15 pm          Keynote Presentation, 'Geological controls on means and methods of hard rock excavation, New York City, NY' - Dr. Charles Merguerian (Hofstra University)
 
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Technical Session 1 (10:40 am - 12:00 pm)

10:40 - 11:00     Geologic Observations during rock excavation and tunneling for the Croton Water Treatment Plant construction, Bronx, New York – Daniel Vellone (Malcolm Pirnie Inc.) & Douglas Isler (Haley & Aldrich)
11:00 - 11:20     Erosion and weathering processes in the Delaware River Basin - Hongbing Sun & Carol Natter (Rider University) & Pierre Lacombe (US Geological Survey)
11:20 - 11:40     Chlorinated solvent contaminants in soil and groundwater at a near-shore industrial facility and their impact on Passaic River water and sediment quality - Janet Frey & Robert P. Blauvelt (Environmental Waste Management Associates, LLC)
11:40 - 12:00      Identifying the source of fine-grained sediment using radionuclides - Josh Galster (Montclair State University)

Technical Session 2 (1:30 pm - 3:10 pm)

1:30 - 1:50        The environmental geology of the Balbach Smelting and Refining Company sites, Newark, NJ - Mark Zdepski (JMZ Geology)
1:50 - 2:10        An analysis of natural attenuation at a contaminated site, Bloomfield, NJ - Duke Ophori (Montclair State University)
2:10 - 2:30        Trends in baseflow in New Jersey streams and correlation with imperviousness - Kirk Barrett (Passaic River Institute, Montclair State University)
2:30 - 2:50         A spatial analysis of lead concentrations in the soils of parks in Jersey City, NJ - Deborah Freile & Angela Rosiello (New Jersey City University)
2:50 - 3:10         Environmental Geology of the New Jersey Meadowlands District - Edward Konsevick (Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute)

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Saturday, October 18th:  Twenty-fifth GANJ Field Trip

8:00 - 5:00 Field Trip: Environmental and Engineering Geology of Northern New Jersey

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