|
GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY
2008 Annual Conference and Field Trip GANJ XXV Environmental and Engineering Geology of Northeastern New Jersey
Thursday October 16, Friday October 17 and Saturday October 18,
2008 |
**************************************************************************************
Thursday, October 16th:
Third
Passaic River Symposium
Schedule
**************************************************************************************
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)
-----
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)
**************************************************************************
Saturday, October 18th:
Twenty-fifth GANJ Field Trip
8:00 - 5:00 Field Trip: Environmental and Engineering Geology of Northern
New Jersey
**************************************************************************
GANJ
HOME Last Modified 2008, November
26, GCH