I’m in a classroom giving a lesson on the ecology of the Hudson River. As I always do, I start the class by asking the students: “How many of you have been down to the River?” And as usual, only about half the students raise their hands. I don’t probe …
Everyone can feel that the days are getting warmer. Everyone can see that the rains are falling faster and the ocean is rising higher. We all see that the climate is changing, but we don’t all know how to prepare. Even if you had the motivation to do so, where …
When most people think of Climate Change, they imagine things like starving polar bears on thinning sea ice, or a wreck of debris after a major hurricane on the Gulf Coast. This is certainly one aspect of the Climate Crisis. However, there’s another more personal and immediate reality unfolding every …
My internship with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) at the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (the Reserve, or HRNERR), partnered with Americorps and the Student Conservation Association (SCA), came to a close earlier this year. It was a treat to further plug into the …
On March 28th of this year, nearly a hundred people gathered at SUNY New Paltz for the third Wallkill River Summit, organized by the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance. Gathering together community organizers, officials from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, local elected leaders and an interested public, the 2017 Wallkill …
The Wallkill River starts at Lake Mohawk in New Jersey and flows north 90 miles to meet the Rondout Creek in Esopus and Rosendale, New York. Along the way, the river drains 785 square miles, its 69 major tributaries branching out to include 43 municipalities in five counties across two …
Climate change adaptation is a complex challenge, requiring input from many disciplines and stakeholders throughout the process. And that process is never over. Iteration is key, revisions need to be made to existing strategies and plans as stakeholder needs, politics, economics, and science shift. My work in Climate Outreach with …
