1999 Sessions:
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Sixth Annual Conference on the Adirondacks May 26 & 27, 1999 sponsored by the Adirondack Research Consortium, Lake Champlain Research Consortium, Paul Smith's College, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation co-chaired by Phil Terrie (Bowling Green State U.) and Gary Chilson (Paul Smith's College)
Wednesday, May 26 9:00 to 10:30 James Briggs, Moderator Matthew Witten, "What Floats Your Boat? Graduate Thesis on Open-Water Education" Michael Wilson, Sagamore Institute, "Bewildered: Defining Adirondack Great Camps as National Historic Landmarks" Todd Hannahs, "Balancing Curation and Access: An Assessment of the Lake Champlain Underwater Preserve Management Plan, 1998-2008" 9:00 to 10:30 Tom Manley, Moderator Ning Gao, Douglas Barber and Brian Moore, "Preliminary Investigation of Possible Atmospheric Contributions to Lake Champlain" Sean Lawson, T. D. Scherbatskoy, E. Malcolm and G. J. Keeler, "Cloud Water Chemistry in a High-Elevation Spruce-Fir Forest" 11:00 to 12:30 John Omohundro, Moderator Todd Thomas and Valerie Luzadis, "Understanding the Clifton-Fine Community: Communities and Conservation in the Adirondacks" Heidi Kretser, "Community Development in the Adirondacks: Bridging Healthy Towns to Healthy Environments" Cali Brooks, "Highlighting Johnsburg’s Assets: An Inventory, Analysis and Resident-Based Community Profile" 11:00 to 12:30 Ning Gao, Moderator Timothy Scherbatskoy, Richard Poirot, Barbara Stunder and Richard Artz, "Air Pollution Patterns and Trends in the Lake Champlain Basin" Curt Stager and Michael Martin, Natural Resources Division, Paul Smith’s College, "Climate Change and the Adirondacks: What’s Next?" Karen Roy, Adirondack Park Agency; Howard Simonin, DEC Bureau of Environmental Protection; Edward Bennett, DEC Division of Air Resources; Walter Krester, Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation, "Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: Why Is It Still a Problem?" 1:30 to 3:00 Lorraine M. Duvall, Ramsey Ridge Enterprises, Session Organizer Linda Lumsden, Western Kentucky University, "Inez Milholland: An Independent Adirondack Woman" Sandra Weber, Author, "Women’s Places in the Adirondacks: Esther Mountain and Mount Jo" Peggy Eyres, Songwriter and Singer, "Transforming Adirondack Women’s Stories to Song" 1:30 to 3:00 Michael Martin, Moderator Jane Serra, Leo Hetling and Norbert Jaworski, "Historical Changes in the Upper Hudson Watershed" Michael Barsotti, T. O. Manley, Richard Pratt, James Fay and Dave Sardilli, "Characterization of Dynamic and Source Water within Shelburne Bay for the Champlain Water District" Neil Kamman, Robert Estabrook and Charles Driscoll, "Assessing Hg Burdens in Vermont and New Hampshire Lake Waters and Sediments: A Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Initiative" 3:00 to 5:30 Tom Manley, Moderator Jean-Marcel Dorioz, Deane Wang, E. Alan Cassell and Mary Watzin, "Developing an Integrated, Dynamic Framework to Understand Water Quality Management in the Basins of Lake Champlain, Vermont and Lac Leman, France" Lyn McIlroy, Center for Earth and Environmental Science, SUNY-Plattsburgh, "A Watershed Management Model for Optimizing Terrestrial Lime Application to Mitigate the Effects of Acid Rain" D. W. Meals, R. Wackernagel, B. Anderson, A. Dodd, D. Erickson, C. Halbrendt, W. Jokela, B. Resosudarmo and L. Wood, "Balancing Economic and Environmental Impacts of Phosphorous Management: Project Overview" 3:30 to 5:00 Lorraine M. Duvall, Ramsey Ridge Enterprises, Session Organizer Fran Yardley, Storyteller, "Connecting the Story and Spirit; Exploring the Lives of Martha Reben, Jeanne Robert Foster and Lucia Newell Oliviere" Karen Glass and Kenda James, Adirondack Women in History, "Our Adirondack Heritage: Discovering our Foremothers" 3:30 to 5:00 Curt Stager, Moderator Leah Staniels and Douglas Facey, "Microhabitat Selection of the Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) with Respect to Substrate Particle Size" Richard Levey, "Recent Observations of Malformed Frogs in Vermont" Matt Nemeth, Daniel Josephson and Charles Krueger, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, "Uncommon Ground: Site Characteristics of Landlocked Atlantic Salmon in Two Adirondack Streams" Genevieve Nesslage and William Porter, SUNY-ESF, "Assessing Long-Term Population Dynamics of White-Tailed Deer in the Adirondack Park" 5:00 to 6:30 Participants included: James R. Bove, Mark J. Twery, Michael Rechlin, Gary Wade, Kathie Detmar and Linda Fahey, "The Effects of Five Silvicultural Treatments on Ground Flora, Overstory Composition, and Stand Structure: A Case Study in a Northern Hardwood Forest in the Northern Adirondacks" Donald H. Brown, "Factors that Influence Bioavailability of Mercury in Adirondack Waters"; Lisa Johnson, "How to Share the Adirondacks on-line With Others: Develop your own WEB" Andrew J. Keal, "Geographic Information Systems and the Adirondack Community: Understanding the Spacial Relations of Socio-Economic Indicators" Andrew S. Hansen, Brian R. McGrath, Marc E. Frischer, and Sandra A. Nierzwicki-Bauer, "Differential Survival of Zebra Mussel Veligers and Juveniles in Lake George, New York" John T. Omohundro, "The Adirondacks Program at SUNY Potsdam" Mary S. Rutley, "Adirondack Black Flies and their Control with Bti" B. Anderson, A. Dodd, D. Erickson, C. Halbrendt, W. Jokela, D. Meals, B. Resosudarmo, R. Wackernagel, and L. Wood, "Balancing Economic and Environmental Impacts of Phosphorous Management: Models and Database Development," Billie-Jo L.Gauley, Patricia L. Manley, "A Study of the Underwater Fault System of Lake Champlain near Port Kent, New York" John E. Gersmehl and Adam Zerrenner, "Eight-Year Experimental Sea Lamprey Control Program on Lake Champlain" Madeleine Lyttle, Ellen Marsden, David Hallac, Steve Fiske, Cathi Eliopoulus, Peter Stangel and Rick Levey, "Lake Champlain Basin Native Mussel Monitoring and Research" A.R. Michaud and M.R. Laverdiere, "Phosphorus Forms and Loads Variability in Beaver Brook Watershed and under Rainfall Simulation" 6:30 to 8:00 Keynote Address: Tom Wessels, Academic Chair of Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School, Author of "Reading the Forested Landscape"
Thursday, May 27 9:00 to 10:30 Laura Tam, Northern Forest Center, Moderator 9:00 to 10:30 Michale Glennon and William Porter, SUNY-ESF, "Modeling Land Use and its Effects on Biodiversity in the Adirondack Park" Lyn McIlroy and Joseph Racette, "A Management Model for Controlling Total Phosphorus in Lake Champlain" Daniel Spada, Raymond Curran and Avrim Primack, Adirondack Park Agency, "Defining Sustainable Ecosystems through Landscape Scale Natural Resource Analysis" 9:00 to 10:30 Karen Edwards, Moderator David Gibson and Ken Rimany, Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, "Restoring an Historic Conservation Legacy" David J. Allee, Cornell University, "The Public Management of Private Septic Systems in the Adirondacks 11:00 to 12:30 David Allee, Cornell University, Moderator Charles List, Department of Philosophy, SUNY-Plattsburgh, "Guiding Outdoor Recreation toward the Land Ethic" Christina Ricci, SUNY-CESF and Michael Bridgen, SUNY-CSEF Ranger School, "Restoration of an Adirondack Ecosystem Using Papermill Sludge" George Robinson and Jeffrey Zappieri, Graduate Program in Biodiversity, Conservation and Policy, SUNY-Albany, "Conservation Policy in Time and Space: Lessons from Divergent Approaches to Salvage Logging on Public Lands" 11:00 to 12:30 Michael DeAngelo, Moderator Brian Nowack, James Saylor and Stanley Jacobs, "Long Nonlinear Waves in Slowly Varying Channels" Stephen Sebestyen, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, "Groundwater and Aquatic Vegetation in Adirondack Lakes: Interactions at the Groundwater, Sediment and Macrophyte Interface" T. O. Manley and Kenneth Hunkins, "Large-Amplitude, Wind Generated, Internal Motions in Lake Champlain: Modeling and Visualization" 11:00 to 12:00 Jim Gould, Environmental Studies and Vice President for Development, Moderator Curt Stiles, Trustee of Paul Smith's College and Library Program Team Director Gail Gibson Sheffield, Learning Resources Center Coordinator, Paul Smith's College George Miller, President, Paul Smith's College 1:30 to 3:00 Ann Ruzow Holland, Executive Director, Friends of the North Country, Inc., Moderator Terry deFranco Martino, Executive Director, Adirondack North Country Association Jayne Daily, Program Coordinator, Glynwood Center/Countryside Institute/US-UK Exchange Program Stephen Erman, Special Assistant for Economic Affairs, State of New York, Adirondack Park Agency Ernest Hohmeyer, Executive Director, Adirondack Economic Development Corporation Virginia Westbrook, Coordinator, Champlain Valley Heritage Network David Allee, Chief of Local Government Programs, Cornell University William Johnston, Director, Essex County Office of Community Planning and Development Linda Depo, Directory of Development, Friends of the North Country, Inc., Coordinator, AuSable Valley Promotional Committee 1:30 to 3:00 Jon D. Erickson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Moderator Lyn McIlroy and Joseph Racette, "A Water Quality Management Model for Small Adirondack Watersheds" Tim Holmes, Holmes and Associates and Bryan Higgins, Department of Planning and Geography, SUNY-Plattsburgh, "The Tourism Economy: Confluence of Business, Community and Environment in the Adirondack Park" Timothy Schaeffer and Valerie Luzadis, SUNY-CESF, "Regional Control of Natural Resources: Can It Work To Protect Them?" 1:30 to 3:00 Phil Terrie, Moderator Marla Emery, Aiken Forestry Sciences Lab; Luis Malaret, March Institute, Clark University; and Dianne Rocheleau, Department of Geography, Clark University; "Social Constituencies of Adirondacks Ecologies" Elaine Handley, SUNY Empire State College, "The Adirondacks and the Feminization of Landscape: Toward an Integrative Perspective" Glenn Harris, Environmental Studies Program, St. Lawrence University, "Nineteenth-Century Agriculture on Lands within the Present Blue Line" 3:30 to 5:00 5:00 to 6:30 Moderator: Gary Chilson, Paul Smith’s College Peter Bauer, Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks Kevin King, Empire State Forest Products Association Pieter Litchfield, Blue Line Council Lloyd More, St. Lawrence County Legislator and Chair of the Local Government Review Board |