Workshop Presentations

Plenary Session:

Monitoring: Coordination & Use in NJ Water Resource Management - Leslie McGeorge, NJDEP/Water Monitoring & Standards

Lunch Presentation:

IOOS: Linking Resource Management to Monitoring - J. Frederick Grassle, Rutgers Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences

Breakout Session #1

Emerging Technologies - Water Quality

• Integrated Approaches for Coastal Monitoring - Robert Connell, NJDEP/Water Monitoring & Standards
• The Evolution of the NJ Observing System: The Potential for Water Quality Management - Oscar Schofield & Scott Glenn, Rutgers Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences

Stormwater Monitoring

• Monitoring Stormwater for Development of TMDLs - Chris Obrupta, Rutgers Cooperative Extension/Cook College, Department of Environmental Sciences
• Monitoring Urban Stormwater Best Management Practices: Why is it Important and What to Monitor - Dr. Scott Struck, EPA National Risk Management Laboratory, Edison
• Monitoring Stormwater from Industrial Sites for Permit Compliance and Environmental Effects: a 10 Year Review - Brian McLendon, NJDEP/Division of Water Quality

Mercury: Impacts, Sources & Monitoring

• Why Monitor for Mercury: Overview of Bioaccumulation, Concentrations, Fish Advisories and Criteria in NJ - Gary Buchanan, NJDEP/Division of Science, Research & Technology
• Sources of Mercury to New Jersey’s Environment and TMDL Development: What’s New? - Michael Aucott, NJDEP/ Division of Science, Research & Technology
• Low Level Mercury Monitoring
  • Part A: Method 1631E- Mercury Laboratory Analysis - Anthony Carroll, EPA Region 4, Science and Ecosystems Support Division
  • Part B: Field Procedures and Preliminary Water Results - Thomas Vernam, NJDEP/ Water Monitoring & Standards

Breakout Session #2

Emerging Technologies: Water Quantity/Flow

• New Technologies for Measuring Stream Flow - Timothy Reed, USGS/NJ Water Science Center
• Measuring Evapotranspiration in the Pinelands - Robert Nicholson, USGS/NJ Water Science Center

Nutrients/Biocriteria

• Diatom-Based Models and Indices for Monitoring Nutrient Enrichment in NJ Streams - Dr. Don Charles, The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
• A Nutrient Biotic Index (NBI) for Use with Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities - A.J. Smith, NYDEC/Stream Monitoring
• Nutrient TMDL Development for New Jersey - New York Harbor Estuary - Marzooq Al-Ebus, NJDEP/Division of Watershed Management
• Delaware Estuary Nutrient Approach - Edward Santoro, Delaware River Basin
  Commission

Microbial Source Trackdown

• New Jersey’s Strategy for Microbial Source Tracking - Eric Feerst, NJDEP/Water Monitoring & Standards
• Monmouth University’s MST Work - John Tiedemann, Monmouth University
• Shoreline Surveys and an Innovative CEHA Laboratory - William Simmons, Monmouth County Health Department

Breakout Session #3

Emerging Contaminants

• Pesticide Degradates - Jeffrey Fischer, USGS/NJ Water Science Center
• Tentatively Identified Compounds (TICs) by State-of-the-Art Solid Phase Extraction: Mining the Preliminary Results - Lee Lippincott, NJDEP/Division of Science, Research & Technology
• Emerging Contaminants in our Water Resources - Herb Buxton, USGS/NJ Water Science Center

Ecological Monitoring

• Bioassessment Integration Study: Systems Ecology Evaluation of USEPA Rapid Bioassessment Protocols in New Jersey (Macroinvertebrates, Periphyton, Fish and Habitat) - Dr. Richard Horwitz, The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
• Assessing Ecological Impairment in NJ’s Estuarine and Coastal Marine Waters: Problems and Solutions - Michael Kennish, Rutgers Institute for Marine &
  Coastal Sciences/Nancy Immesberger, NJDEP/Water Monitoring & Standards
• Ecological Monitoring in NJ Harbor Waters - Charles Strobel, EPA Office of Research and Development – Atlantic Ecology Division

Recreational Beach Monitoring

• NJDEP Cooperative Coastal Monitoring Program - Virginia Loftin, NJDEP/Division of Watershed Management
• 2006 EPA Water Quality Monitoring Program - Helen Grebe, EPA Region 2, Monitoring and Assessment Branch
• County Beach Monitoring Program - Becky Cosgrove, Monmouth County
  Health Department