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Presentation topics and presenters at the Eight Annual Onondaga Lake Scientific Forum:
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Eight Anual Onondaga Lake Scientific Forum Oral and Poster Presenters.
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Introductory Comments
Robert Hennigan
Professor Emeritus, College of Environ. Science and Forestry (SUNY)
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Invited Talk
"Impacts of Nomadic Pastoralism and Climate Change on Six Lake Hovsgol Watersheds, Northern Mongolia"
Clyde E. Goulden
International Consultant
Hovsgol GEF Project
The presentation will cover the research of 20 young Mongolian scientists, trained on the project by international and Mongolian scientists, to monitor and experimentally define environmental impacts on forest, steppe and stream habitats and on permafrost in the six valleys, two with heavy livestock grazing, two with moderate grazing, and two with little grazing. Hovsgol is located at latitude 51 N, an area experiencing significant climate warming (almost two degrees C in 40 years).
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Scientific and Engineering Research Presentations
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"Effects of the Discharge of Spent Cooling Water from Lake Ontario on Onondaga Lake: A Preliminary Analysis"
Steven W. Effler, Emmet M. Owens,
David A. Matthews, and Susan M. O'Donnell
Upstate Freshwater Institute
James M. Hassett
SUNY CESF
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"Changes in the Littoral Aquatic Plant Community of Onondaga Lake from 1991 to 2006"
John D. Madsen
GeoResources Institute,
Mississippi State University
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"Changes in Primary Production of Onondaga Lake in Response to Reductions in Phosphorus Loading from Metro"
Adam J.P. Effler, James Hassett
SUNY CESF
Rakesh K. Gelda and Steven W. Effler
Upstate Freshwater Institute, Syracuse, NY
Stephen D. Field
Compliance Consultants
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"Characteristics of Light Absorption in Onondaga Lake, NY"
MaryGail Perkins, Christopher Strait, Lingsen Zhang, David M. O'Donnell and Steven W. Effler
Upstate Freshwater Institute, Syracuse, NY
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"Impacts of Nitrate on Hypolimnetic Processes in Onondaga Lake: 1. Control of Redox Status and Sulfide Accumulation"
David A. Matthews and Steven W. Effler
Upstate Freshwater Institute
Charles T. Driscoll
Syracuse University
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"Impacts of Nitrate on Hypolimnetic Processes in Onondaga Lake: 2. Preliminary Evidence for Reductions in Methyl Mercury Production"
Svetoslava Todorova, and Charles Driscoll
Syracuse University
Susan O'Donnell, David Matthews, and Steven Effler
Upstate Freshwater Institute
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"Nitrate and Bisulfide Patterns in Onondaga Lake, NY, and Adjoining Waters by ISUS Following Implementation of Nitrification Treatment at Metro"
Anthony R. Prestigiacomo, Steven W. Effler and David A. Matthews
Upstate Freshwater Institute, Syracuse, NY
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"Mercury Sequestration via Nitrate Addition: A Modeling Analysis of Management Alternatives"
Martin T. Auer, and Gilbert N. Lewis
Michigan Technological University
Steven C. Chapra
Tufts University
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"Resuspension of Sediments and Mercury from Near-Shore Waste Deposits in Onondaga Lake"
Revital Bookman, Charles T. Driscoll
Syracuse University
David Matthews, Steven W. Effler, and Emmet M. Owens
Upstate Freshwater Institute
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Social and Ethical Issues
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"Environmental and Professional Ethics in a Post Modern World: Integrated Problem Solving and Onondaga Lake"
Swiatoslav Kaczmar
O'Brien and Gere Engineers
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Invited Guest Speaker
Dr. Clyde E. Goulden is the Director of the Institute for Mongolian Biodiversity and Ecological Studies at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. He is an aquatic ecologist and has developed a long term research program at Lake Hovsgol in northern Mongolia. Hovsgol originated as a result of tectonic faulting similar to its more famous sister lake, Baikal, the World's oldest and deepest lake. Dr. Goulden and his colleagues have just published a book on the lake, titled "The Geology, Biodiversity and Ecology of Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia," published by Backhuys Publ., with 28 chapters by scientists from Mongolia, Russia, Japan, the United States and elsewhere. He is the International Consultant for a Global Environment Facility grant implemented by the World Bank to study the impacts of nomadic pastoralism and climate change on the Hovsgol watershed. He has worked with UNESCO Mongolia to prepare a nomination to designate Lake Hovsgol National Park as a World Heritage site, and has encouraged the development of eco-tourism around the lake. He has been designated a Honorary Professor, National University of Mongolia, and received a Honorable Environmental Officer award from the Ministry of Nature and the Environment, their highest award, and a Diploma of Merit from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences for his work at Lake Hovsgol and for the training of young Mongolian scientists in ecosystem research.
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