Breakfast Webinar: Kalamazoo River Watershed Case Study

Hudson River Watershed Alliance Watershed Breakfast Series: January 14, 2021
Featured Speaker: Steve Hamilton, Ecosystem Ecologist/Biogeochemist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies & Michigan State University

Sometimes examples from a completely different place with similar issues inspires our work in the Hudson River valley. Dr. Hamilton led the Kalamazoo River Watershed Council for ten years and has done some of his most detailed ecological research in that watershed. He today shares a split assignment between the Cary Institute and Michigan State University. The Kalamazoo River flows some 130 miles from south-central Michigan westward to Lake Michigan. Environmental issues include a Superfund site (PCBs), removal of old dams, a very large oil spill, and a recent emergency dam drawdown that released massive quantities of sediment. All of these are issues that have been—or could be—faced in the Hudson River valley.

Our monthly Mid-Hudson Breakfast Lecture series was held as a webinar, due to social distancing recommendations during COVID-19.