The Hudson River Foundation (HRF) and NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program present the Edward A. Ames Seminar Series on scientific issues related to the environmental quality and resource management of the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary.
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View past seminars by selecting individual events below.
Feb 04
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Spring 2014 Ames Seminar – Feinberg
A Tale of Two Species: The recent discovery of a cryptic leopard frog species in New York City followed by the almost immediate threat of Hurricane Sandy
Mar 14
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Spring 2014 Ames Seminar – Secor
Migration Ecology of New York Harbor Striped Bass
Apr 08
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Spring 2014 Ames Seminar – Orton
Modeling New York/New Jersey Harbor Storm Surge Flooding and Influences of Barriers and Natural Systems
May 06
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Spring 2014 Ames Seminar – Lohmann
Transfer of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Passaic River and its Food Chain
Oct 07
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Fall 2014 Ames Seminar – Zarnoch
Understanding Nitrogen Transformations and Removal at Oyster Restoration Sites in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary
Nov 10
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Fall 2014 Ames Seminar – Buzbee
Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War that Transformed New York City
Dec 02
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Fall 2014 Ames Seminar – Naczi
Conservation Status of Hudson River Intertidal Plant Species
Mar 10
10:30-12:00 pm
2015
Ames Seminar
Spring 2015 Ames Seminar – Hare
Restoring Oysters Sustainably Requires Good Genes: Genomic Evidence from Delaware Bay and Hudson River
Apr 28
10:30-12:00 pm
2015
Ames Seminar
Spring 2015 Ames Seminar – Waldman
Against the Current: Repairing Atlantic Rivers to Restore Diadromous Fishes
May 19
10:30-12:00 pm
2015
Ames Seminar
Spring 2015 Ames Seminar – Field
Re-Visiting Model Projections of Lower Hudson River Fish PCBs Using Model Emulation and Recent Data
Oct 20
10:30-12:00 pm
2015
Ames Seminar
Fall 2015 Ames Seminar – Ralston
Linking Sediment Transport in the Hudson from the Tidal River to the Estuary
Nov 18
10:30-12:00 pm
2015
Ames Seminar
Fall 2015 Ames Seminar – Bursian
Dietary Exposure of Mink to Fish from the Upper Hudson River: Effects on Reproduction, Offspring Growth, Mortality and Pathology
Dec 01
10:30-12:00 pm
2015
Ames Seminar
Fall 2015 Ames Seminar – O’Mullan
Sewage Associated Microbes in the Hudson River Estuary: Sources, Distribution, and Ecological Connections
Mar 17
10:30-12:00 pm
2016
Ames Seminar
Spring 2016 Ames Seminar – Goodwin
The role of research in oyster restoration from larvae to adults: Two case studies in Chesapeake Bay
Apr 20
10:30-12:00 pm
2016
Ames Seminar
Spring 2016 Ames Seminar – Simpson
Advancing Guidelines and Methods for Sediment Quality Risk Assessment
Apr 26
10:30-12:00 pm
2016
Ames Seminar
Spring 2016 Ames Seminar – Nitsche
Changes in Hudson River sediment distribution after storms Irene and Sandy
Apr 26
10:30-12:00 pm
2016
Ames Seminar
Spring 2016 Ames Seminar – Brigham
Evaluating Greenhouse Gas Efflux Across a Rural-Urban Estuarine Gradient: Assessing the Impact of Incomplete Wastewater Treatment on the Hudson
Oct 24
10:30-12:00 pm
2016
Ames Seminar
Fall 2016 Ames Seminar – Bailey
Movements of striped bass in response to extreme weather events
Nov 04
10:30-12:00 pm
2016
Ames Seminar
Fall 2016 Ames Seminar – Howarth
Climate change and the sensitivity of the Hudson River Estuary to nutrient pollution
Dec 06
10:30-12:00 pm
2016
Ames Seminar
Fall 2016 Ames Seminar – Schultz
The Baby Food Chronicles: Analysis of early-stage fish feeding ecology over three decades in the Hudson River
May 09
10:30-12:00 pm
2017
Ames Seminar
Spring 2017 Ames Seminar – Limburg, Mount and Bowser
American eels in the Hudson River estuary: from glass to silver
Nov 07
10:30-12:00 pm
2017
Ames Seminar
Fall 2017 Ames Seminar – Findlay and Neel
Rise and Fall and Rise of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Tidal Freshwater Hudson River
Dec 13
10:30-12:00 pm
2017
Ames Seminar
Fall 2017 Ames Seminar – Waldman
Dams & What Eel Alleles Reveal, & Whether it’s Real John Waldman, Professor of Biology, Queens College, CUNY
Feb 06
10:30-12:00 pm
2018
Ames Seminar
Spring 2018 Ames Seminar – Häggblom
Bugs on Drugs: Anaerobic biodegradability of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
Mar 06
10:30-12:00 pm
2018
Ames Seminar
Spring 2018 Ames Seminar – Secor
Intensified climate change effects on Hudson River white perch following zebra mussel invasion
May 15
10:30-12:00 pm
2018
Ames Seminar
Spring 2018 Ames Seminar – Baines
Why don't zebra mussels starve? Dissolved organic matter as a missing source of energy to zebra mussels in the Hudson River
Oct 12
10:30-12:00 pm
2018
Ames Seminar
Fall 2018 Ames Seminar – Orton and Ralston
Preliminary Evaluation of the Physical Influences of Storm Surge Barriers on the Hudson River Estuary
Dec 04
10:30-12:00 pm
2018
Ames Seminar
Fall 2018 Ames Seminar – Nitsche and Kenna
The Impacts of Storms Irene and Sandy on Sediments in the Hudson River
Feb 20
10:30-12:00 pm
2019
Ames Seminar
Spring 2019 Ames Seminar – Grothues
Response and Resilience: Fish use of altered shoreline habitats in the New York Harbor
Apr 16
10:30-12:00 pm
2019
Ames Seminar
Spring 2019 Ames Seminar – Tom Lake
The Lives and Legends of Hudson River Fishes
May 14
10:30-12:00 pm
2019
Ames Seminar
Spring 2019 Ames Seminar – W. Bryce Corlett
Rethinking the estuarine circulation: A case study of the Newark Bay estuarine network
Apr 14
10:30-12:00 pm
2020
Ames Seminar
WEBINAR ONLY: Spring 2020 Ames Seminar – Brian Yellen
Rapid Tidal Marsh Development on the Hudson During Period of Tributary Damming and Shoreline Modification
May 20
10:30-12:00 pm
2020
Ames Seminar
WEBINAR: Spring 2020 Ames Seminar – Waldman, Alter & Chin
Environmental DNA Assessment of Biodiversity, Abundance & Phenology of Hudson Estuary Fishes
Jun 16
1:30-3:00 pm
2020
Ames Seminar
New Date: Spring 2020 Ames Seminar – Cammarata, Balci, Cass & Kricun
Innovative Green Infrastructure Programs: Benefits, Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned
Dec 07
2-3:30 pm
2020
Ames Seminar
WEBINAR: December 2020 Ames Seminar – Melinda Rekdahl and Howard Rosenbaum
A Whale of a Tale: Acoustic Monitoring in the Upper and Lower New York Bay
Jan 24
10:30-12:00 pm
2023
Ames Seminar
January 2023 Ames Seminar
“Evaluation of the impacts of storm surge barriers on tides, salinity, and sediment transport processes in the Hudson River Estuary” presented by Dr. David Ralston, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mar 28
10:30-12:00 pm
2023
Ames Seminar
March Ames Seminar
Please register to join us for “Distribution of microplastics and associated pathogens and pollutants in NYC waterways” by Dr. Beizhan Yan of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Jun 20
10:30-12:00 pm
2023
Ames Seminar
June Ames Seminar: Using genetic data to advance Atlantic sturgeon conservation in the Hudson River
Presented by Dr. David Kayzak and Dr. Shannon White of USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center.
Oct 11
10:30-12:00 pm
2023
Ames Seminar
October Ames Seminar
“Ecosystem Effects of Variation in Tidal Restriction and Ecologically Sensitive Features for its Mitigation in New York City Salt Marshes” Presented by Georgina Cullman, Neha Savant, Carla Garcia, and Sara Donatich, Natural Resources Group, Environmental & Planning, NYC Parks
Feb 04
10:30-12:00 pm
2014
Ames Seminar
Spring 2014 Ames Seminar – Feinberg
A Tale of Two Species: The recent discovery of a cryptic leopard frog species in New York City followed by the almost immediate threat of Hurricane Sandy
