Legacy Sediments

Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster is hosting a Bonchek Policy Workshop on September 12 and 13 to discuss the policy implications of legacy sediments as a source of pollution and high sediment yields in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Over two days the workshop will focus on presentations and field visits that will give researchers and policy-makers the opportunity to review new information about the role stream channel erosion plays in sediment and nutrient loadings in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Speakers will include M.Gordon Wolman, Professor of Geography and Environmental Engineering at John Hopkins University, Dr. Milan Pavich, River Observatories for Management Applications of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Art Parola of the University of Louisville, Dr. John Wallace of Millersville University, Harry Campbell of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Dr. Robert Walter and Dr. Dorothy Merritts from Franklin & Marshall and Ward Oberholtzer with LandStudies, Inc.

One product of the workshop will be to prepare a white paper briefing that can be used by policy-makers to discuss the policy impacts of the new science.

The workshop is supported by grants from the Bonchek Institute for Science and Public Policy and the Center for Liberal Arts and Society at Franklin & Marshall College.

For more information contact Dr. Robert Walter at Franklin & Marshall’s Department of Earth and Environment by sending email to Robert.Walter@FandM.edu .

8/19/2005