Name: Climate Change & the Delaware Estuary
Start: 2021-03-02T10:30:00-0500
End: 2021-03-02T12:00:00-0500

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Climate Change & the Delaware Estuary

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10:30am Kreeger, Danielle; Senior Science Director, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary; Member, Advisory Committee on Climate Change; Climate Change Indicators in the Technical Report for the Delaware Estuary and River Basin
10:45am Chen, Fanghui, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Water Resource Engineer, DRBC; Sea Level Rise Impacts on Delaware Estuary Wetlands and Marshes
11:00am Weis, Judith; Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University; How are Delaware Bay's Salt Marshes Faring in the Face of Sea Level Rise?
11:15am ✎ Shimon, Mayci, Graduate Assistant, Villanova University; Erin Johnson, Villanova University; Nathaniel Weston, Villanova University; Impacts of Salinity Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Marsh Ecosystems along the Salinity Gradient in the Delaware River Estuary ✎
11:30am Wang, Ruo-Qian, Rutgers University; Satellite-based Monitoring of Delaware Bay Surface Area
11:45am Q & A

Associated Posters & Pre-recorded Presentations
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Miller, Cassandra, Wesley College; William Kroen, Wesley College; Determining if an Elongation of the Growing Season has an Effect on Algal Blooms
Keller, Neil, Wesley College; William Kroen, Wesley College Observed Sea Level Rise in the St. Jones River

Moderators

Marjorie Kaplan

Associate Director, Rutgers Climate Institute, Rutgers University

Speakers

Judith S. Weis, Ph.D

Professor Emerita, Rutgers University

Salt marshes, estuarine ecology, pollution, behavior, microplastics

Danielle Kreeger

Science Director, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary

Danielle Kreeger is an ecologist with >35 years of experience as a research scientist and educator. She is the science director for the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, which coordinates the National Estuary Program that protects and restores natural resources in the Delaware... Read More →