CMTU October Meeting
Wednesday, October 15
Residence Inn by Marriott
Kingston 800 Frank Sottile Blvd
6:30-8:30
This months presentation and speaker will be speakers will be:
Partnerships to Protect Watershed Health: Insights from the Upper Raritan River of New Jersey.
Kristi MacDonald, PhD, Science Director at Hudsonia.
Kristi MacDonald will discuss the challenges faced by communities, non-profits, and agencies in protecting the health of our watersheds, rivers, and streams. Science is key to informing policy, planning and restoration. Kristi will discuss her work at Raritan Headwaters, a non-profit in NJ, where she built and led a long-term, regulatory level volunteer stream monitoring program, including the training and coordination of over 100 community scientists collecting annual biological and chemical data at more than 80 sites. Under her leadership, the program’s high-quality data directly supported multiple stream reclassifications for increased protections by NJDEP. She also led the design and implementation of several watershed restoration and protection plans informed by water quality data that incorporated green infrastructure, riparian buffers, stormwater controls, and dam removals to address pollutants and impacts from extreme storms and built multiple partnerships to implement these plans.
