Margie Turrin is involved in several LDEO projects investigating various aspects of the Hudson River. These include "Snapshot Day," an annual opportunity for teachers and students to collect data and produce a "snapshot" of the river. The most recent took place on the Thursday before this Workshop, 12 Oct. Margie has previously shared some of her LDEO activities during the December 2004 "AMS@LDEO" program.

Tim Kenna is a Doherty Associate Research Scientist whose research focuses on sediments and contaminant transport. Tim enjoys sharing his work with everyone, as this shot from the LDEO Open House indicates:

Margie will describe programs that foster understanding by teachers and their students of "real world data" within the curriculum. She will be joined in her presentations by several  E2C teachers involved with "Snapshot Day" and other programs here and elsewhere.

Last summer, Margie, Tim, and other scientists and teachers icruised up and down the Hudson aboard the SUNY-Stony Brook research vessel "Sea Wolf" during "River Summer." Tim will discuss estuary circulation in the Hudson. Then, he and participants will work through an activity using data collected during River Summer as an example of possible student investigations using "real-life" data.

Margie Turrin's "Snaposhot Day" presentation
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LDEO's efforts to understand the Hudson River, which lies at the base of the Palisades on which the campus sits, go back to its earliest days in the later 1940s and early 1950s. Many of the geophysical techniques later used around the world were first tested as prototypes in the river and the nearby continental shelf and Hudson Canyon.

View Tim Kenna's Estuary Circulation presentation

More information about some of LDEO's many research investigations, as well as other resources useful for your classroom, can be found in the accompanying sections of this Workshop. Please explore the links above.