School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Queens College, City University of New York
Research
Coastal and Estuarine Processes of the New York Area
Like many east coast cities, New York City is an urban center surrounded by waters, including Hudson River Estuary, New York Harbor, Long Island Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean. Several of QC SEES faculty are dedicated to understanding changes in these regionally important waters. SEES faculty seek to understand how the local environments changed in response to natural variations in the geologic past, as well as monitoring future changes in the following projects:
- Sedimentological history of the Hudson River over the last 10,000 years (C. McHugh and S. Pekar)
- Salinity intrusion and tidal variations in alluvial estuaries (T. Eaton)
- Monitoring of Long Island Sound (C. McHugh, Y. Zheng, G. Stewart)
- Paleoceanographic changes in Chesapeake Bay (Y. Zheng)
- Sediment dynamics and dispersal in estuaries of southern N.Y.( N. Coch)
- Records of sea level rise on the nearshore continental shelf of Long Island ( N.Coch and S.Pekar)
- NY Coastal Zone assessment and management (Stewart)
- Biodiversity and ecosystem health in Jamaica Bay (Stewart)