Grants and Projects
CURRENT AND COMPLETED
RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS
OF THE MEMBERS OF PASSAIC RIVER INSTITUTE
(2001 through present; last updated December 2007)
(for information on any of these projects, contact Dr. Kirk Barrett, PRI Director,
phone 973-655-7117 or click to email kirk.barrett@montclair.edu)
| Title | PRI Investigators | Total Funding | Sponsoring Agency |
Project Date |
| Passaic River Environmental Education and Monitoring Organization | Barrett, Kirk, Nicholas Smith-Sebasto, Katherine Herbert | $39,888 | USEPA |
2007-2008 |
| Is Urbanization of Rural, Water-supply Watersheds a Threat to Water Availability During Dry Weather in New Jersey? 2006-2008 | Barrett, Kirk | $47,000 | US Department of Agriculture |
2006-2008 |
| Assessing Invasive Plant Species in Floodplain Wetlands of the Upper Passaic River and Initiating a Geospatial Database of Invasive Plants in | Bologna, Paul; Yu, Danlin; Barrett, Kirk | $46,800 | NJ US EPA |
2006-2009 |
| Tenakill Brook Watershed Restoration Plan | McClary, Marion (FDU) | $15,000 | Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension Water Resources Program |
2006-2007 |
| Community shell microstructure as an environmental indicator, Barbours Pond, Garrett Mountain Reservation, West Paterson, NJ. | Prezant, Robert; Chapmann, Eric | N/A | Montclair State University |
2004-2007 |
| Molecular characterization of organic matter in Passaic River sediments via a novel, rapid method: pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry | Kruge, Michael | N/A | Montclair State University |
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| Geographic variation in larvae of the Green Frog in Northwest Jersey | Korky, John | N/A | Montclair State University |
2006 |
| Is Flooding Getting Worse in the Passaic River Basin? A historical, emprical analysis of flood frequency and magnitude | Barrett, Kirk | N/A | Montclair State University |
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| Summer Program in Environmental Science and Computer technology for 7th and 8th graders from Newark Victoria Foundation | Barrett, Kirk; Smith-Sebasto, Nicholas | $40,000 | Landsberger Foundation, BMW America, Port Authority of NY/NJ |
2007 |
| Brochure and trail maps for the Essex County Park System | Barrett, Kirk; Yu, Danlin | $2,700 | Essex County |
2006-2007 |
| Simulation of Groundwater Response to Development, Passaic River Basin, New Jersey | Ophori, Duke | NJDEP |
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| Sediment and Phosporus loading to Speedwell Lake, Morristown, NJ | Barrett, Kirk | $14,500 | NJDEP thru Whippany River Watershed Action Committee |
2006-2007 |
| Distribution of Corbicula fluminea in New Jersey | Prezant, Robert; Chapmann, Eric | $5,000 | NJ Sea Grant |
2005-2006 |
| Map of South Mountain Reservation, Essex County, NJ | Barrett, Kirk | $3,325 | South Mountain Conservancy |
2006-2007 |
| Summer Program in Environmental Science and Computer technology for 7th and 8th graders from Newark Victoria Foundation | Barrett, Kirk; Smith-Sebasto, Nicholas | $40,000 | Landsberger Foundation, BMW America, Port Authority of NY/NJ |
2006 |
| Urban Dimensions of Environmental Change: Science, Exposures, Policies, and Technologies. International Conference in Shanghai, China | Feng, Huan; Ophori, Duke | $35,000 | National Science Foundation |
2003-2005 |
| Using GIS to Integrate Pollution Data and Study Pollutant Source Function in Passaic River System, NJ | Feng, Huan | $5,000 | NJ Sea Grant |
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| Quality Assurance for Sediment Decontamination Study for the NJ/NY Harbor | Feng, Huan | $197,539 | USEPA thru Brookhaven National Laboratory |
2001-2006 |
| Restoration and Spatial Analysis of Submerged Aqua Vegetation in Barnegat Bay, NJ | Bologna, Paul | $152,731 | NJ EPA |
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| Assessing the potential biological control of Aureococcus anophagefferens by Mytilus edulis | Bologna, Paul | $156,718 | NJ Sea Grant |
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| Eelgrass, Zostera marina, Restoration in Barnegat Bay, NJ | Bologna, Paul | $8,108 | PADI Foundation |
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| Assessing Harmful Algal Blooms on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Barnegat Bay | Bologna, Paul | $26,268 | Barnegat Bay Estuary Program |
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| Assessing the population genetic structure of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.): implications for management and restoration of a costal habitat | Bologna, Paul; Campanella, James | $147,618 | NJ Sea Grant |
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| Stormwater catchment modifications of the Lafayette Avenue/Edgewater Road Bronx River Corridor: increasing biodiversity and ecological productivity through roadway and shoreline ecological engineering and restoration | Mankiewicz, Paul (Gaia Institute); Prezant, Robert | $18,000 | NOAA |
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| Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Restoration as a Technique for Increasing Water Quality and Reducing NPS Pollution. | Bologna, Paul | $156,249 | NJ EPA |
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| Freshwater mollusc and crayfish survey on West Point Military Reservation | Chapmann, Eric | $22,372 | MATRIX Environmental & Geotechnical | |
| Comparative coastal biodiversity of Long Island’s North Shore. | Prezant, Robert | $4,687 | Professional Staff Congress - City University of New York | |
| Chemical assessment of sediments of 8 Day Swamp, a contaminated brackish marsh in the Hackensack Meadowlands of northeastern New Jersey: An assessment of natural recovery. | Weis, Peddrick (UMDNJ): Barrett, Kirk | NJ Meadowlands Commission |
2002-2004 |
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| A Chemical and biotic assessment of Oritani Marsh, degraded brackish marsh in the Meadowlands of northeastern NJ. | Barrett, Kirk | NJ Meadowlands Commission |
2001-2004 |
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