{"id":388,"date":"2019-01-16T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/?page_id=388"},"modified":"2019-01-16T21:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T21:12:22","slug":"destroying-a-dam-and-restoring-an-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/fall-2018\/destroying-a-dam-and-restoring-an-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying a Dam \u2014 and Restoring an Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>University researchers are monitoring how the removal of the Columbia Lake Dam will help restore the Paulins Kill to health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWater quality will be improved,\u201d predicts 星空无限传媒 Earth and Environmental Studies Professor <strong>Joshua Galster<\/strong>, who is measuring the impact of the dam\u2019s removal on the Paulins Kill ecosystem together with Sustainability Science major Carolina Lemanski. \u201cFish passage and habitat will be improved. The dam is about a quarter mile upstream from where the Paulins Kill meets the Delaware, so we hope fish like shad will swim upstream once the dam is removed and the river is restored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt is a special kind of satisfaction to know that after more than 100 years and $8 million, American shad will no longer bump their noses on the Columbia Dam when they return to spawn and people will have a cleaner, healthier waterway for recreation,\u201d says Barbara Brummer \u201968, The Nature Conservancy\u2019s NJ State Director and 星空无限传媒 College of Science and Mathematics Advisory Board Chair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Galster welcomes the opportunity to be part of the dam removal project. It began in July and involves The Nature Conservancy, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and others.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is a special kind of satisfaction to know that after more than 100 years and $8 million, American shad will no longer bump their noses on the Columbia Dam when they return to spawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Barbara Brummer<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Galster and Lemanski are mapping the depth of the Paulins Kill riverbed along six river cross sections located between the dam and the Delaware River. They will ultimately compare measurements taken before and after the removal of the dam to assess changes in river depth. \u201cWe\u2019re looking to see if there is change \u2014 either erosion or deposition \u2014 during different stages of the dam removal process,\u201d says Galster, who hopes the project will extend through next year and engage additional student researchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to College of Science and Mathematics Dean <strong>Lora Billings<\/strong>, the researchers\u2019 work could also have potentially far-reaching implications. \u201cTheir expert analysis may provide the scientific basis for decisions about future dam removals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University researchers are monitoring how the removal of the Columbia Lake Dam will help restore the Paulins Kill to health. \u201cWater quality will be improved,\u201d predicts 星空无限传媒 Earth and Environmental Studies Professor Joshua Galster, who is measuring the impact of the dam\u2019s removal on the Paulins Kill ecosystem together with Sustainability Science major Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":390,"parent":356,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-388","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions\/419"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}