David Arscott
UMC Faculty Seminar to Discuss New York City Water Supply
On Friday, March 12, 2004, the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) will host the next in a continuing series of seminars presented by campus faculty members, researchers, extension personnel, and other visiting professionals. The seminar will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Youngquist Auditorium in the Agricultural Research Center on the campus and will feature David Arscott, Ph.D., research scientist for Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Pennsylvania. Dr. Arscott’s topic will be: “Water Quality and the New York City Drinking Water Supply Watersheds.” The event is free and open to the public.
Program abstract: the drinking water industry in the U.S. and abroad now recognizes that protecting sources of fresh water is critical for any long-term plan for a drinking water system. Source water protection requires managing these water supply watersheds and ecosystems. Consequently, a successful management plan for New York City’s drinking water must be based on a solid understanding of the source streams and watersheds in order to make source watershed protection a reality.
Stroud Water Research Center has been involved in monitoring and assessing water quality and ecosystem function in the NYC source water area since 2000. The program blends innovative monitoring methods to track sources of potential pollutants and assessment of the ability of stream ecosystems to process nutrients with traditional water quality measures and biological monitoring methods. The combination of these attributes with the broad spatial extent of monitoring sites provides an excellent baseline understanding of water quality impacts throughout the source water area.
Arscott received his M.S. in water resources management at the University of New Hampshire while studying primary production in arctic rivers of Alaska. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, where he studied stream ecology along a Mediterranean river in northeastern Italy. Prior to working for Stroud Water Research Center, he served as a research assistant professor of natural resources at UMC.
The UMC Faculty Seminar Series is sponsored by UMC’s Office of Academic Affairs. Disability accommodations are available upon request.
Posted 03/10/2004
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