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Notes on Contributors Daniel D. Chazin is a life member of the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference and currently serves as a board member and as secretary, as well as chair of the Publications Committee. He has edited a number of publications on hiking in the New York–New Jersey area, including the New York Walk Book, New Jersey Walk Book, Appalachian Trail Guide to New York and New Jersey, and Harriman Trails: A Guide and History. Mr. Chazin is an attorney in private practice . Mr. Chazin received a BA from Yeshiva College in 1972 and a JD from New York University in 1975. Vincent T. dePaul is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, New Jersey Water Science Center. Mr. dePaul earned baccalaureate degrees in geography and geosciences from the College of New Jersey and has also studied water resources at Drexel University in Philadelphia. His professional experience includes a variety of water-resources studies; most recently, he has investigated the occurrence and mobility of radium in groundwater, salt-water intrusion into aquifers of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and eutrophication in riverine environments . Over the past decade he has participated in several studies that have helped characterize the water resources in the Highlands region. Joan G. Ehrenfeld is professor of ecology at Rutgers University, where she researches and teaches about plant and ecosystem ecology of both upland and wetland systems. She teaches courses on introductory ecology, wetland ecology, ecosystems ecology, and field methods in ecology. She currently serves on several state and federal advisory and regulatory committees, including the New Jersey Wetland Mitigation Council and the New Jersey Invasive Species Council, and, at the federal level, the Committee on Independent Scientific Review of the Everglades and the Ecological Processes and Effects Committee of the EPA Science Advisory Board. She is a Fellow of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Current research includes studies of nitrogen cycling and carbon sequestration in wetlands and forests, wetland diversity as a control on West Nile virus, plant-soil interactions resulting from exotic plant 336 Contributors invasions, root dynamics as a component of invasion ecology, and urban ecosystem analysis. Alexander E. Gates is a professor at Rutgers University–Newark and the chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He earned his PhD in geological sciences from Virginia Tech with specialization in structural geology and tectonics. His research has focused on processes of strike-slip faults, geochemistry of fault zones, and regional geologic mapping. Dr. Gates has written or edited nine books and been an author on more than seventy-five professional papers. He has appeared in several documentaries, including two on the Discovery Channel, and is commonly seen on television news, in newspapers, and in magazines for his research on local earthquakes. Dr. Gates served as president of both the Geological Association of New Jersey and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Eastern Section, and he is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Thomas A. Gilbert joined the Trust for Public Land in January of 2008 to direct state and local conservation finance initiatives in the mid-Atlantic region . As chair of the New Jersey “Keep It Green” campaign, a coalition of more than 140 organizations working to renew and strengthen the Garden State Preservation Trust, he led a successful statewide campaign to pass a $400 million bond measure on the November 2009 ballot to continue openspace preservation efforts in New Jersey. Prior to joining TPL, Tom served as director of Eastern Forest Conservation for the Wilderness Society and executive director of the regional Highlands Coalition, where he led successful efforts to pass federal and New Jersey state legislation to protect the Highlands . He earned his MS in natural resources planning from the University of Vermont. Steven Glenn has been a researcher in the Department of Science at Brooklyn Botanic Garden since 1994; currently he is the manager of the New York Metropolitan Flora Project. He received his BS from Purdue University in 1992. His research interests concentrate on the floristics of vascular plants in the New York metropolitan region, with particular emphasis on monitoring nonnative species and the historical decline of native species. MyrnaHall, MSSUNYCollegeof EnvironmentalScienceandForestry(SUNY ESF) Forest and Natural Resources Management, is director of the SUNY ESF Center for the Urban Environment. Her research focuses on spatial modeling of land cover and land-use change and its ecological consequences, including water-quality impacts in the New York City, Catskill-Delaware, Onondaga Creek, and Wappinger Creek (New...

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