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Guidelines: Oral and Poster Presentations
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Lake Placid and the Adirondacks Children's
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| Calendar | General schedule of events for the week | View HTML Download PDF (Calendar.pdf 93k) |
| Oral Presentations | Detailed list of all oral talks for the week. | Download PDF (Talks.pdf 168k) |
| Poster Presentation | List of poster presentations | Download PDF (Posters.pdf 87k) |
| Full Abstract Text | Oral and Poster Presentations | Download PDF (Abstracts.pdf 926k) BIG FILE! |
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Jam
Session - Tuesday Night Barbeque
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are planning to attend the barbeque planned for Tuesday night. In addition
to delicious food and interesting conversation, we have some exciting
entertainment planned for the whole family!
Bill Smith, local resident and storyteller, will spin tales from around 7 pm until around 8 pm. So grab a chair, some good food and relax. At 8:30, Tim Beatty and Friends will strike up a chord and open up the jam session. Tim and Friends are seasoned musicians from New York City and Nashville who specialize in city folk music. Instruments that the band will have with them include mandolin, acoustic guitar, harmonica, dobro, and violin. All are invited to bring their own instruments (including their voices) and join in on the first "annual" SWS Jam Session. And bring your cameras - there is sure to be some memorable moments! |
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SPECIAL FIELD TRIP! After 8 months of effort, the New York State Department of Transportation has gained approval to run a high line railroad truck over a section of the Adirondack Rail Road system that is not generally open to the public. Up to 15 people will be able to take a railroad trip from Tupper Lake southwest into wild forest areas. DOT will host this all day trip and show how they keep wilderness railroad tracks in service. UPDATE from DOT (22 May 02), the new railroad trip is now scheduled to run from the Lake Placid station down the active tracks of the rail line and then off of the normally public use tracks - it is an all day trip - lunch will be provided - people can walk from hotel to station If you
are interested in this special trip, email the conference manager (hbshaw@esf.edu)
or send a fax to Horace Shaw at 315 470 6890 and express your interest
in the trip. Cost for this trip is $45 and includes a bag lunch. This
trip can only run if we get at least 10 people to sign up before 15
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The Adirondacks and Lake Placid
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The Adirondack Park in northeastern New York is a six million acre natural area comprised of public and private lands. Awe-inspiring wilderness and wild forests surround small hamlets and historic villages that are located within several hundred miles of the densely populated metropolitan areas of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.
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Geologically the Adirondacks is formed by a dome-shaped land form that is highest in the east and tilts toward the west, and can be likened to an extension of the "Canadian Shield" into the United States. This landform forms the headwaters of number of rivers, including the Hudson River. The Adirondack Park has nearly 2,500 lakes and ponds and more than 30,000 miles of rivers and streams. The region is also home to what some call Americas sixth great lake, Lake Champlain. It is the abundance of water and water-dominated ecosystems that make the Adirondacks so unique. In the late 1800s, the Adirondack waterways were virtually the only mode of transportation through the hilly and sometimes mountainous terrain of the wilderness. Today, the waterways provide an ideal means for leaving civilization and experiencing the quiet solitude and natural features of wilderness and wild forest. In addition, a number of little traveled backcountry roads offer opportunities to leave civilization behind. Set in the eastern higher elevation section of the Adirondacks is the Village of Lake Placid, a resort and recreation center and home of two Olympic winter games. Lake Placid is an ideal starting point to access the high peaks and their hidden lakes and headwater streams, flat water wilderness rivers and ponds, environmental interpretative centers, research facilities of Paul Smiths College and the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Lake Champlain and St. Lawrence River ecosystems, and created mitigation wetlands located in the Albany, New York area.
The proposed 2002 Society of Wetland Scientists field trips have been planned to allow annual meeting participants to experience the water dominated mystique of the Adirondacks Special social events will be held to highlight the rustic settings with sweeping wildlife views, and will include a family-style barbeque in the fashion of the old Adirondack camps, offering panoramic views of the Adirondack Peaks and a background accompaniment of folk music. By special request, additional entertainment will be provided by those SWS attendees talented and brave enough to join in the SWS Open Jam Session. |
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Dear SWS Members: I am writing to solicit your assistance and support for the Silent Auction we will be putting on at the 23rd Annual Meeting this June in Lake Placid. If you have an item you can contribute, please contact me by phone (518-327-6236) or email (allenj@paulsmiths.edu). Last year's auction was a great success and we very much hope to repeat that success in Lake Placid, so please do what you can to help out. All proceeds of the Silent Auction will go to support student travel grants. Thanks, and see you in Lake Placid! Best wishes, Jim Allen |
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The upcoming Silent Auction is beginning to shape up nicely, with over $6000 in donations already promised and/or received. We could always use more contributions, though. Please remember that all the money goes to a worthy cause - to support student travel grants. Donations promised to date include such diverse items as a kayak, a pair of snow/mudshoes, a promising selection of wetland books, and some enticing offerings from local restaurants and lodges. Donors to date (in order of their date of commitment) include:
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