Dam Concerned Citizens, Inc. will hold its fifth annual meeting at 7pm on March 10, at the Fultonham Union Church, Fultonham, five miles south of Middleburgh on Route 30.
Stephen Dirienzo, senior service hydrologist at the National Weather Service office in Albany will be speaking on “The Schoharie Creek/Lower Mohawk River Basin: Climate, Climate Change and Flooding.”
Mr. Dirienzo has been forecasting the weather and water for almost 25 years.
He began his career in the United States Air Force in 1986, where he served as a meteorologist until 1988.
After leaving the Air Force, he worked in the weather service as a hydrologist at the river forecast center in State College, Pennsylvania and as a forecaster at the weather forecast office in State College.
Mr. Dirienzo moved to Albany in 2003 and has served in his current position since then. His interests include studying ice jam flooding and heavy rain prediction.
A presentation entitled “Understanding the Schoharie Watershed in a Time of Change” will be presented by John I. Garver, PhD, Geology Department, Union College.
Professor Garver is currently chair of the Geology Department and is co-leader of the Mohawk Watershed Working Group at Union College.
He is co-convener of the Mohawk Watershed Symposium, to be held at Union College for the second time on March 19.
He is author or co-author of over 80 scientific papers and 30 extended abstracts, many of which are focused on the evolution of mountains and the sediment that is eroded off them and transported in river systems.
His research in the watershed has focused on the hydrology, flooding, sediment delivery and landsliding.
Part of his flood work has been on understanding the nature of ice-jam flooding on the lower Mohawk.
A representative from NYCDEP will be present to update the public on what is going on at the Gilboa Dam.
The annual meeting is open to the public.