Resources about the Hackensack River Past, Present, and Future

Websites

NJ Meadowlands Commission     http://www.njmeadowlands.gov/

“History of the District”

Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI)          http://meri.njmeadowlands.gov/ 

 

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Meadowlands Environmental Site Investigation Compilation (MERI & US Army Corps of Engineers)

Hackensack Riverkeeper      http://www.hackensackriverkeeper.org/

Hackensack River Tide Predictions
This link should take you to the “New York” tides–the Hackensack leads to Newark Bay, which leads to NY Harbor. Scroll down to find the locations on the Hackensack River.

Bergen County Historical Society

Bergen County Utilities Authority

The Hackensack Meadowlands in the imagery: history of a deep social and environmental transformation

US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Region 2

NJ DEP (Department of Environmental Protection)      NJDEP Water Quality Management Planning

The Hackensack River (Wikipedia)

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Publications

Note: Here is a Reading Response Form that can be used in conjunction with class assignments.

The Geological Setting

“The Teacher-Friendly Guide to the Earth Science of the Northeastern U.S.”

“The Newark Basin” in USGS Geology of National Parks, 3D and Photographic Tours

“Bedrock Map of the Hackensack Meadows” Geologic Report Series No. 1, NJ Geological Survey, DEP (1959)

“The Varved Clays at Little Ferry” by C.A. Reeds (1926)

“The Palisades Sill and Watchung Basalt Flows, Northern New Jersey and Southeastern New York” NJGS Open-File Report OFR 92-1

“The Narrows Flood – Post Woodfordian Meltwater Breach of the Narrows Channel” by Charles Merguerian

“Appraisal of Water Resources in the Hackensack River Basin, New Jersey” by L.D. Carswell, USGS Water Resources Investigation 76-74 (1976)

Selected Resources about the Regional Geology and Early History


Selected Resources about the Hackensack River Valley

 

The Ecological Setting

“Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey: Biodiversity: A Review and Synthesis” by E. Kiviat and K. MacDonald, Hudsonia (2002)

“The Passaic/Hackensack Basin” from “NJ’s Watershed Basins” NJ Audubon Society

“A Record of Environmental Change during Recent Millenia in the Hackensack Tidal Marsh, NJ” by Dorothy Peteet Carmichael

The Hackensack Meadowlands in the imagery: history of a deep social and environmental transformation

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Habitat Heterogeneity between Tide-Restricted and Tide-Open Areas in the New Jersey Meadowlands

History of Passing Flows in New Jersey with Contemporary and Future Applications (NJ Geological and Water Survey Open File 13-1)

Ghost Forest Signal What’s to Come Due to Accelerating Sea Level Rise

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The Historical/Social Setting

“Wandering the Watershed: Hackensack Meadowlands” (E2C)

Selected Resources about the Regional Geology and Early History

Selected Resources about the Lenni-Lenapes

“The Indigenous Population of Bergen County”

“The Ladies and the Indians” 

“These Are the Times that Try Men’s Souls: History of the Steuben House” 

“Commercial Ice Harvesting” 

“The Newark Bay Complex, Rich in History” from “Fishing for Answers in an Urban Estuary”  NJDEP/NJAS

“Archaeological site formation in glaciated settings, New Jersey and southern New York” by D.M. Thieme

The Hackensack Meadowlands in the imagery: history of a deep social and environmental transformation

“A Tale of Two Rivers, Above and Below the Oradell Dam” (Notes from Wikipedia articles)

 

Maps and Animations

Bedrock Map of NJ

Surficial Geology of the Park Ridge Quadrangle   NJGS Open-File Map OFM 49

Glacial Lakes with 2 Moraines                                                                     

Location of Late Pleistocene Lakes

Hackensack-Passaic Watershed and Tributaries

MERI Data Animations

In particular: “Flying the Hackensack Watershed”  (NOTE: 149 mb)

 

Science Education Standards

NJ Science Core Curriculum Content Standards (2014)

Next Generation Science Standards