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Professor of Water and Related Land Resources, Emeritus
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SUNY
ESF,
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210 |
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peblack@esf.edu
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Professional
Positions |
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2000-present |
Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Forestry and Natural Resources Management
SUNY
College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Ssyracuse, New York |
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1997-2000 |
Distinguished
Teaching Professor of Water & Related Land Resources |
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Summer
1985, 86 |
Visiting
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor or Water and Related Land Resources
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse, New York
Principal
and EIS Project Manager, Impact Consultants, Syracuse, New York |
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1961-1965 |
Assistant
Professor, Humboldt State College, Arcata, California |
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1956-1959 |
Research
Forester in Watershed Management, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Southeastern
Forest Experiment Station, US Forest Service, Asheville, NC |
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| Memberships |
| Charter Member
of the American Water Resources Association (served national: two
terms as Middle Atlantic District Director, 1980-86; Member of
Conference Planning, Promotion, and Long Range Planning Committees;
Chair, Education, Student Activities, Awards, and Nominations Committees;
Coordinator, Educational Water Film Festival; General Chair, "Monitoring,
Modeling, and Mediating Water Quality,” 1987 Symposium in Syracuse,
NY; President, 1991; Associate Editor for Watershed Management,
Water Resources Bulletin, 1992-; General Chairperson for 1996 Summer
Symposium Watershed Restoration Management, Syracuse, NY; served
State: 1981-2 President, 1984 Secretary, 1991 Annual Meeting Chair,
and seven years as Newsletter Editor), American Geophysical Union,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Soil and Water
Conservation Society, Xi Sigma Pi, Sigma Xi, National Association
of Environmental Professionals (Certified Environmental Professional,
Education Committee), American Institute of Hydrology (Certified
Professional Hydrologist). |
| Courses
Taught |
| Graduate and
undergraduate: Surveying, Forest Management, Soil and Water Conservation
Policy, Forest Hydrology, Watershed Analysis, Environmental Impact
Analysis, Watershed Management, Water Quality Management, Advanced Wildland Hydrology,
Water Resources of the Western States, Watershed Hydrology and
Water Quality, Hydrology Computer Laboratory, and Water Resource
Issues in the News. Short courses: Environmental Impact Analysis,
and Watershed Hydrology. Animated, narrated, auto tutorial short course Concepts of Watershed Hydrology (c) on CD in PowerPoint. |
| Students |
| Served as Major
Professor for 10 PhD and 66 Masters Degree Candidates. Graduates
are currently employed throughout the United States and in several
foreign countries by governments at all levels, by educational
institutions, or as private consultants. |
| Community
& Professional Advisory Service |
| Member, Six Rivers National Forest Advisory Committee, 1962-65; Water Resources Advisory Committee, Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, CA 1962-65; Served as Member,
Onondaga Lake Management Conference task force subcommittees, 1990-1996;
College Representative to: New York State Soil and Water Conservation
Committee (and technical subcommittees), 1985-present, and variable
terms to State Technical Committee of the Natural Resources Conservation
Service, Skaneateles Lake Watershed Agricultural Program, New York
City Watershed Agricultural Council, New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation Nonpoint Source Coordinating Committee,
Community Environmental Management, and Agricultural Environmental
Management committees; Director, Universities Council on
Water Resources, 1989-1997 (elected to Board of Directors, 1994-7);
Member, Environmental Advisory Board, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers,
1991-1996 (Chairperson, 1995-6). |
| College
Service |
| Executive Chairman
of the College Faculty, elected 1974-6 and 1976-8; Chairman of
School of Forestry Faculty, elected 1971-4; Secretary, Faculty
of Forestry 1992-97; chairman or member of numerous standing and ad
hoc academic, community, and professional committees. |
| Research
Awards |
| SUNY/McIntyre-Stennis, Watershed Model Studies Project; Consortium for
Environmental Forestry Studies (U. S. Forest Service): 1. Parking
Lot Runoff Impact on Water Quality, and 2. Ecology of an Urban
Recreational Water Body; National Science Foundation (Computer
equipment for hydrology instruction). |
| Honors
& Awards |
Elected to
AWRA Fellow Membership, ‘88; AWRA President's Award for Outstanding
Service, ‘88; Listed in American Men and Women of Science and Who's
Who in the East; U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander's Award
for Public Service, ‘96. SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, ‘97,
Friend of UCOWR Award.’98 |
| Publications |
| Over 80 articles,
books, chapters, consultant reports, research notes, an instructional
film, and an autotutorial (animated and narrated) short course,
including: |
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1959 "Interception of Rainfall by
a Hardwood Canopy,"
Istanbul Univ., Orman Fakultesi Dergisi 9(2):218-24 |
1995 "The Critical Role of `Unused' Resources". Water Resources Bulletin 31(4):589
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1961 Historical
Compendium of Colorado Water Law. Cooperative Watershed
Management Unit, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.
98 pp
1961 Timber and Water Resource Management:
A Physical and Economic Approach to Multiple Use on Denver's
Municipal Watershed, PhD Dissertation, Colorado State University , Ft. Collins,
CO 130 pp.
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1996 "The Very First Invention," HYDATA 15(3):16.
1996 Watershed Hydrology, Second Edition.
Ann Arbor
Press,
Chelsea
, MI. 449 pp
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1996 "Watershed Functions,” Proceedings, Watershed Restoration Management, AWRA,
Syracuse
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NY
. pp. 147-152
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1963 "Timber and Water Resource Management,"
Forest
Science 9(2):137. |
1996 "Watershed Management,” Proceedings, "Watershed Restoration Management,” AWRA Summer Symposium,
Syracuse
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NY
. pp. 245-249
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1964 Climate, Soils, and Hydrology of
the Redwood Region. Report to the National Park
Service, USDI, Washington, DC. SNR, Humboldt State College,
Arcata, CA 38 pp.
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1997. "Watershed Management IS Ecosystem Management,” HYDATA 16(1):1
1997 "Watershed Functions,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 33(1):1 |
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1966 "Factors in Floods," Timber,
a North Coast Journal 1(2):30-5
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1997 "Watershed Functions,” Water Resources Journal, (UNESCAP), pp. 32-41, September
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1967 The Coast Redwoods,
Water, and Watersheds. Report to the National Park Service, USDI, Washington,
DC. 33 pp.
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1997 "Research Issues in
Forest
Hydrology," Proceedings,
Forest
Hydrology Research Symposium,
University
of
British Columbia
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Vancouver
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BC
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1967 "The Principle of Disproportionate
Percentages, or How to Efficiently Break a Camel's Back," Water
Resources Bulletin (WRB) 3(4):24.
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1997 "Foreword,” and Issue Editor of Status of Native American Water Rights, UPDATE (Issue No. 107), pp 1-5.
1998 "Inclement Attitudes," HYDATA 17(1):6
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1968 "The Principle of Watershed Equilibrium," with R.
E. Leonard, WRB 4(2):49-50.
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1998 with Stephan J. Nix: "Leadership Sequence in AWRA Affects Individual Influences: and vice versa," HYDATA 17(3):1
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1968 "The Principle of Inverse Influence," WRB 4(3):3-4.
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1998 "On Normalcy." HYDATA 17(6):1 |
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1968 "Streamflow Increases
Following Farm Abandonment on
Eastern New York
Watershed," Water Resources
Research (WRR) 4(6):1171
1968 Potential Evapotranspiration in
Alaska by Thornthwaite's Classification. with J.
H. Patric. USFS Research Paper PNW-71, USDA,
Juneau
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AK
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1998 "Managing Forests to Sustain Water Resources: What's Possible and Sensible?" Proceedings, The Science of Managing Forests to Sustain Water Resources, sponsored by IUFRO, Univ. of Massachusetts, USFS, and Society of American Foresters, Nov. 10-12, Sturbridge, MA
1999 "Putting the People in Watershed Management." Associate Editor for the first issue of Water Resources Impact 1(1):5
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1970 "The Watershed in Principle," WRB 6(20:153
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2000 “Water Budget Software,” IN Development and Application of Computer Techniques to Environmental Studies VIII, Proceedings, ENVIROSOFT 2000, Bilbao, Spain.
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1970 Subsurface and Stream Flow on Watershed
Models. 16mm instructional film, SUNY
ESF,
Syracuse
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NY
. 15 min.
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2000 “Watershed Planning
for Uncertainty and Change,” Water Resources IMPACT 2(2):23
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1972 "
Flood
Peaks
as Modified by Dam Size and Location," WRB 8(4):780
1972 "Hydrograph Responses to Geomorphic
Model Watershed Characteristics and Precipitation Variables," Journal
of Hydrology (JH) 17:309
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2000 “Watershed Functions,” a lecture/presentation
/seminar given at Long Beach State University, CA, and in Lincoln,
New Zealand; Kathmandu and Pokhara,
Nepal; and Stellenbosch, South Africa,
and Madrid, Spain.
2001 Conservation
of Water and Related Land Resources, Third Edition, with
B. L. Fisher. CRC Press/Lewis Publishers,
Boca Raton
, FL. 487 pp.
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1975 "Environmental Impact Statements
in Planning Water and Related Land Resources," WRB 11(5):881
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2001 “Partnerships in Watershed Management,” invited
paper at Tennessee River Water Conference, TVA,
Knoxville
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TN
, June 14-15
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1975 "Hydrograph
Responses to Geomorphic Model Size and Similitude Relations," with J.
W. Cronn. JH 26:255-66
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2002 “Concepts of Watershed Hydrology: a
Nutshell Series Short Course” audio-visual CD, for sale by author
online at www.watershedhydrology.com |
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1980 "Reasons for Wetland Preservation," Journal
of Soil and Water Conservation 35(3):108
1980 "Water Quality Patterns During
a Storm on a Mall Parking Lot," WRB 16(4):615-20 |
2004 “
Forest
and Wildland Watershed
Functions,” invited Chapter 1 in A Century of Forest and Wildland Watershed
Lessons edited by George G. Ice. Society of American Foresters, Bethsda, MD pp. 1-18 |
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1980 "SEARCH: A Gaged Watershed Inventory," WRB 16(5):894-9
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2004 “Water Resources Conservation Lessons
from the Twentieth Century: How Can We Use Them?” Water Resources Impact 6(2):7.
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1981 Environmental Impact Analysis.
Praeger Publishers, Inc.,
New York
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NY
146 pp.
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2004 September 20-24; Denver, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-000.
Ogden
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UT
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U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
Forest
Service, Rocky Mountain Station.
2004 “The Resource Buffer Theory: Connecting the Dots from Conservation to Sustainability,” Aguirre-Bravo, Celedonio, et. al. Eds. 2004. Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the
Western Hemisphere
2005 "Ecological Sustainability:
A New Look at an Old Paradigm,"Journal of Ecological Anthropology 9:76-81
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1984 "Risk/Impact Assessment Techniques," Commissioned
for the CEQ/NSF Conference /Workshop,
Washington
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DC
. May 21-2. 32
pp.
1984 "Risk/Impact Assessment Techniques," Commissioned
for the CEQ/NSF Conference /Workshop,
Washington
,
DC
. May 21-2. 32
pp.
1987 Conservation
of Water and Related Land Resources. 2nd Ed., Rowman and Littlefield,
Totowa
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NJ
. 352 pp.
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1988 "Public Participation at AWRA
Symposia," HYDATA 7(2):7
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2005 "Water Resource Organizations,"
solicited article for
Wiley Water Encyclopedia, edited by Jay Lehr,
on line
at
http://www.mrwinterscience.wiley.com/eow/articles/sw173/frame.html
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1989 Computer-Based Hydrology Laboratory,
2nd Edition, 2nd Printing. Misc. Publ.
No. 16, (ESF 87-005), SUNY ESF,
Syracuse
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NY
, 61 pp.
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2005 "Watershed Hydrology," solicited article for Wiley Water
Encyclopedia, edited by Jay Lehr, on line at
http://www.mrw.
interscience. wiley.com/ eow
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articles/sw21/frame.html
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1989 Computer-Based Hydrology Laboratory,
2nd Edition, 2nd Printing. Misc. Publ.
No. 16, (ESF 87-005), SUNY ESF,
Syracuse
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NY
, 61 pp.
1989 "Stratified Flood Frequency Analysis," Proceedings of
the AWRA Symposium in Headwaters Hydrology,
Missoula
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MT
pp. 563-572
1991 President's Page. Six
contributions to the WRB during the year as AWRA President
1991 Watershed Hydrology. Prentice-Hall, Eng-lewood Cliffs,
New Jersey
. 432 pp.
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2005 Water Drops, weekly two-minute pubilc service essays on all water science, culture, management, and policy on NPR affiliate, WRVO.FM, Oswego, NY. © Peter E. Black
2005-7 “A Road to Sustainability” paper delivered at ESA, UCOWR, NAEP, EMSU, AWRA, AIH, Rotarians Stonington, CT; May Memorial Unitarian-Universalist Society of Syracuse, NY, several classes and seminars as well as national meetings of the American Water Resources Assocation, AmericanInstitute of Hydrology, and National Association of Environmental Profesionals.
2005 “Watersheds: Processes, Assessment, and Management” (solicited book review) Journal of Ground Water 43(0):778.
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1992 "Reauthorization of the Clean Water Act,”
Editor's overview, and Issue Editor for UPDATE 88:5-6.
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2006 “Lessons of the Past and Present to Sustain the Future,” Rice Creek Associates (Oswego, NY); seminar (“A Canary for Lunch”) at AWRA annual Meeting, Baltimore, November; and several on-campus presentations |
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1993 "Watershed Management at Three Governmental Levels," Invited paper, Water Resources & Management Div., ASCE Symp., May 3-5, Seattle, WA
1993 "Innovative Ideas in Water Resources Education," with
S. Perlitsh
, AWRA Symposium: Water Resources Education: a Lifetime of Learning, June,
Seattle
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WA
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2006 Invited book review of Lester R. Brown’s Plan B 2.0 Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, in NYCAD Newsletter (September). P.4. Published also in Journal of the American Water Resources Association (October) 42(5)1423.
2007, “Commentary: A Road to Sustainability”Journal of Environmental Practice (9):135-135
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1993 "Making Resource Use Personal and Accountable," Renewable Natural Resources Journal 11(3):16
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2007 Invited book review of Peter Annin’s Great Lakes Water Wars. Newsletter, New York Association of Conservation Districts, May 2007, p5, and Journal of the American Water Resources Association. |
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1993 "Nonpoint Source Pollution Control is Watershed Management," Waste Management Research Reports 5(3):11-13
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2006. Water Drops, Essays on water science, hydrology, history, culture, organizations, law, and policy. Broadcast twice weekly by WRVO.FM 90.3 Oswego, NY and available free on line at Public Radio Exchange www.pri.org.
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1994 "Water Pollution: Processes," The Encyclopedia of the Environment, Houghton-Mifflin Co.,
Boston
,
MA
, pp 557-560
1994 "Do You Have a Point Source Discharge Permit?"
Down to Earth 53(3):5
[Reprinted with permission.]
1994 Watershed Hydrology Computer Laboratory Users' Manual. Pacific Crest Software, Inc.,
875 NW Grant Ave
,
Corvallis
,
OR
97330
. 79 pp.
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2007. “Climate, Weather, and Global Warming,” NYACD Newsletter (September, p.4).
2007: "A Road to Sustainability," Journal of Environmental Practice 9(2):128-131
2007. “Revisiting the Thornthwaite and Mather Water Balance,” JAWRA 43(6):1604, |
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