Peter E. Black's
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the Science of
Watershed Hydrology
Professor of Water and Related Land Resources, Emeritus
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SUNY ESF, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210 | ||
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Professional Positions |
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2000-present |
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Water and Related Land Resources Emeritus Faculty of Forestry and Natural Resources Management SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, New York |
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1997-2000 |
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Water & Related Land Resources |
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Summers 1965-2000 |
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor or Water and Related Land Resources State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry at Syracuse, NY. |
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1974-19861965-2000 |
Principal and EIS Project Manager, Impact Consultants, Syracuse, New YorkAssistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Water and Related Land Resources, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at 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 ForestExperiment 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. |
Graduate 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, Parliamentarian (1985-2011), Member Awards Committee (2010-). |
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 and AwardsElected 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. Recipient of the American Institute of Hydrology's Ray K. Linsley Award "to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions in surface water hydrology," 2009, in Scottsdale, AZ). |
Expert Testimony1964: Team leader (hydrology and meteorology), preparing report for National Park Service on establishment of Redwoods National Park, sponsored by Sierra Club, National Geographic Society, American Forests. Report recommendation for inclusion of a watershed to maintain alluvial stands made part of bill.1964-5: Consultant report filed with national Water Resources Council on behalf of resident citizens along lower Eel River opposing levee project successfully stopped $22 million Corps of Engineers' project proposal.1970: Testified for national NGO stopping a lake-side summer resort on grounds that season rainfall on watershed was insufficient to flush lake of waste from development, ruining primary feature that was basis for development. Prepared flood plain report and held informational meetings for Oneida County Planning Department to establish uniform flood zone code rules to preclude potential taking issue law suits in eight town jurisdictions along Mohawk River flood plain between Utica and Rome, New York. Testimony before NYS Legislature and Federal Council on Environmental Quality regarding size of interdisiplinary team (for official investigation and report on environmental impact analysis). Court tesimony in cases involving: (1) 1974 (?) insurance claim for damages caused by black ice; (2) 1975 (?) claim for damages to recently renovated basement from flooding caused by unauthorized municipal increase in watershed size (without increase in culvert); (3) 2010 state of public opinion and laws regarding compliance with existing toxic investigation on sale of property in late 1950s.. |
Publications |
Over 80 articles, books, chapters, consultant reports, research notes, an instructional film, and an autotutorial (animated and narrated) short course, including: |
1959: "Interception of Rainfall by
a Hard-wood Canopy,"
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1995 "The Critical Role of `Unused' Resources". Water Resources Bulletin 31(4):589 1996: Watershed Hydrology, Second Edition. Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea , MI. 449 pp . 1996: "Watershed Functions,” Proceedings, Watershed Restoration Management, AWRA,Syracuse , NY . pp. 147-152 1996; "Watershed Management,” Proceedings, "Watershed Restoration Management,” AWRA Summer Symposium, Syracuse , NY . pp. 245-249 1997 "Watershed Functions,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 33(1):1 1997 "Watershed Functions,” Water Resources Journal, (UNESCAP), pp. 32-41, September 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 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 2000 “Water Budget Software,” IN Development and Application of Computer Techniques to Environmental Studies VIII, Proceedings, ENVIROSOFT 2000, Bilbao, Spain. 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. 2001 “Partnerships in Watershed Management,” invited paper at Tennessee River Water Conference, TVA, Knoxville , TN , June 14-15 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. 1-182002 "Concepts of Watershed Hydrology: a Nutshell Series Short Coursd" audio-vicual CD, animated, narrated, with 8.5x11" flaw-opening workbook, for sale by author on line at http://www.watershedhydrology.com 2004 September 20-24; Denver, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-000.Ogden , UT : 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 Hemisphere2005 "Ecological Sustainability: A New Look at an Old Paradigm,"Journal of Ecological Anthropology 9:76-81 2004“Water Resources Conservation Lessons from the Twentieth Century: How Can We Use Them?” Water Resources Impact 6(2):7.2004 “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 Hemisphere2004 “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 "Water Resource Organizations," solicited article for Wiley Water Encyclopedia, edited by Jay Lehr,
on line at 2005 "Ecological Sustainability: A New Look at an Old Paradigm,"Journal of Ecological Anthropology 9:76-81 2005-9 “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, American Institute of Hydrology, and National Association of Environmental Profesionals, STANYS, Rochester, NY. and more....2005 “Watersheds: Processes, Assessment, and Management” (solicited book review) Journal of Ground Water 43(0):778. 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
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