Websites
NJ Meadowlands Commission http://www.njmeadowlands.gov/
Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI) http://meri.njmeadowlands.gov/
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)
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
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
P5230022 Snapping turtle crawling into the water
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”
“These Are the Times that Try Men’s Souls: History of the Steuben House”
“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
Surficial Geology of the Park Ridge Quadrangle NJGS Open-File Map OFM 49
Location of Late Pleistocene Lakes
Hackensack-Passaic Watershed and Tributaries
In particular: “Flying the Hackensack Watershed” (NOTE: 149 mb)
Science Education Standards