1. Hudson River Plume Pollution and the Atlantic Ocean

2.  Drains about 13,400 square miles  Encompasses 11 major sub-watersheds  Home to about 20 million people in 5 different states  About 60% of the water from the Watershed is used for commercial or industrial purposes. Hudson River Watershed

3. Hudson River Plume  Hudson River empties out into the Atlantic Ocean  LaTTE  Found that transportation is influenced by wind speed and direction, river discharge, shelf circulation and topography  Bulge formed due to Density and Salinity differences

4. 3 Days of Wind Low-discharge 500 m^3/s 3 Days of Wind High –discharge 3000 m^3 /s

5. High discharge with no wind

6. Pollution in Hudson River  PCBs  General Electric  Oil from and oil spill caused by ExxonMobil  CSO’s  Agricultural Run-off  Heavy metals (Mercury, Cadmium, Strontium-90)  Both point-source pollution and non-point source pollution

7. Affect on Atlantic  Contaminants flow into Atlantic Ocean  Contamination expands to a wider range

8.  http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/FishEating Warning.pdf http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/FishEating Warning.pdf  http://www.riverkeeper.org/water-quality/hudson/what/other- pollutants http://www.riverkeeper.org/water-quality/hudson/what/other- pollutants  http://www.epa.gov/osw/hazard/tsd/pcbs/pubs/about.htm http://www.epa.gov/osw/hazard/tsd/pcbs/pubs/about.htm  http://www.hudsonwatershed.org/hudson-riverwatershed.html http://www.hudsonwatershed.org/hudson-riverwatershed.html  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1452100454/showing-the-real- face-of-plastic-pollution-in-our/posts https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1452100454/showing-the-real- face-of-plastic-pollution-in-our/posts  http://marine.rutgers.edu/~wilkin/ChoiWilkin_JPO2007.pdf http://marine.rutgers.edu/~wilkin/ChoiWilkin_JPO2007.pdf  http://new.coolclassroom.org/adventures/explore/plume http://new.coolclassroom.org/adventures/explore/plume  Chant, Robert, John Wilkin, Weifeng Zhang, Byoung-Ju Choi, Eli Hunter, Renato Castelao, Scott Glenn, Joe Jurisa, Oscar Schofield, Robert Houghton, Josh Kohut, Thomas Frazer, and Mark Moline. "Dispersal of the Hudson River Plume in the New York Bight: Synthesis of Observational and Numerical Studies During LaTTE." Oceanography 21.4 (2008): 148-61. Web. References