The Hudson River Environmental Society Seventh Symposium on Hudson River Ecology C. Lavett Smith, editor The Hudson River estuary is one of the most intensively studied estuaries in the world. Many environmental and civic groups have struggled with the conflict in the Hudson River area between the desire for a quality environment and the ever increasing demands of an expanding human population for drinking water, electric power, efficient transportation, and waste disposal. Estuarine Research in the 1980s provides a synoptic overview of the research conducted on the Hudson estuary since 1980. The essays reflect diverse studies of the physical, chemical, and biological ecology of the Hudson River estuary.
Several essays are devoted to surveys of the fishes in special parts of the estuary.
Others deal with the life histories, movements, and population dynamics of individual species. C. Lavett Smith is Curator of the Department of Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History. He is the editor of Fisheries Research in the Hudson River, also published by SUNY Press.