Frances Dunwell, the Hudson River estuary coordinator at the N.Y.S. Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), will present a lecture titled "The State of the Hudson River," at Hamilton College on Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Dunwell is a 1974 graduate of Kirkland College, Hamilton's sister institution for women until the two colleges merged in 1978.
As the Hudson River estuary coordinator, Dunwell oversees the implementation of Governor Pataki's Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda, a program to conserve the fish, wildlife, landscape, scenery, habitats, parks and water resources of the Hudson River watershed from Troy to New York Harbor in ways that support human needs.
Prior to working for the DEC, Dunwell was a Richard King Mellon Fellow at Yale University, where she received her master's degree and conducted research for her award-winning book, The Hudson River Highlands (1991). She received her bachelor's degree in anthropology from Kirkland College in 1974.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is being sponsored by the Levitt Center and the Kirkland Endowment.
