Source Water Protection in the Hackensack River Watershed

Virtual Water Protection in the Hackensack River Watershed

Virtual Stormwater Seminar

Time:   12:00 pm to 1:00 pm 

Date: Wednesday May 14, 2025

Holistic Watershed Management and Data Driven Interventions

by Matt Cerami, Watershed Manager (Veolia)

Using Biochar to Remove Nutrients from Aquatic Ecosystems

by Fred S. Lubnow, Ph.D., Senior Technical Director (Princeton Hydro)

This Virtual Seminar is being reviewed for continuing education credits.

  This meeting is a virtual meeting, link to be provided to attendees via email upon registration.

Speaker Bios:

As a dedicated water professional with fifteen years experience, Matt Cerami holds NJDEP licenses in the following categories; T3,W1, Commercial/Aquatic pesticide applicator. His current role is Watershed Manager at Veolia North America. Here he uses a unique blend of skills to solve ecological problems. To do this he leverages experience in lab work, treatment plant operations and continuous instrumentation. Matt is responsible for managing approximately 4,000 acres of the Hackensack River Watershed, that encompasses three water storage reservoirs totaling eight billion gallons of water storage.

Dr. Fred S. Lubnow is the Senior Technical Director of Ecological Services at Princeton Hydro, and the office manager of the Exton, Pennsylvania office. Dr. Lubnow received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Susquehanna University (1988), his Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences (1992) and his Ph.D. in Limnology (1994), both from the University of California Davis. Dr. Lubnow has been an environmental consultant for 30 years. His areas of expertise include the management of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and their associated cyanotoxins, in-lake management strategies and the development of watershed-based management plans. Dr. Lubnow is an adjunct professor at Delaware Valley University, Doylestown, PA where he has been teaching a course and laboratory on Watershed Management since 2016. He is also an adjunct professor at Villanova University, PA where he teaches a graduate course on Freshwater Ecology.

In addition, Dr. Lubnow developed a professionally credited course for PA DEP on the Management and Monitoring of HABs and Cyanotoxins in Raw Water Supplies. Dr. Lubnow is also one of the members of New Jersey’s HAB Expert Team who are conducting data and literature reviews on HABs in order to develop strategies on how to holistically address such conditions in freshwater systems in New Jersey.