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Mike Antidormi

Michael Antidormi is a Hydrologist at the USGS New York Water Science Center.

Michael Antidormi is Hydrologist in the Watersheds Research Section of the United States Geological Survey - New York Water Science Center located in Troy, NY. Michael obtained his master's degree from the State University of New York - SUNY Albany in Physical Geography. He started working with USGS in 2012. He currently works on topics ranging from microplastics, green infrastructure monitoring, sediment/turbidity monitoring, and long-term monitoring of stream and soil health in the Adirondacks and Catskills.  

Research Interests 

 Microplastics, contaminants, green infrastructure, sediment, turbidity, soil/stream recovery to declining acidification 

 

Professional Experience

  • As a Hydrologist at the United States Geological Survey - New York Water Science Center located in Troy, NY in 2012 - present.

Education and Certifications

  • M.S. degree in Physical Geography from the State University of New York - SUNY Albany.

Abstracts and Presentations

  • "Resampling Results from the South Tributary of Buck Creek, Western Adirondacks”, 2015. Northeast Soil Monitoring Cooperative 

  • “Monitoring Soil Response to Decreasing Acidic Deposition in a Western Adirondack Tributary Over a 16 Year Period”, 2015. Acid Rain International Conference 

  • “Does long-term storage of air-dried soils effect the results of chemical analyses commonly performed on forest soils?”, 2016. Soil Science Society of America 2016 Meeting 

  • “Developing a Representative and Standardized Method for Microplastic Collection in Streams at Low-Flow Conditions”, 2023. National Water Quality Monitoring Council 13th Annual Meeting 

Science and Products

Bed-material transport in the upper Esopus Creek watershed, Ulster and Greene Counties, New York, 2017–20

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program, investigated the feasibility of bedload monitoring in the upper Esopus Creek watershed, Ulster and Greene Counties, New York, from 2017 to 2020. Traditional bedload samples were collected at two locations: Birch Creek at Big Indian, New York (station 013621955), and Stony Clove Creek at Jansen Road at
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Jason Siemion, Michael R. Antidormi, Donald B. Bonville, Jason S. Finkelstein, Mathieu D. Marineau
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Turbidity–suspended-sediment concentration regression equations for monitoring stations in the upper Esopus Creek watershed, Ulster County, New York, 2016–19

Upper Esopus Creek is the primary tributary to the Ashokan Reservoir, part of the New York City water-supply system. Elevated concentrations of suspended sediment and turbidity in the watershed of the creek are of concern for the system.Water samples were collected through a range of streamflow and turbidity at 14 monitoring sites in the upper Esopus Creek watershed for analyses of suspended-sedim
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Jason Siemion, Donald B. Bonville, Michael R. McHale, Michael R. Antidormi
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

The Biscuit Brook and Neversink Reservoir Watersheds: Long-term investigations of stream chemistry, soil chemistry, and aquatic ecology in the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA, 1983 to 2020

This data note describes the Biscuit Brook and Neversink Reservoir watershed Long-Term Monitoring Data that includes: 1) stream discharge, (1983 – 2020 for Biscuit Brook and 1937 – 2020 for the Neversink Reservoir watershed), 2) stream water chemistry, 1983-2020, at 4 stations, 3) fish survey data from 16 locations in the watershed 1990-2019, 4) soil chemistry data from 2 headwater sub-watersheds,
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Peter S. Murdoch, Douglas A. Burns, Michael McHale, Jason Siemion, Barry P. Baldigo, Gregory B. Lawrence, Scott D. George, Michael R. Antidormi, Donald B. Bonville
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Have sustained acidic deposition decreases led to increased calcium availability in recovering watersheds of the Adirondack region of New York, USA?

Soil calcium depletion has been strongly linked to acidic deposition in eastern North America and recent studies have begun to document the recovery of soils in response to large decreases in acidic deposition. However, increased calcium availability has not yet been seen in the B horizon, where calcium depletion has been most acute, but mineral weathering is critically important for resupplying e
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Gregory B. Lawrence, Jason Siemion, Michael R. Antidormi, Donald B. Bonville, Michael McHale
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Assessment of methods for soil monitoring in the Adirondack region of New York

Repeated sampling to detect changes in forest soils was rarely used before 1990, but the value of soil monitoring in understanding environmental change is becoming well established. The growing number of resampling studies has shown that sampling designs and procedures must be adapted to the objectives of the monitoring program and the soils being monitored. In the Adirondack region, current pri
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Gregory B. Lawrence, Michael R. Antidormi
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Long-term changes in soil and stream chemistry across an acid deposition gradient in the northeastern United States

Declines in acidic deposition across Europe and North America have led to decreases in surface water acidity and signs of chemical recovery of soils from acidification. To better understand the link between recovery of soils and surface waters, chemical trends in precipitation, soils, and streamwater were investigated in three watersheds representing a depositional gradient from high to low across
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Jason Siemion, Michael McHale, Gregory B. Lawrence, Douglas A. Burns, Michael R. Antidormi
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Soil acidification and Beech Bark Disease influence the composition and structure of Sugar Maple-Beech Forests

No abstract available.
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Timothy J. Sullivan, Todd C. McDonnell, Gregory B. Lawrence, Michael R. Antidormi, Martin Dovciak, Michael R. Zarfos, Scott W. Bailey
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

The response of soil and stream chemistry to decreases in acid deposition in the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA

The Catskill Mountains have been adversely impacted by decades of acid deposition, however, since the early 1990s, levels have decreased sharply as a result of decreases in emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. This study examines trends in acid deposition, stream-water chemistry, and soil chemistry in the southeastern Catskill Mountains. We measured significant reductions in acid depos
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Michael McHale, Douglas A. Burns, Jason Siemion, Michael R. Antidormi
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Soil base saturation combines with Beech Bark Disease to influence composition and structure of Sugar Maple-Beech forests in an acid rain-impacted region

Sugar maple, an abundant and highly valued tree species in eastern North America, has experienced decline from soil calcium (Ca) depletion by acidic deposition, while beech, which often coexists with sugar maple, has been afflicted with beech bark disease (BBD) over the same period. To investigate how variations in soil base saturation combine with effects of BBD in influencing stand composition a
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Gregory B. Lawrence, Todd C. McDonnell, Timothy J. Sullivan, Martin Dovciak, Scott W. Bailey, Michael R. Antidormi, Michael R. Zarfos
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Methods of soil resampling to monitor changes in the chemical concentrations of forest soils

Recent soils research has shown that important chemical soil characteristics can change in less than a decade, often the result of broad environmental changes. Repeated sampling to monitor these changes in forest soils is a relatively new practice that is not well documented in the literature and has only recently been broadly embraced by the scientific community. The objective of this protocol is
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Gregory B. Lawrence, Ivan J. Fernandez, Paul W. Hazlett, Scott W. Bailey, Donald S. Ross, Thomas R. Villars, Angelica Quintana, Rock Ouimet, Michael McHale, Chris E. Johnson, Russell D. Briggs, Robert A. Colter, Jason Siemion, Olivia L. Bartlett, Olga Vargas, Michael R. Antidormi, Mary Margaret Koppers
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Declining acidic deposition begins reversal of forest-soil acidification in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada

Decreasing trends in acidic deposition levels over the past several decades have led to partial chemical recovery of surface waters. However, depletion of soil Ca from acidic deposition has slowed surface water recovery and led to the impairment of both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Nevertheless, documentation of acidic deposition effects on soils has been limited, and little is known regard
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Gregory B. Lawrence, Paul W. Hazlett, Ivan J. Fernandez, Rock Ouimet, Scott W. Bailey, Walter C. Shortle, Kevin T. Smith, Michael R. Antidormi
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center
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Mohawk Microplastics

Problem - Plastic debris pollution in freshwater ecosystems is becoming a major ecosystem and public health concern. Plastic pollution is now identified as the most abundant anthropogenic debris and it is found throughout all marine environments, comprising 60-80% of all floating debris (Eriksen et al., 2013). This debris can have a lasting effect on marine life through ingestion or entanglement (
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New York Water Science Center
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Mohawk Microplastics

Problem - Plastic debris pollution in freshwater ecosystems is becoming a major ecosystem and public health concern. Plastic pollution is now identified as the most abundant anthropogenic debris and it is found throughout all marine environments, comprising 60-80% of all floating debris (Eriksen et al., 2013). This debris can have a lasting effect on marine life through ingestion or entanglement (
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Assessing stormwater reduction using green infrastructure: Niagara River Greenway Project (Buffalo, NY)

The U.S. Geological Survey is assessing the effectiveness of green infrastructure at attenuating and reducing stormflow along a 2.26 mile corridor of Niagara Street in Buffalo, NY. This research is being conducted in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Buffalo Sewer Authority and University at Buffalo.
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Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
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Assessing stormwater reduction using green infrastructure: Niagara River Greenway Project (Buffalo, NY)

The U.S. Geological Survey is assessing the effectiveness of green infrastructure at attenuating and reducing stormflow along a 2.26 mile corridor of Niagara Street in Buffalo, NY. This research is being conducted in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Buffalo Sewer Authority and University at Buffalo.
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Bed material transport data in the upper Esopus Creek watershed, Ulster and Greene Counties, NY, 2017-2020

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program, investigated the feasibility of bedload monitoring in the upper Esopus Creek watershed, Ulster and Greene Counties, New York (NY), from 2017 to 2020. Traditional bedload samples were collected at two locations: Birch Creek at Big Indian, NY, and Stony Clove at Jansen Rd at Lanesville, NY. Active and passiv
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New York Water Science Center

Suspended-sediment concentration and turbidity data for sites in the upper Esopus Creek watershed New York, 2016-19

The upper Esopus Creek is the primary tributary to the Ashokan Reservoir, part of the New York City (NYC) water supply system. Suspended-sediment concentration (ssc) and turbidity are primary water-quality concerns in the NYC water-supply system, particularly in the upper Esopus Creek watershed. In 2016 the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Geological Survey entered into a collab
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New York Water Science Center

Adirondack New York soil chemistry data, 1992-2017 (ver. 1.1, December 2020)

This dataset contains measurements of chemical concentrations of soil samples representing 28 headwater drainage basins completely within the Adirondack Park of New York State (ADK Park), one basin partially in the ADK Park, and one watershed 2 kilometers from the ADK Park boundary. Seven of these watersheds have been sampled 2 or 3 times over periods of 12 to 22 years. Soil samples were collected
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New York Water Science Center

Northeastern Hydrologic Benchmark Network (HBN) Soil Chemistry and Catskill Mountain Water-Quality Data

This data product contains soil chemistry data from 4 locations. Two of the locations were located in the Neversink River watershed near Claryville, NY (01435000) in the Catskill Mountains of New York (Fall Brook and Winnisook Creek), 1 of the locations was the Young Womans Creek watershed near Renovo, PA (01545600) and the last site was the Wild River watershed at Gilead, Maine (01054200). Soil c
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New York Water Science Center
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Green Infrastructure project West Delavan Ave. Gage

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