Porter, Keith Sydney
Senior Extension AssociateKeith S. Porter, Director: New York State Water Resources Institute (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), LL.M, DeMontford Law School, (De Montford University, Leicester UK, 1999), and B.A. (Mathematics, University of California, 1964). Appointed at Cornell University as Visiting Assistant Professor in 1974, he subsequently directed groundwater research that influenced land use policy to protect groundwater, and on pesticide regulation at state and federal levels. Keith has had a leading role in the nonpoint source program of New York State. He was appointed the Director of the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell in 1986. Under federal and state law, the Institute supports research, education, and outreach concerning water and associated environmental problems to create, disseminate, and apply knowledge to assist government, communities, businesses and other constituencies, in meeting their water resource and associated environmental needs. Since 1990, Keith Porter has been a principal in the nationally important New York City Watershed Program, engaging Cornell faculty in research across multiple disciplines. In 1997, Keith Porter was awarded the Community and Rural Development Institute Innovator Award on behalf of the Cornell interKeith S. Porter, Director: New York State Water Resources Institute (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), LL.M, DeMontford Law School, (De Montford University, Leicester UK, 1999), and B.A. (Mathematics, University of California, 1964). Appointed at Cornell University as Visiting Assistant Professor in 1974, he subsequently directed groundwater research that influenced land use policy to protect groundwater, and on pesticide regulation at state and federal levels. Keith has had a leading role in the nonpoint source program of New York State. He was appointed the Director of the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell in 1986. Under federal and state law, the Institute supports research, education, and outreach concerning water and associated environmental problems to create, disseminate, and apply knowledge to assist government, communities, businesses and other constituencies, in meeting their water resource and associated environmental needs. Since 1990, Keith Porter has been a principal in the nationally important New York City Watershed Program, engaging Cornell faculty in research across multiple disciplines. In 1997, Keith Porter was awarded the Community and Rural Development Institute Innovator Award on behalf of the Cornell interdisciplinary team. In 1998, he was awarded the Addleshaw Booth & Company Postgraduate Environmental Law Prize by De Montford Law School. In 2003, he received the Water Resources Achievement Award, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Keith Porter is also the US Editor for the Journal of Water Law. He will teach the Water Law in Theory and Practice Clinic in the fall and spring semesters.
research
primary investigator of
- NEW YORK STATE WASTEWATER REUSE EVALUATION | Research Grant
co investigator of
- SURVEYING UPSTATE NY WELL WATER FOR PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION | Research Grant
- WATER RESOURCE RESEARCH INSTUTITE INTERNSHIP | Research Grant
research areas
- environmental sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- hydrology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- resource policy and management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- teacher education | collaborative research area (CALS)
- water resource management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- watershed science | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- Water resources protection and conservation | 2006 Impact statement
- New York State Water Resources Institute Program | 2005 Impact statement
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Cornell Law School | Cornell college
teaching
teaches
- LAW 7961 - Water Law in Theory and Practice 1 (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- LAW 6601 - Land-Use Planning (T 04:15:PM-06:15:PM) | spring 2009 class
background
featured in
- Cornell faculty to confer on troubled waters in Greece | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Working to keep water clean and plentiful in Greece, CU faculty reach out to international partners | Cornell Chronicle feature