For the first round of Environmental Benefit Funds distribution, Hudsonia was awarded a grant to develop a long-term water quality monitoring program. Their proposal includes data collection by volunteer citizen scientists, building upon existing Riverkeeper volunteer water sampling efforts. Biological and chemical data will include benthic macroinvertebrates, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, nutrients, and other indicators of stream health. Volunteer recruitment is planned for the springtime. Previously, Hudsonia worked on an Esopus Valley Biodiversity Assessment Report in 2009.