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In 2011, Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries and Clarkson University announced an expansion of their education and operational partnership for commercialization of new real-time river monitoring sensor technology, academic programs and public policy solutions based on real-time data to protect waterways.
Clarkson University Business School Dean Timothy Sugrue, a West Point graduate, is the institute's President and Chief Executive Officer, with responsibility for R&D oversight and commercial partnership development.
Cronin also serves as Senior Fellow for Environmental Affairs at Pace University's Academy for the Environment.
[citation needed] In 2008, Clarkson University's James S. Bonner and a team of its researchers joined the River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON) collaboration started by Beacon Institute and IBM.