BIOLOGICAL FIELD STATION
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--Snow rem6V~cj-from urban are made to choose a spot to have agreed to work snow from the village. The environments contains a stockpile it in order to keep together to keep those wetland is expeCted to host of pollutaryts, including roads and parking lots clear. pollutants out of Otsego remove most of the highly elevated / In response to a request Lake. The newly created pollutants before the outfall concentrations of made by the Water Quality wetland south of the Village, to the Susquehanna River. phosphorus. However, it Coordinating Committee, (part of the Army Corps The BFS plans on often can pose a logistical the V11Iage of Cooperstown wetland restoration project) measuring the efficiency of challenge when decisions and the Clark Foundation will soon begin to receive that process. 0 - !-ocated in Cooperstown and founded in 1968, the Sio students from l«:ross New York, the United States, and logical Field Station is a unique facility serving the Canada. Directed by Dr. Willard Harman a!ld staffed with UpperSusquehanna Watershed, Otsego County and the talented, experienced professionals, the Biologic?1 Field immediate,. Cooperstown area. ~t is primarily a teaching Station i.s presently the focal point for information apout and research center for undergraduate and graduate issues affecting Lake Otsego and the Suscwehanna River. . . . ' .
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Cooperstown Receives Grant for Nutrient Removal from Lakeside'Septic Systems Win McIntyre (Watershed Coordinator), Doug VanDeusen (with Lamont Engineers) and Matt Albright collaborated on a grant proposal written on behalf of the Village of Cooperstown and successfully secured about $76,000 from the,NYSDEC. The money will be used to subsidize the incorporation of nutrient removal technologiesfor near-lake septic systems which did notpass the recent inspections conducted under the auspices of the Watershed Supervisory Committee. We know that such systems contribute 2005 Intern Research considerable amounts of. nutrients to the lake.-The BFS has. Tom Somerville and Eric Reynolds, (SUNY Cobleskill), . . r funding to monitor the effectiveness of these systems'; and both R. C. MacWatters interns continued the littoral trap what we learn may have far reaching implications. 0 nettin& to census warm water fish populations at Brookwood Point and Rat Cove. This work began in 1979. \ Tom also evaluated predation on walleye during stocking. Susquehanna Wetlands Eric was also involved in water quality monito'ring in Research Support Specialist Scott Fickbohm compl~ted Otsego's watershed. Kyle Dresser, (SUNY Oneonta) the work investigating the effects of the U.S. Army Corps 2005 BFS Intern, was responsible for the Moe Pond . wetland restoration work in Otsego County. Results show monitoring project associated with the changing fishery that substantial improvements in water quality are possible, there. Holly Meehan (Univ. of Rhode Island) held a Rufus but are heavily dependent on initial site conditions as well J. Thayer Otsego Lake Research Assistantship. She q as fluctuations in annual precipitation and temperature. developed a streamlined user's manual and laboratory Additionally, increases in avian biodiversity were observed protocols for using the.Lachet autoanalyzer, an'd conducted in the IS! two years.post-restoration while vegetative and, continuing research on purple loosestrife control in amphibian/reptile communities were slower to respond. Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary. David Alfred (SUNY , "Unfortunately the funding of the project was cut Oneonta) worked-for Bill Harman sponsored by an Oneonta prematurely, but we think the results clearly show that this Faculty Research Grant. He evaluated arthropod herbivore t~pe of work, if"appropriately applied, has definite benefits densities and their impacts on Emasian milfoil in Otsego for our watershed." As part of the developmenLof NY Lake and monitored zebra mussel veliger migration down States (Chesap'eake Bay) Tributary Strategies:cScott is the Susquehan'1a River from Goodyear Lake. Emily Bauer currently working with the BFS and the Upper, ~Wayland Cohocton Central School) wasa F.H.V. Susquehanna River Coalition, an umbrella organization Mecklenburg Conservation Fellow responsible for water representing 13 regional Soil and Water Conservation quality monitoring in the Susquehanna River at and south of Districts, to document and expand water quality monitoring Cooperstown. Sara J. Zurmuhlen (Richfield Springs efforts taking place in the Upper Susquehanna and Central School) was also a F.H.V. Mecklenburg Chemung River Basins to help NY reach its nutrient and Conservation Fellow. ShestudiedChlorophyII a sediment reduction goals by 2010 and contribute.t0 the concentrations in Otsego Lake as a proxy for estimating the clean up of the Chesapellice Bay. 0 densities of phytoplankton populations. 0 Updates, cont. from p. 4 • Matt Albright, Mark buthas a complete basement in northeastern NY and State Departrnent ofFish and Cornwell, Scott and utilities suitablefor year western Vermont. Bill Har· Wildlife monitoring salmon Fickbobm, Bill Harman, around occupancy. Part of man presented a talk populations in the Columbia Tom Horvath and Wesley the cost of the building was "Trophic impads a/alewife River Basin. Tibbits exhibitedposterson provided by a grant from . on Otsego Lake. NY", and • We have just heard that Bill BFS current research at the SenatorJamesSeward. The contributed to a "Lake Harman has received a most recent SUNYOneonta VIC will serve faculty and Champlain Alewife Impact grant of $120,000 from the Faculty Research Show. student researchers and be Workshop", sponsored by National Science Founda the focus of the BFS pre Lake Champlain Sea Grant, • BiltHa!"man, Lee Hingula tion to begin work on the college field, trip programs the Lake Champlain Basin and Claire MaeNamara renovation ofthe Hop House which now serveover 1,200 Program and the Lake -published apaperin the Jour on the Thayer Farm. It will students annually. The Champlain Wildlife Man . nal of Aquatic Plant Man become the "Administrative building has a state ofthe art agement Cooperative. agementthisfall titled"Does .J Center" on the farm hous septic systemfeaturing both long-termmacrophyte man • Tom Horvath and Bill Har ing a reception m;ea, two phosphorus and nitrogen re agement in lakes affect bi man received a grant of offices, a small meeting moval. The system is con otic richnessanddiversity ?" $115,000 from the National room and two class room! structed so we can sample Science FoUndation last year laboratory spaces. It will • The new Upland Interpre effluent at various stages of for a sophisticated computer have a full basement and tive Center (VIC); which is treatment to determine its ized opticalsystemconsisting utilities suitable for year replacing the old sap house effectiveness over years of of several microscopes aTld around occupancy. above the Getman Barn on serv}ce. digital image analysis hard the Thayer Farm, should be • Willow Eyres and Kathy • Alewives were recently dis ware and software linked to ready for use this spring. It 'Souza are just beginning covered in Lake Champlain gether that we have been us looks similar