Department of Environmental and Forest Biology Annual Report Summer 2017 Academic Year 2017 – 2018 Neil H. Ringler Interim

Department of Environmental and Forest Biology

Annual Report

Summer 2017 Academic Year 2017 – 2018

Neil H. Ringler Interim Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology SUNY-ESF 1 Forestry Drive Syracuse, NY 13210 [email protected] (315) 470-6760/6743

August 15, 2018

Table of Contents

A. Introduction/Overview ...... 4 B. Teaching – Undergraduates ...... 6 1. Workload summary; Assessment office ...... 6 2. Number of undergraduates enrolled by major Fall 2017 ...... 7 3. Undergraduate advising loads by faculty member ...... 8 4. Courses ...... 8 a. By Faculty ...... 8 b. By Instructional Support Specialists, Adjuncts and Visiting Faculty ...... 11 5. Curriculum Changes ...... 13 There have been no major curriculum changes this year...... 13 C. Graduate Students ...... 14 1. Number of Graduate Students by degree ...... 15 2. Funding of EFB grad students ...... 16 3. Courses having TA support and approximate enrollment ...... 16 D. Research ...... 18 1. Publications between June 1, 2017 and May 20, 2018 (excluding papers in review) ...... 18 a. Scientific Presentations ...... 35 b. Additional Faculty Presentations ...... 52 2. Grant Activity ...... 59 3. Scholarly Reviews ...... 72 4. Grant Proposals ...... 79 E. Outreach and Service ...... 85 F. Service Learning ...... 91 G. Support for Environmental Science ...... 93 H. Departmental Governance Structure ...... 94 I. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment ...... 98 J. Honors and Awards ...... 100 K. Progress on objectives for 2017-2018 ...... 101 L. Certification ...... 105 M. Appendices ...... 106 1. EFB Faculty: Rank, Degree, Interest areas ...... 106 2. Summary of Individual Faculty’s Most Significant Accomplishments ...... 110

3. Foreign Travel ...... 142 4. Theses and Dissertations Completed ...... 145 5. New York Natural Heritage Program Summary Report ...... 148 6. Roosevelt Wildlife Station Summary Report ...... 157 7. Thousand Islands Biological Station ...... 159 8. EFB Budget ...... 172

A. Introduction/Overview

EFB had productive, exciting year in teaching, research and public service in 2017-18. We are preparing for new leadership in 2019, following Dr. Don Leopold’s exemplary service since 2005. The Department has always been guided through a strong team effort that will continue with a newly appointed Chair. A summary of our current faculty is provided in Appendix1, and their major accomplishments in Appendix 2.

We will welcome new faculty member Dr. Jerry Belant, currently at Mississippi State University as Founding Campfire Professor to continue his global studies of lions, bears, deer, moose and other megafauna. The Campfire Fund is now recognized by name in the Gateway Center. We are delighted that his wife, Mary-Kaye, will also join the Department of Environmental Studies (Writing Program). A search is underway for a Vertebrate Conservation biologist, a search reflecting increased enrollments but also the retirement of wildlife scientists not replace during recent years. Special recognitions of existing faculty this year included Dr. James Gibbs (SUNY Distinguished Professor), Dr. Karin Limburg (SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities), Dr. Alexander Weir (SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching) and Dr. John Farrell (ESF) Exemplary Researcher Award).

Total research funding this year exceeded $5.29 M, from a wide range of sources including USGS, NYDEC, USFWS, NSF, as well as corporations and private donors. We published 126 scientific papers in national and international journals, and we delivered more than 300 scientific presentations. More than 167 courses were taught to 677 undergraduate and 136 graduate students. Twenty-five of our graduate students completed their degrees this year.

We are preparing for one of the largest undergraduate classes on record, and we will strive to bring on additional faculty to advise and teach across our majors in Environmental Biology, Forest Health, Wildlife Science, Conservation Biology, Environmental Education and Interpretation, Biotechnology, and Aquatic and Fisheries Science. EFB students continue to thrive in positions across the country and are joining graduate/professional schools in veterinary medicine, wildlife and fisheries conservation and environmental health. They are contributing to programs in state and federal agencies and private enterprise throughout the United States and beyond.

A key feature of EFB is the interaction between undergraduate and graduate education, with most undergraduates having the opportunity to contribute to graduate research. The College recognizes the unique role of doctoral programs in maintaining a scientific leadership role, and EFB will promote thoughtful external reviews of its graduate programs in the near future.

Extensive renovations began in mid-May 2018 in Illick Hall to enhance the Maurice Alexander Lecture Hall (Room 5) and other supporting teaching/research spaces. A new museum facility in the Gateway Center will be formally dedicated in the fall of 2018. Extensive work is being carried out through the Natural Heritage Program

(Appendix 5). Enlarged roles are envisioned for the Roosevelt Wild Life Station (Appendix 6). Our field programs are booming at the Cranberry Lake Biological Station and the Thousand Island Biological Station (Appendix 7), with additional studies underway at the La Fayette Field Station and the Adirondack Ecological Center. The EFB budget is summarized in Appendix 8.

B. Teaching – Undergraduates

1. Workload summary; based on Assessment Office report

Instructor Undergrad and Undergrad and Total Undergrad and Grad Sum 2017 to Grad Grad Class Hours Spring 2018 Res Credits ADAMS, KIM 389 18 1128 BEAL, RICHARD 89 1 264 CASTELLO, JOHN D. 7 13 2 CHEESEMAN, AMANDA 17 0 21 COHEN, JONATHAN 121 87 248 COLLINS, DANIEL 15 0 15 CZEKANSKI-MOIR, JESSE 12 18 0 DANGELO, CORTNEY 48 6 138 DIEMONT, STEWART 55 26 108 DOVCIAK, MARTIN 104 37 256 ETTINGER, TERRY 27 0 81 FARRELL, JOHN 136 32 342 FARRELL, SHANNON 192 101 522 FERNANDO, DANILO 93 57 181 FIERKE, MELISSA K 584 58 1576 FOLTA, ELIZABETH 10 39 0 FRAIR, JACQUELINE 104 58 225 GIBBS, JAMES 257 104 681 GIEGERICH, RONALD J. 13 1 24 GREEN, HYATT 123 25 257 HALL, CHARLES 2 2 0 HAYNES, KRISTEN 2 1 1 HELENBROOK, WILLIAM 25 0 75 HORTON, THOMAS 27 46 14 HOUGH, MICHAEL 16 0 48 JONES, MICHAEL 15 15 0 KIMMERER, ROBIN 99 23 206 LAPAN, STEWART 18 0 54 LEOPOLD, DONALD 174 75 432 LEYDET, BRIAN 80 18 187 LIMBURG, KARIN 43 48 86 LOMOLINO, MARK 106 10 372 MACKEY, THOMAS 58 0 219 MARSHALL, WHITNEY 26 0 39 MCGEE, GREGORY 639 126 598 MCNULTY, STACY 17 2 49 MULVERHILL, KATIE 88 0 264

MULVERHILL, KATIE 14 0 42 MUSSELMAN 18 0 27 NEWMAN, LEE 274 185 585 OAKES, ALLISON 413 0 819 PARRY, DYLAN 111 58 224 PETZKE, ALEX 23 0 69 POWELL, WILLIAM 31 91 0 QUINN, SAM 56 1 155 RAZAVI, ROXANNE 35 3 106 RINGLER, NEIL H. 59 31 158 RUNDELL, REBECCA 271 92 762 SCHULZ, KIMBERLY 249 53 707 SCHUMMER, MICHAEL 12 0 36 SHIELDS, WILLIAM M. 64 0 123 STEWART, DONALD 87 25 181 TEALE, STEPHEN 171 71 441 TURNER, SCOTT 174 0 520 UNDERWOOD, BRIAN 19 37 0 WALKER-KOPP, NANCY 1 0 1 WEBER, JUSTINE 376 0 1128 WEIR, ALEX 103 80 242 WHIPPS, CHRISTOPHER 222 41 607

2. Number of undergraduates enrolled by major Fall 2017

Environmental Biology 186 Forest Health 17 Wildlife Science 145 Conservation Biology 189 Biotechnology 63 Environmental Education & Interp. 29 Aquatic & Fish Science 48

Total 677

Number of undergraduates by level

New Undergrad 135 Transfer Undergrad 97 Continuing Undergrad 437 Returning Undergrad 8

Total 677 (vs last year 634)

3. Undergraduate advising loads by faculty member

CASTELLO 23 HORTON 0 RINGLER 8 COHEN 26 KIMMERER, R 25 RUNDELL 25 DIEMONT 25 LEOPOLD 8 SCHULZ 24 DOVCIAK 25 LEYDET 24 SHIELDS 3 FARRELL 25 LIMBURG 24 STEWART 25 FARRELL, S 25 LOMOLINO 24 TEALE 24 FERNANDO 27 MCGEE 28 TURNER 25 FIERKE 27 NEWMAN, L 23 UNDERWOOD 24 FRAIR 25 PARRY 26 WEIR 25 GIBBS 25 POWELL 0 WHIPPS 25 GREEN 25 RAZAVI 7

4. Courses a. By Faculty

Faculty 2017-18: Student numbers from individual faculty reports… Summary of main courses taught by faculty and enrollment in each course (as reported by each; does not include 420, 495, 498, 499, 798, 899, 999; Course prefix EFB unless otherwise noted)

Faculty Course No. Course Name Enrollment

Cohen 493/693 Wildlife Habitats and Populations 43 496/796 Wildlife Habitats – Class Project 28 696 Population Parameter Estimation 14 797 Core Seminar

Diemont 434/634 Ecosystem Restoration Design 14 496/796 Urban Ecosystem Design (with LA) 9 796 Biocultural Restoration 14

Dovciak 435/635 Flowering Plants: Div., Evol & System 25 445/645 Plant Ecology & Global Change 47 523(0.5) Tropical Ecology 18

Farrell, J. 492 Senior Synthesis AFS 12 681 Aquatic Restoration Ecology 10

Farrell, S. 482/796 Ornithology 43 390 Wildlife Ecology & Management 85

797 EFB Core Course 18 797 Adaptive Peaks Grad Seminar 19

Fernando 326 Plant Evol, Diversification & Conservation 34 427/627 Anatomy & Development of Plants 27 BTC497 Research Design& Prof Development 18

Fierke 101 General Biology Lecture I 333 202 Ecol Monitor & Bio Assessment 171 566 Systemic Entomology 6 796 EFB Core Course

Folta, E. 312/512 Intro to Envir Interpretation 51 417/617 Non-Personal Envir Interp Methods 30

Frair 491 Applied Wildlife Science 44 796 Quantitative Methods & Models in Research Gibbs 413 Introduction to Conservation Biology 114 419 Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology 52 485 Herpetology 62

Green 303 Intro to Environmental Microbiology 71 132 Orientation Seminar 20 796 R and Reproducible Research 11

Horton 496 Ethnomycology 10 (Sabbatical)

Kimmerer 307 Field Ethnobotany 16 446/646 Ecology of Mosses 30 796 Traditional & Scientific Knowledge 12

Leopold 336 Dendrology 129 495 Undergrad Exper/College Teaching 9 496 Wetland Plants & Communities 18

Leydet 320 Disease Prevention 25 360 Epidemiology 41 Vector Borne & Zoonotic Diseases 9 487/687 Fisheries Science & Management 25

Limburg 488 Ecosystem Svcs @ Risk Deoxyen 11 500 Watershed Ecology & Management 10

Lomolino 483 Mammal Diversity 73 444/644 Geography Nature/Biogeography 23

497/797 Biogeography & Conservation 7

McGee 102 General Biology Lab I 332 104 General Biology Lab II 176 132 Orientation Seminar: EFB 89 202 Ecol Monit Biodiversity Assess (4 days) 65

McNulty 484 Winter Mammalian Ecology 15

Newman 601 Molecular Techniques (BTC401) 36 325 Cell Biology 108 BTC499 Senior Synthesis 17 496/796 Plant Physiology Recitation 2 496/796 Phytoremediation 25 496/796 Cell Biology Recitation 9 Parry 132 Freshman Seminar (Con Bio) 37 202 Ecol Monitor & Bio Assess(Entomology) 72 502 Ecology & Mgmt of Invasive Species 42 504 Plant Herbivore Interactions 20

Powell BTC420 Internships in Biotechnology 3 (Sabbatical) 495 College Teaching 4 498 Biotechnology Research 4

Razavi 400/600

Ringler 385 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy 31 554 Aquatic Entomology 6

Rundell 211 Diversity of Life 180 311 Principles of Evolution 197 355 Invertebrate Zoology

Schulz 202 Ecol Monito Bio Assess 76 496 Marine Ecology Seminar 11 424/624 Limnology: Study of Inland Waters 61 525 Limnology Practicum 20 797 Managing & Archiving Research Data 8

Stewart 202 Eco Monitor Bio Assess 75 486 Ichthyology 75 523 Topical Ecology 11 796 Advanced Ichthyology 2

Teale 217 People, Plagues & Pests 102 351/551 Forest Entomology 44

Turner 200 Physics of Life 129 462/662 Animal Physiology: Envir & Ecol 39

Weir 202 CLBS 60 440/640 Mycology 61 496/796 Microbial Consortia 18 Whipps 103 Gen Bio II: Cell Biology & Gen 179 453/653 Parasitology 22

b. By Instructional Support Specialists, Adjuncts and Visiting Faculty

Instructor Course No. Course Name Enrollment

Adams 495 Undergrad Exp/Coll Teach 13 Beal 120 Global Environment 79 Belford 496 Field Ornithology 22 Collins 496/796 Therapeutic Horticulture 14 D’Angelo 340 Forest/Shade Tree Pathology 36 439 Forest Health Monitoring 10 495 Undergrad Exp/Coll Teach 2

Ettinger 437/637 Plant Propagation 16

Falkowski 120 Global Envir/Evol Human Soc 97 Folta 496/796 Issues in Mgmt & Conflict Resolution 12 497/797 Visitor Ed/Wildlife Mgmt Tool 14 Giegerich 381 Vertebrate Museum Techniques 23 Hagar 496 Ecology Adirondack Insects 8 Helenbrook 307 Principles of Genetics 32 Hough 496/696 Flora of Central New York 23

Jones 497/797 Insect Ecology 19

Kilheffer 497/797 Coastal & Barrier Island Ecology 6

Lamit 320 General Ecology 274 496 General Ecology Lab 3 542 Freshwater Wetland Ecosystems 27

Lapan 384 Field Herpetology 18 Mackey 404 Natural Hist Museums & Mod Science 13 480 Principles of Animal Behavior 45 McNulty 484/684 Mammalian Winter Ecology 15

Mulverhill 312 Intro Envir Interpretive Methods 45 415 Interpretive Design 24 496/696 Adv Interpretation & Certification 16

Murphy 388 Ecology Adirondack Fishes 12

Musselman 496 Wetland Plants & Communities 11

Oakes 307 Principles of Genetics 200 308 Principles of Genetics Lab 207

Patterson 305 Indigenous Issues & the Environment 27 Petzke 435 Flowering Plants: Div, Evol & System 40 Powrozek 480 Principles of Animal Behavior 37 Quinn 414 Senior Synthesis Cons Biology 48 496 Integrating Conservation/Agriculture 20

Regan 542 Freshwater Wetland Ecosystems 49

Schummer 496/692 Ecol & Mgmt of Waterfowl 37

Weber 210 Diversity of Life I 187 211 Diversity of Life II 185

Instructor Course No. Course Name Enrollment Adams 495 Undergrad Exp/Coll Teach 13 Beal 120 Global Environment 79 Belford 496 Field Ornithology 22 Collins 496/796 Therapeutic Horticulture 14 D’Angelo 340 Forest/Shade Tree Pathology 36 439 Forest Health Monitoring 10 495 Undergrad Exp/Coll Teach 2

Ettinger 437/637 Plant Propagation 16

Jones 497/797 Insect Ecology 19

Kilheffer 497/797 Coastal & Barrier Island Ecology 6

Lamit 320 General Ecology 274 496 General Ecology Lab 3 542 Freshwater Wetland Ecosystems 27

Lapan 384 Field Herpetology 18 Mackey 404 Natural Hist Museums & Mod Science 13 480 Principles of Animal Behavior 45 McNulty 484/684 Mammalian Winter Ecology 15

Mulverhill 312 Intro Envir Interpretive Methods 45 415 Interpretive Design 24 496/696 Adv Interpretation & Certification 16

Murphy 388 Ecology Adirondack Fishes 12

Musselman 496 Wetland Plants & Communities 11

Oakes 307 Principles of Genetics 200 308 Principles of Genetics Lab 207

Regan 542 Freshwater Wetland Ecosystems 49

Schummer 496/692 Ecol & Mgmt of Waterfowl 37

Weber 210 Diversity of Life I 187 211 Diversity of Life II 185

5. Curriculum Changes

There have been no major curriculum changes this year.

C. Graduate Students -

The Graduate Program Committee (Jonathan Cohen, Chsir) had three primary initiatives in 2017/18. The first was to conduct a graduate student survey that focused on EFB’s office, laboratory, and fieldwork environments and their conduciveness to productivity. The survey was completed, and the results presented to the faculty. Several areas of potential improvement were identified, including clearer communication of existing ESF and EFB health and safety protocols and the need to develop some new ones. We will work with EFB faculty in the coming year to address these concerns.

Our second GPAC activity was to analyze the interacting relationships among the criteria used to assign state Graduate Assistantships (GA), the major professor, and the probability of a graduate student completing their program. Data collected from 2012 to 2018 indicated that many of the grad school application metrics that EFB used to prioritize GA assignments are reliably associated with completion rate. In addition, we found that the average ratio of GA support to other sources of support such as Graduate Research Assistantship for an EFB grad student is 1:4, indicating that most EFB professors are finding extramural sources of support for their students or are helping students to find support. We also saw that a lower ratio of GA support to other sources of support was positively associated with completion rate.

Our third focus was to administer the Burgess Outstanding Doctoral Scholarship. We had several excellent applicants and were proud to bestow two awards in spring 2018. In addition to our three main projects, GPAC continued to revise the EFB Graduate Student Handbook, to promote the use of Annual Grad Student Self-Evaluation Forms at committee meetings and the use of TA evaluations at the end of each semester, and to push for increased GA stipends at the College level.

Theses and Dissertations completed this year within five graduate study areas in EFB are listed in Appendix 4. Graduates are listed below:

EFB Graduates between August 1, 2017 and May 30, 2018 Student Name Graduation Date Program of Study MP Main Dept Title of Thesis or Dissertation MacDuff, Andrew Joseph Dec 16, 2017 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB MS A Non-harvest Based Assessment of River Otter (Lontra canadensis) in the Mohawk River Valley of New York Pirovano, Ashley Dec 16, 2017 EFB Plant Science & Biotechnology EFB MPS n/a Augustyn, Ericka Alyse Dec 16, 2017 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB MS Larval Northern Pike (Esox lucius) Ecology in Natural and Restored Coastal Wetlands of the Upper St. Lawrence River Bleau, Adam James May 12, 2018 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB MS COMPARATIVE HABITAT SELECTION AND BEHAVIOR OF MALLARDS (Anas platyrhynchos) AND AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS (Anas rubripes) WINTERING IN THE FINGER LAKES REGION Dean, Samantha Haley Aug 18, 2017 EFB Conservation Biology EFB MS Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Associations of Amphibians and Reptiles at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, an Urban Protected Area Droke, Justin Michael May 12, 2018 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB MS Comparison of Spring Migration Ecology of American Black Ducks (Anas rubripes) and Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in the Montezuma Wetlands Complex Fletcher, Jessica Jean Dec 16, 2017 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB MS Habitat use and species assemblage of bats in a northeastern coastal plain ecosystem Goldspiel, Harrison May 12, 2018 EFB Ecology EFB MS Forest Legacy Effects on Amphibian Populations: Integrating Land and Life Histories in Conservation Looi, Alexander Hao Rong Dec 16, 2017 EFB Ecology EFB MS Modeling upper St. Lawrence Wetlands Mello, Samantha Lynn May 12, 2018 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB MS PARASITES OF THE NEW ENGLAND COTTONTAIL (SYLVILAGUS TRANSITIONALIS) IN THE PRESENCE OF A NON-NATIVE HOST AND INVASIVE VEGETATION Mettey, Colin John May 12, 2018 EFB Ecology EFB MS Long-Term Response of Herbaceous and Sapling Strata to Mechanical Understory Removal in Northern Hardwoods Nolan, Marissa May 12, 2018 EFB Environmental Interpretation EFB MS Investigating Impacts on the Environmental Literacy of Secondary School Students Attending a Summer Science Program Pershyn, Carrianne May 12, 2018 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB MS BROOK TROUT SALVELINUS FONTINALIS DISTRIBUTION, GENETIC DIVERSITY, AND HABITAT USE IN AN ADIRONDACK RIVER SYSTEM, NEW YORK Serviss, Michael Dec 16, 2017 EFB Conservation Biology EFB MS Experimental Reintroduction of American Hart’s-Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum): Factors Affecting Successful Establishment of Transplants Slife, Caitlin Carroll Aug 18, 2017 EFB Conservation Biology EFB MS LIFE-CYCLE DURATIONS AND BIOACCUMULATION OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS BY MYSIS DILUVIANA IN THE FINGER LAKES OF NEW YORK Smith, Robert Lee Dec 16, 2017 EFB Ecology EFB MS Plant Species Richness and Diversity of Northern White-Cedar (Thuja occidentalis) Swamps in Northern New York: Effects and Interactions of Multiple Variables Brainard, Andrew S May 12, 2018 EFB Ecology EFB PhD Effects of propagule pressure, environmental factors, and climate change on success and impacts of benthic aquatic invasions Chang, Carolyn Theresa Dec 16, 2017 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB PhD Controlling infectious disease in laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio) Cheeseman, Amanda Aug 18, 2017 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB PhD FACTORS LIMITING RECOVERY OF THE NEW ENGLAND COTTONTAIL IN NEW YORK Falkowski, Tomasz Bartosz May 12, 2018 EFB Ecology EFB PhD Assessing the Socioecological Restoration Potential of Successional Lacandon Maya Agroforestry in the Lacandon Rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico Gurdak, Daniel J May 12, 2018 EFB Ecology EFB PhD Assessing Arapaima Conservation and Management Through Actionable Research Kilheffer, Chellby May 12, 2018 EFB Fish & Wildlife Biology & Mgt EFB PhD Plant Community Development in Storm-induced Overwash Fans of the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness Area, New York Martinez, Isaias Dec 16, 2017 ESC Environ & Community Land Planning EFB PhD SOIL FERTILITY, EMERGY EVALUATION, AND IMPROVEMENTS TO MILPA IN INDIGENOUS ZAPOTEC AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS Paltsyn, Mikhail Yurievich May 12, 2018 EFB Conservation Biology EFB PhD Integration of remote sensing, modeling, and field approaches for rangeland management and endangered species conservation in Central Asia Peach Lang, Michelle Aug 18, 2017 EFB Ecology EFB PhD EVALUATING THE ROLE OF PROTECTED AREAS IN MITIGATING AVIAN RESPONSES TO CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGE

1. Number of Graduate Students by degree

Including all of those prior to graduation in May 2018

Fall 2017 – Total = 136 MS - 70 MPS - 6 Ph.D - 60

Spring 2018 – Total = 132 MS -68 MPS – 5 Ph.D -59

2. Funding of EFB grad students

(No. x funding source x degree): Input from faculty to Faith Ashmore

3. Courses having TA support and approximate enrollment

FALL 2017 EFB 101 General Biology Lecture (345) EFB 102 General Biology Lab (343) EFB 132 Orientation Seminar (83) EFB 210 Diversity of Life (165) EFB 303 Intro to Environmental Microbiology (71) EFB 307/308 – Principles of Genetics and Lab (206) EFB 312/512 Intro/Pers Environ Interpretation Methods (43) EFB 320 General Ecology (270) EFB 336 Dendrology (124) EFB 351 Forest Entomology (38) EFB 390 Wildlife Ecology and Management (83) BTC 401/EFB 601 Molecular Techniques (28) EFB 424 Limnology and EFB 525 Limnology (20) EFB 427/627 Plant Anatomy and Development (23) EFB 435/635 Flowering Plants (22) EFB 440/640 Mycology (64) EFB 483 Mammal Diversity (71) EFB 487 Fisheries Science (24) EFB 493 Management of Wildlife Habitats (38) EFB 554 Aquatic Entomology (8)

SPRING 2018 EFB 103 General Biology II: Cell Biology and Genetics (180) EFB 104 General Biology II: Laboratory (159) EFB 120 Global Environment and the Evolution of Human Society (53) EFB 211 Diversity of Life II (195) EFB 217 Impact of Insects and Diseases on the history of non-western civilization (84) EFB 305/605 Indigenous Issues and Environment (36) EFB 311 Principles of Evolution (174) EFB 325 Cell Biology (83) EFB 326 Diversity of Plants ((33) EFB 340 Forest and Shade Tree Pathology 36) EFB 355 Invertebrate Zoology (40)

EFB 385 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy ((27) EFB 413 Intro to Conservation Biology (103) EFB 414 Senior Synthesis in Conservation Biology (48) EFB 419 Problem-solving in Conservation Biology (58) EFB 423/623 Marine Ecology (11) EFB445/645 Plant Ecology (52) EFB 446/646 Ecology of Mosses (23) EFB 480 Principles of Animal Behavior (37) EFB 482 Ornithology (50) EFB 485 Herpetology (89) EFB 486 Ichthyology (75) EFB 491 Wildlife Ecology and Management Practicum (39)

D. Research

1. Publications between June 1, 2017 and May 20, 2018 (excluding papers in review)

Jonathan Cohen

Durkin MM, Cohen JB. In press. Estimating avian road mortality in a single observer robust design framework. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Althouse MA, Cohen JB, Karpanty SM, Spendelow JA, Davis KL, Parsons KC, Luttazi CF. In press. Evaluating response distances to develop buffer zones for staging terns. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Stantial ML, Cohen JB. 2018. The influence of habitat, tidal stage, temperature and breeding status on the flight behavior of breeding piping plovers (Charadrius melodus). Journal of Ornithology. s10336-018-1536-1.

Field CR, Ruskin KJ, Benvenuti B, Borowske A, Cohen JB, Garey L, Hodgman TP, Kern RA, King E, Kocek AR, Kovach AI, O’Brien KM, Olsen BJ, Pau N, Roberts S, Shelly E, Shriver G, Walsh J, Elphick CS. 2018. Quantifying the importance of geographic replication and representativeness when estimating demographic rates. Ecography 41:971-981.

Cohen JB, Maddock S, Bimbi M, Golder W, LeDee O, Cuthbert FJ, Catlin D, Fraser J, Gratto- Trevor C. 2018. State uncertainty models and mark-resight models for understanding nonbreeding site use by the piping plover (Charadrius melodus). Ibis 160:342-354.

Darrah AJ, Cohen JB, Castelli P. A 2018. Bayesian multinomial logistic exposure model for estimating probabilities of competing sources of nest failure. Ibis. 160: 23-35.

Peach MA, Cohen JB, Frair JL. 2017. A single visit, dynamic occupancy model: an approach to account for imperfect detection with Atlas data. Journal of Applied Ecology 54: 2033- 2042.

Leuenberger W, McNeil DJ, Cohen J, Larkin JL. 2017. Vegetation characteristics of golden- winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) territories in post-forest fire and post- agricultural communities. Journal of Field Ornithology 88: 169-183.

Stantial ML, JB Cohen, AJ Darrah, KE Iaquinto, PH Loring, PWC Paton. Radio transmitters did not affect daily nest and chick survival of Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus). Wilson Journal of Ornithology. In press.

Gibson D, Catlin DH, Hunt KL, Fraser JD, Karpanty SM, Friedrich MJ, Bimbi MK, Cohen JB, Maddock SB. 2017. Evaluating the impact of man-made disasters on imperiled species: Piping plovers and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Biological Conservation 2012:48-61.

Petracca LS, Frair JL, Cohen JB, Calderon AP, Carazo-Salazar J, Salazar FC, Corrales-Gutierrez D, Foster RJ, Harmsen B, Hernandez-Potosme S, Herrera L, Olmos M, Pereira S, Robinson HS, Robinson N, Salom-Perez, Urbina Y, Zellar KA. 2017. Robust inference on large-scale species habitat use using interview data: The status of jaguars outside protected areas in Central America. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:723-734..

Stewart Diemont

*Arrington, A., S.A.W. Diemont, C. Phillips, E. Welty, 2017. Demographic and landscape-level urban foraging trends in the United States derived from web and mobile app usage. Urban Ecology 3(1): https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/jux006.

Shannon Farrell

Farrell, S., and R. J. Cooper. Assemblages and Communities. 2018. In Morrison, M.L., A.D. Rodewald, G. Voelker, M.R. Colón, and J.F. Prather, eds. Ornithology: Foundation, Critique, and Application. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.

Martin Dovciak

Alvarez-Yepiz J *, Burquez A, Martinez-Yrizar A, Dovciak M. 201x. A trait-based approach to the conservation of threatened plant species. Oryx—The International Journal of Conservation. Accepted.

Berdugo MB *, Quant JM *, Wason JW *, Dovciak M. 2018. Latitudinal patterns and environmental drivers of moss layer cover in extratropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography: In press. DOI:10.1111/geb.12778.

Lawrence GB, McDonnell TC, Sullivan TJ, Dovciak M, Bailey SW, Antidormi MR, Zarfos MR *. 2018. Soil base saturation combines with beech bark disease to influence composition and structure of sugar maple-beech forests in an acid rain-impacted region. Ecosystems 21, 795–810.

McDonnell TC, Reinds GJ, Sullivan TJ, Clark CM, Bonten LTC, Mol-Dijkstra JP, Wamelink GWW, Dovciak M. 2018. Feasibility of coupled empirical and dynamic modeling to assess climate change and air pollution impacts on temperate forest vegetation of the eastern United States. Environmental Pollution 234, 902-914.

Sullivan TJ, Zarfos MR *, Dovciak M, McDonnell TC, Lawrence GB. 2017. Effects of acidic deposition on the biodiversity of forest understory plant communities in the northern hardwood forests of the Adirondack mountains. Technical Report (Refereed). NYSERDA, Albany, NY. 86 pp.

John Farrell

Casselman, J. M., T. Lusk, J. M. Farrell, and C. Lake. 2017. Die-Off of Muskellunge in the Upper St. Lawrence River Caused by Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia, 2005– 2008. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85: 373-377.

Farrell, J. M., R. G. Getchell, K. L. Kapuscinski, and S. R. LaPan. 2017. Long-term Trends of St. Lawrence River Muskellunge: Effects of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia and Round Goby Proliferation Creates Uncertainty for Population Sustainability. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:275-301.

Gallagher, A., P. Szekeres. S. Cooke, and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Tracking Young-of-Year Northern Pike and Muskellunge: Monitoring Behavior and Habitat Use During Fall Outmigration from Nursery Sites. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:167-170.

Getchell, R. G., E. R. Cornwell, S. Bogdanowicz, J. Andrés, W. N. Batts, G. Kurath, R. Breta, J. G. Choil, J. M. Farrell, P. R. Bowser. 2017. Complete sequences of four viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) IVb isolates and their virulence in northern pike fry. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 126:211-227.

Leblanc, J. P., B. L. Brown, J. M. Farrell. 2017. Increased walleye Sander vitreus egg-to-larvae survival following spawning habitat enhancement in a tributary of Eastern Lake Ontario. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 37:999–1009.

Lewis, C., J. M. Farrell, K. l. Sams, E. R. Cornwell, R. G. Getchell. 2017. A Comparison of Virulence of Four Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus IVb Strains in Muskellunge. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:149-159.

Miller, L. M., J. M. Farrell, K. L. Kapuscinski, K. Scribner, B. L. Sloss, K. Turnquist, C. C. Wilson. 2017. A Review of Muskellunge Population Genetics: Implications for Management and Future Research Needs. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:385-414.

Turnquist, K. N., W. A. Larson, J. M. Farrell, P. A. Hanchin, K. L. Kapuscinski, L. M. Miller, K. T. Scribner. 2017. Spatial Genetic Structure of Muskellunge in the Great Lakes Region and the Effects of Supplementation on Genetic Integrity of Remnant Stocks. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 85:477-481.

Turnquist; K. N., Wesley L., J. M Farrell, P. A. Hanchin, K. L.Kapuscinski; L. M. Miller; K.T Scribner; C. C. Wilson, and B. L. Sloss. 2017. Genetic structure of muskellunge in the

Great Lakes region and the effects of supplementation on genetic integrity of wild populations. Journal of Great Lakes Research 43(6):1141-1152.

Danny Fernando

Bouchard JR, Fernando DD, Bailey SW, Weber-Townsend J and Leopold DJ. 2017. Contrasting Patterns of Genetic Variation in Central and Peripheral Populations of Dryopteris fragrans (fragrant wood fern), and Implications for Colonization Dynamics and Conservation. International Journal of Plant Science 178: 607-617.

Melissa Fierke

M.I. Jones, J. Gould, M.K. Fierke. 2017. Mortality of overwintering emerald ash borer associated with an extreme cold event in New York State. Canadian Entomologist. 149: 482–486.

J.G. Millar, J.A. Mongold-Diers, Y. Zou, C. Bogran, M.K. Fierke, M.D. Ginzel, C.W. Johnson, J.R. Meeker, T.M. Poland, A. Ragenovich. L.M. Hanks. 2017. Identifying possible pheromones of cerambycid beetles by field testing known pheromone components in four widely separated regions of the United States. J. Economic Entomology. 111: 1–8.

L.M. Hanks, J.G. Millar, R.F. Mitchell, J.A. Mongold-Diers, T.H. Atkinson, M.K. Fierke, M.D. Ginzel, E.E. Graham, T.M. Poland, A.B. Richards, M.L. Richardson. 2018. Testing blends of pheromones and host plant volatiles as attractants for multiple species of cerambycid beetles simultaneously. J. Economic Entomology. 111: 716–724.

N. Peidmonte, S. Shaw, M.A. Prusinski, M.K. Fierke. Landscape Features Associated with Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Density and Tick-borne Pathogen Prevalence at Multiple Spatial Scales in Central New York State. J Medical Entomology. Accepted.

Jaqueline Frair

Whitman, B., W. Porter, A. Dechen Quinn, D. Williams, J. Frair, B. Underwood, and J. Crawford. (in press) Movement behavior preceding autumn mortality for white-tailed deer in central New York. Journal of Mammalogy.

Petracca, L.S., Frair, J.L., Cohen, J.B., Calderon, A.P., Carazo-Salazar, J., Castaneda, F., Corrales-Gutierrez, D., Foster, r.J., Harmsen, B., Hernandez-Potosme, S., Robinson, N., Salom-Perez, R., Urbina, Y., Zeller, K.A., and Quigley, H. (2018) Robust inference on large-scale species habitat use with interview data: The status of jaguars outside of protected areas in Central America. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55:723-734.

Peach, M., Cohen, J., and Frair, J. (2017) Single-visit dynamic occupancy models: an approach to account for imperfect detection with Atlas data. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54:2033- 2042.

James Gibbs

Bastille-Rousseau, G., Gibbs, J.P., Yackulic, C.B., Frair, J.L., Cabrera, F., Rousseau, L.P., Wikelski, M., Kümmeth, F. and Blake, S., 2017. Animal movement in the absence of predation: environmental drivers of movement strategies in a partial migration system. Oikos, 126(7), pp.1004-1019.

Miller, J.M., Quinzin, M.C., Poulakakis, N., Gibbs, J.P., Beheregaray, L.B., Garrick, R.C., Russello, M.A., Ciofi, C., Edwards, D.L., Hunter, E.A. and Tapia, W., 2017. Identification of genetically important individuals of the rediscovered Floreana Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis elephantopus) provide founders for Species Restoration Program. Scientific Reports, 7(1), p.11471.

Norris, D., Michalski, F. and Gibbs, J.P., 2018. Beyond harm’s reach? Submersion of river turtle nesting areas and implications for restoration actions after Amazon hydropower development. PeerJ, 6, p.e4228.

Norris, D., Michalski, F. and Gibbs, J.P., 2018. Community involvement works where enforcement fails: conservation success through community-based management of Amazon river turtle nests. PeerJ, 6.

Paltsyn, M.Y., Gibbs, J.P., Iegorova, L.V. and Mountrakis, G., 2017. Estimation and Prediction of Grassland Cover in Western Mongolia Using MODIS-Derived Vegetation Indices. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 70(6), pp.723-729.

Izurieta Arturo, Delgado Byron, Moity Nicolas, Calvopiña Monica, Cedeño Iván, Banda-Cruz Gonzalo, Cruz Eliecer, Aguas Milton, Arroba Francisco, Astudillo Iván, Bazurto Diana, Soria Mónica, Banks Stuart, Bayas Steve, Belli Simone, Bermúdez Rafael, Boelling Nicolai, Bolaños Jimmy, Borbor Mercy, Brito Ma. Lorena, Bucheli Leopoldo, Campbell Karl, Carranza David, Carrión Jorge, Casafont Maria, Castro Xavier, Chamorro Sandra, Chávez Juan, Chicaiza David, Chumbi René, Couenberg Paulina, Cousseau David, Cruz Marilyn, d’Ozouville Noemí, de la Guía Cristina, de la Torre Giorgio, Díaz Carla Molina, Duchicela Jessica, Endara Daniel, Garcia Vanessa, Gellibert Cynthia, Gibbs James, Guzmán Juan Carlos, Heylings Pippa, Iglesias Andrés, Izurieta Juan Carlos, Jaramillo Patricia, Klingman Asleigh, Laurie Andrew, Leon Patricia, Medina Jaime, Mendieta Edison, Merlen Godfrey, Montalvo Carla, Naula Edwin, Páez-Rosas Diego, Peralta Manuel, Peralvo Marcos, Piu Mario, Poma José, Pontón José, Pozo Mireya, Proaño Daniel, Ramos Mónica, Rousseaud Ana, Rueda Danny, Salinas Pelayo, Salmoral Gloria, Saraguro Silvia, Simón-Baile Débora, Tapia Washington, Teran Byron, Valverde Marilú, Vargas Andrea, Vega Josué, Velásquez Wilson, Vélez Alberto, Verdesoto Santiago, Villarraga Hernán G., Vissioli Fernando, Viteri-Mejía Cesar, Norris-Crespo Lucía, Cooke

Sophia C., Toral-Granda M. Veronica, Sutherland William J. (2018) A collaboratively derived environmental research agenda for Galápagos. Pacific Conservation Biology 24, 168-177.

Caccone, A., Cayot, L.J., Gibbs, J.P. & Tapia, W. 2018. Chelonoidis Becki, Wolf Volcano Giant Tortoise. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.

Caccone, A., Cayot, L.J., Gibbs, J.P. & Tapia, W. 2018. Chelonoidis chathamensis, San Cristobal Giant Tortoise. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.

Rhodin, A.G.J., Gibbs, J.P., Cayot, L.J., Kiester, A.R. & Tapia, W. 2018. Chelonoidis phantasticus, Fernandina Giant Tortoise. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.

Cayot, L.J., Gibbs, J.P., Tapia, W. & Caccone, A. 2018. Chelonoidis porteri, Western Santa Cruz Giant Tortoise. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.

Cayot, L.J., Gibbs, J.P., Tapia, W. & Caccone, A. 2018. Chelonoidis duncanensis, Pinzon Giant Tortoise. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.

Cayot, L.J., Gibbs, J.P., Tapia, W. & Caccone, A. 2018. Chelonoidis donfaustoi, Eastern Santa Cruz Giant Tortoise. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.

Donald Leopold

Raney, P.A. and D.J. Leopold. 2018. Fantastic wetlands and where to find them: Modeling rich fen distribution in New York State with maxent. Wetlands 38:81-93.

Mattingly, K.Z. and D.J. Leopold. 2018. Habitat indicators of a federally listed glacial relict plant species restricted to cliffs in the northern U.S. Natural Areas Journal 38:54-67.

Bouchard J.R., D.D. Fernando, S.B. Bailey, J. Weber-Townsend and D.J. Leopold. 2017. Contrasting patterns of genetic variation in central and peripheral populations of Dryopteris fragrans (fragrant wood fern) and implications for colonization dynamics and conservation. International Journal of Plant Science 178:607-617.

Leopold, D.J. and L.J. Musselman. Wildflowers of the Adirondacks. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD (in press)

Karin Limburg

Breitburg, D., L.A. Levin, A. Oschlies, M. Grégoire, F.P. Chavez, D.J. Conley, V. Garçon, D. Gilbert, D. Gutiérrez, K. Isensee, G.S. Jacinto, K.E Limburg, I. Montes, S.W.A. Naqvi, G.C. Pitcher, N.N. Rabalais, M.R. Roman, K.A. Rose, B.A. Seibel, M.Telszewski, M.

Yasuhara, and J. Zhang. 2018. Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters. Science 359 (6371). DOI:10.1126/science.aam7240

Hamberg*, L.J., S.E.G. Findlay, K.E. Limburg, and S.A.W. Diemont. 2017. Post storm sediment burial and herbivory of Vallisneria americana in the Hudson River estuary: Mechanisms of loss and implications for restoration. Restoration Ecology (online Early View).

Huang, R., K.E. Limburg, and M. Rohtla. 2017.

Quantitative X-ray fluorescence computed tomography for low-Z samples using an iterative absorption correction algorithm. AIP Advances 7, 055111 (2017); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4983804

Limburg, K.E., M.J. Wuenschel, K. Hüssy, Y. Heimbrand, and M. Samson. 2018. Making the otolith magnesium chemical calendar-clock tick: plausible mechanism and supporting evidence. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture 26: 479-493. doi: 10.1080/23308249.2018.1458817.

Massiot-Granier, F., G. Lassalle, P.R. Almeida, M. Aprahamian, M. Castonguay, H. Drouineau, E. Garcia-Berthouf, P. Laffaille, A. Lechêne, M. Lepage, K. Limburg, J. Lobry, E. Rochard, K. Rose, J. Rosebery, T. Rougier, J. Waldman, K. Wilson, P. Lambert. 2018. A generic method to assess species exploratory potential under climate change. Ecological Indicators 90: 615-623.

Pine, W., K. Limburg, B. Gerig, C. Finch, D. Chagaris, L. Coggins, D. Speas, and D. Hendrickson. 2017. Growth of endangered humpback chub in relation to temperature and discharge in the lower Colorado River. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 8: 322-332.

Limburg, K.E., D.L. Breitburg, and L.A. Levin. 2017. Ocean deoxygenation – a climate-related problem. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15(10): 479.

Mark Lomolino

Lomolino, M. V. 2018. Wallace at the foundations of biogeography and the frontiers of conservation biology. Chapter in The Alfred Russel Wallace Companion Project. University of Chicago Press.

Swider, C. R., S. Parks and M. V. Lomolino. 2017. Variation in dawn chorus acoustic complexity across a global latitudinal gradient. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141(5):3941-3941.

Rozzi, R., and M. V. Lomolino. 2017. Rapid Dwarfing of an Insular Mammal – The Feral Cattle of Amsterdam Island. Scientific Reports 7: 8820 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-017- 08820-2.

van der Geer, A. A. E., M. V. Lomolino and G. Lyras. 2018. ‘On being the right size’* – Do aliens follow the rules? Journal of Biogeography 2018:1–15.

Lomolino, M. V. 2018. Wallace at the foundations of biogeography and the frontiers of conservation biology. Chapter in The Alfred Russel Wallace Companion Project. University of Chicago Press.

Greg McGee

McGee, G.G., M.E. Cardon and D.H. Kiernan. In press. Variation in sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marshall) bark and stemflow characteristics: implications for epiphytic bryophyte communities. Northeastern Naturalist.

Griffiths, G.R. and G.G. McGee. 2018. Lack of herbaceous layer community recovery in postagricultural forests across three physiographic regions of New York. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 145(1):1-20.

McGee, G.G. 2018. Biological Diversity. In: A. Barton and W. Keeton (eds.) Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests. Island Press.

Stacey McNulty

Cale, J. A., S. A.McNulty. 2018. Not dead yet: Trees can survive nearly three decades in the aftermath phase of a deadly forest disease complex. Forest Ecology and Management 409: 372-377.

Langdon, S. F., S. Beguin, and S. McNulty. 2018. ADK ScienceCorps: Evaluating the Sustainability of a Citizen Science Based Monitoring Program for Adirondack Lowland Boreal Birds. A Report to Northern New York Audubon’s Cullman Grant Program.

McNulty, S. A., D. White, M. Hufty and P. Foster. 2017. The Organization of Biological Field Stations at Fifty. Ecological Society Bulletin 98(4):240-373. DOI: 10.1002/bes2.1349

Robinson, C. J., S. A. McNulty and V. R. Titus. 2018. No safe space: prevalence and distribution of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians in a highly-protected landscape. Accepted to Herpetological Conservation and Biology.

Lee Newman

Ma, C., H. Liu, G. Chen, Q. Zhao, B. Eitzer, Z. Want, W. Cai, L.A. Newman, J.C. White, O.P. Dankher and B. Xing. 2017. Effects of titanium oxide nanoparticles on tetracycline

accumulation and toxicity in Orzya sativa (L.). Environmental Science Nano. 4: 1827- 1839.

Lohse, S.E., N.S. Abadeer, M. Zoloty, J.C. White, L.A. Newman, and C.J. Murphy. 2017. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 5; 11451-11458.

Mechanisms of Biopesticide Induced Plant Pathogen Resistance for Bacillus Species. Advances in Environmental Biology. Accepted.

Dylan Parry

May, C., N. Hillerbrand, L.M. Thompson, T.M. Faske, E. Martinez, D. Parry, S.J. Agosta, and K.L. Grayson. Metabolic responses to temperature in northern and southern populations from the North American gypsy moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) invasion. In Press. Insect Science (Impact 2.03) Leuenberger, W.L., E. Larsen, J. Leuenberger, and D. Parry. 2018. Predation on Plasticine Model Caterpillars: Engaging High School Students using Field-Based Experiential Learning and the Scientific Process. American Biology Teacher. In Press. (Impact 0.32)

Foelker, C.J., M.K. Fierke, D. Parry. 2018. Biotic resistance and the spatiotemporal distribution of an invading woodwasp, Sirex noctilio. Biological Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-018-1673-8

Schlesinger, M.D., E.L. White, S.M. Young, G.J. Edinger, K.A. Perkins, N. Schoppmann, and D. Parry. 2017. Biodiversity Inventory of Plum Island, New York. New York Natural Heritage Program. 101 pp.

Parry, D. 2017. Back so Soon? Forest Tent Caterpillar on the Rise. The New York Pure Pipeline. Vol.1(2) 1-5. (Newsletter for NY Maple Syrup Growers)

Parry, D. 2017. Back so Soon? 2017. New York Forest Owner 55(5) 3-5

William Powell

Goldspiel, HB, Newhouse, AE, Gibbs, JP, and Powell, WA. 2018. Effects of Transgenic American Chestnut Leaf Litter on Growth and Survival of Wood Frog Larvae. Accepted with minor revisions in Restoration Ecology

Newhouse, AE, Oakes, AD, Pilkey, HC, and Powell, WA. 2018. Transgenic American chestnut leaves do not inhibit germination of native seeds or colonization of mycorrhizal fungi. Accepted with minor revisions to Frontiers in Plant Science

Powell, W.A. 2018. Issue paper: Regulatory Status of Transgenic American Chestnut Tree Under FIFRA. Submitted to the EPA to determine if the EPA authority to regulate the blight tolerant American chestnut as a pesticide.

Note on previous publication in The Conversation; New genetically engineered American chestnut will help restore the decimated, iconic tree. The current number of reads has surpassed 85,000, highest for ESF.

The Chestnut Project in the News: Sample links: http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/about.asp

Neil Ringler

DiRado, Justin. A., Neil H Ringler and Margaret H. Murphy. 2017. Strain-specific survival and growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon in Central New York tributaries. J. Great Lakes Research 43 (6): 1153-1159.

Murphy, Margaret H., Neil H. Ringler and Donald J. Stewart. 2017. Comparison of growth and survival of sea-run and landlocked strains of Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar in the Lake Ontario watershed J. Great Lakes Research 43(5): 953-962.

Rebecca Rundell

Li, Z.*, G.P. Tiley*, S.R. Galuska**, C.R. Reardon**, T.I. Kidder**, R.J. Rundell and M.S. Barker. 2018. Multiple large-scale gene and genome duplications during the evolution of hexapods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cover Article: May 1, 2018 (published ahead of print April 19, 2018)

Cowie, R.H., R.J. Rundell, N.W. Yeung. 2017. Samoan Land Snails and Slugs. An Identification Guide. Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Government. Pago Pago, American Samoa. ISBN 978-1-387-15533-0. 71 pp. [book]

Osborne, T.R.* and R. J. Rundell. 2017. Land snails of the rocks, trees, and leaves. American Conchologist 45(3): 32-36.

Scott Turner

J S Turner. 2017. Purpose and Desire. What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Fails to Explain It. HarperOne. San Francisco.

J S Turner. 2018. Many little lives. Inference: International Review of Science 4 (4): http://inference-review.com/article/many-little-lives.

J S Turner. 2018. Evolution as cognition. Society for the Advancement of Meta-Darwinism. In press

Penn, Alan and J S Turner. 2018. Can we identify general architectural principles that impact the collective behavior of both human and animal systems? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. In press.

J S Turner. 2017. Swarm cognition and swarm construction. Lessons from a social insect master builder. In: J Portugali and E Stolk (eds.) Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design. Springer-Heidelberg.

Ocko, S. A., H. King, et al. (2017). Solar-powered ventilation of African termite mounds. Journal of Experimental Biology 220(18): 3260-3269.

Green, B., P. Bardunias, et al. (2017). Excavation and aggregation as organizing factors in de novo construction by mound-building termites. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284(1856): 2016-2730.

Alexander Weir

Weir, A. (2017). Laboulbeniomyces. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLs) John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester, UK. Editor for Microbiology Prof. Gregg S. Pettis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Kaishian, P. and Weir, A. (2018). New species of Prolixandromyces from South America. Mycologia 110 (1):

Goldmann, L. and Weir, A. (2018). Molecular phylogeny of the Laboulbeniomycetes. Fungal Biology 122: 87-100.

Weir, A. Stinkhorns, truffles, smuts: The amazing diversity – and possible decline – of mushrooms and other fungi. The Conversation December 13 2017. Readership: 11,841 views to date.

Christopher Whipps

Bauer, E.F., Whipps, C.M. (In Review) Smallmouth bass parasites in the St. Lawrence River, an ecosystem with hyper-abundant invasive prey. Comparative Parasitology

Foox, J., Narechania, A., Whipps. C.M., Siddall, M.E. (In Review) Phylogenomics of Myxozoa and the Evolution of Parasitism within Cnidaria. Genome Biology and Evolution

Berkman, L.K., Frair, J.L., Marquardt, P.E., Donner, D.M., Kilgo, J.C., Whipps, C.M. (In Review) Spatial analysis reveals genetic admixture among coyotes (Canis latrans) in New York State. The Wildlife Society Bulletin.

Gavard, E.J., Whipps, C.M., Cohen, J., Ryan, S.J. (In Review) Gastrointestinal parasites of the New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) and eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) in the Hudson Valley, New York. Journal of Parasitology

Peneyra, S.M., Cardona-Costa, J., White, J., Whipps, C.M., Riedel, E.R., Lipman, N.S., Lieggi, C. 2018. Transmission of Pseudoloma neurophilia in laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio) when using mass spawning chambers and recommendations for chamber disinfection. Zebrafish. 15(1):63-72. Vidal, L.P., Iannocone, J., Whipps, C.M., Luque, J.L. 2017. Synopsis of the Species of Myxozoa Grassé, 1970 (Cnidaria: Myxosporea) in the Americas. Neotropical Helminthology. 11(2): 405-543.

Helenbrook, W.D., Stehman, S.V., Shields, W.M., Whipps, C.M. 2017. Association of Anthropogenic Disturbances and Intestinal Parasitism in Ecuadorian Mantled Howler Monkeys, Alouatta palliata aequatorialis. Folia Primatologica (Basel). 88(3):307-322.

Chang, C.T., Doerr, K.M., Whipps, C.M. 2017. Antibiotic treatment of zebrafish mycobacteriosis: tolerance and efficacy of treatments with tigecycline and clarithromycin. Journal of Fish Diseases. 40(10):1473-1485.

Alger, K.E., Bunting, E., Schuler, K., Whipps, C.M. 2017. Risk factors and spatial distribution of Lymphoproliferative Disease Virus (LPDV) in wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in New York State. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 53(3): 499-508.

Science Citation Indices

Scholarly Metrics (provided by Casey J. Koons, Visiting Assistant Librarian, Moon Library, and liaison to the department; explanatory text from Jessica Clemons, former Senior Assistant Librarian and Interim Director, Moon Library)

The impact of a publication record can be assessed by a variety of citation indices. The tools used for this analysis include Web of Science and Google Scholar, a freely available database. Citation analysis is a tool by which faculty can gauge the impact and visibility of their work on the scholarly community, and the relative influence of their research. Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database containing peer-reviewed research and other scholarly sources, but it is no longer available at ESF. Google Scholar aims to index all of the peer-reviewed research and scholarly literature available on the web from any time period.

The databases referenced above do not correct errors in citing papers: one paper may be cited several different ways and appear as separate entries. These tools concatenate citation when possible but there are inevitable errors. Also, author and institutional naming inconsistencies complicate these analyses. Comparisons between these tools should be avoided. They should be seen as complementary. The databases use different sources to generate data and some are more comprehensive than others.

The Hirsch index, or h-index, has become the standard accepted measurement of academic output and can be generated in both Scopus and Google Scholar. The h-index is defined as: A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at least h citations each and the other (Np − h) papers have no more than h citations each. However, the h-index has significant limitations in terms of what it measures: (1) it does not include citations to the same work that have small mistakes in their referencing (of which for some publications there are many); (2) it only includes citation to journal articles (not to books, book chapters, working papers, reports, etc.); and, (3) it only includes citations in journals that are listed in the database being searched, which is never comprehensive of academic journals in the field. Therefore, the h-index should be viewed as one metric among many in considering academic output and productivity. In addition to the h-index, faculty 1, 5, and 10 year citation numbers are included to provide a more meaningful understanding of their work. The total number of documents in the databases is included which may offer more context of faculty work.

Web of Science

Number of Citations Name 2016 2012-2016 2007-2016 h-index Number of cited documents Castello 27 172 354 13 53 Cohen 36 131 189 9 34 Diemont 18 82 98 6 16 Dovciak 25 104 106 8 21 Farrell, J. 61 256 346 11 39 Farrell, S. 32 147 166 8 17 Fernando, 19 95 175 11 24 Fierke 25 89 102 7 18 Folta 3 10 10 2 2 Frair 116 521 624 8 18 Gibbs 147 537 628 29 95 Green 52 130 130 6 10 Horton 136 501 619 11 27 Kimmerer 22 93 181 8 12 Leopold 69 312 572 16 61 Leydet 6 23 23 4 3 Limburg 213 946 1271 17 64 Lomolino 94 377 647 12 20 McGee 21 96 228 8 13 Newman 64 136 136 7 10 Parry 21 89 136 7 15 Powell 51 263 443 14 37

Ringler 31 111 200 12 28 Rundell 38 203 282 7 19 Schulz 88 472 759 13 24 Stewart 94 445 798 18 44 Teale 58 189 308 14 38 Turner 25 74 109 7 23 Weir 14 62 93 7 86 Whipps 233 813 1298 24 73

Rundell 44 238 357 8 15 Schulz 103 456 815 13 22 Stewart 106 543 965 21 47 Teale 78 234 343 13 45 Turner 36 125 226 14 34 Weir 132 696 1190 10 30 Whipps 248 900 1388 24 76

Google Scholar Number of Citations h-index Number of documents in Google Scholar Profile Castello No Profile found Cohen 482 13 29 Diemont 578 12 32 Dovciak No Profile found Farrell, J. No Profile found Farrell, S. 318 10 20 Fernando No Profile found Fierke 468 14 45 Folta No Profile found Frair 2380 17 33 Gibbs 9606 50 239 Green 228 7 13 Horton 4689 26 72 Kimmerer No Profile found Leopold 2346 28 113 Leydet 100 4 7 Limburg 24968 33 178

Lomolino 10473 44 110 McGee No Profile found Newman 3549 27 111 Parry 740 14 48 Powell 1901 22 80 Ringler No Profile found Rundell No Profile found Schulz 1916 15 52 Stewart No Profile found Teale No Profile found Turner No Profile found Weir No Profile found Whipps 2084 29 95

Most Cited Publication of Each EFB Faculty Member (# in parentheses before each citation is number of times that paper has been cited as of August 2017)

(157) Castello, J., Leopold, D., & Smallidge, P. 1995. Pathogens, patterns, and processes in forest ecosystems. BioScience 45:16-24. doi:110.2307/1312531 (34) Cohen, J.B., Houghton, L.M., & Fraser, J.D. 2009. Nesting density and reproductive success of piping plovers in response to storm- and human-created habitat changes doi:10.2193/2007-553 (90) Martin, J. F., Diemont, S.A.W., Powell, E., Stanton, M., & Levy-Tacher, S. 2006. Emergy evaluation of the performance and sustainability of three agricultural systems with different scales and management. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 115:128–140. doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2005.12.016 (64) Dovčiak, M., Frelich, L.E., & Reich, P.B. 2001. Discordance in spatial patterns of white pine (Pinus strobus) size-classes in a patchy near-boreal forest. Journal of Ecology 89:280– 291. doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2001.00545.x (54) Murry, B.A., Farrell, J.M., Teece, M.A., & Smyntek, P.M. 2006. Effect of lipid extraction on the interpretation of fish community trophic relationships determined by stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:2167–2172. https://doi.org/10.1139/F06-116 (43) Campomizzi, A.J., Butcher, J.A., Farrell, S.L., Snelgrove, A.G., et al. 2008. Conspecific attraction is a missing component in wildlife habitat modeling. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:331-336. doi:10.2193/2007-204 (42) Fernando, D.D. 2005. Characterization of pollen tube development in Pinus strobus (eastern white pine) through proteomic analysis of differentially expressed proteins. Proteomics 5:4917-4926. doi:10.1002/pmic.200500009 (41) Fierke, M.K., Kinney, D.L., Salisbury, V.B., Crook, D.J., & Stephen, F.M. 2005. Development and comparison of intensive and extensive sampling methods and preliminary within-tree population estimates of red oak borer (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Environmental Entomology 34:184-192.

(14) Cheng, M.-T., Annetta, L., Folta, E., & Holmes, S.Y. 2011. Drugs and the brain: Learning the impact of methamphetamine abuse on the brain through a virtual brain exhibit in the museum. International Journal of Science Education 33:299–319. doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2010.482571 (274) Morales, J.M., Haydon, D.T., Frair, J., Holsinger, K.E., & Fryxell, J.M. 2004. Extracting more out of relocation data: Building movement models as mixtures of random walks. Ecology 85: 2436–2445. (264) Gibbs, J.P. 2000. Wetland loss and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 14:314–317. doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98608.x (48) Green, H.C., Shanks, O.C., Sivaganesan, M., Haugland, R.A., & Field, K.G. 2011. Differential decay of human faecal Bacteroides in marine and freshwater. Environmental Microbiology 13: 3235–3249. doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02549.x (336) Lilleskov, E.A., Fahey, T.J., Horton, T.R., & Lovett, G.M. 2002. Belowground ectomycorrhizal fungal community change over a nitrogen deposition gradient in Alaska. Ecology 83:104–115. (62) Kimmerer, R.W. 1991. Reproductive ecology of Tetraphis pellucida. II. Differential success of sexual and asexual propagules. Bryologist 94: 284–288. (157) Castello, J.D., Leopold, D.J., & Smallidge, P.J. 1995. Pathogens, patterns, and processes in forest ecosystems. BioScience 45:16–24. (36) Clark, K.L., Leydet, B., & Hartman, S. 2013. Lyme borreliosis in human patients in Florida and Georgia, USA. International Journal of Medical Sciences 10:915–931. doi.org/10.7150/ijms.6273 (7265) Costanza, R., D’Arge, R., De, G., Farber, S., Grasso, M., Hannon, B., .., Limburg, K., Van, D.B. 1997. The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387:253–260. doi.org/10.1038/387253a0 (510) Lomolino, M.V. 2001. Elevation gradients of species-density: Historical and prospective views. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10:3–13. doi.org/10.1046/j.1466- 822x.2001.00229.x (130) McGee, G.G., Leopold, D J., & Nyland, R.D. 1999. Structural characteristics of old- growth, maturing, and partially cut northern hardwood forests. Ecological Applications 9:1316–1329. (236) Newman, L.A., Strand, S.E., Choe, N., Duffy, J., Ekuan, G., Ruszaj, M., … Gordon, M.P. 1997. Uptake and biotransformation of trichloroethylene by hybrid poplars. Environmental Science and Technology 31:1062–1067. doi.org/10.1021/es960564w (96) Kosola, K.R., Dickmann, D.I., Paul, E.A., & Parry, D. 2001. Repeated insect defoliation effects on growth, nitrogen acquisition, carbohydrates, and root demography of poplars. Oecologia 129: 65-74. (149) Barakat, A., Diloreto, D.S., Zhang, Y., Smith, C., Baier, K., Powell, W.A., …, Sederoff, R. 2009. Comparison of the transcriptomes of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) in response to the chestnut blight infection. BMC Plant Biology 9. doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-9-51 (48) Bannon, E., & Ringler, N.H. 1986. Optimal prey size for stream resident brown trout (Salmo trutta): tests of predictive models. Canadian Journal of Zoology 64:704–713. (202) Rundell, R.J., & Price, T.D. 2009. Adaptive radiation, nonadaptive radiation, ecological speciation and nonecological speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:394–399. doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.02.007------

(687) Elser, J.J., Fagan, W.F., Denno, R.F., Dobberfuhl, D.R., Folarin, A., Huberty, A., … Schulz, K., Sterner, R.W. 2000. Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs. Nature 408(6812), 578–580. doi.org/10.1038/35046058 (234) Stewart, D.J., Weininger, D.W., Rottiers, D.V., & Edsall, T.A. 1983. An energetics model for lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush: application to the Lake Michigan population (alewife Alosa pseudoharengus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 40:681–698. (62) Seybold, S.J., Teale, S.A., Wood, D.L., Zhang, A., Webster, F X., Lindahl, J., & Kubo, I. 1992. The role of lanierone in the chemical ecology of Ips pini (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in California. Journal of Chemical Ecology 18:2305–2329. doi.org/10.1007/BF00984952 (52) Tazawa, H., Wakayama, H., Turner, J.S., & Paganelli, C.V. 1988. Metabolic compensation for gradual cooling in developing chick embryos. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -- Part A: Physiology 89:125–129. doi.org/10.1016/0300-9629(88)91068-7 (1037) Hibbett, D.S., Binder, M., Bischoff, J.F., Blackwell, M., Cannon, P.F., Eriksson, O.E., …, Weir, A., Zhang, N. 2007. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycological Research 111:509–547. doi.org/10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004 (112) Whipps, C M., Adlard, R.D., Bryant, M.S., Lester, R.J.G., Findlay, V., & Kent, M.L. 2003. First report of three Kudoa species from eastern Australia: Kudoa thyrsites from mahi mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Kudoa amamiensis and Kudoa minithyrsites n. sp. from sweeper (Pempheris ypsilychnus). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 50:215–219. doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00120.x

a. Scientific Presentations

Jonathan Cohen

Bleau A*, Cohen J, Schummer M. Habitat Use and Behavior of Mallards ad American Black Ducks Wintering in the Finger Lakes Region. 74th Annual Conference of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Burlington, VT. April 2018.

Droke J*, Cohen J, Schummer M. Comparison of Spring Migration Ecology of American Black Ducks and Mallards in the Montezuma Wetlands Complex. 74th Annual North East Fish and Wildlife Conference. Burlington, Vermont. April 2018.

Kocek AR*, Cohen JB. A Novel Means to Passively Identify Individuals Attending Nests. 74th Annual Conference of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Burlington, VT. April 2018.

Mello SL*, Cohen JB, Whipps CM. April 16, 2018. A Survey of the Parasites of Native and Introduced Cottontails and Their Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley. 74th Annual meeting of the Northeast Association of Fish & Wildlife, Burlington, VT. April 2018.

Stantial ML*, Cohen JB. Use of miniaturized GPS tags to study breeding season habitat use and migration in threatened piping plovers. 74th Annual Conference of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Burlington, VT. April 2018.

Cheeseman AE*, Cohen JB, Ryan SJ, Whipps CM. Competition alters seasonal resource selection and promotes use of invasive shrubs by an imperiled native cottontail. 74th Annual Conference of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Burlington, VT. April 2018.

Bleau A*, Cohen J, Schummer M. Habitat Use and Behavior of Mallards ad American Black Ducks Wintering in the Finger Lakes Region. Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Kingston, NY. March 2018.

Kocek AR*, Cohen JB, Benvenuti B, Borowsk A, Elphick CS, Field CR, Garey L, Hodgman TP, Kovach AI, Kern RA, Olsen BJ, Roberts SG, Ruskin KJ, Shriver WG, Wash J. Adaptations of Tidal Marsh Sparrows to a Changing Environment. Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Kingston, NY. March 2018.

Cheeseman AE*, Mello SL*, Cohen JB. Dispersal and population structure of New England cottontails in New York. Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Kingston, NY. March 2018.

Mello SL*, Cohen JB, Whipps CM. A Survey of the Parasites of Native New England and Introduced Cottontails and their Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley. Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Kingston, NY. March 2018.

Mello SL*, Cohen JB, Whipps CM. The Parasite Diversity of New England Cottontails and their Habitat when Non-native Species are Present. The NEC Technical Committee Annual Meeting, Dover, NH. January 2018.

Stantial ML*, Cohen JB. Nest Initiation Dates, Daily Survival Rates and Preliminary Results of GPS Tags for Banded Piping Plovers In NJ. NJ State Cooperator’s Meeting. Cape May, NJ. December 2017.

Bleau A*, Cohen J, Schummer M. Habitat Use and Behavior of Mallards ad American Black Ducks Wintering in the Finger Lakes Region. Poster. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017. Second Place, Best Student Poster.

Darrah A, Cohen J, Castelli P. To Exclose Or Not? A Decision Support Tool for Piping Plover Management. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017.

Droke J, Cohen J, Schummer M. Comparison of Spring Migration Ecology of American Black Ducks and Mallards in the Montezuma Wetlands Complex .The Wildlife Society’ 24th Annual Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. September 2017.

Durkin M*, Cohen J. Demographic consequences of road mortality to Snowy Plovers in Northwest Florida. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017.

Kocek AR*, Cohen JB, Benvenuti B, Borowske A, Elphick CS, Field CR, Garey L, Hodgman TP, Kovach AI, Kern RA, Olsen BJ, Roberts SG, Ruskin KJ, Shriver WG, Wash J. Adaptations of Tidal Marsh Sparrows to a Changing Environment. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017.

Mello SL*, Cohen JB, Whipps CM. A Survey of the Parasites of the Native New England Cottontail, the Introduced Eastern Cottontail and Cottontail Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017. Peach M*, Cohen J, Frair J. Protected Areas Facilitate Species Persistence by Reducing Extinction and Improving Colonization. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017.

Stantial ML*, Cohen JB. 2017. Understanding Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Piping Plover Nesting Habitat in Southern New Jersey. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017.

Cheeseman AE*, Cohen JB, Ryan SJ, Whipps CM. Movement and dispersal in a rare native lagomorph and a common invasive competitor; implications for metapopulation management. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. September 2017.

Althouse MA*, Cohen JB, Karpanty SM, Spendelow JA, Davis KL, Parsons KC, Luttazi, CF. How does recreational disturbance affect activity budgets of staging terns in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. American Ornithology Meeting. East Lansing, MI. July 2017.

Davis KL, Karpanty SM, Spendelow JA, Cohen JB, Althouse MA*, Parsons KC, Luttazi CF. Behavior and demography of HY Roseate Terns at a major tourist destination during the pre-migratory staging period. American Ornithology Meeting. East Lansing, MI. July 2017.

Cheeseman AE*, Cohen JB, Ryan SJ, Whipps CM. Spatiotemporal determinants of home range size of imperiled New England and invasive eastern cottontails. 97th Annual Meeting of American Society of Mammalogists, Moscow, ID. June 2017.

Mello SL*, Cohen JB, Whipps CM. The ectoparasite diversity of New England cottontails (Sylvilagus transitionalis) and habitat when non-native species are present. 97th Annual Meeting of American Society of Mammalogists, Moscow, ID. June 2017.

Martin Dovciak

Zarfos MR‡*, Dovciak M, Lawrence GB, McDonnell TC, Sullivan TJ. 2017. Effects of acidic deposition and a soil acidification gradient on forest understory plant richness and composition in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, August 6-11.

Kramer D ‡, Lesser M, Wheat R, Dovciak M, Hurst J, Frair J. 2017. Evaluating the influence of white-tailed deer on forest regeneration at landscape scales in New York. The Wildlife Society 24th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 23-27.

John Farrell

Abbott, K. M., C. M. Whipps, R. G. Getchell, and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Restoration of native Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) in the upper St. Lawrence River in the face of VHSV and Round Goby invasions. Poster presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Cooperstown, NY, February 7-9, 2018. *Klumb- Spindler Travel Award Recipient.

Gallo, B.G., Farrell, J, F., and B. F. Leydet. 2018. A Novel Approach to Compare Gut Microbiota between Fish Species in the Upper St. Lawrence River using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies. Poster Presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Cooperstown, NY, February 7-9, 2018.

Getchell, R.G., Erika First, A. Schulman, J. Kramer, S.M. Bogdanowicz, J.Andrés, A.D. Noyes, G.E. Eckerlin, J.M. Farrell, and Hélène Marquis. 2018. Initial Phylogenetics of 2017 Cayuga Lake VHSV Outbreak. Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter, American Fisheries Society, Cooperstown, NY, 7-9 February 2018.

Getchell, R.G., K. Sams, A.D. Noyes, G.E. Eckerlin, J.M. Farrell, and Hélène Marquis. 2018. St. Lawrence Muskellunge Rearing And Diagnostic Testing: “Stumped Or An Interesting Puzzle To Figure Out?” 43rd Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Chattanooga, TN., 9 April 2018.

Getchell, R.G., Erika First, A. Schulman, J. Kramer, S.M. Bogdanowicz, J.Andrés, A.D. Noyes, G.E. Eckerlin, J.M. Farrell, and Hélène Marquis. 2018. Initial Phylogenetics of 2017 Cayuga Lake VHSV Outbreak. 43rd Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Chattanooga, TN., 12 April 2018.

Goretzke, J.A. and J. M. Farrell. 2018. Aquatic plant community response to restoration of Muskellunge nursery habitat in the Upper St. Lawrence River. Presented at New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Cooperstown, NY, February 9, 2018.

Goretzke, J.A. and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Aquatic plant community response to restoration of Muskellunge nursery habitat in the St. Lawrence River. Presented at New York Waterfowl and Wetlands Network - Student Symposium. Savannah, NY, September 8, 2017.

K. L. Kapuscinski, T. D. Simonson, D. P. Crane, S. J. Kerr, J.S. Diana, and John M. Farrell. Editors. 2017. Muskellunge Management: Fifty Years of Cooperation Among Anglers, Scientists, and Fisheries Biologists. American Fisheries Society Symposium, Bethesda, MD, 671 pages. ISBN: 978-1-934874-46-2. https://fisheries.org/bookstore/all-titles/afs- symposia/54085c/

Kua, Z.X., Stella, J. C., & J. M. Farrell. 2018. Water regulation effects on aquatic community associations in the St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Cooperstown, NY, February 7-9, 2018. *Best Student Poster Award Recipient & *Klumb-Spindler Travel Award Recipient.

Kua, Z.X., Stella, J. C., & J. M. Farrell. 2018. Water regulation effects on aquatic community associations in the St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation at: SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research, Syracuse, NY, April 24, 2018.

Leblanc, J.P., Brown, B.L., and J. M. Farrell. 2018. Walleye early-life as an important component of management: habitat restoration, protection, and evaluation in eastern Lake Ontario. Oral Presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Cooperstown, New York, February 7-9, 2018

Walton-Rabideau, S.E, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2017. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in a large fluvial system. Oral presentation at: SMARTER (Stream Monitoring and Research Team - Eastern Region) Meeting. Ottawa, ON, October 26, 2017.

Walton-Rabideau, S.E, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2018. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in a large fluvial system. Oral presentation at: AFS-OC (American Fisheries Society-Ontario Chapter) Annual General Meeting. Orillia, ON, February 23, 2018. *Best Student Paper Award Recipient.

Walton-Rabideau, S, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2018. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in a large fluvial system. Oral presentation at: GLATOS (Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System) Conference. Ann Arbor, MI. February 28, 2018.

Walton-Rabideau, S.E, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2018. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in St. Lawrence River nursery bays. Oral presentation at: MCI (Muskies Canada Inc.) Gananoque March Meeting. Gananoque, ON. March 6, 2018.

Farrell, J. M. 2018. Trends in St. Lawrence River Fisheries Long-Term Research in a Changing Environment. Save The River Winter Environmental Weekend Lecture. Clayton NY. (150 attendees)

Farrell, J.M. 2018. Big Fish in the Balance: How Long-term Research Informs Aquatic Resource Conservation in a Changing Environment. The Intriguing Story of the Creation of a Biological Field Station to Meet the Complex Challenges of Environmental Change and Resource Management. Dave L. Travis Lecture Series, SUNY ESF. (250 attendees)

Thousand Islands Land Trust, “Ichthyologist for a Day” – Led a group of adults through a series of modules on fish and river ecology (25 participants) http://www.tilandtrust.org/Treks- Events/FullCalendarofTreksEvents.aspx

Thousand Islands Park Landmark Society, Presentation on TIBS research program and tour of facilities. (30 participants)

Stewart Diemont

*Falkowski, T.B., J.L. Rangel, J.R. Vazquez Perez, A. Campos, S.A.W. Diemont, A. Chankin, *R. Pedian, 2017. Ecological engineering for the birds: Quantifying avian diversity in Hach Winik Maya agroforests. July 11, 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Merida, Mexico.

*Falkowski, T.B., S.A.W. Diemont, A. Chankin1, *R. Pedian, 2017. A comprehensive assessment of Hach Winik Maya milpa provisioning ecosystem services, July 12, 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Merida, Merida, Mexico.

Diemont, S.A.W., 2017. Bridging agricultural and restoration systems. October 26, Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Verde 1st International Workshop, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Melissa Fierke

. M.I. Jones, J.R. Gould, M.K. Fierke. Synchrony and phenology of emerald ash borer and its introduced larval parasitoids in the northeast. Poster Presentation. Western Forest Insect Work Conference, Denver, CO, March 2018

J.R. Gould, M.K. Fierke, M.I. Jones, J. Kaltenbach, F. Miller. Compatibility of Insecticides and Biocontrol for Managing EAB in Urban Environments. Oral Presentation. Eastern Branch, Entomological Society of America, Annapolis, MD, March 2018.

M.I. Jones, J.R. Gould, M.K. Fierke. “Synchrony and phenology and emerald ash borer and its introduced larval parasitoids in the Northeast.” Poster Presentation. Northeast Forest Pest Council Meeting, Burlington, VT, March 2018.

M.I. Jones, J.R. Gould, M.L. Warden, M.K. Fierke. Dispersal of the emerald ash borer parasitoid, Tetrastichus planipennisi (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), along a linear ash corridor in western New York.

Oral Presentation. Northeast Forest Pest Council Meeting, Burlington, VT, March 2018.

M.I. Jones, J.R. Gould, M.L. Warden, M.K. Fierke. Dispersal of the emerald ash borer parasitoid, Tetrastichus planipennisi (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), along a linear ash corridor in western New York. Poster Presentation at multiple venues:

New York Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting, Syracuse, NY, January 2018.

29th USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species, Annapolis, MD, January 2018.

M.I. Jones, J.R. Gould, M.K. Fierke. Integrated pest management of emerald ash borer in an urban forest. Oral Presentation. New York Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting, Syracuse, NY, January 2018.

E. S. McPhail, C. Nowak, M.K. Fierke. Influences of Invasive Plant Management on Pollinator Assemblages on Powerline Rights-of-Way in Ohio New York State Association of Foresters Conference, Syracuse, New York, January 2018.

E. S. McPhail, C. Nowak, M.K. Fierke. Invasive Exotic Plant Management and Pollinator Assemblages on Powerline Rights-of-Way in Northeastern Ohio. Poster presentation.

New York State Association of Foresters Conference, Syracuse, New York, January 2018.

Jones, M.I., J.R. Gould, M.K. Fierke. Mortality of overwintering emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) associated with an extreme cold event in New York state. Poster Presentation. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2017.

M.I. Jones, J.R. Gould, M.K. Fierke. Phenology and overwintering survival of the introduced larval parasitoids of emerald ash borer in the northeast. Oral Presentation. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2017.

E. S. McPhail, C. Nowak, M.K. Fierke. Influences of chemical and mechanical vegetation management on pollinator assemblages on powerline rights-of-way in New York. Oral Presentation. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2017.

H. Mahon, D. Crook, M.I. Jones, M.K. Fierke. Evaluation of Trap Color for Recovery of Emerald Ash Borer Parasitoids. SUNY ESF Spotlight on Research, April 2018.

M.I. Jones, M.K. Fierke. A compilation of studies on emerald ash borer biological control. Oral Presentation. Western Forest Insect Work Conference, Denver, CO, March 2018. (Invited)

M.I. Jones, M.K. Fierke. Emerald ash borer biological control in New York. Oral Presentation. Invasive Species Awareness Week – SLELO-PRISM and CCE of St. Lawrence Co., Massena, NY, July 2017. (Invited)

M.K. Fierke. Invasive Species in the Northeastern United States. Oral Presentation. Eastern Lake Ontario Invasive Species Symposium – SLELO PRISM and The Nature Conservancy, Pulaski, NY, June 2017. (Invited)

M.I. Jones, M.K. Fierke. Emerald ash borer in New York. Oral Presentation. New England Kiln Drying Association, Johnstown, NY, May 2017. (Invited)

Jaqueline Frair

Co-author on research presentations by graduate students at the Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference (Burlington, VT, April 2018) and North American Moose Conference (Spokane, WA, May 2018).

“Top Dog: The ecological role of the coyote in northeastern forests”, Public Seminar Series, Adirondack Visitors Center, Newcomb, NY (Aug 2017, ~30 people).

“Top Dog: The ecological role of the coyote in New York”, Keynote Speaker, Great Swamp Conservancy 20th Anniversary Celebration, Canastota, NY (Nov 2017, ~70 people).

“Status of River Otter Populations in the New York Recovery Zone”, NY State Fish and Wildlife Management Advisory Board meeting, Hamilton, NY (Mar 2018, ~17 people).

James Gibbs

“Galapagos giant tortoises as ecosystem engineers”, XI Latin American Congress of Herpetology July 24-28, 2017. Quito – Ecuador.

“The Anthropocene,” as component of the "Six Extinctions", a Science Teachers of New York State and New York State Master Teacher workshop, February 10, 2018, Cortland, New York. Galapagos giant tortoises as ecosystem engineers, XI Latin American Congress of Herpetology July 24-28, 2017. Quito – Ecuador.

The Anthropocene, as component of the "Six Extinctions", a Science Teachers of New York State and New York State Master Teacher workshop, February 10, 2018, Cortland, New York.

Hyatt Green

Kirtane, Anish and Hyatt C Green (2017). Development and Validation of qPCR Assays for The Detection of Bog Turtle eDNA. Ecological Society of America. Portland, OR.

Kirtane, Anish and Hyatt C Green (2017). Microbial Mercury Methylation in Fayetteville Green Lake, NY. SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference. Fredonia, NY.

Todorova, Svetoslava, Daniel Gregoire, Alexandre Poulain, and Hyatt C Green (2017). Biological and Geochemical Controls of Mercury Methylation in Meromictic Lakes. 13th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant. Providence, RI.

Robin Kimmerer

June 7 2017 Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Workshop, Middlebury College,Ripton VT. “Skywoman Falling” public talk, Audience=80

June 8 2017 Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Workshop, Middlebury College,Ripton VT.

Craft Talk “The Grammar of Animacy”, Audience=30

June 11,2018 The International Herb Symposium. Keynote Address. Wheaton, MA. Audience=300

June 25, 2017 The Botanical Society of America. Plenary Address “ Integrating Traditional and Scientific Knowledge in Botanical Research” Fort Worth Texas. Audience =300

June 27 2017 Philips Exeter Academy. Public Lecture “The Fortress, the River and the Garden” Exeter NH. Audience=75

August 7 2017 Garden Writers of America Annual Conference, Keynote Address. Buffalo, NY Audience=300

Donald Leopold

Weber, J., D.J. Leopold, and J.J. Wiley, Jr., Greenhouse germination trials with federally-listed Houghton’s goldenrod: Evaluating factors associated with population persistence, BOTANY 2017, Fort Worth, TX, June 2017 (poster presentation).

Brian Leydet

Farovitch, L., Leydet, B., Miller, B., Dye, T. Using a Medical Ecological Approach to Assess Tick-Borne Disease (TBD) in Tropical and Non-Tropical Environments. Rochester Summer Research Training Institute, June 2017, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Farovitch, L., Leydet, B., Miller, B., Dye, T. Using a Medical Ecological Approach to Assess Tick-Borne Disease (TBD) in Tropical and Non-Tropical Environments. Translational Biomedical Science Retreat, September 2018, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Gallo B, Farrell J, Leydet B. A Novel Approach to Compare Gut Microbiota Between Fish Species in the Upper St. Lawrence River using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies. 52nd Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter of American Fisheries Society, February 7th-9th 2018, Cooperstown NY

Farovitch, L., Leydet, B., Miller, B., Dye, T. Surveillance of Global Tick-borne Diseases (TBD) in Ecological Context: Geographic Distribution, Novel Biodiagnostic Testing, and Preventive Strategies for the Deaf Population. Association for Clinical And Translational Science Annual Meeting, April 19-21 2018, Washington DC.

Invited talk about ticks and Lyme disease at Marcellus Free Library, June 6th 2017 (40 attendees)

Interviewed by Syracuse.com “Ticks likely to flourish this summer in Upstate NY - and that's bad for humans”. June 29th 2017

Interviewed by WRVO (NPR) “Why Lyme disease is so prevalent in central New York”. July 29, 2017

Interviewed by The Daily Orange for article “Experts say mice are primary cause of Lyme disease, not deer”. October 31st 2017

Interviewed by LocalSYR “Is deer culling the best way to get rid of ticks and Lyme disease?”. November 1, 2017

Invited speaker for the Kettle Lake Speakers Series “Lyme and other Tick-borne diseases” April 9th 2018 (40 attendees)

Interviewed by LocalSYR “Ticks looking for a warm-up too”. April 11, 2018

Interviewed by LocalSYR “Research: Tick tubes not necessarily effective at reducing ticks and preventing Lyme Disease”. May 9, 2018

Interviewed for WCNY (PBS) Cycle of Health on Lyme disease Ecology May 14th 2018

Interviewed by CNYCentral.com for article “SUNY ESF expert gives tips as tick season begins”. May 21st 2018

Karin Limberg

Ewell Hodkin, C. and K.E. Limburg. Determining the Provenance and Life Histories of Blueback Herring in the Mohawk River. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, Biennial Meeting, Providence, RI, Nov. 2017, and 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Feyrer, F., R. Johnson, A.R. Stewart, K. Limburg. Otolith tools in the ecotoxicology toolbox: Unraveling sources and pathways of Se exposure in wild Sacramento splittail with spinal deformities. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Hauser, M., T.W. Hermann, K. E. Limburg, C.R.C. Doria, M. Pouilly, C. Pecheyran, E. Ponzevera, Á. García Vásquez, D. J. Stewart, J.-F. Renno, G. Torrente-Vilara, L. Castello, and F. Duponchelle. What can otolith 87Sr/86Sr transects and Se/Ca, Sr/Ca mappings tell us about the migratory patterns of goliath catfish in the Amazon basin? CHESS Annual Users' Meeting, June 6, 2017, Ithaca, NY.

Hauser, M., T. Hermann, K. Limburg, C. Doria, M. Pouilly, C. Pecheyran, D. Stewart, G. Torrente-Vilara, L. Castello, F. Duponchelle. Homing natal and resident behavior in a giant Amazonian catfish. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Heimbrand, Y., K.E. Limburg, R. Huang, and T. Naeraa. Losing track of time: Use of otolith chemistry to solve the problem of age determination in Baltic Sea cod. CHESS Annual Users' Meeting, June 6, 2017, Ithaca, NY.

Heimbrand, Y., and K. Limburg. Losing track of time: dubious age determination of Baltic cod, probable causes and promising solution. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Hermann, T., K.E. Limburg, and D.J. Stewart. Elucidating life history variability in Amazonian goliath catfishes using otolith microchemistry. CHESS Annual Users' Meeting, June 6, 2017, Ithaca, NY.

Hermann, T., D.J. Stewart, and K.E. Limburg. Migration of giant catfish from the Orinoco River basin revealed by otolith microchemistry. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Johnson, R.C., K.E. Limburg, R. Huang, A. R. Stewart, and F. Feyrer. Unraveling sources and pathways of Se exposure and toxicity in an imperiled fish. CHESS Annual Users' Meeting, June 6, 2017, Ithaca, NY.

Limburg, Karin E. Impacts of Hypoxia in Warming Waters: Otoliths as Recorders of Environmental Stress and Physiological Effects. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, August 2017, and Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, Biennial Meeting, Providence, RI, Nov. 2017.

Limburg, K. Habitat from the Inside Out: How Otoliths Can Help Us Interpret Lifetime Habitat Use by Fishes. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, August 2017.

Limburg, K.E. The effect of laser spot size on data averaging and accuracy while using LA- ICPMS. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Limburg, K.E. 29 years on, your PhD otoliths may still surprise you. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Limburg, K.E., M. Casini, K. Hüssy, B. D. Walther, M. Wuenschel, Y. Heimbrand, M. A. Samson. Is otolith Mg adding nuance to the hypoxia story? 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Limburg, K.E., M.J. Wuenschel, K. Hüssy, Y. Heimbrand, M.A. Samson. What makes the otolith magnesium chemical calendar-clock tick? Plausible mechanism and empirical evidence. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Miraly, H., K.E. Limburg, R. Razavi. Fish Eyes, Fish Ears: Revealing the Secret Lives of Fishes with Eye Lens and Otolith Chemistry. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Nack, C.C., K.E. Limburg, and D.P. Swaney. Temporal Changes in Spawning of American Shad and Striped Bass in the Hudson River Estuary. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, August 2017 . K.M. Smith, A.M. Feldpausch-Parker, and K.E. Limburg. "Un-dammit": Assessing public receptivity to dam removal in the Hudson River estuary. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, Biennial Meeting, Providence, RI, Nov. 2017.

Samson, M.A., K.E. Limburg. Tracking hypoxia in Baltic flounder: do spawning ecotypes differ in hypoxia exposure? 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Swaney, D.P., B. Maxwell, K. Limburg, Y. Heimbrand. Exploring 2-d otolith multi-element microchemistry maps with cluster analysis software. 6th International Otolith Symposium, Keelung, Taiwan, April 2018.

Convened session at CERF and ran a workshop at the 6th International Otolith Symposium

Greg McGee

Griffths, G., G.G. McGee and M.K. Fierke. Patterns of plant and insect diversity in forests across central New York. January 21, 2018. New York Chapter Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Syracuse, NY (oral presentation).

Griffiths, G., G.G. McGee and M. K. Fierke. Plant reproductive success in forest understory of Central New York. April 15, 2018, Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT (oral presentation).

Kiel, N., G. Griffiths and G.G. McGee. Does beetle diversity vary across land-use history and ecoregional gradients in central New York's forests? January 21, 2018, New York Chapter Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting, Syracuse, NY (poster presentation).

Kiel, N., G. Griffiths and G.G. McGee. Can disruption of an ant-plant mutualism explain lack of recovery of forest herbs in post-agricultural forests of New York? April 15, 2018, Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT (oral presentation).

Kiel, N., G. Griffiths and G.G. McGee. Can disruption of an ant-plant mutualism explain lack of recovery of forest herbs in post-agricultural forests of New York? April 20, 2018, SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Oneonta, NY (oral presentation).

Manna, D. and G.G. McGee Substrate type and canopy cover effects on tree regeneration in the Adirondacks. January 21, 2018. New York Chapter Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Syracuse, NY (poster presentation).

McLaughlin, K. G. Griffiths, and G.G. McGee. Order-level comparison of insect assemblages at canopy and understory levels in Acer saccharum and Prunus serotina. January 21, 2018. New York Chapter Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Syracuse, NY (poster presentation).

McLaughlin, K., G. Griffiths, and G.G.McGee. A comparison of insect assemblages at the ground and canopy of Acer saccharum and Prunus serotina in New York. April 15, 2018, Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT (poster presentation).

McLaughlin, K., G. Griffiths, and G.G. McGee. Insect assemblages at ground and canopy layers of Acer saccharum and Prunus serotina trees in Central New York Forests. April 21, 2018, SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Rochester, NY (oral presentation).

McGee, G.G. Late-successional forest structure and the maintenance of biodiversity in managed northern hardwoods. Silviculture 2017. June 14, 2017. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY (oral presentation).

Mettey, C., G.G. McGee, C. Nowak and R.D. Nyland. American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) response to mechanical understory removal. January 21, 2018, New York Chapter Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Syracuse, NY (oral presentation).

Neville, R., S. Farrell, R. Germain, G.G. McGee and S. McNulty. The Sky is Falling: Beech Bark Disease, Changes in Forest Structure, and Impacts on Biodiversity. April 15, 2018, Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT (poster presentation).

Stacy McNulty

The Sky is Falling: Beech Bark Disease, Changes in Forest Structure, and Impacts on Biodiversity. Neville, R. A., S. L. Farrell, G. G. McGee, R. H. Germain, and S. A. McNulty. Northeast Natural History Conference. Burlington, VT April 13-15, 2018.

Determining the importance of vernal pools across geophysical and urbanization gradients to inform regulation, conservation and management. Schlesinger, M. D., L. Shappell, E. L. White, J. D. Corser, E. Spencer, L. Nagel, S. McNulty and J. Gibbs. Northeast Natural History Conference. Burlington, VT April 13-15, 2018.

Gladiator Salamanders as Biological Indicators of Environmental Quality in Central Adirondack Forests. Lewis, J. D., D. H. Kiernan and S. A. McNulty. Northeast Natural History Conference. Burlington, VT April 13-15, 2018.

The NEPARC Vernal Pool Working Group: Small, Wet and Vital. Kolozsvary, M. B. and S. A. McNulty. Northeast Natural History Conference. Burlington, VT April 13-15, 2018.

Common Loon Vocalization Activity on Undeveloped Adirondack Lakes: Lake Size Matters. Deutschman-Ruiz, G. A. and S. A. McNulty. Northeast Natural History Conference. Burlington, VT April 13-15, 2018.

Lee Newman

The Gordon Award. 14th International Phytotechnology Conference, 25-29 Sept 2017. Montreal Canada.

EFFECT OF 1,8 NAPHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE ON NICKEL TOLERANCE IN CORN (ZEA MAYS) SEEDLINGS AND THE INDUCTION OF METAL TOLERANCE CELLULAR STRATEGIES 14th International Phytotechnology Conference, 25-29 Sept 2017. Montreal Canada.

PHYTOREMEDIATION AND URBAN GARDENING: THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. 14th International Phytotechnology Conference, 25-29 Sept 2017. Montreal Canada

HYPERSPECTRAL INVESTIGATION OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE IN GROUNDWATER. 14th International Phytotechnology Conference, 25-29 Sept 2017. Montreal Canada

Uptake of perfluorinated compounds by wetland plants. L.A. Newman and G. Fanfan. May 2018. 10th Annual New York State Biotechnology Symposium, Syracuse, NY.

Seminars by Lee Newman:

Phytoremediation Research and Impacts on Health. KIOM, Daejon, Korea, 3 July 2017

Research Collaboration Opportunities at SUNY. KUST, Daejon, Korea, 4 July 2017.

Research and Educational Opportunities at SUNY ESF. Tyumen State University, Russia 22 May 2017

Therapeutic Horticulture, Phytoremediation and Public Health. Tyumen State University, Russia 24 May 2017

Dylan Parry

Grayson, K.L., S. Agosta and D. Parry. ECA & RUI: Linking thermal tolerance to invasion dynamics: Climate and physiological capacity as regulators of geographical spread. National Science Foundation Annual Meeting. Macrosystems Biology PI’s. 1/8-1/10, 2018. Alexandria, VA

D. Parry C. Jahant-Miller, P.C. Tobin. Spatiotemporal variation in male wing length reflects underlying environmental and population attributes. Annual Gypsy Moth Review (Meeting of the National Gypsy Moth Management Board). Savannah, GA. Nov. 6-9, 2017.

D. Parry. Project ISE: The effects of recovery from ice Storm damage on caterpillar herbivory. Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study 54th Annual Cooperator’s Meeting. North Woodstock, NH. July 13-14, 2017.

William Powell

Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference. Invited Speaker. 6/8/17 – 6/10/18. American Chestnut Research and Restoration project. ~ 100 attending

PBS SciTech Now TV interview in New York City on the ESF American chestnut project. Broadcasted in many PBS stations. 8/7/18

The American Chestnut Foundation’s annual meeting and Board meeting, Portland, ME. 10/5/17 – 10/7/17. Update on chestnut project to the board and presenting Burnham Award to Dr. Charles Maynard at the general meeting. ~ 60 attending.

Native American leaders/ NY DEC meeting, Syracuse, NY. 10/19/17. ~ 25 attending.

TACFNY annual meeting, Syracuse, NY. 10/20/17-10/21/17. ~ 40 attending

Lafayette Road Experiment Station tours of chestnut plantings, Alumni Weekend. Syracuse, NY. 10/28/17, ~ 20 attending.

ESF & TACF NYC reception in New York City. 11/8/17. Presenting the American chestnut project. ~ 35 attending.

NY DEC Breakfast meeting. Invited speaker. Restoring the American chestnut. Syracuse, NY. 12/6/18. ~ 80 attending

Philadelphia Flower Show, Bartlett Day. Presented the ESF American chestnut Project. Philadelphia, PA. 3/7/18-3/9/18. ~ 250 attending.

TACF semi-annual board meeting. Updating on the regulatory progress with the chestnut project. Abington, VA. 3/21/18-3/23/18. ~ 25 attending.

HGCNY (chapter of Wild-ones) invited speaker. Liverpool library, NY. 3/25/18. ~ 35 attending.

Podcast interview WBUR – Boston’s NPR News Station. Syracuse, NY. 4/4/18. Radio broadcast and on web.

Invited speaker at Salisbury University. Salisbury, MD. 4/12/18. ~ 80 attending.

Hosting Revive and Restore meeting and giving talks and tours of labs and fields. Syracuse, NY. 5/8/18-5/9/18. ~ 20 attending.

WCNY PBS interview and filming. 5/11/18. Broadcasted on TV and web.

Roxanne Razavi

February 7- 9 2018, New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Cooperstown, New York “Effect of the Round Goby invasion on fish mercury bioaccumulation in the Oneida Lake food web” [poster]

Neil Ringler

Ringler, Neil H. 2017. Responses of Onondaga Lake biota to habitat restoration. World Canal Conference, Merriott Hotel, Syracuse, NY September 26, 2017.

Onondaga Lake Biota Presentations:

Onondaga Lake Conservation Corps @ Destiny, USA February 25,, 2018 Trout Unlimited Iroquois Chapter April 4, 2018 Onondaga Co. Legislative Breakfast April 7, 2018 ESF Alumni Association @ Altmar, NY April 12, 2018 Syracuse Rotary Club May 15, 2018

Student Presentations

Palmer, Carrick T. 2018. A comparative study of the benthic macroinvertebrae assemblage of two central Adirondack streams. Poster presented at the Annual Spotlight on Student Research, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY

Pershyn, C. E., Ringler N.H., & Murphy, M.H. (2017, April). Brook Trout Presence and Community Composition of the East Branch Ausable River. Poster presented at the Annual Spotlight on Student Research, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY.

Pershyn, C. E., Ringler N.H., & Murphy, M.H. (2017, March). Brook Trout Presence and Community Composition of the East Branch Ausable River. Poster presented at the Annual Adirondack Research Forum, sponsored by Cornell University at the Adirondack League Club, Old Forge, NY.

Pershyn, C. E., Ringler N.H., & Murphy, M.H. (2017, February). An assessment of Brook Trout presence and fish community composition in the headwaters and tributaries of the East Branch Ausable River, NY. Paper given (oral presentation) at the New York Chapter American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, Feb 2, 2017.

Rebecca Rundell

Czekanski-Moir, J.E.* and R.J. Rundell. 2017. Modeling community phylogenetic structure in adaptive and nonadaptive radiations. Evolution 2017: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. 23-27 June 2017. (Talk).

Gervascio, Tim**, J.E. Czekanski-Moir*, and R.J. Rundell. 2017. Dating the terrestrial invasion of the Cyclophoroidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) using the fossilized birth-death model. Evolution 2017: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American

Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. 23-27 June 2017. (Poster).

Lau, Alyssa**, J.E. Czekanski-Moir*, and R.J. Rundell. 2017. The synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution ratios (dN/dS) associated with habitat transitions in the Gastropoda. Evolution 2017: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. 23-27 June 2017. (Poster).

Osborne, T.R.*, D. Bullis*, J.E. Czekanski-Moir*, T. Gervascio**, A. Lau** and R.J. Rundell. 2017 Major habitat transitions within the Class Gastropoda. Evolution 2017: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. 23-27 June 2017. (Talk).

R.J. Rundell. 2017. Conservation and evolution of poorly known invertebrate animals. New York State Biotechnology Symposium. “Molecular Tools and Biodiversity.” SUNY-ESF. 19 May 2017. (Talk). Proposed and accepted.

Czekanski-Moir*, J.E., M. Barker, Z. Li*, R.J. Rundell, and C. Reardon*. 2017. Inferring ancient whole genome duplication events in the Mollusca. EvoDay: Phylogenomics. Cornell University. 11 May 2017. (Talk). Proposed and accepted.

Scott Turner

Homeostasis as an organizing principle of social cognition. Janelia Conference on Collective Computation in Biological and Artificial Systems. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 19 March 2018. (presentation link).

Alexander Weir

Kaishian, P., and Weir, A. (2017). New species of Prolixandromyces (Laboulbeniales) from South America. IX Congresso Latinamericano de Micologia/ IX Latin American Mycological Congress. This poster was one of eight chosen for “best poster” out of 200 submitted to this meeting.

Christopher Whipps

April 9-13, 2018. 43rd Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Chattanooga, TN. Zebrafish Diseases: Impacts On Research Endpoints And Possible Treatments.

June 26-27, 2017. Hands-On Workshop on Advancing Zebrafish Health Programs. Bacterial diseases of zebrafish. Lisbon, Portugal.

June 26-27, 2017. Hands-On Workshop on Advancing Zebrafish Health Programs. Environmental parameters and disease. Lisbon, Portugal.

September 11-12, 2017. Zebrafish and Other Fish Models: Description of Extrinsic Environmental Factors for Rigorous Experiments and Reproducible Results. Impacts of diseases: which pathogens should be reported? National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

April 16, 2018. 74th Annual meeting of the Northeast Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies, Burlington, VT. A Survey of the Parasites of Native and Introduced Cottontails and Their Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley. Mello, S.L, Cohen, J.B., Whipps C.M.

April 16, 2018. 74th Annual meeting of the Northeast Association Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Burlington, VT. Competition alters seasonal resource selection and promotes use of invasive shrubs by an imperiled native cottontail. Cheeseman, A.E., Cohen, J.B., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M.

March 22-23, 2018. Wildlife Society New York Chapter Annual Meeting, Kingston, NY. A Survey of Native New England and Introduced Cottontails and their Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley. Mello, S.L., Cohen, J.B., Whipps C.M.

January 15-17, 2018. The NEC Technical Committee Annual Meeting, Dover, NH. The Parasite Diversity of New England Cottontails and their Habitat when Non-native Species are Present. Mello, S.L., Cohen, J.B., Whipps, C.M.

September 23 – 27, 2017. 24th Annual meeting of the Wildlife Society. Albuquerque, NM. Movement and dispersal in a rare native lagomorph and a common invasive competitor; implications for metapopulation management. Cheeseman, A.E., Cohen, J.B., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M.

September 23 – 27, 2017. 24th Annual meeting of the Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM. A Survey of the Parasites of the Native New England Cottontail, the Introduced Eastern Cottontail and Cottontail Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley. Mello, S.L., Cohen, J.B., Whipps, C.M.

June 20 – 24, 2017. 97th American Society of Mammalogists. Moscow, ID. Spatiotemporal determinants of home range size of imperiled New England and invasive eastern cottontails. Cheeseman, A.E., Cohen, J.B., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M.

June 20 – 24, 2017. 97th Annual Meeting of American Society of Mammalogists, Moscow, ID. The ectoparasite diversity of New England cottontails (Sylvilagus transitionalis) and habitat when non-native species are present. Mello, S.L., Cohen, J.B., Whipps, C.M. b. Additional Faculty Presentations

Jonathan Cohen

Cohen JB, Durkin MM, Kocek AR, Liner J, Mazzocchi I. A Fragile Foothold: The Return of Piping Plovers to Lake Ontario. American Wildlife Conservation Foundation Seminar Series. Pulaski, NY. May 2018. 25 attendees. Stantial ML*. Piping Plovers of LBI: How Our Plovers Fit Into the Big Picture of Conservation. Science Saturdays Lecture Series, LBI Foundation. Loveladies, New Jersey. January 2017. 75 attendees. Cheeseman AE*, Stantial ML*, Cohen JB. Plovers and Rabbits: The Challenge of Recovering Early Successional Endangered Species. UConn Natural Resources Management and Engineering Seminar Series. Storrs, CT. October 2017. 30 Attendees.

Shannon Farrell

Going Green Spectrum CNY News segment on bats. Nov 2017 WSYR news segment on bird populations. Oct 2017 News segment for radio and CapeCod.com website, on bat research. Sept 2017

John Farrell

Farrell, J. M. 2018. Trends in St. Lawrence River Fisheries Long-Term Research in a Changing Environment. Save The River Winter Environmental Weekend Lecture. Clayton NY. (150 attendees) Farrell, J.M. 2018. Big Fish in the Balance: How Long-term Research Informs Aquatic Resource Conservation in a Changing Environment. The Intriguing Story of the Creation of a Biological Field Station to Meet the Complex Challenges of Environmental Change and Resource Management. Dave L. Travis Lecture Series, SUNY ESF. (250 attendees) Thousand Islands Land Trust, “Ichthyologist for a Day” – Led a group of adults through a series of modules on fish and river ecology (25 participants) http://www.tilandtrust.org/Treks- Events/FullCalendarofTreksEvents.aspx Thousand Islands Park Landmark Society, Presentation on TIBS research program and tour of facilities. (30 participants)

Melissa Fierke

M.K. Fierke. Blacklegged Ticks and Tick-borne Disease in Onondaga County, NY – Southeastern University Neighborhood Association annual meeting. March 2018. ~70 attendees (including Syracuse Mayor Walsh) http://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/esf-professor-explains-how-tick-tubes-help-protect- your-yard-from-lyme-disease/1160161283 http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/syracuses_east_side_neighbors_join_forces_t o_fight_ticks.html

James Gibbs

“The Anthropocene,” as component of the "Six Extinctions", a Science Teachers of New York State and New York State Master Teacher workshop, February 10, 2018, Cortland, New York.

Hyatt Green

Green, Hyatt C (2018). Using Microbial Dark Matter to Reduce Aquatic Contaminants of Central New York. Colgate University. Hamilton, NY.

Thomas Horton

Mycorrhizal fungi or pines – Which comes first? Oct 26, 2017, Invited talk, SUNY- Delphi

Robin Kimmerer

February 15, 2018 Rights of Nature, Middlebury VT.

Interviewed for 6 podcasts and 2 documentaries on traditional ecological knowledge August 19 2017 Landis Arboretum Lecture series. Esperance, NY. Public lecture. audience=40

September 22, 2017 South Dakota Book Festival Public Lectures ( 3) Audience=200

October 3 2017 Warner Distinguished Lecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Audience=300

October 6 2017 Keynote Headwaters Conference, Western Colorado University, Gunnison CO Audience=400

October 10, 2017 University of Wisconsin Platteville, Keynote Indigenous Peoples Day Audience=200

November 2,2017Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater MA. Public Lecture Audience=120

November 9, 2017 Kenyon College, Public lecture Audience=100

December 1, 2017 New York Botanical Garden, Public Lecture audience=250

January 31 2018 University of Victoria, Victoria BC. Public Lecture: Audience =400

February 9, 2018 Trent University, Indigenous Women’s Conference Audience=300

February 15, 2018 Middlebury College, Middlebury VT Public lecture Audience=150

March 2018, University of Oregon, Eugene OR Public lecture Audience =300

April 10 2018 The Blake School Philip Otis Environmental Author Lecture Audience=100

April 11 2018 Milkweed Editions, Author talk Minneapolis MN Audience=400

April 16, 2018 Indian State University Darwin Day Keynote Audience=150

April 28, 2018 The Universe in Verse. New York City Audience=500

May 3, 2018 Opening Keynote Peoples Permanent Forum on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change.

May 9, 2018 EPA Tribal Leaders Meeting, Ganondagan . “Center for Native Peoples and the Environment Audience=30

May 16, 2018 University of Wisconsin/Holy Wisdom Monastery Public Lecture. Audience=300

Donald Leopold

Father’s Day nature walk, Clark Reservation State Park, June 2017, about 40 people in attendance

Nature hike at Nelson Swamp, Cazenovia Preservation Foundation, June 2017, about 40 people in attendance Alvar of New York, Syracuse Men’s and Women’s Garden Club, November 2017, about 30 people in attendance Native Plants and natural communities for sustainable landscapes, The Chemung Valley Audubon Society, Elmira, NY, about 125 people in attendance Terrestrial Orchids of the Northeast, Connecticut Horticultural Society, West Hartford, CT, February 2018, about 150 people in attendance. Terrestrial Orchids of NYS, ESF Botany Club, Syracuse, NY, April 2018 Tree identification, ecology, and natural history (walk), Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County, Syracuse, May 2018, about 30 people in attendance (Rand Tract, Syracuse). Plants of Oakwood Cemetery (walk), Historic Oakwood Cemetery Preservation Association, Oakwood Cemetery, May 2018, about 40 people in attendance

Brian Leydet

Invited talk about ticks and Lyme disease at Marcellus Free Library, June 6th 2017 (40 attendees) Interviewed by Syracuse.com “Ticks likely to flourish this summer in Upstate NY - and that's bad for humans”. June 29th 2017 Interviewed by WRVO (NPR) “Why Lyme disease is so prevalent in central New York”.July 29, 2017

Interviewed by The Daily Orange for article “Experts say mice are primary cause of Lyme disease, not deer”. October 31st 2017 Interviewed by LocalSYR “Is deer culling the best way to get rid of ticks and Lyme disease?”. November 1, 2017 Invited speaker for the Kettle Lake Speakers Series “Lyme and other Tick-borne diseases” April 9th 2018 (40 attendees) Interviewed by LocalSYR “Ticks looking for a warm-up too”. April 11, 2018 Interviewed by LocalSYR “Research: Tick tubes not necessarily effective at reducing ticks and preventing Lyme Disease”. May 9, 2018 Interviewed for WCNY (PBS) Cycle of Health on Lyme disease Ecology May 14th 2018 Interviewed by CNYCentral.com for article “SUNY ESF expert gives tips as tick season begins”. May 21st 2018

Karin Limburg

Panel on environmental effects of animal agriculture, Syracuse University, April 7, 2018; ca. 30 in attendances Greg McGee

Moss Walk – Adirondack Interpretive Center – August. 30 people Native Forest Wildflower Restoration – Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners, Onondaga County, October 17, ~40 in attendance.

William Powell

Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference. Invited Speaker. 6/8/17 – 6/10/18. American Chestnut Research and Restoration project. ~ 100 attending PBS SciTech Now TV interview in New York City on the ESF American chestnut project. Broadcasted in many PBS stations. 8/7/18 The American Chestnut Foundation’s annual meeting and Board meeting, Portland, ME. 10/5/17 – 10/7/17. Update on chestnut project to the board and presenting Burnham Award to Dr. Charles Maynard at the general meeting. ~ 60 attending. Native American leaders/ NY DEC meeting, Syracuse, NY. 10/19/17. ~ 25 attending. TACFNY annual meeting, Syracuse, NY. 10/20/17-10/21/17. ~ 40 attending Lafayette Road Experiment Station tours of chestnut plantings, Alumni Weekend. Syracuse, NY. 10/28/17, ~ 20 attending. ESF & TACF NYC reception in New York City. 11/8/17. Presenting the American chestnut project. ~ 35 attending. NY DEC Breakfast meeting. Invited speaker. Restoring the American chestnut. Syracuse, NY. 12/6/18. ~ 80 attending Philadelphia Flower Show, Bartlett Day. Presented the ESF American chestnut Project. Philadelphia, PA. 3/7/18-3/9/18. ~ 250 attending. TACF semi-annual board meeting. Updating on the regulatory progress with the chestnut project. Abington, VA. 3/21/18-3/23/18. ~ 25 attending. HGCNY (chapter of Wild-ones) invited speaker. Liverpool library, NY. 3/25/18. ~ 35 attending.

Podcast interview WBUR – Boston’s NPR News Station. Syracuse, NY. 4/4/18. Radio broadcast and on web. Invited speaker at Salisbury University. Salisbury, MD. 4/12/18. ~ 80 attending. Hosting Revive and Restore meeting and giving talks and tours of labs and fields. Syracuse, NY. 5/8/18-5/9/18. ~ 20 attending. WCNY PBS interview and filming. 5/11/18. Broadcasted on TV and web.

Roxanne Razavi

November 17 2017 Finger Lakes Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY November 30 2017 One Health Symposium, SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, ESF March 6 2018 Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association, Canandaigua NY April 7 2018 10th Annual Girls Summit, ESF

Neil Ringler

Rebecca Rundell

Rundell, R.J. 2018. Evolution, biogeography and conservation of the land snails of Belau (Micronesia, Oceania). Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Seminar, Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa). 12 April 2018. [40 attended] Rundell, R.J. 2017. Islands of diversity: Conservation and evolution of land snails from the Pacific to the Northeast. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Series. 30 October. [20 attended] Darwin-Wallace Day/International Darwin Day Poster Event at Moon Library, SUNY-ESF (Members of the Public are Invited). Feb. 16-March 10, 2018. (400 attendees)

Scott Turner

Evolution as cognition. California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California. 10 January 2018. (presentation link). Thinking, not just selecting genes. Fellows Seminar. Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 18 July 2017. (News link) Do we have evolution right? Book launch: Purpose and Desire by J Scott Turner. Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 17 August 2017. (News link). Various media appearances (in relation to the release of Purpose and Desire) Janet Mefford Today (4 September 2017) Leigh Martinuzzi. The Hidden WHY Guy (6 September 2017). The Dennis Prager Show (12 September 2017)

Michelle Mendoza Live from Seattle (Tech Tuesday). (12 September 2017). Perry Marshall. Evolution 2.0 (15 October 2017). The Eric Metaxas Show (23 October 2017). Think with Kris Boyd (26 October 2017). Al Kresta in the Afternoon (9 January 2018). Provocative Enlightenment with Eldon Taylor (5 February 2018). Rob Crowther. ID The Future Part 1 (12 March 2018). Rob Crowther, ID The Future Part 2 (21 March 2018). In the Market with Janet Parshall (with Stephen Meyer). (24 May 2018).

Alexander Weir

Lecture “Research on the Laboulbeniomycetes” presented at the Annual Peck Foray, Adirondack Ecological Center, Newcomb NY Sept. 2017. 92 attendees.

2. Grant Activity

Jonathan Cohen

Cohen JB, Cheeseman AE. Scientific Management of New England Cottontails. $359,976. 4/2018-5/2022. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. $594,370. Supporting Drew Eline.

Cohen JB, Kocek AR. Experimental Habitat Restoration for Tidal Marsh Birds. $359,976. 4/2018-5/2022. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. $359,976. Supporting Alison Kocek, Alexandra Cook

Shriver G, Cohen J, Elphick C, Correll M, Kovach A, Olsen K, Ruskin K. Assessing the Ecological Effectiveness of Hurricane Sandy Marsh Restoration Activities Regionwide. $4,609,304. 11/17 – 12/23. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $121,960 managed by J Cohen. . Cohen JB, Stantial ML. Statewide Piping Plover HCP Implementation Assistance. MA Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. $12,000. 1/18 - 6/18. Supporting Michelle Stantial.

Cohen JB, Stantial ML. Structured Decision Making for Predator Management to Benefit Piping Plovers. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $6,000. 5/18 - 9/18. Supporting Michelle Stantial.

Cohen JB, Kocek AR, Liner J, Mazzocchi I, Shulenburg P, Nyver R. Informing Restoration of the Endangered Piping Plover to Lake Ontario. $21,751. 3/2017-12/2019. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Supporting Michelle Stantial.

Cohen JB, Darrah A. Increasing Benefits of Piping Plover Nest Exclosures. $137,000. 1/2017- 12/2018. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Cohen JB, Stantial M. Factors Affecting Piping Plover Reproductive Success in Southern New Jersey and Priorities for Improving Monitoring and Management. $28,404 4/2017-12/2018. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Supporting Michelle Stantial.

Cohen JB, Schummer ML. Ecological separation of wintering mallards and black ducks in New York. NYS DEC. $346,062. 4/2015-3/2019. Supporting Adam Bleau and Justin Droke

Cohen JB, Stantial M. Piping plover reproductive success at the Edwin B. Forsythe Nationa Wildlife Refuge. $113,483 3/2016-5/2018. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Supporting Michelle Stantial.

Cohen JB, Stantial M. Factors Limiting piping plover productivity in Southern New Jersey. $50,000 12/2015-6/2017. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Supporting Michelle Stantial

Elphick C, Olsen B, Shriver G, Cohen JB, Kovach A. Response of the tidal marsh bird community to Hurricane Sandy. $1,573,950 ($155,466 managed by Cohen). 10/2014-2/2018. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, supporting Alison Kocek.

Olsen B, Elphick C, Shriver G, Cohen JB, Kovach A. Response of the tidal marsh bird community to Hurricane Sandy. $1,409,127 ($104,819 managed by Cohen). 1/2015-11/2017. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Supporting Alison Kocek.

Karpanty SM, Cohen JB, Parsons KC, Jedrey E. Obtain critical management information regarding endangered roseate terns. $330,039 ($91,892 managed by Cohen). 7/2014 – 12/2017. National Park Service. Supporting Melissa Althouse.

Cohen JB, Whipps CM, Ryan SJ. Assessing the use of newly-restored early successional forest by the endangered New England cottontail, using genetic dispersal analysis. McIntire-Stennis, $51,929, 8/2015 – 9/2017, supporting Amanda Cheeseman

Cohen JB, Whipps CM, Ryan SJ. Factors Limiting New England Cottontail Populations in New York – NYDEC, $860,000, 8/2013 – 3/2019, supporting Amanda Cheeseman and Emily Gavard

Cohen JB. Population-level effects on Snowy Plovers of road mortality at Gulf Islands National Seashore – National Fish and Wildlife Foundation via National Audubon, $274,225, 1/14 – 8/17, supporting Maureen Durkin

Stewart Diemont

Kimmerer, R., S.A.W. Diemont, C. Beier, E. Folta, J. Manno. Sowing synergy: A graduate program to integrate indigenous and scientific knowledge for sustainability. US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, $642,811, 3/1/16 - 2/28/19; supported five graduate students: Cynthia Coleman, Rose Bear Don’t Walk, Kaya DeerInWater, Loga Fixico, and Annie Sorrell)

Martin Dovciak

National Science Foundation. “Linking Forest Regeneration, Plant Distributions, and Ecotone Dynamics in Changing Mountain Environments”. M. Dovciak (PI, no CoPIs); $322,992; 5/2018- 5/2021.

NYS DEC. “Evaluating deer impacts on forests of New York State”. M. Dovciak (PI), J. Frair, J. Hurst, P. Curtis, P. Smallidge (CoPIs). $312,213. 4/2014-3/2019.

NYSERDA. “Effects of acidic deposition and soil acidification on forest understory plant biodiversity in the Adirondack Mountains”. T. Sullivan (PI), M. Dovciak, G. Lawrence, T. McDonnell (CoPIs); $200,000; 3/2015-9/2017. ($87,001 to M. Dovciak/ESF).

John Farrell

Farrell, J. M. 4/1/16-3/31/21. Water Level Regulation Adaptive Management Research: Coastal Wetland Health Indicators and Sportfish Production in the Upper St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Coastal Lakes and Oceans Program (funded $1,417,046) GA’s supported – Ericka Augustyn; Jessica Goretzke (summer)

Farrell, J. M. and S. J. Cooke. 10/1/2015-9/30/2017. The St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy: Evaluation of Habitat Enhancements and Development of Novel Restoration Approaches. US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Special Project. J. M. Farrell and S. Cooke (Carleton University). $583,967 ($299,407 to ESF)

Farrell, J. M.10/1/2017-9/30/2020. The St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy: Evaluation of Habitat Enhancements and Development of Novel Restoration Approaches. US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Special Project, $616,801

Leydet B. L. and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Influence of Spawning and Nursery Habitat in Shaping the Northern Pike (Esox lucius) Gut Microbiome. (3/1/17 – 12/31/19) Great Lakes Research Consortium, $22,500

Shannon Farrell

U.S. National Park Service Continuing Assessment of populations and white-nosed syndrome at Cape Cod National Seashore. Dates: Jan 2016- July 2018. PI: S. Farrell. Funds: $76,200. Partial support for Bronson Curry, Jessica Fletcher.

U.S. National Park Service. White Nose Syndrome Funding 2016. Fall Migration, Swarming, and Hibernation Ecology of Northern Long-eared Bats at Cape Cod National Seashore, and Implication for Ameliorating Impacts of White-nose Syndrome. Awarded: $199,600. Dates: 1/1/2017-12/31/2018. PI: S. Farrell. Full support for PhD grad student Sarah-Jayne Collins starting Jan 2017.

NSRC Theme Four: Biodiversity and protected area management. Imperiled Bats in Northeastern Forests: balancing bat conservation with forest management. PI: S. Farrell. Co-PI R. Germain. Awarded: $121,029. Dates: 9/1//2017-12/31/2018. Supports MS student Megan Gallagher and partial support for MS student Mike Rosenthal.

McIntire-Stennis Research Program. 2015-16. Mapping the distributions of forest mammals across NY State: Phase 1. Dates: Aug 2017- Dec 2019. PI: S. Farrell Co-PI: J. Frair, A. Fuller (Cornell). Awarded: $57,806. Will support incoming PhD student starting Aug 2018. Student to be determined.

McIntire-Stennis Research Program. 2015-16. The Sky is Falling: Invasive-induced Forest Biodiversity Loss and Evaluation of Stand Rehabilitation. Dates Aug 2017-Aug 2019. PI- Stacy McNulty. Co-PI: R. Germain, G. McGee, S. Farrell. Awarded: $65,568. Full support for MS student Ravyn Neville starting Aug 2017.

Melissa Fierke

S. Shaw, M.K. Fierke. 6/18–5/19. Monitoring seasonal variation in ticks in Western and Central NY. NY Senate. $50,000.

M.K. Fierke. Saving ash trees in “aftermath” forests using EAB parasitoids. 5/18–5/19. $62,122. USDA Farm Bill. Workplan with J. Gould, USDA APHIS. Supports new MS student Tim Morris and several technicians.

M.K. Fierke. Optimizing Pan Trap Color for Parasitoid Monitoring and Oobius parasitism in NYS. 6/18–5/19. $32,000. Cooperative Workplan with J. Gould, USDA APHIS. Supports UG technicians.

M.K. Fierke, M.I. Jones. Geographical comparisons of the synchrony and phenology of emerald ash borer and its introduced larval parasitoids in New Your State. 3/15–9/19. $360,000. Cooperative Workplan with J. Gould, USDA APHIS. Supports PhD student Michael Jones and several technicians.

M.K. Fierke, M.I. Jones. Assessing compatibility of insecticides and biocontrol for controlling emerald ash borer in urban environments. 5/15–5/19. $88,000. Cooperative Workplan with J. Gould, USDA APHIS. Partially supports PhD student Michael Jones and multiple summer UG technicians.

Nowak, M.K. Fierke (co-PIs). Exploring pollinator dynamics on powerline corridors in the Northeastern United States. Electric Power Research Institute. 5/16-8/21. $628,146. Supports two MS students, Jessica VanSplinter and Erica McPhail as well as multiple UG technicians.

M.K. Fierke, G.G. McGee. Restoration of understory vascular plant and pollinator assemblages in post-agricultural forest of central NY. 8/15–9/17. McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry. $57,669. Geoffrey Griffiths, PhD.

S. Shaw, M.K. Fierke. 8/15–9/17. Elucidating characteristics of forest/residential land interfaces associated with increased risk of tick-borne diseases. McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry. $59,694. Supported Nick Piedmonte (MS) and an UG technician.

James Gibbs

NASA, $779,061, Management of Social-Ecological Grazing Systems in the Altai Mountain Transboundary Zone, Mountrakis, Dr. Georgios E. : Gibbs, Dr. James (01-Jan-2015 1 May 2019) (Liza Yegorova, Misha Paltsyn, Shahriar Heyderi supported)

National Academy of Sciences, $55,200, Where is my Turtle? Quantifying Biodiversity Impacts of Hydroelectric Expansion and River Use Changes in Brazilian Amazon, Gibbs, Dr. James (23- Feb-2016 31-Dec-2018)

National Park Service, $34,000, Reptile and Amphibian Surveys of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS, Gibbs, Dr. James (01-Jul-2014 30-Jun-2017) (San Dean supported)

National Park Service, Assessment of Natural Resource Condition for Martin van Buren National Historic Site (16-Aug-2016 - 31-May-2018, $38,137)

National Park Service, $44,811, Assessment of Natural Resource Condition for Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Gibbs, Dr. James : Tierney, Dr. Geraldine (01-Oct-2016 16-May-2018)

BASF Corporation, $245,198, Status, Movements, and Habitat Assessment for Map Turtles, Gibbs, Dr. James (01-Jan-2015 15-Dec 31 2017) (Julia Vanaman supported)

Cornell University / NYSDEC, $10,040, Linking Land Use and Climate Dynamics to Ecological Responses of Amphibians and Reptiles within New York State Watersheds: An Integrative Approach Using Citizen Science, Gibbs, Dr. James (01-Apr-2017 31-Dec-2017)

Northeastern States Research Cooperative, $110,881, Using Social Media to Quantify Forest- Based Tourism in the Northern Forest, Kuehn, Dr. Diane M : Gibbs, Dr. James (01-Sep-2016 31- Aug-2018)

Wildlife Conservation Society, $36,000, Enhancing Tiger Conservation in Thailand: The Role of Peripheral Protected Areas in Supporting Regional Tiger Populations, Gibbs, Dr. James (29- Aug-2016 31-Aug-2018) (Manoon Pliosungnoen supported)

Hyatt Green

McIntire-Stennis Mini Grant (SUNY-ESF), “Role of Comammox Bacteria in Northeast Forest Nitrogen Cycling” Hyatt Green (PI), $6,750, 07/01/2017-06/30/2019

Utah Division of Water Quality, “E. coli Source Identification in Emigration Canyon, UT” Marian Rice (PI), Hyatt Green (Co-PI), $136,474, 07/01/2017-06/30/2020 SUNY-ESF Center for Applied Microbiology, “Bioprospecting for Wild Yeasts with Desirable Fermentation Sensory Profiles in Upstate New York” Hyatt Green (PI), $4,950, 06/01/2017— 05/31/2019

State Wildlife Competitive Grants Program, US Fish and Wildlife Service, “Multistate Recovery Actions For The Bog Turtle And Associated Headwater Wetland Species Of Greatest Conservation Need”, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PI), Large interstate consortia (Co-PI), Hyatt Green (Co-PI), $117,000 to ESF ($499,970 total), 10/01/2015-03/31/2019

Thomas Horton

Horton TR. USDA McIntire-Stennis Program. Increasing success of pitch pine restoration through soil microbe management. $56,819. 8/15/16 – 9/30/19. Taylor Patterson, MS. Aimee Hudon, MS.

Yanai R, Horton TR. NSF. Collaborative Research: IDBR: Type A: The Nanaphid: A novel aphid-like nanosensor network for real-time measurements of carbohydrates in live plant tissue. National Science Foundation. $59,816 for the ESF component, $24,780 to Horton lab. Other institutions: SUNY Albany, SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Boston University. 2/1/15 – 1/31/17. Claudia Victoroff, MS.

Robin Kimmerer

USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant, “Sowing Synergy:A graduate program to integrate scientific and traditional knowledge for sustainability. $683,000. With Diemont, Beier, Folta, Manno co-PIs. April 2016-August 2019. Will support 3 grad students

USEPA Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Education Program. $30, 900 “Using the Thanksgiving Address to Advance Environmental Literacy and Environmental Stewardship” with Dr. Phil Arnold and Rachel May and Beth Folta. Syracuse University. Supports: Catherine Landis and Thomas Mackey 2016-2018

USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant, Learning From the Land: a cross-cultural partnership in forest stewardship education for climate change adaptation in the Northern Forest. Co-PI Colin Beier. $712,000 with College of the Menominee Nation. 2012-2017. Supports two graduate assistants Raymond Gutierrez and Sara Smith

US Forest Service, Voices of Mother Earth: Native Women’s Climate Change Summit, $60,000 May 2015-May 2018

National Science Foundation, participating partner with Dr. Jay Johnson at Kansas University, FIRST : Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science and Technology Research Coordination Network grant $800,000. 2015-2018

National Science Foundation: ITEST: Earth Partnership: Indigenous Arts and Sciences— Connecting STEM to Native Science. Advisor to project $1.2 million by PI Cheryl Bauer Armstrong at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Donald Leopold

NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation, SUNY-ESF Gateway Building Green Roof; $413,000; January 2011 to October 2019; T. Toland, D. Daley, D.J. Leopoold, and M. Kelleher.

NYS-DEC, Invasive plants program coordinator; $368,254; July 2015 to June 2018; D.J. Leopold.

USFWS (GLRI), Range wide status assessment of Houghton’s goldenrod, with a special emphasis on niche limit, demographic transitions, and population stability; $149,600; February 2016 to December 2018. D.J. Leopold.

NOAA, Factors affecting dune and vegetation recovery from superstorm Sandy in the Otis Pike High Dune Wilderness Area on Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS), NY; $40,000; July 2016 to June 2018; H.B Underwood and D.J. Leopold.

NYS DEC, Abundance, distribution and management of white-tailed deer in the Town of Dewitt, NY; $230,916; August 2016 to July 2018; H.B. Underwood and D.J. Leopold.

NYS-DEC, New York Natural Heritage Program; $4,204,361; July 2017 to June 2022; D.J. Leopold.

NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation; Evaluating legacy impacts of hyper- abundant white-tailed deer in forested stands of Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks; $89,446; March to October 2018, H.B. Underwood and D.J. Leopold.

Brian Leydet

Leydet BL. SUNY-Center for Applied Microbiology, Studying in vivo gene expression of the tick-borne pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi via enrichment of pathogen specific RNA transcripts from host tissues by micro-column capture and RNA-Seq. (April 2017 – ongoing) - $7,184.

Leydet BL, Farrell J. Great Lakes Research Consortium. Influence of Spawning and Nursery Habitat in Shaping the Northern Pike (Esox lucius) Gut Microbiome. (3/1/17 – 12/31/19) - $22,500 Partial Support: MS student Benjamin Gallo

Leydet BL. USDA-CREES/McIntire-Stennis Program Ixodes scapularis Invasion into the Adirondack Park Preserve: Host Associations and Their Influence on Lyme Disease Emergence. (8/15/2017 – 9/30/2019) $60,404. Supports: MS student Sarah Lanthier

Karin Limburg

Baltic Sea 2020: “Eastern Baltic Cod: Solving the ageing and stock assessment problems with combined state-of-the-art tagging methods.” 27M SEK (approx. $3.2 million), 1/01/2016 – 12/31/2019; supports 3 PhD students in 3 Baltic countries; KL is co-PI and leading the otolith chemistry work package.

Hudson River Foundation: “Assessing silver eels in Hudson River tributaries.” 6/1/13 – 06/30/17, $134,838; supported 3 students (Sarah Mount, Kayla Smith, and Cara Ewell Hodkin).

Hudson River Foundation: “Looking into the big green and blue boxes: insights on critical habitat for young and adult blueback herring to assess resilience.” 6/01/2017 – 12/31/2018, $138,069; 1 PhD student will be supported (Cara Ewell Hodkin) as well as 1 part-time undergraduate research assistant.

National Science Foundation: “Collaborative Research: Consequences of sub-lethal hypoxia exposure for fishes: a trans-oceanic comparison.” 9/1/14 – 8/31/18, $283,564; supports 1 student (Melvin Samson).

National Science Foundation: “REU Supplemental: Consequences of sub-lethal hypoxia exposure for fishes: a trans-oceanic comparison.” 5/2017 – 8/2017, $6550; supports one undergraduate researcher on my NSF project.

NYSDEC, Mohawk River Basin Action Agenda (w/Neil Ringler). KL’s part: “Determining the provenance and life histories of blueback herring in the Mohawk River.” 9/1/14-9/30/17, $115, 171; 3 students supported on my part of the award (Chris Nack, Kayla Smith, Cara Ewell Hodkin); supplemental funding awarded ($15,000) for pilot study on use of “sonar camera” to count herring locking through into the Mohawk River (May 2017)

NY Sea Grant: “Reconnecting waters for eels and river herring: a mediated modeling approach to assess receptivity to dam removal in the Hudson-Mohawk watershed.” 2/01/16 – 1/31/18, $132,780; supports 1 student (Kayla Smith).

Swedish Research Council FORMAS: “Losing track of time: dubious age determination of Baltic cod, probable causes and promising solution.” 3M SEK (approx. $353,000), 1/01/16 – 12/31/18; supports 1 PhD student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), where KL is a Visiting Professor and lead PI.

Virginia Sea Grant: “Impacts of large storm events on the early life stages of American Shad and the importance of non-mainstem habitat.” 7/1/2016-6/30/2017, $30,000. Written by and supporting 1 student (Chris Nack).

Greg McGee

McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program, (CoPI w/ M.K. Fierke), “Restoration of Understory Vascular Plant and Pollinator Assemblages in Post-Agricultural Forests of Central New York.” $57,669 total, 8/15-9/18, $5000 current year, support for G. Griffiths, MS student.

Mianus River Gorge Preserve Graduate Research Assistant Program. Development of restoration protocols for native herbaceous plant species in post-agricultural second-growth forests. $15,000 total, $5,000 current year, 4/15-9/18. Partial summer support for G. Griffiths, MS Student.

McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program, (CoPI with S. McNulty, S. Farrell, R. Germain), “The sky is falling: invasive-induced forest biodiversity loss and evaluation of stand rehabilitation.” $56,604 total, 8/17-9/19, support for R. Neville, MS Student (S. Farrell).

Wildlife Conservation Society Climate Adaptation Fund, co-PI w/ G. Sargiss (Nature Conservancy), P. Smallidge (Cornell Cooperative Extension), K. Ferrare (Cornell Cooperative Extension). “Setting northern New York forests on climate-adapted trajectories by improving regeneration and forest structure.” $166,925, 11/16-10/18.

Lee Newman

Exon Mobile/Roux Associates; Determination of Utility of Plants and Treatment Wetlands for PFOA Remediation; January 2018 to August 2018; $35,003; L. Newman.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Development of Hyperspectral Imaging of Plants to Detect Contamination; $355,509; March 2011 to Dec 2018; current year $32,268;L Newman; PhD. student Adam Hoffman supported.

Multiple Sponsors; New York State Biotechnology Symposium, $18,807.00; Dec 2016 to November 2018; Katherina Searing, L. Newman, A. Stiponovich, T. Amadon.

Gifford Foundation; Construction Funds for Horticultural Therapy; $1000; June 2013 to Sept 2016; L. Newman.

American Legion Ladies Auxillary; Funds for Horticultural Therapy; $2500; May 2013 to open ended; L. Newman.

William Powell

Forest Health Initiative. Preparing for Long-term, Landscape Level Studies of American Chestnut Forests – travel and collaborator’s conference grant. $25,000 (10/1/16 – 6/30/18). PI. Crowd Funding Campaign, 10,000 Chestnut Challenge. $187,000 (no term date). PI.

The American Chestnut Foundation, Stanback Grant. The American chestnut research. Total funding $777,000, current year $247,500 (7/1/17-6/30/18). PI. (this is being renewed this year, July 2018, with new $247,000, with possible renewals for 2 more years). Six graduate assistants.

New York State legislation line item. American chestnut research and restoration project. Total $300,000, current year $100,000 (7/1/15 – 6/30/18, renewed this year, 2017, for another $100K). One graduate student. PI.

Mississippi Fish & Wildlife, Testing for deregulation of blight resistant American chestnut. Total $120,000, current year $60,000 (9/1/16-8/30/18). One graduate student. PI.

Templeton World Charity Foundation. Current year $199, 225. One graduate student and one postdoctoral fellow. PI

Roxanne Razavi

NYSDEC, Investigation of Foodweb Interactions with Harmful Algal Bloom Formation, $125, 239 (May 15 2018 – May 14 2020; Tori Field, MS student, Summer 2018 – Spring 2020

McIntire-Stennis SEED funds, “Assessing contaminant exposure in bats of the Finger Lakes, New York”, $7,000 (August 8 2018 to September 30 2019)

Great Lakes Research Consortium Task Group, “Gap analysis for contaminants of emerging concern in the Great Lakes Basin”, $10,000 (May 1 2018 – December 31 2019) Iman Pakzad, Employee, July – August 2018 (MS student starting August 2018)

Neil Ringler

U.S. Geological Survey; Restoration of Lake Ontario Native Fish Species. $499,999 7/30/14 – 8/31/18 Flow through to USGS Cortland; one graduate assistant.

NYS Department of Economic Development; High Tech Match Grant; Acquisition Cryo-Field Emission Transmission Electron Microscope. $215,000 9/01/15 – 06/30/18.

Honeywell International, Inc.; Onondaga Lake Biological Assessment and Monitoring. $264,008 7/01/16 – 06/30/18. Three graduate assistants.

NY Department Environmental Conservation; Interns: Stream Monitoring and Assessment Section. $14,326 4/01/18 – 8/31/18.

Rebecca Rundell

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), (4/17/2017 – 2/28/2018), $90,000. Removing the threat of stochastic extinction for the Chittenango ovate amber snail: A collaborative captive propagation effort to develop ex situ population in New York State. Rundell, R.J. (PI). Funding for one Lead Research Technician (filled by C. Gilbertson, M.S. EFB, 2016) and one undergraduate who works in field, lab, and Rosamond Gifford Zoo, including natural history interpretation at the zoo and Chittenango Falls State Park. Lead Technician supported: Ms. Cody Gilbertson (ESF M.S. 2016) Student supported: Undergraduate Assistant Technician [Grant extended through May 15, 2018; New grant starting at that time as well]

National Science Foundation. Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR). DBI- Biological Research Collections. Program Solicitation 15-577. (6/1/2017-5/31/2019), $491,591. CSBR: Natural History: Securing, Expanding, and Making Accessible the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Rundell, R.J. (PI) and Q. Wheeler (co-PI). Role: I lead, conceptualized and wrote the grant with encouragement and suggestions from co-PI (see supporting emails in NSF CSBR Supporting Materials). I am leading and implementing the project. Students supported: - Graduate Student Collections Assistant (2 years) - Undergraduate Collections Intern (2 summers) Note: This proposal was selected by the ESF Office of Research Programs as an award- winning exemplar (30 Aug. 2017).

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America Program. (10/1/2016- 9/30/2018), $118,694. Roosevelt Wild Life Collections. Rundell, R.J. (PI). Student supported: Graduate Student Collections Assistant

Scott Turner

National Institutes of Health. (9/2014 – 8/2019), $594,343. Modeling Termite Construction Behavior

Alexander Weir

National Science Foundation, Microfungi Collections Consortium, Grants to Advance Digitization of Biological Collections. Total amount – unknown ESF Portion - $49,748

Christopher Whipps

NIH Resource Related Research Projects for Development of Animal Models and Related Materials (R24) (07/1/2017 -06/30/2021) $887,946 (SUNY Subaward $346,336). Control and Impact of Diseases in Zebrafish. Kent ML, Whipps CM, Sanders J, Sharpton TJ, Watral, VG, Gaulk CA Role: Mycobacteriosis control, molecular diagnostics Supports: Carolyn Chang, PhD student, new student starting FA2018

New York DEC (4/1/17-3/31/18) $115,024. Factors Limiting New England Cottontail Populations in New York. Cohen J, Ryan S, Whipps CM. Role: Population and habitat assessment, genotyping and parasitology of cottontail rabbits. Supports: Amanda Cheeseman, PhD student.

Whipps CM. New York DEC (4/1/17-3/31/18) $100,785. Increasing Capacity for Genetic Analysis at SUNY ESF Role: Develop and carry out genetic testing/services with NYS DEC.

USDA-CREES/McIntire-Stennis Program (8/15/2015 – 9/30/2017). $51,042. Assessing Use of Newly-Restored Early Successional Forest by the Imperiled New England Cottontail, Using Genetic Dispersal Analysis. Cohen J, Whipps CM, Ryan SJ. Role: Genotyping cottontails Supports: Samantha Mello, MS student.

New York Department of Environmental Conservation (04/01/18-03/31/23) $963,678. New York State Mammal Distribution Assessment. Farrell SL, Gibbs JP, Whipps CM, Frair JL, Schlesinger M. Role: Genetic identification of mammals

New York Department of Environmental Conservation (04/01/18-03/31/21) $201,599. Monitor and Model Moose Populations in New York. Frair JL, Whipps CM.

Role: Genetic testing of predator scats for common moose parasites

New York Department of Environmental Conservation (04/01/18-03/31/22) $594,370. Scientific management of New England cottontails. Cohen JB, Whipps CM. Role: Co-PI on project. Parasites and genetics of cottontail rabbits.

New York Department of Environmental Conservation (04/01/18-03/31/23) $192,100. Assessment of Webless Migratory Game-bird Abundance and Optimization of Multi-Species Wetland Management. Schummer M, Cohen JB, Whipps CM. Role: Genetic determination of sex in birds.

3. Scholarly Reviews

Jonathan Cohen No. of manuscripts Journal of Wildlife Management 1 Conservation Letters 1 Journal of Coastal Research 1 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 1 Journal of Field Ornithology 1 Ecosphere 1

Stewart Diemont No. of manuscripts Biological Conservation 1

Martin Dovciak

Editorial activity Responsibility Journal of Vegetation Science Editorial Board Member Applied Vegetation Science Editorial Board Member

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Forest Ecology and Management 1 Global Change Biology 1 Journal of Vegetation Science 4 Restoration Ecology 1

John Farrell

Editorial activity Responsibility American Fisheries Society Symposium Co-Editor

Reviewer No. of manuscripts North American Journal of Fisheries Management 1

Shannon Farrell

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Landscape and Urban Planning 2 Journal of Avian Biology 2

Danny Fernando

Editorial activity Responsibility Tree Physiology Editorial Review Board

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Tree Genetics and Genomes 1 Hort Research Nature 1

Melissa Fierke

Editorial activity Responsibility Forest Science (Society of American Foresters) Associate Editor

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Forest Science 1 Coleopterists Bulletin 1 The Canadian Entomologist 1 Environmental Entomology 1

Jaqueline Frair

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Journal of Applied Ecology 8 Oikos 1

Hyatt Green

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Water Research 1 Journal of Environmental Quality 1

Thomas Horton

Editorial activity Responsibility Mycorrhiza Editorial Board

Reviewer No. of manuscripts PNAS 2 New Phytologist 2 Mycorrhiza 3 Soil Biology and Biochemistry 1 Ecological Research 1 Journal of Forest Research 1

Agency No. of proposals NSF 1

Donald Leopold

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Science of the Total Environment 1 Wetlands Ecology and Management 1

Brian Leydet

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Journal of Medical Entomology 2

Karin Limburg

Editorial activity Responsibility Ecology and Society Subject Editor Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment Subject Editor

Reviewer No. of manuscripts No Amer Journal of Fisheries Management 2 Fisheries Research 2 ECSO 1 CJFAS 1 Environmental and Resource Economics 1 Rapid Comm in Mass Spectrometry 1 Aquatic Conservation – Marine & Coastal 1

Agency No. of proposals Georgia Sea Grant 1

Other

External reviewer for two Promotion/Tenure dossiers (U. Idaho and U. Wyoming)

Reviewer for the educational film company, Bullfrog Films (a film about the New England cod fishery)

Participation (workshops, symposia, etc.)

Details of Workshop I co-organized and ran a workshop on the use of otolith chemistry to help age fishes. April 18, 2018 in Keelung, Taiwan.

Mark Lomolino

Editorial Board, Editor of Monographs Reviewed 10 manuscripts Frontiers of Biogeography, International Biogeography Society

Other University of Vienna - Evaluation of Promotion to Professor

Greg McGee

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 1 Forest Science 1 Environmental Science and Technology 1

Agency No. of proposals US Forest Service 1

Lee Newman

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Ecological Engineering 1 FEMS Microbiology Letters 1 Chemosphere 1 Science and Technology 2 Environmental Science and Pollution 1 Ecotoxicology and Environment 1 Journal of Environment 1 Science China 1 Water, Air, Soil and Pollution 1

Agency No. of proposals

ESF Research Committee McIntyre Stennis 4

Dylan Parry

Editorial activity Responsibility The Canadian Entomologist Subject Editor (Forest Entomology / Insect Ecology

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Ecological Entomology 1 Oecologia 1 Canadian Journal of Forest Research 1 Ecology Insect Science 1

Participation (workshops, symposia, etc.)

Details of Workshop The Gypsy Moth at 150: A Century and Half of Contributions to the Development of Invasion Ecology. I have co-organized (as lead) this 12 speaker Symposium for the 2018 joint Entomological Society of America/Entomological Society of Canada meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.

William Powell

Lowe-Wilcox/Zabel award student proposals 7

Neil Ringler

Editorial activity

Responsibility Ecology of Freshwater Fishes Associate Editor

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Freshwater Biology 1 Northeastern Naturalist 1

Roxanne Razavi

. Reviewer No. of manuscripts Science of the Total Environment 1

Scientific Reports 1

Agency No. of manuscripts USGS external review 1

Participation Details of workshop Date Place Central New York Harmful Algal Bloom Regional Summit 3.5.18 SUNY ESF Western New York Harmful Algal Bloom Regional Summit 3.26.18 SUNY MCC

Rebecca Rundell

Editorial activity Responsibility Malacologia Associate Editor

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US 1

Steve Teale

Reviewer No. of manuscripts PeerJ 1 Journal of Chemical Ecology 1 Environmental Entomology 1 Frontiers in Plant Science 1 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 1

Scott Turner

Editorial activity Responsibility Bio-Complexity Editorial Board

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Science 1 Intelligent Buildings International 1 Biology and Philosophy 1

Agencies No. of manuscripts John Guggenheim Foundation 1 University of Natal Pietermaritzburg 1

Christopher Whipps

Editorial activity Responsibility Journal of Parasitology Associate Editor (14 articles handled 6/1/17-5/31/18) Parasitology Research Section Editor (11 articles handled 6/1/17-5/31/18)

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Comparative Parasitology 1 Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 1 Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 1 Journal of Fish Diseases 1 Parasitology 1 Parasitology Research 3 Zebrafish 1

Alexander Weir

Reviewer No. of manuscripts Mycologia 2 Conservation Biology 1 PLOSOne 1

4. Grant Proposals

Jonathan Cohen

Cohen JB, Kocek AR. Monitoring and Management of Piping Plovers on Lake Ontario. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $70,000. Accepted for funding. Martin Dovciak

USDA McIntire-Stennis Program. "Recent Changes and Future Trajectories of an Ecosystem at the Crossroads: Implications for Planning, Management, and Conservation of Long Island Central Pine Barrens". M. Dovciak (PI), T. Green, K. Schwager (CoPIs); $61,784; 7/2018-8/2020. Award starting on July 1, 2018. John Farrell Farrell, J. M. 4/1/16-3/31/21. Water Level Regulation Adaptive Management Research: Coastal Wetland Health Indicators and Sportfish Production in the Upper St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Coastal Lakes and Oceans Program (funded $1,417,046)

GA’s supported – Ericka Augustyn; Jessica Goretzke (summer)

Leblanc, J.P., and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Modeling Bio-Physical Coupling to Predict Northern Pike Recruitment in eastern Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Great Lakes Research Consortium. Small Grants Program, $18,500 submitted, but rejected Shannon Farrell NYDEC. Establishing statewide distribution information and mapping for small and meso- mammals. Dates ≈Aug 2018-Apr 2023. PI: S. Farrell. Co-PI J. Gibbs, Co-PI C. Whipps. Budget still being negotiated ≈ $900,000. Anticipated to support: 1 Postdoc at in years

1-4, 1 graduate student in years 1-3 to oversee location, compiling, and preliminary analysis of bat detection data, 4 undergraduate technicians annually for years 2-4.

Morris Animal Foundation. 2017. Avian tick and tick-borne disease prevalence: interactions with anthropogenic stressors and effects on bird fitness. Co-PI B. Leydet. Total budget request: $ 179,835. submitted, but rejected

Danny Fernando

GLRI-NOFO. Production of Genetically Diverse American Hart’s-Tongue Fern through Captive Propagation. $35,000. June 2018 to August 2020.

USF&WS-GLRIP. NYS DEC Section 6 Endangered and Threatened Species Monitoring and Management. Population census counts and improvement of American hart’s-tongue fern populations through augmentation and introduction. $20,000. PI: DD Fernando; co- PI: DJ Leopold. submitted, but rejected

Shannon Farrell

1. U.S. National Park Service Continuing Assessment of populations and white-nosed syndrome at Cape Cod National Seashore. Dates: Jan 2016- July 2018. PI: S. Farrell. Funds: $76,200. Partial support for Bronson Curry, Jessica Fletcher.

Jaqueline Frair

NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, “Wildlife research and management support”, 2018-2023, PI: J. Frair (started 1 April 2018). Provides $5,686,420 in support to 13 different projects (PI’s S. Farrell, Gibbs, Belant, Frair, Cohen, and Schummer) and I manage each as a sub-award under the main grant. Grants directly supporting J. Frair listed below: o “New York State Mammal Distribution Assessment”, PI(s): S. Farrell, J. Gibbs, J. Frair, C. Whipps, M. Schlesinger; $963,678 total (2018-2023), $173,949 for 2017-18. o “Monitor and Model Moose Populations in New York”, PI: J. Frair; $201,599 total (2018-2021), $116,926 for FY18-19. o “River Otter Population Monitoring”, PI: J. Frair; $16,015 total (2018-19). o “Northern Fisher Population Demography”, PI: J. Frair; $678,662 total (2018- 2023), $208,349 for FY18-19. o “Snowshoe Hare Population Monitoring”, PI(s): S. Cleveland, H.B. Underwood, J. Frair; $259,344 total (2018-2021), $154,086 for FY18-19. o “Biostatistics and Data Management Support for Wildlife Management and Research”, PI: J. Frair; $1,021,772 total (2018-2023), $190,545 for FY18-19. o “Administrative Support and Project Oversight”, PI: J. Frair; $245,930 total (2018-2023), $47,316 for FY18-19.

Wildlife Society, “Amur tiger and Amur leopard conservation”, 2017-2019, PI: J. Frair. $18,000 ($9,000 for FY17-18). Supports D. Mathiukhina (M.S. student).

US Forest Service (Joint Venture Research Agreement), “Bat movement and habitat use patterns during fall swarm and spring emergence”, 2017-2020, PI: J. Frair. $160,000 supports one full-time professional at the USFS Northern Forest Research Station in Rhinelander, WI.

U.S.D.A. McIntire-Stennis Program, “Mapping the distributions of forest mammals across NY State: Phase I”, $55,496 total (2016-2019). PIs: S. Farrell, J. Frair, and A. Fuller (Cornell University).

NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, “Wildlife research and management support”, 2013-2018, PI: J. Frair. Received $309,418 amendment for final year (2017-18), and one-year no-cost extension through Mar 2019. Provides $3,661,530 ($519,057 during 2017-18) to 10 different projects (PI’s Cleveland, Dovciak, Cohen, Frair, Schummer, and Whipps), and I manage each as a sub-award under the main grant. Grants directly supporting J. Frair listed below: o “Status of river otter in reintroduction area”, PI: J. Frair. $172,716 total (2015- 2019), $91,136 for 2017-18. Supports Kelly Powers (M.S. student) and includes sub-award H. Green o “Monitoring and modeling moose populations in NY”, PI: J. Frair. $657,868 total (2014-19), $178,637 for 2017-18. Supported Dr. Rachel Wheat (Roosevelt Post- Doctoral Scholar) and Sam Peterson (M.S. student).

o “Indices to track ecological impact of white-tailed deer”, PIs: M. Dovciak, J. Frair. $311,500 total (2013-2019), $54,612 for 2017-18, includes subaward to P. Curtis (Cornell Cooperative Extension). o “Statistical support for wildlife management and research”, PI: J. Frair. $669,707 total (2014-2019), $179,772 for 2017-18. Supports two professional positions located at Albany DEC office – Dr. David Kramer and Daniel Quinn. o “Other program support for wildlife management and research”, PI: J. Frair. $143,911 total (2014-2019), $30,279 for 2017-18. Supported Terra Rentz (M.S. student).

NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, “Internships for Fish, Wildlife, and Marine Resource Management”, $261,871 total (2014-2019).

Hyatt Green

NSF (Geobiology), Collaborative Proposal: Microbial Mediation of Mercury Methylation in Meromictic Lakes Hyatt Green (PI), Svetoslava Todorova (PI), $252,000, 06/01/2018- 05/31/2020

US EPA (GLRI), “Expansion of Great Lakes Invertebrate Barcode Libraries”, Hyatt Green (PI), Kim Schulz (Co-PI), Neil Ringler (Co-PI), Rebecca Rundell (Co-PI), Alexander Smith (Co-PI), $396,495, 10/01/2017-09/30/2020 submitted, but rejected

McIntire-Stennis Mini Grant (SUNY-ESF), “Role of Comammox Bacteria in Northeast Forest Nitrogen Cycling” Hyatt Green (PI), $59,462, 08/15/2018-09/30/2020 submitted, but rejected

Thomas Horton

USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Environmental Impacts of GE and Conventionally Produced American Chestnut. $599,995. Dates and students pending. Co- authored with Powell’s team.

MRGP – Research Assistantship Program. Interactions between hemlock wooly adelgid and ectomycorrhizal fungi. $15,000. 8/30/2018 – 8/29/2021. Co-authored with Andy Cortese, pending PhD student.

Brian Leydet

DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) Idea Award Using Pathogen Transcript Capture and RNA-Seq to Identify Genes Essential for Borrelia Burgdorferi Transmission and Pathogenesis in a Tick-murine Infection Model. (07/01/2018 – 06/30/2020) Role: PI, Total Costs: $396,936. Submitted but rejected

DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) Investigator Initiated Award Characterizing the Tick Borne Disease Threat to US Force Readiness

Through Entomologic and Clinical Case Surveillance and Cluster Investigations. (07/01/2018-(06/30/2020) Role: Co-PI, Total Costs: $928,513 ($175,559 to ESF) submitted but rejected

Morris Animal Foundation Wildlife Research Grant. Avian tick and tick borne disease prevalence: interactions with anthropogenic stressors and effects on bird fitness (01/01/2018-12/21/2020) Role Co-PI, Total Costs: $179,835 submitted but rejected

Karin Limburg

Great Lakes Fishery Commission: “Using Light and Heavy Isotopes to Help Identify the Origin of Sea Lamprey Adults in the Great Lakes.” 4/01/2018 – 9/30/2019, ca. $85,000. Invited to submit a full proposal, due June 1. Submitted but rejected

New York Sea Grant: “Ecosystem Services Generated by Diadromous Species (DiaSES): a Cross-System, Cross-Cultural Comparison for Environmental Assessment.” 2/01/2018 – 1/31/2020, $212,539. Invited to submit a full proposal, due 12 June 2017. Submitted but rejected

Mark Lomolino

PI - NSF – The Geography of Sound: Synergy of Biogeography and Soundscape Ecology. $750K; CoPI Bryan Pijanowski (Purdue); declined (2nd tier of competitive proposals) Submitted but rejected

William Powell

USDA NIFA BRAG program, Environmental Impacts of GE and Conventionally Produced American Chestnut, $500,000 over 3 years

Templeton World Charity Foundation, invited extension submission, Restoration of the American Chestnut Tree – regulatory preparation. Total $230,000 (8/1/18 – 7/31/19)

Working with the ESF development office and TACF to find donors to the Chestnut Project. Goal is to raise a multi-million dollar endowment to support the chestnut project and establish a Tree Restoration Center at ESF. Roxanne Razavi

NYSERDA, Synthesis of environmental mercury loads in New York State, $6,215 (January 1 – November 30 2018)

Senior Personnel NSF MRI, with PI Teng Zeng (SU) “Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph-High Resolution Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer to Enhance Research and Research Training Capabilities at Syracuse University”

University of Vermont – Lake Champlain Basin Program, “Assessing controls on mercury bioavailability in light of recent increases in Lake Trout survival”, Co-PI $46,130 (March 1 2019 – August 31 2010) Submitted but rejected

McIntire-Stennis Program, “Assessing contaminant exposure in bats of the Finger Lakes, New York”, $62,236 (August 15 2018 to September 30 2020) Submitted but rejected

Great Lakes Research Consortium, “Expanding the derivation of screening values for contaminants of emerging concern in the Great Lakes Basin”, $25,000 (April 1 2018 – December 31 2019) Submitted but rejected

Neil Ringler

NY Department Environmental Conservation; Relationships Between Stream Physical Parameters and Water Quality Endpoints. $99,246. 01/04/18 –12/31/20. One graduate assistant.

U.S. Geological Survey; Restoration of Lake Ontario Native Species. $135,254. 01/08/18 – 12/31/20.

Honeywell International, Inc.; Onondaga Lake Biological Assessment and Monitoring. $160,641. Three graduate assistants.

NY Sea Grant; Restoration of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario Watersheds $175,000 Submitted but rejected

Great Lakes Research Consortium; Evaluation of Atlantic Salmon Smolt Production and Evidence of Adult Returns in the Oswego River watershed. $24,719. Submitted but rejected

Rebecca Rundell

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. (5/1/2018- 4/30/2019), $73,815 requested. Baselines and barcodes: Developing land snails as indicator species on Fort Drum. Rundell, R.J. (PI). Funding for one graduate student and one undergraduate student.

National Endowment for the Humanities. Public Humanities Projects. (11/1/2017- 10/30/2018), $98,679 requested. Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Seneca Nation of Indians. Patterson, N. (PI), Hodkin, C. Ewell, Landis, C., Kimmerer, R., Giegerich, R.J., and R. J. Rundell (co-PIs).

Seneca Nation. $21,160 requested. (5/1/2017-8/30/2018), Seneca-Iroquois National Museum and Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY-ESF Partnership. Patterson, N. (PI), Hodkin, C. Ewell, Landis, C., Kimmerer, R., Giegerich, R.J., and R. J. Rundell. Submitted, but rejected

E. Outreach and Service

Shannon Farrell

Lesser Prairie Chicken conservation planning: Review of Relist Petition. USFWS.

Freshwater mussels in Texas: evaluating available science to identify needs, risks, and opportunities for conservation planning. River Authorities in conjunction with multiple stakeholders including USFWS, Environmental Defense Fund, and Oil and Gas Industry partners.

Advisor on bat and other wildlife management Provincetown, MA, Department of Health

Advisor to Meridian Bird Removal, LLC

Jonathan Cohen

Advisor to the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan (US Fish and Wildlife Service)

Stewart Diemont

Municipality of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Natural wastewater treatment plant system design and siting, rain water capture, stream and wetland restoration

Village of Lacanja Chansayab, Chiapas, Mexico. Biocultural restoration project: Creating a Lacandon Maya field guide for educating children about their own traditional ecological knowledge

John Farrell

DEC – numerous activities related to long-term research partnership Great Lakes Fisheries Commission – contributed reports to the GLFC Lake Ontario Report and information towards the annual meeting.

USFWS – Research and monitoring activities related to Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy and habitat enhancement projects.

USGS – contributions to their educational program including ESF student visits to the USGS Lake Ontario Biological Station, Oswego NY and the Tunison Laboratory, Cortland NY.

NY Chapter American Fisheries Society – Native Fishes Committee

Save The River, Inc. Clayton NY, Muskellunge Release Program

Thousand Islands Land Trust, events and land stewardship and research partnerships

Northeast Underwater Explorers (NEUE) Citizen science programing

Project Baseline, diver citizen science program

Muskies Inc., tours, presentations, research and management activities

Ducks Unlimited, proposal development, project management

USGS, educational activities, research partnerships

Martin Dovciak

. Funded Service (include consulting activities)

. Government Agencies (Federal, State, Local):

• NYS DEC and Central Pine Barrens Commission, Long Island. Contributing to the establishment of SUNY ESF outreach collaborations focused on management of Long Island Central Pine Barrens ecosystem. • New York State DEC, Cornell Cooperative Extension. Deer impacts on New York’s forests. Coordinating SUNY ESF research and Cornell University public outreach and citizen science on NYS DEC funded project.

Unfunded Service to Governmental Agencies, Public Interest Groups, etc.

Provided an interview for the Associated Press resulting in a quote in an article “Beech booming as climate changes, and that's bad for forests”. The Associated Press. Feb. 25, 2018. The story was picked up by New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, and many other national and regional news outlets. Developed iNaturalist web project Plants of Dominica to be used by courses at the Archibold Tropical Research & Education Center, Dominica, West Indies, and other regional visitors to Dominica interested in Caribbean flora: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/plants-in-dominica- west-indies Regular interaction with the public/answering of inquiries on plant ecology, taxonomy, global change, and sustainability.

- Judge, Genius Olympiad (Science Category), June 14, 2017. SUNY Oswego.

Melissa Fierke

• Serve on the City of Syracuse Emerald Ash Borer Task Force attending meetings with other collaborators, e.g., the Syracuse City Arborist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Onondaga Director of the Environment.

• Answered questions from the public on insects/arthropods throughout the reporting period. • Serve on the Advisory Board for New York Natural Heritage’s efforts on native New York pollinators.

Jaqueline Frair

• Chaired search committee for the Camp Fire Conservation Fund Endowed Professor of Wildlife Conservation. • Roosevelt Wild Life Station, Associate Director. • Roosevelt Wildlife Collection, Supervise Ron Giegerich, Collections Manager. Coordinate activities of the collection with the station. • Curriculum Coordinator – Wildlife Science major - Prepared and summarized the 4th annual exit exam for wildlife majors. • Manage internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in Fish and Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology oriented programs (but students across the university may participate).

James Gibbs

Galapagos Conservancy (on-going consultation as co-leader of Galapagos Conservancy’s Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative and as Galapagos Conservancy’s Adjunct Scientist)

Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Charlottesville, Virginia (to plan upcoming biological survey)

Invited member, IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG), International Union for the Conservation of Nature / Species Survival Commission, appointed Jan 1 2018

Science Advisor for “Galapagos Verde 2050” project, an application of Groasis / Waterboxx Technology for ecosystem restoration and enhancing agricultural production in arid areas, Charles Darwin Foundation and COmMON Foundation, Holland.

Hyatt Green

Harmful Algal Bloom Summit Panelist, SUNY-ESF Gateway Center, March 6, 2018

Thomas Horton

Scientific advisor – Central New York Mycological Society Scientific advisory board – Mianus River Gorge Preserve

Robin Kimmerer

1)Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation 2) Great Law of Peace Education Center Initiative, Steering Committee 3) Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force 4) Spring Creek Project for Nature, Philosophy and the Written Word (Senior Fellow) 5) Center for Nature and Humans, Senior Fellow 6) The Wild Center, Tupper Lake NY 7) Advisory Board, Blue Mountain Center 8) United Southeastern Tribes (USET)

Donald Leopold

Member, Syracuse Urban Forestry Master Plan Committee, December 2017 to present. Assisting Town of Nelson with Nelson Swamp Trail, July 2017 to present. Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, The Wetland Trust, Inc. (until January 2018) National Technical Committee for Wetland Vegetation, northeastern U.S. representative from academia to this US Army Corp of Engineers advisory committee, January 2007 to present. Upper Susquehanna Coalition, consulting on various wetland issues Frequent contributor, upon request, to the Syracuse Post-Standard Frequently answer questions from city of Syracuse employees regarding city trees, park plantings, and green infrastructure projects Numerous local and national TV and radio interviews including interviews on fall color, Gateway Building green roof, drought, invasive species, allergy season, and native plant species

Brian Leydet

Invited expert testimony to the New York State Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick Borne Diseases and the Senate Health Committee (April 29th 2017)

Karin Limburg

• TNC committee on Targeted Ecosystem Characteristics – restoration of Hudson River tributaries (dam removal) • NOAA Technical Working Group on River Herring • Hudson River Estuary Program committee on Gays Point wetland restoration • Advisory board LabEx COTE (center of excellence), University of Bordeaux, France

• Member, Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE), a working group under UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

Greg McGee

The Nature Conservancy, Central & Northern NY Chapter, Tug Hill Forest Properties Management Advisory Committee.

Lee Newman

Association of Environmental Health Sciences – Scientific Advisory Board, organizer for Annual Conference held in Amherst, MA, October, 2017 and to be held in October 2018 International Phytotechnology Society –Founding President; Chair of Gordon Award Committee, Chair of Educational Committee, Chair of Outstanding Professional Member Committee, Member Scientific Advisory Board for Annual Conference to be held in Montreal, September 2017. Chair of Organizing Committee for Biotechnology Research Symposium held in May 2018 in Syracuse, NY and to be held in May 2019. • Member, Environmental Chemistry Faculty Search Committee • Chair, Committee on Research • Member, Academic Governance Executive Committee • Coordinator, Environmental Health major • Curriculum group participant of Environmental Science • Mentor for Undergraduate Honors and CSTEP programs • Spoke at Environmental Science Orientation seminar • Lead in developing MD/PhD program with Upstate Medical University • Advisor, 3 + 3 Doctor of Physical Therapy Program • Lead in developing NIEHS grant program • Curriculum group participant of Environmental Science Coupled Natural and Human Systems • Coordinator, Environmental Science’s Health and the Environment focus area • Member of Hill Collaboration Nervous System Group • Member of Hill Collaboration Cancer Group • Member of Hill Collaboration Wounded Warrior Group • Chair, Biotechnology Research Symposium organizing committee • Supervisor, Environmental Health/Environmental Medicine Biotechnology Core Facility • Advisor: Food Studies Minor • Advisor: Environmental Health Minor • Lead, in developing 2+2 joint diploma programs with Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, in the majors of Environmental Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Health • Developing a collaborative program between Environmental Health group and the NYS Department of Health at the Wadsworth Center in Albany • Development of ESF/Brookhaven National Lab Research and Education Collaborations • Development of Research Collaboration program between ESF and Tyumen State University, Russia • Development of joint MS and PhD degree programs between ESF and Tyumen State University, Russia • Development of collaborative research programs with the Korean Institute of Oriental Medicine

Dylan Parry

Member, New York State Invasive Species Advisory Council It has a designated legislative charter and is composed of professionals.

Member, New York Forest Health Advisory Group. Share information, collaborate and coordinate activities of academic and government agencies involving major threats to the health of New York’s forests.

William Powell

Advisor to the NY chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation Science advisory board member of the national American Chestnut Foundation

Rebecca Rundell

Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Ontario, Canada and Station Biologique, Universite Rennes, France: Proud Globelet Recovery Plan (Patera pennsylvanica): Provided expert opinion on proposed recovery actions

Island Conservation: Provided land snail ecology, taxonomy, and field expertise and field supplies for baseline data collection prior to rat eradication [Island Conservation is an NGO that works to prevent extinctions by removing invasive species from islands.] Stephen Teale

Provided forensic analysis and testimony of extensive wood boring insect damage to cabinetry in support of plaintiff’s law suit

Scott Turner

Member. Science Advisory Board. Cheetah Conservation Fund. Video production services, Tully Arts Council

F. Service Learning

Stewart Diemont

In EFB 434/634 Ecosystem Restoration Design students worked with a community in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico and a faculty member at Chapingo University in San Cristobal de Las Casas on the design of rain water capture and a natural wastewater treatment system at a farm. In the coming years, student designs will be incorporated into final designs and construction at the site. These systems are meant to be a model for distributed wastewater treatment and water collection that will answer critical needs in the region for clean water and sanitation.

I redesigned EFB 518 Systems Ecology (this offering as EFB 496/796) to include service to climate change adaptation. Students this year modeled Houston, Texas under current conditions and with enhanced green infrastructure. They suggested green infrastructure interventions based on their ecological models to help Houston mitigate the effects of increasingly severe storm events. This work was in direct response to Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Houston in August. The model and report will be sent to Harris County Flood Control in Houston.

Robin Kimmerer

EFB 446/646 has a service-learning component. The students created an educational website on the mosses to be used by K-12 teachers.

EFB 796 has a service learning component. The students developed and presented a campus- wide workshop on integration of traditional knowledge into environmental research. They also performed a one-day service project in the forest garden at Onondaga Nation.

Karin Limburg

The EFB 500/SLU course had a service-learning component. The students helped to investigate a stream where dam removal was in the planning stages; the host could thus see what species would likely recolonize. Also, the students helped to brain-storm research to understand the causes underlying the loss of fishes in the lakes at Huntington Wildlife Forest.

Kim Schulz

EFB 525, Limnology Practicum, continued its successful service learning component in Fall 2017. Students could choose to work with two allied local lake associations (Song Lake Association and COFOKLA – Cortland Onondaga Federation of Kettle Lake Associations) to develop their independent projects on topics that were both scientifically relevant and of interest to the homeowners, or to work on a project unrelated to these lakes. About half of student time in the course was devoted to developing and performing these independent projects, in co-

91 operation with homeowners (when applicable) or sometimes with managers and practitioners in other areas.

The independent projects culminated in a scientific poster session and reception in 12 Illick Hall during finals week (14 December 2017) that was open to the public and attended by other undergraduate and graduate students not in the Practicum, faculty, members of the Song Lake Association and COFOKLA, as well as the DEC and other external scientists and the general community over 70 people attended the poster session. The projects continue to expand a database of water quality and species presence data that will be useful to the homeowners in lake management decisions.

During the course of the projects, one of the student groups found that zebra mussels had invaded Song Lake. Three students went on to do follow up work during the term and made an extra set of size and spatial distributional slides that then one of the students presented to a meeting of lake association, DEC and other governmental participants, and these data were used to inform citizens of implications and to formulate a management plan for the lake. One of the students went on to use these data in her Environmental Science capstone presentations.

At least four of the poster projects were used as final capstone projects in Environmental Science or Environmental Studies, and one was presented by a student at the New York meeting of the American Fisheries Society. On 9 April 2018 students were invited to present their posters at a COFOLKLA meeting at the Tully Community Church, and the projects related to the lakes were hung and students who were able to participate talked with the public about their projects and the lakes. About 40 citizens interacted with the public at this forum.

G. Support for Environmental Science

Required EFB Courses in Environmental Health program

1. EFB 101 Gen Bio I 2. EFB 102 Gen Bio Lab 3. EFB 103 Gen Bio II 4. EFB 104 Gen Bio Lab 5. EFB 303 Intro to Envir Microbiology 6. EFB 360 Epidemiolgy 7. EFB 400 Toxic Health Hazards

Required EFB Courses in Environmental Science program

8. EFB 101 Gen Bio I 9. EFB 102 Gen Bio Lab 10. EFB 103 Gen Bio II 11. EFB 104 Gen Bio Lab 12. EFB120 Global Environment 13. EFB 320 Ecology 14. EFB 524 Limnology Earth and Atmospheric Systems Science option 15. EFB 303 Intro to Envir Microbiology Environmental Analysis option 16. EFB Upper Division course (any) in Living Environment

EFB Administrative support of the Environmental Science Division

Faculty advisors- Stewart Diemont, Karin Limburg Area leaders - none EFB GA’s for GPES students- none

H. Departmental Governance Structure

Governance and Administrative Structure

Components: Chair (Donald Leopold July 1, 2017- January 18, 2018 Interim Chair Neil Ringler January 19 – May 31, 2018) Duties: Manage allocation of state, Research Foundation (research incentives), and College Foundation accounts Manage allocation of about 40 state graduate teaching assistantships Convene regular department meetings Represent department at biweekly Academic Council meetings Work with Development Office for fundraising Supervise about 34 faculty, one administrative assistant, two Instructional Support Specialists

and other staff Promote faculty and staff within and outside of the department and facilitate the many good ideas that regularly emanate from faculty Ensure that all regular and new undergraduate and graduate courses are offered as listed in the College Catalog or webpage; main contact with Registrar for any course changes. Work with Physical Plant on all planned renovations and emergency repairs Assist Provost with special projects as needed Represent department at all college open houses Prepare annual department report Associate Chairs (J. Gibbs and M Fierke) Duties: One (M. Fierke) assists with annual EFB pre-convocation student awards recognition, supervises the Keyboard 1 and 2 Specialists in the main administrative office, assists in miscellaneous ways. The other (J. Gibbs) is working on development (fundraising) activities with the Chair. Promotion and Tenure Committee (S. Teale, chair; J. Gibbs, J. Farrell, L. Newman, T. Horton). Curriculum and Course Assessment Committee (K. Schulz, chair; G. McGee, E. Folta, J. Cohen, and L. Newman) Duties: review all course and curricula changes in EFB and College; oversee course assessment of seven EFB undergraduate majors Graduate Program Advisory Committee (J. Cohen, chairs; Melissa Fierke, Karin Limburg, Danny Fernando, Dylan Parry, Martin Dovciak, Kim Schulz, Alison Kocek (Ph.D. student), Duties: advise chair on graduate matters and facilitate department decisions about policies Building and Space Committee (currently vacant) Field Program (including International Programs) Committee: inactive Awards Committee (chaired by M. Fierke) • Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Awards • Illustrious Alumni, Emeriti Awards

Supporting Offices, Committees, Directors, and Coordinators Administrative Office • Adminstrative Assistant to the Chair/Secretary 1 (Sandra Polimino) Duties: manages all department accounts (state, research foundation, and development) and submits payment for department bills; manages ranking of graduate applicants and currently overseeing administrative aspects of EFB graduate program; assists with annual student recognition the day of convocation; manages EFB’s digital display in foyer; manages requests by faculty for all vehicles for their classes; assists in managing the chair’s calendar and schedule; assists in development activities; assists faculty in various ways; handles reimbursements, etc. for seminar speakers; assists the chair with a multitude of tasks. • Secretary 1 (AnnMarie Clarke) Duties: provides support to Undergraduate Curriculum Director (UCD) for undergraduate program (7 majors); schedules prospective/accepted undergraduate student visits with Admissions; assists UCD with open house and transfer days; oversees summer mailings to incoming students; revises undergraduate handbook; assists with data collection for Undergraduate Program Assessments; provides faculty support for manuscripts, class work, and report preparations; assists

with arranging meetings, conferences, travel and hotel accommodations; orders department supplies; processes State and Research purchase requisitions for faculty and staff; modifies, updates and maintains EFB websites for EFB faculty; handles incoming and outgoing mail when KB 1 is out; handles routine maintenance of office equipment including fax and copier; assists with Cranberry Lake Biological Station registration; assists with assigning rooms for graduate students; provides support to Department Chair and Administrative Assistant • Keyboard Specialist 1 (Faith Ashmore) Duties: responsible for meeting and greeting all visitors to EFB; responds to all inquiries made by faculty, staff, and students; handles all incoming mail for EFB faculty, staff, and graduate students; assists Secretary 1, Keyboard Specialist 2, and Department Chair; orders office supplies for EFB administrative office; sets up a chart of each EFB conference room; handles routine maintenance of office equipment; oversees sign-out of digital equipment; types roster of faculty, staff and other key campus numbers and distributes to EFB faculty, staff, and grads; processes all Work Orders to Physical Plant; types Class Schedules (fall & spring) and post outside main office; processes State and Research purchase requisitions. Undergraduate Curriculum Director (G. McGee) Duties: Coordinate student recruitment events with Admissions; Develop orientation materials and programs for freshmen and transfer students; Update curriculum plan sheets, directed elective lists and the student handbook; Facilitate petitions; Coordinate department undergraduate advising; Serve as the department’s representative on the Academic Standards Review Committee; Compile and summarize ENB assessment data. Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinators (by major) Environmental Biology (G. McGee) Aquatic and Fisheries Science (D. Stewart) Biotechnology (W. Powell) Conservation Biology (J. Gibbs) Forest Health (TBA) Natural History and Interpretation (RBA) Wildlife Science (J. Frair) Graduate Program Director (D. Fernando) Duties: Act on petitions concerning different aspects of graduate program requirements and policies Review and sign (paper form and online) forms required for the completion of different majors and degrees (2A, 3B, 4, 5B and 6B) Reply to inquiries concerning EFB graduate program (through email, phone, and/or personal visits) on an almost daily basis from potential applicants and current graduate students Process each year about 150 graduate applications that involve the review of each application for initial assessment and designation of faculty reviewers, following up on the completion of the reviews on each application, summarizing the reviews for each application, and submitting EFB’s recommendation for each accepted and rejected applications to the Dean of Instructions and Graduate Studies

Provide orientation seminars to new graduate students about EFB graduate program and the new faculty about the graduate application process Serve as the department’s representative to the Graduate Council and raise issues regarding problems/suggestions on how to improve the graduate program, application and review process; shared the ideas and activities of the Graduate School to the department’s graduate committee and faculty Review applications and participate in the deliberations in granting Fellows for SUNY Diversity Fellowship and Bristol Myers Squibb Sustainability Fellowship Work with the Graduate Secretary on the update and improvement of the various facets of the EFB’s Graduate Webpage and graduate application filing system Cranberry Lake Biological Station (M Fierke and R. Kimmerer, co-Directors) Roosevelt Wild Life Station (J. Gibbs, Director; J. Frair, Associate Director) Thousand Islands Biological Station (J. Farrell, Director) Animal Use and Care Protocols (college-wide committee; C. Whipps) Exhibits Coordinator (E. Folta) Instructional Support Specialist Supervisors • K. Adams – S. Teale • R. Giegerich – J. Frair • P. McHale – K. Schulz • N Walker-Kopp- Ringler • T. Ettinger – D. Leopold

I. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment (Kim Schulz)

The Department of Environmental and Forest Biology oversees seven majors: Aquatic and Fisheries Science, Biotechnology, Conservation Biology, Environmental Biology, Environmental Education and Interpretation, Forest Health, and Wildlife Science. Associate Professor Greg McGee is the Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator and Associate Professor Kimberly Schulz is the Chair of the EFB Curriculum and Assessment Committee (CCAC). This year Jonathan Cohen stepped down from the CCAC, and was replaced by another Wildlife representative, Jacqui Frair. We are still short one committee member due to the departure of Elizabeth Folta last year. McGee and Schulz participated in a number of planning sessions with faculty from other departments (including FNRM, ES and the Huntington Wildlife Station) regarding the future of the Environmental Education major and potential cross-departmental majors in this field, generating a position paper and a discussion with the Provost about the future of this and related majors. Currently the EEI major has no full time faculty teaching its classes or advising for the major in EFB, which is a concern to the CCAC and is hindering assessment efforts for that major.

This year Aquatic and Fisheries Science and Wildlife Science majors continued to administer final assessment exams to their graduating seniors, and the Conservation Biology major developed a new final assessment instrument for the first time, which was administered in their Senior Synthesis class. Faculty in these majors also led exit interviews with graduating seniors to solicit suggestions about their programs. The CCAC is awaiting final data entry and reports from each major.

Plans to meet individually with faculty representatives and directors from each major during the Spring 2018 semester to go over the full assessment process again and make sure that faculty understand the nature of the assessment process (discussed at length in several faculty meetings) and enter the assessment data for their courses were hindered and delayed by the disruptions to the EFB and ESF administrative structure.

CCAC also initiated discussion about a potential new way to assess professional experience for majors that require this experience (e.g., internships, research assistantships), which would potentially be more flexible, engage lower and upper classmen in professional experience discussion and learning throughout their time at ESF, and avoid some potential financial difficulties related to gaining professional experience for students in formal internships. Schulz has discussed these ideas with other departments and Ann Moore, in experiential learning, and we are working on implementing these ideas at the ESF level over the next term/year so that our curricula can incorporate these changes. We believe these changes will result in better student outcomes and engagement, and will solicit feedback on these ideas. The proposed changes would facilitate assessment of the impacts of the various professional experiences undertaken by EFB (and ESF) students and provide better feedback for curricular changes and student outcome assessment.

The current EFB plan is for McGee and Schulz to convene prior to start of classes and have the EFB Curriculum Committee meet with the head of each EFB major, confirm the faculty members’ assessment data entry, and work with them on assessment reports. We initiated requests for funding to convene a department retreat related to assessment in December 2017,

98 but again these were sidelined by administrative changes. We considered inclusion of representative graduate students or undergraduates from each major in the process, and will discuss this with the EFB larger group when we convene at the start of the semester. We will again request funding for a retreat late in fall 2018 or early in 2019 so EFB as a group review the assessment findings of each major (this would be a retreat subsequent to the CCAC meeting with faculty in each major). We anticipate completing the full EFB assessment report by the start of the term in January 2019.

J. Honors and Awards

Jonathan Cohen

A. Bleau (M.S. student), second place, best student poster competition. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM. September 2017.

John Farrell

Exemplary Researcher Award, SUNY ESF Research Foundation

Shannon Farrell

SUNY ESFs “Outstanding Academic Advisor”

James Gibbs

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Robin Kimmerer

New York State Outdoor Educators Award in Literary Excellence

Women of Distinction award, NYS Assembly

Karin Limburg

• Visiting Professor, Department of Aquatic Resources, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU); 5/2015 – 4/2020 (I was extended 2 years). • Lise Meitner Visiting Professor, Division of Nuclear Physics, Dept. of Physics, Lund University; 11/2015 – 10/2018. • SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2018

Neil Ringler

Announced April 18, 2018; to be awarded August 19, 2018 in Atlantic City NJ: American Fisheries Society- Excellence in Fisheries Education Award

Rebecca Rundell

Research Associate, Paleontological Research Institution (2015-2018)

Alexander Weir

This past year I received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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K. Progress on objectives for 2017-2018

Department-specific initiatives and their relationship to the College strategic plan (including Bridging Document/Vision 2020 Update)

1. Objectives for 2017-18 were detailed on pp. 37-40 of the previous year’s annual report. 2. These included a. development of new metrics for EFB Promotion and Tenure decisions b. Preparations for assessment of the seven majors in EFB c. Restoration of our Environmental Interpretation program with renewed emphasis on Natural History. d. Reestablishment of the Forest Pathologist line and enhancement of our unique Forest Health program (major) e. Expansion of our Conservation Biology major f. Hiring of a Full Professor via the Campfire Endowment Fund g. Continued pursuit of donor contributions to establish a professorship in Waterfowl and Wetlands Ecology as well as in Tree Genetics and Environmental Health h. Implementation of a Departmental strategic planning process synergistic with that at the College level 3. The primary accomplishments in 2017-2018 relative to these objectives and College strategic planning included:

Recognition of the need for enrollment growth planning that entails discussion with the EFB faculty.

Establishment and management of a vital program in Environmental Health.

Advertising for New Faculty (Vertebrate Conservation Biology) to deal with advising and teaching needs.

Establishment of a course in general biology for non-majors that will open to about 80 students Fall semester 2018.

Successful recruitment of new faculty (Campfire Professor Jerry Belant) to further elevate wildlife and conservation biology programs to national prominence.

Completion of the new Roosevelt Wild Life Museum facility in the Gateway Center, to open in Fall 2018., and establish for the for the first since 1919 time of an actual space for the Station (Rm 11 Illick)

Continued support of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station via bio-blitzes on private donor properties, and establishment of a physical space dedicated to the Station (Room 11, Illick Hall.)

Preparations for an internal search for the next Chair of the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology.

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4. Looking forward strategically in EFB for ESF

A number of initiatives on behalf of EFB and ESF were delayed this year, but they remain as vital objectives. These include:

Reestablishment of our strong program in Environmental Interpretation/Education, supported by two professorships, with a greater emphasis on Natura History, following the departure of Dr. Beth Folta. We have proposed to share this set of programs with at least one other department.

Reestablishment of our program in Forest Health, following the retirement of of forest pathologist, Dr. John Castello. Our Forest Pathologist position is synergistic with many research and teaching areas both in EFB and FNRM.

Formal assessment of the seven undergraduate majors in the Department by outside evaluators, which is a SUNY requirement. The groundwork for these assessments is being laid by the EFB Curriculum and Course Assessment Committee. Their work is also described in Section I of this report (External reviews are also needed, likely College wide, of our graduate programs).

Enhancement of additional metrics/guidelines for Promotion and Tenure, as previously proposed to the Faculty, and strengthening the connection between our mentoring program and P/T; (the later was recognized enhanced this past year).

Completion of the funded Onondaga Lake Science Center located on the Lake or Inner Harbor, and development of a sustainable plan to operate it.

Continued efforts to establish endowed Chairs in our most active teaching and research areas, including a professorship in Waterfowl and Wetlands Ecology, and in Biotechnology.

Long –term Chair Dr. Donald Leopold shared these ideas last year, and they remain significant signposts for EFB and ESF (2016-17 report pp. 41-43):

“In addition to animal-focused conservation issues, we could profitably focus on becoming a “National Center for Restoration of Threatened Tree Species”, building on the College’s work on American chestnut. More broadly, ESF also is positioned to become globally recognized as a leader in the restoration of rare/threatened plants (not only trees). Either focus would necessarily involve not just plant biotechnologist, but would include the array of specialties that enables conservation-on-the- ground to advance from ecology, silviculture, entomology, mycology, plant physiology, social science, communications, and more. ESF/EFB has demonstrated capability to do this through our work on restoration of American chestnut and the federally-listed American hart’s tongue fern, through the use of in vitro or semi-in vitro produced planting materials. We will need at least a state-of-the-art laboratory facility for propagation so we can expand our scope in terms of the number of species to work on. The focus on the biology and propagation of rare/threatened plants in the Northeast U.S., and especially the integration of ecological perspectives with biotechnology tools, differentiate us from other institutions in the country focused on plant conservation.

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“The potentials for this Center are enormous given a focus on the prevention and management of threats to trees and other plant species wherever they occur (urban, backyard, wilderness, plantation). ESF already has three excellent forest entomologists working on invasive species issues in forests and many other faculty here addressing these issues within their areas of expertise. ESF should be able to carve out a niche in the area of invasive species research by focusing on trees. “A further area of strength (and potential further strengthening) is EFB’s fisheries programs at ESF are pushing boundaries both spatially and in techniques/methods development, combining the traditional (e.g., systematics) with new (e.g., hard part (otoliths, scales, bones) microchemistry). Our small and under-staffed program has repeatedly been ranked as one of the very top in the Nation. One option to further strengthen this area is to fill the “open” biogeochemist position with someone also trained in and emphasizing aquatic ecosystems. “Urban ecology was a great former strength of ESF and could easily be so yet again. For example, the term "biophilic city" has been used to describe how to reconfigure cities to be more eco- friendly and better places to live. While one individual department has tried to own this area at ESF, the most exciting opportunities involve many departments together here. It is ironic that ESF is nearly unique among environmental colleges in its deep urban setting yet has virtually no engagement in the pressing urban ecology issues of the day. Moreover, urban ecology necessarily engages a diverse populace both in terms of service and potentially recruitment. As such getting more active in urban issues would greatly assist ESF in its overall campaign toward greater inclusion and equity on environmental issues. “Three final strategic areas for consideration for investment include ecosystem restoration -- another direction that the department could develop more strongly especially if the focus is not only "wild" systems, but even urban systems and production systems. Second is for ESF to become a center for Ecological Economics, where we currently enjoy prominence despite limited faculty devoted to the area. We would need a couple of new faculty hires, at a minimum, for that. Third, ESF can offer Environmental Health programs that are unlike any others. Some focal areas that have been discussed include: (1) understanding how “nature-deficit disorder” affects the health of people, especially children; (2) examining environmental health after natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy and other events like catastrophic tornadoes. Indeed, many aspects of EFB involve working toward a healthier world for wild species and humans – formalizing, organizing and augmenting this emphasis could benefit the college immensely. “It has long been stated that a true measure of excellence for EFB would be to have faculty members become fellows of National Academies, or even become Nobel laureates. To do so, ESF needs far more investment in better labs, and more resources to fill those labs with grad students and post- docs, not to mention more time for faculty to devote to research. This remains an intriguing target but practical concerns render it unrealistic at this time. “Bolstering our field stations and thereby our well-known experiential “boots-on-the-ground” earning programs is another area for strategic growth. At a time that most University field stations have been abandoned, ESF’s Cranberry Lake Biological Station’s importance has risen from regional to national. TIBs is also nationally known. But to meet the instructional and research needs at these stations, particularly CLBS, renovations are needed, especially to living quarters and instructional spaces to accommodate the large number of students and faculty during the summer. ”ESF and EFB have been relatively successful because: (1) we have a strong mission that is more relevant than ever; (2) we have a lot of expertise on the campus in support of that mission; (3) what we focus on is generally accessible and appealing to the public, and (4) we are still pretty nimble, although the administrative hoops are getting harder to jump through, and some supporting facilities are seriously degraded (e.g., the physical plant's capabilities, college fleet, Illick Hall, etc.). And it is great that we still have our extensive properties; our history tied to the fate of New York's forests is both

103 interesting and an excellent platform for expanding research and education in sustainability. ESF/EFB can offer interesting, non-traditional courses that engage students in exciting ways; that we incorporate students into our research programs; and that we can encourage folks to think outside the box. Other institutions have built highly successful (and lucrative) programs for public engagement on natural history, exploration of the natural world, and conservation, and done so with less opportunity (no lands like we have) and in states with access to far smaller populations and less financial resources. Careful study of successful enterprises and their programming and operations would behoove ESF/EFB. “Our biology program is different, and appealingly so, because of its applied focus. Faculty and students study subjects that need urgent attention. In a word, we are “relevant.” We are grateful to come to work each day to address important problems for society that relate to forest and environmental biology. And doubly grateful to see a shared desire for a healthier natural world in the students we teach. With very healthy undergraduate and graduate enrollments, the addition of thirteen faculty the past twelve years (Drs. Frair, Whipps, Dovciak, Fierke, McGee, Newman, Cohen, Rundell, S. Farrell, Diemont, Green, Leydet, and Razavi), tremendous effort by many of the senior faculty, greater use efficiency and enhancements of existing space, and improvements at our field stations, the department is closer towards realizing its basic goal of being one of the premier environmental biology programs. The EFB Chair hopes that with the department’s strong foundation and energy from many new faculty and the highly productive established faculty that the department is poised to discuss and move towards EFB’s aspirations beyond what has already been articulated and attained.”

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L. Certification

Certification that all Professional employees have had an annual evaluation and a new performance program in place by June 2018 (List by Human Resources)

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M. Appendices

1. EFB Faculty: Rank, Degree, Interest areas

Name and Title Degrees Interest Areas

Castello, John D. PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin Assessment of forest health, beech bark Professor and MS, Washington State disease Associate Univ. BA, Montclair Chair State College

Cohen, Jonathan B. PhD, Virginia Tech Wildlife ecology and management, population Assistant Professor MS, U. Connecticut and habitat ecology, threatened and BS, Cornell University endangered species.

Diemont, Stewart A.W. PhD, Ohio State Systems ecology, ecological engineering, Associate Professor MS, Univ. of North traditional ecological knowledge, ecosystem Carolina restoration, sustainability analysis, natural BA, Univ. of Texas wastewater treatment systems and re-use, lesser-developed countries, agroecology

Dovciak, Martin Plant ecology; forest ecology; biodiversity; Associate Professor PhD, Univ. of Minnesota plant population & community dynamics; Dipl. Engin.,. Zvolen spatial ecology; ecosystem management & Technical restoration University

Farrell, John M. PhD, SUNY ESF Fisheries management, aquatic ecology, Professor MS, SUNY ESF wetlands restoration, St. Lawrence River BS, Cornell University studies, muskellunge and northern pike ecology & mgt., invasive species Farrell, Shannon L. PhD, Texas A&M Assistant Professor MS, Texas A&M Wildlife ecology, E&T species and habitat, BA, Brown University anthropogenic impacts, quantification approaches for wildlife habitat services, policy innovations for implementing the ESA

Fernando, Danilo D. PhD, Univ of Alberta, Plant reproductive biology, plant structure and Associate Professor Canada MS, Univ of development, in vitro fertilization in conifers, Philippines BS, pollen transformation & gene expression Mountain State Agr. Coll. during pollen tube development

Fierke, Melissa K. PhD, University of Forest entomology and forest ecology; Associate Professor Arkansas impacts of invasives in forested settings with MS, Oregon State a focus on wood-boring insects.

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University BS, Arkansas Tech Folta, Elizabeth University Natural history & interpretation, informal Assistant Professor AA, North Arkansas CC biology education, environmental education.

PhD, North Carolina State MS, North Carolina State BA, University North Carolina

Frair, Jacqueline L. PhD, Univ of Alberta, Wildlife and landscape ecology, animal Associate Professor Canada movements and habitat use, predator-prey MS, University of interactions Wisconsin BS, Cornell University Gibbs, James P. PhD, Yale University Conservation biology, ecological monitoring, Professor and MA, University of wildlife management, population biology and Associate Missouri conservation genetics Chair BS, University of Maine

Molecular microbial ecology, co-evolution of Green, Hyatt C. PhD, Oregon State Univ. microbes with their animal hosts, microbial Assistant Professor BS, Univ. Georgia source tracking and water quality, microbial biogeography Horton, Thomas R. PhD, Univ of Cal.-Berkeley Mycorrhizal ecology and systematics, Associate Professor MA, San Francisco State mycology, restoration ecology Univ. BA, Humboldt State University Kimmerer, Robin W. PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin Ethnob otany, conservation biology, and Distinguished MS Univ. of Wisconsin bryophyte ecology Teaching BS, SUNY ESF Professor Leopold, Donald J. PhD, Purdue University Forest and wetland ecology; understanding Distinguished MSF, University of drivers of species abundance and diversity at Teaching Kentucky BS, University micro to macro scales; application of unique Professor and of Kentucky communities to sustainable landscapes; Chair dendrology

PhD, Louisiana State Univ Infectious and vector-borne diseases, Leydet, Brian F. MPH, Univ. North Florida arthropods of veterinary and medical Assistant Professor BS, Old Dominion importance, vector biology, disease ecology, molecular biology

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Limburg, Karin E. PhD, Cornell University Fisheries ecology, ecosystem ecology, fish Professor MS, University of Florida migration, biogeochemical tracers, ecological AB, Vassar College modeling, ecological economics Lomolino, Mark V. PhD, SUNY Binghamton Biogeography; conservation biology, diversity Professor MS, University of Florida in isolated ecosystems and habitat islands. BS, SUNY-Cortland McGee, Gregory G. PhD, SUNY ESF Forest ecology, management, and restoration; Assistant Professor MS, SUNY ESF effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on BS, Allegheny College northern hardwood forests. McNulty, Stacy A. MS, SUNY ESF Forest and landscape ecology, applied GIS; Research Associate BA, SUNY Geneseo ecology, conservation, and forest management in the Adirondacks Newman, Lee A. PhD, Rutgers & RWJ Med. Phytoremediation, molecular and cellular Associate Professor Sch. biology, plant MS, Rutgers & RWJ Med nanoparticle interactions, plant endophyte Sch. interactions, horticultural therapy, BS, Stockton State College hyperspectral imaging for plant contaminant AA, Atlantic Com. Coll. exposure and plant stress, plant metal interactions and mine site restoration, environ. health. Parry, Dylan PhD, Michigan State Univ. Forest insect ecology, population dynamics of Associate Professor MS, University of Alberta defoliatin g Lepidoptera, ecology of predators, BS, University of Alberta parasitoids, and pathogens of forest caterpillars, invasive species in forested environments, top-down (natural enemies) and bottom-up (host plant) regulation of insect populations, evolution of life-history strategies in solitary and gregarious caterpillars.

Paterson, Gordon PhD, University of Environmental and aquatic toxicology, Assistant Professor Windsor ecotoxicology, emerging pollutants, food web MS, Trent University bioaccumulation and biomagnification, BS, University of Waterloo persistent organic pollutants as indicators of species bioenergetics and individual, food web and ecological efficiencies. Powell, William A. PhD, Utah State University Forest biotechnology, molecular plant- Professor BS, Salisbury State microbe interactions, plant genetic University engineering, plant gene analysis

Ringler, Neil H. PhD, Univ. Michigan Aquatic ecology, fish behavior, fisheries Distinguished MS, Oregon State Univ. science Teaching BA, California State at Professor and Vice Long Provost for Research Beach

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Roxanne Razavi PhD,Queens’s Univ. Limnology, toxic health hazards, aquatic MSc Queen’s Univ. ecology; mercury and nutrient cycling BSc McMaster University

Rundell, Rebecca J. Assistant Professor Invertebrate conservation biology, PhD, Univ. Chicago evolutionary biology, tropical biodiversity, MS, Univ. Chicago and adaptive and non- Univ. adaptive radiations, organismal biology Hawaii at Manoa (Pacific island land snails, microscopic marine BS, Cornell Univ. invertebrates)

Schulz, Kimberly L. PhD, University of Nutrient and exotic species effects on aquatic Associate Professor Michigan BA, Cornell ecosystems; ecological stoichiometry, aquatic University community and ecosystem ecology; bioenergetics; nutrient cycling; lower food web studies; Great Lakes; Finger Lakes

Stewart, Donald J. PhD, University of Fish ecology and fisheries management; Professor Wisconsin MS, University ecological energetics; modeling predation and of Michigan BS, production processes; Great Lakes University of Michigan ecosystems; Amazonian ecosystems; ecology and systematics of Neotropical freshwater fishes Teale, Stephen A. PhD, SUNY ESF Forest entomology; chemical ecology; Professor MS, University of Kansas pheromones of forest insects; evolution of BA, College of St. Rose pheromone communication

Turner, J. Scott PhD, Colorado State Univ. Animal physiology; physiological ecology, Professor MS & BA University of thermal energetics; biology of body size; California-Santa-Cruz physiology of gas exchange

Weir, Alexander PhD, University of Systematics and evolutionary biology of fungi Professor Newcastle using classical and modern molecular upon Tyne approaches; fungal biodiversity and BS, University of Bradford, conservation; fungal arthropod interactions; UK biology of parasites and symbionts

Whipps, Christopher M. PhD, Oregon State Fish and wildlife diseases, parasitology, Associate Professor University microbiology, taxonomy, molecular BS, University of Victoria systematics, diagnostics, parasites as at biological tags and ecological indicators Malaspina U.-College

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2. Summary of Individual Faculty’s Most Significant Accomplishments

Jonathan Cohen

My capstone course went back to its long-term average size this year, which was a relief. I had fun teaching it, but unfortunately there was a miscommunication so it was the first year when response rates on the end of course survey was <30%. Those few reviews were relatively good. However, most students filled out my custom course survey on Blackboard and they were generally positive. I taught my population parameter estimation class for the first time in 2.5 years, and I had a new 696 course number such that I was able to take undergrads. I had 2 enrollees, and also got the class accepted as part of the Statistics Minor. It was challenging to teach the class with grads and undergrads, but I got very positive feedback. The Spring Core Course had a very strong group of grad students, and I had fun working with Dr. Fierke to mentor them through the proposal writing process.

It was an eventful academic year, as I graduated my first 2 Ph.D. students in the summer and 3 M.S. students in the Spring. I continued to get papers published with my grad students, which is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job. One of my graduating Ph.D. students is staying on as a post-doc, so I am learning to retool my style to allow her to become more of a full partner in the research and in fact she is taking a major lead role. I have had success with grant-writing, with two large grants from the New York State DEC for continued work with saltmarsh sparrows and New England cottontail. I am excited about both projects, as they entail evaluating habitat management that followed the recommendations of previous thesis work by my grad students. In the Fall, all of the students in my lab plus my former post-doc and Ph.D. student traveled with me and my co-PI Mike Schummer to Albuquerque, NM for The Wildlife Society Annual Conference. All in all, we presented 8 talks and a poster, which won my M.S. student second prize for best student poster. It was a time of overwhelming pride in my lab, and they continued to shine through the Spring as several of them traveled to state and regional conferences to present their work.

It was my year off from University committees but I continued to serve the college in my role as reviewer for Sussman. I also continue to chair GPAC, which was very active this year. We conducted another grad survey on quality of work life, and presented the faculty on our work related to graduate success and the metrics used to assign teaching assistantships. I performed designated member review for IACUC and am happy to say, as their advisor, that The Wildlife Society Student Chapter won another regional quiz bowl.

I gave my first University seminar, at UConn, where I got the chance to synthesize several lines of work my grad students are doing on early successional beach and forest wildlife species. My grad student and I got the experience of serving as assistant coaches at a structured decision making workshop, focused on predator management to benefit piping plovers. I also helped organize another year’s publication award for the Waterbird Society.

Stewart Diemont

Students

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I work closely with students on their research and explore new ways to teach. This year I advised eight graduate students and served on the committee of six other students. I developed one new course and modified one of my courses, seeking to provide enriching and diverse education. I am mentoring my advisees in the investigation traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and environmental restoration in the northeastern US, southern Mexico, Guatemala, and western India. They are researching the ecological and society needs, mechanisms, and implications of TEK. This work spans from rural to urban contexts, but all of these projects are at the critical intersection of nature and culture, where they consider ecosystem services, paying special attention to the provisioning of food. Two of my advisees graduated this year with PhD.’s. Writing with me, two graduate advisees and one undergraduate advisee submitted their research to peer-reviewed international journals, one article is already published, two accepted with revisions. Recognizing an interest in agricultural systems science at ESF, I consulted with scientists throughout Europe on the potential for a field course on agricultural systems that I will work to develop in the coming years. With Robin Kimmerer, Colin Beier (FNRM) and Elizabeth Vidon (Environment Studies), I worked this year on both a biocultural restoration course and a knowledge integration course. These courses are central to biocultural restoration education at ESF, an effort funded by the USDA. We welcomed our first cohort of five students into this new program; students will in some cases explore the TEK of their own Native American tribes for their master’s research. I submitted through the Committee on Curriculum major revisions to EFB 518 Systems Ecology, now Systems Ecology: Ecological Modeling and Design. In this revised course we will use ecological models as a means to better design ecological engineering, ecosystem restoration, and environmental design, with an eye toward turning theory into practice. This first year we considered climate change adaptation for Houston, Texas.

Department/ College

I served the college and department in a number of ways this year, from extensive committee work to club advising. I wore several hats for Academic Governance: on the Executive Committee, where we facilitated the process for administration evaluation; the Library Committee; and on the Honors Committee, where we advised on honorary degree recipients and Chancellor's Awards for service, teaching, and research. I continued as the Area Leader of the Ecosystem Restoration area of the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences (GPES), an area that I developed six years ago. The area continues to be strong and has one of the highest applicant pools in GPES. I also continued in my advisory role for the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment (CNPE) and the ESF student chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (ESF SER). The CNPE is entering an exciting new phase, as we develop our teaching and research partnerships with Salish Kootenai College and Hopa Mountain through our USDA Higher Education Challenge grant. ESF SER worked on a number of local and international restoration projects, including working with Brady urban farm in Syracuse.

Self Professionally

I continue to explore the intersection of ecological resilience with traditional, local, or indigenous knowledge and design. During the past decade much of my work has been focused in Mesoamerica, in particular a few villages in Mexico. I have been expanding my focus, looking at

111 other communities in southern US, northern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and in many parts of Europe. I conducted interviews this past summer in Belize and Mexico to better understand climate change recognition and adaptation in traditional food ecosystems. Adaptation strategies appear to range from biological and physical indicators that allow groups to be nimble in the face of changing precipitation and temperature, to community re-adoption of and commitment to TEK, which allows them greater resilience. One of my master’s students is following up on this work this summer for his MS research. I continued work on TEK and ecosystem restoration in Mexico. We are better understanding succession in these systems and how Lacandon Maya farmers contribute to ecosystem services that they use (e.g., food and raw materials) while accelerating soil nutrient regeneration. We have also determined how bird communities respond to TEK design. We continued monitoring a long-term study site that I evaluate with students (both graduate advisees and students in EFB 434/634) that looks into how TEK restoration compares to more conventional forms of forest restoration. We completed the first article from this study; our results belie current understanding of diversity and annual production in these systems, indicating that perhaps these systems are considerably more productive than is currently believed. In New York I continued my work with food systems and traditional ecological knowledge, advising two graduate students in this area. This spring I spent a sabbatical in Europe, mostly northern Portugal. I am developing novel research directions in agroforestry, urban design, and climate change adaptation; and began to strengthened collaborative relationships there. I also began learning Portuguese during my sabbatical, which is necessary for this research and field teaching. I explored urban ecosystems throughout Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Scotland, focusing on sites of urban agriculture and green infrastructure to begin to determine how the northeastern US could learn from and share with European colleagues about food system design and ecosystem restoration. To begin to determine how traditional viticulture can be a part of climate change adaptation, I interviewed farmers and managers in northern Portugal about traditional vineyard design (about systems with trees and vines together). I also completed initial sampling of soil moisture and temperature within these systems.

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Students

I taught Plant Ecology and Global Change (EFB 445/645) to one of the largest enrollments in this class (47 students, incl. 10 graduate), Flowering Plants: Diversity, Evolution, and Systematics (EFB 435/635) once again to the full capacity (25 students), and EFB 523 Tropical Ecology (co-taught w/D. Stewart) for which we had to increase the enrollment cap due to large interest (to 18 students, incl. 1 graduate). This was a very busy year for teaching. A new edition of the course textbook became available for EFB 435/635, which required considerable updates to flowering plants system and other course material. In addition, the logistics for EFB 523, which includes a 10-day field trip to the island of Dominica in the Caribbean over the Spring break, became quite complicated as the entire island, including the field station, was damaged by Hurricane Maria and we could not hold the class in that location. Since we had a large interest from students after the ESF Fall Study Abroad event, we proceeded to redevelop the field trip for a new location, the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the upper Amazon region of Ecuador. The new location required a very significant effort throughout Fall and Spring to set the field visit up,

112 since we were working with new set of on-site collaborators and site requirements (e.g., compulsory yellow fever vaccinations), and we had to design all the program and all the logistics from the scratch (new course approvals, hotels, bus rental, field guides/program, course webpage redesign). However, I am pleased to report that the extra work paid off: We experienced some of the rarest creatures in their native habitats (e.g., giant river otters) in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet (Yasuni Biosphere Reserve); we had the largest enrollment in the class; and the students seemed to enjoy the trip in particular as evidenced by their many comments. In addition, I continued to work with my four current PhD students (Berdugo had her first paper accepted for publication in Global Ecology and Biodiversity; Whalen and Roberts passed their candidacy exams, and Arias completed his first field season and received funding via Grober Fellowship for his second summer).

Department/College

I was intensively involved with the establishment of the new collaboration between the college and partner institutions including Central Pine Barrens Commission, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and NYS DEC, led by our VP for Research, Chris Nomura. The effort involved multiple colleagues, meetings, phone conferences, and workshops both at ESF and on Long Island, and developing new collaborative proposals; ultimately we identified several projects with a high collaborative potential, including the study of Pine Barrens forest dynamics for which I received funding from our McIntire-Stennis program. In addition, I continued to represent College/Department in my broader professional service including (1) serving as an editorial board member in two flagship journals of the International Association for Vegetation Science (Journal of Vegetation Science, Applied Vegetation Science), and (2) serving as a PI or co-PI in larger collaborative research teams including several institutions and projects (i) NYSERDA project on acid deposition effects on plant diversity in the Adirondacks, and (ii) NYS DEC and Cornell Cooperative Extension project “Evaluating deer impacts on forests of New York State”. I contributed to hiring Nancy B. Walker-Kopp as our new Instructional Support Specialist as a member of the search committee active during summer to make the hire by the start of the Fall semester. I continue to serve as a member of several faculty groupings (e.g., GPAC, GPES) and I represented Conservation Biology major at EFB Spring Open House. I continued to contribute to departmental teaching program by giving guest lectures on flowering plants in EFB 210 Diversity of Life I (3 lectures), and in EFB 326 Plant Evolution, Diversification and Conservation (1 lecture). I provided an interview to the Associated Press on how forests are responding to changing climate that resulted in a story mentioning ESF/EFB that was picked up by many national (and regional) outlets, including New York Times, LA Times, and Washington Post.

Self/Professional Development

I received NSF funding for a new project “Linking Forest Regeneration, Plant Distributions, and Ecotone Dynamics in Changing Mountain Environments” with me as a sole PI ($322,992; 2018- 2021; all to ESF) and recruited a new PhD student to join the project. This funding builds on earlier smaller grants that I received from NSRC and McIntire-Stennis program, that allowed my lab to establish an extensive climate-vegetation monitoring network across the Northeast and publish several papers last year in well-respected and visible outlets (incl. Global Change

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Biology). In addition, I visited Technical University in Zvolen in Slovakia again to pursue collaborative research on various aspects of long term-forest dynamics (we submitted a new paper on expanding thickets of mountain dwarf pine in the western Carpathians, so this collaboration continues to be productive). Overall, I co-authored five peer-reviewed publications that are now published, in press, or accepted, and three additional papers that were submitted for peer-review. Other significant accomplishment this past year for me was an invited lecture and being an invited panelist at the Ontario Vegetation Management Association Annual Meeting in Kingston in Canada.

John Farrell For the students

TIBS is again filled to capacity for the 2018 field season with one post-doctoral fellow, six graduate students and seven undergraduates and two 2018 ESF graduates. They will play a significant role in fulfilling data collection and graduate student project support my extramurally funded research and monitoring initiatives and be part of the TIBS community. I provided significant student interaction and experiences in both teaching and research with a number of professionals from a variety of agencies including USGS, USFWS, DEC and other NGOs. I supported students to attend and participate in professional venues and conferences. One student Alex Kua (co-advised with Dr. John Stella) was honored with the Best Student Poster award at the annual meeting of the New York American Fisheries Society Meeting.

For the department/college

I continue to work on a 5-year contract with NYS DEC for $1.4M and another contract with USFWS for $610K directed toward pursuing novel population of and habitat restoration initiatives to support St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes fisheries. I’m also engaged in collaborations with ESF faculty and support of three co-advised graduate students at TIBS. I maintain significant collaborations with Carleton University and the Cornell Veterinary College through TIBS based research. We added utilities to the new mainland storage and research facility in Clayton as a part of TIBS. I recently hosted our annual potluck and discussion for AFS May graduates and participating faculty to discuss their experiences at ESF and how we might improve our program.

For self professionally

I finished obligations as co-editor of a peer-reviewed book that represents a historical advance in the biology and management of muskellunge published in December 2017. I have helped organize and led an effort to incorporate efforts to restore the St. Lawrence River muskellunge population in collaboration with NYSDEC. We raised and released ~4600 juvenile muskellunge cultured at TIBS and implanted each with an internal pit tag to track their success and movements using our long-term research approach in an effort to restore this at-risk population. I was honored to present the Dale Travis Lecture in spring of 2018 and receive the 2017 Exemplary Researcher Award after the presentation.

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Students

Since attending the Scientific Teaching Institute in summer 2016 I have worked to update my courses with more active learning time, and have been working on the more challenging task of fine tuning active learning in my larger classes including EFB 390 with an enrollment of ≈ 90 students. This has paid off with increasing engagement and positive feedback from students comments and emails form students (“I wanted to thank you. You have been an incredible professor, one of the best I've ever had, and I look forward to taking another class with you. I also appreciate the job opportunities that you have shared with us, and your willingness to go out of your way to help your students”). I also worked on using scientific teaching approaches to design and pilot my Ornithology course as a partly online course so that I could continue to run the course while on maternity leave. This was a challenge to juggle but I was determined to continue to serve as the instructor of this course in hopes that this was best for students. This went well and I learned a great deal that will help me develop this into a fully functional online course in the future. Outside of the classroom, I continue to focus on helping students get exposure to wildlife professionals and to help them find and prepare for internships, seasonal jobs, and grad school opportunities by offering one-on-one and min-workshops to work on resumes and cover letters, to find interesting job opportunities, or to find and talk with professional mentors. It was a challenge to feel like I was doing all that I wanted to help serve my advisees and other students who’ve sought my advice with a leave this semester, but I was thrilled that my advisees felt they were well served as they nominated and awarded me the Outstanding Academic Advisor Awards this year. I’ve also been increasing the number of undergrads working with my graduate student researchers and/or conducting related independent projects, to try to help as many students as possible gain valuable and resume-boosting experiences. Teaching the Philosophy of Science portion of the Fall grad Core Course for the 3rd time, I continued to get enthusiastic feedback such that I plan to offer a stand-alone Philosophy of Science grad seminar in the upcoming academic year.

Department/College

As a member of IQAS, I’ve been continuing work to develop plans for a Center for Teaching and Learning and to identify and implement a better system for course evaluations to better use the feedback to effectively improve teaching and learning outcomes. I’ve served as advisor to an increasingly active and engaged Birding Club. As a member of the Fink Fellowship committee I’ve had the privilege of helping distribute funds to some deserving students. I’ve continued to work as a CSTEP mentor to help CSTEP students with research and professional development opportunities. Working under the guidance of J. Frair, J. Gibbs, and others, along with the NYNHP, I have been working to secure funding from DEC to make ESF the hub of a large mammal distribution-mapping project that will support and augment ESF’s position as a key collaborator with NYDEC. WE hope to start this work in summer 2018. Lastly, I have grown my lab, adding to the grad student population of the department with 6 MS students and 2 PhD students currently active in the lab. This has meant the growth and expansion of the work in our lab, going both more deeply as we increase our footprint in the world of much-needed bat research and more broadly as we dive into projects from studying the role of birds in tick and Lyme disease dynamics to investigating what ecological and human/social factors contribute to

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Self

I have now completed almost 5 years in this position. I officially graduated my first MS student in Dec 2018 with another anticipated to finish this summer. I expect to add 2 new PhD students in the upcoming academic year and will see the remaining 7 continuing in Fall 2018. Our NPS- funded research on bats has provided some novel and valuable information to help inform management and has given us some standing in the bat research arena demonstrating our ability to do important bat work and opening the door to our new and anticipated future projects and funding opportunities. I’ve been stepping out of my comfort zone to work on developing a large project with DEC, a new and bigger endeavor than I have done previously, learning from and being guided by experienced mentors (J. Frair, J. Gibbs) to help me navigate this new arena. My continued work on the litigious and controversial effort to conduct conservation planning for the lesser prairie chicken conservation has allowed me to continue to develop connections with partners that have led to new opportunities including work with entities such as river authorities to provide expertise and guidance on planning for conservation and management with the anticipated listing of several freshwater mussels as threatened or endangered. This is an area where the contributions are not measureable in terms of publications, but where I can make and see meaningful contributions to the policies and plans enacted to manage wildlife and balance wildlife and human land use needs. My first contribution of a chapter to a text book was completed this year and the text has gone to press this spring, a new achievement for me. This new Ornithology textbook is much needed for my Ornithology course. Since last year when I ran for and secured a post as the Eastern Region Rep for the University Education Working Group of The Wildlife Society, I have become more involved and connected to this professional society. Lastly, I’ve done my work while juggling brief maternity “leaves” in Nov-Dec 2016 and again this Feb-March 2018 (with ongoing grant-funded research, advising, grad student mentoring, etc, there is no real “leave” to be had) and though it has been a challenge to work in all spheres at the highest level, I have continued to learn and improve ways to continue to serve as well as possible even while on leave. I have learned a great deal from this challenge.

Danny Fernando

For the Students

This past academic year, I taught EFB 427/627 (Plant Anatomy and Development), EFB 326 (Plant Evolution, Diversification and Conservation), and BTC 497 (Research Design and Professional Development). I also supervised and/or trained students under the following non- regular courses: BTC/EFB 420 (Research Apprenticeship), EFB 495 (Undergraduate Experience in College Teaching) and BTC/EFB 498 (Independent Research in Biotechnology/Environmental Biology). I gave invited lectures in other courses (e.g. BTC 132, EFB 210, EFB 535, and EFB 797), and served as curriculum adviser to 17 undergraduate students. In addition to the regular classroom interactions with the students in all the courses I taught this past academic year, I also interacted personally with many of them outside of the regular lecture and laboratory periods, particularly through involvement in their respective

116 laboratory research projects and class bonus projects, as well as editing of drafts of written reports. Many of the students also came in during my office hours for clarifications, questions and/or conversations on various topics including practical applications of concepts covered in the lectures and labs. I have been personally involved in the training of several undergraduate students in my lab through independent research, internship and apprenticeship. After the change in the course title for my course EFB 326 (from Plant Diversity to Plant Evolution, Diversification and Conservation) including requiring of EFB 210 (Diversity of Life) as a prerequisite for the course, I have further and drastically revised many of my previous lectures and lab exercises to be truer to the course title, as well as incorporate many recent updates, particularly on concepts in evolution and conservation. In particular, students have learned to use Mesquite, a phylogenetic analysis software that allows them to build their own dendrograms using morphological traits from various taxa and use them for analysis of phylogenetic concepts and relationships among taxa. Overall, I have served at least 100 undergraduate students under various capacities.

For the department/college

I served as EFB’s Graduate Program Director for the 11th year and my major responsibilities included the following: 1)Acted on various petitions concerning different aspects of EFB graduate program requirements and policies; 2) Reviewed and signed on various forms required for the completion of different degrees and majors (e.g., 2A, 3B, 4 and 6A); 3) Replied to inquiries concerning EFB graduate program (through email or phone, including those who showed up personally in my office) from several potential applicants and current graduate students; 4) Processed close to 100 graduate applications (for both spring 2017 and fall 2018) that involved the review of each application for initial assessment and designation of faculty reviewers, followed up on the completion of the reviews on each application, summarized the reviews for each application, and submitted EFB’s recommendation for each accepted and rejected applications to the Dean of Instructions and Graduate Studies; 5) Worked with the Graduate Office regarding issues on documents submitted by the applicants and faculty concerns regarding the online AppReview software; 6) Provided formal orientations (fall semester) to new graduate students regarding EFB graduate program; 7) Provided orientation to new faculty (e.g. Dr. Roxanne Razavi) about EFB graduate application and review process; 8) Worked with EFB Secretaries on the update and improvement of the various facets of the EFB’s Graduate Webpage, graduate application filing system, and survey on the most effective means of attracting/recruiting graduate students; 9) As a member of EFB’s Graduate Program Academic Committee and ESF’s Graduate Council, I provided information connections between the department and college on issues pertaining to graduate degree program offerings and requirements, admission/review process, policies, and other related matters; and 10) Made decisions in the in the awarding of graduate teaching assistantships to top rank applicants and continuing graduate students.

For professional accomplishments

The following are what I consider as significant accomplishments for this academic year: 1) I have been invited to be an external Examiner for a PhD Thesis from Stellenbosch University, South Africa; 2) Was able to write a few more chapters for my book project entitled Sexual

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Reproduction in Forest Trees, which was temporarily shelved due to complications beyond my control; and 3) Submitted for publication a long overdue paper from a former PhD student; 4) As a professor, I strive to provide high quality lectures and so after all the long-hours of lecture preparations for my revised course (EFB 326), I believe that they are now at much deeper levels and incorporate many of the current advances in the field, particularly on phylogenetics; and 5) I have recruited two new graduate students to begin their MS (Lukas Evans) and PhD (Namjoo Heo) programs with me starting fall 2018 and spring 2019, respectively.

Melissa Fierke

I had over 330 students in freshman GenBio this past fall for which I supervised three graduate and 13 UG TAs along with their workshops and grading - all went smoothly with overall class evaluations again strong for the two lecture sections. I co-facilitated the fall EFB Core Course for graduate students again this year with Shannon Farrell, who does the Philosophy of Science section half of the class. Our main goal for the course is to get grads off to a good start in the department, forming a supportive cohort of students. I also again co-facilitated the spring core course with Jonathan Cohen with the primary goal of all grads writing a solid research proposal. I’ve written >30 UG student recommendation letters with many resulting in successful internships or positions. I am happy with the current state of my research program and the progress of my current graduate students. We’ve had several publications come out and I am still working with several others on their publications. My graduate students have presented at many venues, locally and nationally. I currently have eight graduate students working out of my lab as well as five (mostly ESF undergraduates) hired on as technicians for multiple research projects for the summer.

I spent a considerable amount of time and effort serving on the Leadership Council this past year as well as being Associate Chair of EFB and juggling departmental awards and nominating deserving faculty/staff/students for various awards. I again revised EFB’s Graduate Handbook as part of my service on EFB’s Graduate Program Advisory Committee and I served on several college committees as well as taking an active part in the ESF First Year Experience Committee, working with other faculty on student retention and success. I have continued my efforts on our ESF Bicycle Safety Committee and have been working with ESF partners, Syracuse University engineers, planners and safety officials as well as the new City of Syracuse Transportation Planner, and multiple neighborhood groups to make bicycling a safer commuting option for faculty, staff and students at ESF. I’ve continued my entomology outreach efforts, doing presentations and media interviews, however, I now pass most opportunities to my graduate students who are doing an excellent job of taking them on, being enthusiastic and getting our science out there.

I have continued building relationships and received continued funding on emerald ash borer research – all of which contributes to recognition and employment opportunities for students as they graduate from my lab. Working on the tick/Lyme research has been rewarding and has contributed to informing the actions of local and county efforts on deer management. Our research on pollinator conservation is exciting and I look forward to contributing to this extremely important topic relevant to entomological/conservation issues.

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Jaqueline Frair

For students, this year I endeavored to 1) incorporate more active learning techniques into my teaching, 2) provide a more inclusive and rigorous graduate student experience, and 3) integrate more hands-on, field-related activities into my core undergraduate class, the latter being in direct response to student comments provided during our exit exam and this year involving a field lab conducted at Heiberg Forest. Moreover, towards the latter point, the department provided motion-sensitive cameras so as to establish a long-term monitoring program for wildlife at Heiberg Forest that could be used by a number of classes at ESF – demonstrating survey methods early in student careers, providing a source of data for analysis in later classes, and providing a means of long-term monitoring for adaptive management in the wildlife capstone course. Graduating senior Olivia Iannone designed and implemented a Before-After-Control- Impact study of the use of relict apple orchards on Heiberg Forest by Ruffed Grouse, providing an initial set of data available to future students and a framework for long-term study. The internship program I coordinate puts undergraduate and graduate students to work alongside DEC professionals, which compliments their on-campus instruction. This year we put students to work on the “I Fish NY” outreach program, archiving wildlife survey data for the DEC central office, and tracking showshoe hare in the Adirondacks among other things. Lastly, I host at my house a monthly meeting for grad students and faculty working with wildlife in the Frair, Cohen, S. Farrell, Underwood, Gibbs, and now Parks (SU) labs, which provides both a foundation for peer review and networking.

For the department and college, this year I chaired the search committee that hired Dr. Jerrold Belant as the first-ever Camp Fire Conservation Fund Endowed Professor of Wildlife Conservation at ESF. The search committee consisted of ESF faculty (myself, J. Cohen, K. Limburg, and P. Hirsch), a DEC representative (J. Hurst, Big Game Team Leader), and a representative of the Camp Fire Conservation Fund (A. Stirratt, President) – each of which deserve recognition for the extra time and effort they put into this search on top of their already busy schedules as well as a harty congratulations being so successful. The committee, faculty, and partners are thrilled that Dr. Belant will be joining the faculty this fall and look forward to the new dimensions he will bring to our program. This year I also negotiated the second 5-year omnibus MOU for DEC-funded wildlife research at ESF, a $5.6 million award that will support 13 different research and support programs connecting science to management for the state’s wildlife resources. Two projects under this award are of particular note for the opportunities for student and citizen engagement statewide – the 4th round of the Breeding Bird Atlas and the first ever Mammal Distribution Survey. The latter is the first ever attempt to catalogue data on the distribution and status of every mammalian species within the state (under the direction of Shannon Farrell, James Gibbs, Jacqui Frair, Chris Whipps and Mathew Schlesinger).

James Gibbs

For our students

I teach two core courses in the Conservation Biology Major as well as an elective course in vertebrate ecology – Herpetology. I completed two graduate students (one PhD and one MS) and one Honors student this year. I advise the ESF Herpetology Club.

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For our Department and College

I serve on the EFB P&T committee, coordinate the Conservation Biology undergraduate major), assist on occasion the Departmental Chair as Associate Chair, and serve as Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station. As coordinator of the Conservation Biology program I finally developed and deployed with help of many colleagues an assessment tool for measuring learning gains and performance.

For me professionally

I was delighted and surprised to be recognized as a SUNY Distinguished Professor this year, and cognizant the immense effort that must have been invested by still-as-yet-unknown-to-me colleagues to forward the nomination package. I am grateful for the support and inspiration of the many faculty colleagues and students who comprise EFB and make it a tremendously motivating place to work. As a contribution to my discipline, the “Problem-solving in conservation biology and wildlife management” exercise book still reaches many based on sales and requests for the instructors manual and the revision of the “Fundamentals of Conservation Biology” textbook (4th edition) is nearly complete and ready for submission. I focused a great deal of energy this year on developing the digital New York State “Herp Atlas” (with support from the Water Resources Institute at Cornell, The Wetland Trust, and SUNY-ESF) ideally to be launched Jan 1 2019. I continue to serve as co-Director of the Galapagos Tortoise Restoration Initiative (GTRI), a many-pronged effort between the Galapagos Conservancy and the Galapagos National Park Service Directorate to fully recover giant tortoises throughout the archipelago. Service as a board member to The Wetland Trust has occurred at a time of progress on significant land protections by this group. Our project restoring river turtles in eastern Brazil is taking off while a decade of work in Central Asia starts to tail off.

Hyatt Green

Benefits to Students

I advised 21 students last year, but hope to take on more next year as advising week is probably my favorite part of the term because I get to see students outside my role as instructor. With my support (in the form of advice or letters usually) my advisees have secured competitive summer internships or jobs at the Paleontological Research Institute and the Museum of the Earth in (Trumansburg, NY), Black Hills Sate University/Sanford Underground Lab (Spearfish, SD), and the Darrin Fresh Water Institute (Bolton Landing, NY). I advised the research of ten undergraduates in my lab last period in all aspects of ongoing research. In terms of teaching, the enrollment in my largest class continues to necessitate a third lab section to handle increasing popularity/need. Also in the fall I led the BTC 132 Orientation Seminar which gives incoming students a broad overview of the research being conducted on campus. EFB796: R and Reproducible Research was offered again in spring 2018 with very good reviews and continues to be a popular course for first or second-year graduate students.

Departmental and University Service

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As a new member of the Graduate Program Advisory Committee (GPAC), I am continuing to analyze the grad applicant and registration data which allows our department to tune in our grad ranking system to identify the most successful candidates and, hopefully, how they are able to succeed in our department. It was also a pleasure to represent the Biotechnology major during Spring 2018 Open House and meet graduating high school seniors and other prospective students. I served on the hiring committee for our new instructional support specialist, Nancy Walker-Kopp, who supports instructional needs for many EFB courses including Microbiology. I am currently on six graduate committees and was on one graduate examination committee (passed) in the last period.

Professional Advancement

In terms of research, we are finishing a few projects, but starting many new ones. The bog turtle eDNA project is nearing completion and the work should be submitted soon in the Journal for Applied Ecology. We are also wrapping up the analysis of Onondaga Creek microbial source- tracking data in collaboration with Onondaga Environmental Institute. A new three-year microbial source-tracking project with Salt Lake County will commence this summer in an effort to identify the sources of contaminants to important waterbodies. We are also entering into a new collaboration with Martin Wiedmann (Cornell) and his postdoc, Daniel Weller, investigating the sources of fecal contamination to irrigation water---a likely source of pathogens to produce, such as lettuce. We put the ‘microbial dark matter’ seed grant to use by collecting preliminary data that was crucial in writing and submitting a proposal to NSF-Geobiology in collaboration with SU. A significant part of the grant was used to build a hydraulic thin-layer sampler that will be useful for other projects as well. The master’s student is making some progress on the MEGA plate project investigating bacterial adaptation and evolution trajectories to persistent pollutants. When the MEGA plate itself is complete, it should support both research and teaching needs. Our research into recently-discovered comammox bacteria that completely nitrify ammonia to nitrate has bifurcated into two related projects investigating their abundance in northeast forest soils and has led to seed funding through McIntire-Stennis. We are working with researchers at the Miami University (Oxford, OH) to analyze soil samples from control plots amended with N and/or P. In addition, we are taking similar abundance measurements from Myron Mitchell’s old sub-watersheds, S14 and S15, in the Archer Creek watershed near Arbutus Pond in the Huntington Wildlife Forest. In addition to the bog turtle project that is wrapping up, we have taken on two new eDNA method development and application studies: river otter (with J. Frair) and muskie and pike (with J. Farrell). A new PhD student has come to work on all three of these projects. Our collaboration with Griffin Hill Farm Brewery is making some progress: we have collected about twenty isolates from and around the hop yard that will undergo further testing. While the current lab is not completely ideal for all of our molecular or microbiological work, I am positive we can keep generating good data until new facilities are completed.

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Thomas Horton

Students

I worked with an Honors student whose thesis focused on the mycorrhizal condition of transgenic chestnut. This resulted in a manuscript in revision with Frontiers in Plant Science co- authored with members of the Powell lab. On the teaching end I offered EFB 696 Ethnomycology for the second year. The undergraduate students really love this course!

Department/College

I don’t think there has ever been a year that required as much attention as this one with respect to the functioning of the college. As things were slipping, it became obvious that everyone needed to be engaged and help the college get out of the mess we were in. I think we managed to right the ship, but the sails are still slack and more work needs to be done.

Self professionally

Learned a cutting edge technique for sampling environmental DNA in Dr. Frank Middleton’s Molecular Analysis Core (SUNYMAC). Using the Next Gen approach with Illumina MiSeq, I processed samples for two projects aimed at learning 1) what soil fungi respond to nutrient treatments (N, P, or N + P, and no treatment controls) and 2) what fungi small mammals eat by identifying the fungi in their feces. In addition to learning firsthand the nuts and bolts of this cutting edge technique for sampling environmental DNA (or sequencing whole genomes), I learned how to process and analyze the tens of thousands of DNA sequences from the MiSeq DNA sequencing run – the bioinformatics. I also arranged for a Fulbright Scholar to visit my lab this fall and recruited one MS and one PhD student who will both start in the fall.

Robin Kimmerer

Contributions to our students

During this academic year, I have taught 5 distinct courses to serve our students, which have been enrolled at capacity. This includes the co-development and delivery (with Diemont, Beier, Patterson, Vidon) of two new graduate level courses associated with our Sowing Synergy graduate cohort of indigenous students. The sowing Synergy program brought 5 new Native American grad students to the ESF campus and I have served as mentor and director of that program. I also serve as advisor to student organizations, CSTEP mentor, coordinator of the minor in Native Peoples and the Environment.

Contributions to the Department/College

I serve as founder and Director of The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment which has brought significant positive attention to the College’s leadership role in incorporating traditional ecological knowledge in environmental education and research. The most significant new accomplishment this year was the proposal and successful funding of an innovative partnership

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Contributions to Professional Development

Outside of a full teaching load and the leadership of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, my scholarly energies are largely devoted to disseminating the body of work related to integration of traditional indigenous and western scientific knowledge, primarily through a large number of public presentations in diverse arenas. I gave more than 25 invited talks last year, interviews for 6 podcasts and participated in two documentaries on indigenous ways of knowing and traditional ecological knowledge. Given the urgent environmental issues we face, and the power of literary non-fiction as a cultural change agent, I am committed to investment of my scholarly efforts in that arena. I am continuing to learn and appreciate the power of engaged scholarship of writing and speaking to a non-academic audience as a pathway to influence public dialog on sustainability. Working in this interdisciplinary arena of public dialogue and engaging teaching tools outside of my academic expectations has been both challenging and rewarding, contributing to professional growth in new directions which can benefit my creative capacity as an educator and writer.

Donald Leopold

I taught EFB 336 Dendrology for the 32st year and it was more fun as ever as enrollments continue to be very strong (nearly 130 students) and student interest and engagement were very high. I finished one M.S. and one Ph.D. student (co-advised by R. Kimmerer) this past academic year to total 73 M.S., M.P.S., and Ph.D. students advised and graduated since coming to ESF in August 1985.

After serving as chair of EFB for 12+ years since July 2005 I, along with two other chairs, were fired by our former President on January 10 because he blamed us for his four years of failure as President of ESF. I had planned to step down from this administrative position during the 2018- 2019 academic year and had started actions for an orderly transition to new department leadership.

My Wildflowers of the Adirondacks (with L. Musselman, Old Dominion University) is now in production at Johns Hopkins Press. This will be my seventh book as author or co-author (i.e., not counting edited books or chapters within edited books). Books and the many dozens of invited presentations that have resulted have created an opportunity to educate thousands of people beyond the students in our classrooms. Many of these people are in positions to implement ideas related to sustainability and other important conservation topics. Following the interest in the 135 tree videos that Christopher Baycura (ESF ITS) and I produced a few years

123 ago (many have gotten over 10,000 views, the largest number of views of any video produced by ESFTV), in April, I did a one hour live You-Tube program in the ESFTV studio run by Christopher. We had good viewership and questions for the entire hour. That video is still generating much interest. In April I joined three other administrators from other institutions for a review of all non-accredited programs of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI. I took the lead on the written report submitted to Michigan Tech’s Provost later that month. This review was a timely reminder of the importance of competent administrative leadership relative to strong academic programs at good institutions.

Bryan Leydet

Students

Building upon my successes and learning from my faults in my first year at ESF, my second year has proven to be very fruitful in terms of my continued and expanded engagement with students. Based on my first year of teaching, I was able to implement changes to my courses to improve student learning. In my Epidemiology course, I employed cases studies, which were an astounding success as indicated in my course surveys. Students worked in groups and employed epidemiological theory and tools in “real world scenarios”. Due to the success of these in-class activities, I added case studies to my Disease Prevention course as well. Student feedback was overwhelmingly supportive of these types of learning exercises and I plan to continue implementing them in my teaching. In my second year of offering Epidemiology we have had to move to a larger lecture room and have reached the course cap (up 30 students from my first year). Disease Prevention enrolment was similar to my last semester. In addition to these two courses, this year I also offered a cross-listed seminar in spring 2018, which focused on the topic of vector-borne diseases with an emphasis on community ecology. This journal club style class was a great experience and I wish to continue offering a similar course at least once a year with rotating themes. Advising has gone well and I now advise 17 students many of whom are interested in pursuing health related careers. Furthermore, I continue to be approached by students that wish to do work in my lab. While an undergraduate student that has worked in my lab for three semesters graduated in May 2018, I will have another student starting in the fall. In addition to ESF undergraduate students, this summer I am hosting two students affiliated with the SUNY-SURF REU program through Upstate Medical University. The students will be conducting independent research projects in my lab over the summer. I am currently advising one master’s student who is starting fieldwork this summer related to tick density and its impact of disease distribution in nature, and am co-advising another master’s student that is conducting northern pike microbiome research at the Thousand Islands Biological Station (TIBS) over this summer. I am also working closely with another master’s student advised by Dr. Shannon Farrell on ticks and Lyme disease associated with birds around Onondaga County. Lastly, I am continuing my mentoring of a Ph.D. student from University of Rochester who is working in my lab to survey ticks and their diseases in Ecuador.

Department/College

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My service to the department/college in part continues to be fulfilled by teaching two required courses for the newly accredited Environmental health major. In addition to these crucial courses, in the fall 2018 semester I served on the search committee for the college’s experiential learning coordinator position. I continue to serve on the Institutional Biosafety Committee, which recently launched its website and received its first project application that required a laboratory inspection and checkoff. I was successful in getting both biological safety and animal care and use protocols approved for my work at Upstate Medical University, although we are still in the process of setting up ways to pay for this research between institutions. Continued collaboration with colleagues at Queens University in Kingston Canada led to a grant proposal submission in response to the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Tick-borne disease research Program. Although it was not recommended for funding, it started a dialogue, which lead to one of my collaborators speaking at the Departments Adaptive Peaks Seminar Series (Dr. Stephen Lougheed), as well as letters of collaboration from myself, ESF and SUNY Upstate for a $4M Lyme disease network grant submitted to the Canadian government by our Queens Colleagues. My continued work on ticks and their disease has led to multiple news interviews over the past year as well as talks at a ‘media day’ for State Senator DeFrancisco, and invited testimony to the New York State Senate regarding the state of ticks and their associated diseases in New York. I also attended a meeting with representatives from Senator Schumer’s office, which resulted in a letter of support to the DOD for one of my project. I was also involved in the formation of a SUNY Tick-Borne Disease Center, which recently received monies to support its organization and designation as a Center in the SUNY system. I am excited to see how this will help expand my research program. Finally, as part of my involvement in the Environmental Health and Medicine Institute on the Hill, I also served on a search committee at Upstate Medical to hire a director through a successful SUNY empire innovations program grant. This search is moving forward and we have some very promising candidates.

Self/Professional

My second year at ESF has been in ways more stressful than my first. Although I was successful in securing some grant monies to help recruit graduate students and get research off the ground, I also dealt with big life changes including the birth of my first child and the purchase of my first house. Despite this, I am pleased with my continued student engagements, teaching evaluations, as well as the submission of multiple competitive grants. Although not recommended these grants were ultimately not recommended for funding my PI grant did receive a competitive score (overall score 2.2 SD: 0.3 or “Good” with a 2.0 being “excellent”). Both DOD grants were invited for full proposals after Pre-Proposal submission (only 30% of preproposals were invited). I hope to remedy some of the reviewers’ concerns and resubmit in the near future. I am at an impasse with unfinished work from my postdoc and fear that the work may never be published (in part due to circumstances beyond my control), but I am nonetheless actively working on these manuscripts. My current projects are moving forward, and I recently received a full draft of one my graduate student’s first manuscripts. I hope to have a second manuscript draft in hand from another student before the end of the year. I have continued trying to forge active collaborations with Upstate Medical University, which has led to collaborator roles on multiple grants as well as plans for future pilot projects with established labs and investigators. I am also excited that my lab is able to assist with collaborators at Wadsworth center (Dr. Yi-Pin Lin) using some of the

125 current work conducted by students at ESF to test some of his lab’s experimental findings in a natural setting. This is the type of collaboration I feel we at ESF could help facilitate more often in the vector-borne disease field.

Karin Limburg

Students

I continue to support the research and education goals for our worthy undergrads and grads. I have helped my grad students to obtain grants and fellowships, and try to work closely with them as they develop their research.

Department/College

I continue to promote the message and profile of ESF when traveling and working internationally, to raise awareness about the college. I serve on committees, and have even been “lent” to other departments for P&T.

Self

I am involved heavily in international working groups on marine sustainability/ocean deoxygenation and in the American Fisheries Society (various levels).

Mark Lomolino

Students

I have continued to teach courses that emphasize fundamental biological, geological and geographic factors that influence biodiversity, and challenge students to develop an integrative understanding of relevant patterns and to articulate this in writing. The mammal diversity course has now grown to approximately 80 students (Fall 2016 enrollment). This course continues to receive excellent reviews from students. The biogeography course I teach (EFB 444/644) is now offered every year, in the fall, along with my course in mammal diversity (EFB 483), with an enrollment of 25 students, 3 to 5 students are graduate level. My exams in each of these courses are written/essay format, with all questions graded by me.

Department/College

My service to the department and college should continue to develop should as deemed appropriate include increasing service on departmental and other committees.

Professional Development

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I have developed my international network of colleagues and research programs in the areas of biogeography, ecology and macroecology. As a result, I have begun to publish with new collaborators, develop new proposal and received invitations to give guest lectures, keynote addresses and serve as external evaluator of faculty and research programs. I have begun new lines of research on Soundscape Ecology and on Palaeo-biogeography, which are emerging disciplines focusing on -- the spatial and temporal variation in the sounds of nature, and patterns in geographic variation of life before the impacts of human activities. We have published our first papers on these new lines of research. As a result, ResearchGate often reports that our papers are the most frequently cited of those from our department.

Greg McGee

I served again this year as EFB’s Undergraduate Curriculum Director and Curriculum Coordinator for the Environmental Biology major. My ongoing responsibilities as UCD included coordination of undergraduate advising for the department; providing departmental orientation to freshmen and August/January transfer cohorts; pre-registration of all transfer students; representation EFB at two end-of-semester Academic Standards meetings; organization of two departmental open houses and five accepted student receptions, and personal participation in five of these seven events; and maintenance of EFB program catalog descriptions, plan sheets and directed elective offerings for all seven majors. Apart from my own undergrad advisees, I advised numerous other EFB undergraduate students on a variety of curricular matters, provided initial advising for several internal transfer students, and facilitated numerous student petitions. In addition to regular duties associated with this appointment, this year I also served as acting curriculum coordinator of the EE&I major; collaborated with colleagues in FNRM and EST to propose a new program in Environmental Education, Communication and Interpretation; and worked with the Registrar and other department curriculum coordinators to iron out logistics of offering a non-majors General Biology course.

This year I prioritized my research program and, in collaboration with my graduate and undergraduate research students, I published two peer review journal articles. Collectively, this research group produced two M.S. theses, delivered eleven oral and poster presentations at scientific meetings, and I believe we have two solid undergraduate research projects that are worthy of future publication. I’m pleased to have also contributed a chapter on biodiversity in eastern old-growth forests for an upcoming book, “Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old- Growth Forests.” Finally, I continued to collaborate with Neal Abrams, and now Nancy Walker- Kopp, EFB’s new Instructional Support Specialist, to test and refine a couple integrated chemistry/biology laboratory modules in advance of submission for peer review.

Stacy McNulty

Students

I taught EFB484, Winter Mammalian Ecology, for the eighth time and again found EFB students willing and able to rise to the challenge of high-level synthetic thinking and collaborative problem-solving. My recent graduate student published his thesis work on amphibians, disease and recreation and has begun a career in disease ecology with the national wildlife disease lab,

127 and other recent graduate students are also working toward publication. This year I focused academic mentoring on multiple undergraduates conducting independent study projects; all presented posters at the ESF Spotlight on Research and the Northeast Natural History Conference. At project culmination, the students each commented that formulating and presenting research via independent study was a formative experience in their education. I also supported several graduate students conducting field projects in the Adirondack region; the teamwork on projects such as the McIntire-Stennis-funded “Sky is Falling” assessment of forest rehabilitation, conservation, management and economics in the face of management problems such as invasive species and deer herbivory provides a rich space for students to learn and grow. I continue to host summer “Digests” which are informal evening gatherings to connect researchers, students, interns and others living and working at the Newcomb Campus. At these events student-professional and cross-disciplinary contacts are frequently made. Finally, I have taken a primary role in ensuring students visiting or working at the Adirondack Ecological Center have appropriate support information (e.g., counseling) and led creation of a compendium of ESF and local/Adirondack services to be posted in all cabins and public spaces.

Department/College

This spring I was elected president of the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS), an opportunity to leverage the college’s excellent record of field science on an international stage. In the research arena, I am collaborating on several syntheses of long-term data; one example is an integration of ESF’s strong aquatic and watershed science programs that involves multiple faculty/departments, facilities such as EFB’s CIRTAS lab and field stations such as TIBS and AEC. This effort will take time, but should pay off in a more connected faculty and student body, enabling the team to identify new avenues for sponsored research, teaching and engagement. Another initiative underway is leveraging a repository of existing ecological information on air and water quality, biotic and abiotic variables and increasingly, socio- economic factors across northern New York. This “ecological scorecard” will be developed such that scientists, policymakers and others can utilize summaries of existing data, identify gaps in knowledge and ultimately make better decisions. In addition, I have continued to invite faculty and graduate students (current and former) to speak at the public summer lecture series held at the Adirondack Interpretive Center and to showcase our student research in the region.

Self

I was pleased to initiate new, collaborative research on Beech Bark Disease and co-author an assessment of long-term tree survival and disease, and to make strides in mapping and evaluating vernal pools across New York State. My doctoral research in the Graduate Program in Environmental Science program on governance and natural resource policy has progressed. The classes I took in the past year were foundational for my work on institutional networks in natural resource management. The OBFS presidency provides me a new opportunity in leadership and collaboration, in particular with colleagues in other states and nations.

Lee Newman

Students:

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I have continued to teach the three required courses, Cell Biology, Senior Synthesis and Molecular Techniques. I taught the Phytoremediation course (EFB496/796) as a three credit course for the third time this year, and it continues to be well received by the students who liked the expanded format. I will discuss this more in the service to the Department and College. I taught the EFB496/796 Cell Biology Recitation again this year. The students again said that they greatly enjoyed the course and they learned valuable skills in both reading and understanding research articles, as well as presentation skills. I also continue to co-teach Biodiversity II, with the topic area of Procaryotes. It is a fun lecture series, and the students seem to enjoy it and ask a lot of good questions. This year I have had 33 undergraduate students in the lab, 5 PhD, 2 MS students, and two visiting PhD students, one from Tyumen State University, Siberia and one from Thammasat University, Thailand. The lab also hosts students from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including Trinidad, Philippines, and China. The lab hosts not only a diversity of nationalities, but also religious and political backgrounds. Several students are or were in the Honors program, and several others are in CSTEP. The best thing about this is how proud the students themselves are of being in this diverse group. The students are extremely hard working, and this is reflected in the number of awards they have won locally and at internationally attended conferences. I continue to work with the students to develop their sense of community by hosting laboratory trips to places that are both fun and educational. I also work with the students to develop the importance of community service by participating in a food drive – last year the lab purchased and delivered over $1800 of food to a local food pantry and over $500 to support a local pet food pantry. I have always encouraged students to attend local and national conferences to gain experience and also to develop a network of contacts for future careers. This year, I expanded this to include students from the Environmental Health major, as well as academic advisees who work at the Medical School. I hope to be able to generate funds to be able to take any of the Environmental Health students who wish to attend to the Association for Environmental Health Science annual conference in October, held in Amherst MA. Finally, I continue to work with other facilities and entities around Syracuse, to develop both internship and research opportunities for students outside the ESF campus to expand their thoughts and options.

Department/College/SUNY I am continuing my work on the departmental Course and Curriculum Assessment Committee and the Tenure and Promotion Committee, and I am now chair of the college Committee on Research. I also continue to participate in three Hill Collaboration groups, Neuroscience, Cancer, and Wounded Warrior. As part of this last group, we are working for the third year with a former ESF graduate, Dr. Stephen Lebduska, who currently serves as the head of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at the Syracuse Veterans Hospital on a Horticultural Therapy program for inpatients in the unit. We are working not only with the hospital, but also with other community groups to obtain the plants and supplies for the program, and we currently have a PhD student who is doing this work for his dissertation project, one additional graduate student and seven undergraduate students working at the VA on this program. The program involves growing plants on a rooftop garden, in room plants for patients, maintaining plants in common areas, and devising enrichment programs involving gardens and plants for the patients during the winter months. We are also working with Clear Path for Vets and developed a kitchen garden for their Wednesday Canteen program. I am also designing a natural playground for the site to be used on Saturday Warrior Reset and Family Programs. I was a member of the Chemistry department search

129 committee for the new faculty hire in Environmental Health/Environmental Chemistry. For the 6th year, I was chair of the organizing committee for the Biotechnology Research Symposium, which continues to attract both academic and industry representatives. During the past year in the EFB496/796 Phytoremediation course. I am still working with the administration at Brookhaven National Laboratory to develop and forward the major goals of an MOU, which would result in ESF and BNL having closer research ties, including joint management of an ecological preserve. To this end, I brought Dr. Chris Nomura, Dr. Quentin Wheeler, and Susan Sanford to BNL for their Open Stewardship day to tour the site and see the type of work going on there. I have also been working with faculty and staff at ESF to develop a series of courses, to be taught at BNL, which would benefit high school teachers and allow them to earn ESF credits. I have been working with Scott. Shannon to develop a joint diploma program with Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand for the Environmental Biology, Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering and Environmental Health majors. This program would allow students from Mahidol University to do their last two academic years here at ESF, and then receive diplomas from both ESF and MU. As the program develops, ESF students would also be able to go to MU for a semester or academic year to participate in an international learning program. We should have our first students coming to ESF in fall 2018, although a few might start this fall. In this vein, I am still working with the SUNY COIL program to develop a jointly-taught course with the University of Parma, where students at both universities would take a phytoremediation course, and run joint literature review projects between the two universities. I continue my involvement in the ESF heath related programs. I have continued working with both ESF and UMU administration to develop and implement a joint MD/PhD program, and this is moving forward. I am the Pre Health Advisor for students in the Environmental Biology Major. I was also the ESF advisor for students wishing to participate in the UMU 3+3 program to earn a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree; however, this program will not be continued after this year. I am also the Coordinator for the Health and the Environment option in Environmental Science, and the Coordinator for Environmental Health, where I am not only doing curriculum coordination, but also updating the web site and promotional materials for students, administrators and fund raising, and worked with Dr. Luzadis on developing descriptions for new faculty hires for the program as well as recruiting new ESF faculty to participate in the program. I am the advisor for two new minors, Environmental Health and Food Studies. This past year I was a member of the search committee for a new hire in Chemistry, to teach in the Environmental Health program (Environmental Sampling). This year, I also took the lead on the submission of the accreditation package to the National Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council to seek accreditation for the Environmental Health major. This included doing a self study of the program, and completing a course comparison grid to ensure that we are teaching all required material for accreditation. In April, the college hosted the site visitation team, and I met with them for three days to go over the courses, the support and goals of the program. Following their visit, the submitted an evaluation of the program, and I submitted a response to their concerns about the program. Last summer, I attended the Council’s annual meeting where the program was reviewed and accreditation voted on. At that time, the program was awarded conditional accreditation. I continue to oversee the management and use of $650,000 of equipment for the Environmental Health/Environmental Medicine Biotechnology center, for use by ESF, Upstate Medical University and the Biotechnology Accelerator personnel. And finally, for the past year, I have lead the efforts to develop research and education collaborations with Tyumen State University in Siberia, including taking part in a 10-day visit to Tyumen, which included visiting

130 multiple research laboratories, technical facilities, two field stations and several cultural site. This visit included Dr. Don Leopold (Chair, EFB), Dr. Russ Briggs (Director, Environmental Science) and Dr. Guy Lanza, Adjunct Professor in ESF. In October and November, I hosted two groups of visitors from TSU, including Dr. Andrei Tolstikov, Vice Rector of Research and several department heads and research team leaders. We visited both the Thousand Island Biological Station, the Adirondacks Ecological Center, as well as cultural and natural sites in New York state. In March, I returned in Tyumen to continue discussions on the development of both a joint MS diploma in Biotechnology, and joint PhD diploma programs in Biology, tick- borne diseases, and environmental chemistry. We have started negotiations on the joint diploma programs, and will have the first student for the program starting in Fall 2018.

Self: I continue as Editor in Chief for the International Phytoremediation Journal after the untimely passing of the co-Editor, Stephen Ebbs. The journal has continued to increase the number of submissions received every year. The publishers continue to increase the number of issues, and from a quarterly journal we are now publish 12 issues a year, in the 8.5 x 11 page format. Unfortunately, our annual impact factor dropped slightly this year due to increase numbers of published papers, but continues to be strong for a highly specialized journal, being in the upper 50% for all Environmental journals. I continued to serve as the Founding President of the International Phytotechnology Society after serving 6 years as President. The Society continues to grow and the conferences remain strong every year. I was on the organizing committee for last year’s conference, which was held in Hangzhou, China, in September 2016. I continue to chair both the Awards Committee and the Education Committees for the Society. I also continued my role on the Scientific Advisory Board member for the Association for Environmental Health Sciences. I am also working to developing more collaborative ties within the SUNY system, and I am starting to work with colleagues from SUNY Upstate and SUNY University of Albany to develop joint research programs. While my publications remain excellent in quality and are published in top journals in my field, I look forward to increasing the number as more graduate students move through the lab. And finally, I continue to work with an international team of editors to work on the books Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants; and have completed volumes 4 and 5 and are in discussions with the publishers for a 6th volume. The volumes continue to be heavily sited and very well received.

Dylan Parry

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William Powell

Students

I continue to provide a quality education through my classes. But in addition to my direct teaching, probably more important are the “learn-by-doing” opportunities my research provides. The American chestnut project continues to grow and provide hands-on research opportunities for our students as well as giving them the satisfaction of contributing to the historical restoration of the American chestnut. In addition to supporting nine graduate students, the project also

131 provides paid jobs for twelve undergraduate students and academic credit based research opportunities (BTC420, 498, EFB420, 498) for seven additional undergraduates. As in previous years, we have also provided two high school students with summer internships. My hope for the future is for this project to expand to rescuing other tree species, which will provide even more opportunities for our students in the future.

Department/College

Again, the biggest contribution to our department and college is the success of the American chestnut project. One metric that demonstrates the program’s growth over the past four years is the annual extramural expenditures. In 2015 it was $161,630, in 2016 it was $203,549, and in 2017 it was $307,854, and in 2018 will have grown to almost $800,000. The size of the project has more than quadrupled in four years and has the potential to keep rising. But the impact goes beyond extramural funding. This success brings positive publicity to our college through my pubic and professional presentations with about an equal number given by my students. Popular press articles continue to be high, as they have for the past four years, totaling in over 100 to date. The funding and presentations are cyclical, one leading to another. For example, my TEDx talk three years ago lead initially to a donor giving $30,000 to the project. That same donor is now contributing $250,000 per year. Last year I was invited by the Templeton Foundation to submit a proposal, which lead to a $190,000 grant to help with the regulatory process and this year we are asking for $230,000. This invitation only came because the president of the foundation read about the research in a popular press article. Getting the word out sometimes requires taking advantage of new and unique opportunities. For example, two years ago I wrote an article for The Conversation that initially received over 20 thousand reads. Which was a good initial outcome. But the number of readers has continued to grow to over 85,000 today and still climbing. This is great advertising for both our department and college. My hope is that this and other forms of outreach will help ESF to establish itself as a tree restoration center, and support spin-off projects such as the rescue of the Ozark Chinquapin and developing a blight resistant European chestnut in the near future, and working with other trees as the time goes on. Once we have regulatory approval, I hope ESF can establish the first demonstration of a Chestnut/Oak restoration forest planted on ESF property and containing all the species associated with the American chestnut. Our students can follow this forest over the next century, continuously providing research opportunities as it matures. One opportunity I have been suggesting to the campus leaders is to purchase the closed Lafayette Country Club property to start a “South ESF campus” with many uses, including a tree restoration center (see one vision below).

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As I stated previously, nobody on our campus understands the regulatory process for genetically engineered plants, so I have had to take on the task to educate myself. I am doing this along with my Ph.D. student by meeting with the three regulatory agencies in person and through phone conferences and webinars and by seeking advice from people with experience in the field. This year we learned that it is normal to question an agencies’ regulatory authority and we have done so during my sabbatical leave. Because of this, we have been in contact with the EPA about the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which gives them their regulatory authority. I wrote an issue paper showing that the oxalate oxidase gene we used in chestnut is not a pesticide and does not harm the fungus. It only protects the tree from the acid the fungus makes. Therefore we should only be regulated by two federal agencies, the USDA and FDA, and not by the EPA. We are still engaged in this process with the EPA, but because of our stance, the EPA is now offering to consider an exemption from regulation. My research team has also completed all the experiments needed for the USDA and FDA and we are in the process of writing those dossiers for review. Also, from this “self-education” process, we have learned that you not only need to interact with the federal regulators, but also have to actively engaged the regulator’s advisors in the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and hopefully soon the National Park Service. This year we received a letter of support from the US Forest Service and are seeking one from a Senator from Ohio. We have also been engaged with the general public and leaders of Indigenous Peoples. This is necessary because we are doing something very new and unique, which is using the tools of genetic engineering to save a species. Because this is new, we have to gain the support of the various stakeholders. I believe we will be successful and will probably help change some of the public’s opinion about genetic engineering and how it may be used to benefit the environment. Our work with the American chestnut is being used as a model in a National Academies of Science panel looking at the use of biotechnology in forest health. Dr. Ron Sederoff sums it up by saying, if the American chestnut can’t get regulatory approval and move into a restoration program, then no tree will. But this will not be easy and there will likely be challenges to overcome as we go forward. But we are ready.

Roxanne Razavi

Students

This past fall I independently taught and developed my first undergraduate university class. The course (EFB 400/600) is a core course for the Environmental Health program and I had 30 undergraduate and 4 graduate students enrolled. It took substantial time to prepare each lecture, and I essentially worked 4 days of the week on developing course material, marking, and meeting with students. I hope that as I continue teaching I will be able to achieve the same in less time. Overall the course evaluations were very good, and I agree with the areas for improvement that the students identified. I think I did well in the following areas: keeping the information current and relevant for students with a morning news report discussion; keeping students engaged with the material in class using small group discussions, worksheets, and cell phone polling software (i.e., Poll Everywhere); including great guest speakers from within ESF and an outside consulting firm; including a field trip to Onondaga Lake visitor Center; including campus events into class (i.e., Keynote seminar in the Environmental Health Symposium); including a student conference to give students a chance to delve into a topic that they were interested in and

133 giving them presentation experience; and using evaluations mid-way through the class to gauge student satisfaction/issues, followed up with adjustments on my part to help meet student needs. Areas that require improvement are: structure and content of the lectures (i.e., increase links to human health, additional non-textbook readings); more detailed review materials (e.g., online lecture videos for core content); clearer exams; updated marking scheme (e.g., include grades for weekly quizzes); and better graduate student expectations. I’m sure that there are many other areas of improvement but those are the ones I will focus on for next fall. I enjoyed teaching and found the students to be wonderfully engaged, even those that did not do well in the class. I want to make this course as effective as possible in both increasing student retention of the material, and increasing their curiosity so that they want to stay informed on the topic regardless of their future careers.

I enjoyed the process of getting to know freshman students as well as the EFB curriculum through the student advising process, and am grateful for the assistance of Drs. Greg McGee and Lee Newman with my many questions this first year.

I am excited to have secured 4 incoming graduate students. This summer, Victoria Field (MS student) is starting as an RA funded by a NYSDEC grant. She is co-advised by Dr. Rebecca Gorney and will be working closely with Kim Schulz and I. I have two additional MS students starting this fall; Sarah Dzielski on an NSF GRFP, and Iman Pakzad on my startup GA. John Farrell has accepted to co-advise Iman and I’m looking forward to the collaboration and opportunity to get involved with John’s research. An additional student, Faith Downes, will be starting as an MPS student. I am mentoring one undergraduate this summer, Michael Seitz, and if the project works out, there may be a possibility of extending his research into an Honor’s thesis in 2018-2019.

I am also thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Dr. Karin Limburg as a co-Major Professor for Hadis Miraly (PhD student). Her project involves a mercury component, my main area of expertise, and I expect Hadis’s research to add a significant contribution to the field with the elemental analyses techniques that Hadis will be using to assess fish eye lenses, otoliths, and dorsal muscle tissues as indicators of fish exposure to hypoxia and methylmercury. Karin and I have written several letters of recommendation for Hadis, and she successfully acquired funding to attend an international conference and to pay her summer stipend and research.

Department/College

I led the Adaptive Peaks seminar as a service to the department this spring due to low enrollment in the class. This was a great opportunity for me to meet with excellent speakers and get to know graduate students in the department during the reception. Of special note was the invitation of Dr. Blandine Nacoulma from Burkina Faso, whom I understand is the first female African speaker to have presented in the Adaptive Peaks series. I organized two days of meetings for her with members of EFB as well as FNRM. I also worked with Heather Engelman (ESF Women’s Caucus) to have Dr. Nacoulma visit with the class FOR496/797 Perspectives on Career and Gender. I applied for and received funding from the Fulbright Outreach Lecturing fund to cover her airfare costs to Syracuse. I have encouraged faculty and graduate students to look at this opportunity to bring international speakers to EFB. It would be great if we could bring in 1

134 speaker a year through this program, as it expands our visibility and connections beyond our established networks.

I also organized a special seminar for the appointment of Dr. Rebecca Gorney (NYSDEC) as Adjunct professor in EFB. Rebecca is a key player in the harmful algal bloom research and monitoring for New York State. She will be an important addition and contact for the department and college given the importance of this issue to New York State freshwater quality affecting both human and wildlife health.

As a member of the Environmental Health program, I attended a seminar and met with a candidate for the Upstate/ESF search for a Director of the Vector Biology Lab. I also presented a seminar on harmful algal blooms at the SUNY Environmental Health Symposium.

Self

Joining the EFB faculty and ESF has been a highlight for me and I continue to feel extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with thoughtful and motivated colleagues here. I have many ongoing projects and collaborations, and several of these projects are at various stages of manuscript completion. An important personal goal for me these coming months will be to publish several of those manuscripts. I am excited about new collaborations with EFB colleagues, including Drs. Kim Schulz, Karin Limburg, and John Farrell.

My direct mercury analyzer was successfully purchased and installed in A&TS this past fall. I’ve had a very positive experience working with Dave Kiemle and Deb Driscoll and the A&TS team. The instrument has been generating data for my ongoing work on Oneida Lake. I’ve spent considerable time setting up my lab this spring in Illick 436A. Structural issues remain that need to be resolved before my instrumentation and equipment can be fully set up. I hope to have these issues resolved before my additional students start in August.

I received NYSDEC funding to support an MS student project, and was involved in 6 grant submissions this past year. Of the grants for which I was the PI, revised versions of two grants were successful for seed funding and will help me gain preliminary data that will be useful for future funding opportunities.

Neil Ringler

EFB

Course contributions included Aquatic Entomology, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and a seminar on Finger Lakes (jointly with Chemistry and Environmental Engineering) Two graduate students completed their degrees, and two more plan to start with us in June 2018. Five graduate students will be guided in my program by mid-June, funded primarily by research assistantships from Honeywell. Two new papers were published, both on Atlantic Salmon. Service as Interim Chair of EFB began January 19, 2018. Shared successes to date include bringing Dr. Jerry Belant on Board this Fall as Founding Campfire Professor, and winning a new position to be advertised soon: Vertebrate Conservation Biologist.

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ESF

I was temporarily on leave (January 19-May 31 2018) from my position as Vice Provost and Director, Onondaga Lake Science Center, in order to fulfill the assignment of Interim Chair, EFB. We continue to make headway at last on the Center, with a set of meetings now scheduled to determine a new, lake-side location for the Center, boathouse and boat launch. The research that helped land the $20 M SUNY Challenge grant to build the center continues apace, with three graduate students and three technicians on the lake this season. The successful survival and growth of re-introduced Atlantic salmon, the native salmonid in the system, is especially encouraging. We had an enthusiastic audience in the Inner Harbor and at the Marriott Syracuse hotel for the World Canal Conference in September 2018, sharing the story of our Lake along with Dr. Phil Arnold of the Ska nonh Peace Center and Dr. Ed Michelenko of the Onondaga Environmental Institute.

SUNY

Following many years of various interactions at the SUNY level, particularly with the Research Foundation and the Vice Presidents for Research, I have been nominated to join the Executive Committee of the SUNY Distinguished Academy. This would permit pursuit of several initiatives to facilitate enhanced mentorship opportunities for ESF and other SUNY colleges and universities. The first meetings are scheduled for May 22, 2018 in Albany.

Rebecca Rundell

Students

The research from my former M.S. student (and now technician) Cody Gilbertson was accepted to Journal of Molluscan Studies, pending revision. Undergraduate students led two different papers on land snail evolution in collaboration with my graduate students. Undergraduates and graduate students in the lab also presented their work in four different talks and posters at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists in Portland, Oregon. Additional undergraduate researchers have been excelling in the lab this year learning microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques (DNA sequencing), focusing on the diversity and evolution of Pacific island land snails. Our lab group is also working on land snails fossilized in Cretaceous amber from Burma/Myanmar to understand the evolution of key tropical land snail groups, including my focal taxon, the diplommatinids. We are collaborating with David Grimaldi’s lab at the American Museum of Natural History in this research.

I continue to teach the large Evolution course (EFB 311), which reached a record number of 197 students this year. Nearly every student participated in the paleontology field trips, both of which involved fossil searches in snow and freezing conditions. Students had to shovel their way into the outcrop, but all were rewarded with some great finds from the Middle Devonian, including a large Dipleura dekayi trilobite! My Invertebrate Zoology (EFB 355) course continues to be ambitious and successful. Top scorers on the lab practical have their names engraved on a course

136 plaque with the motto (in Latin) “Knowledge Through Hard Work. (And, “In Starfish We Trust),” as well as an invertebrate object glued to the evolving trophy. This year I am also leading a first-of-its-kind international field course with my co-instructor and Ph.D. student Jesse Czekanski-Moir, entitled “Invertebrate Conservation Biology in Palau: From Ridge to Reef.” The twelve ESF and SU undergraduates enrolled will work with us and Republic of Palau NGOs to learn field techniques in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine tropical environments, and collect baseline data that will be of direct use to local governments and organizations.

Department/College

Vision, design, and oversight of the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections have occupied most of my time dedicated to service, particularly with the new collections research and teaching facility breaking ground in winter 2018, and the many construction- and finance-related meetings leading up to this. As of this writing, the concrete floor and embedded rails are in place and construction is in full swing. Cabinets are being built to our specifications and will be installed mid-summer, with our two collections projects starting by the Fall. The new space will provide us with a desperately needed organismal biology classroom with close connections to the museum, thus allowing us to strengthen our existing, substantial scientific natural history program at ESF. The new facility will become a center for mentoring our students in the importance of Collections in organismal biology and conservation research, teaching, and scientific outreach to the public. Collections show us that the dead teach us just as much as the living. As scientific questions and techniques continue to evolve, our need for whole, preserved specimens only increases, making these specimens and the work that has gone into collecting and preserving them, ever more valuable over time. My earnest hope is that the effort and life I have put into the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections and our transformative new facility will benefit ESF and its students for the next 100 years.

I have also been involved in representing EFB in the design and renovation of the Illick 5 lecture hall, as well as the process of forging an MOU with the NY State Museum, which would provide Ph.D. fellowships for our students.

Self

My collaborative research on ancient whole genome duplication in hexapods was published as a cover article in PNAS. I plan to continue this work in the coming year in an investigation of paleopolyploidy in molluscs. I also continue to focus on invertebrate conservation, and wrote a paper highlighting the global land snail extinction crisis, which rivals global amphibian decline in its severity. I provided evidence for the IUCN Red List as a useful tool for invertebrate conservation, despite its drawbacks and apparent vertebrate bias (Rundell, In Review). I presented this work in invited research seminars at Iowa State University Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Series). I also published a book on the Samoan archipelago fauna, as one of the few researchers in the world with detailed knowledge of these unique and threatened animals: Samoan Land Snails and Slugs. An Identification Guide (Cowie, Rundell, and Yeung, 2017). This work is one of the only existing field guides for the extraordinarily diverse, world-renowned

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Pacific island land snails, and is intended to increase the public’s knowledge of these animals and their concern for tropical forest conservation.

Scott Turner

My third book, Purpose and Desire. What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Fails to Explain It (HarperOne)was released in September 2017 in hardcover and as an audiobook in October 2017. EFB 200 Physics of Life was offered for the ninth time. Its enrollment continues to be strong. Last July, I offered an online version of the course during Summer Session 2. This was the third offering of this course. EFB 462 Animal Physiology continued to be offered as a fully online course, in Fall and in Summer Session 1. Enrollment continues to be strong. Production for Animal Physiology Online continues. I am also offering the course on udemy.com. I am a subcontracting scientist on a grant from the National Institutes of Health awarded to Drs Justin Werfel and Radhika Nagpal of Harvard University. The project explores the behavioral interactions between termites and soils, with the goal of being able to program semi-autonomous robot swarms to do construction. This project supports my post-doc, Paul Bardunias. I completed my term as a Resident Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. My term as a resident fellow was devoted to completing the preparations for the release of Purpose and Desire, along with various writing projects which are making their way through to publication. Much of my effort this year was spent in production for converting my course Physics of Life into a fully online course. Three of the four modules (Thermodynamics, Biomechanics, and Fluids) are available on udemy.com. These will be launched as a beta test in my Summer 2018 online offering of Physics of Life.

Alexander Weir

STUDENTS

This past year I taught EFB 440/640 Mycology to 61 students and played a major role in the EFB 210 Diversity of Life I lecture series offering 5 of the 23 lectures to an audience of approximately 190 students. During the spring semester I offered a new course linking my recent Biology of Lichens offerings with a course on Slime Molds that I last taught in 2005. This new course was listed as EFB-496 Microbial Consortia and brought together lectures and labs on Lichens, Slime molds, and Myxobacteria (slime bacteria) to an audience of 18 students. From informal student comments this seems to have been very well received, and something that I may repeat again next spring semester. I also had undergraduates helping with the NSF-funded Microfungi Digitization Project, some of whom have developed a keen interest in collections- based research and have volunteered in managing and organizing both the plant and fungal herbaria at ESF. I have worked closely with two of our graduating seniors (Alexander Dogonniuck and Tim Squires) this semester on a paper describing three new species of fungi on

138 bat-flies (Streblidae). We have completed this manuscript and it has already been submitted to Mycologia. In addition, I organized a research trip to Florida and to the Entomology Department at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC) with one of my graduate students, Patty Kaishian, who was the recipient of a Sussman Award and a Lowe-wilcox Award this year. I also organized and took a large ESF contingent (27 students) to the Peck Foray at the Adirondack Ecological Center Finally, thanks to input from current and former graduate and undergraduate students I was the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching this year. This is a real honor and I am grateful to all who played a role in this nomination.

DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE

I have continued to oversee digitization of our important mycological collections at the college. This work has been funded by NSF and will continue until July 2018. To date we have digitized more than 11,000 items. I have also continued in my role as curator of the Plant and Fungal Herbaria at ESF and have facilitated both loans and scientific visits to the collections. This past spring we had 2 researchers from Cornell University who studied our impressive collections of mostly North American lichens. I also contributed to ongoing efforts to remount damaged vascular plant specimens in the Plant Herbarium. I have participated in the Cranberry Lake Biological Station Advisory Committee, worked with an undergraduate student and ESF Library staff on digitizing CLBS photographs in the College archives, and taught the mycology section of EFB 202 at the Station during May 2017.

SELF

Undoubtedly the highlight this past year was the recognition for my teaching with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. I really enjoy this aspect of my work here and have been thrilled at the enrollments in all of my classes and the general level of interest from students. I have also had a good research year with the publication of 4 papers including the large paper on the Molecular Phylogeny of the Laboulbeniomycetes (with former graduate student Lauren Goldmann) in Fungal Biology. We have received many comments regarding the necessity of this work from mycologists around the world and it has been heartening to have this feedback. This paper is a culmination of more than 15 years of work and is the first higher-level phylogeny of this group of fungi based on molecular datasets. On a different level, the paper that I published on the conservation of fungi in “The Conversation” (see publications) has been read by an audience of almost 12,000 people – an important public outreach for the understanding of science in my field. Another highlight has been the completion of a paper on the Dimorphomyceteae with two of our graduating seniors. We have met weekly throughout the spring semester to work on this paper and have just sent this off for review in Mycologia.

Christopher Whipps

Students

I advise students in several majors, but most are from ENB and BTC, and many of these are pre- vet or pre-med. I am also the pre-vet club advisor. I currently mentor a CSTEP student as well. I had 5 undergraduate students working on research projects in my lab this year. In all cases, I help

139 with skill development, or career specific guidance on internships and research experiences. As part of this, I wrote over 20 letter of support for students on internships and job applications. This year, I mentored my 3rd PhD student, Carolyn Chang, to completion, and co-advised (with Cohen) my MS student Samantha Mello to finish this spring. Some peer reviewed papers have already been published from their research, with 3-4 more currently in preparation. In my classes, General Biology II and Parasitology, I have generally found an approach that works well for most students to achieve learning outcomes. With EFB453 (Parasitology), I use case studies, class discussions, and student selected presentation projects. In the presentations, students investigate a topic of their interest in a multi-step process, requiring research summaries, and draft presentations that are reviewed at multiple points. I also added a taxonomy project this year, requiring students to investigate the taxonomic history of a few parasite species. This introduces them to some of the science of taxonomy as well as using research resources. I also incorporated 2 video lectures to supplement class material and cover a class that I missed due to a conflict with a conference. I was able to create these on my own, and as a result have developed a useful teaching tool. In EFB103, General Biology II, I incorporated several new case studies that are used in class. I hope to add a few new cases each year, creating a bank of cases that can be used in different years. I also brought on seven undergraduate teaching assistants in EFB103 this year to increase the number of student-led workshops and opportunities for students in the class to engage in the course and stay motivated.

Department/College

A large time commitment for me to the college is being chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). I have served in this capacity for almost 7 years, and in that time research compliance at ESF has increased greatly, so we have over 25 current protocols. Compliance and regulations have also increased at the federal level, so our animal care program has expanded in the last few years as well. Nonetheless, I have kept the program running and compliant with these standards. SUNY is currently shifting all compliance activities to an online system, including the IACUC, so I have been working with the research office to develop components of the system that will work for research and teaching at ESF. I also direct the SUNY Center for Applied Microbiology, and we are developing our capacity to carry out research in Lyme disease. In particular, Dr. Leydet and I have a project to investigate early infections in a zebrafish model.

Self

I had 2 invitations I accepted to notable events this year. I was invited to Lisbon, Portugal to help coordinate and run a workshop on zebrafish disease. This 3 day workshop covered all aspects of zebrafish health and husbandry and included a wetlab session to provide hands on training. Participants came from all over Europe, which provided an excellent opportunity to present my research and also to let people know about ESF. I was also invited to a meeting at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda MD on the standardization of health and husbandry practices in biomedical research. The goal was to provide guidance for fundamental levels of monitoring and reporting on any research using zebrafish. Agency representatives and editors of scientific journals were also attending the meeting. I have been Associate Editor of the Journal of Parasitology for 2 years, handing 14 manuscripts in this current reporting period. I was also

140 invited to be the Section Editor in Fish Diseases for the journal Parasitology Research, and have handled 12 papers in the reporting period. I continue to review for journals, although I have attempted to reduce my reviewing load from previous years. This year I reviewed 9 papers (down from 16 and 10 in the previous two annual reports).

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3. Foreign Travel

Stewart Diemont

• Southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala, June 29 – August 27, 2017

• Research on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Maya and socioecological restoration, working with doctoral student Tomek Falkowski; conducted interviews with Mayan farmers in Mexico and Belize to determine local adaptation to climate change in traditional agroforestry systems; taught ESF course EFB 434/634 Ecosystem Restoration Design August 15 – 25, 2017 with 14 ESF students (11 undergraduate students and three graduate students), Chiapas, Mexico.

• Portugal, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Italy and Scotland, February 1 – July 2, 2018

• I was on sabbatical in Europe during this period. Most of this time I was in Portugal, where I worked with farmers and scientists to determine how traditional viticulture can be part of climate change adaption. I conducted soil sampling in these systems. Throughout these regions I met with both scientists and non-scientists and visited numerous food systems to better understand how traditional food production and foraging in urban to rural areas can be part of food systems design.

Martin Dovciak

• Andes and upper Amazon, Ecuador (March 7-19, 2018). Field trip component of EFB 523 Tropical Ecology. Don Stewart and I lead a group of 18 students to Quito and through the Andes to Coca and ultimately the Tiputini Biodiversity Station adjacent to one of the most biodiverse spots on the planet where we spent a week studying rainforest ecology and biodiversity.

• Western Carpathians and Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia (July 15-30, 2017). Collaborative Research: Long-term forest dynamics: Dwarf pine expansion in western Carpathians (1 paper submitted).

Jaqueline Frair • Porto, Portugal, Sept. 2017. Participation in executive meeting of the International Council on Game and Wildlife Conservation. • Madrid, Spain, May 2018. Participation in General Assembly of the International Council on Game and Wildlife Conservation.

James Gibbs

• Santa Fe and Espanola Islands, Galapagos, Ecuador (May 20-June 25, fieldwork for various tortoise projects)

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• Rio Falsino, Macapa, Amapa State, Brazil (Oct 13-26, advance NAS PEER project on river turtle restoration)

• Quito, Ecuador (24-29 July, present at Latin American herpetology conference, move tortoise incubator equipment to Galapagos)

• Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (Nov 23-Dec 11, serve as “Scientist on Board”, Lindblad / National Geographic Expeditions)

Brian Leydet

• Queens University Biological Station Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 7-8th 2017. Present Seminar and meet with faculty to discuss research opportunities.

• Queens University. Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 21-22, 2017. Discuss Opportunities for Research Collaboration between SUNY ESF, Upstate, and Queens.

Karin Limburg

• Bordeaux, France – Board meeting of LabEx COTE, University of Bordeaux (Jan. 2018)

• Öregrund and Lund, Sweden – visiting professor position at SLU (Jan. 2018)

• Keelung, Taiwan – attended the 6th International Otolith Symposium (April 2018)

• Nanjing, China – invited to visit the Chinese Academy of Sciences and give a lecture (April 2018)

Lee Newman Tyumen, Siberia, Russia. 12-18 March 2017. To develop international research and education opportunities, and dual diploma programs with students and faculty at Tyumen State University. Daejeon, Korea. 1-5 July 2017. To develop international research and education opportunities, and dual diploma programs with students and faculty at the Korean Institute of Oriental Medicine. Montreal, Canada. 25-28 September 2017. To attend and present at the International Phytotechnology Society annual conference.

Scott Turner

• Namibia. June-August 2017. Sabbatical

Christopher Whipps

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EFB Graduates between August 1, 2017 and May 30, 2018

Student Name Graduation Program of MP Title of Thesis or Date Study Main Dissertation Dept MacDuff, Dec 16, EFB Fish & EFB MS Andrew Joseph 2017 Wildlife A Non-harvest Based Assessment of River Otter Biology & Mgt (Lontra canadensis) in the Mohawk River Valley of New York Pirovano, Dec 16, EFB Plant EFB MPS n/a Ashley 2017 Science & Biotechnology Augustyn, Dec 16, EFB Fish & EFB MS 2017 Larval Northern Pike (Esox Ericka Alyse Wildlife lucius) Ecology in Natural and Biology & Mgt Restored Coastal Wetlands of the Upper St. Lawrence River Bleau, Adam May 12, EFB Fish & EFB MS COMPARATIVE HABITAT James 2018 Wildlife SELECTION AND Biology & Mgt BEHAVIOR OF MALLARDS (Anas platyrhynchos) AND AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS (Anas rubripes) WINTERING IN THE FINGER LAKES REGION Dean, Samantha Aug 18, EFB EFB MS Haley 2017 Conservation Distribution, Abundance, and Biology Habitat Associations of Amphibians and Reptiles at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, an Urban Protected Area Droke, Justin May 12, EFB Fish & EFB MS Comparison of Spring Michael 2018 Wildlife Migration Ecology of Biology & Mgt American Black Ducks (Anas rubripes) and Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in the Montezuma Wetlands Complex Fletcher, Jessica Dec 16, EFB Fish & EFB MS 2017 Habitat use and species Jean Wildlife assemblage of bats in a Biology & Mgt northeastern coastal plain ecosystem Goldspiel, May 12, EFB Ecology EFB MS 2018 Forest Legacy Effects on Harrison Amphibian Populations: Integrating Land and Life Histories in Conservation

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Looi, Alexander Dec 16, EFB Ecology EFB MS Modeling upper St. Lawrence Hao Rong 2017 Wetlands Mello, May 12, EFB Fish & EFB MS Samantha Lynn 2018 Wildlife PARASITES OF THE NEW Biology & Mgt ENGLAND COTTONTAIL (SYLVILAGUS TRANSITIONALIS) IN THE PRESENCE OF A NON- NATIVE HOST AND INVASIVE VEGETATION Mettey, Colin May 12, EFB Ecology EFB MS John 2018 Long-Term Response of Herbaceous and Sapling Strata to Mechanical Understory Removal in Northern Hardwoods Nolan, Marissa May 12, EFB EFB MS 2018 Environmental Investigating Impacts on the Environmental Literacy of Interpretation Secondary School Students Attending a Summer Science Program Pershyn, May 12, EFB Fish & EFB MS BROOK TROUT Carrianne 2018 Wildlife SALVELINUS FONTINALIS Biology & Mgt DISTRIBUTION, GENETIC DIVERSITY, AND HABITAT USE IN AN ADIRONDACK RIVER SYSTEM, NEW YORK Serviss, Michael Dec 16, EFB EFB MS Experimental Reintroduction 2017 Conservation of American Hart’s-Tongue Biology Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum): Factors Affecting Successful Establishment of Transplants Slife, Caitlin Aug 18, EFB EFB MS LIFE-CYCLE DURATIONS Carroll 2017 Conservation AND BIOACCUMULATION Biology OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS BY MYSIS DILUVIANA IN THE FINGER LAKES OF NEW YORK Smith, Robert Dec 16, EFB Ecology EFB MS Lee 2017 Plant Species Richness and Diversity of Northern White- Cedar (Thuja occidentalis) Swamps in Northern New York: Effects and Interactions of Multiple Variables Brainard, May 12, EFB Ecology EFB PhD Andrew S 2018 Effects of propagule pressure, environmental factors, and climate change on success and impacts of benthic aquatic invasions

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Chang, Carolyn Dec 16, EFB Fish & EFB PhD 2017 Controlling infectious disease Theresa Wildlife in laboratory zebrafish (Danio Biology & Mgt rerio) Cheeseman, Aug 18, EFB Fish & EFB PhD 2017 FACTORS LIMITING Amanda Wildlife RECOVERY OF THE NEW Biology & Mgt ENGLAND COTTONTAIL IN NEW YORK Falkowski, May 12, EFB Ecology EFB PhD Tomasz Bartosz 2018 Assessing the Socioecological Restoration Potential of Successional Lacandon Maya Agroforestry in the Lacandon Rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico Gurdak, Daniel May 12, EFB Ecology EFB PhD Assessing Arapaima J 2018 Conservation and Management Through Actionable Research Kilheffer, May 12, EFB Fish & EFB PhD Plant Community Chellby 2018 Wildlife Development in Storm- Biology & Mgt induced Overwash Fans of the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness Area, New York Martinez, Isaias Dec 16, ESC Environ EFB PhD SOIL FERTILITY, EMERGY 2017 & Community EVALUATION, AND Land Planning IMPROVEMENTS TO MILPA IN INDIGENOUS ZAPOTEC AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS Paltsyn, Mikhail May 12, EFB EFB PhD Integration of remote sensing, Yurievich 2018 Conservation modeling, and field Biology approaches for rangeland management and endangered species conservation in Central Asia Peach Lang, Aug 18, EFB Ecology EFB PhD Michelle 2017 EVALUATING THE ROLE OF PROTECTED AREAS IN MITIGATING AVIAN RESPONSES TO CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGE

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5. New York Natural Heritage Program Summary Report (DJ Evans, Director)

The New York Natural Heritage Program (NYNHP) databases are the primary source of information on biodiversity used in environmental review and land management planning by state agencies in New York, and one of the important inputs in setting priorities for conservation organizations. We currently manage 13,500 records of rare species and natural communities in our central Biotics database. These records are an accumulation of 30 years of field work and processing of data collected by our program, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) biologists, other agency biologists, NGO scientists, researchers and their students, and naturalists across the state.

Our base funding comes from a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with DEC and includes work for the Division of Fish and Wildlife, Division of Lands and Forests, Division of Marine Resources, and the Division of Water. This is a five-year agreement that funds program administration, database development, animal data processing, responses to information requests, conservation status ranking for animal species, sharing the data with other agencies and partners, botanical services, inventories for rare species and ecosystems on New York State Forests and Forest Preserves, invasive species database management and data services, and marine rare species expertise and data processing . For over 10 years we have been receiving funds from DEC to develop and manage a database of invasive species locations, iMapInvasives (iMapInvasives.org), which is an online data mapping and storage application available to DEC managers and partner organizations across the state. With nearly 200,000 observations logged into iMap statewide (so far!), we are currently serving nearly 5000 users across New York, and iMapInvasives has been adopted by natural heritage programs in nine states and one province of Canada. This year, we are undertaking a full upgrade/redesign of the database working with developers at NatureServe (NatureServe.org). The re-design will employ recent advancements in mobile and handheld technology, online data mapping, and visualization. . Part of our scope of work on invasive species involves training users in iMap data entry and developing a training network that can be accessed by new users or organizations wanting to use the database. We have been working with Melissa Fierke and one of her students, Brittney Rogers, in developing curricula and materials for the training network. Brittney has also been instrumental in helping us develop a newsletter for the project to keep users informed on training sessions, mobile tools, database development updates, and high profile invasive species to look out for. Each summer we also hire 2-3 DEC sponsored ESF interns to assist with iMapInvasives work here in Albany. This year we’re happy to have ESF students Kadir Goz and Jessica Ingham working with us. Jessica is our iMap education and outreach intern, so she has been leading trainings, creating outreach and training materials, and made some great contributions to the newsletter and NY iMap website (nyimapinvasives.org). She just graduated from the ESF Ranger school and is part of the ESF/DEC internship MOU for ESF students (which includes recent graduates). Kadir is also from this program, and is currently a Master’s student at ESF. He has been immersed in WISPA (Watercraft Inspection Steward Program App) this summer and

148 done some really terrific work for us. For more information on iMap internships contact NYNHP’s Meg Wilkinson or Jennifer Dean. Over the past year, we’ve expanded our work with the Division of Lands and Forests to include surveys in both the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves, monitoring of High Conservation Value Forests on state forests, and hired a new ecologist/project manager (Dr. Max Henschell) to handle the coordination of our work with the Division. Our work on forest preserve land includes developing field assessment protocols for documenting old-growth forest in the state, which will bring consistency to the way we (both NYNHP and DEC) evaluate and map old-growth. Ongoing documentation of old-growth in the forest preserve and on state forests will provide a layer of information essential to writing Unit Management Plans for state land. High Conservation Value Forest monitoring focuses on areas within state forests identified as having exceptional values, representing extant occurrences of state-rare communities and rare species. Monitoring HCVFs will help the Bureau of State Lands Management manage rare community and Special Treatment areas on forests that have received dual green certifications from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).

We have an ESF graduate, Leah Nagel, on staff this summer (seasonal position) to assist with some of the work in state forests and forest preserve. Leah is also helping out on three different wetland projects funded through multiple EPA Wetland Program Development Grants. As a graduate student of Dr. James Gibbs, Leah was funded by one of our grants “Determining the importance of vernal pools across geophysical and urbanization gradients to inform regulation, conservation, and management” and she continues to assist with ecological sampling in vernal pools statewide this summer. This project is/was a great example of a collaborative effort between NYNHP and ESF faculty, involving Dr. Gibbs, Stacey McNulty from ESF’s Newcomb Campus, and our Chief Zoologist Dr. Matt Schlesinger.

Our work on state land has included those of the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for a couple of decades now, and we have three full-time positions dedicated to state parks work – an ecologist/project manager (Julie Lundgren), botanist, and zoologist, plus part-time GIS services. With the ever-increasing, widespread interest in pollinators these scientists have spent a significant amount of time looking for pollinators on state parks (https://nystateparks.blog/2018/06/19/counting-the-bristlesides-sedgesitters-leafwalkers/) while testing out sampling protocol for a new multi-year effort that we have undertaken – the Empire State Native Pollinator Survey (ESNPS). The pollinator project is funded by DEC, but OPRHP has had an interest in doing pollinator work in parks and have allowed us to do some more intense work on parks than would have been possible under the ESNPS sampling framework.

The Empire State Pollinator Survey will help us determine the conservation status of a wide array of native insect pollinators in nonagricultural habitats. Focal taxa identified during the design phase of the project, which occurred in 2016-17, included several groups of bees (Hymenoptera), flies (Diptera), beetles (Coleoptera), and moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera). These taxa will be assessed using a variety of methods: a statewide extensive survey to inform the distribution of species within entire groups of pollinators, target habitat surveys for rare habitat types expected to support rare or at-risk species, and target species surveys for known at- risk or specialist species not expected to be well surveyed by the broader approaches. A citizen science effort will complement these efforts and engage the public in pollinator monitoring and

149 conservation. As part of the study, we are hiring ESF students as field technicians to conduct pollinator surveys using bee bowls and timed searches at 150-200 “extensive survey” sites over three years. This summer we hired Abigail (Abby) Jago and Lorenzo Natalie. Using Syracuse and ESF campus as a home base, they have been traveling and sampling extensively as a team and spending time sorting and processing specimens on indoor days. The project is providing funding to Abby for her Master’s work under Dr. Melissa Fierke.

Our work on invertebrates (and with state parks) doesn’t stop with pollinators! For the past two years, we’ve been studying the rare northern barrens tiger beetle (Cicindela patruela) at Minnewaska State Park using State Lands Stewardship funding provided to the state agencies through the NYS Environmental Protection Fund. Mckenzie Wyborn, received her Bachelor’s degree from SUNY Brockport and worked for us in the summer of 2017 while a student at Brockport. She has returned to us this summer for more tiger beetle work, including collecting data that she will use for her Master’s thesis, which she will pursue at SUNY ESF under Melissa Fierke, starting this fall.

Finally, for a third year in a row, we’re able to offer an ESF student a summer of assisting our botanists with rare plant surveys and data processing through funding received via DEC from the NYS Environmental Protection Fund. This year, our Botanical Student Assistant is Ian Laih, a 2018 ESF graduate of the Department of Environmental Science and Forestry. Ian has spent his summer in the field assisting with plant surveys across the state and working through specimen and data processing when in the office. Ian came to us well prepared for both field and office environments - and he has been a joy to work with! We plan to offer this position on an annual basis, advertising it to the ESF student population in January or February each year.

For more information on the work of NYNHP please contact DJ Evans at 518-402-8948 or [email protected].

We are currently working on moving our staff pages and web presence to ESF’s website. In the meantime, for our staff directory see www.esf.edu/efb/directory/nynhp.htm. For reports and other resources please visit our scientist web pages at www.nynhp/staff, or DEC’s website www.dec.ny.gov/animals/29338.html. We have also included a list of publications and resources see the Appendix of this report (New York Natural Heritage Program 2017-18 Publications, Presentations and Service).

New York Natural Heritage Program 2017-18 Publications, Presentations and Service

Publications None this year

Papers Submitted, In Review, Pending Decision Sofaer, H., C. Jarnevich, I. Pearse, R. Smyth, S. Auer, G. Cook, T. Edwards, G. Guala, T. Howard, J. Morisette, H. Hamilton. The development and delivery of species distribution models to inform decision-making. In Review, Bioscience.

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Apodaca, J., A. Patton, J. Corser, C. Wilson, L. Williams, A. Cameron, D. Wake. A new green salamander in the southern Appalachians: evolutionary history of Aneides aeneus and implications for management and conservation with the description of a cryptic microendemic species. Re-submitted, pending final decision, Copeia Schlesinger, M. D., J. A. Feinberg, N. H. Nazdrowicz, J. D. Kleopfer, J. C. Beane, J. F. Bunnell, J. Burger, E. Corey, K. Gipe, J. W. Jaycox, E. Kiviat, J. Kubel, D. P. Quinn, C. Raithel, P. A. Scott, S. M. Wenner, E. L. White, B. Zarate, and H. B. Shaffer. 2018. Follow-up ecological studies for cryptic species discoveries: decrypting the leopard frogs of the eastern U.S. PLOS ONE, in revision.

Papers/Posters Presented at Science Meetings Conley, A. 2017. Identifying biodiversity priority areas in New York and its State Parks. Poster at the NatureServe Biodiversity without Boundaries Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 2017. Conley, A and Caboot, E. 2017. Spatial prioritization of invasive species management and survey efforts. Presentation at the New York GIS Association’s NYGeoCon Conference, Lake Placid, NY, October 2017. Conley, A. 2018. Prioritizing streamside habitat restoration or protection using the New York Riparian Opportunity Assessment. Presentation at the New York State Wetlands Forum, Watkins Glen, NY, April 2018. Dean, J. 2017. Spatial Prioritization of invasive species management and survey efforts. NatureServe Annual Conference - Biodiversity without Boundaries. Ottawa, Ontario. Dean, J. 2017. Introducing the Spatial Prioritization Tool for Invasive Species Management. Eastern Lake Ontario Invasive Species Symposium. Pulaski, NY. Dean, J. 2017. Prioritizing Invasive Species Efforts Using iMapInvasives Tools and Data. LIISMA Invasive Species Symposium. Brentwood, NY. Dean, J. 2017. Prioritizing Invasive Species Efforts: Working smarter with NYS tools and data. Invasive Species Integrated Pest Management Conference. Albany, NY. Dean, J. 2017 (Poster). Invasive species and biodiversity: Combining information to prioritize management projects. American Chemical Society. Washington, DC. Dean, J. 2017. Setting Invasive Species Management Priorities with State Partners. Natural Areas Association Annual Conference. Fort Collins, CO. Dean, J. 2018 (Poster). Spatial prioritization of invasive species management and survey efforts. Northeast Natural History Conference. Burlington, VT. Dean, J. 2017. An introduction to the statewide invasive species database. NY Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Syracuse, NY. Howard, T. 2017. Visualizing and extracting info from many SDMs. Lightning Talk at NatureServe Biodiversity without Boundaries Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 2017. Lundgren, J. 2017. Meeting in the middle: satisfying demands for recreation and conservation in New York State Parks. Presentation at the NatureServe Biodiversity without Boundaries Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 2017. Lundgren, J. 2018. Invited panelist with M. Whitmore and H. Mosher at NY ReLeaf Conference. “The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid” movie showing and panel discussion. Rochester, NY. July 26, 2018.

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White, E.L., M.D. Schlesinger, and J.D. Corser. 2018. Assessing the conservation status of New York’s native pollinators, 2018-2021. Poster at the Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT, April 2018. Schlesinger, M. D., L. Shappell, L. Nagel, E. L. White, E. Spencer, S. McNulty, and J. Gibbs. 2018. Determining the importance of vernal pools across geophysical and urbanization gradients to inform regulation, conservation, and management. Poster at the Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT, April 2018. Schlesinger, M. D. and P. G. Novak. 2018. Landscapes used by New England cottontails (Sylvilagus transitionalis) at the edge of their range. Presentation at the Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT, April 2018. Young, S.M. 2018. Long Island’s Coastal Plain Ponds. A presentation at the Long Island Natural History Conference, March 2018. Young, S.M. 2018. Rare plants and invasive Species, a growing concern. A Presentation at the Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT, April 2018. Young, S.M. 2018. Discovering rare species, indoors and out. Presentation at the Northeast Natural History Conference, Burlington, VT, April 2018.

Unfunded Service to Professional Societies and Organizations Chaloux, A. 2017-present. Member, Editorial Board, Northeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. Conrad, N. 2002-present. Member, Board of Directors, Rensselaer Land Trust Conrad, N. 2000-present. Member, Board of Directors, Friends of the Dyken Pond Center Corser, J. 2017. Reviewer, Journal of Biogeography Corser, J. 2017, 2018. Reviewer, Ecological Indicators White, E. 2007-present. Member, Dragonfly Society of the Americas. White, E. 2017. Reviewer, Journal of Insect Conservation. White, E. 2007-present. Curator of Odonata collection at NYS Museum. Schlesinger, M. Scientific Advisory Committee, Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station, Rensselaerville, NY, 2015 to present. Schlesinger, M. Advisory Board, Natural Areas Conservancy, New York, NY, 2014 to present. Young, S.M. 2000-present. Board of Directors and Secretary, New York Flora Association. Young, S.M. 2015-2018. Board of the Friends of the Woodlawn Preserve, Schenectady, NY

Funded Service to Governmental Agencies, Public Interest Groups, etc. Conrad, N. 2017. Heritage EO and Animal Screening data layers in the DEC Data Selector and how DEC staff can apply them to T&E reviews. Training to NYSDEC Region 4 Wildlife, Habitat, and Permits staff. April 19, 2017. Conrad, N. and J. Lundgren. 2017. How to use and apply NHP data: advanced training for NY State Parks staff of the Finger Lakes and Central Region. November 7, 2017. Corser, J. 2017,2018. Collaborated with Hawthorne Valley Farms, Columbia County on Hoverfly research and received pollinator database Corser, J, A. Chaloux. 2018. Identified and databased Syrphid pollinators from the Cornell University Insect Collection, New York State Museum & Buffalo Museum of Science Dean, J. 2018. Member, NYS DOT Swallowwort Biocontrol Technical Working Group. Dean, J. 2017. Member, NYS DEC Biocontrol Permit Review Team.

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Dean, J. 2017-present. Member, NYS DEC Invasive Species Curriculum Development Workgroup. Dean, J. 2017-present. Member, Capital-Mohawk PRISM Conservation Committee. Dean, J. 2018. Presentation to the NY Invasive Species Council and Invasive Species Advisory Committee Joint Meeting on iMapInvasives project updates. Albany, NY. Dean, J. 2017. Presentation to NYS DOT Environmental & Landscape Architecture Training Series about Prioritizing Invasive Species Efforts Using iMapInvasives Tools and Data. Albany, NY. Dean, J. 2017. iMapInvasives Project Updates Species and Spatial Prioritization. CCE Invasive Species Inservice Conference. Ithaca, NY. Evans, D.J. 2007 – present. Member, New York State Invasive Species Advisory Committee. Evans, D.J. 2013 - present. Member, NatureServe Board of Directors. Howard, T. 2017-2018. Presentations to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on outputs from a completed project on species distribution modeling to help support the USFWS in the application of these models. 12/21/2017; 1/18/2018; 1/19/2018; 2/7/2018; 3/15/2018; 7/2/2018 Lundgren, J., R. Ring and J. Dean. 2017. iMap Invasives and NYNHP botany and ecology field training for NY State Excelsior Conservation Corps (37 participants) Morrisville, NY. May 31-June 1, 2017 Lundgren, J. and R. Ring. 2014-present. Advise on stewardship and protection of rare species and significant natural communities within State Parks across NY State. Lundgren, J. and R. Ring. 2017. Natural Heritage goals and methods. Presentation at State Parks Statewide Stewardship Meeting. Albany, NY. March 21, 2017. Lundgren, J. and S. Young. 2017. Western NY Land Conservancy Niagara Project Stakeholders Meeting. Buffalo, NY. April 17, 2017. Lundgren, J. 2017. Working group of state Natural Areas Programs. Natural Areas Association Conference. Fort Collins, CO. October 2017. Schlesinger, M. 2017-2018. Ad hoc participant, Species Status Assessment for Cobblestone Tiger Beetle (Cicindela marginipennis). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. White, E. 2015-2017. Member, Technical Committee and Aquatic Sub-Team of Regional Conservation Opportunity Areas Project, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NALCC). White, E. 2018. Reviewer of Massachusetts proposed listing changes for Threatened and Endangered insects. NYNHP ISDB Staff. 2017-18. Over 60 iMapInvasives and Watercraft Inspection Steward Program App training sessions presented to NYS agencies, PRISMs, conservation organizations, college classes, and public groups. Throughout New York. Young, S.M. October 2017. Participated in the Long Island grassland managers meeting at the Greentree Foundation, Nassau County. Young, S.M. January 2018. Participated in the USFWS Hart’s-tongue Fern conservation meeting. Young, S.M. March 2018 – Participated in a USFWS meeting on the status of northern monkshood in New York for a researcher doing genetic work. Young, S.M. 2018. Took part in bi-weekly meetings to update the information for Hart’s-tongue fern for the USFWS.

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Presentations to the Public Chaloux, A. 2018. Blanding’s Turtle Habitat in Saratoga County, New York. Blanding’s Turtle Habitat Assessment Workshop. New York Chapter of The Wildlife Society in cooperation with NYSDEC and NYNHP. Millbrook, NY. May 25, 2018. Conley, A., E. White, J. Mapes (NYS DEC), and T. Howard. 2018. Webinar on the New York State Riparian Opportunity Assessment and NYS DEC Trees for Tribs Program. 19 April 2018. Dean, J. 2017. Invasive Species in New York. Rensselaer Plateau Alliance. Grafton, NY. Dean, J. 2017. Protecting Our Forests from Invasive Species. Friends of Dyken Pond Annual Meeting. Grafton, NY. Dean, J. 2017. Citizen Science in Action: Mapping Invasive Species to Protect the Places You Love. NYS Outdoor Educators Association. Lower Hudson Valley, NY. Dean, J. 2017. Movie Panel. MiSci Science Festival of the Capital Region. Schenectady, NY. Dean, J. 2018. Invasive Species Mapping for Citizen Scientists and Students. ESF in the High School. Webinar. Dean, J. 2018. Mapping Invasive Species in the Classroom. BOCES Capital Region Educators. Albany, NY. Dean, J. & Kolozsvary, M. 2018. Prioritizing Invasive Species Management in the Region. Huyck Preserve. Rensselaerville, NY. Lundgren, J. 2017. Invited panelist with R. O’Brien, M. Whitmore and C. Foito (producer). Invasive Species Awareness Week “The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid” movie screening and discussion, public event. Albany NY. Howard, T., M. Schlesinger, K. France, R. Shirer. 2017. Assessing Climate Change Connectivity and Fine-scale Vulnerability for New York’s Rare Species. Union College Biology Department Seminar Series, 2 November 2017. Howard, T. 2017. Guest Lecture about the New York Natural Heritage Program. Sienna College, Conservation Biology class. 19 April 2017. Rogers, B. 2018. Introduction to iMapInvasives and the new Certified Trainers Network. NY Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Syracuse, NY. Rogers, B. 2018. Invasive Species in Tioga County. Tioga County Cooperative Extension. Owego, NY Rogers, B. 2018. Invasive Species Impacting the Finger Lakes Trail. Finger Lakes Trail Conference Spring Gathering. Danby, NY. White, E. and M. Schlesinger. Empire State Native Pollinator Survey workshop. Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, Delmar, NY. 16 June 2018. White, E. Empire State Native Pollinator Survey workshop. The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY. 23 June 2018. White, E. Empire State Native Pollinator Survey workshop. Beaver Meadow Audubon Center, North Java, NY. 30 June 2018. White, E. Empire State Native Pollinator Survey workshop. Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY. 14 July 2018. Young, S.M. 2018. Rare species and invasives, a growing concern. A presentation to the monthly statewide Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) call.

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Ballou, A., J. Lundgren and P. Sinko (Parks). 2018. Pollinators in New York State Parks - banners created and have been viewed by over 800 people since January 2018. Chaloux, A. 2018 (invited panelist). A non-medical career field option for those with a degree in biology: conservation biology. Panel Discussion Participant for State University at Albany Scholar Series Event, March 22, 2018. Conley, Amy K., Erin L. White, and Timothy G. Howard. 2018. New York State Riparian Opportunity Assessment. New York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY. Conrad, Nicholas B., Hollie Y. Shaw, and Amy K. Conley. 2018. Updated Important Areas for the Hudson River Valley. Report submitted to NYSDEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program. New York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY. Corser, J. 2018. New York State Parks Blog on the Empire State Native Pollinator Survey https://nystateparks.blog/2018/06/19/counting-the-bristlesides-sedgesitters-leafwalkers/ Dean, J. 2017 (Lecture). Invasive Species Efforts in NY. SUNY ESF EFB course: Invasive Species Management (Dr. Dylan Parry). Syracuse, NY. Dean, J. 2017 (Lecture). Mapping Invasive Species in New York. SUNY Cobleskill course: Terrestrial Ecology (Dr. Kevin Berner). Cobleskill, NY. Dean, J. 2017 (Lecture). Mapping Invasive Species in New York. SUNY Cobleskill course: Introduction to Natural Resource and Conservation (Dr. Kevin Berner). Cobleskill, NY. Dean, J. 2017 (Lecture). Mapping Invasive Species with iMapInvasives. SUNY Cortland course: Conservation Biology (Dr. Andrea Davalos). Cortland, NY. Dean, J. 2018 (Lecture). Mapping Invasive Species in New York. SUNY Cobleskill course: Conservation Biology. Cobleskill, NY. Howard, T. 2018. Editorial review for scientific accuracy of kids book “Marshes and Swamps” for Nomad Press. Howard, T. 2018. Monitoring of Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River coastal wetland habitat in support of adaptive management (site surveys). New York Natural Heritage Program, Albany, NY. Howard, T. 2018. Monitoring of Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River coastal wetland habitat in support of adaptive management (imagery). New York Natural Heritage Program, Albany, NY. Howard, T. 2018. Phone interview with reporter from Buffalo NY about NY’s Trees for Tribs online analysis tools. Participating in the interview were: Erica Ringlwald (NYSDEC), Karen Stainbrook (NYSDEC), Jeff Mapes (NYSDEC), Tim Howard (NYNHP). March, 2018. Lundgren, J. (editor). 2014-present. NY State Parks Blog https://nystateparks.blog Lundgren, J. 2017-2018. New York State Parks Blog https://nystateparks.blog/2017/04/18/happy-arbor-day/ https://nystateparks.blog/2017/08/22/kids-in-nature/ https://nystateparks.blog/2017/10/24/nutty-over-nuts/ https://nystateparks.blog/2018/04/24/trees-spring-ahead/ https://nystateparks.blog/2018/05/29/late-spring-flora/

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https://nystateparks.blog/2017/05/02/new-york-state-parks-partners-with-audubon-new- york-to-save-one-of-new-yorks-most-beautiful-songbirds/ https://nystateparks.blog/2017/06/20/protecting-pollinators/ Lundgren, J., L. Schelling and S. Carver. 2017. Trees, insects, wildlife and habitats in NY State Parks. Interactive display presented at NY State Fair as part of the NY State Parks and NYNHP Partnership. Over 700 visitors participated in this booth over the 2 day period. Lundgren, J. 2018. Pollinators in State Parks: display and interactive booth at Schodack Island Raptor Fest. Schodack Landing, NY. May 19, 2018. Lutz, C. and NYNHP ISDB staff. 2018. Launch of the new NY iMapInvasives website: www.nyimpainvasives.org. Rogers, B. and NYNHP ISDB staff. 2018. New York iMapInvasives Newsletter, Issue 1. Rogers, B. 2018 (Lecture). Invasive Species Efforts in NY. SUNY ESF EFB course: Invasive Species Management (Dr. Dylan Parry). Syracuse, NY. Schlesinger, M. D. 2017. Habitat connectivity in the Hudson Valley. Invited presentation at Nature Across Boundaries: Keeping Lands and Waters Connected, the Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, November 2017. Schlesinger, M. D. 2017. Tiger beetles and leopard frogs: Rare animals and the New York Natural Heritage Program. Invited lecture at Stony Brook University, October 2017, and SUNY Cobleskill, November 2017. Schlesinger, M. D. 2018. Determining the importance of vernal pools across geophysical and urbanization gradients to inform regulation, conservation, and management. Invited lecture at SUNY Cobleskill course: Conservation Biology. Cobleskill, NY, April 2018. White, E. 2018. Phone interview with reporter from Buffalo NY about NY’s Trees for Tribs online analysis tools. Participating in the interview were: Erica Ringewald (NYSDEC), Erin White (NYNHP). January, 2018. White, Erin L., Matthew D. Schlesinger, and Jeffrey D. Corser. April 2018. Empire State Native Pollinator Survey participant handbook. New York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY. Young, S.M. 2017. Filmed talking about the plants and natural communities of Thacher Park for a film to be permanently displayed at the Welcome Center. Young, S.M. and Eric Lamont. 2018. Noteworthy plants reported from Long Island, New York 2016 and 2017. Long Island Botanical Society Newsletter 28(3). Summer 2018.

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6. Roosevelt Wildlife Station Summary Report (James Gibbs, Director)

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Roosevelt Wild Life Station

The academic year 2017-2018 has been a productive one for the Roosevelt Wild Life Station whose objectives are to fulfill Theodore Roosevelt’s vision for securing wild species and habitats through rigorous science, specialized training, and conservation partnerships.

Private Lands Wildlife Stewardship Initiative

The Roosevelt Wild Life Station's new Private Lands Wildlife Stewardship Initiative is now into its second year. The initiative seeks to bring together a community of landowners, scientists, educators, students, and everyday citizens to find creative ways to foster to conservation on private lands. The initiative stems from a $500,000 contribution from a private donor, one of the largest gifts the Station has received in its near 100-year-long legacy. This initiative -- led by Mr. Sam Quinn, a new full-time employee of the Station – provides an intensive inquiry-based field course for a small cohort of students to focus on land conservation issues relevant to private lands and then brings insights to a much larger group of students in the Conservation Biology Senior Synthesis course. The initiative is also building a network of private landowners interested in applying to their holdings the lessons we have learned. The network is being built in part through Bioblitzes, which are rapid, site-based species surveys and ecosystem inventories that have been the core service and primary generator of funding for the Roosevelt Station operations since our recent revitalization. Two bioblitzes were completed for summer 2018, one on a large tract of private land in northern Virginia and the other on Long Island. Two more sites were visited for planning surveys in 2019: the lower Hudson River Valley (Storm King Art Park) and another on Long Island. These efforts will bring students and faculty together for intensive surveys to uncover the species present at these sites, help develop site-specific conservation plans, and provide much-needed revenue for Station operations in 2018. Through our work with students and private landowners, we are focusing on ways to create a more vibrant world for both wildlife and people, explicitly recognizing the social and economic dimensions of wildlife conservation. In the next year we hope to embark on developing a guide to wildlife management on private lands based on the lessons learned, an endeavor that extends the advice and expertise of Station personnel well beyond the classroom.

Roosevelt Wild Life Collections Education and Research Center

Construction of the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections Education and Research Center – our new state-of- the-art wildlife collection and classroom facility – is nearly complete. As the culmination of much effort by faculty (particularly Dr. Rebecca Rundell and collection curator Ronald Giergerich), professional staff, and consultants, this new $2.6M facility will feature vertebrate animal specimens from the Roosevelt Wildlife Collection, providing laboratory, specimen storage, classroom learning and visitor spaces. We are extremely excited to see this facility now nearly complete, which will greatly enhance our ability to conduct specimen-based teaching for ornithology, mammalogy, herpetology and perhaps ichthyology, all courses at the core of many of our conservation training efforts. Transfer of our wildlife collections will begin in fall of 2018 when construction is complete, with the first classes taught likely starting in January.

Camp Fire Professor of Wildlife Conservation

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Jerrold Belant who will join the ESF faculty as the College's first Camp Fire Professor of Wildlife Conservation following a nationwide search to fill this endowed faculty position with a wildlife scientist working at the nexus of conservation science and policy. Dr. Belant's expertise lies in the ecology, conservation and management of the world's large mammals especially in the ecology and management of human-wildlife conflicts, carnivore ecology and conservation, and

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SUNY ESF Thousand Islands Biological Station Annual Report 2017-18 (John Farrell, Director)

TIBS has a mission to conserve aquatic resources using ecosystem-based science and

monitoring to inform decision makers and society while providing exceptional

educational experiences for students and the community The SUNY -ESF Thousand Islands Biological Station (TIBS), located on Governor’s Island, hosts a research program focusing on the aquatic ecology of the St. Lawrence River with an emphasis on fisheries, wetlands, limnology, invasive species, and ecological perturbations. The TIBS research program continues to advance scientific inquiry to guide management activities and understand impacts affecting the ecosystem. Many faculty, staff and students from a variety of institutions are attracted to the unique nature of this immense river that is the natural outlet to the Laurentian Great Lakes. Graduate and undergraduate student projects, with the support of a variety of faculty, provide a diverse research portfolio with many related studies supported by extramural grants. Many local outreach activities maintain a strong ESF connection to the St. Lawrence River community and provide students and staff opportunities for information exchange. We are excited about our progress and achievements and look forward a sustained commitment to aquatic research and conservation in the face of significant and evolving environmental challenges. Highlights for 2017-2018 include significant research accomplishments in conservation of fisheries and aquatic habitats. Research support continues at TIBS with the five-year contract with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation through the Environmental Protection Fund, we continue a 3-year contract with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Enhancement Mitigation and Research Fund. Our work with DEC focuses on ecological monitoring, understanding the effect of water levels on habitat, wetlands and fish reproduction. With USFWS we continue the Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy, an effort to enhance fish populations through addressing reproduction bottlenecks with habitat restoration measures. We congratulate Ericka Augustyn for her successful MS program and thesis “Larval northern pike (Esox lucius) ecology in natural and restored coastal wetlands of the upper St. Lawrence River” leading to her December 2017 graduation. Four new students Kate Abbott (PhD) Alex Kua (MS), Ben Gallo (MS) and Anna Conklyn (MS) joined ESF and are conducting their research at TIBS (see Graduate Research Updates below). Facilities improvements include

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moving into a newly constructed mainland research and storage annex provided by a long-term lease (to the Research Foundation) with the Thousand Island Land Trust. A well and plumbing service including a half-bath was added to the Farm Road TIBS Annex. For 2018, the TIBS facility is again operating close to capacity with students, staff and researchers! Administration Dr. John M. Farrell, Director, TIBS Dr. Donald J. Leopold, Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology Dr. Neil Ringler, Interim Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology Dr. Nosa Eigebor, Provost, SUNY ESF Dr. Quentin Wheeler, President, SUNY ESF

Professional staff (supported on extramural funding sources) 2017-2018 Nathan Satre, Senior Research Support Specialist and Laboratory Manager Dr. John Paul Leblanc, Post-doctoral Associate

Graduate students (all at ESF unless otherwise noted) Ceili Bachman (MS – Advisors, M. Mitchell & K. Schulz) Ericka Augustyn (MS – Advisor, J. Farrell) - Graduated Fall 2017 Jessica Goretzke (MS – Advisor, J. Farrell) Sarah Walton (Carleton University; MS – Advisors, S. Cooke and J. Farrell) Stacy Furgal (MS – advisor J. Farrell) Benjamin Gallo (MS – Advisor J. Farrell) Kate Abbott (PhD – Advisor J. Farrell) Alex Kua (MS – Advisor J. Stella and J. Farrell Anna Conklyn (MS – J. Farrell)

Staff and undergraduate students

2017 Julie Beck, Field Technician Juliana Ofalt, Field Technician Abby Webster, Federal Work Study Assistant Caleb Konrad, Field Technician Ally Jones, Field Technician Mia Cippulo, Federal Work Study Assistant Siddarth Motwani, Field Technician Carrie Nyce, Field Technician

2018 Julie Beck, Senior Field Technician Katelyn Barhite, Senior Field Technician Tyler Field, SUNY-ESF, Federal Work Study Assistant Holly Ness, St. Olaf University, Field Technician Andrew Bachteler, SUNY-ESF, Field Technician Jonathan White, SUNY Plattsburgh, Field Technician

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Luke Nye-Smith, SUNY-ESF, Federal Work Study Assistant Lindsey Shulock, SUNY-ESF, Federal Work Study Assistant Cole Hartman, SUNY-ESF, Federal Work Study Assistant

2017 TIBS Field Crew – from left 1st row: Julie Beck, Jessica Goretzke, Carrie Nyce, Ally Jones, Mia CippuloFaculty, Abby involvement Webster; 2nd row: Kate Abbott, Siddarth “Sid” Motwani, Ericka Augustyn, Julianna “JulesDr. Louis” Ofalt, Bernatchez, Nathan Satre, Laval Caleb University, Conrad, Muskellunge Ben Gallo, geneticsJohn Paul project “JP” Leblanc and John Farrell Dr. Steven Cooke, Carleton University– Juvenile esocid movements study Dr. Derek Crane, Coastal Carolina University– larval walleye study

Dr. Emily Cromwell, Cornell University Veterinary College – NY SeaGrant VHSV study Dr. Rodman Getchell, Cornell University Veterinary College – NY SeaGrant VHSV study Dr. Hyatt Green, ESF, Muskellunge eDNA study Dr. Fred Lecomte, INRS Quebec – larval fish ecology project Dr. Brian Leydet, ESF, Microbiome project Dr. Kimberly Schulz, ESF, wetland lower trophic levels and nutrient study Dr. John Stella, ESF, Muskrat population study Dr. Chris Whipps, ESF, FA project Northern Pike gender determination study

Agency and grant administration representatives

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: Steven R. LaPan, Great Lakes Program Leader Christopher Legard, Lake Ontario Unit Leader Frank Flack, Region 6 Fisheries Manager (retired) Janet Lantry, Region 6 Fisheries Manager Rodger Klindt, St. Lawrence River Unit Leader

US Fish and Wildlife Service:

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Scott Schlueter, Fish Enhancement Mitigation and Research Program Leader

Research (active grants listed) Farrell, J. M. 4/1/16-3/31/21. Water Level Regulation Adaptive Management Research: Coastal Wetland Health Indicators and Sportfish Production in the Upper St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Coastal Lakes and Oceans Program (funded $1,417,046)

Researchers examine a dead spawning male muskellunge reported by the Northeast Underwater Explorers NEUE diving group in 2018, a partner with TIBS. In collaboration with the Cornell Veterinary College, fish are tested for presence of viral hemorrhagic septicemia Publicationsand other pathogens(2017-18 published during necropsy. or in press) Declines in the muskellunge are linked this invasive disease and population restoration is a current research and management focus

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Carrier, A., A. L. Ferchaud, P. Brodeur, J. Le Luyer, J. M. Farrell, and L. Bernatchez. 2017. Population genomics towards optimizing Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) management and conservation in Québec Canada. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:467-471. Casselman, J. M., T. Lusk, J. M. Farrell, and C. Lake. 2017. Die-Off of Muskellunge in the Upper St. Lawrence River Caused by Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia, 2005–2008. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85: 373-377. Farrell, J. M., R. G. Getchell, K. L. Kapuscinski, and S. R. LaPan. 2017. Long-term Trends of St. Lawrence River Muskellunge: Effects of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia and Round Goby Proliferation Creates Uncertainty for Population Sustainability. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:275-301. Gallagher, A., P. Szekeres. S. Cooke, and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Tracking Young-of-Year Northern Pike and Muskellunge: Monitoring Behavior and Habitat Use During Fall Outmigration from Nursery Sites. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:167-170. Getchell, R. G., E. R. Cornwell, S. Bogdanowicz, J. Andrés, W. N. Batts, G. Kurath, R. Breta, J. G. Choil, J. M. Farrell, P. R. Bowser. 2017. Complete sequences of four viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) IVb isolates and their virulence in northern pike fry. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 126:211-227. Leblanc, J. P., B. L. Brown, J. M. Farrell. 2017. Increased walleye Sander vitreus egg-to-larvae survival following spawning habitat enhancement in a tributary of Eastern Lake Ontario. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 37:999–1009. Lewis, C., J. M. Farrell, K. l. Sams, E. R. Cornwell, R. G. Getchell. 2017. A Comparison of Virulence of Four Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus IVb Strains in Muskellunge. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:149-159. Miller, L. M., J. M. Farrell, K. L. Kapuscinski, K. Scribner, B. L. Sloss, K. Turnquist, C. C. Wilson. 2017. A Review of Muskellunge Population Genetics: Implications for Management and Future Research Needs. American Fisheries Society Symposium 85:385- 414. Turnquist, K. N., W. A. Larson, J. M. Farrell, P. A. Hanchin, K. L. Kapuscinski, L. M. Miller, K. T. Scribner. 2017. Spatial Genetic Structure of Muskellunge in the Great Lakes Region and the Effects of Supplementation on Genetic Integrity of Remnant Stocks. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 85:477-481. Turnquist; K. N., Wesley L., J. M Farrell, P. A. Hanchin, K. L.Kapuscinski; L. M. Miller; K.T Scribner; C. C. Wilson, and B. L. Sloss. 2017. Genetic structure of muskellunge in the Great Lakes region and the effects of supplementation on genetic integrity of wild populations. Journal of Great Lakes Research 43(6):1141-1152. Book K. L. Kapuscinski, T. D. Simonson, D. P. Crane, S. J. Kerr, J.S. Diana, and John M. Farrell. Editors. 2017. Muskellunge Management: Fifty Years of Cooperation Among Anglers, Scientists, and Fisheries Biologists. American Fisheries Society Symposium #85, Bethesda, MD, 671 pages. ISBN: 978-1-934874-46-2. https://fisheries.org/bookstore/all-titles/afs- symposia/54085c/ Published reports Farrell, J. M., N. A. Satre, and K. Abbott. 2018. Muskellunge research, monitoring, and management in the Thousand Islands section of the St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2016 Great Lakes Fishery Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report. https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/lorpt17.pdf

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Farrell, J. M., and N. A. Satre. 2018. Northern pike research, monitoring, and management in the Thousand Islands Section of the St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2016 Great Lakes Fishery Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report. https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/lorpt17.pdf

New BOOK: American Fisheries Society Proceedings from the 2016 Hugh Becker Memorial Symposium were published in a new peer-reviewed book. Three of six of the editors are TIBS alumni and the current director. The book is anticipated to provide guidance to muskellunge management for decades to come. https://fisheries.org/booksto re/all-titles/afs- symposia/54085c/

Presentations (scientific) Abbott, K. M., C. M. Whipps, R. G. Getchell, and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Restoration of native Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) in the upper St. Lawrence River in the face of VHSV and Round Goby invasions. Poster presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Cooperstown, NY, February 7-9, 2018. *Klumb-Spindler Travel Award Recipient. Gallo, B.G., Farrell, J, F., and B. F. Leydet. 2018. A Novel Approach to Compare Gut Microbiota between Fish Species in the Upper St. Lawrence River using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies. Poster Presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Cooperstown, NY, February 7-9, 2018. Getchell, R.G., Erika First, A. Schulman, J. Kramer, S.M. Bogdanowicz, J.Andrés, A.D. Noyes, G.E. Eckerlin, J.M. Farrell, and Hélène Marquis. 2018. Initial Phylogenetics of 2017 Cayuga

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Lake VHSV Outbreak. Annual Meeting of the New York Chapter, American Fisheries Society, Cooperstown, NY, 7-9 February 2018. Getchell, R.G., K. Sams, A.D. Noyes, G.E. Eckerlin, J.M. Farrell, and Hélène Marquis. 2018. St. Lawrence Muskellunge Rearing And Diagnostic Testing: “Stumped Or An Interesting Puzzle To Figure Out?” 43rd Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Chattanooga, TN., 9 April 2018. Getchell, R.G., Erika First, A. Schulman, J. Kramer, S.M. Bogdanowicz, J.Andrés, A.D. Noyes, G.E. Eckerlin, J.M. Farrell, and Hélène Marquis. 2018. Initial Phylogenetics of 2017 Cayuga Lake VHSV Outbreak. 43rd Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Chattanooga, TN., 12 April 2018. Goretzke, J.A. and J. M. Farrell. 2018. Aquatic plant community response to restoration of Muskellunge nursery habitat in the Upper St. Lawrence River. Presented at New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Cooperstown, NY, February 9, 2018. Goretzke, J.A. and J. M. Farrell. 2017. Aquatic plant community response to restoration of Muskellunge nursery habitat in the St. Lawrence River. Presented at New York Waterfowl and Wetlands Network - Student Symposium. Savannah, NY, September 8, 2017. Kua, Z.X., Stella, J. C., & J. M. Farrell. 2018. Water regulation effects on aquatic community associations in the St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Cooperstown, NY, February 7-9, 2018. *Best Student Poster Award Recipient & *Klumb-Spindler Travel Award Recipient. Kua, Z.X., Stella, J. C., & J. M. Farrell. 2018. Water regulation effects on aquatic community associations in the St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation at: SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research, Syracuse, NY, April 24, 2018. Leblanc, J.P., Brown, B.L., and J. M. Farrell. 2018. Walleye early-life as an important component of management: habitat restoration, protection, and evaluation in eastern Lake Ontario. Oral Presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Cooperstown, New York, February 7-9, 2018 Walton-Rabideau, S.E, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2017. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in a large fluvial system. Oral presentation at: SMARTER (Stream Monitoring and Research Team - Eastern Region) Meeting. Ottawa, ON, October 26, 2017. Walton-Rabideau, S.E, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2018. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in a large fluvial system. Oral presentation at: AFS-OC (American Fisheries Society-Ontario Chapter) Annual General Meeting. Orillia, ON, February 23, 2018. *Best Student Paper Award Recipient. Walton-Rabideau, S, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2018. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in a large fluvial system. Oral presentation at: GLATOS (Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System) Conference. Ann Arbor, MI. February 28, 2018. Walton-Rabideau, S.E, J.M. Farrell and S.J. Cooke. 2018. Exploring seasonal spatial ecology of juvenile esocids in St. Lawrence River nursery bays. Oral presentation at: MCI (Muskies Canada Inc.) Gananoque March Meeting. Gananoque, ON. March 6, 2018.

TIBS Research Highlights (examples) • LONG-TERM MONITORING: Abundance of spawning adult and young-of-the-year northern pike in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River continues to be suppressed likely due to habitat degradation resulting from long-term management of Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence River water levels. Overall, natural reproduction of pike at

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natural and managed spawning marshes remains poor, due to low abundance of spawning adults and sex ratio dominance of females. Habitat restoration efforts including enhanced connectivity with an aquatic excavator and creation of spawning pools have shown success for natural reproduction of young-of-year (YOY) at many sites. Monitoring of outmigration of young at enhancement sites further indicates a strong linkage of abundance to spring water levels.

• PIKE SEX RATIO STUDY: A histological approach to determine gender in young-of- the-year northern pike was evaluated using stained preparations of preserved gonad tissues raised in culture and collected in local bays. This procedure is being used to determine gender in juveniles to the evaluate sex ratio and make comparisons to the adult population that is female-dominated. A diagnostic tool for gender determination will be important for research on factors influencing sex ratios in nature.

• MUSKELLUNGE MONITORING: Muskellunge population indices in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River continue to show signs of stress. Spring trapnet and summer seining surveys, and an angler diary index, all indicate reduced adult and young-of-the-year abundance. Adult muskellunge mortality due to outbreaks of the invasive Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSV) are contributing to lower adult muskellunge numbers and low levels of natural reproduction. The St. Lawrence River spawning adult muskellunge trapnetting index (for the post-VHSV era (2006-2015; 1.9 adults handled/100 net-nights) is less than a third of pre-VHSV index (6.3 adults/100 net- nights). Both YOY seining indices and angler catch rates show a similar pattern in time trends. Intensive research and management efforts are focused on reversing these alarming trends.

• MUSKELLUNGE VHSV STUDY: Sampling VHSV levels from fishes in proximity with spawning adult muskellunge was completed to test for presence of virus in 2015. Positive samples with qRT-PCR were detected for rock bass, yellow perch, and round goby at multiple sites. Muskellunge from the DEC Chautauqua Lake Hatchery were used in a separate study to examine the effects of new variants of VHSV on their survival. All variants tested caused 100% mortality. Additional work is being done to better understand the viral genome and the molecular changes it is going through in nature and its potential implications to fisheries.

• HABITAT RESTORATION STUDY: A walleye spawning habitat substrate addition project was completed at Kent’s Creek near Cape Vincent, NY by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in February 2015. The spawning bed was evaluated for walleye egg abundance and outmigration of fry during spring 2015 and was compared to a nearby upstream natural spawning area. Walleye spawned at both the created and natural site at a similar high rate and egg viability. Similarly, outmigration of newly hatched fry was successful at both natural and created locations. This research was published in 2017.

• AQUATIC HABITAT ENHANCEMENT: Several research and management projects are underway to evaluate restoration and enhancement sites in cooperation with DEC and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2017 evaluation of juvenile northern pike

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outmigration began at the Cranberry Creek Wildlife Management Area where habitat enhancement to create greater connectivity in invasive cattail mats.

Habitat restoration (note excavated side channels) conducted through the Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy at the NYS DEC Cranberry Creek Wildlife Management Area near Goose Bay, NY. Restoration was designed and completed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and DEC through the Fish Enhancement Mitigation and Research Fund. TIBS research is focused on evaluation of project outcomes.

• MUSKELLUNGE SURVIVAL STUDY: Over 4,600 muskellunge fingerlings were cultured at TIBS in during 2017. We plan to release them as summer fingerlings in nursery sites where populations have declined significantly since recent die offs in the mid-2000s related to invasive species and VHSV. Each fish was implanted with a passive-integrated transponder (PIT-tag) with a unique code to identify patterns of fish distribution over time. Ultimately it is hoped to restore the spawning populations at specific locales.

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With funding and support from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Juvenile muskellunge were raised from eggs at the Thousand Islands Biological Station wet lab during 2017. The parental broodstock were from adults captured in the long-term spawning index netting and from Lake St. Lawrence in a joint effort with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Muskellunge were released at over 50 nursery sites in the upper St. Lawrence River in an experimental study to determine feasibility of population restoration

Highlighted graduate student research Kate Abbott (PhD candidate) is currently investigating the immune competence of wild muskellunge and developing an ELISA assay to measure antibody presence as an indicator of exposure to VHSV. She also will investigate relationships among VHSV and invasive round goby as a potential disease vector toward muskellunge. Kate dissertation research is critical to evaluating the success of muskellunge population recovery with ongoing disease dynamics in the St. Lawrence River.

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Ben Gallo (MS candidate) is focused on investigating the gut microbiota (assemblage of bacteria living in the alimentary canal) and the mechanisms that influence its composition in fish. Emerging research supports the importance of the gut microbiota in modulating host growth/development, immune function, and behavior, yet most guts microbial research focuses on mammalian model organisms. I am principally looking at how the environment (e.g. water) and diet influence the gut microbiota of Northern Pike (Esox lucius).

Jessica Goretzke (MS candidate) is conducting research centered on vegetative habitat quality and availability to early life stages of esocids in excavated wetlands. She is developing a novel technique for the restoration of submersed aquatic vegetation in coastal bays and wetlands to encourage the establishment of desirable macrophyte species. She is also evaluating the long-term dynamics of macrophyte communities in bays used as nursery habitat by young esocids.

Alex Kua (MS candidate) is studying the effects of water regulation changes on aquatic plant community of the St. Lawrence River following the implementation of IJC Plan 2014. The main objectives focus on the hydrologic fluctuation effects on muskrat occupancy and interactive effects of muskrat disturbances on the aquatic community. Alex has collected winter muskrat house abundance and distribution data in 2018. Results indicate that the experimentally water- controlled marsh has higher muskrat density relative to reference sites.

Anna Conklyn (MS candidate) is beginning her research on invasive round goby and is studying nearshore and offshore population ecology with a goal of understanding their role as a reservoir for VHSV and other aspects of their biology including sex ratio, size and age structure. She is tagging individual goby with unique elastomer color combinations to understand movements and perhaps estimate abundance. Anna has already noted a pronounced predominance of males in the population among sampling sites.

Sarah Walton (MS candidate) is investigating movements and behavioral ecology of young-of-year muskellunge and Northern pike in the St. Lawrence River. Fish captured from known nursery bays via seine netting between August and October, were surgically implanted with one of the smallest, commercially- available acoustic transmitters. Detection data was passively collected using arrays of acoustic receivers within and beyond nursery bay entrances, Sarah modeled presence/absence and

169 habitat use along with environmental and biological covariates (e.g. temperature, water level, total length), to examine on movement, habitat use, and survival in fall and winter. Outreach Numerous outreach activities occurred during this reporting period that engaged groups of a variety of ages and demographics. Graduate students and staff integrate their daily work into informal and formal outreach to the community and beyond. TIBS activities of information dissemination about the aquatic system and active research programs are an important part of our mission (examples below). Farrell, J. M. 2018. Trends in St. Lawrence River Fisheries Long-Term Research in a Changing Environment. Save The River Winter Environmental Weekend Lecture. Clayton, NY. (150 attendees)

Thousand Islands Land Trust, “Ichthyologist for a Day Adult Version” - Led a group of adults through a series of modules on fish and river ecology (25 participants) http://www.tilandtrust.org/Treks-Events/FullCalendarofTreksEvents.aspx

Thousand Islands Park Landmark Society, Presentation on TIBS research program and tour of facilities. (30 participants)

Hosted Research programs staff retreat and gave presentation and tour of the St. Lawrence River and Thousand Islands Biological Station for the ESF Research Foundation staff and Vice President for Research Dr. Christopher Nomura.

Participants attending the SUNY-ESF Research Foundation Annual Retreat were given a tour of TIBS and presentations regarding research program and facility initiatives. Photo, left to right: William Nicholson, Anne Knapp, Cheryl Liptak, Lisa Schwabenbauer, Donna Follett, Susan Benoit, Kathleen Edwards, Linda McNamara, Mary Anne Stanton, Christopher Nomura and John Farrell170

Facility upgrades TIBS storage and mainland research facility in Clayton NY now has plumbing and utilities serviced by well water. The site has provided critical storage and mainland access in support of the research station.

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8. EFB Budget

EFB’s budget comes from four main sources, i.e., (1) state allocations; (2) funds generated from summer courses, grad tuition incentive program, and course fees; (3) the SUNY Research Foundation (RF) research incentives funds; and, (4) development funds through the College Foundation. A summary expenditures follows.

Planned* Expenditures: Offices (administration, faculty, staff, grads): $13,500 Computers: $0 Photocopy: $5,000 Mileage/Travel: $3,000 Repairs: $2,000 Building, facilities, exhibits: $3,000 Seminars and receptions $8,500 Chairman Operating (over-expenditures, all categories) $5,000 Greenhouses $1,000 $41,000

SUNY RF Departmental Research Incentive Funds: $29,079 allocated October 20, 2017 to existing balance of $9181 for total of $38,260.

Expenditures (by general categories): Department Seminars (incl. Adaptive Peaks) $6000 Faculty and Staff Development and Recognition $5000 Hosting Visiting Scholars -0- Faculty and Staff Equipment, Supplies, Miscell. $1500 TIBS, CLBS undergraduate student fellowships $0 Building Equipment and Supplies $3525 Office Copiers $0 Student Development and Recognition $6535 Searches (Toxicologist and ISS) $0 Development $275 Greenhouse $0 Dept and Field Station Dues $600 Total Expenditures 23,435.00

Balance (August 2018) $14,824.14

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Annual Report for Cranberry Lake Biological Station – Summer 2017 Melissa Fierke, Director and Academic Program Coordinator

In Summer 2016, I served as a co-Director with Dr. Robin Kimmerer and then went solo in summer 2017 (though Robin was Acting Director during our two-week elective session). Running the station is a team effort and includes many folks, some who’ve been at the station for years and others who are relatively new, but we are all dedicated to making the station a safe welcoming environment and an excellent academic learning experience for the more than 200 students who rotate through during the summer. Craig Perrault was our Physical Plant supervisor, overseeing two boat pilots and 3–4 permanent and summer workers as well as two work study students. Sadly, it was our last summer with Captain Bill as our main boat pilot and we wish him well as he moves into full retirement mode. Sarge stepped up to take on many hours of piloting boats, as did Jay and Marty - all of whom are critical to keeping the station, and our boats, up and running. Seamus, a work study from last year, came back for a second summer to help and him along with our two summer work studies, Sean and Quinn, who were pre-freshmen and despite it being their first summer away from home, stuck it out and did a wonderful job despite the extraordinarily cool rainy summer with larger than normal populations of black flies. John Shaylor served as our Director of Food Services and he along with a substantial cohort of food service workers, including permanent cooks Roxy, Crystal, and Laura, several temporary cooks and two kitchen work studies, Erin and Devon, made sure we had lots of good food and kept our dining hall a welcoming place for our students. A side note is that Roxy Baker, our lead cook at the station just received the 2017 ESF CSEA outstanding employee of the year award for her service and always going above and beyond for our students and the station. We were extremely lucky to have Kristen Haynes, a PhD student in Environmental and Forest Biology, serve as Business Manager for a third summer. Stacy Wood, a registered nurse from northwest Arkansas, served as our office manager for the summer and kept things running smoothly when Kristen was doing her dissertation research off station. We also had a cadre of rotating work study students helping in the office, including Aaron, Jen, Cassie, Maria, and Emily. A highlight was having Aaron on station for his 4th straight summer at CLBS. He first came to CLBS as a High School senior with the BOCES program (see below), then came back the next two as a kitchen work study, and this summer, he was in the office as well as teaching the aquatics portion of the BOCES program (full circle). My duties as Director included supervising the overall day to day running of the station as well as being the Academic Program Coordinator for courses taught at the station and overall responsibility for the 216 students on a 24/7 basis. I also taught portions of EFB 202 (Sampling, Entomology, Statistics), welcomed guests and visitors to the station, held informational meetings for EFB students, handled on-campus registration, and was the contact point for all CLBS- related inquiries. Both on and off-season I worked closely with Physical Plant, Boat Pilots and Food Service operations at the Station to ensure as smooth an operation as possible.

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This was our second summer facilitating three sessions of EFB202 in order to take care of the backlog of students needing the course (in 2016 we had 216 students go through EFB202 and another 54 in our electives). As in 2016, the courses received excellent reviews in 2017 and faculty/instructors (see below) were wonderful to work with. Session A – 55 EFB202 students Session B – 62 EFB202 students Session C - Ethnobotany 14; Adirondack Flora & Wetlands 18; Field Herpetology 16; Adirondack Fishes (taught at the Adirondack Ecological Center) - 13 Session D – 51 EFB202 students

Winning projects for the Shields award can be found on the Moon Library Digital Commons website (http://digitalcommons.esf.edu/clbs/) and ranged from fear pheromones of minnows to mycorrhizae associated with black spruce. Dr. Keith Bowman deserves special recognition for his efforts in facilitating projects in 2017 and also, a belated shout out to Dr. Tom Evans for facilitating many excellent projects in 2016.

In addition to the ESF courses, we also ran a one week program for High School students through OCM BOCES (23 students, 4 chaperones, a nurse, a life/security guard, and an on site supervisor). This program is similar to the three week EFB202 class, with hands on learning and a research project, except it is condensed into one week.

The Station hosted three graduate students from Indiana State University for a long-term study (31 years and counting) of white-throated sparrow genetics and behavior. Unhappily, we lost Dr. Elaina Tuttle, PI on this project in 2016, and so this year a small memorial was held for her and past students on the project as well as Elaina’s family, all of whom came to the station to say farewell to this amazing researcher who was supported for 31 years through grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, and other grants.

Kristen Haynes, our very own Business Manager was the recipient of the 2017 Grober graduate student award and she carried out a portion of her dissertation research on stations and also traveled to field sites elsewhere in the Adirondacks. This fellowship is based on a $300,000 gift received from the Samuel Grober estate in 2009–2010, the bulk of which has been invested to support this annual graduate student fellowship at the Station. Kristen is researching several rare and potentially endangered plants with genetics work on these plants being carried out in the Grober Genetics Laboratory at CLBS.

In 2017, we gave out more than $10,000 in scholarships to 15 undergraduates taking EFB202 at CLBS (scholarships ranged from $1500 to $250). We are looking to continue efforts to raise more money for a sustained source of scholarship funds.

We hosted >100 friends/family at Field Days for the three EFB202 sessions and this year we had students each session undertake hiking the Cranberry 50… with one person of extreme fortitude completing the endeavor barefoot! Our communications folks also came up and put together a really nice feature for the most Inside ESF magazine issue (http://inside.esf.edu/a-day-at-the-lake/).

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A new initiative was developing CLBS t-shirts in 2016 and 2017. These are a collage of drawings from journals kept by CLBS students in past years. The 2016 design is by Holly Faulkner, Class of 2014, and the 2017 design is by Hope Mahon, Class of 2020 (t-shirt models are Giuseppe Tumminello, office manager 2016, and Jen Ferlenda, office work study 2017).

Lastly, I’d like to share a video (http://zoyabaker.com/cranberry-lake) by Zoya Baker, who is pursuing an MFA at Hunter College. Zoya took Ethnobotany with Dr. Kimmerer in the electives session summer of 2016 and then came back at the end of the summer to talk with Alumni at the 101st anniversary of the Biostation. This short film has won a multitude of awards and is a lovely example of a summer at CLBS.

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EFB202 INSTRUCTORS Ben Amos, MS Graduate Student ESF: Aquatics Alan Belford, Visiting Instructor & Field Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society: Ornithology Dr. Keith Bowman, Visiting Instructor: Plant Ecology, Stats & Research Projects Dr. Russ Briggs, Professor ESF: Soils Dr. Katherine Cleary, Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY Potsdam: Mammology Dr. Melissa Fierke, Associate Professor ESF: Sampling, Entomology, & Statistics, Dr. James Gibbs, Professor ESF: Herpetology Dr. Jake Gillette, Visiting Instructor: Aquatics Dr. Miriam Ibarra, Visiting Instructor: Aquatics Dr. Don Stewart, Professor ESF: Aquatics Dr. Glenn Johnson, Professor, SUNY Potsdam: Herpetology Dr. Stephanie Johnson, Visiting Instructor: Aquatics Dr. Mariann Johnston, Associate Professor, ESF Ranger School: Soils Jade Johnson, Masters Graduate Student ESF: Scientific Journaling Dr. Mary Beth Kolozsvary, Professor, Sienna College: Herpetology Dr. Gregory McGee, Assistant Professor ESF: Research Projects & Plant Ecology Chris Nack, PhD Graduate Student ESF: Aquatics Marissa Nolan, Masters Graduate Student ESF: Orienteering Dr. Dylan Parry, Associate Professor ESF: Entomology Paul Ray, Visiting Instructor: Soils Margaret Roberts, PhD Graduate Student ESF: Plant Ecology Dr. Jack Tessier, Professor of Biology, SUNY-Delhi: Plant Ecology & Stats Dr. Kim Schultz, Associate Professor ESF: Research Projects Dr. Alexander Weir, Professor ESF: Mycology Michael Whalen, PhD Graduate Student ESF: Plant Ecology

ELECTIVE INSTRUCTORS Ethnobotany: Dr. Robin Kimmerer, ESF Distinguished Teaching Professor Wetlands: Dr. Don Leopold, ESF Distinguished Teaching Professor Alex Petsky, ESF PhD Graduate Student Herpetology: Dr. Mary Beth Kolozsvary, Professor, Siena College Adirondack Fishes: Dr. Margaret Murphy, ESF Adjunct Instructor

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