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2020 Annual Report of the Cornell Biological Field Station 2020 Annual Report of the Cornell Biological Field Station Aerial view of the field station Cornell Biological Field Station Advisory Committee Director: Lars Rudstam Associate Director/Fisheries Program: Randy Jackson Great Lakes Program: James Watkins Facilities Coordinator: Brian Young Cornell: Pat Sullivan: Chair and Professor, Dep. Natural Resources & Environment Katherine Bunting-Howarth Associate Director, New York Sea Grant Institute Assistant Director, Cornell Cooperative Extension Paul Curtis Extension Leader and Professor, Dep. Natural Resources & Environment Jeff Carmichael Senior Administrative Manager, Dep. Natural Resources & Environment Amy McCune Senior Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, and Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Peter Paradise Assistant Dean of Capital Projects and Facilities, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University Rebecca Schneider Associate Professor, Dep. Natural Resources & Environment Richard Stedman Professor, Department of Natural Resources; Leader, Cornell Human Dimensions Research Unit, Incoming Chair of DNRE External: John Farrell Director, Thousand Islands Biological Station, Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse Brian Lantry Director, USGS Great Lakes Lake Ontario Unit. Steve Hurst Fisheries Chief, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Director’s Corner What a year. The corona virus disrupted our life and our program at CBFS. This is a year as no other during my time at Shackelton. CBFS looked like a ghost station most of the time - no interns, no visitors, no potlucks, no volleyball, and no seminars. However, the station was well maintained by Brian and Pete and is in good shape. The virus also took some of the friends of CBFS. Professor Ray Oglesby of DNRE, who helped us by serving as the CBFS campus director for a couple of years during the transition from John Forney to Ed Mills passed from complications of covid-19. So did Bill Magee who was the representative in Albany for the district including Oneida Lake. Bill was instrumental in getting us funding for the new dorm and he very much appreciated CBFS including a congratulations to our 50 year anniversary from the NY legislature that is now hanging in our lab (with Dave Valesky). Dr. Joe Leach passed, a true friend of the Great Lakes. Joe worked with Ed Mills on exotics and their seminal papers on Great Lakes invasions includes Mills, Leach, Carlton and Secor (JGLR 1993), the most cited of all CBFS contributions. For Ray, Bill, Joe and 344,000 other Americans, life was cut short by covid-19 in 2020. Other friends lost this year include two great aquatic scientists - Jim Kitchell and Bob Werner. We also lost Gabriella Doud, one of our Great Lakes technicians, to another disease at the much too early age of 28. A very sad year indeed. Even so, we were able to continue field and lab work at CBFS. Our staff diligently wore masks and stayed at a safe social distance. All lab activities were either in separate individual rooms or at home. Zoom meetings all the time, some more successful than others. Thanks to all these efforts, we were spared any covid outbreak at CBFS. Field sampling was possible on both Oneida and Ontario, so we did not miss a year in our long-term data series for those lakes. But we could not get out on the other Great Lakes as the Lake Guardian cruises were cancelled, leaving a hole in the data series for 2020 for the Great Lakes. Our friends around Lake Ontario and Erie did manage to cover some of the sampling for zooplankton at least. Important that we get out on the Great Lakes in 2021! And even with most of us working from home, our research productivity stayed high. We also welcome a new graduate student - Brett Hayhurst - who will be working with Jim Watkins on Lake Ontario issues. He will also strengthen our connection with the Army Corps of Engineers, where Brett is a Hydrology Scientist. When you visit Shackelton next time, take a look at our sign commemorating John Forney’s contributions to the station. This year John also received an award from the Oneida Lake Association and was inducted in the NYS Outdoorsmans Hall of Fame. Congratulations John. John Forney receiving award from Ed Only one of our students finished her degree in 2020 - Taylor Mills Brown, M.Sc. Taylor also received the Baldwin award given by the International Association for Great Lakes Research to the most promising student in Great Lakes fisheries. Taylor is continuing with her work on coregonine fishes in Great Lakes and as a PhD student with Suresh Sethi, Brian Weidel and me. We also had three students completing their honors thesis - Ruby Dener, Iriel Edwards and Anna Poslednik - working with Marshall, Watkins, Kassam, Jackson and Evans. Congratulations! I am counting on a much better 2021! Lars Rudstam In Memoriam - Gabriella Doud Cornell University Biological Field Station mourns the loss of a valued staff member and friend With great sadness, we announce the passing of one of our research technician's, Gabriella Doud. Gabriella, who specialized in Great Lakes invertebrate ecology, joined the field station in February of 2016 after graduating with a bachelor's degree in ecology from SUNY Plattsburgh. Always with a smile on her face, Gabriella once described herself using these words "My passion is the environment. I love learning about ecosystems, how they work, and what would happen if there were to be a collapse in an ecosystem. I love to get outside and be hands on with work. I hope to one day educate others about how important it is to preserve the world we live in, and what an impact us humans can have." Gabriella loved going out on the R/V Lake Guardian and traveling to different cities, always meeting and supporting those she met along the way. She continued to develop her skills over time and became very Gabriella working from the CBFS classroom Fall of 2020 confident on deck. In terms of biology, she favored Lake Ontario and the complex interactions of predatory cladocerans however; Gabriella once said that Lake Huron was her favorite due to that breathtaking sky blue. Gabriella left a lasting impact through her research and her friendship…she is missed. CBFS Staff and Students 2020 Senior Scientists Lars Rudstam (Director, aquatic ecology) Randy Jackson (Associate Director, fisheries) James Watkins (Great Lakes program leader) Administration and Buildings Michelle Holeck (Admin. Assistant) Brian Young (Facilities Coordinator) Pete Kite (Maintenance Mechanic) Dustin Darnell (Director of Facilities, Agriculture Experiment Station) Research Support Specialists Tom Brooking (Fisheries) Kristen Holeck (Limnology) Tony VanDeValk (Fisheries) Technicians Patrick Boynton (Great Lakes ecology) Joe Connolly (Great Lakes ecology) Gabriella Doud (Great Lakes ecology) Christopher Hotaling (Limnology) Christopher Marshall (Great Lakes ecology) Sarah Schaeffer (Great Lakes ecology) Beth Whitmore (Great Lakes ecology) Alexandrea Rice (Great Lakes ecology) Education Coordinator David White (New York Sea Grant) Visiting scientists: Kimberly Schulz (Visiting Professor, SUNY ESF) Abigail Quarshie (Humphrey Fellow, Ghana Fisheries Institute) Rosaura Chapina (PhD student, Univ. Vermont) Professor Emeriti John Forney (Fish ecology) Joe Connolly working from temporary work area in David Green (Fisheries) the dormitory Ed Mills (Limnology) Cornell Graduate Students Toby Holda (PhD, DNRE, Rudstam/Watkins): Ecology of Mysis diluviana Stephanie Figary (PhD. DNRE, Watkins/Rudstam): Zooplankton in the Great Lakes Sol Lisboa (PhD, BEE, Walter/Schneider/Rudstam): Groundwater-lake interactions Taylor Brown (MSc/PhD, DNRE, Sethi/Rudstam): Cisco ecology in Lake Ontario Joe Connolly (MSc, DNRE, Watkins/Rudstam): Zooplankton in Great Lakes Leo Louis (MSc, DNRE, Kassam): Ecological calendars at Oneida Lake Christopher Marshall (MSc. DNRE, Watkins/Rudstam): Parasitic copepods in the Great Lakes Brett Hayhurst (MSc. DNRE, Watkins): Great Lake contaminant and nutrient loading 2020 CBFS Interns Due to the covid restrictions, there were no interns at CBFS in 2020 for the first time since the 1970s. Gus and Tony on Oneida Lake February 2020 Collaborators CBFS provides a center for ecological research on aquatic ecosystems, and strives to provide an exciting, inviting, and collegial working and learning environment. CBFS faculty and staff collaborate with a large number of investigators in the US, Canada, and other countries. Our collaborators are very important to our program. The following individuals were involved in various aspects of the program in 2020: Cornell University: Department of Natural Resources: Paul Curtis, Angela Fuller, Matt Hare, Karim Kassam, Rebecca Schneider, Suresh Sethi, Patrick Sullivan, Bruce Lauber, Rich Stedman. Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology: Nelson Hairston, Steve Ellner, David Lodge, Amy McCune, Paul Simonin, Jose Andres, Kristy Deiner Department of Microbiology: Ian Hewson Biological and Environmental Engineering: Todd Walter Civil and Environmental Engineering: April Gu College of Veterinary Medicine: Rod Getchell Cornell Lab or Ornithology: Aaron Rice Cornell Cooperative Extension/ New York Sea Grant: Kathy Bunting-Howarth, Jesse Lepak, David White New York Colleges and Universities: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry: Greg Boyer, John Farrell, Karin Limburg, Kim Schulz, Don Stewart, Roxanne Razavi, Charles Driscoll SUNY Buffalo State College: Lyuba Burlakova, Alexander
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