Department of Environmental & Forest Biology

Annual Report

Summer 2019 Academic Year 2019–2020

Melissa K. Fierke Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology SUNY-ESF 1 Forestry Drive Syracuse, NY 13210

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction Overview to Annual Report ...... 1

1. Teaching a) Summary of main courses taught by faculty members ...... 7 b) Summary of main courses taught by staff/adjuncts/visiting ...... 8 c) Course teaching load summary ...... 10

2. Undergraduate students a) Advising loads ...... 12 b) Curriculum changes ...... 12 c) Undergraduate students recruitment efforts ...... 12 d) Undergraduate students enrolled in each EFB major ...... 13 e) Student learning outcomes ...... 13

3. Graduate Students a) Graduate students by major and degree in EFB Fall 2019 ...... 14 b) Graduate students finished in EFB by degree 2009–May 2020 ...... 14 c) Graduate students finished in EFB by major AY 2019–20 ...... 14 d) Number of graduate students by faculty and by degree ...... 15 e) Courses having TA support and enrollment in each ...... 16 f) Students Graduating and Thesis/Dissertation Titles ...... 17 g) Postdoctoral Researchers ...... 18

4. Research/Scholarship a) Summary of publications ...... 18 b) Science citation Indices for Dept and faculty ...... 18 c) Summary of proposal activity by Dept and faculty ...... 20 d) Summary of grant activity by Dept and faculty ...... 21

5. Outreach and Service a) Service to the department, college, and university ...... 22 b) Enumeration of outreach activities ...... 22 c) Summary of grant panel service ...... 22 d) Number of journal manuscripts reviewed by faculty...... 23 e) Summary of journal editorial board service...... 23 f) Service Learning ...... 23

6. Department Structure & Budget a) Organizational chart ...... 25 b) Recent activities ...... 26 c) Budget ...... 26

7. Departmental Honors & Awards ...... 29 8. Progress on previous year’s objectives ...... 29 9. Plans and Objectives for 2020–2021 ...... 30 10. Certification that all professional employees have had an annual evaluation and a new performance program in place by June 1, 2019 ...... 32 Appendix A. EFB Faculty: Rank, Education, and Interests ...... 33 Appendix B. Summary of Individual Faculty’s Most Significant Accomplishments ...... 37

Appendix C. Faculty Publications (published or in press) ...... 73 Appendix D. Papers Submitted, In Review, Pending Decision ...... 85 Appendix E. Papers/Posters Presented at Science Meetings ...... 88 Appendix F. Faculty Grants ...... 98 Appendix G. Service to Department, College, and University ...... 118 Appendix H. Natural Heritage Program 2019–20 – not provided Appendix I. Annual Report for the Thousand Islands Biological Station ...... 126 Appendix J. Annual Report for Cranberry Lake Biological Station ...... 140 Appendix K: Annual Report for Roosevelt Wild Life Station – not provided

Annual Report Overview This report is a brief summary of the Department of Environmental & Forest Biology’s (EFB’s) activities during the 2019–20 academic year. Topics and format of this annual report generally follow instructions from the Provost’s Office to include items requested: 1. Teaching 7. Honors and Awards 2. Undergraduate students 8. Progress on objectives for 2019–2020 3. Graduate Students 9. Plans and objectives for 2020–2021 4. Research 10. Certification that professional employees 5. Outreach have had an annual evaluation and a new 6. Governance Structure and Budget performance program

Only a few of the many exciting activities and accomplishments within EFB the past academic year are included in this brief summary. Each faculty member’s summary of their most significant accomplishments this past year is in Appendix A. The largest challenge this past year was the monumental adjustments our faculty/staff made in going online in March 2019 as our students transitioned to online learning. All are commended for pivoting to continue teaching and learning under the most challenging of circumstances. Illick Updates As part of the Marshall Hall project, and the displacement of faculty using those spaces (mostly SRM, but also part of the Chestnut project, which is now happily housed amongst Chemistry labs over in Jahn), renovations got underway in fall 2019 to upgrade spaces on the 4th floor of Illick. As these wrapped up, an even larger effort kicked off in spring 2020 to renovate the far west end of the third floor into a shared Terrestrial Ecology Research Area (TERA). This will be in addition to simultaneously transforming the Illick subbasement into a much more user-friendly shared Terrestrial and Aquatic Research Area (sub-TARA). Also, included will be a new spacious departmental seminar room and a dedicated space for ESF’s Center for Native Peoples. Sub-TERA and TERA will be shared by EFB and SRM faculty, fostering increased, and continued, collaborations between our Departments. This effort is being guided by Rex Giardine with our Physical Plant and funded through the Marshall Hall rehabilitation project. Several faculty in the department engaged in a year long process with a design firm (JMZ Architects and Planners) and SUNY construction fund representatives Facilities Master Plan Update, which included a Program Study for Illick. This study will guide renovations in Illick Hall over the next 5–10 years. Please let us know if you have ideas and thoughts.

Celebrating Our Faculty Dr. Karin Limburg was named SUNY Distinguished Professor, (https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8657), the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, based on her being an exemplary scholar and faculty member. She joined the college in 1999 and has been one of the most productive and recognized researchers at ESF, examples include being recognized by the SUNY Research Foundation in 2003 for her scholarship and research and received a prestigious NSF CAREER award of $600,000 that same year, receiving

a Fulbright Scholarship in 2006, being named ESF’s Exemplary Researcher in 2010, and in 2018 she received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Dr. Limburg has been an author on >120 papers published (45 as first author) and has garnered >45 grants (totaling > $15M), trained 24 graduate students (as well as mentoring 6 PhDs currently), and has supported post-docs and multiple visiting scientists. Dr. Limburg teaches important courses for our department including Science and Management, Fisheries Science Practicum, The Hudson Watershed, and Watershed Ecology/Focus on Hudson. She often develops short term courses and seminar to keep abreast of the most recent quantitative methods and techniques and in doing so brings her research into these courses as well as tremendous rigor, quantitative skills, logic, and passion. Dr. Limburg has been truly exceptional in service in her field. She is leader in the national and international scientific community, where she has: 1) served as reviewer for > 20 different journals, 2) has served as Associate or Co-Editor for five journals, 3) served as referee or panelist for seven grant agencies, 4) served as member on many professional committees or review panels, 5) belongs to nine professional societies, and 6) was instrumental in founding the US Society of Ecological Economics, for which she served several years as Board Member and President and is founding co- editor of the associated journal, Ecological Economics Reviews. Dr. Limburg has also been active in service at the college and departmental level, serving on important searches, e.g., for Provost in 2017, and departmental/college committees, e.g., she was the Chair of our Graduate Program Advisory Committee for 6 years, served on both the Departmental and College Promotion and Review Committees, and is currently serving on our Academic Governance Awards Committee. Dr. Limburg’s most outstanding professional attributes are that she is exceptionally collaborative and that she applies her exceptional intellect and innovative methods to solving some the most important problems in fisheries, e.g., the decline of in and streams as well as dead zones associated with apoxia in the . Her work has spanned the world, from ancient, virtually unstudied fish of the Amazon; to iconic commercial stocks in the Baltic ; endangered in the Grand Canyon; and some of her most well-known work on American shad in the Hudson River. She has developed a robust research program focused on anadromous of the eastern US and fish microchemistry. Dr. Kimberly Schulz received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Teaching at the May Academic Governance meeting. Dr. Schulz was hired in January of 2000 and her scientific and teaching expertise is in aquatic with a focus on and water chemistry. Dr. Schulz’s primary courses are Limnology and Marine Ecology and she is a lead for our Marine Ecology minor, the second most acquired minor at ESF. Past awards include Dr. Schulz being chosen as a Sabbatical Fellow with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in 2007–08, ESF’s Exemplary Researcher in 2012, the Best Faculty Advisor Award from our Undergraduate Student Association for her exceptional advising in 2014–15, and becoming a Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography in 2018. Dr. Lee Newman was also honored with the Stephen D. Ebbs Distinguished Service Award by the International Phytotechnology Society in conjunction with the International Journal of Phytoremediation (https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8565) 2

Dr. Robin Kimmerer, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, was nominated to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received an Honorary Degree from the College of the Atlantic. Her book Braiding Sweetgrass received numerous accolades this past year, including being featured in the New York Times bestseller list (https://www.nytimes.com/books/best- sellers/paperback-nonfiction/) and in an article in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/23/robin-wall-kimmerer-people-cant-understand- the-world-as-a-gift-unless-someone-shows-them-how). Dr. Kimmerer, as Director of ESF’s Center for Native Peoples (https://www.esf.edu/nativepeoples/), also championed ESF partnering with the Sloan Foundation to become one of fewer than 10 Universities engaged in the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Fellowship Program (https://sloan.org/programs/higher-education/diversity-equity- inclusion/sloan-indigenous-graduate-partnership). Dr. Leopold, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, wrote and/or contributed significantly to 3 books this past year (https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8784) including Wildflowers of the Adirondacks, Trees of New York, and Wildflowers of New York City and is already working on two more book projects. This is in addition to co-leading ESF’s new Restoration Science Center and his continued research and grants, which includes > $27,344,401 as PI or co-PI since beginning his career at ESF in

August 1985. Dr. Bill Powell received the largest charitable gift to be given to ESF (https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8589) from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to support his lab’s work with American Chestnut. We also had two EFB faculty receive prestigious NSF grants. • Dr. Karin Limburg, Distinguished Professor, received $1.1M for an international collaborative project looking into Shifting the

Hypoxia Paradigm - New Directions to Explore the Spread and Impacts of / Deoxygenation https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8560 • Dr. Steven Voelker and his collaborators received $700K to investigate Winter Climate Anomalies across : Benchmarking Instrumental Trends and Model Projections with High Resolution Paleoclimatology These are just some of the many accomplishments within the past academic year and so we hope you will review the details below. EFB’s enrollments, external funding, and worldwide attention in the media continue to be strong - the department is doing well, because of its excellent students, successful alumni, fine faculty, and dedicated staff.

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Celebrating Our Students

Undergraduate Students

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Graduate Students

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In Memoriam

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Teaching a) Summary of main courses taught by faculty and enrollment in each course:

Faculty Course # Course Name Enrollment Belant 797 Adaptive Peaks 9 Cohen 493/693 Wildlife Habitats and Populations 44 796 Population Parameter Est/R&Mark 9 Diemont ENS109/209 Honors Seminar (4 sections w/ B Shields) 36 120 Global Env/Evol. Human Soc. 123 ENS596 (0.5) Intl Interdisc Urban Ecosys (w/ E Carter) 8 496/796 Restoration Design 6 Dovciak 435/635 Flowering Plants 26 445/645 Plant Ecology & Global Change 41 523 (0.5) Tropical Ecology (w/ D. Stewart) 17 Drew, J. 414 Senior Synthesis ConBio 59 496/696 Anthropocene Conservation 12 797 (0.5) Core Crse SciWrtng/ResProp (w/MSchmmr)11 Downs, C. 462 Physiology 40 Farrell, J. 492 Senior Synthesis AFS 10 681 Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration 22 Farrell, S. 390 Wildlife Ecology & Management 76 482/796 Ornithology 61 797 Philosophy of Science 8 Fernando 326 Plant Evol., Diversification, and Conserv. 31 427/627 Anatomy and Development of Plants 19 BTC 497 Research Design & Prof Development 24 Fierke 101 (0.5) GenBio Ecology/Organismal (w/ McGee) 279 566 Systematic Entomology 12 Frair 491/796 Applied Wildlife Science 35 796 (0.5) Quant Methods & Models in R (w/ J Stella) 7 Gibbs Sabbatical Green 303 Intro to Environmental Microbiology 68 796 R and Reproducible Research 26 Horton 320 General Ecology lecture 258 496/696 Adv Mycology: Basidiomycetes 6 797 Critical papers mycorrhiza 4 Kimmerer 305 Indigenous issues & the Environment 40 337 Ethnobotany (CLBS) 12 446 Ecology of Mosses 28 496 Plants & culture 8 797 Sloan Scholars 10 Leopold 336 Dendrology 129 496 Field Botany 16 496 (0.5) Wetland Plants & Comm (w/ A Petzke) 6 Leydet (EHS) 320 Disease Prevention 17 360 Epidemiology 31 497/797 Vector-Borne Disease 7 Limburg 487/687 Fisheries Science & Management 24 497/797 Planning CCAM Program 7 796 Fisheries Modeling in R 3 797 Searching for Inflection Pt 6 7

Lomolino 483 Mammal Diversity 65 497/797 Biogeography and Conservation 11 644 Geography Nature/Biogeography 3 McGee 101 (0.5) GenBio Ecology/Organismal (w/ Fierke) 279 102 General Biology Lab I (14 labs) 272 132 Orientation Seminar: EFB 97 202 Ecol. Monit. Biodiversity Assess. (6 days) 84 Newman (ENS) 132 Environmental Health Orientation 21 (BTC/EFB) 401/601 Molecular Techniques 24 325 Cell Biology 87 (BTC) 499 Senior Synthesis 21 (ENS) 494 Environmental Health Capstone 8 496/796 Phytoremediation 23 496/796 Cell Biology Recitation 10 Parry 132 Freshman Seminar (Con. Bio.) 48 502 Ecology & Mgt. 44 496 Biocontrol 10 Powell (BTC/EFB) 426/626 Plant Biotechnology 14 797 Presenting Research to the Public 12 Razavi 400 Toxic Health Hazards 38 496/696 Ecotoxicology 16 797 Adaptive Peaks (Fall) 9 Ringler 385 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy 35 554 Aquatic Entomology 12 Rundell Sabbatical Schulz 424/624 Limnology: Study of Inland Waters 69 423 Marine Ecology 83 525 Limnology Practicum 10 Stewart 486/796 45 523 (0.5) Tropical Ecology (w/ M Dovciak) 17 Teale 217 Peoples, Plagues and Pests 103 352/552 Entomology 55 494 Senior Synthesis Forest Health 3 797 Chem Ecol/-Parasite Inter 4 Turner 200 Physics of Life 45 (summer) 462 Animal Physiology: Environ. & Ecol. 19 (summer) Weir 210 Diversity of Life I (lecture) 179 440/640 Mycology 63 496/796 Microbial Consortia 19 Whipps (BTC) 132 Biotech Orientation 16 103 General Biology II: Cell Biology 190 453/653 Parasitology 23 b) Courses by Instructional Support Specialists, Adjuncts, & Visiting Instructors Adams 210 Diversity of Life I (labs) 179 211 Diversity of Life II (labs) 182 Belford 496 Field Ornithology (Maymester) 26 Bullis 455 Zoology 42 Cheeseman 797 Intro to Occupancy 4 Collins 797 Theraputic Horticulture 9 8

Czekanski-Moir 311 Evolution 181 496/796 Ecology & Evol of Species Diversity 9 Ettinger, T 437/637 Plant Propagation 15 Giegerich, R 381 Vertebrate Museum Techniques 13 Gurdak, D 388 (0.5) Ecology Adir Fishes (CLBS -w/ S Johnson) 6 Helenbrook, W 307 Principles of Genetics 14 480 Animal Behavior 6 496 Tropical Cons Biol 2 496 Evolution 4 Hough, M 496 Flora of Central New York 16 Johnson, J 296 Non-majors Biology 67 296 Non-majors Biology 22 Johnson, S 388 (0.5) Ecology Adir Fishes (CLBS -w/ D Gurdak) 6 Kolozsovary, M 496 Field Herpetology 13 Lamit, L 542 Freshwater Wetland Ecosystems 51 Mackey, T 312 Intro Personal Env Interp 48 417 Interpretive Design 26 McGuigan, L 426 Plant Tissue Culture Methods 7 McNulty, S 484 Winter Mammalian Ecology 15 Meany, J 296 Intro Scuba Diving 23 496 Scientific Diving 5 Mulverhill, K 496/696 Adv Interp & Cert 13 Oakes, A 307 Principles of Genetics 205 308 Genetics Lab 200 Osborne, R 496 Asking Ecol ?s 4 Patterson, N 296 Native Earth Program (Summer) 16 497/697 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 17 (EST)140 Int/Native People, Land, Culture 24 Petzke, A 419 ConBio Problem Solving 57 320 General Ecology Labs 261 496 (0.5) Wetland Plants & Comm (w/ Leopold) 6 Quinn, S 496 Integrating Conservation/Agriculture 10 497/797 Private Lands Conservation 12 Roberts, M 202 Ecological Monit & BioAssessment. 174 496 BOCES 21 Schummer, M 496/692 Ecology and Management of Waterfowl 14 496/696 Wetlands Cons & Management 11 797 (0.5) Core Crse SciWrtng/ResProp (w/ J Drew) 11 Stantial, M 413 Intro ConBio 81 Voelker, S 340 Forest & Shade Tree Pathology 44 120 Global Env/Evol. Human Soc. 79 Walker-Kopp, N104 General Biology Lab II 207 Whalen, M 211 (0.5)* Diversity of Life I (lecture) 183 * Many DoL lectures are given by faculty/# lectures: Schultz/6, Weir/6, Dovciak/3, Leopold/3, Newman/3, Farrell, S./2, Fernando/2, Gibbs/2, Lomolino/2, Rundell/2, Turner/2, Farrell, J./1, Horton/1, Ringler/1, Stewart/2. c) Course teaching load summary by faculty member The following teaching load data were sent by Sophie Gublo-Jantzen and summarizes numbers of students multiplied by the number of credit hours for courses. Co-taught courses yield the number of credit hours for that course divided by number of instructors. All courses are credited, regardless of departmental prefix. 9

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Faculty Course Course Labs Research Load

Sem/1CR CLBS/ Maymester Abroad CR 3 w/ lab(s) CR 4 w/ lab(s) Apprentice ships Intrnships Honors Thesis Belant, J 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 Cohen, J 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 275 Diemont, S 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 1 528 Dovciak, M 0 0 1 0 0.5 1 0 1 3 2 6 2 291 Downs, C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 120 Drew, J 0.5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 217 Farrell, J 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 86 Farrell, S 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 0 2 7 1 613 Fernando, D 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 2 2 0 2 203 Fierke, M 0 0 0.5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 515 Frair, J 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 174 Gibbs, J* 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 13 Green, H 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 4 0 282 Horton, T 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0** 2 0 3 0 809 Kimmerer, R 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 7 0 328 Leopold, D* 0 0 0 0.5 0 1 0 6 0 2 5 0 503 Leydet, B 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 2 176 Limburg, K 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 117 Lomolino, M 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 3 0 294 McGee, G 1 0 0.5 1 0 0 0 13 0 1 9 0 872 Newman, L 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 8 9 2 628 Parry, D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 0 260 Powell, W 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 6 0 129 Razavi, R 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 218 Ringler, N 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 1 0 215 Rundell, R* 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 33 Schulz, K 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 6 0 2 4 2 267 Stewart, D 0 0 0 0 0.5 0 1 4 1 1 2 0 198 Teale, S 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 2 1 3 0 562 Weir, A 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 3 9 0 603 Whipps, C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 6 5 714 19.5 8 25 2.5 1 10 10 63 24 50 121 18 11332 Total 376 Mean *Gibbs full year sabbatical; Rundell & Leopold sabbatical Spring ’20. 10

Staff/Adjuncts/Visiting Adams, K 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 1089 Belford, A 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78 Bullis, D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 179 Czekanski-Moir 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 573 Ettinger, T 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 Giegerich, R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 26 Gurdak, D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 Helenbrook, W 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 Hough, M 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 Johnson, J 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 355 Johnson, S 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 Kolozsvary, M 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 Lamit, L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 Mackey, T 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 264 McNulty, S 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 Meany, J 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 Mulverhill, K 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 Oakes, A 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 0 0 0 0 820 Patterson, N 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88 Petzke, A 0 0 1 0.5 0 0 0 10** 0 0 0 0 171 Quinn, S 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 33 Roberts, M 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 543 Schummer, M 0.5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 103 Voelker, S 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 372 Walker-Kopp, N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 0 2 0 197 Whalen, M 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 549 Totals 2.5 4 12 14.5 0 3 4 58 5 2 2 0 6215 Grand Totals 22 12 37 17 1 13 14 121 29 52 123 18 17,547

**A Petzke facilitated Ecology labs.

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2. Undergraduate Students

a) Advising Loads Listed below are numbers of undergraduate advisees assigned to each faculty member. EFB faculty advise their students from the time students matriculate at ESF until graduation. Some faculty also regularly and informally advise more - and some advise ESC students. Advisees are temporarily reassigned to other faculty during sabbaticals.

BELANT 0 FERNANDO 21 LEYDET 26 RINGLER 21 COHEN 29 FIERKE 11 LIMBURG 23 RUNDELL 23 DIEMONT 23 FRAIR** 38 LOMOLINO 24 SCHULZ 22 DOVCIAK 23 GIBBS** 0 MCGEE* 27 SCHUMMER 15 DOWNS 14 GREEN 22 NEWMAN*** 26 (63) STEWART 22 DREW 16 HORTON 23 PARRY** 23 TEALE** 22 FARRELL, J** 23 KIMMERER 21 POWELL 23 WEIR 25 FARRELL, S 35 LEOPOLD 23 RAZAVI 22 WHIPPS 25 ______

*Undergraduate Curriculum Director and coordinator for the Environmental Biology major. **Coordinates one of EFB’s majors. ***Coordinates the Biotech major and advises all Environmental Health students (#).

b) Curriculum changes The Environmental Education and Interpretation major will move to Environmental Studies in AY 2020–21. There were no significant curricular changes for the other six majors.

c) Undergraduate Recruitment Efforts Most of EFB’s undergraduate recruitment efforts were drastically altered in spring 2019 as everything went online due to Covid. Dr. Greg McGee took on most of the responsibility. Over the last few years, the EFB General Biology instructors (Fierke, McGee, Whipps) have regularly met on campus and in the field with local high school students enrolled EFB101/102/103/104 through the ESF in the High School program. High school field trips to campus include participation in a biology lecture, a full 3 hr lab, and discussion sessions with faculty about career opportunities in biology and the environmental sciences.

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d) Undergraduate students enrolled in each EFB major:

e) Student Learning Outcomes Assessment The department’s curriculum committee (CCAC) developed an assessment reporting database faculty use to submit student learning outcome assessment data. Coordinators for the EB Majors use these data to prepare the next 3 yr assessment report during the coming academic year. The Wildlife Science program has employed an exit examination since 2014 to assess learning outcomes for its graduating seniors and report benefits from doing so. Conservation Biology faculty now employ a similar method.

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3. Graduate Students

a) Graduate students by major and degree in EFB Fall 2019:

b) Graduate students finished by degree in EFB by AY:

c) Graduate students finished by major in EFB AY 2019–20:

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d) 135 graduate students were enrolled in the Department in 2019–20, which yields a mean of ~4.1 per the 31 faculty + 2 Visiting* faculty in EB. Other committee service, post docs, and employees supervised also provided.

**Numbers in parentheses denote grads mentored not in EFB (primarily GPES)

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e) 2019–20 Courses having GA/TA support (41 full GTAs total)

Course (# Students/# Labs) Fall Course (# Students/# Labs) Spring EFB101 (282) GenBio 3 EFB103 (186) GenBio 3 EFB102 (276/13 labs) GenBio 6.5 EFB104 (189/12 labs) GenBio 5.5 EFB132 (88) EB Orientation 0.5 EFB120 (117) Global Environment 2 EFB132 (53) CB Orientation 0.5 EFB211 (184/8 labs) DoL 5 EFB210 (165/8 labs) DoL 4 EFB217 (93) Peoples, Pest, Plagues 0.5 EFB296 (67/4 labs?) NM-Bio 2 EFB305/605 (39) Indigenous Issues/ 0.5 EFB303 (67/3 labs) Microbio 1.5 EFB311 (178) Evolution 2 EFB307 (202 &187/9 labs) Genetics 5 EFB325 (83) Cell Biology 1 EFB312/512 (41/4 recitations) Interp 1 EFB326 (32/4 labs) Plant Diversity 2 EFB320 (247/10 labs) Ecology 5 EFB340 (43/2 labs) Forest Path 1.5 EFB336 (120/3 labs) Dendrology 2 EFB355 (40/2 labs) Invert Zoology 1 EFB352 (54/4 labs) Entomology 2 EFB385 (34/2 labs) Comp Anatomy 1.5 EFB390 (69/4 recitations) WL Ecol 1 EFB413 (75) Intro ConBio 1 EFB401/601(24/3 labs) Molec Tech 1 EFB414 (59) Sr Synthesis in ConBio 0.5 EFB424 (61/3 “labs”) Limnology 2 EFB417/617 (24) NP Interp 1 EFB427/627 (23/1 lab) Plant Anat 0.5 EFB419 (53) Prob Solving ConBio 1 EFB435/635 (22/1 lab) Flwng Plants 0.5 EFB423/623 (77, 6 labs) Marine Ecol 3 EFB440/640 (52/2 labs) Mycology 1 EFB445/645 (41) Plant Ecol/Global 1 EFB483 (61) Mammalogy 2 EFB446/646 (22) Ecology of Mosses 0.5 EFB487 (19) Fisheries Sci 1 EFB462 (41) Animal Physiology 0.5 EFB493 (43) Mgmt WL Habitat 1 EFB482 (50/3 labs) Ornithology 2 EFB486 (50/4 labs) Ichthyology 2 EFB491 (35/2 labs) Applied WL 1 Totals 43 39

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f) Graduate Degrees conferred (by degree) for 2019–20 and thesis/dissertation titles.

34 graduate degrees (6 PhD, 21 MS, & 7 MPS) were conferred to EFB students in 2019–2020.

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h) Post Doctoral Researchers & Visiting Scholars Belant: Mariela Gantchoff Jacob Hill Ken Kellner Beth Orning Research Scientists: Tyler Petroelje Ashley Lutto Jack Magee Stan Mwampeta Imani Mkasanga Farrell, S.: Amanda Cheeseman, Start Jan 2019–present Farrell, J.: John Paul Leblanc, April 1 2016–present. Frair: Joseph Hinton, Dec 2018 – present (works on the moose project) Lisanne Petracca, Jan–May 2019 (worked on the USFS bat study) Gibbs: Geri Tierney 2019–2020 Horton: Hosted Nahuel Policelli, a Fulbright Scholar from Argentina Kimmerer: Catherine Landis, 2018–present Assistant Director CNPE: Neil Patterson Powell: Patricia Fernandes, Fulbright Scholar from Portugal, Sept 2018–Feb 2019 Research Scientists: Kaitlin Breda Vernon Coffey Linda McGuigan Andrew Newhouse Vanessa Vortex

4. Research/Scholarship a) Summary of publications EFB faculty authored or co-authored 144 articles published in refereed journals (Appendix C), 1 book and 12 book chapters in 2019–20; papers submitted, in review, or pending decision are in Appendix D, and >150 presentations by EFB faculty at science and public meetings (Appendix E). b) Science Citation Indices Scholarly Metrics provided by Chris Whipps. The impact of one’s publication record can be assessed by a variety of citation indices. The source used for this analysis was Google Scholar. Citation analysis is a way by which we can gage the impact and visibility of faculty work on the scholarly community, and the relative influence of their research. Google Scholar aims to index all of peer-reviewed research and scholarly literature available. The Hirsch index, or h-index, is the standard accepted measurement of academic output and is defined as: a scientist has an 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. Also included is the i10-index which is the number of papers with at least 10 citations. In addition to these indices, 1, 5, and 10 yr citation numbers are included as well as the total number of documents to provide a more meaningful understanding of faculty work.

Citations of EFB papers the last 10 years:

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Citation metrics by faculty:

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c. Proposal Activity by Department:

d. Proposal Activity by EFB Faculty:

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e. Grant Activity Based on the ESF Research Office records, EFB faculty operated their research programs with 114 funded research projects during the 12 mo period ending on June 30, 2020. The credited direct and indirect expenditures amounted to $5.4 and $1.0 million, respectively, with a credited total of $6.43 million expended by faculty in the Department (this is up from 2017–18, at $4.1 + $0.8 = $4.9M). This means that on average for 30 faculty and 5 adjunct/visiting/staff $183,714 was expended/person.

f) EFB Sponsored Program Expenditure Activity by faculty sorted from highest to lowest:

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5. Outreach and Service a) Service to the department, college, and university A summary of service by each faculty member to the department, college, and university is given in Appendix G. b) Enumeration of outreach activities Appendix H shows unfunded service by EFB faculty to government agencies, public interest groups, etc. This list does not include the many hours of outreach made by our Instructional Support Specialists, graduate students, and undergraduate students. For example, the Instructional Support Specialists who manage our Roosevelt Wildlife Collection and the Illick greenhouses (Ron Giegerich and Terry Ettinger, respectively) host numerous tours for the ESF community (e.g., Family & Friends Barbeque, Annual Alumni Tour, college visitors which include many school groups). Besides the numerous phone and email inquiries that faculty receive from the public, news channels, and newspapers, Ron Giegerich, Terry Ettinger, and Kim Adams respond to many similar requests for information from these sources. For example, Kim Adams receives hundreds of requests for information. Terry Ettinger assisted in the development and delivery of dozens of episodes of the ESF/Time Warner Cable “Going Green” collaboration which is broadcast weekly across all of upstate New York, western Massachusetts, and northern and available on the web. Although there are no data to support this claim, the Department generates more print in the Syracuse Post-Standard than all other academic departments combined, and all other offices at ESF and Syracuse University (except their athletic programs). Most of the dozens of local newspaper articles of this past year are posted in the main foyer of Illick. Much media attention often comes from beyond central New York. For example, Karin Limburg’s writing in The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/how-is-climate-change-affecting-fishes-there-are- clues-inside-their-ears-110249) and her ongoing world-wide collaboration with many others that resulted in a UN report titled “The Ocean is Losing its Breath: Declining in the World’s Ocean and Coastal Waters”, which was featured in Scientific American’s February 2019 issue (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ocean-is-running-out-of-breath-scientists- warn/). This ever-increasing national and international attention to EFB faculty has resulted in tens of thousands of new viewers to ESF web pages. Unfunded service to professional societies and organizations is summarized in Appendix I. Appendix J summarizes the funded service by EFB faculty to government agencies, public interest groups, etc. Appendix K lists the presentations made to the public by EFB faculty and Appendix L includes miscellaneous publications and outreach materials. c) Summary of grant panel service (by agency) Diemont: Univ of Maryland Industrial Prtnershp 1 proposal Downs: National Science Foundation 1 proposal Gibbs: National Science Foundation 2 proposals Green: UWM Discovery and Innovation Grant 1 proposal Limburg: NSF 20 proposals National Acad of Science 18 proposals Newman: National Institute of Environmental Health Science 5 proposals + panel review of 35 Rundell: American Philosophical Society 1 proposal

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d) Number of journal manuscripts reviewed by faculty (#journals/#manuscripts reviewed; excludes reviews of NSF, EPA, USDA, McIntire-Stennis, state agency, etc. proposals): Belant: not Fernando: 3/4 Leydet: 1/1 Rundell: 2/1 reported Fierke: 2/2 Limburg: 7/9 Schulz: 1/1 Cohen: 5/8 Frair: not reported Lomolino: 3/10 Stewart: 8/9 Diemont: 3/3 Gibbs: not McGee: 0 Teale: 6/7 Dovciak: 6/7 reported Newman: 7/? Weir: 2/2 Downs: 7/8 Green: 1/1 Parry: 4/4 Whipps: 4/5 Drew: 5/8 Horton: 4/4 Powell: 1/1 Farrell, J.: 1/1 Kimmerer: 0 Razavi: 2/2 Farrell, S.: 1/2 Leopold: 0 Ringler: 0

e) Summary of journal editorial board service Applied Vegetation Science: M Dovciak (Editorial Board Member) Bioscience: J Belant (Editorial Board Member) Conservation Biology: J Drew (Handling Editor) Ecology and Society: K Limburg (Associate Editor) Ecology of Freshwater Fishes: N Ringler (Associate Editor) Ecology, Coastal, & Shelf Science: K Limburg (Guest Editor) Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: K Limburg (Subject editor) International Journal of Phytoremediation: L Newman (Editor-in-Chief) Journal of Parasitology: C Whipps (Associate Editor) Journal of Vegetation Science: M Dovciak (Editorial Board Member) Malacologia: R Rundell (Associate Editor) Parasitology Research: C Whipps (Section Editor) Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants: L Newman Royal Society Open Biology: C Downs (Associate Editor) Tree Physiology: D Fernando (Editorial Review Board Member) Ursus: J Belant (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) f) Service Learning

Besides engagement of students in classes listed below, EFB students were also very involved through independent studies (EFB 498) and internships (EFB 420). EFB faculty indicate the following courses have specific service learning components:

EFB 434/634 Ecosystem Restoration Design (Diemont) Students worked with neighborhood communities in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico and with an engineer at the department of water and sanitation for the restoration design of both an urban wetland and stream in the neighborhoods. These projects were designed to improve local water quality. The wetland restoration will have direct positive impacts on water quantity for a area with diminishing available potable water.

EFB 120 Global Environment (Diemont) Service learning is central to the group projects with each group of 3–4 students proposing and developing a project related to course topics and that in some way serves the sustainability of the campus, Syracuse, or regionally. EFB 120 presents what sometimes appear to be the insurmountable problems of our world, such as ,

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poverty, population pressures, and water, soil, and pollution. This project encourages students as they develop tangible designs, processes, or products, to begin to take necessary steps to meeting these challenges, and to consider how their education at ESF, and even a small project, will address the needs of the world.

(Diemont) Emanuel Carter and I taught a field course in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain for which we collaborated with researchers and designers at the Centro para Estudios Ambientales (CEA) (Center for Environmental Studies) of Vitoria-Gasteiz in designing green infrastructure strategies to restore biological connectivity and to develop tangible relationships between people and nature in Vitoria-Gasteiz. This year's project focused on local food system design. Designs were completed and submitted during fall semester.

EFB 305/605 Indigenous Issues and the Environment (Kimmerer) This year’s class did an ethnobotany bioblitz and teaching documents for The Wild Center, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks to support development of a traditional plant knowledge learning trail.

EFB 446/646 Ecology of Mosses (Kimmerer) the service-learning experience was truncated by the switch to online learning, but the students prepared a teaching module to introduce bryoecology to a public audience.

EFB 414 Senior Synthesis Conservation Biology (Drew) Students were broken up into seven groups (water resources, biodiversity, environmental justice, land use management, energy conservation, transportation, and food security), each of which was charged with coming up with a community conservation plan for the Westcott neighborhood. While the COVID19 crisis limited implementation of these programs, groups produced a variety of service products including energy conservation surveys for renters, lesson plans for the MLK school, a community biodiversity survey carried out on iNaturalist, and outlining what a rideshare/ carpooling program between Westcott and ESF would look like. While each addressed a different topic, service-learning outcomes were grounded in biodiversity and conservation biology theories and represented the culmination of their learned experiences at ESF.

EFB 417/617 Non-Personal Environmental Interpretative Methods. Students work with community organizations and ESF groups.

EFB 525 Limnology Practicum 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-operation with homeowners (when applicable) or sometimes with managers and practitioners in other regions. The independent projects culminated in a scientific poster session and reception in 112 Illick during finals week unfortunately scheduled on the evening of the last exam day (December 2019) 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, approximately 50 people attended the poster session. The projects continue to expand a database of water quality and species presence data that are useful to the homeowners in lake management decisions.

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6. Department Structure and Budget

a) Department of Environmental & Forest Biology

Organizational Chart 2019–20

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b) Recent activities (e.g., By-laws, P&T Guidelines, etc.) EFB’s Promotion and /Continuing Appointment Guidelines were updated to include a table outlining targets for major faculty work areas (teaching, research/scholarship, and service) and an overall update. c) Budget report of expenditures EFB’s Department budget comes from the following main sources: 1) state allocations (OTPS & TempServices); 2) course funds generated from students; 3) summer course revenue (from EFB courses taught in the summer – mostly due to efforts by Dr. Turner and non-EFB faculty); 4) SUNY Research Foundation (RF) research incentives funds; and 5) Academic Equipment Replacement (AER, administered through the graduate office). We no longer receive biotech funds nor do we get MPS Graduate Tuition program funds as this was discontinued and concerted efforts towards the MPS program dropped. Course fees to cover expendables in our 44 lab-based courses (w/ 121 labs) were instituted in 2013–14 to compensate for continuing drops in OTPS/TS dollars to the Department. There was no legitimate explanation for the decrease in OTPS/TS funds in 2017–18 ($30,519, $49,801 less than the $79,600 allocated in 2007–08) and 2018–19 ($36,900, $42,700 less than $79,600). Summary of allocations over the last 14 years:

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2019–20 Proposed Budget

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Other departmental funding: Tree Pest Info Service account: $ 450 RWLS: $ 625 Transportation Fees: $92,700 College Foundation funds: $90,000

Of the extraordinary expenditures covered by state funds, the cost of the Department’s pre- Convocation award ceremony and reception for graduating students, their families and friends, and faculty and staff is normally around $5,000 (food and drink for reception, award plaques). Due to the Covid pandemic, this event did not happen Spring 2020. Academic Equipment Funds allocated to EFB are instrumental in allowing replacement of equipment required for lab and classroom instruction. Our specialized courses rely on these funds to upgrade outdated and broken equipment. Unfortunately, these funds cannot be used to help replace boats and other equipment needed for our aquatic sciences courses, so we are still without a dedicated funding source for these required types of equipment. Some of the substantial expenditures from this account this past period were purchasing equipment (GPS unit, binoculars, and spotting scope, for our Ornithology as well as purchasing equipment needed for Animal Physiology labs. Funds generated from course fees are critical to cover course expenditures beyond the meager amounts allocated to each faculty member for their courses. Funds from summer courses provide incentive for the department to offer relevant summer courses during Maymester and Summer Session, while meeting increasing demands from students to satisfy curricular requirements outside of the fall and spring semesters. The Department could not function without Research Incentive funds, i.e., the state OTPS allocation is insufficient to cover basic teaching, research, and outreach expenses of a large doctoral-granting biology program. Increasingly, state funds are needed for development-related activities – although these activities should eventually result in

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financial support for currently unfunded programs and ideas, there are no state funds explicitly allocated for travel and other costs associated with these efforts. There have been significant reductions in Research Incentives percentages allocated to Depts, e.g., a smaller percentage is allocated than in the past, i.e. we used to get a higher percentage, 5% in ‘08–’09 we got $35K, whereas now the trend has been to only allocate 3% ($25K) with indications we would get the other 2% if there are extra $ left over). Summary of Research Foundation Funds Undergraduate and graduate student awards come from the following endowments: Maurice and Annette Alexander Wetlands Research Fund, Robert L. Burgess Graduate Scholarship in Ecology, Betty Moore Chamberlaine Memorial Fund, Leroy C. Stegeman Endowment in Invertebrate Ecology, Robert A. Zabel Endowed Scholarship, John and Etta Simeone Graduate Fellowship, Josiah L. Lowe-Hugh E. Wilcox Scholarship Fund, Phyllis Roskin, Joseph and Ruth Hasenstab, Edwin H. Ketchledge Scholarship, Lanier Memorial, Silverborg Memorial, and Patricia D. and Jeff J. Morrell Scholarship, and Dr. Samuel Grober ’38 Graduate Fellowship. During the academic year but especially at the annual EFB Spring Celebration and Awards Ceremony prior to the ESF Convocation, most of this total allocated amount was given out to EFB undergraduate and graduate students to assist them in their research endeavors and for outstanding accomplishments; additional money was given out during the academic year to students based on financial need.

7. Departmental Honors and Awards Kimberly Schulz – Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

8. Progress on Objectives for previous years Department specific initiatives and their relationship to the College strategic plan There is currently no College strategic plan to align with. Goals achieved: a. A new faculty (Dr. Shari Dann) was hired to carry on with the Environmental Interpretation program as it was moved to Environmental Studies b. Establish a professorship in Waterfowl and Wetlands Ecology as well as in Tree Genetics and Environmental Health: Dr. Michael Schummer hired as a Research Associate to join our Wildlife program

Goals not achieved: a. Re-establishment of the Forest Pathologist line and enhancement of our unique Forest Health program (major) b. Formal assessment of our remaining six 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. c. Completion of the funded Onondaga Lake Science Center located on the Lake or Inner Harbor, and development of a sustainable plan to operate it – this is unlikely to come to fruition now that Dr. Maureen Fellows, a primary driver, has retired

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9. Plans and Objectives for 2020–2021 Department specific initiatives and their relationship to the College strategic plan 1. Develop, adopt, and institute departmental Bylaws 2. Revise graduate program areas to more accurately reflect expertise and research programs of our current faculty 3. Engage constituencies in discussions of a departmental name change 4. Engage and work with college leadership and the College Foundation to support our Center for Native People’s and the Environment and the Chestnut Restoration Center by working with the Development Office to generate funds to hire Endowed Professors into both programs. 5. Continue to encourage Major coordinators to meet at the beginning and end of each AY and discuss: a. each faculty member’s contribution to the major b. whether curricula are meeting their vision & needs i. changes/updates needed ii. assessment of required courses & learning objectives c. vision for the future (minimally modified from DJ Leopold): 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 is positioned to become globally recognized as a leader in 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 lab facility for propagation to 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 integration of ecological perspectives with biotechnology tools, differentiate us from other institutions in the country focused on plant conservation. Potential for this Center are enormous given a focus on 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 is EFB’s fisheries program which are pushing boundaries both spatially and in techniques/methods development, combining the traditional (e.g., systematics) with new (e.g., , 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 trained in and emphasizing aquatic ecosystems. Urban ecology was a great former strength of ESF and could easily be so 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 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

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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 unlike any others. Some focal areas 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” programs is another area of 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., physical plant capabilities, college fleet, Illick Hall, etc.). It is great we still have our extensive properties and our history being tied to the fate of New York's forests is both interesting and an excellent platform for expanding research and education in sustainability. ESF/EFB can offer interesting, non-traditional courses to 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 are doubly grateful to see a shared desire for a healthier natural world in the students we teach. With healthy undergraduate and graduate enrollments, the addition of 15 faculty the past 15 years (Drs. Frair, Whipps, Dovciak, Fierke, McGee, Newman, Cohen, Rundell, S. Farrell, Diemont, Green, Leydet, Razavi, Downs, and Drew), 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 to 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 our aspirations beyond what has already been articulated and attained.”

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10. Certification that all professional employees have had an annual evaluation and a new performance program in place by June 1, 2020 Five professional employees – Instructional Support Specialists (Kim Adams, Terry Ettinger, Ron Gegierich, Patrick McHale, and Nancy Walker-Kopp) and three CSEA (Faith Ashmore & Danielle Kavenagh, Secretary 1s, and Dawn Graney, Office Assistant) – had performance evaluations.

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APPENDIX A: EFB Faculty: Rank, Degree, Interest areas

Name and Title Degrees Interest Areas Belant, Jerrold PhD, University of Alaska Wildlife ecology and management, carnivore Campfire Club Fairbanks conservation, human-wildlife conflicts, Endowed Professor MS & BS, Univ of ecological plasticity, international of Wild Life Wisconson-Stevens Point conservation

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

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

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

Downs, Cynthia PhD, University of Animal Physiology, ecoimmunology, Assistant Professor Nevada-Reno physiological trade-offs, organismal ecology, BS, SUNY ESF scaling, allometry, Ecological and evolutionary consequences of variation in physiological phenotypes

Drew, Joshua PhD, Boston University Aquatic conservation ecology at the Assistant Professor MS, SUNY At Albany intersection of human and natural systems. BA, Drew University Draws from a variety of disciplines including community ecology, biogeography, political ecology and historical ecology.

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 Wildlife ecology, E&T species and habitat, Assistant Professor MS, Texas A&M anthropogenic impacts, quantification BA, Brown University 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 development, in vitro fertilization in conifers, Graduate Director & MS, Univ of Philippines pollen transformation & gene expression Associate Chair BS, Mntn State Agr. Coll. during pollen tube development

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

Frair, Jacqueline L. PhD, Univ of Alberta, Wildlife and landscape ecology, animal Professor Canada movements and habitat use, predator-prey MS, Univ of Wisconsin interactions

BS, Cornell Gibbs, James P. PhD, Yale Conservation biology, ecological monitoring, Professor MA, Univ of Missouri wildlife management, population biology and BS, Univ of Maine conservation genetics

Green, Hyatt C. PhD, Oregon State Univ. Molecular microbial ecology, co-evolution of Assistant Professor BS, Univ. Georgia microbes with their animal hosts, microbial source tracking and water quality, microbial biogeography

Horton, Thomas R. PhD, Univ of Cal.-Berkeley Mycorrhizal ecology and systematics, Professor MA, San Francisco State mycology, restoration ecology Univ. BA, Humboldt State Univ

Kimmerer, Robin W. PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin Ethnobotany, conservation biology, and Distinguished MS Univ. of Wisconsin bryophyte ecology

Teaching Professor BS, SUNY ESF Leopold, Donald J. PhD, Purdue Forest and wetland ecology; understanding Distinguished MSF, Univ of Kentucky drivers of species abundance & diversity at Teaching Professor BS, Univ of Kentucky micro to macro scales; application of unique & Chair communities to sustainable landscapes; dendrology

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

Limburg, Karin E. PhD, Cornell Fisheries ecology, ecosystem ecology, fish Professor MS, Univ of Florida migration, biogeochemical tracers, ecological

AB, Vassar College modeling, ecological economics Lomolino, Mark V. PhD, SUNY Binghamton Biogeography; conservation biology, diversity Professor MS, Univ of Florida in isolated ecosystems and habitat islands.

BS, SUNY-Cortland McGee, Gregory G. PhD, SUNY ESF Forest ecology, management, and restoration; Associate Professor, MS, SUNY ESF effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on Curriculum Director, BS, Allegheny College northern hardwood forests.

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& Associate Chair

Newman, Lee A. PhD and MS, Rutgers & Phytoremediation, molecular and cellular Associate Professor RWJ Med. Sch. biology, plant nanoparticle interactions, plant BS, Stockton State College endophyte interactions, horticultural therapy, . hyperspectral imaging for plant contaminant exposure and plant stress, plant metal interactions and mine site restoration, environ. nealth

Parry, Dylan PhD, Michigan State Univ. Forest insect ecology, population dynamics of Associate Professor MS, University of Alberta defoliating Lepidoptera, ecology of predators, BS, University of Alberta parasitoids, & 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.

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 Professor BA, California State at Long Beach

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

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

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 studies; Great Lakes; Finger Lakes

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Stewart, Donald J. PhD, Univ of Wisconsin Fish ecology and fisheries management; Professor MS, Univ of Michigan ecological energetics; modeling predation and BS, Univ of Michigan production processes; Great Lakes ecosystems; Amazonian ecosystems; ecology and systematics of Neotropical freshwater fishes Teale, Stephen A. PhD, SUNY ESF Forest entomology; chemical ecology; Professor MS, Univ 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, Univ of Newcastle Systematics and evolutionary biology of fungi Professor upon Tyne using classical and modern molecular BS, Univ of Bradford, UK approaches; fungal biodiversity and conservation; fungal arthropod interactions; biology of parasites and symbionts

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

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Appendix B: Faculty Significant Accomplishments & Future Plans

Belant - none given.

Cohen The 2019/2020 academic year continued to be productive for my lab, with many new publications. We said goodbye to a longtime member who got her M.S. in the Cohen lab in 2014 and completed her Ph.D. in 2020 after a stellar grad school career, including a best paper award at her final international conference as a grad student, in the Fall. One of our recent Ph.D. alums also got a “Rising Star” publication award for one of her Ph.D. manuscripts, which appeared in Conservation Biology. I also gave my first interview to the New York Times, on piping plovers on Long Island. In the Spring I took my first sabbatical. It was relatively productive, with several papers and grants submitted and an exciting new collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological Institute (SOI) on avian abundance estimation, which is turning into an new grant proposal with SOI, my lab, University of Pittsburgh, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the travel I hoped to do during my sabbatical had to be cancelled, due to quarantine, so I was not able to follow up on some collaborative projects. FUTURE PLANS This coming year I will be expanding my work on the Great Lakes piping plovers with a new grant to conduct habitat restoration. I expect most of my current grad students to get their degrees, and I will begin building up a new cohort. I am looking forward to a new phase of the New England cottontail project with Drs. Whipps and Downs, and I will also have my first MPS student, and perhaps more than one. Due to my sabbatical, I am a bit “behind the curve” on online instruction methods, so I will spend the summer and early Fall reworking my class delivery as needed. I will also start my term as Grad Coordinator for EFB. PROJECTED ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT YEAR Proposed research activity: M.S. research conducted by A. Cook, D. Eline Ph.D. research conducted by M. Durkin, A. Kocek, C. Fiss Time-to-detection models Piping plover habitat on Lake Ontario University, professional society, and public service Waterbird Society Committee activities. Roosevelt Wild Life Station

Diemont Students I work closely with students on their research and explore new ways to teach. This year I advised seven graduate students and served on the committee of seven other students. I continued to develop a new course with Emanuel Carter on urban ecosystem design, ENS 596, and further modified EFB 120, seeking to provide enriching and diverse education. Following conversion to online instruction, I first educated myself and then systematically experimented with instructional methods that have greatest positive educational effect for our students. I began directing the ESF Honors Program and worked to enhance freshman and sophomore mentoring toward successful Honors thesis through the required seminars. I am mentoring my advisees in

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the investigation traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and environmental restoration in the northeastern US, southern Mexico, and Guatemala. They are researching the ecological and societal needs, mechanisms, and implications of TEK and local knowledge. 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, often paying special attention to the provisioning of food. I also worked with an Honors student as she explores TEK in her work. Writing with me, six current or former graduate advisees submitted papers peer-reviewed books and journals (three manuscripts accepted, two in revision). With colleagues from across campus, our funded ESF Discovery Challenge Restoration Science Center at ESF hired management staff to support ESF restoration science education. Department/College I served the college and department in a number of ways this year, from Program leadership to club advising. I began as sole Director of the Honors Program. I continued to learn the system from past-Director, Bill Shields, taught seminars, and worked closely with Honors students. 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 initiated the Sloan Fellows program that greatly expands how we meet Native student education. ESF SER worked on a number of local and international restoration projects. As Faculty Advisor for ESF in the High Schools, I met with teachers as a workshop to discuss course re-design and a new textbook for EFB 120. 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 villages in Mexico. I have been expanding my focus, looking at other communities in southern US, other areas of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and in many parts of Europe. I worked with communities in Mesoamerica looking at traditional agroecosystems along with current graduate students. Our group conducted interviews and field sampling in Mexico and Guatemala 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 began expanding this work during this summer to better understand women's roles in agroforestry systems. 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 had several articles from these studies published or accepted this year. Our results belie current understanding of diversity and annual production in these systems, indicating that these systems are considerably more productive than has been understood to date. In New York I continued my work with food systems and urban ecosystem restoration. Working with Matt Potteiger (LA) and Anni Bellows (Food Studies -SU), we began funded project work that look at the intersection of design, food sovereignty, and ecological function in urban ecosystems. We conducted interviews with stakeholders and began field sampling of plant community in urban food forest. I returned to Portugal to continue work

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during June of this year. 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 sampling of soil moisture and temperature within these systems. As part of the funded chestnut restoration program, I began planning for planting and evaluating these traditional systems in a test plot in Syracuse, New York. FUTURE PLANS, I am welcoming three new master’s students and plan to see two master's students graduate next year. With my graduate students we will continue working on traditional ecological knowledge in the US, Europe, and Latin America through TEK and food systems. I will teach ESF 109 and 209 Honors Seminars and will begin my first academic year as director of the Honors Program. I will teach a revamped EFB 518 Systems Ecology: Ecological Modeling and Design and will continue service learning for climate change adaptation design. I will continue a field course on urban ecosystem design with Emanuel Carter and formalize this course through the Committee on Curriculum. I will continue to work with others in the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment in developing a graduate program at ESF on the integration of traditional and scientific knowledge for sustainability. I will also continue to work remotely with the community of Lacanja Chansayab, Mexico on TEK-based restoration and education and with San Cristobal de Las Casas on natural wastewater treatment and ecosystem restoration. We will begin the curriculum development for undergraduate and graduate Restoration Science majors as part of work with the Restoration Science Center; we will work with the Development Office for long- term funding for this center. This year I am planning to submit for funding support for research in the areas of ecosystem restoration, TEK, food security, urban ecosystems, and climate change adaptation. We will plant the full grape-chestnut systems at Lafayette Experiment Station. Working with other faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, we will analyze plant and bird community and stakeholder systems for the design of food forest in Syracuse. I will continue remotely research and teaching in climate change adaptation, urban ecosystems and agroforestry design of systems in Europe. I am particularly interested in how traditional ecosystem management can lead to improved climate change adaptation. I will also work with my graduate students in submitting manuscripts for research we have completed on urban food systems, and Zapotec and Maya traditional ecological knowledge.

Dovciak Students I contributed to the research training of 14 undergraduate students this year. In the Summer, I contributed to undergraduate research training at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as a visiting faculty fellow where I worked directly with eight students—all of whom produced research reports and conference presentations, two of them proceeded to get accepted to graduate programs (PhD at Texas A&M University, MS at SUNY ESF), one developed his honors thesis, and one submitted her paper to a refereed journal (now in review). In addition to these BNL- based students, six undergraduate students gained research experience working in my lab in Syracuse on my NSF project (two as fully paid field research aides and four as research interns). In the Fall, I taught Flowering Plants (EFB 435/635) at capacity (24 students, including 8 graduate) combining field trips and indoor laboratories as usual. In the Spring, I taught Plant Ecology & Global Change (EFB 445/645) to an average enrollment for this class (41 students, including 11 graduate) and EFB 523 Tropical Ecology (co-taught w/D. Stewart) nearly at

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capacity (17 students, with two drops due to cancelling our March trip to Ecuador due to COVID-19). I spent significant effort transitioning both of these classes online during the campus closure due to COVID-19 and cancelling all the bookings and seeking refunds for the Tropical Ecology trip (airline, hotels, field stations, tour bus, guides). Fortunately, with the effort, we recovered most costs so neither the students nor the college had a financial loss. Teaching remotely provided both a challenge and some positive outcomes, particularly in Tropical Ecology, where we developed new resources and approaches to compensate for the cancelled field trip. I will use these resources (movies, online educational materials), and own online Collaborate sessions, to supplement both of my Spring courses in the future. Importantly, I continued to work with my six graduate students and helped those preparing field seasons under COVID-19 to overcome delays and restrictions: Lumbsden-Pinto received Sussman and NYFA awards, Roberts scheduled a summer defense, and all made progress toward their degrees. Former MS student Steve Langdon published his masters’ paper in Wetlands. Department/College I continue to work with our partner institutions on Long Island—particularly Central Pine Barrens Commission (CPBC) and BNL—via regular collaborator meetings focused on our study of pine barrens dynamics on the island, and I contributed to recently signed MOU between CPBC and ESF. This collaboration also allowed us to tap into the internship funding by the Department of Energy last summer (by providing eight internships worth collectively ~$40k). In addition, I took up new service responsibilities both at the college and departmental levels by joining the College Student Life Committee as well as the Departmental P&T Review Committee. I continued to represent College/Department in my broader professional service including (1) 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) as a sole PI on a visible NSF project that involves permits from state and regional agencies in four states in the northeastern US. I continue to serve as a member of several faculty groupings (e.g., GPAC, GPES, Global Change on the Hill Initiative) and to contribute to departmental teaching program by guest lectures on flowering plants in EFB 210 Diversity of Life I (3 lectures), and EFB 326 Plant Evolution, Diversification and Conservation. Self/Professional Development Last summer was exciting professionally from many aspects. First, I was elected to a Vice Chair of the Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America (a two-year position that progresses to a two-year Chair position) which will provide me with the opportunity to serve both my field and my professional society while learning more about both. Second, I was appointed as the Department of Energy Visiting Faculty Program Fellow at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for 10 weeks over the summer to further our collaboration on studying long- term dynamics of Long Island pine barrens ecosystem. This pine barrens project (funded by McIntire-Stennis Program $61k; with supplementary DoE funding to BNL $40k) took much of my time this year, as the newly recruited doctoral student (Lumbsden-Pinto) and I worked together to chaperon our team of undergraduate research interns at BNL through our first field season and developing the first paper from this effort (now in review). Third, we had a very productive first field season on the largest field project in my lab, the Ecotone Dynamics in Changing Mountain Environments (funded by NSF, $323k), as my field team lead by doctoral student (Tourville) accomplished more than originally planned, and we were also able to publish the second paper based on the previous data related to this project. Finally, my international collaborations with the colleagues from the Technical University in Zvolen in Slovakia continue

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to be productive as we focused on the broad topic of the effects of land use on biodiversity (and published a paper together) in this cycle. Overall, I co-authored four published peer-reviewed papers this cycle, one additional paper was submitted for peer-review, and several are in advanced stages of progress for submissions in the next cycle. FUTURE PLANS During the next cycle I would like to accomplish the following main objectives (i) continue to develop the collaborative work on pine barrens dynamics with the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Central Pine Barrens Commission (CPBC), and NYS DEC, including completing the second field season (with field funding from CPBC), submitting a second manuscript to a refereed journal, and preparing the follow-up proposal for outside funding source (DoE or NSF) to continue this work beyond our current funding; (ii) continue the NSF-funded research on the montane ecotones of the Northeastern U.S., including completing the second field season, submitting several manuscripts (four are currently under preparation), and prepare and submit a follow-up proposal for funding; (iii) continue supporting my graduate students as they work on their papers and theses; (iv) continue to expand active and team-based learning components in my main classes (EFB 445/645 Plant Ecology & Global Change, and EFB 435/635 Flowering Plants: Diversity, Evolution, and Systematics) while adjusting my Fall Flowering Plants class so that it can be taught remotely if need be; (v) continue to teach EFB 523 Tropical Ecology if COVID-19 situation allows it and include a stronger analytical component to the standing class project that includes the survey of fruiting patterns in lowland tropical rainforests; and (vi) continue contributing to various continuing or new collaborative projects as appropriate.

Downs I was hired into the EFB department in Aug 2021 and have spent my first year learning the systems at SUNY- ESF, establishing my research program, and developing courses needed in the EFB curriculum. Mentoring students is one of my favorite parts of my job, and I have begun to develop in that role here at ESF through teaching, advising, and ad hoc service. My main teaching responsibility was EFB 462 in Spring 2020 (enrollment: 40 students from 6 majors). Professional development is important at all career stages, so I regularly start lectures for Animal Physiology class by announcing job opportunities and by talking briefly about how to find a job for the summer or develop a career after graduation. This activity has allowed me to develop a rapport with students, and they have often stayed after class to discuss these and other professional topics further. My total advising load was 15 students this past year, and I unofficially advised one additional student. As an advisor, I provide guidance on professional development, but I also advocate for my students when they encounter hurdles. I also mentor students through research projects, and I have integrated three undergraduate students into my research lab. These students have contributed to my NSF-funded project on how body size shapes the architecture of the immune system through literature searches and laboratory work. Additionally, I have begun to work with our graduate students. I regularly provide informal mentoring and feedback on new research by participating in the wildlife potlucks and attending capstone seminars. I have also strived to provide mentorship in professional development for our graduate students. For example, I worked with my teaching assistant for EFB 462 to help her develop both an in-person and a virtual class activity for Animal Physiology to provide her with training in pedagogy and teaching experience beyond grading. I worked extensively with one of our graduate students to help her develop an independently taught course on the scientific process and writing in science. When that course (EFB 496.4: Asking and Answering Ecological

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Questions) was taught during Spring 2020, I provided guidance and helped her troubleshoot the inevitable problems that arose during the first offering of a course and the transition to online teaching. My main contributions to my department and ESF this past year involved teaching and ad hoc service. I revamped the course descriptions for EFB 463 and 480, both of which had not been updated for 20+ years. The proposed changes bring the content up to date, add a lab to EFB 463, and introduce goals about learning proximity mechanisms regulating behavior to EFB 480. I look forward to implementing these changes next year. I have also actively contributed to the wildlife group by helping them restructure their curriculum and serving as the faculty representative during a recruiting weekend. I have performed other ad hoc service as needed and look forward to expanding my role next year. At the University level, I have contributed as a PRODiG scholar. This activity has entailed networking with other PRODiG scholars across the SUNY system, providing extensive feedback on the first year of the program, and supporting students who are women in STEM or URM by attending Diversity and Inclusion events on campus. I look forward to working more closely with the D&I Office and Inclusion, Diversity and Equity committee next year. Developing myself as an ESF faculty member has dominated my time during this past year. I began renovating my physical lab space, I needed to expand my research program to encompass graduate students, and I worked to develop new collaborations with my fellow faculty members in EFB. I have developed two new collaborative projects that have yielded funding. First, in collaboration with Dr. Brian Leydet, I secured $4,948 from the Applied Center for Microbiology to fund a new project entitled The role of environmentally-induced stress in shaping reservoir host competence for the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi. We plan to use preliminary data acquired through this grant to submit proposals to NSF and NIH next year. In collaboration with Drs. Chris Whipps, Jonathan Cohen, and Amanda Cheeseman, I secured a McIntire-Stennis grant to investigate the diet and physiological condition of New England cottontails. I am excited about these projects because they allow me to ask questions about how condition shapes investment in immune defenses while also moving my research in the directions of wildlife management. Related to this trajectory, I also submitted an unsuccessful grant to the Eppley foundation to support work on how physiological condition shapes immune defense in wild ungulates. I will use start-up funds to collect preliminary data on this topic for future grants. I have continued to work on my research on the scaling of immune function. Last year we published three papers related to this grant, including one published in American Naturalist, and we have two more manuscripts in review. Finally, I continued to work on questions about physiological trade-offs. I reestablished a collaboration with Dr. Ted Garland (UC Riverside) to develop a framework for thinking about trade-offs beyond resource trade-offs and an organizational paradigm centered on the duration of a trade-off. A manuscript presenting those ideas is in revision. I also spent time recruiting students for my lab, and I'm excited to have recruited a Ph.D. and Master's student to join my lab in Aug 2021. FUTURE PLANS I look forward to continuing to integrate myself into the EFB department at ESF. I will continue to expand my research program at ESF. The building of my physical lab space was interrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak this past spring, so I will use this summer to organize my research space and prepare for the arrival of my first two graduate students. The Ph.D. student will work on my new McIntire-Stennis grant to investigate the diet and physiological condition of New England cottontails (collaborators: Drs. Chris Whipps, Jonathan Cohen, and Amanda

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Cheeseman). The Master's student will work on my NSF-funded project on the scaling of immune responses (collaborators: Drs. Lynn Martin and Rays Jiang at the University of South Florida). I will also work to expand funding for my lab to fund my interest in how host physiological condition affects immune defense strategy and the implication for disease dynamics. This summer, I will submit a new grant to NSF exploring how host conditions and initial bacterial dose drive early responses to immune challenges (collaborators: Drs. Mike Butler, Lafayette College and Sarah Knutie, University of Connecticut). This work will provide a mechanistic link between our understanding of how ecology shaped constitutive immunity and tolerance and resistance strategies to establish parasite infections. I will also submit an NIH grant on how host condition shapes the transmission dynamics of the causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi (collaborator: Dr. Bryan Leydet). This grant related to my work on how physiological conditions shape immune defenses and will build upon data we collect this summer on a grant from the Applied Center for Microbiology. As a teacher, I will teach EFB 480 (Animal Behavior) for the first time in Fall 2020 and will integrate a lab into EFB 462, which will add a hand-on component to EFB 462 and expand it to a 4-credit course with two laboratory sections. This coming fall, we all face the challenge of offering course material in socially distance classrooms while having matching virtual materials for students who cannot attend class amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I will attend the summer course offered by the Teaching and Learning Center (ESF 101) to help me develop research- based, engaging activities for my course components that will be taught online. In the spring, I will be teaching EFB 462 (Animal Physiology) again. I will add a lab or the first time, which will address students' reviews requesting the addition of practical experience with the material. I will also continue to integrate undergraduate researchers into my lab work to provide them with experience-based learning opportunities and to my graduate students with an opportunity to mentor fellow scientists.

Drew On a personal level, I have taken steps to secure collaborations with researchers in other large public universities (Universities of Maryland and Rhode Island) as well as explore (on-line) options with collaborators at Oxford University (UK). I have also laid the groundwork for continuing my research in Fiji. Finally, I have started on a local research plan exploring the historical ecology of in New York. However, my development has also been challenged by the onset of COVID 19. I am scheduled to organize a symposium on leveraging stakeholder perceptions to further conservation at the International Marine Conservation Congress (of the Society for Conservation Biology Marine Section’s meeting) this summer in Germany, as well as meet with colleagues in Oxford, and the Natural History Museum (London) both trips have had to be canceled, but are continuing virtually. Similarly, I was planning on taking an exploratory trip to Vieques Puerto Rico to secure collaborations for future work there, but sadly that trip too was canceled. FUTURE PLANS My primary goals for the next academic year are to continue developing my scholarship and teaching at ESF. I am planning on submitting a major NSF Coupled Human Natural Systems grant in November centered around the relationships among biodiversity and ecosystem services in in Fiji. In addition, I hope to continue to expand my research in Puerto Rico. This research program will dovetail nicely with a field class on reef ecology to be developed in the next two years. This project and teaching combination will serve as a foundation for an NSF

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CAREER grant (to be submitted July 2021). Lastly, I am developing an oyster project for Long Island Sound and will seek funding from both state and federal sources to support an MS student in carrying out the fieldwork. I also have an active research program with a colleague at Oxford University. We are expecting to submit a NERC/NSF grant to the Biological Oceanography directorate in January of 2021. My principal teaching goal for the next year is to develop a new course on Population Ecology. Given the uncertainties of COVID 19, introducing a new class to the department may result in lower numbers. As this class meets graduation requirements for Conservation Biology, Wildlife, and Aquatic Science majors, I anticipate that as this class matures, it will become a cornerstone of multiple curricula. Finally, I look forward to supporting the Conservation Biology major and the department in any way by being a flexible, team- oriented, and supportive colleague. Farrell, J. For the students During the summer of I hired a number of EFB undergraduates and recent graduates to work with our long-term research and management program at TIBS. These students received intensive training and experience in aquatic and fisheries science and worked alongside professionals. I started the academic year by hosting/organizing an AFS student-faculty mixer. New students were able to meet faculty and undergraduates and graduates and learn more about the program. For the department/college I took on the responsibility of serving as coordinator of the Aquatic and Fisheries Science major in EFB. I’m excited to continue to grow this program. I served as mentor for an Assistant Professor in EFB. I also worked as Principle Investigator and co-director (with D. Leopold) of the new SUNY Discovery Challenge Restoration Science Center. We hired Dr. Anna Harrison who started in March 2020 as program director. I worked on the Satellite Properties Task Force at the request of Interim President Amberg (along with J. Frair and A. Weir of EFB). I helped write a section of the report based on TIBS and also helped compile a synthesis and draft the report (with J. Frair and comments from the entire committee) for M. Fellows. I continued to serve as director of the TIBS and hired ~20 staff and students and managed the program and college property. I brought on several new graduate students (2 MS and 1 PhD) and held a search for a new lab manager for TIBS leading to a hire. I served on a committee to hire a major grants officer for the Restoration Science Center leading to a hire. I spent much of the spring doing administrative work to develop an essential research plan to conduct the critical monitoring and research on the St. Lawrence River at TIBS. For myself/professionally I attended and presented at the IAGLR annual conference and the NYAFS conference. I gave an invited plenary talk for the Southern New England Chapter AFS Chapter annual meeting in Boston MA. I also traveled to the Central Michigan University Biological Station on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan as part of my role on their advisory board with other representatives. I took a lead role in preparing and submitting their annual review report to the station director and CMU provost. FUTURE PLANS I’m working with others to fill the void created by SUNY pulling most of the funding associated with the Discovery Challenge trying to help preserve the potential and vision of the Restoration Science Center. We are doing this with a collaborative effort among researchers with a goal of maintaining positions that were recently filled.

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Farrell, S. Students I have continued to integrate evidence-based teaching approaches and assessment tools to get short-term feedback from students to improve learning. This approach served well following the rapid transition to online learning, as I was able to deploy a variety of teaching approaches and technologies and generate feedback from students to continue evolving the course design to best serve anxious students. My commitment to teaching was also synergistically supported by college-level efforts, as Chair of IQAS, to create and run the 2020 Hardy Shirley mentoring colloquium which focused on supporting active learning. The colloquium was one day-long workshop that followed on the heels of a series of shorter workshops designed in collaboration with the Open Academy staff to support teaching. As acting chair of the IQAS committee I have also not only worked on numerous initiatives being developed to enhance teaching and learning (e.g., the identification and implementation of a new course evaluation platform, work on revising the advising system, developing a workshop series for faculty on teaching and learning), but also helped assist in cases of student grievances, academic probation appeals. I spent more time than ever actively advising and mentoring a large roster of advisees; I have offered special advising sessions open to both official advisees, students in my classes, and others to help with finding wildlife jobs and internships and resume writing and more generally about career and grad school paths and planning both in person and on zoom. I updated my 797 seminar- Philosophy of Science- and received from grad students who took the seminar. Lastly, Ive had a large and active grad lab (~7 grads) and have focused on mentoring my grad students with a focus on helping several students in the final stages of thesis completion. Department I have been actively engaged in the department in efforts to rethink and restructure academic advising, as well as supporting efforts to bring more active learning and new tools and technologies into teaching. As Chair of IQAS and a member of the Academic Governance Executive Committee Ive been working to present and represent the needs and concerns of the department in efforts to improve governance, rethink our advising system structure in ways that may be more efficient and respectful of the time and effort of my colleagues, and to develop resources for improving teaching and learning. Self This year I can say I have continued the road I carved last year when I said “Ive realized that not only in my role as a mom of 2 toddlers but also in my role at ESF, I tend to focus outward on being of service to help others and the institution be the best it can be.” I’ve taken on roles that allow me to do what I’m good at and where I see GREAT need - being an exceptional advisor and mentor and working at the institutional level to help ESF be better overall at how we teach, advise, and mentor students and infusing this with evidence-based approaches to improve teaching, learning, advising. FUTURE PLANS 1. I will be wrapping up existing research projects where possible and developing transition plans for longer-term project in anticipation of my departure from ESF in Aug 2021. I will be working to finish projects and submit manuscripts on 1) the role of avian hosts in supporting tick and Lyme disease dynamics and the potential role of migration and climate change of the range of the vectors and disease, 2) stakeholders interacting in endangered species conservation planning to affect outcomes and management success or failure, 3) effects of beech bark disease induced forest change on bird communities in the ADKs, 4) how beaver activity influences small

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mammal and bat communities in the ADKs.. AI will be working with collaborators to advance the NY Mammal Survey, a DEC funded project, to continue after my departure. Additionally, as my lab now has a critical mass of expertise and data investigating bat habitat use through acoustic sampling, we’ll be looking to leverage this now large and growing dataset to begin to investigate some broader and large-scale questions about bat habitat ecology and behavior with the existing data set. 2. I will be continuing to serve as Chair of the IQAS committee and as such I plan to expand efforts to provide evidence-based resources to enhance teaching, learning, and perhaps re- envisioning the advising structure in EFB and ESF more generally. In conjunction with my brief experience as acting undergrad curriculum coordinator, I hope to use the synergy between these roles and my strength to help make changes and improvements to our undergraduate academic, advising, and professional development offerings in a significant way. 3. I plan to work with several collaborators in consulting, economics, policy, sociology, and environmental NGO sectors on developing a book project addressing the Endangered Species Act, strengths, weaknesses and associated challenges and opportunities for species conservation.

Fernando 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 undergrad students under the following non-regular courses: BTC/EFB 498 (Independent Research in Biotechnology/Environmental Biology), BTC/EFB 298 (Research Apprenticeship) and ESF 499 (Honors Thesis). I gave invited lectures in other courses (e.g., EFB 210 and EFB 535), and served as curriculum adviser to 15 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 the students outside of the regular lecture and laboratory periods, particularly through hands-on involvement with their respective research projects and class bonus projects, as well as extensively editing the drafts of written research proposals, particularly for the 23 students in BTC 497. Many of the students also came to see me 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 want to emphasize that I have been personally involved in the training (teaching/demonstration of lab techniques, writing proposals and journal-style final reports) of several undergraduate students in my lab through independent research, internship and apprenticeship. As for Innovative Teaching - Three of the five laboratory exercises in EFB 427 (Plant Anatomy and Development) are in the form of actual research projects where all students get the experience of conducting three research projects, gathering and interpreting data, and writing reports in the form and style following peer-reviewed journals. They are personally involved in the preparation of the materials (culture media, reagents, etc.), execution of the lab techniques (surface sterilization of working area and samples/explants, actual culture of explants, fixation of samples, sectioning, etc.), planning, monitoring and data gathering data (implementation of ranking system to qualitatively and quantitatively assess plant growth, microscopic analysis of various developmental stages, & compilation of class data), and data analysis (statistical analysis of class data representing data with data from each student serving as a replicate). Work related to each of the lab exercises/research projects run from 8-10 weeks which allows time to work on

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the written reports (for each report, students submit a draft which gets heavily edited and then revised for the final report). The three projects overlap in duration and so there are many instances when they are multitasking. The reports are written/submitted individually (staggered in terms of deadline) and address each of the following components: Introduction (background of the study, rationale, hypothesis, objectives and significance of the study); Materials and Methods (based on students’ actual involvement/experience on the methodologies from experimental design, sample preparation, monitoring of experiments and data collection), Results (using class data with statistical analysis [e.g., T-Test, ANOVA, etc.], figures and graphs), Discussion (addresses research hypothesis and objectives, integrates related journal articles), and Literature Cited. Format and style of the written reports are based on the journal article that the student chooses. This research-based lab exercises allow students hands on training on various equipment including autoclave, laminar flow hood, dissection and microscopy, image processing, and microtomes and slide preparations. In addition to the research-based lab exercises, another lab activity is in the form of a workshop where students get hands-on computer training on bioinformatics which is done at the computer clusters in Baker. It involves sequence characterization of genes that have functions in plant structure and development. Through the use of various software, students analyze nucleic acid sequences and determine the transcription start site, promoter, upstream/downstream regions, coding region, correct reading frame, sequence of the encoded proteins, cellular localization of the proteins, post-translational modifications, and phylogenetic analysis of protein sequences. The students write about the possible mechanism on how the sample genes are involved in specific aspects of plant structure and development. For EFB 326 (from Plant Diversity to Plant Evolution, Diversification and Conservation), I have integrated the use of a phylogenetic analysis software, i.e., Mesquite. It has been installed in the computers at Baker Lab and since it is a freeware, students can also download it in their personal computers. Students learn the skills in building phylogenetic trees, which starts with collecting the relevant data to be analyzed. In the lecture and lab, I emphasized the morphological traits that are unique among taxa, as well as traits shared among taxa. The students then summarizes those traits given in lecture and lab, and expand the number of traits from other information in their textbook and their own research. They build the data matrix, execute phylogenetic analysis through Mesquite, and interpret possible relationships among the taxa. The students realizes that their choice of traits, number of traits they use and interpretations as to whether a trait represents an ancestral or derived condition, affect the topology of their trees. This hands-on approach provides students a better understanding of phylogenetic concepts and at the same time, learn technological advances in the field. Fortunately, all these activities and topics on phylogenetic analysis were finished prior to the switch to online teaching. The remaining two lab exercises and the rest of the lectures were done through Blackboard. It took a lot of planning about how the online lab and lectures were to be delivered, but in short, I was able to develop a system (with the help of the TAs for the lab part) that worked for the course, at least for the time being. Department/college I served as EFB’s Graduate Program Director for the 13th year. My roles and responsibilities were mostly both performed during the academic year and throughout the summer, and include the following: 1)Acted on various petitions regarding the different aspects of EFB graduate program requirements and policies; 2) Reviewed and signed on various curriculum forms required for the completion of different degrees and areas of study (e.g., Form 2A, 3B, 4 and

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6A); 3) Replied to inquiries concerning EFB graduate program (through email or phone, including those who showed up personally in my office) from potential applicants and current graduate students; 4) Processed about 100 graduate applications (for both spring 2019 and fall 2020) that involved review of each application for initial assessment and assigning 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 a lot with the Graduate Office on the customization and further refinement of SLATE to facilitate EFB’s graduate application review process. I have also assisted several faculty members (and those with adjunct status) who had issues regarding the use of the system; 6) Provided formal (seminar- type) orientations (for both spring and fall semester) to new graduate students regarding EFB graduate program requirements and policies; 7) Provided orientation to new faculty (e.g. Drs. Joshua Drew and Cynthia Downs) 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 ranking of applications for GTA consideration; and 9) As a member of EFB’s Graduate Program Academic Committee and ESF’s Graduate Council, I participated in the discussions on specific topics as well as provided information that connects the department and college on issues pertaining to graduate degree program offerings and requirements, admission/review process, policies, and other related matters. Professional accomplishments The following describes what I consider as significant accomplishments for this academic year: 1) Establishment of a research collaboration with colleagues from NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (Whitney Carleton, Brigitte Wierzbicki and David Rutherford) to work on the genetic analysis, taxonomy, propagation and restoration of American beachgrass in the Great Lakes. We submitted our proposal to Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) Small Grants Program for consideration, which was successfully funded and considered as the top proposal from amongst those that were funded; 2) Served as the chair of the search for RSC’s Manager of Restoration Program. We have received about 20 applications and interviewed through Skype three strong candidates, which we ended up inviting them all for in- person interview. The search was successful since our offer for the position was accepted; 3) Have successfully recruited two new graduate students to join my lab (Adam Doniger, MS spring 2020 start and Rachel Renzi [co-mp with Don Leopold], MS fall 2020 start); and 4) Establishment of a research collaboration with Dr. Eddie Watkins, Colgate University to work on fern gametophyte development, physiology and proteomics. Eddie will also be hosting me during my sabbatical this fall 2020. NOTE: A major construction on my side of the 4th floor Illick Hall occurred for most of spring 2020. It created many distractions particularly heavy noise associated with the tearing down of the concrete walls immediately outside my office and laboratory, and inside my lab, as well as heavy traffic from workers and overall uncontrollable dusts. Although I was able to work elsewhere to prepare for my lectures and did some marking and writing, the renovation made it impossible to do serious work in the laboratory and so research productivity (for me and my students) was severely hampered, not to mention the possible health hazards associated with such working condition. This is not the first time that such active construction/renovation in Illick Hall was happening while we are expected to continue our work. I have reported the same incidence in my annual report a few years back.

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FUTURE PLANS As part of my sabbatical activity for fall 2020, I will work in collaboration with Dr. Eddie Watkins (Colgate University, Hamilton, NY) on fern gametophyte development and stress physiology. I will also work in his lab to co-develop a proteomic approach for the analysis of single gametophytes. I have many research data, both from my own research work and previous students that have been shelved due to lack of time. I intend to submit for publication at least three papers out of my sabbatical time. I still plan to revive my book project that was shelved (Sexual Reproduction of Forest Trees) and hopefully, will find the time during my sabbatical to work on it.

Fierke I co-taught GenBio this past fall with Greg McGee wherein we supervised three graduate and 8 UG TAs along with their workshops and grading - all went smoothly with overall class evaluations again strong for the two lecture sections. I taught Systematic Entomology this past spring and pivoted to take an intensive specimen-based lab course online. I wrote >30 student recommendation letters with many resulting in successful internships or positions. I finished up 5 graduate students this past AY and am happy with the current state of my research program and the progress of my remaining 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’ve had minimal time for activities beyond Chair duties.

Frair For our students, given the unexpected shift to online education mid-way through our semester, and the likelihood of continuing with majority online content through the coming academic year, I engaged this spring and fall with learning how to develop and deliver effective online education. Having committed to teaching my graduate class this coming fall entirely online, and to develop a field-intensive home study course, I’m forcing myself to engage in the practice of envisioning and developing a fully online course. To help with that, I have participated in regular discussions with The Wildlife Society’s Education Working Group, weekly webinars hosted by the Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching and am now taking ESF’s TLC Online Courses 101. Engaging in the pedagogy of online instruction has reintroduced to me many avenues (e.g., flipped classrooms, active learning) by which I might achieve greater inclusivity and more effective learning both for in-person and online classes going forward. For the department/college this year, I engaged as a faculty representative on two important ad hoc college committees – the remote campus assessment team and the search committee for a new college President. The remove campus assessment team completed the first ever comprehensive assessment of the value, impact, and challenges facing ESF’s many properties. Along with that assessment team, I serve on the Forest Property Advisory committee, which has been working toward better coordination of activities (instruction, research) and outcomes (data, student training) across ESF’s forest properties to extract greater value from them. For myself professionally, with a reduced travel schedule and increased isolation among my lab members, I’ve tried to maintain an effective research community by putting in more time on zoom and the phone and prioritizing getting published recent graduate student work.

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FUTURE PLANS This coming year, with Jonathan Cohen and Rebecca Rundell returned from their sabbatical leaves, I will prioritize completing the next iteration of strategic planning for the Roosevelt Wild Life Station that insures strong cohesivity with departmental and college priorities given the many current challenges imposed by the ongoing pandemic. This summer, I will work tirelessly to help the college select its’ next President. This fall I will be teaching fully online to engage completely in effective online education and be better prepared for instruction in my core undergraduate class in the spring. And a major personal priority will be helping to ensure a robust, engaged culture within my lab and department, which will be challenging for the foreseeable future.

Green I continue to co-direct the Environmental Data Science (EDS) Initiative at ESF with Steve Shaw. As part of this initiative, we offered the EDS Bootcamp at the Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC) last August with great success. This was a collaborative course in which students toured the many sensors at AEC, and also worked with historical data from Huntington Wildlife Forest exclusively in R to answer ecological questions about the forest to better predict mast years. We have also conducted interviews and selected candidates for two PhD fellowships funded by the initiative. I will also conduct an introductory workshop in R for any interested faculty, staff, graduate students, and research undergraduates in late June. We also had record attendance (n=26) in EFB796: Introduction to R and Reproducible Research spring 2020. Sarah Caltabiano (PhD, co-MP with Greg Boyer) recently passed her candidacy exams. In mid-April, I recruited Max Wilder (PhD) and Ariana Fenty to work on developing methods to detect SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater while most labs were shut down. We feel lucky to be able apply our expertise and resources to confront the pandemic in a small, but meaningful, way. Max and Ari were also co- authors on the pre-print “Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 and cross-assembly phage (crAssphage) from wastewater to monitor coronavirus transmission within communities” published on medRxivs in May, 2020. I also recruited Anthony Dolce to work on developing eDNA methods for invasive aquatic plants. A high school student I recruited for eDNA last summer, Josh Hillers, was recently accepted into Harvard. We are currently planning to use our developed methods for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater to monitor wastewater from Centennial Hall as an early warning system for the introduction and spread of COVID-19 on campus. My work on the Graduate Program Advisory Committee (GPAC) to conduct a full evaluation of our departmental ranking system could have wide-reaching impacts on not only which applicants are accepted, but also where their financial support will come from during their time at ESF. The College has also not fully realized the potential in using institutional data for decision-making. As a service to the college, I have continued to retrieve, organize, and preliminarily analyze a decade of registration, funding, and graduation data to help inform OIGS policy and aims. As part of the EDS Initiative, we are also scrutinizing our data science offerings in order to identify overlapping courses, potential course sequences, as well as courses we should offer, but don’t. In addition, we are revisiting the College’s high-performance-computing capacity and determining how best to connect researchers with computing power that is essential modern science. The largest professional accomplishment I can imagine is establishing our lab as a leader in high- impact environmental research. With the help of collaborators, we’ve made great strides toward this recently, much of which we hope to publish in the coming months. I am the primary (53%)

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on a new patent filing for the quantification of SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater and a local company has already decided to license the technology. State-wide analyses in New York and Texas using our method are in the works currently. The current New York State proposal is quoted at about $14 million. The cruise industry, as well as countries dependent on the cruise industry, is very interested in our technology. While planned research and scholarship has been delayed by the pandemic, a variety of new developments will be released in the coming months that assess the utility and importance of environmental monitoring during current and future pandemics. FUTURE PLANS I will continue to push for ESF to offer stronger, more comprehensive training in molecular biology and the use of molecular tools in applied science.

Horton Self: I offered my Advanced Mycology:Basidiomycetes course. I hit my stride this time around with a full complement of mushroom images to augment the taxonomic treatment. The students really responded to the slide shows. Students: It was great to see the effort guiding my Fulbright Fellow Nahuel Policelli result in two papers. Plus, he landed a postdoctoral position at Boston University. My collaboration with Bill Powell continues to be productive and it is great to be co-advising Masters student Molly Heit funded with the BRAG grant. I am also happy to be collaborating with Roxanne Ravazi and my student Ilana Zeitzer is benefiting greatly from Roxanne’s expertise assessing mercury levels on morels collected from the Solvay wastebeds. It is great to see Julian Koob’s research on mycoheterotrophic plants paying off. He has fostered a great collaboration with a botanist in the Ithaca area. The results are preliminary, but it looks like the yellow pinesap (Hypopytis monotropa) has different fungal associates than the red form. His work on the invasive orchid Epipactis helleborine is also proving quite interesting, with the plant associating primarily with true truffles (Tuber spp.). Andy Cortese continues to be an exemplary PhD student. His wasting no time installing field experiments and is now harvesting his first experiments. As always, it is great chairing the Lowe/Wilcox, Zabel and Morel fellowship review committee. My lab hosts great undergraduate and graduate students proposing and doing great work. Department/College: Serving as Chair of the Departmental Review Committee (DRC) is hard but necessary for a functioning Department and College. The EFB DRC is cohesive and dedicated to keeping the department strong, and that makes the work worthwhile.

To facilitate research of colleagues, I am moving out of two spaces in Illick. Vacate my ‘dirty lab’ in Illick 359 for new Terrestrial Ecology Research labs (John Stella project). Continue to help design and wait for the availability for a new Mycology Intake Lab space on the fourth floor (to be Illick 453). Vacate my office in Illick 350 to make room for the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Move into new space in Illick 426.

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personal growth. I have also had the privilege of serving as advisor and mentor to our Sloan Indigenous Scholars and a number of other graduate students. A singular experience this year was working with our students to organize the Remembrance for Lost Species Day, which was meaningful. I consider my role as Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment to be of benefit to our students through its role in cross-cultural programming, the minor, campus activities and contribution to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on campus. Inevitably, I would also recognize that like all of us, this year brought the extraordinary challenge of transitioning my courses to an online format. I also support indigenous students across the nation, in presentations to college and tribal groups. In Service to the Department and College I would point to my leadership role in bringing ESF into the prestigious Sloan Indigenous Scholars Program which will fund a cohort of indigenous graduate students each year for the next 4 years. We have surpassed our recruiting goals for this year, as testament to the CNPE and ESF’s reputation in graduate education in sustainability that incorporates indigenous knowledge systems. A second highlight of the academic year is the convening of the Justice For the Land workshop, a 4 day retreat at the Blue Mountain Center which brought together voices from indigenous nations, state agencies, intertribal alliances, land trusts and the Nature Conservancy to envision and strategize collaborations for advancing land justice for Native peoples. That gathering has spurred a number o9f important collaborations already which will benefit the College and our many partners. I also view my many presentations (approximately 45 this year) to university, public and professional conferences to be of benefit to ESF in enhancing awareness of ESF’s important work. In terms of support for my own professional development, I continue to develop a multitude of collaborations that integrate ecological sciences, indigenous knowledge and the arts, in the realm of environmental humanities. I’ve been gratified to be invited to participate in emerging dialogues on the Rights of Nature, from the regional to the international level. Contributing testimony to the International Tribunal on Fracking and Human Rights was a satisfying experience. As time allows, I continue to work on a new book manuscript, although the responsibilities for continued support of my book Braiding Sweetgrass as it is translated and distributed internationally constitute a significant ( but mostly welcome) demand on my time.

FUTURE PLANS, AMBITIONS, AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOREST BIOLOGY (brief summary) • Continue with CNPE directorship • Continue Sloan Indigenous Scholars Program • Expand collaboration for Rights of Nature work and Land Justice efforts • Advocate for new faculty position for CNPE • Complete book project

Leopold During the fall semester I again taught the oldest and largest (enrollment about 140 students each year) dendrology course in U.S, now for 34 years. I also taught a field botany course for seniors and graduate students last fall. I finished two graduate students this past AY including Ph.D. student Kristen Haynes. I have now been major professor for 75 graduate students through completion of their degree programs. In April I wrote and hosted the one hour ESFTV Arbor Day 2020 live video, which has had nearly 600 views after three weeks. This video, plus live shows in 2018 and 2019, plus 135 tree videos and one Conversations (with W. Powell) have

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gotten over 210,000 views on the ESFTV YouTube station since these videos were released. Wildflowers of the Adirondacks (Johns Hopkins Press) was published in February 2020 and is the seventh book that I have authored (3) or co-authored (4). Besides the text that I wrote (over 50% of book), 305 of the 312 images in the book are mine. Syracuse University Press has tentatively planned on reprinting my Trees of NYS as a paperback field guide this fall. My Native Plants of the Northeast (Timber Press, 2005) is in its 10th+ printing. Additionally, I wrote essays (invited) for Andrew Garn’s Wildflowers of NYC (Comstock Press), to be published this year. Garn is a professional photographer in NYC who recently published Pigeons, which has gotten significant attention. During my sabbatical leave (January 1 to June 30, 2020) I have been drafting two books, Landowner’s Guide to Conservation Stewardship: Enhancing and Sustaining Biodiversity and Wild Life with James Gibbs, Sam Quinn, and Thomas Woltz; and, Bogs, Bourbon, and Beer. And Other Wetlands and Drinks Along the Way with Ralph Tiner and David Cooper. Complete drafts will be done by end of this calendar year and submitted to publishers. I am Principal Investigator for a $4,204,361 grant from NYS-DEC to fund base operation of NY Natural Heritage Program (July 2017 to June 2022). Including this grant, the total extramural funding that I have received as PI or coPI since coming to ESF in August 1985 is $27,344,401. I am co-Director, with Dr. John Farrell, of the SUNY-ESF Restoration Science Center, managing the $660K Discovery Challenge grant from SUNY. We have recently hired a (1) Program Manager and (2) Development and Program Leader. I have recently received, with James Gibbs, $210K of new funding from a private donor for our Private Lands Conservation Initiative, added to a previous gift of $500K. This new funding is for projects led by Drs. Chris Whipps ($70K for two years) and Brian Leydet ($170K for 5 years). Last June and July I traveled with Drs. L. Newman, G. Lanza, and D. Amberg (funded by State Department grant to Newman and Lanza) to Pavlodar University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan and Tyumen State University (TSU), Tyumen, Russia to discuss developing educational and research programs between institutions. This visit to TSU was a follow up to a trip we (Newman, Lanza, Leopold) made in July 2017 and subsequent meetings with principals from that institution.

Leydet Students: In my 4th year at ESF I continue to teach foundational courses for the Environmental Health major. Concepts covered in Epidemiology and Disease Prevention are even more relevant under the current global pandemic. I continue to employ more and more case studies into my teaching as students consistently identify these class periods as the most beneficial in their learning of class concepts. Student evaluations for both classes consistently describe the material as unique to their other classroom experiences at ESF. I again offered a Vector Borne and Zoonotic Disease seminar which focused on novel methods for disease control. Next year I plan to focus this seminar on Eco-Immunology with help from our recent Animal Physiology hire (Dr Cynthia Downs) in hope of building course lecture and materials for an eventual permanent class offering. My experience in disease and combined with Cynthia’s knowledge of evolutionary drivers and theory behind host physiology provides us the opportunity to co-teach a class on a very timely and emerging topic that has ties to both our research programs. Undergraduate advising has been consistent with loads in EFB. This was the first year I had a significant number of students graduate (a significant amount of them a semester early which was cool). Despite the lack of an in-person commencement it was rewarding to think back on

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some of these students that appeared in my office as 18-year-old freshmen four years ago. I again had 2 undergraduate students conducting independent research projects in the lab (one for an honors thesis). For the second year I had an REU student placed in the lab over the summer and she conducted research on tick borne disease coinfections at the Overlook property in Waverly PA. Because she was an SU student and enjoyed the lab so much she returned in the Fall and Spring semesters to continue various research projects. I help her as an unofficial mentor as she was navigating graduate schools and put her in contact with colleagues I thought would be a good fit, I am very happy to pursue her PhD at the Wadsworth Center in the Chiota Lab studying vector-host relationships. I currently have an MS student that is collecting her second year of data and will likely finish this December. I am also bringing on a con-mentored student (with John Farrell) to continue work on the fish microbiome. I served on a significant number of graduate defenses this year (2 PhD and 2 MS). Lastly the Doctoral student at the University of Rochester Medical Center is set to defend his thesis this July. Department/College: I continue to conduct numerous outreach activities which highlight the work we are doing at ESF to combat ticks and their diseases. This has led to public talks to various interest groups and ~500 individuals. I was able to represent ESF at Congressman Katko’s press conference for the Tick Identification Pilot Program Act of 2019 which would provide grant monies for the establishment of programs that allow trained experts to identify ticks virtually. Additionally, a graduate student and I were invited to the New York State Capital by Senator Sue Serino for Lyme disease awareness day. At this event we set up an ESF booth and talked to Senators, Assembly members, and staffers about Lyme and tick-borne diseases and the work being done at ESF. This was a great event and we were invited to the 2020 event as well as press conference by Senator Serino, unfortunately both were canceled due to Covid-19. I continue to serve on the Institution’s biosafety committee which have gradually seen an increase in workload due to the onboarding of so many new faculty members. For the spring 2020 semester I was asked to stand in for Dr Johnathan Cohen on the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee while he was on sabbatical (I’m wondering if this will be permanent?). I was prepared to assist again in the evaluation and awarding of SUNY ESF career fellowships until they were canceled due to the pandemic. Throughout the year I was interviewed by multiple media sources regarding both my work on ticks and their diseases as well as Covid-19. This resulted in four local TV/Radio interviews and one in New York City. In print I was quoted or mentioned in 21 articles with some of them receiving significant social media attention (totaling close to 90,000 shares). Additionally, eight of the articles made the front page of the Syracuse Post Standard. Lastly as these pandemic progresses, I am trying to play a resource role for the college.

Self/Professional: Despite this whole Covid-19 mess I feel like my work and passion are even more pressing. While having to work from home has undoubtedly interfered with my productivity I have managed to keep moving forward. This year I have been involved in the submission of three DOD, two NIH, one NSF, two foundation and one SUNY grant. Most of these were multi-institutional and while many were not funded some received excellent scores. The labs work in Ecuador continues and was recently supported by a SUNY grant. I was prepped to make another trip down this year with an ESF undergraduate (who received monetary support through the ESF alumni association) to collect data but had to cancel the day of departure because of Covid-19. I hope to make this trip in the future but that is up in the air for now. This year the lab published 2 manuscripts from work conducted at ESF and we have two additioanl papers in various stages of revision. There are a few more papers in the later stages of

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preparation that I hope to see submitted by end of year. The lab received significant funding to continue work at the Fullers Overlook property in Waverly PA. The lab has been conducting tick and tick-borne disease research for the past two years and we have a graduate student finishing up her thesis work this year. The funding includes summer support for a PhD student for four years. Because of the late notice and subsequent late job posting I got few applicants and the ones I did interview accepted positions at other institutions. I will repost the position for the Spring 2021 semester. I have recently discussed exciting grant ideas with our new animal physiology hire and we expect to begin gathering data this summer to aid in grants submission to both the NIH and NSF. As it relates to new collaborative projects although we (Steve Teale and I) were unable to find a student to conduct experiments with our prototype tick questing bioassay our design was presented to a group at the Syracuse New York State Science & Technology Law Center. This faculty led group of law and business student spent the semester researching our prototype and formulating recommendations for patenting and marketing. I have been in contact with SUNY Tech Transfer Office and am in the process of filing a technology disclosure. Additionally, John Farrell and I have onboarded a master’s student to build upon the exciting fish microbiome project. Lastly, within the last year I have been engaged in the formation of a new local non-profit, the CNY Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Alliance which has brought together a variety of experts and community leaders to help combat tick and tick borne diseases locally. As a founding board member, it has been quite an interesting process creating a non-profit. More importantly, the Alliance has been off to a fast start and has gained significant buy in and support (including monetary) from local political, foundation, business, and community leaders.

FUTURE PLANS I will continue to pursue extramural support for my research program. This includes generating new preliminary data for upcoming grant cycles. Because the funding climate will likely drastically change because of Covid-19 I will continue to explore non-traditional funding sources like philanthropy and foundations. We are working on additional fish gut microbiome manuscripts with one in the final stages and will be submitted to the journal Limnology and Oceanography. Once a few experimental studies have been published John and I will be well set up to apply for extramural support for this work. There are multiple requests in line for both public presentations and scientific presentations in the coming year. Building off the current pandemic, in Epidemiology this fall I plan on having students train to be Covid-19 contact tracers. This is easily done employing materials supplied by the CDC and pairing them with my outbreak investigation lectures and role-playing scenarios/case studies. I think this would be a great exercise and could engage student in some ‘real-life’ applied training. Lastly, I would like to work with Cynthia Downs to start the foundation of an Ecoimmunology course at ESF. I think this could be accomplished through exploring topics and lecture/exercise development in a few graduate level 796/797 course(s). Then these could eventually be rolled out in a team-taught course in EFB. I feel this emerging topic and field would benefit many majors and complements both mine and Cynthia’s research interests.

Limburg For our students: Aside from teaching my scheduled class and advising undergrads and grads, I ran a couple of courses (one seminar, one course) to unleash what I call “student brainpower” on interesting/challenging topics. My colleague John Waldman at CUNY Queens College calls these “pop-up classes” and so I’ve adopted that term as well. In the fall, students helped to flesh out ideas for developing an academic program in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

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(CCAM), an area which I think would be a natural fit for ESF and one that I can already see considerable demand for. In the spring, I ran a research class that dealt with a problem I’d been thinking about: whether or not climate change is causing accelerated changes in ecological phenomena. The class was partly designed to give our grad students an opportunity to work on research not directly related to their theses, but rather, to experience group research on a novel topic. I was so pleased to see how much they grew, and how much we learned all together. I also piloted an advanced course in fisheries modeling in R. We used an excellent textbook and learned a lot together, and I want to run this course again in the future. Like all of us, I was very concerned about how our undergrads were handling the online learning experience. I spent extra time discussing this and other issues with my advisees during Advising Week, and also have tried to respond immediately to any and all requests from them. For the department and the college: I served on the Graduate Program Advisory Committee, but admittedly my service was light. However, I did help Melissa Fierke to organize a faculty retreat to discuss out graduate programs. It turned out to be an excellent workshop (mainly due to Melissa’s efforts). I also served on the college’s Awards Committee for a second year. Additionally, I worked closely with the Analytical and Technical Services Group to bring in new equipment that is vital to my research program: a Thermo iCAP QQQ triple quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, and a Teledyne-Cetac Excite Laser Ablation Unit. I will be working with Deb Driscoll (in ATS) to learn to operate these in tandem and then to train students and others in their use. Although essential to my work, I see this instrumentation as having many uses across The Hill and would like eventually to run a training course. (We had to pause our own learning due to the Covid pandemic.) I participated in a pre- proposal for an urban LTER focused on Syracuse; unfortunately, we were not selected to move to full. For myself: Perhaps the biggest thing for me this past academic year was being awarded my second research grant from the Biological Oceanography panel at NSF. This was by far the most complex proposal I’d put together, and probably the most “out of the box” thinking and combining talents within a diverse team of researchers and students from North America and Europe. This was a direct result of my having become a visiting professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and gaining extremely bright colleagues over there; two of them became co-PIs on this grant, and we will together be co-mentoring a post-doc who will do the ecological modeling part of this project. I also continued to work hard with my 6 Ph.D. students, who are just a wonderful group and who are continuing to develop. One is on the home stretch, and I anticipate that others will follow within the next year. I’ve also gotten a tremendous amount of satisfaction from working with various international research teams: researchers in South America working in the Amazon (I was brought in by Don Stewart); large river ecologists in Australia and SE Asia; and marine scientists at Scripps and the University of Bergen (Norway), teaming up to study hypoxia impacts in Norwegian fjords. Additionally, my Scandinavian research network has picked up additional Danish and Finnish collaborators, interested in how otolith chemistry may “record” physiology, in particular . We have increasing evidence from taking advantage of ongoing experiments and opportunities to observe the otolith chemical responses of feeding starved cod; this led to my putting in proposal to a Swedish research agency to run experiments on effects of hypoxia and food rationing on metabolism and subsequent elemental deposition in otoliths. If the grant is awarded, we will have the opportunity to calibrate the proxies we use under controlled conditions.

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FUTURE PLANS Besides the usual work activity, I anticipate becoming quite busy with the American Fisheries Society. I transition from Vice-President (president-elect) to President of the International Fisheries Section (IFS) this coming September. The IFS is one of the AFS’s largest sections, and certainly the most outward-looking on the world. The IFS teamed up with the staff of the AFS to put in a bid for the 2024 World Fisheries Congress. We recently learned that this bid was successful, and this will be the first time the Congress will be held in North America (in Seattle). I have been charged with working on WFC-2024 as my main assignment, and in addition, will be running monthly executive committee meetings and attending the two AFS Governing Board meetings. It remains to be seen how much of this will be online vs. face-to-face (!). For our department, I will help as I can. All our students are terrific, and the grad students are “my cause,” if I had to identify one. I hope that we can improve their lot, as they are one of the most marginalized, underappreciated communities on the campus. In terms of teaching, it remains to be seen if I will be able to run my field practicum in the fall. I am still planning on it, but will need to think about how to run it and keep everyone healthy and safe. I have invested in a face shield and a thermometer as a start. I may have to invest in PPE for the students, as well.

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 75 students. This course continues to receive excellent reviews from students (based on evaluations conducted from all students by TAs). The undergraduate course on the Geography of Nature (EFB 444) is now offered every year in the fall, as is the separate graduate course in Biogeography (EFB 644). My exams in each of these courses are written/essay format, with all questions graded by me. During spring semesters, I typically lead a graduate/upper division undergraduate discussion/seminar in a variety of subjects related to conservation and the geography of nature. Department/College: My service to the department and college should continue to develop should as deemed appropriate. Professional Development: 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, and my publication statistics typically are among the type three faculty in our department.

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courses on a variety of topics related to conservation biology and biogeography, and seminars as appropriate on related topics. I have recently launched an international initiative through the International Biogeography Society – On teaching that grand subject – which will provide instructors at colleges and universities across the globe with resources for teaching biogeography at graduate and undergraduate levels, with the ultimate goal of expanding teaching of the biogeography nature across an expanding diversity of undergraduate curricula. A paper to launch this initiative is about to be published in The Frontiers of Biogeography, and I have just been appointed Chair of the ad hoc Committee on Teaching Biogeography. In support of this initiative and my teaching at ESF as well, I have just completed a new text published by Oxford University Press – Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction, which is written for undergraduates and others interested in biological diversity. The text will be utilized in my undergraduate course this fall, and hopefully will be adopted by those teaching this subject at other colleges and universities. In research, I am continuing to develop collaborations with soundscape ecologists from Purdue, and with paleobiologists from Italy, and the ; the latter studies focus on evolutionary and geographic variation of vertebrates prior to the impacts of humans. Ultimately, we plan to combine these research activities with development of an international course on the ecology, evolution and conservation of island life to be taught in alternate summers at sites in the Mediterranean and Caribbean or Northeastern North America. New research collaborations also includes that with soundscape ecologist Bryan Pijanowksi from Purdue University, where he has assembled a diverse team of biologists, acoustic ecologists and others to explore the ecological and geographic aspects of sounds in nature – an emerging field called Soundscape Ecology. We are revising of our NSF proposal for submission this September (anticipated budget of $750K); the proposal was rated very competitive and in the second tier of the competition for funding last fall. In service, I will continue advising undergraduate and graduate students and contribute to development of the majors in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Sciences and increase my contributions to departmental and college-wide service. My most significant service in the past year has been to chair two search committees. Together with a select group of very dedicated, highly engaged and selfless committee members, we conducted two excellent searches and believe they have led to hiring of two stellar faculty members. I recently agreed to serve as an interim chair of EFB’s curriculum committee. In service to professional societies, I continue to contribute as a member of the editorial board, founder and past president of the International Biogeography Society, and have now with my colleagues established a new series of monographs and expanded reviews in biogeography.

McGee I served the department again this year as EFB’s Undergraduate Curriculum Director and Curriculum Coordinator for the Environmental Biology and Env. Education & Interpretation majors. My ongoing responsibilities as UCD included coordination of undergraduate advising for the department; training of new faculty advisors; providing departmental orientation to freshmen and August/January transfer cohorts; pre-registration of all transfer students; representation EFB at end-of-semester Academic Standards meetings; participation in five accepted student receptions (this year 2 of the spring ‘receptions’ were conducted by remote meetings); and maintenance of EFB program catalog descriptions, plan sheets and directed elective offerings for all seven majors. Apart from my own ~35 undergrad advisees, I advised

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numerous other EFB undergraduate students on a variety of curricular matters, provided initial advising for several internal transfer students, and facilitated numerous student petitions. I continued as acting curriculum coordinator of the EE&I major and facilitated the migration of that program to the Environmental Studies department. This year I took on the additional duties of CLBS Academic Director. In that capacity, I coordinated the schedules and materials of dozens of instructors for three sessions (nine weeks) of EFB202 and guided the development and offerings of three new summer elective courses…until the summer session was cancelled by pandemic. Finally, working with Kim Schulz, I began establishing departmental / major review meetings in preparation for our upcoming program assessment and self-study. This year I was able to bring a past undergrad honors research project to final publication (N. Kiel et al. 2020, Northeastern Naturalist) and have two other manuscripts in review. I worked with one of my MS students (A. Sweeney) and an undergraduate honors research student (T. Ames) to successfully secure outside scholarship/fellowship funding to support their field research data collection this summer. Finally, I continued to collaborate with Neal Abrams and Nancy Walker-Kopp to test and refine a couple integrated chemistry/biology laboratory modules in advance of submission for peer review. With the cancellation of CLBS and Maymester field courses, and summer internships, I personally communicated with each student whose program was acutely impacted by the cancellations to identify alternatives or request appropriate waivers/replacements of the coursework, and otherwise communicated with and developed advising guidance for those students whose options may be impacted in the coming academic year. I enjoyed developing and delivering pre-orientation and first-semester workshops for EOP and CSTEP students on microscopy, data analysis and summary, and technical writing. I worked with the Academic Success Center to establish space/materials/equipment for conducting walk-in office hours for General Biology I lab students. Finally, I volunteered to co-teach General Biology I lecture this year and was absolutely delighted to finally be in the classroom with students on a regular basis.

Newman Students I have continued to teach the five required courses, Cell Biology, Senior Synthesis and Molecular Techniques in EFB and Orientation and Capstone courses for Environmental Health. I taught the Phytoremediation course (EFB496/796) as a three credit course for the 6th 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 Diversity of Life II, in 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 13 undergraduate students in the lab, 4 PhD and 1 MS students, and a visiting PhD student from Tyumen State University, Siberia. 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 $1600 of food to a local food pantry and over $350 to support a local pet food pantry. I have always encouraged

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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 are in the pre-health program. I was able to take four of the Environmental Health students as well as 2 PhD and 2 Biotech undergraduates 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. I also continue to nominally participate in three Hill Collaboration groups, Neuroscience, Cancer, and Wounded Warrior. As part of this last group, we are working for the 7th 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 this unit in the hospital, but also with the long term care unit and the PTS inpatient unit. We also work 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 and six undergraduate students working at the VA on these programs. The programs 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, installed and maintain 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. This year, we have expanded our programs, and now work with three care units off site, developing therapeutic horticulture programs for diverse patient populations. 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. 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, Aquatic Science, Environmental Science, 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 had our first students coming to ESF in fall 2018, and three students in fall 2019. 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 all majors. 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; and this program will renewed 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 and student advisor, but also update the web site and promotional materials for students, administrators and fund raising, and prepare and submit all required materials for annual reports and accreditation. I am the advisor for three minors, Environmental Health, Food Studies, and Biotechnology. Last year, I also organized the final materials for the accreditation package to the National Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council to obtain full accreditation for the Environmental Health major as we did in the summer of 2019. 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, full descriptions of all courses, faculty and organization of the program. I have been working with A&TS on the design and spec’ing of a new MS analytical facility for analysis of emerging contaminants. For the past year, I have lead the efforts to develop research and education collaborations with Tyumen State University in Siberia. This included my travel to TSU, and hosting Dr. Andrei Tolstikov, Vice Rector of Research multiple

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times to finalize a joint PhD program. During my first visit in Tyumen this year, along with Drs. Leopold, Lanza and Amberg, we discussed the development of both a joint MS diploma in Biotechnology, and joint PhD diploma programs in Biology, tick-borne diseases, and environmental chemistry and remediation. Dr. Lanza and I were also invited by the US State Department to submit a proposal for a similar program development with Pavlodar University in Kazakhstan, and that was funded for us to travel to Kazakhstan and meet with faculty at Pavlodar State University, the US Conciliate, and the Kazak government agency that funds support for PhD students to study at international universities. Self I continue as Editor in Chief for the International Phytoremediation Journal. 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. Our annual impact factor has actually increased slightly this year and the journal 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 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 working with colleagues from SUNY Upstate Medical University 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 to completion in 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 the 6th volume. The volumes continue to be heavily sited and very well received. FUTURE PLANS In addition to what is detailed below: I want to continue to submit more research grants to move more of my students off of teaching assistantships and onto research assistantships. While the TA is definitely beneficial to the student training and the department, allowing students to focus more on their research will ultimately benefit all. Unfinished from last year, I want to develop the EFB 496/796 Cell Biology Recitation into a fully listed course, and I want to introduce a Phytotechnology course similar to one I previously taught to be given on alternate years. This new course would outline all the different ways that plants are used by society, and not just focus on the remediation aspects. I want to expand the BTC499 Senior Synthesis course into a two credit course, to have the time to work more with students to develop their presentation and writing skills. I also want to develop a graduate level Cell Biology course, to meet the needs of the graduate student population. I would still like to find the time to develop a Phytoremediation/Phytotechnology program at ESF, as the College has everything it needs course-wise to do this – it just requires the organization to make it a reality. I want to continue to develop the Horticultural therapy program, as this is generating a lot of interest at the VA and in the community, and ESF, the Veterans and the students can benefit from this program. This year I plan to include the Children’s hospital in the program. With the Environmental Health Program, I will be working to develop the Certificate, MPS, MS and PhD programs to attract both graduate students and professional members of the Health community into the program. I also plan to start a new course, EHS 332, which will work with students to improve their writing and presentation skills prior to the start of their internships, with emphasis on cover letters and resumes for application for internships. Also with Environmental Health, I traveled to Nashville, TN last summer to discuss the changes in the program for final accreditation approval. Full accreditation was obtained at that meeting.

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I am working with faculty at Syracuse University to develop a Public Health focus are for Environmental Health, and a Public Health minor, which would be available for all students, not only the Environmental Health and Environmental Studies students. Work with Mahidol University to formalize the joint PhD program for Biotechnology and Environmental Biology, and to develop a program where ESF students could do semesters abroad at Mahidol. Continue working to develop closer collaborations with Syracuse University and the Medical School to develop the Environmental Health/Environmental Medicine programs. Continue working with Clear Path for Veterans and develop internship opportunities for students in EFB. I also hope to finalize the design for a natural playground for their family days programs. Continue the Therapeutic Horticulture program at Brookdale Assisted Living center to give students the opportunity to work with patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. Also, continue the development of programs at Menorah Park and Nottingham/Loretto facilities, and work with Upstate Medical University faculty to expand the research programs. Continue discussions with faculty and administration at Tyumen University in Siberia to develop a collaborative program that will bring faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students to ESF to engage in joint research programs. Also, work with University officials to develop exchange student and joint degree programs in Environmental Biology and Environmental Science. This will entail additional visits to Tyumen, as well as continuing to host visits to ESF from faculty, students and administration. Work the colleagues to develop relationship with Burapha University of Thailand to develop exchange student and joint degree programs in Environmental Health Work the colleagues to develop relationship with Hanoi University of Vietnam to develop exchange student and joint research programs in Phytoremediation and Aquatic Science Continue discussions with the group in China on the development of the International Center for Excellence at supported by the Chinese Academy of Science and corporate sponsors, focusing on integrated contaminated land management and remediation. Continue working with Pavlodar University to develop both graduate and undergraduate curriculum programs, as well as joint research programs in the areas of plant biotechnology and resource management.

Parry Undergraduate. In spring 2020, I again taught EFB-502, continuing to add new components to this course to keep it fresh and current in this rapidly developing field I turn over more than 20% of the lecture material each year to keep pace with advances in the field. I refuse to use multiple- choice despite the significant time spent grading written answers. Although the FTE’s are relatively low (46 students), these are the kinds of courses that set ESF apart from competing institutions and give students value for their dollar and are one of our best marketing tools for getting students to come here. The transition from in-person to remote for this course was challenging as employ a significant number of in-class breakout and brainstorming exercises which do not translate well to an online environment. In 2015, I carved off the Conservation Biology students from the main freshman orientation and developed a more specialized experience. This freshman seminar has received consistently good evaluations since its inception and the in-class and take home exercises I have developed serves both to reinforce the conservation interests of the majority students while helping other students identify that they may be better aligned with another major. I mentored two students in 498 projects this year (Shianne Lindsay and Emily Booth). A former 498 student (2019), Chapin Czarnecki) has a paper in review at a good quality journal based on work he did in my lab. Graduate. Once again, I chaired the committee for our departmental flagship recognition, the Robert Burgess Outstanding Doctoral Scholar Award and presented the award at the Spring

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Ceremony as well as serving on GPAC. Chelsea Jahant-Miller completed her PhD, we have one paper published and another ready for submission, with a third on the way. Department and College: I represent the College’s interests and perspective as a member on the NY State Invasive Species Advisory Committee, an assemblage of governmental, non-profit, private sector, and academic stakeholders who function to advise NY State on invasive species issues and help to craft legislation that effectively combats targeted species or pathways. We played a significant role in developing and changing the ‘clean-boat’ bill that the governor signed into law, the development of the Invasive Species Awareness Week, and the ‘Three-Tier List’ of prohibited and restricted species. I will begin service on the College Committee on Research in fall 2019 and at the Department level, will assume responsibility as the Coordinator of Conservation Biology. Self: COVID-19 created some unique challenges for my program in 2020. While I was able to keep all of my research programs going, it was with reduced staffing and through the deferment of some of the research objectives. Prior to the shutdown, I co-organized the well-received research symposium at the Annual Gypsy Moth Review Meeting held this year in Seattle, WA. Also in Fall 2019, I organized and moderated a special topics symposium on the development of biological control programs for black and pale swallow-worts at the North American Invasive Species Management Association (NAISMA) conference in Saratoga Spring, NY. This large National meeting had never been held east of the Mississippi previously. I also organized a research retreat and brain-storming meeting for swallow-wort biocontrol at NAISMA that was attended by more than 30 researchers and managers from the US, Canada, Switzerland and France.

FUTURE PLANS Ideally, I’ll be able to recruit a high-quality PhD student for the NYDOT project. Current PhD student Rea Manderino should defend this fall. The NYDOT project will continue to be a priority over the next few years and with our new USDA-BRAG chestnuts in the ground in PA, VA, and NY, I’ll be able to initiate comparative non-target herbivore studies in 2021. I am the incoming chair of GPAC and will continue to serve on the College Committee on Research.

Powell The things I have done this past year that have benefited our students, department and college, as well as myself professionally can all be summed up in the progress made by the chestnut project and its team members. Examples of increased public outreach can be seen in news articles and videos like in the NY Times magazine (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/magazine/american-chestnut.html), the video made by one of our supporting foundations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- mhMdUryolU&feature=youtu.be ), or the Conversation article that keeps getting thousands of new reads each year (https://theconversation.com/new-genetically-engineered-american- chestnut-will-help-restore-the-decimated-iconic-tree-52191 , currently over 116,600 reads), or from the many other news articles linked from our webpage at https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/about.asp . Benefits to our students, department, and college also come from the new $3.2 million Templeton World Charity Fund grant that brings our current total funding to over $6 million. This funding and research supports students at all levels, including undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs, as well as a number of research support staff currently totaling 25 paid team members (not counting students taking research credits or volunteers). These are not just my students, but students of ESF colleagues

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and of collaborators at other colleges and NGOs. The work our team is doing has allowed us to submit the very first restoration tree, developed using the modern tools of biotechnology, for federal regulatory approval. The chestnut project is transforming the Lafayette Road Experiment Station where several demonstrations plantings including agroforesty demonstrations, field reclamation into a mixed hardwood forest, and shelterwood plantings are being established. These will be the very first permanent restoration plantings of the blight tolerant American chestnut trees developed at ESF. These trees will be accessible by the public and can be used for ESF classes and research for decades, possibly centuries, to come. The chestnut project is a great example of going from molecules to ecosystems (EFB motto). We have used everything from micropipetters to bulldozers in this project. We have also learned how to take complicated science topics and present them to the general public, getting them excited about learning and how new tools can help to conserve our environment. My hope is that the chestnut project, and its spin-offs to save other threatened tree species, will continue benefiting our students, our department, ESF as a whole, SUNY, the general public, and the environment long after I am gone. This is my goal.

FUTURE PLANS I plan to continue with the current research direction with the chestnut project with hopes of starting spin-off with other threatened tree species.

Razavi Students: I worked with my first Honor’s thesis student, Abby Webster this past fall. She did an excellent job analyzing Finger Lakes Big Brown bat samples we received from the NYSDOH for methylmercury. We are currently in the process of writing up her results for publication. I was disappointed that she didn’t have the opportunity to present her findings at the SUNY SURC due to the pandemic. In addition, I have been active mentoring my current 4 graduate students. Highlights include: •Sarah Dzielski (MS student, NSF GRFP) has successfully acquired museum samples from several collections towards her analysis of historical exposure of Indonesian birds to Hg from artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Sarah also presented 2 posters at her first Hg conference in Poland in the fall. It was exciting for me to have my first graduate student attend that meeting! •Iman Pakzad (MS student co-advised with Dr. John Farrell, funded with startup GA, Sussman Fellowship, and a Great Lakes Research Consortium Grant) made significant progress towards completing her data analyses and won a travel award to present her results at the NY Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. •Tori Field (MS student, co-advised with Dr. Rebecca Gorney, NYSDEC, and committee member Dr. Kim Schulz) has a defense date scheduled for August 2020, and is preparing 2 manuscripts for publication •Hadis Miraly (PhD student, co-advised with Dr. Karin Limburg) has completed two rounds of edits on her dissertation proposal and made significant advancements towards her data collection objectives. It was wonderful to see her build a beautiful pandemic-home lab, following in the footsteps of Dr. Karin Limburg! •I am also working with Ilana Zeitzer (MS student, MP Dr. Tom Horton) and Joseph Makaure (PhD student, MP Dr. Don Stewart and Dr. Rebecca Rundell) to generate Hg data for a morel study on Onondaga Lake, and a study of Zimbabwe fishes exposed to artisanal and small-scale gold mining.

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I taught Toxic Health Hazards for the third time (and in a third classroom!). I had a great group and I was really happy to see that 7 students from THH enrolled for my Ecotoxicology course, which I offered for the first time this past Spring. The course was small for the first offering (16 students) but allowed for a productive and enjoyable weekly discussion, which included interviews with the authors of the papers we reviewed in class. It was fun to talk about science and personal research experiences with the 10 authors from diverse backgrounds and research areas! We were able to build a strong rapport before the class went online due to the pandemic. I’m a bit concerned that building a good class dynamic will be challenging this coming fall without the in-person rapport. I also offered two graduate seminars this past year, Adaptive Peaks in the fall and a Metal Isotope Reading seminar in the spring. Several of the graduate students stood out as conscientious, curious, and engaged and it is always enjoyable to meet those graduate students. Department/College: In September I joined the CCAC (Chair, Dr. Kim Schulz) and the Advisory Board for the new Clarkson – ESF Center of Excellence for Healthy Water Solutions (Co-Chair, Dr. Stephen Shaw). It’s been especially helpful to learn more about our program through the CCAC. Self: I published 3 papers this past year (1 first author, 2 co-authored). I was extremely excited to receive the news that Dr. Karin Limburg’s NSF, of which I am a co-PI, was successful! This funding will cover the remainder of the stipend for Hadis Miraly, our co-advised PhD student, and provide key funding for her very ambitious project on element chemistry in otolith and lenses of Lake Erie and Baltic fishes. I was also a collaborator on the CEMI Discovery grant that was awarded to PI Dr. Mary Collins in Environmental Studies. A personal highlight this past year was being able to attend the Hg conference with a graduate student for the first time. This meeting is held every 2 years, usually outside the US, and is the key meeting for me to attend in my field. I am especially grateful to Dr. Melissa Fierke for encouraging me to participate despite having to take my 7 month old baby. My mother was able to attend with me and take care of my daughter and bring her to me during coffee breaks for nursing sessions. I received a lot of comments from attendees that were happy to see me there with the baby, so I hope this action, although it was challenging, will motivate other scientists who want to have children to see conference attendance as a possibility with kids. FUTURE PLANS Unfortunately the pandemic has set me back on some personal goals, including submitting a second first authored paper and writing an NSF grant. Without daycare this summer, I will be further delayed on these objectives. I anticipate having to spend the majority of time that I can work on transitioning my fall class to an engaging online format, and mentoring my graduate students.

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the Center and which meets the needs and constraints of SUNY and ESF. The Covid-19 phenomenon has also challenged our progress. We have a fine team to plan the Center including my supervisor Maureen Fellows, faculty members Kim Schulz, Greg Boyer, Roxanne Razavi, Robin Kimmerer and Neil Patterson, and representatives of the Physical Plant, Brian Boothroyd and Gary Peden. Vice President for Research Chris Nomura has also contributed importantly to our planning discussions. We envision that the new Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions will become a natural partner to the OLSC. My primary SUNY-wide activity has been as a Board Member of the SUNY Distinguished Academy, which strives to do more than provide a great annual venue for newly elected Distinguished Professors (Teaching, Service, and Library). The planned meeting this summer was lost to Covid-19, but the Board continues to plan for the future with new initiatives and a set of operational by-laws to utilize the multiple talents/energies of the members of the Distinguished Academy.

FUTURE PLANS I expect (hope!) that this year will be unique with regard to accommodating our teaching and research programs amidst the Covid-19 phenomenon. I plan to initiate the Aquatic Entomology course in the traditional fashion, with on-line approaches at the ready as needed. The spring course in CVA would also follow this protocol depending on conditions at that time. The lectures are highly amenable to narration on Blackboard; starting the dissection labs from Day-1 on line would be presumably be stressful to the students in training. However, it would hopefully be feasible to create exercises/readings/videos worthy of 1 credit-hour to retain the vital laboratory component of the course. We were fortunate to obtain permission to execute our field research programs early this summer and envision that this will continue for the following field seasons.

Rundell Students: We taught the international field course “Invertebrate Conservation Biology in Palau: From Ridge to Reef,” which gives our students critical opportunities to understand first-hand the conservation challenges facing remote tropical countries, which also happen to be our most imperiled global biodiversity hotspots. The course is co-taught, designed, planned, and organized by my Ph.D, student Jesse Czekanski-Moir, and prioritizes students’ interaction with local community members and conservation leaders in Palau, a country that has received international notoriety for establishing the first Sanctuary in the world, as well as for formalizing a Conservation Pledge that all incoming visitors must sign as part of their entry to Palau through Immigration. As part of our conservation biology course, our students engaged in service learning, which this year included helping lead the Republic of Palau’s first-ever BioBlitz through a collaboration with the Program Manager of the Melekeok State Conservation Network and a colleague from Japan, Dr. Hiromi Kubori. Students also conducted our second annual ESF- led Actinopyga sea cucumber conservation survey in the Marine Protected Area for Ngardmau State and conducted field-based image surveys for the Coral Reef Research Foundation. During my semester-long sabbatical, my Spring 2020 teaching commitments were taken over by my Ph.D. students Jesse Czekanski-Moir (EFB311 Principles of Evolution: 180 students) and David Bullis (EFB355 Invertebrate Zoology), who both received positive feedback from students, despite the covid-19 crisis. Teaching these large and complex courses is no small feat, and I was impressed and proud of their creativity, leadership, determination, and development as teachers. Also in the Spring semester, my Ph.D. student Teresa Rose Osborne

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designed and taught an undergraduate course on scientific writing entitled “Asking and Answering Scientific Questions” (EFB 497, 3 cr.). In the Fall Czekanski-Moir also designed and delivered a well-received course entitled “The Ecology and Evolution of Species Diversity (EFB 496/796, 3 cr.). My graduate students have also invested significant energy into the supervision of ESF undergraduates performing research duties both in assistance of their Ph.D, research (Osborne) and in independent Honors theses (Czekanski-Moir). The collective efforts of these graduate students represents a significant service to our department, and reflects their dedication to educating a diverse next generation of leaders in biology. Dept./College: My primary service to our department and college continues to be in my role as Head Curator of the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections, which this year has involved operationalizing the new Roosevelt Wild Life Collections and Classroom in the lower level of the Gateway Building. Making this new facility function well has involved the paid and unpaid labor, creativity, and dedication of not just me, but my graduate students David Bullis, Emlyn Clark, and Jesse Czekanski-Moir, as well as the support of Physical Plant, particularly Brian Boothroyd. I also continue to represent the voices of small university collections like ours, and their fundamental role in biology education, through my participation in the Executive Committee (Secretary) in the Natural Science Collections Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit advocacy organization. Another important aspect of my departmental service includes our ongoing work on the conservation of the Chittenango ovate amber snail, captive back-up populations of which we have bred in Illick’s CIRTAS lab and at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, initially as part of (now Senior Technician) Cody Gilbertson’s M.S. thesis project. Our work has developed into an exemplar for global land snail conservation, which is important due to land snails’ status as the most imperiled on Earth, equal if not exceeding amphibians in their precipitous decline. This research supports EFB’s and RWLS’s strength in Endangered Species Conservation. Self: Seventeen years of investment in research and trust-building in the Republic of Palau culminated in being granted permission for the first time to explore the isolated island group of Ngerkewid in Palau with my Ph.D. student (and also Palau ant expert) Jesse Czekanski-Moir. Together we conducted the first-ever land snail and ant surveys in the islands, which are off- limits to collectors and visitors (even Palauans), due to their status as Palau’s first national protected area. Ngerkewid is best known as a nesting and marine reserve, and so this survey finally gave us a chance to put the reserve on the map as an important terrestrial conservation area with significant rainforest biodiversity. We were grateful to Koror State Government and the Department of Conservation and Law Enforcement for granting us this rare opportunity. We also delivered workshops on the conservation of land snails and ants to the State and Protected Area Network Managers Association and the Palau Conservation Society, as well as the Koror State Conservation Officers. This fall I was invited to give an Evolutionary Morphology Seminar at the University of Chicago as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. This was particularly special to me, because I was able to spend the week meeting with faculty and graduate students in my home Ph.D.-granting institution, for the first time as a tenured professor. It was a stimulating and inspiring visit. I was also invited by the zoology graduate students at Southern Illinois University to visit their department and give a seminar. In the Spring semester I began my sabbatical, where I had planned to visit the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysian Borneo, and Palau, for an extended stay abroad by myself. Due to the elevation of the State Department’s Health Advisory to Level Four in late

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March, I was directed to cut my trip short and come home. Borders to Malaysia and Thailand also closed at that time. I flew from Indonesia to Singapore, where I served a Stay at Home Notice (SHN) that was required by Singapore’s infectious disease law, for all passengers arriving from ASEAN consortium countries. I eventually was able to find a flight home, however it unfortunately meant cutting short significant research and plans for collaboration, including work in Palau and an invited visit to Universiti Malaysia Sabah and a field expedition to see endangered karst outcrop diplommatinid land snails in Borneo. Fortunately, I was able to make the best of my visit early in the trip, forging a new MOU with the Philippines’ national university, UP Diliman, where I plan to collaborate with new faculty member at the Institute of Biology, Dr. Gizelle Batomalaque. I have also begun a new collaboration and potential MOU with new museum scientist Dr. Ayu Nurinsiyah at the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Gedung Widyasatwaloka, Divisi Zoologi, LIPI-Cibinong in Indonesia. Nurinsiyah also happens to be one of the few other diplommatinid land snail experts in the world, and I was able to spend invaluable time talking with her and reviewing her collections in person. I am inspired to help support both Batomalaque and Nurinsiyah, both early-career women scientists located in critical biodiversity hotspots and poised to make a real difference for the future of rare and understudied fauna in their home countries. I also gave an invited seminar and visited with students and faculty at IPB University in Indonesia. FUTURE PLANS My focus for the past few years has been the management and oversight of the significant and all-consuming Roosevelt Wild Life Collections projects (including the design, build, and outfitting of the RWLCC), and Chittenango ovate amber snail work and their associated grants. I have been able to keep the Palau research alive in the background, but given the dire conservation need for Pacific island land snails and their potential to bring us new perspectives on evolution on islands and tropical rainforest conservation, I plan to shift my focus back to the Palau work using the strong locally-based foundation that my students and I have built together with our partners in Palau, including the states of Palau, the Palau Conservation Society, and the Coral Reef research Foundation. Part of this shift, importantly, will include seeking funding for field, museum, and lab-based research programs based in Palau and SE Asia that incorporate graduate student and postdoctoral training. I am inspired to include the two female early-career scientists I worked with on my sabbatical in the Philippines and Indonesia in order to develop mutually beneficial collaborations that will further tropical rainforest biodiversity conservation in these critical global hotspots. The new perspectives I gained during my sabbatical will also serve my strengths in teaching, including our international field biology course in Palau, and my on- campus courses in evolution, invertebrate zoology, and the diversity of life, and these courses’ intersections with conservation biology.

Schulz Students This year I taught Limnology, Limnology Practicum (again working with some Environmental Science students to develop their research projects), and Marine Ecology, along with substantial contributions to the Spring semester of Diversity of Life. I continued a service learning component to Limnology Practicum, which encourages students to work with local lake associations in developing independent projects for students and resulting in a professional poster session. Although the covid19 pandemic caused the Marine Ecology field trip to be cancelled, the TAs and I worked hard to develop new interactive exercises to replace the labs and maintain class learning objective goals. I also was fortunate to

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work with an amazing honors student, Clare Foley, who worked with me through summer 2018 and the academic year to develop and analyze a bilge water sampling program at New York State Parks boat launches, involving the ESF-Parks watershed inspection stewards as samplers, and helping to inform our knowledge of what species are spreading via recreational watercraft, an understudied component of aquatic invasion ecology. Clare and I will work together after her graduation to submit a manuscript for publication in 2020. I was surprised to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Department/college I again served as Director of the EFB Curriculum, Course and Assessment Committee, as well as the representative to the ESF College Curriculum Committee. I continued to advise the Nautilus Club, as well as lead or co-lead two well-subscribed minors. I participated in a number of committee meetings related to Illick Hall and campus renovations. I also was the external committee member for the Search Committee Member for the Senior Research Assistant position for the Restoration Science Center. Finally, I continue to facilitate the advancement of CIRTAS and submitted annual reports and requests to the college for support with the facility. I continue to work with NYS Parks to co-run their Watercraft Inspection Program through SUNY ESF, bringing 20 summer positions, one full-time position, and two supervisory positions to the program. We are making progress with analyzing data, providing substantial regional outreach, and publishing peer-reviewed manuscripts from this relationship. Self This year was made difficult due in part to the pandemic, that disrupted everyone. I am glad to have applied for and received permission to have a sabbatical with Professor Lars Rudstam at the Cornell Biological Field Station in Fall 2020, and to attend the GLEON (global lake ecological observatory network) meeting in Poland this Fall. I look forward to having time to catch up on a backlog of publications.

Schummer In the past year, we continued to build the capacity of the Waterfowl and Wetlands Conservation emphasis at SUNY ESF. We garnered continued support from multiple funders including substantial contributors such as Delta Waterfowl, Ducks Unlimited, Birds Canada, Seneca Meadows, and Moore Charitable Foundation while also maintaining quality relationships enabling students in my lab to be awarded scholarships from Eaton Birding Society, Friends of Montezuma, and Central New York Waterfowlers Association. Our “Rescue the Mallard” crowd-funder was a truly unique way to bring ESF education and science products to a wide- audience and raised $50,125. Our lab also worked diligently to complete 4 graduate students (2 MS, 1 MPS, 1 Honors). Students in our lab were awarded the Eaton Birding Society Scholarship, Central New York Wildfowlers Scholarship, 2 Sussman Awards, the Alexander Wetland Research Award, and North American Duck Symposium Travel Award. Our lab also formulated several new collaborative partnerships with Kansas Dept of Wildlife, Parks and Fisheries, Minnesota DNR, Wisconsin DNR, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, Colorado State University, Penn State University and the Smithsonian Institute. We also bolstered partnerships with Winous Point Marsh Conservancy, University of Texas – El Paso, California Waterfowl Association, Delta Waterfowl, Birds Canada, and Western University. Continued productivity and marketing through social media and other outlets garners attention from philanthropy and we are continuing to seek endowment of a Waterfowl and Wetlands Science and Conservation Chair in the $1-5M range from various prospects.

FUTURE PLANS, AMBITIONS, AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOREST BIOLOGY (brief summary)

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-Continue to develop the Waterfowl and Wetland Conservation emphasis in coordination with the College Foundation, EFB collaborators, and colleagues throughout North America. -Secure funding to sustain high-quality research of international significance. -Develop the Fall 2020 - Conservation Biology capstone course using Webster Pond, Rand Tract, and other SYR city properties as experiential learning sites to develop management plans, seeking opportunity to conduct a Fall Bioblitz at these sites. Collaborate with City Parks and other landowners, philanthropy, and others to complete. -Develop the Waterfowl and Wetlands courses I currently teach into online modules/courses -Develop a seminar for Spring 2021 focused on teaching about formulating and executing quality collaborative efforts and partnerships…(e.g., Collaborations Across Academia), few people work alone nowadays, but nobody has formal training in how to develop relationships with colleagues at other institutions or agencies. -Attract and maintain 4 MPS students per year over the next year (2 current, 1 pending) -Complete and publish book CHAPTER 4: MIGRATION, MOVEMENTS, and HABITAT USE in Migrating and Wintering Waterfowl

Stewart- none given, retiring.

Teale- none given

Weir STUDENTS: This past year I volunteered to coordinate the EFB 210 Diversity of Life I class to 175 students, in addition to my usual EFB440/640 Mycology offering to 62 students. Both classes in the Fall 2019 were successful and I was able to gain experience with Blackboard as a course tool in EFB 210. For the Spring 2020 semester, I developed a plan to involve 5 ESF undergraduates and 2 ESF graduate students in a revolving research experience investigating changes in spore loads over a 5 mo period on our research plots in Ireland. Providing international research experiences for both graduate and undergraduate students (Ireland, Costa Rica, South Africa, Namibia, Russia) has been a focus of my years at SUNY-ESF. The 5 undergrads were signed up for EFB 498 credits and had booked their flights. All of this was cancelled as a result of travel restrictions imposed in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Meetings with the Secretary of State for Education and other research institution personnel (to begin to develop a research grant proposal) were also cancelled, as were my invited research seminars at the University of Ulster, and the Glencolmcille Heritage Week (through Oideas Gael). During the course of this year I completed one MS student (Ben Zink), and another 2 PhD students (Patty Kaishian and Matt DaRin) successfully passed their candidacy exams and moved to ABD. Patty Kaishian is expecting to defend later this summer. It has been a tough year for the three new graduate students that formally started in the Fall of 2019. Hannah Roden (MS student), following a very successful initial field season in Ireland during the summer of 2019, has had to develop a whole new project since she was unable to return to her field sites in Ireland this season. This is a shame because our preliminary data strongly indicated that the plant linked to the disease of lambs in Ireland was at odds with the opinions of local farmers, veterinarians, and other stakeholders, yet was in agreement with a few published reports from Norway. This provided the context for the planned work on fungal associates and spore loads that, unfortunately, had to be postponed as a result of the pandemic. Morgan Ingraham (MS student) and Hannah Stewart (MPS) also changed directions with changes in their MP or their institution.

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As a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic, I have remained in Ireland and was able to use WhatsApp and FaceTime appointments, along with regular email, to keep in touch with all of my advisees. The MS defense, and one of the PhD oral candidacy exams were scheduled using Zoom and this has also proven to be an effective way to keep in touch.

DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE: At the College level I was asked by Dr. Amberg to join a Presidential Task Force to look into all of the ESF Satellite Properties, the first time in the history of the College that this sort of analysis had taken place. The group met and collected data on usage, incomes, expenditures etc and produced a Phase I Report that has been accepted by Dr. Amberg. This report highlights the importance of the ESF Satellite campuses to the mission of the College and will be developed further in the coming months. I have also continued in my role as curator of the Plant and Fungal Herbaria and facilitated both loans and scientific visits to the collections. This past year there have been a good number of loan requests processed and we (with Nancy Walker-Kopp) have also been involved with general re-organization of the collections, utilizing undergraduate help where possible. SELF: I continue to really enjoy the teaching 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 also really enjoyed the workshops that I gave to the NY State Master Teachers Program, and the evaluations received from the participating teachers were excellent. On the research front, coronavirus restrictions have severely impacted progress with some of my graduate students and have curtailed getting some of the newer research off the ground. I was also disappointed to have high-level meetings and an invited seminar cancelled as mentioned above. One paper was published this year and I am hoping to complete work on two other manuscripts in the coming months.

Whipps Students: I regularly teach two classes: General Biology II (Spring) and Parasitology (Fall). After several years of both, I have generally found an approach that works well for most students to achieve learning outcomes, but I also try to innovate each year as well. In EFB453 (Parasitology), I have always used case studies as a learning tool, but this year we did cases on a weekly basis to give students more of a feel at problem solving on a regular basis. I also added two new lab exercises and had students learn more statistical analyses. In EFB103 (General Biology II), we switched to a new textbook and online learning system this year. A lot of effort went into the set up of this system and adjusting to the order of topics in a new text. There were some aspects of the new text that was a benefit to students and their learning, but due to some technical issues with this new system, we will switch to another text next year. I strive to give freshman students the best resources for learning, and this often involves tradeoffs of cost, interface, and other resources. With the jarring shift to online instruction mid-semester this Spring, I made every effort to adjust on the fly and keep students engaged in the class. For each lecture, I split it into several mini-lectures posted to YouTube for students to watch any time. For each of these, I created mini-quizzes for students to test their knowledge. The TAs and I held online Q&A sessions every week, and we were almost always available digitally. Although it was a tough transition, I believe it was done in a way that worked for most students. I also took on BTC132 Orientation this year, and believe I came up with a course that was informative and useful for these students. I look forward to continuing this in the Fall. I advise undergrad students in several majors, but most are from ENB and BTC, and

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many of these are pre-vet or pre-med. I am also the pre-vet club advisor. I mentored two CSTEP students this year. I had 5 undergraduate researchers in lab this year (Bielecki, Capone, Conlon, Fagant. Snow). Their projects range widely, focusing on bird and rabbit parasites, DNA based diagnositcs, and animal health. As part of this advising and mentoring, I wrote over 18 letters of support for students on internships and job applications. My graduate student, Drew Janik, is focusing on zebrafish diseases, and has several ongoing projects that were partly interrupted by the college’s Covid shutdown. We are regularly working together to ensure these experiments can continue as the college reopens. Department/College: A significant time commitment for me to the department and college is being chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). Where most other colleges would have several personnel to run this committee, at ESF the chair of the IACUC also acts as coordinator and manager of the program, and we currently have oversight of 29 different protocols. The IACUC also ensures ESF is compliant with federal regulations so that the college can continue to accept awards that involve vertebrate animals. I also direct the SUNY Center for Applied Microbiology, and we are developing our capacity to carry out research in several areas. This was my first year on the EFB Departmental Review Committee, and we reviewed one dossier. I served as chair for one candidacy exam in Chemistry. Self: I was pleased to see the publication of my book chapter on bacterial diseases in zebrafish published in “The Zebrafish in Biomedical Research”, which is a huge volume on all aspects of zebrafish that will be a critical resource for zebrafish researchers. I also saw the completion of another book chapter on mycobacteriosis in fishes in the book “Climate Change and Infectious Fish Diseases”, which will be in print this year. Both of these reviews took a lot of time, and look forward to focusing more on publishing in the primary literature this coming year. I handled 24 articles in my capacity as associate or section editor for the Journal of Parasitology and Parasitology Research, and as such reduced my regular reviewer activities to 5 papers this year. Perhaps this covers all these categories, but I have spent a lot of time learning about how to be a more effective instructor for online courses. This will likely be relevant this coming academic year, but some of the things I’ve learned (e.g., the use of Blackboard discussion boards, having students submit assignments in different formats), I’ll likely continue to use if they improve engagement and learning.

FUTURE PLANS A primary goal this year will be to continually seek a balance with challenges of the pandemic (teaching in a new format, continuing research when students/employees may be isolated at any time, parenting/homeschooling, communicating science remotely, etc.). This summer, I’ve already dedicated a significant amount of time to preparing digital resources for Parasitology. I’ve already scheduled BTC132 Orientation online and will incorporate aspects of what I did last year (assignments and discussions) together with short talks from faculty on their work. In my lab we are wrapping up several large-scale experiments, and a few more are planned for this year. I’ll have 4 undergraduate students continuing in the lab and most of these projects are nearing completion. In collaboration with Cynthia Downs and Jonathan Cohen, we are starting a project looking at stress and diet in cottontail rabbits with a PhD starting in the Downs lab. I look forward to starting a new MS student in my lab, Genevieve Ivec, who will be investigating biodiversity and seasonality of fish parasites in the Northeast. Her project is supported on philanthropic funds from the Fuller family acquired with the support of Drs. Leopold and Gibbs. I’m working on one review paper and have a few others at various stages of publication (in prep, in review, in press) and hope to get these done this year as limited time allows.

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Appendix C. Faculty Publications (published or in press)

Belant Belant, J.L., F. Bled, I.J. Mkasanga, C.M. Wilton, S.B. Mwampeta, D.E. Beyer Jr., W. Mwakilema, R. Fyumagwa. 2019. Track surveys do not provide accurate or precise lion density estimates in Serengeti. Global Ecology and Conservation 20:e00651. Fazzalari, A., G. Basadonna, A. Kucukural, K. Tanriverdi, M. Koupenova, N. Possi, J. Kakuturu, A. Friedrich, R. Korstanje, N. Fowler, J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., M. Brooks, E.W. Dickson, A.J. Palesty, J. Freedman, and M.A. Cahan. 2020. A translational model for venous thromboembolism: microRNA expression in hibernating black bears. J of Surgical Research. In press. Fowler, N.L., D.E. Beyer, Jr., and J.L. Belant. 2019. Non-linear relationships between human activities and wolf livestock depredations. Biological Conservation 236:385–392. Gantchoff, M.G., D.E. Beyer, Jr., and J.L. Belant. 2019. Reproductive class influences risk tolerance during denning and spring for American black bears. Ecosphere 10:e02705. Gantchoff, M.G., L. Conlee, and J.L. Belant. 2020. Planning for carnivore recolonization by mapping sex–specific landscape connectivity. Global Ecology and Conservation 21:e00869. Gantchoff, M.G., J.E. Hill, K.F. Kellner, N.L. Fowler, T.R. Petroelje, L. Conlee, D.E. Beyer Jr., and J.L. Belant. 2020. Mortality of a large wide–ranging mammal largely caused by anthropogenic activities. Scientific Reports 10:8498. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, and J.L. Belant. 2019. CauseSpec: a database of global terrestrial vertebrate cause–specific mortality. Ecology 100:e02865. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, and J.L. Belant. 2020. A 50-year increase in vehicle mortality of North American mammals. Landscape and Urban Planning. 197:103746. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, and J.L. Belant. 2020. A review of ecological factors promoting road use by mammals. Mammal Review 50:in press. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, and J.L. Belant. 2020. Protected areas reduce poaching but not overall anthropogenic mortality of North American mammals. Global Ecology and Conservation 21:e00810. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, G. Wang, and J.L. Belant. 2020. Anthropogenic mammal mortality increases with the human footprint. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18:13–18. Jackson, C.R., T. Maddox, B. Stokke, J.L. Belant, K. Bevanger, S. Durant, R. Fyumagwa, F. Mbise, P. Ranke, E. Roskaft, R. May, and F. Fossoy. 2020. A dead giveaway: foraging vultures and other avian scavengers respond to auditory cues. Ecology and Evolution 10:in press. Kautz, T.M., J.L. Belant, D.E Beyer, Jr., B.K. Strickland, T. R. Petroelje*, and R. Sollmann. 2019. Predator densities and white-tailed deer fawn survival in a four-predator system. J of Wildlife Management 83:1261–1270. Kautz, T.M., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., B.K. Strickland, and J.F. Duquette. 2020. Influence of biological and environmental conditions on winter survival of a northern ungulate: evidence for a late-winter survival bottleneck. Ecology and Evolution 10:1–12. Kellner, K.F., J.E. Hill, M.G. Gantchoff, D.W. Kramer, A. Bailey, and J.L. Belant. 2020. Responses of sympatric canids to human development revealed through citizen science. Ecology and Evolution 10:in press. Mangipane, L.S., D.J.R. Lafferty, K. Joly, M.S. Sorum, M.D. Cameron, J.L. Belant, G.V. Hilderbrand, D.D. Gustine. 2020. Dietary plasticity and the importance of to brown

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bear (Ursus arctos) body size and condition in a low Arctic ecosystem. Polar Biology 43:in press. Michel, E.S., S. Demarais, B.K. Strickland, and J.L. Belant. 2019. Body mass, not parity, influences reproductive tactics for a long-lived cervid mother. J of Mammalogy 100:1459– 1465. Mwampeta, S.B., F.J. Magige, and J.L. Belant. In revision. Spatial and temporal overlap of caracals and servals in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. African J of Ecology. Noonan, M.J., C.H. Fleming, M.A. Tucker, R. Kays, A.Harrison, M.C. Crofoot, B. Abrahms, S.C. Alberts, A.H. Ali, J. Altmann, P.C. Antunes, N. Attias, J.L. Belant, D. Beyer, L. R. Bidner, N. Blaum, R. Boone, D. Caillaud, R.C. De Paula, J.A. de la Torre, J. Dekker, C. DePerno, M. Farhadinia, C. Fichtel, C. Fischer, A. Ford, J.R. Goheen, R. Worsoe Havmoller, B.T. Hirsch, C. Hurtado, L.A. Isbell, R. Janssen, F. Jeltsch, P. Kaczensky, Y. Kaneko, P. Kappeler, A. Katna, M. Kaufman, F. Koch, S. LaPoint, P. Leimgruber, D.W. Macdonald, A.C. Markham, L. McMahon, K. Mertes, C. Moorman, R.G. Morato, A.M. Mossbrucker, G. Mourao, D. O’Connor, L.G.R. Oliveira–Santos, J. Pastorini, B.D. Patterson, J. Rachlow, D. Ranglack, N. Reid, D.M. Scott, N. Selva, A. Sergiel, M. Songer, N. Songasen, J. Stabach, J. Thompson, W. Ullmann, A.T. Vanak, K. Yamazaki, R. Yarnell, F. Zieba, T. Awijacz– Kozica, W.F. Fagan, T. Mueller, J.M. Calabrese. 2020. Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements. Conservation Biology 33:in press. Parchizadeh, J., and J.L. Belant. 2020. Avian mass mortality in Iran. Science 367:1203–1204. Petroelje, T.R., J.L. Belant, and D.E. Beyer, Jr., and N.J. Svoboda. 2019. Subsidies from anthropogenic resources alter diet, activity, and ranging behavior of an apex predator (Canis lupus). Scientific Reports 9:e13438. Petroelje, T.R., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., and N.J. Svoboda. 2020. Identification of carnivore kill sites are improved by verified accelerometer data. Animal Biotelemetry 8:18. Sharma, H.P., J.L. Belant, and P.L. Shaner. 2019. Human attitudes toward red panda (Ailurus fulgens) conservation in Nepal: a case study comparing protected and non-protected areas. Oryx 53:542–547. Sharma, S., H.P. Sharma, C. Chaulagain, H.B. Katuwal and J.L. Belant. 2020. Estimating occupancy of Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) in a protected and non-protected area of Nepal. Ecology and Evolution 10:in press. Sharma, S., H.P. Sharma, C. Chaulagain, H.B. Katuwal, and J.L. Belant. 2020. People’s knowledge of illegal Chinese pangolin trade in central Nepal. Sustainability. 12:in press. Sharma, S., H.P. Sharma, H.B. Katuwal, and J.L. Belant. 2020. Knowledge of the Critically Endangered Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) by local people in Sindhupalchok, Nepal. Global Ecology and Conservation 22:e01052. Svoboda, N.J., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., J.F. Duquette, and P.E. Lederle. 2019. Carnivore space use shifts in response to seasonal resource availability. Ecosphere 10:e02817. Wong, S.T., J.L. Belant, R. Sollmann, A. Mohamed, J. Niedballa, J. Mathai, G.M. Street, and A. Wilting. 2019. Influence of body mass, sociality, and movement behavior on improved detection probabilities when using a second camera trap. Global Ecology and Conservation 20:e00791.

Cohen Falkowski TB, Vázquez Pérez JR, Chankin A, Campos A, Rangel Salazar JL, Cohen JB, Diemont SAW. Assessing avian diversity and community composition along a successional

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gradient in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests. Biotropica. In press. Darrah AJ, Cohen JB, Castelli PM. In Press. A Decision Support Tool to Guide the Use of Nest Exclosures for Piping Plover. Wildlife Society Bulletin. Stantial ML, Cohen JB. In Press. Red fox habitat use in landscapes with nesting endangered shorebirds. J of Wildlife Management. Stantial ML, Cohen JB, Loring PH, Iaquinto KE, Paton PWC. In Press. Radio transmitters did not affect apparent survival rates of adult Piping Plovers Wilson J of Ornithology. Marshall H, Blomberg EJ, Watson V, Conway M, Cohen JB, Correll MD, Elphick CS, Hodgman TP, Kocek AR, Kovach AI, Shriver WG, Wiest WA, Olson BJ. In press. Habitat openness and edge avoidance predict Saltmarsh Sparrow abundance better than habitat area. Condor. In press. Davis KL, Karpanty SM, Spendelow JA, Cohen JB, Althouse MA, Parsons KC, Luttazi CF, Catlin DH, Gibson D. 2019. Residency, recruitment, and stopover duration of hatch-year Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) during the premigratory staging period. Avian Conservation and Ecology 14:11. Whipps CM, Cheeseman AE, Lindsay KA, Cohen JB. Evaluation of Cottontail Pellets Collected in Suboptimal Conditions for DNA Analysis. Wildlife Society Bulletin 44: 182–190 Petracca LS, Funston PJ, Henschel P, Cohen JB, Maclennan S, Frair JL. 2019. Modeling community occupancy from line transect data: a case study with large mammals in post‐war Angola. Animal Conservation. In Press. Field CR, Ruskin KJ, Cohen JB, Hodgman TP, Kovach AI, Olsen BJ, Shriver WG, Elphick CS. 2019. Framework for quantifying population responses to disturbance reveals that coastal birds are highly resilient to hurricanes. Ecology Letters 22: 2039–2048

Diemont * - advisee *Falkowski, T.B., A. Chankin, S.A.W. Diemont, 2020. Successional changes in vegetation and litter structure in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests. Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems, 44(6): 747–767. Diemont, S.A.W., L. Soto Pinto, G. Jimenez, 2020. An overview of agroforestry and its relevance in the Mexican context. In J.M. Garrett, S. Jose (eds.) North American Agroforestry, 3rd edition, in press. *Falkowski, T.B., J.R. Vázquez Pérez, A. Chankin, A. Campos, J. L. Rangel Salazar, J. B. Cohen, S.AW. Diemont, 2020. Assessing avian diversity and community composition along a successional gradient in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests, Biotropica, in press. *Falkowski, T.B., S.A.W. Diemont, 2020. Cultural Ecosystem Services of Agroforestry. In R. Udawatta, S. Jose (eds.) Ecosystem Services of Agroforestry, Springer, in press. *Law, E.P., *E. Arnow, S.A.W. Diemont. Ecosystem services from old-fields: Effects of site preparation and harvesting on restoration and productivity of traditional food plants, Ecological Engineering, in revision. *Garcia–Polo, J., *T.B. Falkowski, *S.A. Mokashi, *E.P. Law, *A.J. Fix, S.A.W. Diemont. Restoring ecosystems and eating them too: Incorporating agroecology into socioecological restoration, Restoration Ecology, in revision.

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Langdon SF *, Dovciak M, Leopold DJ. 2020. Tree encroachment varies by plant community in a large boreal peatland complex in the boreal–temperate ecotone of northeastern USA. Wetlands (In Press). doi: 10.1007/s13157–020–01319–z Stašiov S, Diviaková A, Svitok M, Novikmec M, Dovciak M. 2020. Hedgerows support rich communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in upland agricultural landscape. Basic and Applied Ecology (In Press). doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2020.05.001 Wason JW *, Beier CM, Battles JJ, Dovciak M. 2019. Acidic deposition and climate warming as drivers of tree growth in high–elevation spruce–fir forests of the Northeastern US. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2: 63, doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00063. Lesser MR ‡, Dovciak M, Wheat R, Curtis P, Smallidge P, Hurst J, Kramer D, Roberts M, Frair J. 2019. Modelling white-tailed deer impacts on forest regeneration to inform deer management options at landscape scales. Forest Ecology and Management 448: 395–408.

Downs Bleicher, S, B Kotler, CJ Downs, JS Brown. In press. Intercontinental test of constraint–breaking adaptations: testing behavioural plasticity in the face of a predator with novel hunting strategies. J of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365‐2656.13234 Downs, CJ, JL Brown, B Wone, ER Donovan, JP Hayes. 2020. Effects of selection for mass– independent maximal metabolic rate on food consumption. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 93:23–36. Downs, CJ, NA Dochtermann, R Ball, KC Klasing, LB Martin. 2020. The effects of body mass on immune cell concentrations of terrestrial mammals. American Naturalist 195:107–114. Bleicher, S, B Kotler, CJ Downs, JS Brown. 2020. Heteromyid rodents play to their evolutionary strengths and provide opposite snake evasion strategies in the face of known and novel snakes. J of Arid Environments 173:104025.

Drew Drew, Joshua A., and Mallory McKeon. "Shark–based tourism presents opportunities for facultative dietary shift in ." PloS one 14.8 (2019). Jeliazkov, Alienor, et al. "A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space." Scientific Data 7.1 (2020): 1–15. Hazlett, Megan, Kate Henderson, Ilana Zeitzer and Joshua A. Drew. “The geography of publishing in the Anthropocene.” Conservation Science and Practice (in revision) Drew, Joshua A., Beryl Kahn, Nicholas Locatelli, Montana Airey and Austin Humphries. “Examining Stakeholder Perceptions of Oyster Ecosystem Services Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mental Modeling.” Conservation Science and Practice (submitted) Rosa León–Zayas, Molly McCargar, Joshua A. Drew, and Jennifer F. Biddle. “Microbiomes of fish, sediment and suggest connectivity of coral reef microbial populations PeerJ (in revision).

Farrell, J. Leblanc JP, Conklyn A., and J. M. Farrell. Accepted pending revisions. Rapid fin regeneration of age–0 Northern Pike and implications of fin–clips as a marking protocol. North American J of Fisheries Management. Manuscript ID is UJFM–2020–0084.

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Massa E.A., J. M. Farrell (online first) Improving habitat connectivity in a Typha dominated wetland shows increased larval northern pike survival. Wetlands https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157–019–01177–4 Gallo, B., J. M. Farrell, and B. Leydet. (online first) Fisheries and the gut microbiome: Using next generation sequencing (NGS) and microbial ecology to better understand fish–microbe interactions. Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10379 Leblanc, J.P., C. Killourhy, and J. M. Farrell. 2020. Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and native fishes as potential nest predators of centrarchid species in the upper St. Lawrence River. J of Great Lakes Research 46:216–224. Walton–Rabideau, Lédée, E. J. I., J. P. Leblanc, P. Szekeres, J. D. Midwood, A. J. Gallagher, J. M. Farrell, and Steven J. Cooke. 2020. Spatiotemporal ecology of juvenile Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) and Northern Pike (Esox lucius) in upper St. Lawrence River nursery bays. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 29:346–363. Getchell, R. G., First, E. J., Bogdanowicz, S. M., Andrés, J. A., Schulman, A. T., Kramer, J., Eckerlin, G. E., Farrell, J. M., and H. Marquis. 2019. Investigation of round goby viral hemorrhagic septicemia outbreak in New York. J of Fish Diseases 7:1029–1033. Goretzke, M. Windle, J.M. Farrell. 2019. Range expansion of the Western Tubenose Goby ( semilunaris Heackel, 1837) in eastern Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence River. BioInvasion Records 8:694–698. Neveldine, B., Leblanc, J. P., J. M. Farrell. 2019. Vegetation response and juvenile northern pike (Esox lucius) outmigration following connectivity enhancement of a Typha dominated coastal wetland. Wetlands 39:921–934. Walton–Rabideau, S.E., Newell, M., Jeanson, A.L., Lédée, E. J. I., Farrell, J. M., S. J. Cooke. 2019. Evaluation of tag retention, healing, growth and behavior in age–0 muskellunge, Esox masquinongy, following acoustic transmitter implantation. North American J of Fisheries Management 39:652–663.

Farrell, S. Gallagher, M. E. S. L. Farrell, R. H. Germain, and V. G. Rojas. Summer Bat Habitat Use and Forest Characteristics in Managed Northeastern Forests. J of Forestry: in revision. Stantial, M., J. Cohen, A. Darrah, S. Farrell, and B. Maslo. Red fox habitat use in landscapes with nesting endangered shorebirds. J of Wildlife Management: accepted. Pachomski, A., S. McNulty, C. Foss, J. Cohen, S. Farrell. Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) foraging habitat and prey availability in New England: implications for conservation of a declining boreal bird species. Diversity: in revision. Stantial, M., J. Cohen, A. Darrah, S. Farrell, and B. Maslo. Storm–created Features Detract Predators of an Endangered Beach–nesting Bird. J of Wildlife Management and Wildlife Monographs. Submitted. Stantial, M., J. Cohen, A. Darrah, S. Farrell, and B. Maslo. Mesopredator release by removal of a top predator may undermine best management practices for an endangered shorebird. J of Applied Ecology: submitted.

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Fierke M.I. Jones, J.R. Gould, M.L. Warden, M.K. Fierke. Phenology of emerald ash borer and its introduced larval parasitoids in the Northeastern United States. J Economic Entomology. 113:622–632.

Frair Yi, X., D. Donner, P. Marquardt, J. Palmer, M. Jusino, J. Frair, D. Lindner, and E. Latch (in press) MHC variation is similar in little brown bats before and after white–nose syndrome outbreak. Ecology and Evolution. Frair, J. and G. Bastille–Rousseau. (in press) Data collection and quantitative considerations for studying pattern–process relationships on landscapes. Chapter 8 in Wildlife and Landscapes edited by W.F. Porter, C.J. Parent, R.A. Steward, and D.M. Williams. Johns Hopkins University Press. Peterson, S., D. Kramer, J. Hurst, and J. Frair (in press) Browse selection by moose in the Adirondack Park, New York. Alces. Petracca, L.S., J.L. Frair, G. Bastille–Rousseau, J.E. Hunt, D.W. Macdonald, L. Sibanda, and A.J. Loveridge. (2019) The effectiveness of hazing African lions as a conflict mitigation tool: Implications for carnivore management. Ecosphere 10(2):e02967. Petracca, L.S., P.J. Funston, P. Henschel, J.B. Cohen, S. Maclennan, H.S. Robinson, and J.L. Frair. (2019) Modeling community occupancy from line transect data: A case study with large mammals in post–war Angola. Animal Conservation, online early. Lesser, M.R., Dovciak, M., Frair, J.L., Curtis, P., Roberts, M., and Hurst, J. (2019) Modelling white–tailed deer impacts on forest regeneration at scales relevant to deer management. Forest Ecology and Management, 448:395–408.

Green Han, Y, H Green, W Tao. 2020. Reversibility of propionic acid inhibition to anaerobic digestion: Inhibition kinetics and microbial mechanism. Chemosphere. Green, H, D Weller, S Johnson, E Michalenko. 2019. Microbial Source-Tracking Reveals Origins of Fecal Contamination in a Recovering Watershed. Water 11.10. issn: 2073–4441. doi: 10.3390/w11102162. Kirtane, A, M Wilder, HC Green. 2019. Development and Validation of Rapid eDNA Detection Methods for Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii). PLOS One. doi: 10.1371/j. pone.0222883. Weller, D., A. Belias, H. Green, S Roof, M Wiedmann. 2019. Landscape, water quality, and weather factors associated with an increased likelihood of foodborne pathogen contamination of New York streams used to source water for produce production. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 3.124. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00124.

Horton Policelli N, Horton TR, García RA, Naour M, Pauchard A, Nuñez MA. 2020. Native and non-native trees can find compatible mycorrhizal partners in each other’s dominated areas. Plant & Soil 454: 285-297. Policelli N, Horton TR, Hudon AT, Patterson T, Bhatnagar JM. 2020. Back to roots: the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in boreal and temperate forest restoration. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3: 97.

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Leopold Langdon, S.F., M. Dovciak, and D.J. Leopold. Tree encroachment varies by plant community in a large peatland complex in the boreal–temperate ecotone of northeastern USA. Wetlands (in press). Kilheffer, C., H.B. Underwood, L. Ries, J. Raphael, and D.J. Leopold. 2019. Effects of white– tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus borealis) exclusion on plant recovery in overwash fans after a catastrophic coastal storm. AoB Plants 11(5):1–9. Kilheffer, C., H.B. Underwood, J. Raphael, L. Ries, S. Farrell, and D.J. Leopold. 2019. Deer do not affect short-term rates of vegetation recovery in over-wash fans on Fire Island after Hurricane Sandy. Ecology and Evolution 9:11742–11751. Mattingly, K.Z., J.J. Wiley, and D.J. Leopold. 2019. Invasive species removal promotes habitat restoration but does improve the condition of a threatened plant subspecies. J of Fish and Wildlife Management 10:111–125. Leopold, D.J. Review of Primer of Ecological Restoration, submitted to J of Environmental Studies and Sciences, May 2020.

Leydet Farovitch, L., Sippy, R., Beltrán–Ayala, E., Endy, T.P., Stewart–Ibarra, A.M. and Leydet Jr, B.F., 2019. Detection of Antibodies to Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae and Arboviral Coinfections in Febrile Individuals in 2014–2015 in Southern Coastal Ecuador. The American J of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 101(5), pp.1087–1090. Gallo, B.D., Farrell, J.M. and Leydet, B.F., 2019 Fish Gut Microbiome: A Primer To An Emerging Discipline In The Fisheries Sciences. Fisheries. Early View Online. Gallo, B.D., Farrell, J.M. and Leydet, B.F., 2019 Use of Next Generation Sequencing to Compare Habitat and Species Level Differences in the Gut Microbiota of an Invasive and Native Freshwater Fish Species. PeerJ (In revision–1st round) Leydet, B.F., Liang FT. Unexpected failure of Ixodes scapularis nymphs to transmit a North American Borrelia bissettiae strain. Ticks and Tick–Borne Diseases. (In revision–2nd round)

Limburg Casini, M., A. Orio, M. Hansson, and K. Limburg. 2020 in revision. Changes in population depth distribution and oxygen stratification explain the current low condition of the Eastern cod (Gadus morhua). Biogeosciences. Feyrer, F., M. Young, D. Fong, K E. Limburg, and R.C. Johnson. 2020 submitted. Cryptic lives of conspicuous animals: otolith chemistry chronicles life histories of coastal lagoon fishes. Frontiers in Marine Science (in revision). Heimbrand*, Y., K.E. Limburg, K. Hüssy, M. Casini, R. Sjöberg, A.–M. Palmén Bratt, S.–E. Levinsky, A. Karpushevskaia, K. Radtke, and J. Öhlund. 2020 in revision. Seeking the true time: Exploring otolith chemistry as an age-determination tool. J of Fish Biology (in revision). Hüssy, K., K.E. Limburg, H. de Pontual, O.R.B. Thomas, P.K. Cook, Y. Heimbrand*, M. Blass, and A.M. Sturrock. 2020 in press. Trace element patterns in otoliths: The role of biomineralization. Reviews in Fisheries Science and .

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Johnson, R.C., A.R. Stewart, K.E. Limburg, R. Huang, D. Cocherell, and F. Feyrer. 2020. Lifetime chronicles of selenium exposure linked to deformities in an imperiled migratory fish. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b06419. Monteiro Pierce*, R., K.E. Limburg, D. Hanacek, and I. Valiela. 2020. Effects of urbanization of coastal watersheds on growth and condition of juvenile alewives in New England. Canadian J of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 77: 594–601. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas– 2018–0434 Siskey*, M., M. Frisk, R. Cerrato, and K. Limburg. 2020. Redefining spatial population structure of winter flounder: stock assessment and management implications. Canadian J of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (early view). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas–2019–0279 Breitburg, D., D.J. Conley, K. Isensee, L.A. Levin, K.E. Limburg, and P. Williamson. 2019. What can we do? Adaptation and solutions to declining ocean oxygen, pp. 545–562 In Laffoley, D. and Baxter, J.M. (eds.) Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem – Causes, Impacts, Consequences and Solutions. Gland: IUCN. Evans*, T.M., and K.E. Limburg. 2019. Parasitism offers large rewards but carries high risks: Predicting parasitic strategies under different life history conditions in lampreys. J of Evolutionary Biology 32:794–805. DOI:10.1111/jeb.13481 Hauser*, M., F. Duponchelle, T.W. Hermann*, K.E. Limburg, L. Castello, D.J. Stewart, G. Torrente–Vilara, A. Garcia–Vasquez, C. Garcia–Davila, M. Pouilly, C. Pecheyran, E. Ponzevera, J.–F. Renno, A.S. Moret, and C.R.C. Doria. 2019. Unmasking continental natal homing in goliath catfish from the upper Amazon. Freshwater Biology 65:325–336. doi: 10.1111/fwb.13427. Limburg, K.E., and M. Casini. 2019. Otolith chemistry indicates recent worsened Baltic cod condition is linked to hypoxia exposure. Biology Letters 15: 20190352. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0352 Nack*, C.C., D.P. Swaney, and K.E. Limburg. 2019. Historical and future changes in spawning phenologies of American Shad and Striped Bass in the Hudson River . Marine and Coastal Fisheries 11: 271–284.

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McGee Kiel, N.G., G.R. Griffiths and G.G. McGee. 2020. Can disruption of an ant–plant mutualism explain lack of recovery of forest herbs in post–agricultural forests of New York? Northeastern Naturalist 27(2):215–228. Gardner, M., N. Abrams and G.G. McGee. In revision. New community creation through a shared biology–chemistry–communication laboratory model for first year STEM majors. J of College Science Teaching. Nolan, M., E. Folta and G.G. McGee. In review. The importance of a control group in evaluating environmental education experiences. J of Environmental Education.

Newman Noori, A., T. Donnelly, J. Colbert, W. Cai, L.A. Newman and J. C. White. Exposure of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) to silver nanoparticles and silver nitrate: physiological and molecular response. 2020. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 22: 40-51.

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Wolcott, S., M. Hatwar, T.A. Endreny and L.A. Newman. Suitability of select media for use in a novel green wall system used to treat brewery wastewater. 2020. Environmental Technology Reviews. Accepted. Wolcott, S., D. Carter, T. Endreny, and L.A. Newman. Suitability of micro-green, ornamental, and legume plants in green walls used to pre-treat brewery wastewater. 2020. Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering. Submitted.

Parry Czarnecki, C*., R. Manderino and D. Parry. Reduced avian predation on UV fluorescing caterpillar models. Ecological Entomology. In review. * ESF undergraduate paper. Leuenberger, W.. J. Cohen, L. Rustad, K. Wallin, and D. Parry. Abundance of foliage–gleaning insectivorous birds increased after experimental ice storms in a northern hardwood forest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Submitted (Revisions and resubmission requested) Thompson, L.M., S.D. Powers, A. Appolon, P. Hafker, L. Milner, D. Parry, A.J. Agosta and K.L. Grayson. 2020. Climate–related geographic variation in performance traits across the invasion front of a widespread nonnative insect. J of Biogeography. Accepted. Jahant–Miller, C.J., P.C. Tobin and D. Parry. 2020. Spatial and temporal changes in male gypsy moth wing morphology reflect host tree phenology and habitat quality. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. (Early Online) Bonello, E; Campbell, F; Cipollini, D.; Conrad, A.; Farinas, C.; Gandhi, K; Hain, F; Parry, D.; Showalter, D.; Villari, C.; Wallin, K. Invasive tree pests devastate ecosystems – Time to fix a flawed response framework. (Authorship alphabetical after first author). Frontiers in Forests and Global Change Jan 29;3:2.

Powell Oakes, Allison D. Hannah C. Pilkey, William A. Powell. “Improving ex vitro rooting and acclimatization techniques for micropropagated American chestnut”. J of Environmental Horticulture. Submitted 11/19/19. In review. Brown, A.J., Newhouse, A.E., Powell, W.A. and Parry, D. 2019 Comparative Efficacy of Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) Entomopathogens on Transgenic Blight–tolerant and Wild– type American, Chinese, and Hybrid Chestnuts (Fagales: Fagaceae), Insect Science DOI 10.1111/1744–7917.12713 Westbrook, J., Holliday, J., Newhouse, A., and Powell, W. 2019. A plan to diversify a transgenic blight–tolerant American chestnut population using citizen science. Plants, People, Planet. In Press: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10061

Book chapters Alphey, L., Bennet, E., Delborne, J., Eggermont, H., Esvelt, K., Kingirl, A., Kokotovich, A., Kolodziejczyk, B., Kuiken, T., Mead, A., Oliva, M., Perello, E., Slobodian, L., Thizy, D., Tompkins, D., Winter, G., Campbell, K., Elsensohn, J., Holmes, N., Farmer, C., Keitt, B., Leftwich, P., Maloney, T., Masiga, D., Newhouse, A., Novak, B., Phelan, R., Powell, W., Rollins–Smith, L. and van Oppen, M. (2019). Genetic frontiers for conservation:An assessment of synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation (K. Redford, T. Brooks, N. Macfarlane, & J. Adams, Eds.). IUCN. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2019.05.en Powell WA, Newhouse AE, Coffey V. 2019. Developing blight–tolerant American chestnut trees., In Perspectives on Engineering Plant for Agriculture, P. Arnold Editor, Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a034587

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Razavi Razavi, N.R., Halfman, J.D., Cushman, S.F., Massey, T., Beutner, R., Foust, J., Gilman, B., and L.B. Cleckner. Mercury concentrations in fish and invertebrates of the Finger Lakes in central New York. Ecotoxicology Dzielski, S. A.*, Razavi, N.R., Twining, C.W., and V.G. Rohwer. 2019 Reconstructing mercury concentrations through time using museum specimens from New York State. *Graduate student author. Ecotoxicology Riva–Murray, K., Richter W., Razavi, N.R., Burns, D.A., Cleckner, L.B., Burton, M., George, S.D., Freehafer, M.S. from New York’s streams and : Spatial patterns, temporal trends and environmental drivers. Submitted to Ecotoxicology

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Rundell Czekanski–Moir, J.E. and R.J. Rundell. Accepted. Endless forms most stupid, icky, and small: the preponderance of non–charismatic invertebrates as integral to a biologically sound view of life. Ecology and Evolution. Bullis, D.A., H.A. Herhold, J.E. Czekanski–Moir, D. Grimaldi, and R.J. Rundell. 2020. Diverse new tropical land snail species from mid–Cretaceous Burmese amber (: Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea, Assimineidae). Cretaceous Research 107: 104267.

Schummer Schummer, M. L., J. Simpson, B. Davis, and B. Shirkey. 2020. Balancing public waterfowl hunting opportunity and quality to recruit, retain, and reactivate hunters. Wildlife Society Bulletin 44:391–295. Call*, M. N., M. L. Schummer, C. J. Smith, B. Dovchin, B. Tumur, B. Byambaa, T. Jal, and R. J.Watters. 2019. Surveys of waterbirds in the Darkhad Depression, Mongolia during summer and autumn. Wildfowl 69:188–205. Lamb J., P. Paton, J. Osenkowski, S. Badzinski, A. Berlin, T. Bowman, C. Dwyer, L. Fara, S. Gilliland, K. Kenow, C. Lepage, M. Mallory, J.P. Savard, L. Savoy, M. Schummer, C. Spiegel, and S. McWilliams. 2019. Spatially–explicit network analysis reveals multi–species annual–cycle movement patterns of sea ducks. Ecological Applications 29: e01919. Hughes, K. D., de Solla, S. R., Schummer, M. L., Petrie, S. A., White, A., & Martin, P. A. (2019). Rapid increase in contaminant burdens following loss of body condition in canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) overwintering on the Lake St. Clair region of the Great Lakes. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 186, 109736. Palumbo, M. D., S. A. Petrie, M. L. Schummer, B. Rubin, and S. Bonner. 2019. Mallard resource selection trade–offs in a heterogeneous environment during autumn and winter. Ecology and Evolution 9:1798–1808. Schummer, M. L., A. M. Smith*, R. M. Kaminski, K. Hunt, and H. Havens. 2019. Influence of achievement–oriented factors on hunt quality in Mississippi. J of the Southeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 6: 129 –135.

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Lamb J., P. Paton, J. Osenkowski, S. Badzinski, A. Berlin, T. Bowman, C. Dwyer, L. Fara, S. Gilliland, K. Kenow, C. Lepage, M. Mallory, J.P. Savard, L. Savoy, M. Schummer, C. Spiegel, and S. McWilliams. In press. Evaluating short– and long–term effects of implanted satellite transmitters on sea duck movement and behavior. Condor. Schummer, M. L., A. A. Anthony, S. M. Kleespies, G. Ankenman, M. Ligouri, A. Bleau*, J. Droke*, J. Cohen, K. Kowalski, F. Morlock, and J. Eckler. In Review. Aggression and Behavioural Dominance in Wintering Mallards and American Black Ducks. Wildfowl. Bleau*, A. J., J. B. Cohen, M. L. Schummer, and B. L. Swift. In Review. Two–species dynamic occupancy modeling detects subtle niche differentiation of sympatric mallards and American black ducks during winter. Ecology and Evolution. Lamb J., P. Paton, J. Osenkowski, S. Badzinski, A. Berlin, T. Bowman, C. Dwyer, L. Fara, S. Gilliland, K. Kenow, C. Lepage, M. Mallory, G. Olsen, M. Perry, S. Petrie, J.P. Savard, L.Savoy, M. Schummer, C. Spiegel, and S. McWilliams. In Review. Assessing year–round habitat selection by migratory sea ducks: a multi–species approach. Diversity and Distributions.

Stewart Sinopoli, D.A., and D.J. StewartEssay: A Synthesis of management regulations for bowfins, and conservation implications of a developing caviar . Fisheries. [In Press]. Hermann, T.W., D.J. Stewart, R.E. Barriga–Salazar, and S.M. Coghlan, Jr. [In Review]. Spatial and temporal patterns of pelagic catfish larvae drifting in lowland rivers of eastern Ecuador (Pisces: Siluriformes). Copeia [accepted pending final edits]. Larsen, D.A., J. Makaure, S.J. Ryan, D.J. Stewart, A. Traub, R. Welsh, and J.H. Bisesi Jr. [In Review]. Perspective: Implications of insecticide–treated mosquito net in lower income countries. Environmental Health Perspectives [accepted pending final edits]. Gurdak, D.J., D.J. Stewart, M. Thomas, and P. Klimley, [In Review]. Local fisheries conservation and management works: Implications of migrations and site fidelity of Arapaima in the Lower Amazon. Submitted to: PloS One [accepted pending final edits]. Watson, L.C., and D.J. Stewart. [In Review]. Growth and mortality of the giant Arapaima in Guyana: implications for recovery of a distressed population. Fisheries Research [accepted pending final edits].

Teale Xu, T., L. Hansen, D.H. Cha, D. Hao, L. Zhang, S.A. Teale. 2020. Identification of a female‑produced pheromone in a destructive invasive species: Asian longhorn beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis. J of Pest Science (Impact Factor=5.16). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340–020–01229–3 Chen, R., T. Xu, D. Hao, S.A. Teale. 2019. Cuticular Hydrocarbon Recognition in the Mating Behavior of Two Pissodes Species. Insects 10(7), 217–226 (Impact Factor = 2.22) https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10070217

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Weir Kaishian, P., Rossi, W., and A. Weir (2020). New species of Laboulbenia (Laboulbeniales– Ascomycota) on Gerridae (Hemiptera, Insecta), a new host family. Mycologia 112: 570–576.

Whipps Book Chapters Whipps, C.M., Gauthier, D., Kent, M.L. (In Press). Fish Mycobacteriosis. In: Climate Change and Infectious Fish Diseases, Edited by PTK Woo, J Leong, K Buchmann; CABI Publishing. Whipps, C.M., Kent, M.L. 2020. Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Zebrafish. In: The Zebrafish in Biomedical Research. pp 495–508. Academic Press. Guo, Q. Whipps, C.M., Liu, Y., Zhai, Y., Gu, Z. (In Review) Predominant role of nematocysts in cnidarian adaptive evolution: implications for assessing phenotypic novelty importance in adaptation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Ksepka, S.P., Whelan, N., Whipps, C.M., Bullard, S.A. 2020. A New Species of Thelohanellus Kudo, 1933 (Myxozoa; Bilvalvulida) Infecting Somatic Muscle Of Blacktail Shiner, Cyprinella venusta Girard, 1856 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) in the Chattahoochee River Basin, Georgia, USA. J of Parasitology. 106(3):350–359. Chen, W., Yang, C., Whipps, C.M., Peng, Z., Zhao, Y. 2020. Discovery of three new Sphaeromyxa species Thélohan, 1892 (Myxozoa, Bivalvulida, Sphaeromyxidae) and insight into the evolution of the genus. Parasitology Research. 119(5):1493–1503. McAllister, C.T., Fayton, T.J., Cloutman, D.G., Bursey, C.R., Robison, H.W., Trauth, S.E., Whipps, C.M. 2020. Parasites of the golden topminnow, Fundulus chrysotus (Cyprinodontiformes: Fundulidae), from Arkansas, U.S.A. Comp Parasitology. 87(1), 19–32. Whipps, C.M., Cheeseman, A.E., Lindsay, K.A., Cohen, J. 2020. Evaluation of Cottontail Pellets Collected in Suboptimal Conditions for DNA Analysis. Wildlife Soc Bulletin. 44:182–190. Chang, C.T., Benedict, S., Whipps, C.M. 2019. Investigating transmission of Mycobacterium chelonae and Mycobacterium marinum in laboratory zebrafish through three live feeds. J of Fish Diseases. 42(10):1425–1431. Cheeseman, A.E., Cohen, J.B., Whipps, C.M., Kovach, A.I., Ryan, S.J. 2019. Hierarchical population structure of a rare lagomorph indicates recent fragmentation has disrupted metapopulation function. Conservation Genetics. 20(6):1237–1249. Whipps, C.M., Gavard, E.J., Cohen, J., Ryan, S.J. 2019. Gastrointestinal parasites of the New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) and eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) in the Hudson Valley, New York. Parasitology Research. 118(7): 2257–2262. Berkman, L. K., Frair, J. L., Marquardt, P. E., Donner, D. M., Kilgo, J. C., Whipps, C. M. 2019. Spatial genetic analysis of coyotes in New York State. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 43:21–30.

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Belant Belant, J.L., F. Bled, C.M. Wilton, I.J. Mkasanga, S.B. Mwampeta, W. Mwakilema, and R. Fyumagwa. In revision. Lion abundance in Serengeti is greater than expected. Royal Society Open Science. Fazzalari, A., G. Basadonna, A. Kucukural, K. Tanriverdi, M. Koupenova, N. Possi, J. Kakuturu, A. Friedrich, R. Korstanje, N. Fowler, J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., M. Brooks, E.W. Dickson, A.J. Palesty, J. Freedman, and M.A. Cahan. In review. MicroRNA regulation of hemostasis in hibernating black bears: a novel translational approach. Fowler, N.L., J.L. Belant, G. Wang, and B.D. Leopold. In review. Ecological plasticity of denning chronology by American black bears and brown bears. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, and J.L. Belant. In review. CauseSpec: a database of global terrestrial vertebrate cause-specific mortality. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, and J.L. Belant. In review. Protected areas reduce poaching but not overall anthropogenic mortality of North American mammals. Hill, J.E., T.L. DeVault, and J.L. Belant. In review. Impact of the human footprint on anthropogenic mortality of North American reptiles and amphibians. Hoskinson, C., C.D. Hilton, D. Hewitt, A. Tri, J.L. Belant. In review. Serosurvey of select pathogens in free-ranging American black bears (Ursus americanus) in Mississippi. Kautz, T.M., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., B.K. Strickland, and J.F. Duquette. In revision. Influence of biological and environmental conditions on winter survival of a northern ungulate: evidence for a late-winter survival bottleneck. Ecology and Evolution. Mangipane, L.S., D.J.R. Lafferty, K. Joly, M.S. Sorum, M.D. Cameron, J.L. Belant, G.V. Hilderbrand, D.D. Gustine. In review. Dietary plasticity and the importance of salmon to brown bear body size and condition in a low arctic ecosystem. Marable, M.K., G. Wang, R. Ogawa, D. Godwin, J.L. Belant, and M. McKinney. In review. Seasonal effects of weather on survival of translocated wild turkeys at the southern periphery of their range. McKinney, M.R., G. Wang, J.L. Belant, K.D. Godwin, and J.A. Martin. In revision. Individual variation in fine-scale space use by translocated wild turkeys. Frontiers in Zoology. Mwampeta, S.B., F.J. Magige, and J.L. Belant. In revision. Spatial and temporal overlap of caracals and servals in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology. Norton, D.C., J.L. Belant, D.E. Beyer, Jr., J.G. Bruggink, N.J. Svoboda. In review. Effects of timber harvest on American black bear space use. Petroelje, T.R., J.L. Belant, and D.E. Beyer, Jr., and N.J. Svoboda. In revision. Human subsidies alter behavior of an apex carnivore. Scientific Reports. Wong, S.T., J.L. Belant, R. Sollmann, A. Mohamed, J. Niedballa, J. Mathai, G.M. Street, A. Wilting. In review. Influence of body mass, sociality, and movement behavior on improved detection probabilities when using a second camera trap.

Dovciak Lesser MR‡, Dovciak M, Wheat R, Curtis P, Smallidge P, Hurst J, Kramer D, Roberts M, Frair J. Modelling white-tailed deer impacts on forest regeneration to inform deer management options at landscape scales. Forest Ecology and Management. Submitted.

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Farrell, J. Gallo, B., J.M. Farrell, and B. Leydet. Fisheries and the Gut Microbiome: Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Microbial Ecology to Better Understand Fish-Microbe Interactions. Fisheries.

Farrell, S. Fletcher, J. and S. L. Farrell. Habitat use of northern long-eared bats in a Northeastern coastal population. Journal of Mammaology In Review. Campomizzi, A. J., S. L. Farrell, K. Smith, and J. E. Groce. Assessing Potential Causes and Identifying Geographic Locations of Woodland Loss for Conservation Planning of the Endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler. New submission to Scientific Reports.. in review

Leydet *Farovitch L., Sippy R., Beltrán-Ayala E., Endy TP., Stewart-Ibarra AM., Leydet Jr BF. Detection of Antibodies to Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae and Arboviral Co-infections in Febrile Individuals in 2014 – 2015 in Southern Coastal Ecuador. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (In review, Submitted 02/19, Re-submitted 05/19) *Gallo B., Farrell J., Leydet Jr BF. Fisheries and the Gut Microbiome: Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Microbial Ecology to Better Understand Fish-Microbe Interactions. Fisheries (In review, Submitted 05/19)

Limburg Hauser, M., F. Duponchelle, T.W. Hermann, K.E. Limburg, L. Castello, D.J. Stewart, G. Torrente-Vilara, A. Garcia-Vasquez, C. Garcia-Davila, M. Pouilly, C. Pecheyran, E. Ponzevera, J.-F. Renno, A.S. Moret, and C.R.C. Doria. 2019 in review. Unmasking continental natal homing in goliath catfish from the upper Amazon. Freshwater Biology. Limburg, K.E., and M. Casini. 2019 in review. Otolith chemistry indicates hypoxia exposure is linked to worsened Baltic cod condition. Biology Letters. Monteiro Pierce*, R., K.E. Limburg, D. Hanacek, and I. Valiela. 2019 in review following revision. Effects of urbanization of coastal watersheds on growth and condition of juvenile alewives in New England. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Newman S. Wolcott, D. Carter, T. Endreny, and L.A. Newman. Suitability of micro-green, ornamental, and legume plants in green walls used to pre-treat brewery wastewater. 2019. Ecological Engineering. Submitted.

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Parry Bonello, E; Campbell, F; Cipollini, D.; Conrad, A.; Farinas, C.; Gandhi, K; Hain, F; Parry, D.; Showalter, D.; Villari, C.; Wallin, K. Invasive tree pests devastate ecosystems – Time to fix a flawed response framework. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Submitted. (Authorship alphabetical after first author) (Impact 8.320)

Schulz Holmes, C.J., Z. Rapti, J.H. Pantel, K.L. Schulz and C.E. Cáceres. Patch centrality and network connectivity affect metapopulation dynamics in small freshwater ponds. Submitted to Theoretical Ecology. Brainard, A.S., V.A. Ludzadis, and K.L. Schulz. Drivers of richness, biomass and dominance of invasive macrophytes in temperate lakes. Submitted to Biological Invasions

Schummer Bleau, A. J., J. B. Cohen, M. L. Schummer, and B. L. Swift. Submitted. Factors affecting occupancy of mallards and American black ducks wintering in the Finger Lakes. Journal of Wildlife Management. Call, M. et al. Submitted. Surveys of waterbirds in the Darkhad Depression, Mongolia during summer and autumn. Wildfowl.

Stewart Hauser, M., F. Duponchelle, T.W. Hermann, K.E. Limburg, L. Castello, D.J. Stewart, G. Torrente-Vilara, A. García-Vásquez, C. García-Davila, M. Pouilly, C. Pecheyran, E. Ponzevera, J.-F. Renno, A.S. Moret, and C.R.C. Doria. In Review. Unmasking continental natal homing in goliath catfish from the upper Amazon. Submitted to: Freshwater Biology.

Teale T Xu, L Hansen, SA Teale. 2019. Female calling behaviour in the Asian longhorn beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Canadian Entomologist

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

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Belant - None given Cohen Cohen, J. B., Darrah A.J., Stantial M.L. PiperEx: A Decision Support Tool for Exclosures for Piping Plovers. Waterbird Society Meeting, November 2019, Princess Anne, MD. Cohen, J. B., Durkin, M.M., Darrah A.J., Stantial M.L. PiperEx: A Decision Support Tool for Exclosures for Piping Plovers. Piping Plover/Least Tern Workshop, January 2020, Shepherdstown, WV. Kocek, A. R., Cohen, J.B., Cook, A.M. Increasing Detection Rates through Passive Identification of Individual Birds Attending Nests. Paper, Waterbird Society Meeting, November 2019, Princess Anne, MD. Eline, D.V., A.E. Cheeseman, J.B. Cohen. Adaptive management to promote an imperiled native cottontail over a non-native competitor. Poster. 99th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists. June/July 2019. Washington, D.C., USA. Cook, A.M. Cohen, J.B, Kocek, A.R. Proximity to nests of potential predators impacts nest site selection of imperiled tidal marsh sparrows, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Waterbird Society November 2019. University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD. Cheeseman, A.E., Cohen, J.B., Whipps, C.M. Altered ecosystems and narrowed niches: habitat mediates survival of a threatened habitat specialist. American Society of Mammalogists, Washington, D.C., June 28-July 2, 2019. Fiss, C.J., McNeil, D.J., Rodewald, A.D., Cohen, J.B., Larkin, J.L. Avian Communities Associated with Central Appalachian Forests Enrolled in NRCS’s Working Lands for Wildlife Partnership. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference. October 2019. Reno, NV, USA. Stantial, M.L., Cohen, J.B.. 2019. Effects of Mesopredator Release on an Endangered Shorebird in New Jersey. Waterbird Society, 43rd Annual Meeting, Princess Anne, MD, November 6-9, 2019. *Best student paper in conservation Stantial, M.L., Katz, R., Cohen, J..B, Amaral, K., Denoncour, J., Hecht, A., Loring, P., O’Brien, K., Parsons, K., Spiegel, C., and Wilke, A. Addressing Scientific Uncertainty in Management Actions for a Data-Rich Species. 8th Western Hemisphere Shorebird Working Group Meeting, Panama City, Panama. October 24-28, 2019.

Diemont Diemont, S.A.W., Wine in the Trees: Learning Adaptation to Climate Change from Traditional Viticulture Agroforestry in Portugal, American Ecological Engineering Society, Ashville, North Carolina, June 4, 2020.

Dovciak Zarfos MR*, Dovciak M, Sullivan T, Lawrence G, McDonell T (2020). Understanding a 5-year shift in the composition of Adirondack hardwood seedling communities: the role of soil nutrients and climate. Adirondack Research Forum, Old Forge, February 25. Public Service Presentations (lectures, seminars, etc. to and for the public; give group or occasion, date(s), and attendance)

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SUNY ESF, Biology Ecolunch Seminar (2020). “Rich forests get richer: Species-rich understories support abundant and diverse tree seedling banks in northern hardwoods”. (February 19, ~15-20 attendees). Brookhaven National Laboratory, Visiting Faculty Fellows Colloquium (2019). “Pine barrens at the crossroads: Effects of changing environmental conditions on forest health” (invited). (June 12, ~25-30 attendees). * graduate student advisee/presenter

Downs Jimenez, AG and CJ Downs. 2020. Untangling lifespan and body mass discrepancies in canids: Phylogenetic comparison of oxidative stress in blood from domestic dogs and wild canids. Canine Science Forum, Lisbon, Portugal. Cancelled COVID-19 Cornelius-Ruhs E, LB Martin, CJ Downs. 2020. The impacts of body mass on immune cell concentrations in birds. USF Health Research Day, Tampa, FL. (poster) Downs, CJ, LA Schoenle, LB Martin. 2020. How does microbicidal capacity of serum scale with body mass in mammals? Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, TX. Cornelius-Ruhs E, LB Martin, CJ Downs. 2020 The impacts of body mass on immune cell concentrations in birds. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, TX. (poster) Vennum, CR, J Buck, CJ Downs, B Dudek, K Dudes, JA Heath, G , E MacColl, B Woodbridge. 2019. Immunity and Sub-Lethal Lead Exposure in Golden Eagles Nestlings. Raptor Research Foundation, Ft. Collins, CO. Stewart, K, CJ Downs, M Teglas, L Heffelfinger. 2019. Epizootic Bovine Abortion: Does This Tick Borne Disease Cause Reduced Immune Function in Adults and Reduced Survival in Young Mule Deer? The Wildlife Society National Meeting, Reno, NV. Cornelius-Ruhs E, LB Martin, CJ Downs. 2020 The impacts of body mass on immune cell concentrations in birds. G2p2pop workshop, Minneapolis, MN. (poster)

Drew Drew, Joshua A., Beryl Kahn, Nicholas Locatelli, Montana Airey and Austin Humphries “Valuation of oyster ecosystem services vary across stakeholder groups not geography” Ecological Society of America Annual meeting, Louisville KY August 2019 Drew, Joshua A. And Mallory McKeon “Shark-based tourism presents opportunities for facultative dietary shift in coral reef fish” Presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, Austin TX. January 2020 "Conservation of Bio(cultural)diversity in the tropical Pacific: Three women's approaches” Presented at SUNY Geneseo Biology Department October 2019 Invited Seminar “Conflict and Collaboration in Conservation: Lessons from New York and Fiji” Presented at Utica College Asa Grey Seminar Series February 2020 Invited Seminar “Conflict and Collaboration in Conservation: Lessons from New York and Fiji” Presented at Syracuse University Program in Advancement in Research on Collaboration and Conflict February 2020 Invited Seminar “Conflict and Collaboration: Using Stakeholder’s Perceptions of Ecosystem Services to advance Conservation” Presented at Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences February 2020 Invited Seminar

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Farrell, J. Conklyn, A.L., Getchell, R. G., and J.M. Farrell. 2019. Seasonal Condition and VHSV Prevalence in Invasive Round Gobies in the Upper St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation, Step In and Speak Out for the Great Lakes: Envisioning Their Future and Ours with the International Joint Commission, Clarkson University Conklyn, A.L., Getchell, R. G., and J.M. Farrell, 2020. Seasonal Condition and VHSV Prevalence in Invasive Round Gobies in the Upper St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation 2020 New York Chapter of American Fisheries Society meeting, Lake Placid, NY. Farrell, J. M., J. P. Leblanc, J, Goretzke, A. Kua, and C. E Pestalozzi. 2019. (SESSION PLENARY) Wetland Responses to Habitat Enhancements and Regulated Hydrology in the Upper St. Lawrence River. International Association for Great Lakes Research 62nd annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY. Farrell, J. M. 2019. Presentation “Ichthyologist for a Day!” Thousand Islands Land Trust Kids Trek. Thousand Islands Biological Station, 2019. Farrell, J. M. 2019. St. Lawrence River Bass Populations: Invasive Species Tradeoffs and Recent Changes. Clarkson University Collegiate Bassmaster’s Tournament presentation. Farrell, J. M., 2020. (CONFERENCE PLENARY) Longitudinal Studies & Research on the St. Lawrence River: Ecological Change, Habitat, and Fisheries. 2020 Science Meeting, Southern New England Chapter American Fisheries Society, January 12-14, 2020. Farrell, J. M. and A. Conklyn. 2020. (INVITED), St. Lawrence River Muskellunge: A pathway to population revitalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f12f9gdN2GE Save The River, Annual River Environmental Conference, February 2020. Farrell, J. M. and A. Conklyn. 2020. Blue Fish Radio, “Goby Virus Causing Decline in St Lawrence River Muskie” Audio podcast https://bluefishradio.com/goby-virus-causing- decline-in-st-lawrence-river-muskie/. Gallo, B. D., J. M. Farrell, and Brian F. Leydet. 2019. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Reveals Initial Diet Strongly Influences Northern Pike Gut Microbiota in an Aquaculture Setting Oral presentation delivered at the International Association for Great Lakes Research 62nd annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY. Goretzke, J.A., Windle, M.J.S., & Farrell, J.M. Range expansion of the western tubenose goby into the upper St. Lawrence River: International Association for Great Lakes Research, 62nd Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY. 12 June 2019. Kua, Z.X., Farrell, J.M., & Stella, J.C. 2019. Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) effects on wetland plant communities. Oral presentation delivered at the International Association for Great Lakes Research 62nd annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY. Leblanc JP, Conklyn A, and J.M. Farrell 2020. Rapid fin regeneration of age-0 Northern Pike and implications of fin-clips as a marking protocol. Poster Presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Lake Placid, February 5-7, 2020. Pakzad, I., Razavi, R. and J.M. Farrell. 2020. Diet overlap between round gobies and tubenose gobies in the St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation 2020 New York Chapter of American Fisheries Society meeting, 5-7 February 2020, Lake Placid, NY. Wilder, M.L., Farrell, J. M., and H. C. Green. 2020. Monitoring Muskellunge in the St. Lawrence River with Environmental DNA. Poster presented at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, 5-7 February 2020, Lake Placid, NY.

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Farrell, S. Abstract submitted but meeting not held: (Cheeseman, A. to present) Mapping statewide mammal distributions to inform management and conservation: combining field sampling, existing data, and future citizen science contributions. 76th Annual Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference to be held April 19 – 21, 2020. NJ (Cheeseman, A. to present) Mapping statewide mammal distributions to inform management and conservation: combining field sampling, existing data, and future citizen science contributions. New York Chapter of The Widlife Society Annual Meeting 2020.

Fernando Genetic Considerations for Long-term survival of rare, endangered and threatened species: A case for the American hart’s-tongue fern. NATURE CONFERENCES: Plants of the Future. June 13-14, 2019. Global Center, New York University.

Fierke - None Given

Frair Conservation of large mammals in human-dominated landscapes - Keynote address, New York State chapter of The Wildlife Society annual meeting, Fayetteville, NY (February 2020). ~75 attendees. The effectiveness of hazing African lions as a conflict mitigation tool: implications for carnivore management (delivered by Lisanne Petracca) ―New York State chapter of The Wildlife Society annual meeting, Fayetteville, NY (February 2020). ~75 attendee ―The Wildlife Society, National Conference, Reno, NV (October 2019). ~30 attendees

Green Evans, Paul N., Emma Gagen, Hyatt Green, Donovan Parks, and Gene Tyson (2019). Opening the Black Box on the Diversity and Evolution of Novel Metabolising Archaea. The International Workshop on Geo-Omics of Archaea. Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, PR China. Evans, Paul N., Emma Gagen, Hyatt Green, Donovan Parks, and Gene Tyson (2019). Opening the Black Box on the Diversity and Evolution of Novel Methane Metabolising Archaea. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PR China. Green, Hyatt C and Maxwell Wilder. 2019. Incorporating eDNA Methods into Rare and Invasive Species Management. NY DEC Statewide Bureau of Wildlife Meeting. Syracuse, NY.

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Ecological Society of America, Plenary Lecture Ecological Advances : p-values and cultural values: creating symbiosis among indigenous and western knowledges to advance ecological justice. August 15 2020

Leopold Farley, E., M.L. Schummer, D.J. Leopold, J. Coluccy, and D.C. Tozer. 2019. Ecological assessmenet of wetland management techniques on restored wetlands in the Montezuma Wetland Complex. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (oral) Farley, E., M.L. Schummer, D.J. Leopold, J. Coluccy, and D.C. Tozer. 2019. Rapid assessment tool for estimating seed and tuber densities in northeastern US wetlands, 8th North American Duck Symposium, August, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (poster) Kilheffer, C.R., H. Brian Underwood, D.J. Leopold, and R. Guerrieri. 2019. Evaluating legacy impacts of hyper-abundant white-tailed deer in forested stands of Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks, Eleventh Research Symposium Black Rock Forest, June, Black Rock Forest, Cornwall, NY (oral)

Leydet - None Given

Limburg Ewell Hodkin*, C., and K. Limburg. Well, that didn't work: the ongoing quest to track anadromous blueback herring using otolith isotopes. Feb. 7, 2020. Oral presentation, New York Chapter American Fisheries Society annual meeting. Heimbrand*, Y., K. Limburg, K. Hussy, and M. Casini. Canaries in the Baltic Sea “Coal Mine”: Fish earstones indicate changing environment. August 21, 2019. Oral presentation at the Baltic Sea Science Congress, Stockholm, Sweden. Heimbrand*, Y., K. Limburg, K. Hüssy, R. Sjöberg, A.-M. Palmén Bratt, S.-E. Levinsky, A. Karpushevsky, K. Radtke, J. Öhlund, and E. Kylberg. Seeking the true time: Exploring otolith chemistry as an age-determination tool. June 18, 2019. Oral presentation, 5th International Sclerochronology Conference, Split, Croatia. Limburg, K.E. Environmental biomonitoring – challenges for sclerochronologists. June 18, 2019. Keynote presentation, 5th International Sclerochronology Conference, Split, Croatia. Limburg, K.E., L. Cavole*, N. Gallo, Y. Heimbrand, L.A. Levin, and A.G. Salvanes. Learning from the Supertolerant: Mapping Hypoxia Exposure Across Ocean Basins Using Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy. June 4, 2019. Poster presented at CHESS Annual Users' Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Limburg, K.E., M. Hauser*, T.W. Hermann*, A. Vu*, L. Baumgartner, C.R.C. Doria, F. Duponchelle, and D.J. Stewart. Hydropower Threats to Giant Catfishes in the Amazon and Mekong Rivers: Evidence from Synchrotron XRF Otolith Mapping and 87/86Sr Analysis. June 4, 2019. Poster presented at CHESS Annual Users' Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Limburg, K.E., M.A. Samson*, Y. Heimbrand*, and M. Casini. Through the of fishes: Consequences of Baltic Sea hypoxia exposure in cod and flounder revealed by otolith chemistry. August 21, 2019. Oral presentation at the Baltic Sea Science Congress, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Limburg, K.E., M.A. Samson*, Y. Heimbrand*, and M. Casini. Through the heads of fishes: Consequences of Baltic Sea hypoxia exposure in cod and flounder revealed by otolith chemistry. November 5, 2019. Invited oral presentation, Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Biennial Conference, Mobile, AL.

Lomolino - None Given

McGee - None Given

Newman The Gordon Award. 16th International Phytotechnology Conference. 23-27 September 2019. Changsha, China Phytoremediation of Perfluorinated compounds. 16th International Phytotechnology Conference. 23-27 September 2019. Changsha, China Phytoremediation of Perfluorinated compounds. First International Congress on Soil Remediation. 18-21 September 2019. Shanghai, China. Seminars Presented Therapeutic Horticulture Program at the Syracuse VA Medical Center. 5 June 2019. Syracuse VA Hospital. Newman Lab Research. Upstate Medical University. 20 June 2019. Syracuse NY Emerging Contaminants of Concern, and ESF/DOE Collaborations. On-line presentation 23 June 2019. Syracuse, NY Developing Research Collaborations. Center of Excellence workshop on Emerging Contaminants. 13 Dec 2019. PFAS and Other Emerging Contaminants. DEC Workshop. 26 Feb 2020. Syracuse NY Student and Post-Doc Presentations (student and post-doc names italicized) Poster Presentations: The Financial and Temporal Efficacy of Various Therapeutic STUDENT Horticulture Activities N. Bentley, D. Collins and L. Newman. 21-24 October 2019. 35th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy, Amherst, MA. Promoting Health Through Horticulture. D. Collins and L. Newman. 21-24 October 2019. 35th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy, Amherst, MA. Use of Hyperspectral Imaging for Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Detection in Populus deltoides x P. nigra var. OP-367. E. Hacherl, A. Kenyon, A. Keith, M.D. Lewis and L. Newman. 21-24 October 2019. 35th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy, Amherst, MA. Uptake and Metabolism of Perfluoroalkyl Substances PFOA and PFOS by Wetland and Phreatophytic Plants. A. Kenyon, E. Hacherl, W. Cai, J. Wu, J. Masisak, M. Satchwell, D. Kiemle and L. Newman. 21-24 October 2019. 35th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy, Amherst, MA. Impacts of Application of Herbicide Safener on Nickle Uptake and Toxicity in Zea mays N. Morrison, E. Hacherl, A. Kenyon and L. Newman. 21-24 October 2019. 35th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy, Amherst, MA.

Parry Powers S, Thompson L, Parry D, Grayson K, Agosta S. Climate-related variation in metabolic rate-temperature relationships across the range of an invasive ectotherm. Annual Integrative Life Sciences Research Symposium. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Feb 2020.

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Parry D, Agosta S, Grayson K, Haynes K, Johnson D, Powers S, Jahant-Miller C, Thompson L, Tobin P. Invited talk: Adaptation and Stasis in Important Life-History Traits across the North American Range of Gypsy Moth. USDA Interagency Forum on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD. Jan 14-17 2020. Powers SD, Thompson LM, Parry D, Grayson KL, Agosta SJ. Climate-related variation in metabolic rate-temperature relationships across the range of an invasive ectotherm. Annual Meeting of The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Austin, TX. Jan 3-7 2020. Grayson K, Thompson L, Powers S, Parry D, Agosta SJ. Invasion front variation in physiological performance of gypsy moth. Annual Gypsy Moth Review. Seattle, WA. Nov 5- 7 2019. D. Parry, EP Swiecki and NW Siegert. The rise, fall, and rise of an enigmatic invader, the browntail moth. Annual Gypsy Moth Review. Seattle, WA. Nov 5-7 2019. Thompson L, Powers S, Hafker P, Appolon A, Milner L, Parry D, Agosta S, Grayson K. Variation in physiological performance across climatic extremes of the US gypsy moth invasion front. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Louisville, KY Aug 11-16 2019. Jahant-Miller, C., and Parry, D. 2019. Flight behavior of male European Gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar dispar. Entomological Society of America. St. Louis, MO. Nov 17-20. (Oral)

Powell Regulatory Review of Transgenic Blight-Tolerant American Chestnut Trees (F&WS). William Powell and Andy Newhouse. Each giving webinars and Q&A. US Fish & Wildlife Service (Primarily Biotech Working Group). 20 attending. Zoom/Washington DC/elsewhere, 4/21/2020 Transgenic American chestnuts presentation and discussions with the U.S. Forest Service, including the Forest Service Chief Victoria Christiansen, and other top-level FS personnel. Also meet with staff of Jim Hubbard, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. William Powell. ~20 attending. Washington, DC 2/6/2020 (note: above was the last time traveled because of COVID-19 restrictions). Transgenic American chestnuts: New technologies addressing old problems. Andy Newhouse (student). Seminar. PA Bureau of Forestry / DCNR. ~300 attending. State College PA, 1/29/2020 American Chestnut (Castanea dentata): Rescuing a Keystone Tree Species from an Invasive Pathogen. William Powell. Invited speaker, webinar and discussions. APS Forest Health Workshop Zoom conference. ~20 forest pathologists attending. 1/18/20. EPA meeting to discuss exemptions for transgenic American chestnut, also meetings USDA APHIS, and meeting with the FDA to discuss regulatory process. William Powell and Andy Newhouse. Seminars and discussions. ~40 attending. Washington, DC 1/9/2020. Using Biotechnology to enhance elm resistance to phytoplasma infection. Allison Oakes (Postdoctoral fellow). Seminar and meetings. U.S. Forest Service American Elm Restoration Program 2019. 40 attending. Delaware OH, 12/2/19-12/3/19 Transgenic American Chestnuts. Andy Newhouse (student). Seminar. Cornell Alliance for Science (Staff and Fellows) 25 attending. Ithaca, NY, 10/10/2019

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Developing blight-tolerant American chestnut trees. Andy Newhouse (student). Seminar. Environmental Defense Fund “Science Day” (board and members). ~120 attending. New York City, 10/3/2019 American Chestnut (Castanea dentata): Rescuing a Keystone Tree Species from an Invasive Pathogen. William Powell. invited Plenary Speaker. NAISMA annual meeting. ~150 attending. Sarasota Springs, NY, 10/2/2019. Transgenic American Chestnut Update. Linda McGuigan (research staff). USDA NE-1833 Multistate Research Project. ~ 50 attending. Alpine Lake Resort, Terra Alta WV, 9/6/2019 American Chestnut (Castanea dentata): Using the tools of Biotechnology to Help Rescue a Keystone Tree species. William Powell, invited Plenary Speaker and Panel discussion. American Phytopathological Society (APS) annual meeting. ~300 attending. Cleveland, OH. 8/5/2019

Razavi Pakzad, I., Farrell, J.M., and R. Razavi. Diet overlap between Round Gobies and Tubenose Gobies in the St. Lawrence River. New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (Lake Placid, New York, February 5-7, 2020) Dzielski, S.A., C.W. Twining, L.B. Cleckner, and R. Razavi. Freshwater subsidies to insectivores: characterization of risks from methylmercury and benefits from omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 40th Annual Meeting (Toronto, Canada, November 3-7, 2019) Miraly, H., Limburg, K., and N.R. Razavi. Tracking the effects of Lake Erie deoxygenation on mercury concentrations using fish otoliths and eye lens chemistry. IJC Commissioner Visit (Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, October 9, 2019) Razavi, N.R., Jackson, J.R., VandeValk, A.J., Brooking, T. E., Michels, N., Paterson, G., Driscoll, C.T., and L.B. Cleckner. Effect of the Round Goby invasion on mercury bioaccumulation in Oneida Lake, New York, USA. 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (Krakow, Poland, September 8-13, 2019) Dzielski, S. and N.R. Razavi. Effects of Mercury Pollution and Deforestation from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining on Peat Swamp Forest Ecosystems in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (Krakow, Poland, September 8-13, 2019) Dzielski, S., Razavi, N. R., Twining, C., Cleckner, B. and V. Rohwer. Reconstructing avian mercury concentrations through time using museum specimens from New York State. 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (Krakow, Poland, September 8- 13, 2019) Myers, J.A., Newell, S., Razavi, R., Cleckner, L., and M.J. McCarthy. Internal loading of nitrogen and phosphorus supports non-N-fixing cyanobacteria in Honeoye Lake. International Association for Great Lakes Research (Brockport, New York, June 10-14, 2019) Halfman, J.D., Razavi, R., Massey, T., Cleckner, L., Hall, D., and P. Rogerns. Cyanobacteria in the Finger Lakes, New York: nutrient sources for shoreline blooms. International Association for Great Lakes Research (Brockport, New York, June 10-14, 2019)

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Noori, A., T. Donnelly, J. Colbert, W. Cai, L.A. Newman and J. C. White. Exposure of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) to silver nanoparticles and silver nitrate: physiological and molecular response. 2020. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 22: 40-51. Wolcott, S., M. Hatwar, T.A. Endreny and L.A. Newman. Suitability of select media for use in a novel green wall system used to treat brewery wastewater. 2020. Environmental Technology Reviews. Accepted. Wolcott, S., D. Carter, T. Endreny, and L.A. Newman. Suitability of micro-green, ornamental, and legume plants in green walls used to pre-treat brewery wastewater. 2020. Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering. Submitted.

Schulz Invited panelist on HABs (harmful algal blooms) NYSFOLA CNY Regional conference, 16 August 2019 “Why Clean, Drain and Dry? Working with a Watercraft Inspection Program to Quantify Dispersal of Aquatic Invasive Species in Bilge Water of Recreational Boats” Clare Foley (ESF Honors Student), Kimberly L. Schulz, Mallory Broda and Matthew Brincka. Finger Lakes Research Conference, Finger Lakes Institute, Hobart and William Smith, NY. Use of artificial substrate for estimating Dreissenid populations. Tori Field (MS student with Roxanne Razavi), Co-authors: Roxanne Razavi, Rebecca Gorney, Nancy Mueller and Kimberly Schulz. Finger Lakes Research Conference, Finger Lakes Institute, Hobart and William Smith, NY. Three abstracts were submitted to the Joint Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography-Society of Freshwater Science National Meeting in May 2020 (supposed to be held in Madison, WI; meeting was eventually cancelled) o T. Field, R. Razavi, R. Gorney, N. Mueller and K Schulz. Using citizen-science data to evaluate the role of dreissenid mussels in HAB formation in low-nutrient lakes in New York State o C. Foley (ESF honor’s student), K.L. Schulz, M. Broda and M. Brincka. Recreational boating as a potential dispersal agent for native species in New York State waterbodies o K.L. Schulz, C. Bachman and J.M. Farrell. Effects of water depth manipulation on seston stoichiometry and zooplankton assemblages in riverine wetlands.

Schummer INVITED PLENARIES Schummer, M. L., J. Coluccy, M. Mitchell, D. James, L. Van Den Elsen, and M. Notaro. 2019. Incorporating climate science into conservation planning for waterfowl during the non- breeding period. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Schummer, M. L., J. Simpson, B. Shirkey, B. Davis, and K. E. Wallen. 2019. Balancing waterfowl hunting opportunity and hunt quality in R3 Initiatives. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS Schummer, M. L., A. B. Anthony, S. M. Kleespies, G. Ankenman, M. Ligouri, A. Bleau, J. Droke, J. Cohen, K. Kowalski, F. Morlock, and J. Eckler. 2019. Aggression and behavioral dominance in wintering mallards and American black ducks. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. CO-AUTHORED CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS Farley, E., M. L. Schummer, D. J. Leopold, J. Coluccy, and D. C. Tozer. 2019. Ecological assessment of wetland management techniques on restored wetlands in the Montezuma

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Wetland Complex. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Flores, A., and M. L. Schummer. 2019. Influence of agricultural grains on diets, body condition, and stress in American black ducks and mallards wintering on Long Island. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Macy, G. A., M. L. Schummer, J. Cohen, J. O’Connor, and J. Stiller. 2019. Applications of sUAS in the northeastern United States forested environment. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Chronister, J., and M. L. Schummer. 2019. Scaup banding on Great South Bay, Long Island, NY. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Farley, E., M. L. Schummer, D. J. Leopold, J. Coluccy, and D. C. Tozer. 2019. Rapid assessment tool for estimating seed and tuber densities in northeastern US wetlands. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Flores, A., and M. L. Schummer. 2019. Yield, waterfowl use, and grain depletion on chopped corn fields on Long Island, New York during winter. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Macy, G. A., M. L. Schummer, J. Cohen, J. O’Connor, and J. Stiller. 2019. Ecological separation of the American black ducks and mallards in the Adirondack Park of New York state. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Sliwinski, S. M., M. L. Schummer, D. Dunn, M. Wagner, M. J. Van Fleet, R. X. Brown, and C. Whipps. 2019. Migration patterns of lesser and greater snow geese through New York state. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Stewart *Presenter. D. Sinopoli*, D. Stewart, J. Palumbo, K. Clifford and J. Wright. Morphological Variation Among Bowfin (Amia) Populations from the Mississippi River Basin: Taxonomic and Conservation Implications. Contributed paper, Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, July 2029, Snowbird, Utah. L.C. Watson, D. Stewart*, K. Clifford, L. Castello, D. Jafferally, S. James, G. Watkins, and Z. Norman. State of Recovery and Environmental Influences on Arapaima Populations in Guyana. Contributed paper, Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, July 2029, Snowbird, Utah. D. Sinopoli*, D. Stewart, J. Palumbo, K. Clifford and J. Wright. Morphological variation of extant bowfins (Amiidae: Amia) in the Mississippi River Basin: taxonomic and conservation implications. Contributed Paper, NY Chapter American Fisheries Society, 7 Feb. 2020, Lake Placid, NY.

Teale Faal, H., D.A. Cha, S.A. Teale. Compounds identified from fungal odors attract Sirex noctilio females. Entomological Society of America annual National Meeting 11/2019.

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Presented: Oct 13-17, 2019. AALAS National Meeting. Denver, CO. Epidemiology of Aquatic Zoonotic Mycobacteriosis: Environmental Reservoir and Transmission. Whipps CM Co-authored: Aug 26-30, 2019. 8th North American Duck Symposium, August 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Migration patterns of lesser and greater snow geese through New York state. Sliwinski, S.M., Schummer, M.L. Dunn, D., Wagner, M, Van Fleet, M.J., Brown, R.X. and Whipps, C.M. Appendix F: Faculty Grants (active during the reporting period)

Belant Grant-supported Research Role of Predators, Winter Weather, and Habitat on White-Tailed Deer Fawn Survival in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Safari Club International Foundation, Safari Club International Michigan Involvement Committee. 16 August 2018-30 September 2022: $734,145 (current FY: $415,000). Nick Fowler, Todd Kautz Quantifying Upper Peninsula Deer Movements and Abundance: Preparing for CWD Management – Michigan Department of Natural Resources. 16 August 2018-30 September 2021: $291,864 (current FY: $124,000) Understanding Roost Dynamics and Diet of Sympatric Vultures in southeastern US in Relation to USAF – USDA APHIS 1 January 2019-31 December 2021: $400,000 (current FY: $199,314) Resource Use and Distribution of Roosevelt Elk and Kodiak Bears on the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska - Alaska Department of Fish and Game. 1 July 2018-30 June 2022: $1,059,834 (current FY: $120,062). Shannon Finnegan, Sarah Schooler Survival, Recruitment, and Movements of Missouri Black Bears - Missouri Department of Conservation. 1 July 2018- 30 June 2021: $310,264 (current FY: $100,000) Strategies to increase deer hunter success in suburban landscapes – New York Department of Environmental Conservation. 1 April 2018-31 March 2023: $253,615 (current FY: $48,806) Estimating Lion Abundance – Safari Club International Foundation. 1 July 2018-30 June 2021: $120,000 (current FY: $50,000) Characterizing success of Isle Royale wolf introduction – National Park Service. 1 July 2018-30 June 2023: ~$550,000 (current FY: ~$110,000)

Cohen Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Structured Decision Making for Predator Management for Piping Plovers – 1% Time to detection models for abundance estimation – 1% Grant-supported Research Cheeseman AE, Cohen JB. New England Cottontail Research in the Hudson Valley. 6/2018- 7/2020. Private sponsor. $6,213. Cohen JB. Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Planning in the Eastern Great Lakes Basin. 1/2019-12/2019. $70,000. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Supporting Alison Kocek. Larkin J, Cohen JB. Monitoring Framework for the Forest Bird Component of the RKM-NFWF Western PA Business Plan. 8/2018-12/2021. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. $159,000 Supporting Cameron Fiss.

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Cohen JB, Cheeseman AE. Scientific Management of New England Cottontails. 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, 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, Kocek AR. Monitoring and Management of Piping Plovers on Lake Ontario. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $130,000. Accepted for funding. Research Proposals pending Cohen JB, Cheeseman AE, Whipps CM, Kovach AI, Rittenhouse T, Rittenhouse, Piche M. Adaptive Management of Shrublands for Recovery of the New England Cottontail When Eastern Cottontails Are Present. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. $199,872. Submitted April 2020. Maslo B, Ziegler S, Cohen JB. Optimizing Habitat Conservation Strategies to Meet Recovery Goals for Piping Plovers in the NY-NJ Recovery Unit $159,358. $18,000 managed by Cohen. Submitted April 2020 Research Proposals submitted, but rejected Cohen JB, Cheeseman AE, Whipps CM, Kovach AI, Rittenhouse T, Rittenhouse, Piche M. Adaptive Management of Shrublands for Recovery of the New England Cottontail When Eastern Cottontails Are Present. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. $175,454.

Diemont Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Traditional ecological knowledge and wetland restoration in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala (3%) with Jorge Garcia Polo, PhD advisee From rainforest to table: the role of Lacandon Maya women and food systems to diverse landscapes in Lacanja Chansayab, Mexico (3%) with Lucía Pérez Volkow, MS advisee Food system and ecological design in Ibero-America (3%) Grant-supported Research 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 - 12/19; supported five graduate students: Cynthia Coleman, Rose Bear Don’t Walk, Kaya DeerInWater, Loga Fixico, and Annie Sorrell. Diemont, S.A.W., M. Potteiger, A. Bellows. Urban food forests: evaluating ecological-human connectivity and rights to access. USDA McIntire-Stennis-CUSE Collaboritive, $50,000 ($30,000 McIntire Stennis), 5/1/19-4/30/21; supported two graduate students: Elena Juodisius (Potteiger MP) and Jess Cherofsky. Beier, C., S.A.W. Diemont, T. Ettinger, J. Farrell, D. Fernando, T. Horton, R. Kimmerer, C. Kroll, S. Kristiansen, C. Landis, D. Leopold, G. McGee, D. Parry, W. Powell, N. Patterson,

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M. Potteiger, M. Schummer, T. Selfa, J. Stella, E. Vidon, P. Vidon, T. Volk, SUNY ESF Restoration Science Center, ESF Discovery Challenge, $600,000, 5/1/19-4/30/22; supported one graduate student (Diemont/Selfa MP) for summer research: Ashmita Das. Powell, W. Genetic Rescue of the American Chestnut Tree. Templeton World Charity Foundation, $3,205,384, 2/1/20-1/31/23; Senior Personnel; I contributed one of the three planting designs for this project proposal: traditional Portuguese chestnut-grape systems; one graduate student (Diemont MP) will be supported for three years: Elizabeth Kehas-Dewaghe. Research Proposals pending Diemont, S.A.W., M. Potteiger, The Syracuse Food Forest Restoration Project: Restoring Human and Wildlife Access to Ecologically-Grounded and Community-Based Food Systems, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, $50,000. Research Proposals submitted, but rejected Diemont, S.A.W, Potential for Climate Change Adaptation through Tree-vine Associations: Learning from Traditional European Agroforestry Vineyards, American Vineyard Foundation, $48,369.

Dovciak Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Role of woody vegetation in agricultural landscapes on arthropod diversity in the Western Carpathians. Collaboration with Prof. Stašiov at Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia (2%). Grant-supported Research National Science Foundation. “Linking Forest Regeneration, Plant Distributions, and Ecotone Dynamics in Changing Mountain Environments”. M. Dovciak (PI, no CoPIs); Total Award: $322,992; 5/2018-5/2021 (Current year: $117,283). Supported Jordon Tourville, Mike Zarfos, and Mathew Hecking (SRM). 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); Total Award: $61,784; 7/2018-8/2020 (Current year: $35,066). Supported Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto. USDA McIntire-Stennis Program. " Using trait-based models to project forest response to climate change". J. Burton (PI), J. Drake, M. Dovciak (CoPIs). Total Award: $64,441; 2020- 2022. Will support Jenna Zukswert (SRM, PhD student of J. Burton).

Downs Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Trade-offs in physiological systems, 15% Intercontinental test of constraint-breaking adaptations, 1% Reintegrating biology, 2% Grant-supported Research Applied Center for Microbiology, SUNY-ESF. The role of environmentally-induced stress in shaping reservoir host competence for the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi. Co-PI: CJ Downs and BF Leydet Total and current year costs: $4,948 Start 5/2020; End: 5/2021 National Science Foundation, Integrative Organismal Systems Core Programs, Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Program (IOS-1656551) Collaborative Research: RUI: Constraints of biomass on immunity across terrestrial mammals. PI: CJ Downs; Co-PIs: LB

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Martin, RHY Jiang. Total costs: $615,670 overall; $97,975 to Downs. Total costs to ESF: $28,594.00. Current year costs to ESF: $0. Start: 4/30/2017; End: 4/30/2021. Master's student, Julie Fletcher, starts Aug. 2020 USDA, McIntire-Stennis. Assessing the Physiological Condition and Diet of the Imperiled New England Cottontail in Newly-Restored Early Successional Forest. PI: CJ Downs, Co-PI: J. Cohen, C. Whipps, A. Cheeseman. Total costs: $102,045. Current year costs: $0. Start: 8/1/2020; End: 7/31/2023. Ph.D. Student, Eaqan Chaudry, starts Aug 2020 Research Proposals submitted, but rejected Eppley Foundation, Linking environmental change and population declines in mule deer through the nutrition and immunity PI: CJ Downs, Co-PI: KL Monteith Total costs: $24,998

Drew Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) The geography of publishing in the Anthropocene 10% Shifting baselines and the erasure of Native labor in conservation 5% Are podcasts an effective form of conservation outreach? (w/ J. Weiss - Env. Studies) 10% Differences among stakeholders’ perceptions of ecosystem services reduces efficiencies in international conservation. 10% The use of ecotourism to foster whale shark conservation in St. Helen U.K. 5%

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Research Proposals pending Climate mediated impacts of toxic exposure in Puerto Rican Fisheries (w/ R. Razavi) Epply Foundation, $17,896 Indigenous stories from Fiji: using digital technology to amplify the voices of coastal communities. (w/ T. Dorholt - Env. Studies), DEEP foundation, $22,200 Stakeholder perceptions of oyster ecosystem services: A mixed methods approach to mapping services to improve management efficiency, NY/CT Sea Grant programs $168,784 Research Proposals submitted, but rejected Heavy Metal and Climate Change Impacts on Food Security in Vieques Puerto Rico: The legacy of the Naval Bombing. Syracuse COE, $15,773 Using Historical Ecology to Inform Management and Restoration Goals For Great Lakes Fish. USFWS, $207,246 Using Acoustic monitoring to track culturally and commercially in the great lakes, USFWS, $150,000 Heavy Metal and Climate Change Impacts on Food Security in Vieques Puerto Rico: The legacy of the Naval Bombing, CUSE grant $29,964

Farrell, J. Grant-supported Research 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 Protection Fund $1,417,046. GA’s supported – PhD student Anna Conklyn; MS student Alex Kua 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.

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US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Special Project, $616,801. GA’s supported – PhD student Jessica Goretzke; Post-doctoral Associate John Paul Leblanc Leydet B. L. and J. M. Farrell. 3/1/17 – 12/31/19. Influence of Spawning and Nursery Habitat in Shaping the Northern Pike (Esox lucius) Gut Microbiome. Great Lakes Research Consortium, $22,500. Razavi R, Farrell J.M., 5/10/2019-12/31/2020. Great Lakes Research Consortium Food Web Impacts and Contaminant Transfer of the Tubenose Goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) in the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River basin $24,966. Supports: Iman Pakzad, MS student. Research Proposals pending Farrell, J. M. 4/1/2019-2/28/2023. Restoration of the upper St. Lawrence River Muskellunge Population. US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Special Project, $106,800. Supports undergraduate summer assistantships. SUNY ESF Restoration Science Center (in alphabetical order) – Colin Beier, Stewart Diemont, Terry Ettinger, John Farrell, Danny Fernando, Tom Horton, Robin Kimmerer, Chuck Kroll, Silje Kristiansen, Cathy Landis, Don Leopold, Greg McGee, Dylan Parry, Bill Powell, Neil Patterson, Matthew Potteiger, Michael Schummer, Theresa Selfa, John Stella, Elizabeth Vidon, Philippe Vidon, and Tim Volk. August 2019- July 2022, Discovery Challenge Proposal, $600,000.

Farrell, S. Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) American robin and other ground foraging birds: population status, trends, distributions, and potential role as reservoir and vector of : Lyme disease and ticks. 5% Beaver impacts on small mammal communities in the ADKs. 3% Stakeholder perceptions on success of conservation planning- case study using the lesser-prairie chicken 3% Environmental, economic, and social variables on conflict in endangered species planning 3% Grant-supported Research 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: 1/1/2017-9/31/2020. PI: S. Farrell. Full support for PhD grad student Sarah-Jayne Collins started 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//2017-5/1/2020. Supported MS student Megan Gallagher and partial support for MS student Mike Rosenthal. McIntire-Stennis Research Program. Mapping the distributions of forest mammals across NY State: Phase 1. Dates: Jan 2019 - Dec 2020. PI: S. Farrell Co-PI: J. Frair, A. Fuller (Cornell). Awarded: $57,806. Will support incoming PhD student Melanie Berger started Jan 2019. McIntire-Stennis Research Program. 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 started Aug 2017.

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NYDEC. Establishing statewide distribution information and mapping for small and meso- mammals. Dates ≈April 2019-Apr 2023. PI: S. Farrell. Co-PI J. Gibbs, Co-PI C. Whipps. Budget ≈ $900,000. Anticipated to support: 1 Postdoc (Amanda Cheeseman) at in years 1-4. Will support PhD student Melanie Berger in years 3-4. Has supported 3+ undergraduate student technicians this year and expected to do the same annually.

Fernando Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) In vitro regeneration and genetic transformation of Salix spp (10%) Hormonal induction of fruit development in Actinidia arguta (2%) Effects of demethylation on pollen tube development in Wollemia nobilis (5%) Induction of polyploidy in willow (5%) In vitro propagation of Ramp (Allium tricoccum) (1%) In vitro propagation of Trillium undulatum (1%) Grant-supported Research NYS DEC Section 6 Endangered and Threatened Species Monitoring and Management. American hart’s tongue fern genetics and reintroduction. $20,000. PI: DD Fernando. August 1, 2016 to July 2019. Research Assistants – Mike Serviss, MS Student (Part-time for Fall 2016), Lukas Evans, MS Student (part time Summer 2018). Great Lakes Research Initiative (GRI). Production of Genetically Diverse American Hart’s- Tongue Fern through Captive Propagation. $35,000. June 2018 to August 2020. Lukas Evans, MS Student (funded part-time summer 2019) and Namjoo Heo, PhD Student (funded part-time summer 2020). SUNY Discovery Challenge Grant. Restoration Science Center (RSC). Farrell J, Schummer M, Leopold DJ, Powell WA, Fernando DD & many other co-PI’s from SUNY-ESF. $600,000 over three years (2019-2022). Restoration Science Center (RSC). Towards the Conservation and Restoration of Rare, Threatened and Endangered Plants of New York, $7,800. Lukas Evans, MS Student (funded part-time for summer 2020). Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC), Towards the Genetics, Propagation and Restoration of the American Beachgrass Native to the Great Lakes. PI: Fernando, DD. Co-PIs: Whitney Carleton, Brigitte Wierzbicki and David Rutherford (NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation). $24,811. May 2020 to Dec 2021. Adam Doniger, MS Student (funded part-time for summer 2020). Research Proposals pending NYS Department of Environmental Conservation - Section 6. Propagation of Leedy’s Roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia subsp. leedyi) from Seeds and Reintroduction at Watkins Glen, New York, $20.000. PI: DD Fernando and co-PI: S Young and DJ Evans.

Fierke Grant-supported Research M.K. Fierke. Saving ash trees in “aftermath” forests using EAB parasitoids. 5/18–5/20. $127,122. USDA Farm Bill. Workplan with J. Gould, USDA APHIS. Supports PhD student Tim Morris and a technician.

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M.K. Fierke, M.I. Jones. Assessing compatibility of insecticides and biocontrol for controlling emerald ash borer in urban environments. 3/31–4/20. $103,000. Cooperative Workplan with J. Gould, USDA APHIS. Supports multiple summer UG technicians. C. 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. Supported two MS students, Jessica VanSplinter and Erica McPhail as well as multiple UG technicians and a research technician, Hazel Panique.

2. Research Proposals pending (include information as in B.1., above) - None

3. Research Proposals submitted, but rejected (include information as in B.1, above) - None

Frair Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Large cats – ecology, distribution, and status (various), unsupported, S. Slovikosky (M.S. student), D. Matiukhina (M.S. student) 8% AY. Spatial ecology of mammal communities in human-dominated forest landscapes: a case study of felids in the Atlantic Forest, southeastern Brazil”, unsupported, L. Bonjorne de Almeida (Ph.D. student) 4% AY. Grant-supported Research 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 Farrell (S.), Gibbs, Belant, Frair, Cohen, Schummer, and Schlesinger) and I manage each as a sub-award under the main grant. Grants directly supporting J. Frair during fiscal year 2018-19 listed below: “New York State Mammal Distribution Assessment”, PI(s): S. Farrell, J. Gibbs, J. Frair, C. Whipps, M. Schlesinger; $957,695 total (2018-2023), $211,448 for FY19-20. “Monitor and Model Moose Populations in New York”, PI: J. Frair; $206,011 total (2018-2021), $108,119 for FY19-20. “River Otter Population Monitoring”, PI: J. Frair; $12.298 total (2018-2020), $8,358 total for FY19-20. “Northern Fisher Population Demography”, PI: J. Frair; $950,196 total (2018-2023), $115,584 for FY19-20. “Biostatistics and Data Management Support for Wildlife Management and Research”, PI: J. Frair; $1,017,805 total (2018-2023), $178,570 for FY19-20. Administrative Support and Project Oversight”, PI: J. Frair; $245,930 total (2018-2023), $66,059 for FY19-20. US Forest Service (Joint Venture Research Agreement), “Bat movement and habitat use patterns during fall swarm and spring emergence”, PI: J. Frair. $160,000 total (2017-20), $33,227 for FY 19-20) supported one full-time post-doc (L. Petracca) at ESF for several months. NON-RESEARCH AWARD THROUGH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, “Internships for Fish, Wildlife, and Marine Resource Management”, PI: J. Frair. $999,089 maximum (2019-2024; $199,917 maximum for any given year).

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Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Bioprospecting for Yeasts Useful for Brewing Beer – 1% Grant-supported Research Limburg, Karin and Hyatt Green (2019). NY DEC. Invasive Round Goby and Elusive American Eel: Use of eDNA and Baseline Surveys to Track Movements In and Out of the Mohawk River $238,000 to ESF. 06/01/2019–08/31/2021. Students supported: Maxwell Wilder, Anthony Dolce, Chris Nack, Hadis Miraly Green, Hyatt CPI (2018). USDA McIntire-Stennis Program. Role of Comammox Bacteria in Adirondack Forest Nitrogen Cycling. $60,052 to ESF. 05/01/2019–04/30/2021. Students supported: Megan Demcevski Green, Hyatt C4, Steven Shaw4, Mary Collins, James Gibbs, Colin Beier, and Lindi Quackenbush (2019). SUNY-ESF Discovery Challenge (Internally Competitive). Inititative in Environmental Data Science. $600,000. 07/01/2019–06/30/2022. Students supported: Maxwell Wilder, Justin Beslity, and 2 PhD fellowships Rice, MarianPI and Hyatt C Green (2017). Utah Department of Environmental Quality. E. coli Source Identification and Education and Outreach Program. $136,474 to ESF. 07/01/2017– 06/30/2020. Partial AY support for Maxwell Wilder (PhD). Research Proposals pending GreenPI, Hyatt C and Svetoslava Todorova (2019). NSF, Geobiology. Microbial Mediation of Mercury Methylation in Meromictic Lakes. $195,000. SARS2 EWSP Group (SU, ESF, UMU) (2020). NY DOH. The SARS Early Warning Wastewater Surveillance Platform $14.1 million. Shaw, StevenPI, Chuck Kroll, Colin Beier, Lindi Quackenbush, and Hyatt Green (2020). NSF- NRT-HDR. Co-training Environmental and Data Scientists to Enhance Environmental Problem Solving. $2,995,118. Weller, Daniel and Hyatt C GreenPI (2020). Great Lakes Research Consortium. Development and validation of spatially explicit models to identify factors associated with production during algal blooms in New York lakes $15,374. Research Proposals submitted, but rejected Michalenko EdwardPIand Johnson, Stephanie and Hyatt C Green (2019). Great Lakes Research Consortium. Identification of non-point sources of fecal contamination to Onondaga Creek, NY with microbial source-tracking. $24,491.

Frair Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Mercury levels in Morels fruiting in willow stands growing in Solvay wastebeds; boot-legged; 5% time; Ilana Zeitzer MS student. Grant-supported Research Co-PI with Powell as lead; USDA – Environmental Impacts of GE and Conventionally-produced American Chestnut. $500,000. Aug ‘18–Jul ‘21. Molly Heit, Co-advised MS student with Powell. 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, PhD. American Orchid Society - Interactions actions between photosynthetic capability and mycorrhizal colonization of a mixotrophic orchid (Epipactis helleborine) under varying light levels in the field. $920. 2019 - 2020. Julian Koob MS student. Discovery Challenge, Restoration Science Center, $600,000. 7/1/2019 – 6/30/2022. No students yet. Co- Authors, listed in alphabetical order Beier C, Diemont S, Ettinger T, Farrell J, Fernando D, Horton T,

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Kimmerer R, Kroll C, Kristiansen S, Landis C, Leopold D, McGee G, Parry D, Powell B, Patterson N, Potteiger M, Schummer M, Selfa T, Stella J, Vidon E, Vidon P, Volk T. COVID KILLED THIS ONE – FUNDING PULLED. Kimmerer Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) I consider my writing to be part of my research and I have been working on a new book about the cultural ecology of White Pines and the rights of nature. 10% Grant-supported Research Initiated Potawatomi Plant Protection Network research with funding from the Kalliopeia Foundation $50,000 NYS DEC $350,000 annually to Center for Native Peoples and the Environment for cross- cultural collaboration supports Neil Patterson, Catherine Landis, Tusha Yakovleva, Sarah Howard Restoration Science Center SUNY ESF $15,000 “Best practices for cross-cultural collaboration in Biocultural Restoration” supporting Tusha Yakovleva and Sarah Howard. Blue Mountain Center, Workshop Award, provides in-kind support for hosting Justice for the Land workshop, 4 days

Leopold Grant-supported Research Chobani, Site inventory and wetlands mitigation and stewardship alternatives analysis; $39,429; May 2019 to December 2019, J. Gibbs and D. Leopold NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation, SUNY-ESF Gateway Building Green Roof; $413,000; January 2011 to October 2019; T. Toland, D. Daley, D.J. Leopold, and M. Kelleher. NYS-DEC, Invasive plants program coordinator; $566,586; July 2016 to September 2023; 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 2019. D.J. Leopold. NYS-DEC, Snowshoe hare population monitoring; $103,278; April 2018 to March 2021, D.J. Leopold, S. Cleveland, and B.H. Underwood. 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, New York Natural Heritage Program; $4,204,361; July 2017 to June 2022; D.J. Leopold and D.J. Evans. 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; April 2018 to March 2020, D.J. Leopold and H.B. Underwood.

Leydet Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Borrelia burgdorferi cspZ (Complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 2) genotype association with avian hosts (unsupported 2%) Borrelia miyamotoi antibodies in mammalian blood (unsupported 1%)

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High-Throughout Anti-tick compound bioassay platform (unsupported 1%) Grant-supported Research 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) PI-Leydet B. $60,404. Supports: MS student Sarah Lanthier Great Lakes Research Consortium. Influence of Spawning and Nursery Habitat in Shaping the Northern Pike (Esox lucius) Gut Microbiome. PI-Leydet B, Co-PI: Farrell J. (3/1/17 – 12/31/19). $22,500 Partial Support: MS student Benjamin Gallo SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine Public Health Strategies to Understand and Combat the Burden of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Pilot Study of Southern Coastal Ecuador. PI-Leydet B (09/01/2019-08/31/2020) $15,000 Fullers Overlook Estate Foundation. Landscape and Lyme Disease. PI- Leydet B (05/01/2020- 04/30/2024) $169,576. Partial Support: MS student Miranda Nelson Research Proposals pending NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID). Layers of risk: using system dynamics modeling to integrate geospatial, ecological, and human behavioral factors affecting tick-borne disease transmission in built environments. PI- Garruto R. (Binghamton), Co-PI: Smet T., Wander K. (Binghamton) Collaborator: Leydet B. $2,450,002-$40,000 to BL Research Proposals submitted, but rejected DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) Investigator initiated award. Therapeutic Antibody Identification for Treatment of Lyme Disease in Service Members. PI: Melanson V (West Point)., Co-I: Barnhill J (West Point)., Chandran K (Albert Einstein), Bornholdt Z (Mapp Biopharmaceutical)., Dye J (USAMRIID)., Leydet B. (07/01/2020-06/30/2023). $707,747-$133,315 to BL Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation. Detection of early stage Lyme disease using magnetic particles, magnets, and microfluidics. PI: Grimberg B (Case Western), Co-PIs: Leydet B, Deissler R. (Case Western) (01/01/2020-12/31/2021). $150,274 to BL National Institutes of Health R21.Mast Cell Activation in Borrelia infections PI: Knox B (Upstate Medical)., Co-PI: Thangamani S (Upstate Medical)., Co-I: Leydet B., Recks S (Upstate Medical). (07/01/2020-06/30/2022). $445,500-$19665 to BL DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) Idea Award Pre-Proposal. Mast Cell Activation In Borrelia Infection. PI- King C (Upstate Medical)., Co-I: Paolino K (Upstate Medical)., Thangamani S (Upstate Medical)., Leydet B. (04/31/2020- 03/31/2022). $406,974-$19,985 to BL National Institutes of Health R21.Development of GPCR-based pesticides for the prevention of Lyme disease. PI: Knox B (Upstate Medical)., Co-PI: Thangamani S (Upstate Medical)., Co- I: Leydet B., Recks S (Upstate Medical). (07/01/2020-06/30/2022). $445,500 DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) Idea Award. Development of GPCR-based pesticides for the prevention of Lyme disease. PI: Knox B (Upstate Medical)., Co-PI: Thangamani S (Upstate Medical)., Co-I: Leydet B., Recks S (Upstate Medical). (07/01/2020-06/30/2022). $406,974

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Limburg Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Helping my grad students work on proposals; also trialing some experimental procedures in otolith microchemistry (barium isotopes, with a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Grant-supported Research Australian Synchrotron, Monash University, Melbourne, NSW: “Finding the Mekong Salmon: Trace element analysis of fish bones to understand migration patterns and mitigate development impacts in the Lower Mekong River.” (L. Baumgartner, Charles Sturt University, PI) Ca. $95,000. KL is co-PI, traveled over to use synchrotron. This supports the research of a PhD student at CSU. 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: “Looking into the big green and blue boxes: insights on critical habitat for young and adult blueback herring to assess resilience.” 6/01/2017 – 12/31/2020, $138,069; 1 PhD student is supported (Cara Ewell Hodkin). National Science Foundation: “Collaborative Research: Shifting the Hypoxia Paradigm - New Directions to Explore the Spread and Impacts of Ocean/Great Lakes Deoxygenation.” $1,141,036 of which $899,872 to ESF; 3 years. Currently supporting Hadis Miraly and Melvin Samson. NOAA Fisheries: “Demographics of Gulf of Maine Atlantic Cod in the 17th century: Patterns in growth, maturity, season of capture, and estimated mortality based on otoliths from an archaeological site.” $64,000 (to Mark Wuenschel; KL is collaborator, ESF is site of otolith analyses for $10,000, possibly more this year) Norwegian Research Council: “Hypoxia response by fishes in fjords: a model for ocean deoxygenation” (3 yrs, approx. $2.5 million, KL is a co-PI and will oversee otolith work) NYSDEC Mohawk River Basin Program: “Invasive Round Goby and Elusive American Eel: Use of eDNA and Baseline Surveys to Track Movements In and Out of the Mohawk River.” With Hyatt Green, $228,309, 2.25 years. Supported three PhD students last summer, 1 during the year, and an undergraduate assistant in summer 2020. 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. Research Proposals pending Australian Research Council: “Predicting the impacts of river development by understanding the drivers of fish recruitment in coastal river systems.” Lee Baumgartner, PI, Charles Sturt University, Victoria, Australia; AUS $522,390; KL is a co-PI. Australian Synchrotron, Monash University, Melbourne, NSW: Continued research on otoliths. Ca. $95,000. On hold due to Covid-19 pandemic. Swedish Research Council FORMAS: “Decoding the metabolic signature in Baltic cod otoliths to track lifetime responses to stress.” Ca. $300,000, submitted through Swedish University

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of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), where KL is a Visiting Professor and lead PI. If successful, will support two post-docs. Research Proposals submitted, but rejected National Science Foundation, GEO Directorate: “EAR/IF: Acquisition of a High-Resolution, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Environmental Research: ‘Multidisciplinary Mineralogy’.” September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2022; $488,009. (No need now; ESF has acquired the instrumentation by other means!) National Science Foundation, DEB: “CNH2-L: Centuries of Change: The Ecological, Social, and Economic Transformation of the U.S. Northeast Watershed.” $1,440,069 to CUNY; KL was co-PI; planning to re-submit. National Science Foundation, DEB: “Preliminary Proposal: LTER: Trait-based ecology in an urban ecosystem: integrating abiotic, biotic and human drivers of ecosystem services in an era of global change.” Led by Jason Fridley and Rebecca Schewe, Syracuse University; KL was one of two PIs from ESF.

Lomolino Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Island Biogeography Theory and Practice – 25% The Geography of Sound – 25% Grant-supported Research – None Research Proposals submitted, but rejected PI - NSF – SONORIC GEOGRAPHY – A SEMINAL RESEARCH PROGRAM ADDRESSING THE SILENCE OF BIOGEOGRAPHY (NSF Ecology)

McGee Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Restoration protocols for forest understory herbaceous plants – 7% Evaluation of integrated undergraduate laboratory experiences – 1% Microhabitat evaluation of epiphytic bryophytes – 7% Grant-supported Research McIntire-Stennis Research Program. $57,806, Aug 2017 – Dec 2019, partial support for Ravyn Neville. (With McNulty, S (PI), S. Farrell, G. McGee and R. Germain) Central New York Library Resources Council, $2000. April 2020-March 2021. (With Rojas, V., M. Smith and G. McGee. “Mapping Primary and Post-Agricultural Forests over Time in Central New York to Improve Forest Resilience and Conservation Planning.” Grants obtained by students: Federated Garden Clubs of NY State. $2000. April 2020. Ames, Tahnee (undergraduate honors research student). “Forest management impacts to invertebrate assemblages of epiphytic bryophytes and lichens in northern hardwood forests. Joan K. Hunt & Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany, Garden Club of America. $3500. April 2020. Sweeney, Anna (graduate student). “Restoration of plant biodiversity in Adirondack northern hardwood forests through mechanical control of American beech understories.”

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Safeners and metal toxicity protection 4 Role of plant endophytes on crop production 4 Role of P450 genes in TCE degradation 4 Impact of nanoparticles on epidermal symbiotes 2 Wastewater treatment walls 4 Mine site restoration 4 Reuse of biological waste on the ISS and Mars mission for food production 4 Use of hyperspectral imaging for plant health on ISS 2 Use of treatment wetlands to removed TCE from surface water 4 Grant-supported Research American Councils; Establishing Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Collaborations with Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan; April 2019 to September 2019; 19,960; L. Newman and G. Lanza. SUNY; Center for Environmental Medicine and Informatics; $600,000; May 2019; M. Collins, B. Leydet, J. Mirowsky, R. Razavi and L. Newman Exon Mobile/Roux Associates; Determination of Utility of Plants and Treatment Wetlands for PFOA Remediation; January 2018 to Dec 2020; $35,003; L. Newman. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Development of Hyperspectral Imaging of Plants to Detect Contamination; $365,509; March 2011 to Feb 2021; current year $17,000 ;L Newman; PhD. student Amalia Kenyon supported. Multiple Sponsors; New York State Biotechnology Symposium, $18,807.00; Dec 2016 to November 2019; Katherina Searing, L. Newman, A. Stiponovich, T. Amadon. Gifford Foundation; Construction Funds for Horticultural Therapy; $1000; June 2013 to open ended; L. Newman. American Legion Ladies Auxillary; Funds for Horticultural Therapy; $2500; May 2013 to open ended; L. Newman.

Parry Grant-supported Research 2019-2021. D. Parry. Rapid Range Expansion During an Unprecedented Outbreak of a Long- Dormant Invasive Defoliator. USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection. $69,800 (Will partially support Eric Swiecki). 2019-2022. D. Parry, A. Davalos, J. Schnurr, C. Brown-Lima. Field Evaluation of Hypena opulenta for Biological Control of Invasive Pale and Black Swallow-Worts in New York State. NY Department of Transportation. $751, 000. (Funds for 2 graduate students at ESF – Will support incoming MS student Christopher Johnson) 2019-2024. Farrell, J., D. Fernando, M. Schummer…..D. Parry……and many others. Discovery Challenge Grant. $650,000 2019-2021. Powell, WA, D. Parry, J, Drake, T. Horton, S. Fitsimmons, C. Beier, and J. Holliday. Environmental Impacts of GE and Conventionally Produced American Chestnut. USDA BRAG. $500,000. 2020. D. Parry. Variation in Developmental Traits Among Invasion Front Gypsy Moth populations. Gypsy Moth Slow-the Spread Foundation. $10,000 2018-2020. KL. Grayson, S. Agosta. D. Parry. Collaborative Research: Linking thermal tolerance to invasion dynamics: Climate and physiological capacity as regulators of geographical spread. National Science Foundation. Macrosystem Biology. $300,000 (Partially supported Chelsea Jahant-Miller)

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Powell Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Preliminary work on transforming Ozark Chinquapin with the OxO gene, a tree species that was also devastated by chestnut blight. (~1% of time) Cloning Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Protein (PGIP) genes from Chinese chestnut and Eastern Red Oak to test for plant pathogen resistance enhancing properties. (~1%) of time Grant-supported Research Note: The total current 2019/2020 year operation budget from all grants below is approximately $1,500,000. Not counting grants that have previously terminated and not counting the Discover Challenge grant, these current grants listed below represent over $6.3 million in ESF research. PI, Templeton World Charity Fund grant, Genetic Rescue of the American chestnut Tree, New $3,200,000/3 years (1/1/2020 – 12/30/2022) ~$600,000 current year Three Graduate Assistants: Hannah Pilkey, Elizabeth Kehas-Dewaghe, Garrett Evans; and three staff PI, Templeton World Charity Fund grant, Restoring the American Chestnut Tree, completing $230,000/1.5 years (8/1/2018 - 12/31/2019), ~$76,000 current year One Graduate Assistants: Hannah Pilkey; and one staff PI, Crowd funding and public donations, 10,000 Chestnut project, this year’s donations ~$213,000 from 93 donors (start and end dates indeterminant) – two staff PI, USDA-NIFA BRAG grant, Environmental Impacts of GE and Conventionally-Produced American Chestnut, $500,000/3 years, (8/1/2018 - 7/31/2021) - ~167,000 current year. Three Graduate Assistants: Andy Newhouse, Andy Cortese, Molly Heit PI, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) grant, Developing and testing blight tolerant American chestnut trees, $1,485,500/6 years (7/1/2015 - 6/30/2021) $247,500 current year, 7/1/2019 - 6/31/2020 Three Graduate students: Dakota Matthews, Erik Carlson, Josh Mott; and four UG students PI, NYS Legislative grant, $400,000/4 years (7/1/2016 - 6/30/20), $100,000 current year, no graduate assistants, but six undergraduate students PI, Orentriech American Elm grant: $300,000 /3 years (9/1/2018 - 8/31/2021), $100,000 current year, no graduate assistants, but one postdoctoral fellow Co-PI (with many other ESF faculty), Discover Challenge grant, $600,000/3yrs (7/1/2019 – 6/30/2022), no graduate assistants; but two staff

Razavi Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Oneida Lake Hg project (boot-legged - 5%) Finger Lakes zooplankton Hg project (boot-legged - 1%) Grant-supported Research Co-PI with PI Karin Limburg proposal to the National Science Foundation “Collaborative Research: Shifting the Hypoxia Paradigm – New Directions to Explore the Spread and Impacts of Ocean/Great Lakes Deoxygenation”, $899,872 (October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2022) PIs: KE Limburg, M Casini, AM Feldpaushch-Parker, A Gardmark, NR Razavi, BD Walther. Supports Hadis Miraly, PhD student, Spring 2020 – present

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PI: R Razavi NYSDEC, “Investigation of Foodweb Interactions with Harmful Formation”, $125, 239 (May 15 2018 – December 31 2020). Supports Tori Field, MS student, Summer 2018 – Spring 2020 Supports Abby Webster, Research Assistant, Summer 2020 PI: R Razavi McIntire-Stennis SEED funds, “Assessing contaminant exposure in bats of the Finger Lakes, New York”, $7,000 (September 30 2019 – August 2020). Supports undergraduate Honor’s thesis student Abby Webster, Fall 2019 PI: R Razavi Great Lakes Research Consortium Task Group, “Gap analysis for contaminants of emerging concern in the Great Lakes Basin”, $10,000 (May 1 2018 – June 30 2020). Iman Pakzad, Employee, July – August 2018 PI: R Razavi Great Lakes Research Consortium Internship $3,000 (May 2019 – August 2019) Co- PI R Razavi, JM Farrell. Great Lakes Research Consortium, “Food web impacts and contaminant transfer by the Tubenose Goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) in the Lake Ontario- St. Lawrence River basin”, $24,966 (May 10 2019 – December 31 2020) Supports Iman Pakzad, MS student, August 2018 – December 2020 SUNY ESF Internship supervisor: R Razavi NYSDEC, “CSLAP Field Technicians and CSLAP Office Tech Intern” $53,363 (May 1, 2020 – August 31, 2020). CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC Team member on proposal to the State University of New York Discovery Challenge, “The Center for Environmental Medicine and Informatics (CEMI)” $600,000 (July 1, 2019 – June 30 2022). PI: MB Collins. Research Proposals pending Co-PI R Razavi, LJ Lamit with PI CT Driscoll. CUSE grant program, I2 Research Grant. “Quantifying the storage and wildlife exposure of mercury in tropical peat forests. $30,000 (June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2022). PI R Razavi. McIntire-Stennis “Quantifying the storage and wildlife exposure of mercury in tropical peat forests” $30,000 (August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021). Co-PI R Razavi with PI J Drew Climate mediated impacts of toxic exposure in Puerto Rican Fisheries Epply Foundation, $17,896 Research Proposals submitted, but rejected Co-PI with PI Karin Limburg proposal to the National Science Foundation MRI, “Acquisition of a High-Resolution, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Environmental Research: “Multidisciplinary Mineralogy””, $488,009 (September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2022) PIs: KE Limburg, Z Lu, NR Razavi, S. Samson, G Pezzarossi, D Armstrong. Senior Personnel with PI Teng Zeng (Syracuse University) proposal to the National Science Foundation MRI, “Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph-High Resolution Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer to Enhance Research and Research Training Capabilities at Syracuse University”, $692,868 (September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2021) PIs: T. Zeng, CT Driscoll, TF Kahan, EB Ansell, J Zhang. Senior Personel: LK Lautz, CE Johnson, NR Razavi. Co-PI R Razavi with PI J Drew. Heavy Metal and Climate Change Impacts on Food Security in Vieques Puerto Rico: The legacy of the Naval Bombing. Syracuse COE, $15,773 Co-PI R Razavi with PI J Drew. Heavy Metal and Climate Change Impacts on Food Security in Vieques Puerto Rico: The legacy of the Naval Bombing, CUSE grant $29,964 Co-PI R Razavi with PI B Salehi "HAB Detection and Monitoring using Multi-Source Multi- Temporal Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data" Great Lakes Research Consortium $25,000

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Ringler Grant-supported Research Honeywell International, LLC. ‘Onondaga Lake Biological Assessment and Monitoring’. Three graduate students (Michaela Kenward, Carrick Palmer, Joe Sullivan) and three summer technicians. July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. $165,000. Funding at this level committed through June 2021. NYDEC. ‘Relationships Between Stream Parameters and Water Quality Endpoints’. Jane Van Vessem Graduate student. June 2018 to May 2020. $99,246. NYDEC. ‘ Mohawk River TMDL development. Water quality review and reporting.’ Michaela Schnore, technician. August 2019 to August 2020. $166,344. USGS. ‘Restoration of Lake Ontario native fish species.’ August 2018 to August 2020. Two technicians at Cortland Lab $284,172. NYDEC ‘Mohawk River basin Programs summer internships.’ Matt Rizzo (undergraduate) and Courtney Nichols (graduate). $36,000

Rundell Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Rundell, R.J. Evolution and conservation of Palau land snails, 10% Rundell, R.J., J.E. Czekanski-Moir. Research and teaching activities in the Republic of Palau under our MOU with the Republic of Palau. 10% Rundell, R.J., D.A. Bullis., A. Gawel. Diversity and conservation of the land snails of Peleliu: Pre- and post-World War II. 5% Rundell, R.J. C. Christensen. Extinction of the genus Carelia of Kauai through rat predation. 5% Grant-supported Research Rundell, R.J. (PI) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), (5/1/18 – 10/31/19), $76,653. Removing the threat of stochastic extinction for the Chittenango ovate amber snail. Supplement Rundell, R.J. (PI). Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America Program. (10/1/2016-9/30/2019), $118,694. Roosevelt Wild Life Collections. (Supported M.S. student Emlyn Clark and Ph.D. student David Bullis) Rundell, R.J. (PI) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), (11/1/18 – 6/30/20), $65,168. Removing the threat of stochastic extinction for the Chittenango ovate amber snail. Supplement. Rundell, R.J. (PI) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), (1/1/2020 – 8/31/2021), $120,000. Preventing stochastic extinction of the Chittenango ovate amber snail: Investigating geographic and environmental context in order to establish a wild backup population. (Supporting Ph.D. student David Bullis) Rundell, R.J. (PI) and J. Frair, J. Gibbs (co-PIs). National Science Foundation Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR). DBI-Biological Research Collections. Program Solicitation National Science Foundation 15-577. (6/1/2017-12/31/2020), $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. (Supported M.S. student Emlyn Clark and Ph.D. student David Bullis)

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Rundell, R.J. (PI) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), (5/1/2018 – 9/30/2021), $380,631. Removing the threat of stochastic extinction for the Chittenango ovate amber snail: A collaborative captive propagation effort of ex situ populations in New York State. (Supporting M.S. student Emlyn Clark)

Schulz Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Working with Matt Cowen to run lab simulations and complete lake bathymetry methods manuscript; 1% of time; unsupported Grant-supported Research • Source: New York State Parks Title: NYS OPRHP Boat Steward Program at SUNY ESF Dates: 1 April 2018-31 March 2021 PI: Kimberly L. Schulz Total budget: ESF: $1,272,008.02; OPRHP $164,952.00 Summer graduate student support, support of up to 20 stewards, support of 1 undergraduate assistant, support of two partial year employees and one full-time employee • Source: New York State Aquatic Invasive Species Spread Prevention Program coPIs: C-OFOKLA (Cortland-Onondaga Federation of Kettle Lake Associations), Cortland County Soil and Water Conservation District (CCSWCD) and SUNY-ESF (subcontractor) Amount: $99,039.40 to CCSWC, with subcontracts to COFOKLA and SUNY ESF Dates: May 2016-April 2019 ESF undergraduate interns are supported on this grant through Cortland Soil and Water • Source: New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Invasive Species Rapid Response and Control Grant Title: Otisco Lake Invasive Species Rapid Response and Control Dates: 1 July 2017-30 June 2019 PI: Otisco Lake Preservation Association ESF (Schulz) subcontract: $17,579 • Source: New York Department of Environmental Conservation Title: Owasco Lake Water Quality Model Dates: 1 January 2018-31 December 2020 (note: date of the subcontract different than previously thought) PIs: David Matthews (UFI) and Kimberly L. Schulz (ESF) Total budget: $202,893; $63,688 to ESF/Schulz • Source: Great Lakes Research Consortium; Title: Analysis of a Large Multi-Lake Dataset to Advance Understanding and Management of Harmful Algal Blooms in New York State Lakes coPIs: Matthews, D.A., Schulz, K.L., S.A. Kishbaugh, and N.J. Mueller; Amount: $14,838 ($5,000 to KLS); Dates: 3/31/2016-3/31/2017; extended to 6/30/2019; No graduate students supported on this grant

Schummer Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Crowd-funder/Philanthropic, Mallard population dynamics, $50,025, Sam Kucia Delta Waterfowl, Assessing productivity origin of eastern mallards using stable isotope analyses, $43,353

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Land Trust Alliance via Ducks Unlimited, Wetland protection planning assessment and strategy development for the Montezuma Wetland Complex, $42,000, Matt Wagner Birds Canada/Western University, Waterfowl Research Foundation, Productivity origins of northern pintails harvested in the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways, $5,514 Winous Pt. Marsh Conservancy, Birds Canada, Waterfowl Research Foundation, Origins and genomics of hatch-year mallards harvested in NE Ohio, $11,840 Waterfowl Research Foundation, Delta Waterfowl, Origins and genomics of mallards during pre- season waterfowl banding, $9,706 Seneca Meadows Preserve, Evaluating response of entomophilous plants and bees to management techniques in restored wetlands in agricultural landscapes, $5,000, Molly Jacobson Cargill via Ducks Unlimited, Evaluating response of entomophilous plants and bees to management techniques in restored wetlands in agricultural landscapes, $4,000, Molly Jacobson Grant-supported Research NYSDEC, Comparisons of American black duck and mallard breeding pair abundance, productivity, and habitat use in the Adirondack Park, $157,840, $72,851, April 1, 2018 - 31 December 2021, Gary Macy Long Island Wildfowl Heritage Group, Long Island Black Ducks, $151,407, $50,495, 2018 - 2021, Aidan Flores Ducks Unlimited & Waterfowl Research Foundation, Ecological Assessment of Montezuma Wetlands, $209,946, $40,000, 2017 – 2019, Edward Farley (MS) Long Island Wildfowl Heritage Group, Long Island Scaup Banding, $62,004, $31,002, 2019 – 2020, Jake Chronister (MPS) and Brittnie Fleming (MPS) Research Proposals pending NSF - COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Genomic Consequences of Gene Flow Between Domestic & Wild – V2, $145,648, 9/2020 – 8/2024 NYSDEC - Developing a robust survey design for marshbirds in NY and the Great Lakes region, $178,462, 8/21/2020-12/31/2023 Kansas Dept of Wildlife, Parks, and Fisheries, ANALYSIS OF KDWPT BI-WEEKLY WATERFOWL SURVEY, $302,255

Research Proposals submitted, but rejected NSF - COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Genomic Consequences of Gene Flow Between Domestic & Wild – V1, $129,732, 9/2020 – 8/2024 Midwest Climate Science Center, Incorporating Bird Migration, Climate, and Human Dimensions Science into Strategic Planning for Waterfowl Conservation, Recreational Opportunity, and Rural Economies, $411,916

Stewart Departmental Research [Manuscripts in Prep. – related to past grants] Watson, L.C., D.J. Stewart, K. Clifford, L. Castello, D. Jafferally, S. James, G.G. Watkins, and Z. Norman. MS In Prep. State of recovery, , and environmental factors influencing Arapaima populations in Guyana. For submission to: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

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Makaure, J., and D.J Stewart. MS In Prep. Biogeographic patterns and environmental correlates of species richness for southern Africa’s native freshwater fishes. For submission to: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

Grant-supported Research Rufford Foundation: Effects of protected areas on freshwater fish conservation: A case study of National Parks in the Zambezi River basin, Zimbabwe. US$6,302; Period: 1 May 2019 to 30 April 2020; PI - Stewart, D.; Graduate student support for travel and fieldwork expenses: Makaure, J. Hudson River Foundation, Tibor T. Polgar Fellowship: Assessment of distribution and ecological impacts of invasive freshwater jellyfish, Craspedacusta sowerbii, in the Hudson River Basin, NY. US$6,500; Period 1 June 2019 to 31 December 2019; Graduate Student Fellowship to Moore, J; Co-PI – Stewart, D. Research Proposals submitted, but rejected National Science Foundation: CNH2-L: Fishing with insecticide-treated mosquito nets, implications for livelihoods, diets, and natural systems. $1,599,674; Period 1 Sept 2020 to 31 Aug 2025; Graduate Student Fellowship (with transition to Post-Doc) to Makaure, J; PI: David Larsen, SU; Co-PI’s: Sadie J Ryan, Joseph H Bisesi, Donald J Stewart [with subcontract to ESF].

Teale Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Semiochemicals mediating multitrophic interactions with S. noctilio and associated organisms 5% Grant-supported Research USDA APHIS “Targeted Identification of Pheromones and Related Attractants for Invasive Cerambycid Beetles from Asia” PIs: Millar, J.G., L. Hanks & S. Teale $190,218 01-SEP- 2018 To 31-AUG-2019 ($30,060 to SUNY-ESF). Alphawood Foundation, PI: Teale, S. “Asian Longhorn Beetle Research at SUNY-ESF” $ 96,122; FEB-2017 To AUG-2019 Helmsley Trust/International Community Foundation, PI: C. Causton. “Protect Galapagos Landbirds from Invasive Species” ~$800,000/3 yr. $263,721 to ESF (NOV-2015 To JUN- 2020). Helmsley Trust/International Community Foundation, PI: C. Causton. “Protect Galapagos Landbirds from Invasive Species” $15,370 to ESF Research Proposals pending United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency, PI: S.A. Teale. “GC-EAD and GC-MS Analysis of Landbird Uropygial Gland Attractants for Philornis downsi” $28,000 United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency, PI: S.A. Teale. “GC-EAD and GC-MS Analysis of Philornis downsi Pheromones” $21,000 Research Proposals submitted, but rejected NSF-DEB - Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH), PI: M.A. Voss, CoPIs: J.R. Welsh, C.E. Causton, D. Conner, B. Fessl, S.A. Teale. “Promoting Sustainable Agriculture to Protect Endangered Birds” $749,980 ($228,429 to ESF)

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Research Proposals submitted, but rejected NSF (International Research Experiences for Students) IRES Track 1. Life in the Transients: Biophysical Ecology in the Namib. $300,000, 09/20 – 08/23.

Whipps Departmental Research (unsupported, boot-legged; title - % time spent) Myxozoan parasites of amphibians (boot-legged - 1%) Parasite fauna of Brazillian and Mexican fishes (boot-legged 2%) Survey of wild fish parasites in the Great Lakes and Adirondacks (boot-legged 2%) Histological analysis of Northern Pike gonad development (boot-legged 2%) Diagnosis and identification of haemosporidian parasites in songbirds (boot-legged 2%)

Grant-supported Research 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: Andrew Janik, PhD 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: Parasites and genetics of cottontail rabbits.

Research Proposals pending NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) PAR-19-265 (07/10/20-01/09/21). $150,000. In-line Spectroscopic Detection and Monitoring of Mycobacterium Contamination in Laboratory Zebrafish Research Facilities. Chen M, Whipps CM. Role: diagnostic testing Research Proposals submitted, but rejected National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (11/01/19-10/30/22) $175,454. Adaptive Management of Shrublands for Recovery of the New England Cottontail When Eastern Cottontails are Present. Cohen JD, Cheeseman AE, Kovach A, Rittenhouse T, Rittenhouse C, Whipps CM, Parker A, Piche M.

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Appendix G: Faculty Service to Department, College, and University

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Cohen Department-level Faculty advisor for student chapter of The Wildlife Society GPAC, chair IACUC Department Advisory Committee (promotion and continuing appointment) College-level Associate Director, Roosevelt Wild Life Station

Diemont College-level Honors Program, Co-Director (w/Shields) and Director (in May and June) Center for Native People and the Environment, Advisory Board ESF in the High Schools, Faculty Advisor for Global Environment Society for Ecological Restoration, ESF Student Chapter, Advisor

Dovciak Department-level Departmental Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, member Graduate Program Advisory Committee, member Scientist-in-Residence and Roosevelt Forest Ecologist, Roosevelt Wild Life Station College-level College Student Life Committee, member Global Change on the Hill, Syracuse University and SUNY ESF faculty initiative seeking synergies in global change ecology research on the two campuses, member Represented the college and department in meetings with SU Ecosystem Ecology faculty candidates Represented the department and Tropical Ecology course at the ESF Study Abroad Fair, September 2, 2019 Graduate Program in Environmental Science–Ecosystem Restoration Program, member Graduate Program in Environmental Science–Environmental Monitoring and Modeling Program, member Regular meetings with visiting prospective graduate students and visiting scientists or educators (including e, Syracuse University Ecosystem Ecology candidates).

Downs Department-level Participated in curriculum restructuring conversation for Wildlife Sciences and Environmental Biology Acted as EFB faculty contact for Take Root Compiled information to calculate total GA compensation for use when recruiting graduate students. 118

Wildlife Science Faculty Representative at Perspective students' weekend (Oct 2019) College-level University-wide, including Research Foundation Post-doctoral Research Associate Mentoring (list name(s) of postdocs and period of employment) Emily Cornelius Ruhs, 3/2019-current (postdoc is housed at University of South Florida, but I am her primary mentor)

Drew University-wide, including Research Foundation Inclusion Diversity and Equity committee Library Committee

Farrell, J. Department-level AFS curriculum coordinator Hosted Aquatic and Fisheries Science major student/faculty mixer Faculty Mentor: B Leydet Hosted potluck seminar series of invited speakers at TIBS College-level Director, TIBS President’s Satellite Campus Task Force Co-director (with D. Leopold), Restoration Science Center University-wide, including Research Foundation Discovery challenge Restoration Science Center co-director (with Don Leopold) Post-doctoral Research Associate Mentoring Dr. John Paul Leblanc, April 1 2016-present.

Farrell, S. Department-level Dept awards: Baldassarre Award, coordinator 2014-present Chamberlain Award, coordinator 2014-present Dence award, coordinator Fall 2015- present GPAC committee Open House/ Accepted Student Receptions: Oct 19 Undergrad independent projects (EFB 498) advising: Amanda Woolsey, Riley Stedman Honor’s thesis 2nd reader Offered open-door resume workshop (one in Fall and one in spring) for students interested in applying to wildlife –related jobs/internships College-level Academic Governance Executive Committee Chair of IQAS committee 2019-present; acting chair late Fall 2018-present; IQAS committee member Fall 2013-present IQAS co-created 2020 Hardy Shirley mentoring colloquium on active learning

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Academic Appeals Committee Grievance Committee Administered ESF Foundation Teaching Award 2018- present Fink Fellowship Committee Fall 2013-present. Birding Club faculty advisor 2014-present CSTEP Mentor 2014-present Post-doctoral Research Associate Mentoring Amanda Cheeseman, Started Jan 2019- present

Fernando Department-level Director, EFB Graduate Program Member, Graduate Program Advisory Committee EFB New Graduate Student Orientation, August 2019 EFB New Graduate Student Orientation, March 2020

Frair Department-level Roosevelt Wild Life Station, Director. Roosevelt Wildlife Collection Supervise Ron Giegerich, Collections Manager. Coordinate activities of the collection with the station, especially financial concerns. Faculty Mentor: C. Downs, S. Farrell Curriculum Committee Curriculum Coordinator – Wildlife Science major Manage internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in Fish and Wildlife Management and Conservation Biology oriented programs (interns selected but not hired this year due to COVID restrictions). Member Illick Hall renovation planning committee. College-level Campus Review Committee (CRC) – EFB representative Forest Properties Faculty Advisory Committee – member President’s Remote Campus/Forest Properties Assessment Team – member ESF President Search Committee – member ESF Representative for the National Association of University Fisheries and Wildlife Programs (NAUFWP) – participated in member meetings at The Wildlife Society Conference (Reno, NV fall 2019) and The North American Fish and Wildlife Conference (Zoom Meeting, spring 2020). Legislatively mandated college representative (science advisor) to the NY State Fish and Wildlife Management Advisory Board. Post-doctoral Research Associate Mentoring Joseph Hinton, Jan 2019 – present (works on the moose project) Lisanne Petracca, Jan-May 2019 (worked on the USFS bat study)

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Green Department-level Graduate Program and Action Committee, 2017-current College-level Campus wastewater analysis for early detection of SARS-CoV-2, 2020 Co-director of the Environmental Data Science Initiative, 2019-current ESF Technology Committee

Horton Department-level Promotion and Tenure committee, now chair EFB Awards Committee for the Lowe-Wilcox, Silverborg, Zabel, Morrell awards College-level Forest Properties Advisory Committee Presentation on being a successful TA for ESF Lab courses at the Graduate Student Colloquium

Kimmerer College-level I continue to serve as the Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. The annual report for the Center has been sent separately. PI for the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Collaboration with the Development Office for philanthropic funding I serve on the Awards Committee Faculty Advisor to Roots and Pursuits student club University-wide, including Research Foundation Search Committee, Native American Studies, Syracuse University

Leopold Department-level Member, search committee for OA2 and two Secretary 1 positions Supervisor, Terry Ettinger, Instructional Support Specialist (for ESF greenhouses) Member, mentoring committee for Dr. Roxanne Razavi and Dr. Josh Drew College-level Board Member, Friends of Moon Library, Spring 2019 to present Live Arbor Day Questions and Answers, one hour, ESF TV Studio, April 2020 (nearly 600 views as of this AR) Co-director, ESF Restoration Science Center Roosevelt Field Ecologist, Roosevelt Wild Life Station, SUNY-ESF Presenter, ESF Fall Field Days Event, Tree identification on campus and in Oakwood Cemetery, August 2019 Presenter, Alumni Reunion Dendro campus walk (twice), September 2019 Presenter (twice, on campus trees and shrubs) for annual Alumni, Family, and Friends BBQ, October 2019

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Regular consultation with Physical Plant regarding maintenance of ESF campus plantings and green roofs Member, Search Committee for RSC Program and Development Leader Member, Search Committee for Associate Vice President for Communications and Marketing

Leydet College-level ESF Institutional biosafety committee member ESF Institutional animal care and use committee ‘stand-in’ member (Spring 2020) ESF Career Fellowship Selection Committee (Spring 2020) Canceled due to Covid-19

Limburg Department-level Graduate Program Advisory Committee College-level Awards Committee University-wide, including Research Foundation Joint Program on Water with Clarkson University

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McGee Department-level EFB Undergraduate Curriculum Director Env. Biology Curriculum Coordinator Env. Education & Interpretation Interim Curriculum Coordinator EFB Curriculum Coordination and Assessment Committee Cranberry Lake Biological Station - Academic Director EFB Assessment Coordination ESF in High School – conducted workshop with Rome Free Academy (10/7) students during their campus visit. College-level ESF Academic Standards Sub-Committee EOP Pre-orientation workshops on microscopy (8/14) and spreadsheet calculations (8/15) CSTEP/EOP ‘CONNECTIONS’ Pre-orientation walk w/ Mark Teece s at Green Lakes State Park (8/19) Workshop on Laboratory Report Writing (11/14) ESF Writing Resource Center – Technical Writing Workshop for Tutors (w/ N. Abrams (9/11) Co-Chair, Faculty Search Committee – Assoc. Prof., Environmental Interpretation, Env. Studies Dept; facilitated migration of EE&I program to Environmental Studies department ESF Alumni Association Board Ad-hoc committee for COVID19 Instructional Laboratory-Reopening University-wide, including Research Foundation SUNY Seamless Transfer Pathway Review Committee (Biology) External Reviewer for SUNY Finger Lakes Community College Environmental Science Dept.

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External Reviewer for Shippensburg State University (PA) Biology Dept.

Newman A. Department-level • Course and Curriculum Assessment Committee member. • Fall and Spring Transfer Student Advising • Point person for deionized water treatment system • Spoke at EFB and BTC orientation seminars • Pre-Med Advisor, Environmental Biology students • Tenure and Promotion Committee • Biotech major coordinator • Biotech minor coordinator

B. College-level • 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 • Lead in reinstating early admissions program for MD with Upstate Medical University • Advisor, 3 + 3 Doctor of Physical Therapy Program • Lead in developing NIEHS grant program • Coordinator, Environmental Science’s Health and the Environment focus area • Chair, Biotechnology Research Symposium organizing committee • 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, Aquatic Science, Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, Environmental Science 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 • Development of collaborative research and education programs with Pavlodar University, Kazakhstan

C. University-wide, including Research Foundation • Development of SUNY/Brookhaven National Lab Research and education collaborations • Developing a collaborative program between the Environmental Health group, and the University of Albany Department of Environmental Health • Development of collaboration between SUNY and the Korean University of Science and Technology

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Parry Department-level GPAC, Stegeman Award, Burgess Doctoral Scholar Coordinator of Conservation Biology College-level Member, Committee on Research

Powell Department-level DRC committee member (Promotion and Tenure) College-level Director of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration project Roosevelt Wild Life Station Scientist in Residence IBC (Institutional Biosafety Committee) member Post-doctoral Research Associate Mentoring Allison Oakes, Postdoctoral Fellow,

Razavi Department-level CCAC member, September 2019 – present Environmental Health Major – working with Dr. Lee Newman on undergraduate program and developing graduate program Phyllis Roskin Award selection – solicited 13 student transcripts and CVs, reviewed faculty feedback, and selected awardee for the Phyllis Roskin Memorial Award College-level Advisory Board member Center of Excellence for Healthy Water Solutions, September 2019 – present

Ringler College-level Vice Provost and Executive Director, Onondaga Lake Science Center University-wide, including Research Foundation Executive Committee: now Board SUNY Distinguished Academy and program committee member ______Rundell Department-level Head Curator, Roosevelt Wild Life Collections and Classroom Faculty Mentor: J. Drew Biotechnology Major Committee College-level Head Curator, Roosevelt Wild Life Collections and Classroom (associated activities include operationalizing the laboratory and equipment, in collaboration with Physical Plant and attending to issues, repairs, safety, exhibits, signage, and visitor experience Natural Science Collections Alliance Executive Committee (Secretary): Represent and advocate for small university collections (e.g., Roosevelt Wild Life Collections)

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Schummer Department-level Library committee College-level Philanthropy – College Foundation

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Teale Department-level Coordinator, Forest Health Major College-level Biosafety Committee (member)

Weir Department-level Cranberry Lake Advisory Committee Curator of EFB Herbaria Active participant in EFB Majors in Environmental Education and Interpretation, Forest Health, Conservation Biology, and Environmental Biology Member, Lowe-Wilcox, Zabel and Morrell Awards Committee College-level Committee Member, ESF Satellite Properties Task Force

Whipps Department-level EFB Promotion and Tenure Department Review Committee (August 2019-present). Faculty Mentor: C. Downs, R. Razavi, B. Leydet, H. Green College-level ESF Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (Aug 2011-present). Chair: Christopher Whipps ESF Honors Program Faculty Council (Aug 2011-present). Director: William Shields/ Stewart Diemont. ESC Health and the Environment Curriculum Group Participant (Mar 2011-present) University-wide, including Research Foundation SUNY Center for App

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APPENDIX H. New York Natural Heritage Program Not submitted.

APPENDIX I.

Thousand Islands Biological Station Annual Report 2019-2020

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From the Director

The SUNY-ESF Thousand Islands Biological Station (TIBS), located on Governor’s Island, hosts a research program focused on the ecology of the St. Lawrence River and surrounding watershed with an emphasis on fisheries, wetlands, invasive species, and ecological perturbations of freshwater systems. The TIBS research program continues to advance scientific inquiry to better understand the river ecosystem to guide management and restoration activities. Many faculty, staff and students from a mix of institutions are attracted to the unique nature of this immense waterway that is the natural outlet to the Laurentian Great Lakes. At TIBS, long-term monitoring coupled with graduate and undergraduate research with a variety of faculty result in a diverse research portfolio with many related studies supported by extramural grants. Many local and regional outreach activities maintain a strong ESF connection to the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes community and provide students and staff opportunities for information exchange. We enjoy many partnerships to assist in our mission. Significant research support continues at TIBS with the five-year contract with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation through the Environmental Protection Fund and we continue a three-year contract with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Enhancement Mitigation and Research Fund. Our work with DEC focuses on ecological monitoring and understanding the effect of water levels on habitat, wetlands and . With the US Fish and Wildlife Service we continue the Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy, an effort to enhance fish populations through addressing reproduction bottlenecks with habitat restoration measures. We are excited about our progress and achievements and look forward to a sustained commitment to research and conservation in the face of significant and evolving environmental challenges. We hope you enjoy our annual report covering the period June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020. Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

John M. Farrell, TIBS Director

Our mission is to conserve environmental resources using ecosystem-based science to inform decision makers and society while providing exceptional educational experiences

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Administration Dr. John M. Farrell, Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology Dr. Melissa Fierke, Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology Dr. David Newman, Interim Provost, ESF Dr. David Amberg, Interim President, ESF Dr. Christopher Nomura, Vice President for Research, Research Foundation

Professional staff 2019-2020 Katelyn Barhite, Laboratory Manager (April 1 – present) Dr. John Paul Leblanc, Post-doctoral Associate

Graduate students (all at ESF), degree sought and advisor(s). Asterisk indicates graduation between June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020.

*Jessica Goretzke (M.S., J. Farrell) *Alex Kua (M.S., J. Stella and J. Farrell) Anna Conklyn (Ph.D., J. Farrell) Iman Pakzad (M.S., R. Razavi and J. Farrell) Max Wilder (PhD., H. Green)

Staff and undergraduate students (denoted by school)

2019 Jacob Ball, Senior Field Technician Emily Verbeck, Senior Field Technician Jonathan White, SUNY Plattsburgh, Field Technician Christopher Danforth, ESF, Federal Work Study Assistant Samuel Greulich, ESF, Field Technician Guthrie Schumacher, ESF, Field Technician Emily Klimczak, ESF, Field Technician Madelyn Webb, ESF, Field Technician Jason Snodgrass, ESF, Field Technician

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2020 Emily Verbeck, Senior Field Technician Christopher Danforth, Senior Field Technician Samuel Greulich, Senior Field Technician Jason Snodgrass, Senior Field Technician Sam Capone, ESF, Field Technician Isabella DeAnglis, ESF, Field Technician

Faculty/Researcher involvement Dr. Paul Blanchfield, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Acoustic array project Dr. Don Leopold, ESF Restoration Science Center Dr. Brian Leydet, ESF Microbiome Study Dr. Rodman Getchell, Cornell University Veterinary College Dr. Hyatt Green, ESF, Muskellunge eDNA Dr. Ben Koops, University of Victoria, B.C, Northern Pike Genomics Dr. Mark Ridgeway, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Acoustic array Dr. Roxanne Razavi, ESF, Goby Food Web and Mercury Uptake Dr. John Stella, ESF, Muskrat Population and Wetland Disturbance Dr. Bruce Tufts, Queens University, Acoustic array Dr. Chris Whipps, ESF, Northern Pike Gender Determination

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Steven Hurst, Chief of Fisheries Steven R. LaPan, Great Lakes Program Leader Christopher Legard, Lake Ontario Unit Leader Janet Lantry, Region 6 Fisheries Manager Rodger Klindt, St. Lawrence River Unit Leader

US Fish and Wildlife Service Scott Schlueter, Fish Enhancement Mitigation and Research (FEMRF) Program Leader Justin Ecret, FEMRF Biologist

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Extramural Grant Support 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, Environmental Protection Fund, $1,417,046

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

Farrell, J. M. 4/1/2019-2/28/2023. Restoration of the upper St. Lawrence River Muskellunge Population. US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Special Project, $106,800

Leydet B. L., and J. M. Farrell. 3/1/17 – 12/31/2019. Influence of Spawning and Nursery Habitat in Shaping the Northern Pike (Esox lucius) Gut Microbiome. Great Lakes Research Consortium, Small Grants Program $22,500

Razavi R., and J.M Farrell., 5/10/2019-12/31/2020. Food Web Impacts and Contaminant Transfer of the Tubenose Goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) in the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River basin. Great Lakes Research Consortium, Small Grants Program $24,966

Publications Farrell, J. M., and K. Barhite. 2020. Muskellunge research, monitoring, and management in the Thousand Islands section of the St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2019 Great Lakes Fishery Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report.

Farrell, J. M., and K. Barhite. 2020. Northern pike research, monitoring, and management in the Thousand Islands Section of the St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2019 Great Lakes Fishery Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report.

Farrell, J. M. and John Paul Leblanc. 2020. St. Lawrence River Muskellunge: A Path to Population Revitalization. Muskies Magazine Jan/Feb. Issue p. 16-20.

Gallo, B., J. M. Farrell, and B. Leydet. (online first) Fisheries and the gut microbiome: Using next generation sequencing (NGS) and microbial ecology to better understand fish-microbe interactions. Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10379

Getchell, R. G., First, E. J., Bogdanowicz, S. M., Andrés, J. A., Schulman, A. T., Kramer J., Eckerlin G. E., Farrell, J. M., and H. Marquis. 2019. Investigation of round goby viral hemorrhagic septicemia outbreak in New York. Journal of Fish Diseases 7:1029-1033.

Goretzke, M. Windle, J.M. Farrell. 2019. Range expansion of the Western Tubenose Goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris Heckel, 1837) in eastern Lake Ontario and the upper St. Lawrence River. BioInvasion Records 8:694-698.

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Leblanc JP, Conklyn A., and J. M. Farrell. Accepted pending revisions. Rapid fin regeneration of age-0 Northern Pike and implications of fin-clips as a marking protocol. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Manuscript ID is UJFM-2020-0084.

Leblanc, J.P., C. Killourhy, and J. M. Farrell. 2020. Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and native fishes as potential nest predators of centrarchid species in the upper St. Lawrence River. Journal of Great Lakes Research 46:216-224.

Massa E.A., J. M. Farrell (online first) Improving habitat connectivity in a Typha dominated wetland shows increased larval northern pike survival. Wetlands https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01177-4

Neveldine, B., Leblanc, J. P., J. M. Farrell. 2019. Vegetation response and juvenile northern pike (Esox lucius) outmigration following connectivity enhancement of a Typha dominated coastal wetland. Wetlands 39:921-934.

Walton-Rabideau, Lédée, E. J. I., J. P. Leblanc, P. Szekeres, J. D. Midwood, A. J. Gallagher, J. M. Farrell, and Steven J. Cooke. 2020. Spatiotemporal ecology of juvenile Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) and Northern Pike (Esox lucius) in upper St. Lawrence River nursery bays. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 29:346-363.

Walton-Rabideau, S.E., Newell, M., Jeanson, A.L., Lédée, E. J. I., Farrell, J. M., S. J. Cooke. 2019. Evaluation of tag retention, healing, growth and behavior in age-0 muskellunge Esox masquinongy following acoustic transmitter implantation. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 39:652-663.

Presentations Conklyn, A.L., Getchell, R. G., and J.M. Farrell. 2019. Seasonal Condition and VHSV Prevalence in Invasive Round Gobies in the Upper St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation, Step In and Speak Out for the Great Lakes: Envisioning Their Future and Ours with the International Joint Commission, Clarkson University.

Conklyn, A.L., Getchell, R. G., and J.M. Farrell, 2020. Seasonal Condition and VHSV Prevalence in Invasive Round Gobies in the Upper St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation 2020 New York Chapter of American Fisheries Society meeting, Lake Placid, NY.

Farrell, J. M., J. P. Leblanc, J, Goretzke, A. Kua, and C. E Pestalozzi. 2019. (SESSION PLENARY) Wetland Responses to Habitat Enhancements and Regulated Hydrology in the Upper St. Lawrence River. International Association for Great Lakes Research 62nd annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY.

Farrell, J. M. 2019. Presentation “Ichthyologist for a Day!” Thousand Islands Land Trust Kids Trek. Thousand Islands Biological Station, 2019.

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Farrell, J. M. 2019. St. Lawrence River Bass Populations: Invasive Species Tradeoffs and Recent Changes. Clarkson University Collegiate Bassmaster’s Tournament presentation.

Farrell, J. M., 2020. (CONFERENCE PLENARY) Longitudinal Studies & Research on the St. Lawrence River: Ecological Change, Habitat, and Fisheries. 2020 Science Meeting, Southern New England Chapter American Fisheries Society, January 12-14, 2020.

Farrell, J. M. and A. Conklyn. 2020. (INVITED), St. Lawrence River Muskellunge: A pathway to population revitalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f12f9gdN2GE Save The River, Annual River Environmental Conference, February 2020.

Farrell, J. M. and A. Conklyn. 2020. Blue Fish Radio, “Goby Virus Causing Decline in St Lawrence River Muskie” Audio podcast https://bluefishradio.com/goby-virus-causing-decline-in-st- lawrence-river-muskie/.

Gallo, B. D., J. M. Farrell, and Brian F. Leydet. 2019. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Reveals Initial Diet Strongly Influences Northern Pike Gut Microbiota in an Aquaculture Setting Oral presentation delivered at the International Association for Great Lakes Research 62nd annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY.

Goretzke, J.A., Windle, M.J.S., & Farrell, J.M. Range expansion of the western tubenose goby into the upper St. Lawrence River: International Association for Great Lakes Research, 62nd Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY.

Kua, Z.X., Farrell, J.M., & Stella, J.C. 2019. Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) effects on wetland plant communities. Oral presentation delivered at the International Association for Great Lakes Research 62nd annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport, NY.

Leblanc JP, Conklyn A, and J.M. Farrell 2020. Rapid fin regeneration of age-0 Northern Pike and implications of fin-clips as a marking protocol. Poster Presentation at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society5-7 February 2020, Lake Placid, NY.

Pakzad, I., Razavi, R. and J.M. Farrell. 2020. Diet overlap between round gobies and tubenose gobies in the St. Lawrence River. Poster presentation 2020 New York Chapter of American Fisheries Society meeting, 5-7 February 2020, Lake Placid, NY.

Wilder, M.L., Farrell, J. M., and H. C. Green. 2020. Monitoring Muskellunge in the St. Lawrence River with Environmental DNA. Poster presented at: New York Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, 5-7 February 2020, Lake Placid, NY.

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Research Highlights

FISH ECOLOGY AND RESTORATION The abundance of northern pike (RIGHT) in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River continues to be suppressed likely due to habitat degradation stemming from invasive cattail and long-term management of Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence River water levels. Overall, natural reproduction of pike at 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. A recent study published in Wetlands evaluates the outcome of the enhancements and documents that significant levels of outmigration of young at enhancement sites further indicates a strong linkage of YOY abundance to spring water levels. A second study published in Limnology and Oceanography backs up these findings and measured pike survival in a comparison of enhanced and reference sites.

FISH POPULATION ECOLOGY A nearshore fish sampling program determines fish communities occupying coastal bays of the upper St. Lawrence River and in Lake St. Lawrence. Hoopnets and Oneida-type trapnets were fished at ~18 sites for about a month from 10 May to 10 June. Eight sites were sampled in Lake St. Lawrence in May for about two weeks. Lake St. Lawrence data were collected in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Cortland Ecological Services Office, Cortland NY. Traps emptied daily provide monitoring data for ~30 fish species. Length and weight data are collected on smallmouth bass and esocids are measured for total length. Bowfin (BELOW LEFT) are sexed and enumerated. The sampling was designed to target spawning muskellunge (BELOW RIGHT) as part of a long-term program that began in 1983. All muskellunge are tagged with a PIT tag, fish are swiped for tag detection, and a small fin tissue sample is archived as a genetic sample. Information on fish health is taken for muskellunge as are data on spawning condition. This survey is used to monitor relative abundance for nearshore fishes and targets numerous sportfish and non-game species. The survey tracks abundance of muskellunge and is an index of populations before and after perturbations, including round goby invasion and the introduction of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS). Northern Pike populations are also monitored.

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AQUATIC HABITAT Two nearshore and habitat surveys as long-term data series employ two types of seines (a fine-mesh July 15-31 series and a larger mesh August 15-31 series). Haul dimension, number, sites and methods are standardized, including haul length at 30.5 meters. Twelve sites are sampled twice annually (90 hauls per survey for a total of 180) and an additional set of sites (~20) are sampled to compare to this index sampling. All fish species captured are identified, counted, and released in the field. All esocids are measured for total length and a fin-clip tissue sample is stored for muskellunge >60 mm. Water depth and temperature data are collected at each haul. Six 1-meter square aquatic vegetation plots are sampled along each seine haul and data on dominant three species, maximum height and taxa present and coverage and total coverage are estimated. Data on sediment type are taken at each plot. Data are used in long-term monitoring of fish abundance and reproduction success and fish-habitat relationships and monitoring for effects of environmental change on these variables as a longitudinal study on nearshore health and ecological change. MUSKELLUNGE POPULATION RESTORATION Muskellunge are the apex predator in the St. Lawrence River that have declined significantly and in need of conservation assistance. A partnership with TIBS, state and federal agencies (DEC & US FWS) and groups such as Muskies Inc. & Muskies Canada, and others are involved in an effort to restore lost spawning stock. Eggs from St. Lawrence broodstock are raised at Governors Island and released in the wild as fry and fingerlings. LEFT: Muskellunge eggs incubating in hatching jars at TIBS. All the fish are tagged and studies are ongoing to observe their success in this long-term experiment. It is hoped that when they reach adulthood in 6-8 years they will implant on specific spawning areas and return there to naturally reproduce.

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INVASIVE SPECIES Round goby population and VHS disease are studied to determine risk to vulnerable freshwater fish species. Round goby is a documented carrier of VHS. Samples were taken in fisheries surveys above and in specialized sampling including minnow trapping, trapnets and beam-trawls in nearshore and offshore sites. Data on goby catches, sex, diet, size and viral titers (in partnership with the Cornell Veterinary College) were collected. Data are being used to examine questions related to the effect of round goby populations on the ecology of the river and in persistence and changes in levels of VHSV in relation to habitat gradients, types and distribution. Dietary data indicate ecological roles and potential effects on the river’s food web.

LIMNOLOGICAL STUDIES Water, thermal and oxygen profiles, and zooplankton sampling are conducted in coastal wetland tributaries along the upper St. Lawrence River to monitor environmental conditions and invertebrate assemblages. Three lateral transects are sampled and begin in coastal wetland tributary sites and extend downslope to coastal bays and end at deeper profundal sites in the main river. Zooplankton are sampled with 10L grabs in wetlands and in vertical hauls in deeper sites along transect (LEFT, concentration of invasive fishhook flea, Ceropagis pengoi viewed through a microscope). All are sampled with 153um mesh netting and counted and identified in the laboratory. Water temperature and oxygen and secchi depth are monitored and water quality parameters are measured including chlorophyll a and TP (ug P/L). This monitoring assesses lateral and longitudinal limnological patterns over time. Productivity gradients are strong in the lateral dimension and the influence of environmental variability on these gradients is an important measure of coupling. MUSKRAT POPULATION RESEARCH Muskrat house counts are conducted as part of a long- term study on coastal wetlands of the upper St. Lawrence River. The main objective focuses on how hydrologic fluctuations affect muskrat house density in wetlands as an indicator of population size. Data on house dimensions, construction materials, water depth, activity and distribution in wetlands are measured. Independently managed sites that reduce fall drawdown are compared to reference sites. Muskrat populations are ecosystem engineers; their populations are dependent on hydrology and their activities (e.g. herbivory, house construction, channels) provide a disturbance within monotypic invasive Typha-dominated wetlands that increases heterogeneity. Plant communities were assessed in a

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sampling design in relation to proximity to active muskrat houses to test if muskrat presence had an influence on wetland plant diversity. Meter-squared plot data on vegetation diversity indices in addition to Typha taxa were compared. Areas in association with muskrat houses and activity had greater overall plant diversity, supporting the hypothesis of a positive effect of muskrat activity in wetlands. ABOVE: Muskrat lodges are surveyed in winter when ice cover allows safe walking. They are known to affect microtopography of wetlands and influence plant communities and a diversity of other species.

FISH MICROBIOME STUDIES Field studies and lab experiments to learn about the nature and role of gut microbes in the ecology of freshwater fishes continue at TIBS and the Leydet lab at ESF. One study accepted for publication in PeerJ examined species and habitat level differences for a native and invasive benthic fish. Specific microbial signatures were found to be associated with certain fish species and within species occupying different habitats. A review paper (RIGHT) published in Fisheries magazine documents current knowledge of gut microbes, trends in research and the future potential for NextGen sequencing to make advancements in fisheries science and beyond.

Graduate Student Projects

Jessica Goretzke - Congratulations to Jess who graduated with a MS in August 2019 in the first-ever defense held at TIBS and completed her research on vegetative habitat quality and availability to early life stages of esocids in excavated wetlands. She developed a novel technique for the restoration of submersed aquatic vegetation in coastal bays and wetlands to encourage the establishment of desirable macrophyte species. Jessica with her advisor and Matt Windle of the Cornwall Institute published an important account of Tubenose Goby expansion in the St. Lawrence River in BioInvasion Records.

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Alex Kua - Congratulations to Alex who graduated in December 2019 and is now a TIBS alum! Alex completed his studies on the effects of water levels on muskrat occupancy and the interactive effects of muskrat disturbances on the aquatic community. Alex’s findings confirm the importance of over-wintering water levels on muskrat population success and he has demonstrated an effect of muskrat activity on the wetland plant community. He has a co-authored a publication with his advisors on the muskrat herbivory effects in Ecosphere coming out soon!

Anna Conklyn (PhD candidate, with volunteer James Farrell) show a poster at the Ichthyologist for a Day community event. Anna continues her important research on invasive round goby with a goal of understanding its role as a reservoir for VHS and other aspects of their biology including sex ratio, size and age structure. Anna presented her research at NYS an IJC commissioners’ event and at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in 2020. She expanded her work to test other species as potential viral reservoirs and is examining its prevalence and fish health in multiple common species.

Iman Pakzad (MS candidate) A new invasive fish species to the Great Lakes is the Tubenose Goby and it is expanding within the St. Lawrence ecosystem and is the focus of Iman’s graduate research. Its role in the nearshore food web is being studied by examining diet and isotopic signature to determine its trophic position and food sources. This information is being used in concert with measurements of mercury, a environmental contaminant, and compared to levels in Round Goby, another invasive fish that has restructured the river’s food web. These estimates will allow examination of the effect of mercury bioaccumulation into the predator fish (perch, bass, pike and walleye) that humans may consume.

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Max Wilder (PhD candidate) A new tool is being developed with an ability to detect muskellunge without netting or handling that will aid in better understanding of its distribution. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a method where genetic material that is continually being shed by organisms can be sampled in the environment and detected using molecular tools including primers and amplification. To validate this procedure, Max conduced an experiment by measuring DNA shed during the early development of muskellunge, from the embryo through juvenile stage, in controlled conditions. He hopes to apply the method to field sites where sampling of adults and young muskellunge occurs as part of the TIBS program as a validation step.

Outreach Science interpretation and outreach are an important part of our mission. Numerous activities at TIBS engage groups of a variety of ages and demographics. Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students and staff integrate interpretation into their work with informal and formal outreach to the community and beyond. Many presentations are given to inform the public of the ecological status of the river. TIBS activities offer information dissemination about the aquatic system and our active research Save The River, In The Schools program programs. https://www.savetheriver.org/what-we-do/in-the- schools-program/ brings students and teachers from the Lafargeville NY Central Schools to learn about the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes ecology. TIBS students provide a series of interactive and hands-on learning modules including Invasive Species Ecology, Lower Trophic Levels and Fisheries Management.

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The Thousand Islands Land Trust partners with TIBS for its Ichthyologist For a Day KidTrek https://tilandtrust.org/explore/treks-camp. Children and their parents visit the field station on Governors Island and experience what it is to do aquatic ecology in an interactive and hands on look at aquatic diversity with a focus on fish. A fishing clinic at the TIBS dock is also part of the experience and many kids learn about proper handling and release - some catch their first fish!

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Facility upgrades

New wet lab facilities installed in 2019 for the culture of muskellunge include large flow-through tanks and ultraviolet sterilization, filtration and other upgrades to feeding systems. Plans are underway to install new LED lights and repair a pumping station.

Upgrades made by the ESF Physical Plant and TIBS staff include a new sidewalk and pads for the TIBS outdoor experimental tank system (BELOW LEFT). The Cean Aquatic Researcher Building has a new bedroom and window remodeled from unused space (MIDDLE), the graduate cabin received a new foundation and deck (RIGHT).

Contact

John M. Farrell, Ph.D. Professor of Aquatic and Fisheries Science Director, Thousand Islands Biological Station SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Department of Environmental and Forest Biology 1 Forestry Drive, 250 Illick Hall, Syracuse NY 13210 Phone: (315) 470-6990; Fax: (315) 470-6934 https://www.esf.edu/faculty/farrell/ St. Lawrence Campus: Thousand Islands Biological Station, Governor's Island 39205 Farm Road, Clayton NY 13624 Phone: (315) 243-5978; Email: [email protected]; Website: https://www.esf.edu/tibs/

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Appendix J.

Annual Report for Cranberry Lake Biological Station – Summer 2019 Michael Whalen, co-Director & Office Manager Margaret Roberts, co-Director & Academic Program Coordinator

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Contents

1. Narrative a. Leadership b. Academics c. Student Life d. Graduate Research e. Community Engagement f. Financial Aid g. Work Study Accomplishments h. Food Services i. Physical Plant j. Marine Operations k. CNS l. Ranger School m. Campus Administration n. Budgeting o. Items Missing from this Report p. Recommendations for the Future q. Message from the Directors r. t-shirts s. Instructors

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Narrative

Leadership – In 2019 the Cranberry Lake Biological Station (CLBS) began a transition in leadership. Over the previous three years the Station was directed by Dr. Melissa Fierke – with the assistance of Dr. Robin Kimmerer as Co-Director in 2016. In 2019, Dr. Fierke assumed the role of Chair in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology (EFB), necessitating recruitment of a new Director at CLBS. As an interim step, Dr. Fierke recruited Michael Zarfos and Margaret Roberts. Both were PhD candidates in EFB in the lab of Dr. Martin Dovciak (Mr. Zarfos is co-advised by Dr. Shannon Farrell).

These new Co-Directors had extensive experience at CLBS from the previous three summers. Both had instructed (sometimes in tandem) the “Adirondack plant ecology” section of the team- taught course EFB 202 (Ecological Monitoring and Biodiversity Assessment) – EFB’s flagship course in field ecology. In 2018 Mr. Zarfos had also instructed the “orienteering” section of EFB 202, whilst Ms. Roberts had served as the Station’s Business Manager. Mr. Zarfos was previously a Grober Fellow with the Station.

In 2019 each took on the position of Co-Director, with Mr. Zarfos and Ms. Roberts assuming additional roles as Business Manager and Academic Program Coordinator respectively. Each was also responsible for administering first aid and managing trips to off-Station health services: Ms. Roberts was certified as a Wilderness First Responder whilst Mr. Zarfos was certified in Wilderness First Aid. Each also instructed sections of EFB 202, Ms. Roberts covering statistics, sampling methods, plant ecology, and project advising, and Mr. Zarfos covering orienteering and also plant ecology and project advising.

Academics – In many ways the 2019 season at CLBS resembled those of recent summers. We hosted three sessions of EFB 202 (three weeks each), a session of BOCES (one week), and a session of four electives (two weeks total): Field Ethnobotany, Ecology of Adirondack Fishes, Ecology of Wetland Plant Communities, and Field Herpetology. In total, 175 students attended EFB 202, 37 attended our elective session, and 23 students attended BOCES. It should be noted that many previous summers hosted only two sessions of EFB 202, a strategy designed to account for a cyclical demand for the course. The 2019 electives session was under enrolled. However financial analysis suggested that the session would remain revenue positive, whilst cutting it likely would be harmful given that many staff are guaranteed work regardless of whether students are on Station.

Students in EFB 202 excelled in their research projects. Some dedicated impressive time and effort, venturing deep into the Five Ponds Wilderness to test remote ponds for chytrid fungus, circumnavigating the Cranberry 50 collecting data on forest species composition, remapping the vegetation of Sears Island – last mapped by students in 1965, and testing the Theory of Island Biogeography with stumps inundated by lake damming. Both the BOCES program and electives received enthusiastic reviews from students and instructors.

Student Life – Many students used their free time to explore the Station’s 1000 acres, hike the Cranberry 50 (one in only 36 hours), fish in our lake, ponds, and streams, play volleyball and ultimate frisbee on the green, and enjoy cool dips and warm fires on the lakeside. Evenings

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included night hikes with instructors searching for owls, sampling amphibians, observing bats, and live trapping mammals. Some students ventured out independently in search of more elusive species like mink and porcupine. Students also joined our visiting Ornithologist, Alan Belford, for movie and game nights in Sanderson lodge (a log cabin constructed by students in the early 20th century).

Several students stayed on Station between sessions to volunteer. They helped to map and mark trail hazards, improve existing trails, and resurrect 1 ½ trails that had been abandoned to nature for many years. Since most of the Station’s trails were constructed by students in the early 20th century, these volunteers continued and refreshed a rich legacy of creativity and exploration.

Graduate Research – In 2019 CLBS continued to host the > 30-year white throated sparrow genetics and behavior study headed by Dr. Rusty Gosner of the Department of Biology at Indiana State University. The “sparrow team” occupied Faculty Cabin 2, a room in the TA Lodge, and several benches in the Grober Laboratory (converted from a bathroom facility around 2008). They continued to use CLBS parking space for vehicles and dock space for their boat. In addition to housing and lab space, the team purchased gas and oil from CLBS. In 2019 the sparrow team was made up of Nicholas Garby, Zoe Delefortrie, Sarah Moore, Theodore Graham, and Corinne Greenberg.

Each year EFB awards the Grober Fellowship to a graduate student conducting research in the environs around Cranberry Lake. This fellowship is funded via a $300,000 gift made by the Samuel Grober estate in 2009–2010. In 2019 this award was made to Rea Manderino, a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Dylan Parry, studying Compsilura concinnata, a biological control species originally introduced to reduce the impact of gypsy moth, but which may impact native silk moths. Ms. Manderino used the Grober Laboratory at CLBS to rear caterpillars for experimental treatments at several sites on station and throughout the Adirondacks. She was accompanied by an undergraduate field assistant from ESF, Emily Booth. During her time on Station, Ms. Manderino graciously taught the field entomology section of EFB 202 and led nighttime insect monitoring exercises with students.

Community Engagement – As much as it might have felt like one, the Station was not an island in 2019; it hosted visitors and engaged the surrounding community. During the first weekend of each EFB 202 session we hosted the families and friends of students for a field day of games and competitions. These events attracted about 40 visitors each and included such activities as a cookout, Director led nature hike, crosscut sawing led by members of the ESF Woodsmen team, fire building and water boiling contest, tug of war, capture the flag, and races in the Station’s ~100 year old wooden war canoes. These visits offered an opportunity for parents to bring forgotten supplies to our students, gain an appreciation for the Station and its mission, and to purchase souvenirs from the Station store.

During two sessions CLBS again hosted ESF’s historian Kevin Reynolds, who regaled students with images and stories from the Station’s nearly 100-year history. We were also visited by the spirit of a 1923 alumna, Arthur J. Roscoe “Art.” Art’s daughter Joyce, granddaughter Chris, and grandson-in-law Steve Fay, journeyed to the Station to deliver a canoe paddle signed by Art and

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his classmates in 1923 along with a memorial plaque. These were hung alongside other “class paddles” in the Main Office.

The Station directors sought to express their appreciation for local nonprofits in 2019 by making modest donations to the local hospital, library, historical society, conservation organizations, and fire department. Some visitors were kind enough to donate funds in support of the Station. Michael Del Negro donated $500 after an impromptu visit to the Station with his family, who own a camp on a nearby island in the lake. Dr. Kristen Zarfos M.D. and her husband William A. Vasiliou also donated $500 after falling in love with the Station during a weekend visit.

The Station also created its first social media presence via Instagram. The account – found at www.instagram/clbs.esf and currently curated by Mr. Zarfos – hosts student and staff photos of the Station, its surrounding wilderness features, and student educational and recreational activities. Instagram is currently the most popular social media site with Generation Z (students born in the 1990s and early 2000s) and is thus an ideal platform with which to reach recent alumni, current students, and several classes yet to enroll at ESF. Using many Adirondack and Cranberry Lake related hashtags, the page’s content is visible to many residents and tourists in the Adirondacks. It provides an additional tool for those looking to promote the Station to students, researchers, and philanthropists.

Financial Aid – This summer continued a recent tradition of internal philanthropy in support of students in financial need. Dr. Melissa Fierke awarded $9,030.00 of needs-based scholarships to eight students out of the Cranberry Lake Fund – curated by the ESF College Foundation. This fund was further capitalized by donations by Dr. Zarfos, Mr. Del Negro, and Mr. Zarfos and by revenues from CLBS t-shirt and sweatshirt sales.

The CLBS t-shirt program was initiated by Dr. Fierke in 2016. Each year a student from the previous summer is selected based on the quality and breadth of the illustrations contained in their EFB 202 journal (the journal is 30% of their 202 grade) and offered the chance to create the following year’s design. Shirt colors, sizes, and quantities are determined based on previous sales data and a purchase is made from Holy Shirt (a small business in Syracuse) using funds from the Cranberry Lake Fund. The proceeds of shirt and sweatshirt sales are then deposited back into this fund. Since CLBS students and visitors purchase this apparel, they help to support future students in financial need. In 2019 our artist was Jennifer L. Brown. We sold 150 CLBS t-shirts and 35 sweatshirts for a total revenue of $3,816.00 and net revenue of $1,278.25.

Work Study Activities – The station was graced with five undergraduate Federal Work-Study students in 2019. Three worked for most of the summer (one with Physical Plant and two in the Office), one worked for about ⅔ of the summer (with Food Services) and two worked for about a month each (one in the Office and one with Physical Plant). Federal Work-Studies are essential to the operations of CLBS. The numbers we had in 2019 were largely sufficient, though an additional three work studies (one in each department) might have reduced worker fatigue.

In the kitchen, the presence of a work study took considerable strain off of a light staff at the beginning of the summer. During the first couple weeks of CLBS the Ranger School continues to run programming on their campus. Since CLBS Food Services are synonymous with Ranger

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School Food Services this results in a reduction of staff at both facilities and the necessity - when part time and Work-Study staff are not available - for full time staff to work overtime. Thus, the arrival of our kitchen Work-Study was an important development. This Work-Study also went above and beyond in giving staff access to the kitchen and specific food items during those interim days between sessions where regular Food Service staff were not on Station.

Our Work-Studies in Physical plant assisted in both daily tasks and special projects. Some of the former included prepping cabins for students, faculty, and visitors, managing trash, cleaning and stocking student bathrooms, and prepping and delivering firewood, while the latter included staining decks and helping to disassemble the Forester (an old vessel that may be repaired or scrapped) for shipment of parts to a contractor.

Office Work-Studies are essential to the academic program and student life of the Station. They assist with student check in, activity set up on field days, hosting game and movie nights for students, printing notice boards, and printing and assembling packets of station and student information for instructors. Some of the most important work done in the office is the inventory and dissemination of research and classroom equipment, store items, bedding materials, and library books. Upon arrival at the station and then continuously throughout the summer, the Office Work-Studies conduct these inventories and update the Business Manager on what materials are in high demand and need replacing.

Together with the Business Manager, the Office Work-Studies make sure that classrooms are set up with the necessary materials for each rotating instructor. This means switching setting up and cleaning up materials sometimes every two to four days - a schedule that requires considerable organization and initiative to avoid errors. During the beginning of each session there is often a rush of students to the Office store to purchase course materials such as a journal, field guides, and coloring pencils. Students who have forgotten gear or who need to do laundry will borrow or purchase those materials. During the final days of each session student research groups will visit the office to borrow library books with which for form their hypotheses and formulate their sampling designs. They will also rent out materials for gathering and analyzing data. It is up to the Business Manager and Office Work-Studies to make sure that accurate records are kept and materials retrieved at the end of the session.

Previous Office teams have kept track of these inventories using a mix of Google Docs and DropBox, but in 2019 we migrated these living documents over to Google Docs exclusively. This allows multiple people to easily update spreadsheets with inventory and transaction information while enabling recovery of old data when needed. During times of internet outages local copies can be kept and uploaded once service is restored.

Main Office Physical Plant Food Services Jordan Card Halee Moellering Kristal Shands Miranda Gregory Destiny Santos-Ferrer Taylor-Sierra Watson

Food Services – In 2019 Food Services was run by Sherry Perrault. Sherry had previous experience in this department and managed a successful transition between operations at the

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Ranger School, dual operations between both facilities, and sole operations at CLBS. Though a full analysis could not be completed before season’s end due to data availability limitations, every indication was that Ms. Perrault reduced food costs for the station substantially (~60%) compared to previous years.

Food Services provided our students with hot breakfasts on weekdays, and a sandwich buffet and hot dinners on all days. Lunch fixings - available at breakfast - are essential on weekends for students interested in going out on long research or camping excursions. We sought to reduce costs by having Co-Directors and the Food Service Work-Study put out breakfast materials on weekends (Food Service staff would arrive to put out hot brunch) and all meal materials on transition days between sessions. The Food Service team also provided lunch to visitors on field days and was careful to meet all our student’s dietary needs.

Food Service Staff: Cook Food Service Worker 2 Food Service Worker 1 Roxanne Baker Crystal Morse Charlotte Hamilton Margret Trembley Rita Thorton Madelyn Lawrence Jonathan Perrault Wyatt Simmons

Physical Plant – As with Food Services, Physical Plant was run by a Ranger School employee - Craig Perrault. Mr. Perrault split his time between RS and CLBS, overseeing the maintenance of facilities, vehicles, boats, and contributing to logistics for the station. Both the Physical Plant and Food Services teams were essential to the operations and maintenance of the Station. Physical Plant repaired important systems in the kitchens, faculty cabins and TA lodge, and the water pump that supplies the entire Station. They repaired a collapsed roof in the old ice house, maintained our emergency generator, and removed the engine from the old Forester for off- campus evaluation. Both Mr. Perrault and another RS year-round employee, Jay Lawrence, served as on-call boat pilots enabling us to transport students to the hospital at odd hours and to ferry students and guests to and from the station on weekends. Additionally, Brad Fisk, a SUNY ESF Electrician from the Syracuse campus visited CLBS for several days to replace all light fixtures with high efficiency LEDs.

CLBS-Specific Physical Plant Staff: Boats: Pilot and Maintenance Lyle “Sarge” Boss John Dragun

Facilities: Cleaning and Maintenance Edward Fluker Justin Duchano

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Marine Operations – Life at CLBS revolves in large part around Cranberry Lake. The station is isolated from roads by the lake, it uses the lake for research and recreation, and the lake presents logistical and safety considerations into all our operations. In 2019 CLBS had access to several small power boats (“kickers”) for use in teaching and student research, two large pontoon boats, a boat dedicated to transporting Food Service and Physical Plant staff, three medium sized boats dedicated to student and instructor logistics, two boats used in physical plant operations, and a low capacity barge. This fleet was mostly sufficient, lending us extra capacity to account for break- downs, flexible capabilities to address inclement weather, transport student luggage or trash, moving heavy objects, make fast emergency trips, teach large groups in the water, and access shallow corners of the lake.

Physical Plant and Food Service logistics were managed by their respective department heads. Logistics for CLBS students and instructors were coordinated by the Business Manager, primarily with the station’s two Pilots. Schedules were maintained in a Google Doc spreadsheet which was regularly updated, printed, and posted. Further digitization to take advantage of Google Doc’s live updating features would improve the efficiency of this system.

Ranger School – In addition to sharing staff, Dr. Michael Bridgen, Director of the Ranger School accommodated CLBS’ internet needs during an outage at the end of the third session. Students planning their research projects were ferried to the RS computer lab to conduct literature searches for their projects. CLBS also rented RS vans for elective field trips. The proximity of the RS and CLBS campuses has the potential to enhance and supplement each program.

Computing Network Services – Under the leadership of James Sahm, SUNY ESF CNS has built an extensive wireless network at CLBS that provides high speed internet for research and academic purposes to students, faculty, and staff. Computer infrastructure includes a computer lab for students composed of ~12 laptops loaded with Minitab, laptops and computers for the Main Office, and a series of wireless hotspots protected by surge protectors. Some of this equipment was burnt out during a power surge at the end of session 3 and will need to be replaced.

Campus Administration – Running CLBS generally involves coordination with many different parts of the ESF administration beyond those listed above. Here are a few examples:

Environmental and Forest Biology: gear storage and lending (Faith Ashmore - projector and go- pros, Nancy Walker-Kopp - microscopes, Patrick McHale - YSI, Ronald Giegerich – mammals/skulls), administrative assistance

Business Office: budgeting, purchasing, travel authorizations, tuition and fees

Bursar: enrollment

Physical Plant and Facilities: infrastructure improvements (Gary Peden), vehicle rentals

College Foundation: scholarships, t-shirts, donations, Grober Fellowship

Student Affairs: college policies (Mary Triano), student well-being, disciplinary issues, Title IX, counselling services (Ruth Larson)

Human Resources and Payroll: hiring and compensating staff and instructors

Financial Aid: Federal Work-Study program, scholarships

Moon Library: ordering books

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Below are the 2016, 2017, 2018, & 2019 CLBS t-shirt designs:

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EFB202 INSTRUCTORS 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 Steve Carlisle, Soils Dr. Katherine Cleary, Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY Potsdam: Mammology Dr. Melissa Fierke, Associate Professor ESF: Sampling, Entomology, & Statistics Jess Goretzke, Aquatics Amy Hudon: Mycology Patty Kashian: Mycology 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 Patti Kashian, Mycology Dr. Mary Beth Kolozsvary, Professor, Sienna College: Herpetology Tom Mackey, Nature Journaling Rea Mandarino, Entomology Dr. Gregory McGee, Assistant Professor ESF: Research Projects & Plant Ecology Chris Nack, PhD Graduate Student ESF: Aquatics Marissa Nolan, Masters Graduate Student ESF: Orienteering Carrick Palmer, Aquatics Dr. Dylan Parry, Associate Professor ESF: Entomology Margaret Roberts, PhD Graduate Student ESF: Plant Ecology Brittney Rogers, Nature Journaling Dr. Vanessa Rohas, Mammals Melivin Samson, Aquatics Chuck Schirmer, Soils Emily Siwik, Nature Journaling Kayla Smith, Aquatics Claudia Victoroff, 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 Petzky, ESF PhD Graduate Student Adirondack Fishes: Dr. Stephanie Johnson & Dr. Dan Gurdak

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