Our new peer-reviewed paper is out in the journal Inland Waters, the flagship journal for the International Society of Limnology. Lakes have historically been considered dormant during the winter when the top of many northern hemisphere lakes freeze over. We had a

Our new peer-reviewed paper is out in the journal Scientific Reports published by Nature Research. We collected data from lakes around the world to see how they have changed in their water temperatures over a 40-year period (1970-2009). The surface waters of

We published Lake Sunapee buoy data used for several of our papers (Bruesewitz et al. 2015; Richardson et al. 2016) in an open online data repository called the Environmental Data Initiative. See here, https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/846a36bf6fd704e508511e5f8a2ab3b5, for meteorological and water sensor data

Our new peer-reviewed paper is out in the journal Inland Waters. We studied how nitrogen and phosphorus can limit phytoplankton growth in freshwater lakes. We performed identical experiments in 16 lakes across northeastern United States; we found that phytoplankton communities

Our new peer-reviewed paper is in the September issue of the journal Freshwater Science. We have been studying Lake Minnewaska for many years now and found successive (serial) introductions of two fish species – first a minnow (Golden shiner) followed

This past year, Livi Carlen and Luke Barnell (SUNY New Paltz Graphic Design ’19) worked with my lab to create a short documentary titled “Algal Growth in Freshwater Lakes.” We detail how the synergy of climate change and excess nutrients

Heather Wander (Biology ’18) just recently graduated after a long and successful time in my lab. Just to highlight some of her accomplishments, Heather presented her research at multiple national meetings including the Ecological Society of America 2017 meeting in

In 2011, two large tropical cyclone passed over northeastern North America. We examined the effects of the large storm systems had on lakes along the storm tracks from the Atlantic coast inland through our region. We collected data on the

Two Digital Media and Journalism students, Conor Donachie (DMJ ’18) and Alana Roolaart (DMJ ’18) completed two different documentaries on my lab’s local and regional research. The documentaries are titled ‘Acid Rain and Ecological Change – A Brief History of

Here are two new data publications out of the Mohonk Preserve Daniel Smiley Research Center (DSRC) in collaboration with my lab. The publications came about as a result of the NSF-funded internship I co-hosted along with the DSRC.  This internship