SUNY New Paltz, Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology Research
Lake ice is a common phenomena in lakes around the northern hemisphere particularly in temperate regions and more northern in latitude. Phenology is nature’s calendar – the seasonal timing of natural trends like when birds migrate or plants flower. Lake
I am pleased to share a new study that I worked on with Dr. Bella Oleksy (Cary Institute, @isabella_oleksy). We examined a 35-yr temperature record of Mohonk Lake and found lake stratification is getting longer + stronger, and responding to
I am excited to share our new paper in Nature Climate Change led by @benmkraemer along w/ @rmpilla and other international collaborators. The paper (https://nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01060-3?fbclid…) details the shifts in thermal habitats (temperatures needed by species to survive) occurring with climate
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