CBFS News

Recent insights, news and events from the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point

Person removing cod end of limnology net

News

Mysid shrimp populations across the Great Lakes
CBFS graduate student Toby Holda, working with Watkins, Rudstam, Boynton from CBFS, and collaborators from EPA (Scofield), Univ Michigan (Jude), NOAA (Pothoven), USGS (Warner, O’Brien) and DFO Canada (Currie, Bowen), analyzed the abundance...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Ecosystems
A male student adjusts yarn on a line drying.

News

For Cornell students studying environmental science, creating art with naturally dyed yarn, soil paintings to depict climate change and woodcuts featuring poetry brought ecology into focus.

  • Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
A woman holds up a large long yellow fish.

News

The work and accomplishments of 19 Cornell Cooperative Extension summer interns were celebrated at a reception, held Sept. 26 in the Biotechnology Building.

  • Biological Field Station
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Fish
Oneida Lake

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A three-year telemetry study focusing on the movements and habitat use of adult walleyes in Oneida Lake will be conducted beginning in the fall of 2023. Specific study objectives are: Identify walleye spawning sites that we are currently unaware...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Natural Resources
Historical marker for a carriage house

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Lars Rudstam and Taylor Brown recently participated in the 2023 Great Lakes Cisco and Lake Whitefish Early Life History Workshop, jointly organized by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission . The workshop was held from...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources
  • Fish