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 Logan Lee aboard a Cornell Biological Field Station boat

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Quagga mussels – the deleterious invasive species from Eastern Europe seen throughout Oneida Lake – may provide an unexpected benefit for the life cycle of mayflies: They’re flourishing.

  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
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Acoustic surveys are a critical tool for studying fish populations and can provide fisheries-independent data on spatially extensive fish populations. However, prior work has identified fish avoidance of survey ships, presumably in response to...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources
three people launching LRAUV

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As part of a multiyear grant funded by the USGS exploring questions around bias in acoustic surveys, four drones were deployed in Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan. Two of the drones are sail and solar powered surface vessels (Saildrones), which...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources
student looking through microscope

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Anna Poslednik, an intern from 2019 at CBFS and an honors student who worked with Tom Evans, Randy Jackson, Tony VanDeValk, Tom Brooking and Lars Rudstam just published her work in the journal PLoS ONE on the use of stable isotopes to evaluate...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources