CBFS News
Recent insights, news and events from the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point
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The Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently funded a Cornell DNRE and CBFS group for a new two-year project “Evaluating mysid abundance in Lake Michigan using two decades of fisheries acoustic data.” This project will involve DNRE graduate...
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The New York Chapter and Northeastern Division of the American Fisheries Society annual meeting was held in Saratoga, New York, from February 4-6. Seven Cornell Biological Field Station (CBFS) representatives attended, including Tom Brooking...
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Kelsey Alvarez del Castillo published the second paper documenting her studies on round goby in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society in January 2026. Round Goby are a highly invasive fish species that have recently invaded the...
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Kayden Nasworthy’s paper on the dark refuge for mysids was accepted last week in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. He used uncrewed surface vessels – Saildrones – to collect hydroacoustic data in Lake Michigan and Lake...
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Sol Lisboa, Rebecca Schneider, Lars Rudstam and Todd Walter published a paper on the phosphorus budget of Oneida Lake, and the sources of P into the lake over the summer months. This was based on Lisboa’s PhD work on Oneida Lake. They found that...