Oneida Lake and other inland lakes

Research on Oneida Lake is a major component of the CBFS program. This program was led by Zoe Almeida, Tony VanDeValk, Tom Brooking and Lars Rudstam (fish and fisheries), Rudstam (limnology), and Jennifer Arnold and Stephen Oswald (waterbirds). Other researchers working with us on Oneida Lake in 2025 include Sol Lisboa and Rebecca Schneider (groundwater contributions to the phosphorus budget), Alexander Karatayev and Lyuba Burlakova (mollusks and effects of round goby), Dave Matthews and Susan O’Donnell (coupled hydrodynamics-ecology models) and Todd Walter (watershed models). The Oneida program depends on our dedicated research staff of Cameron Davis, Mete Rice, Samantha LaSalle, Kristen Holeck, and Christopher Hotaling. In 2025 we also had help from Tabitha O’Brien, Ethan Caputa, Kalie Talbot-Evangelow, Alex Allen, and Sean McPherson making this year a very active year for Oneida Lake research. Alex Koeberle, Rudstam, Sethi and Watkins were also active in Finger Lakes research in 2025, in particular a study comparing causes and consequences of alewife collapse comparing Keuka Lake and Otsego Lake and studies on evaluating native fish restoration potential in Keuka Lake. Oneida Lake is a site member of the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) and we are part of several research projects comparing Oneida Lake with lakes across the world.