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Spring 2017 YARE

Two Youth Aquatic Resource Education (YARE) Workshops – Feb 23rd at SUNY Morrisville had  20 Student Conservation Association and Excelsior Conservation Corps members and again on April 23rd at Honeywell Visitor Center on Onondaga Lake had 25 SUNY ESF students (co instructed with Tom Hughes by SUNY ESF PhD student Molly Welsh). Tom Hughes is... Read More

Newsletter Blog 3-15-17

White Sucker Behavior: contributed by Ben Marcy-Quay At this year’s Adirondack Research Forum, Benjamin Marcy-Quay (Cornell University Adirondack Fishery Research Program) presented data indicating that white suckers (Catostomus commersonii) undertake diel movement between lakes. PIT-tagged suckers were detected moving across an antenna array located in a narrow channel between two Adirondack lakes on a nightly... Read More

April 16, 2016 YARE / Creek Freeks

  The YARE Creek Freaks Workshop on April 16th at Hartwick College Pine Lake Environmental Campus was a success!  We had 19 participants, including 2 staff/faculty from SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick, 7 students from Hartwick, and 10 students from SUNY Oneonta with several from the Lake Management program. Samantha Roth, formerly of Cornell and the... Read More

Save The Date 1-14-2016

The Southern New England Chapter of the American Fisheries Society will hold its 2016 Winter Meeting on the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut on 14 January, 2016. There will be morning and afternoon oral presentation sessions, lunch and a poster session. Co-hosts Syma Ebbin, Hannes Baumann, Eric Schultz and Jason Vokoun Syma... Read More

Fisheries Magazine – July 2015

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May 2-3, 2015 Creek Freaks and YARE Workshop

On May 2 & 3, over 20 teachers, educators and students gathered at the Cornell Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake in Central NY for a joint workshop on Youth Aquatic Resource Education (YARE).  The workshop featured hands-on instruction and training for teaching youth about water quality monitoring, aquatic ecology and fishing.  These educational topics... Read More