CBFS 2024 Intern Projects ArcGIS StoryMap: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6c4bf7579d33433ca57c9838ba23f3f7 CBFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cbfs.oneidalake/ One of my Facebook posts got further coverage from Cornell Chronicle and Syracuse Post-Standard reporters! Cornell Chronicle article by Blaine Friedlander: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/07/mussels-helping-mayflies-flex-return-oneida-lake Syracuse Post-Standard article by Steve Featherstone: ...
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ArcGIS StoryMap CBFS has run a summer internship program every year since 1978. This summer, ten interns conducted independent research projects through the station, which I covered with posts on the CBFS Facebook page. ...
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When Madison County 4-H reached out to me in May expressing interest in holding a youth open house at Shackelton Point this summer, I instantly shared this interest and decided to make it happen. ...
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Adirondacks Field Station This week I toured Cornell’s Little Moose Field Station located just outside of Old Forge with some other CBFS interns. The station is named after its nearest lake, Little Moose Lake, ...
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This week I got the opportunity to captain a table on behalf of CBFS at the Madison County Fair in Brookfield. It was great to hear what attendees thought about Oneida Lake and to ...
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Osprey Nest Ospreys are birds of prey that eat primarily fish. To hunt, they dive feet first into shallow water and pick up prey with their talons. In the past ospreys suffered from human ...
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Sunken Treasure This week while collecting lake bottom samples with an Ekman grab, we caught an “Oneida Lake Pancake.” There are debates among geologists as to how exactly these naturally forming disks are made. What ...
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4-H Fun On Tuesday I embraced my inner landlubber and headed inland to Madison CCE headquarters in Morrisville. There I got to meet the CCE staff and interns to help plan out the Madison ...
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Meet the Terns Common Terns are relatively small water birds divided into two populations: inland and coastal. Both have seen population fluctuations in the past hundred years from human activity like hunting and DDT. ...
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About the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point Shackelton Point is a small peninsula in Madison County on the south shore of Oneida Lake. Before it became the Cornell Biological Field Station (CBFS), it ...
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Ahoy! My name is James Hoehner, and this summer I will take you through the research happening at the Cornell Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake and beyond. This week I got a chance ...
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