Limited evidence of bias in acoustic surveys determined by surface vessel

News

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
  • Fish
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Big ship, tiny plankton

News

In April and August, scientists from the Cornell Biological Field Station board the US Environmental Protection Agency vessel the R/V Lake Guardian for a four week survey of all five Great Lakes. We collect samples for zooplankton and mysid...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Organisms
  • Natural Resources
  • Fish
Large boat used for Great Lakes research

Paul Smith’s College graduate students complete projects at CBFS

News

This summer, seven Master’s program students from Paul Smith’s College completed graduate research projects in collaboration with CBFS Shackelton Point. The students designed, executed, and reported on their projects over a year-long period...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources
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Danielle Heaney: Producing the perfect pickle

Field Note

Danielle Heaney, a graduate student in the lab of Olga Padilla-Zakour, interim director of Cornell AgriTech and director of the Cornell Food Venture Center (CFVC), has been working to improve an American consumer favorite: pickles. Collaborating...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
  • Food Science
Graduate students Danielle Heaney and April Huang pose with cucumbers they are preparing for research at the High Pressure Processing Validation Center.

PRO-DAIRY Agriservice Award

News

Sunnyside Farms, Scipio Center, and John Lehr, Farm Credit East, received the 2023 PRO-DAIRY Agriservice Award presented by NYS Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball and Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY Director Dr. Thomas Overton during the Dairy Day...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
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Chobani teaches interns about yogurt production, dairy sustainability

News

Chobani and Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) began a partnership in 2020 seeking to develop, test, and incentivize use of sustainability indicators for dairy farms. Recently, NMSP and PRO-DAIRY interns had the opportunity...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Dairy
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Saildrones and underwater drones deployed for summer surveys

News

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
  • Fish
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Sunoj Shajahan: bridging engineering and agriculture

Field Note

Sunoj Shajahan is a research associate with Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP). With a background in agricultural engineering, he joined the NMSP team with the goal of eventually taking a faculty position. This fall, Shajahan...
  • Animal Science
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Field Crops
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Round goby consumption of mussels

News

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
  • Fish
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How Cornell is helping grow Edenesque's plant-based milk empire

Spotlight

Leslie Woodward founded Edenesque with the same mantra she followed during her two-decade career as a chef in some of New York’s finest restaurants – source ingredients locally and make high-quality foods that are delicious and good for you...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Puerto Rican students prepare for careers in agricultural sustainability

Field Note

A joint project between Cornell and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) is preparing agricultural students to develop skills, knowledge and abilities in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management for Puerto Rico...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
  • Global Development
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Empowered engagement: students making a difference locally and globally

News

Central to the Global Development undergraduate major is an eight-week, field-based internship that empowers students to address a global development challenge. Each year, more than 50 students journey to over 19 countries and across the United...
  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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