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2002 Annual Report

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION:  W. N. Harman:        1

ONGOING STUDIES:

OTSEGO LAKE WATERSHED MONITORING:

2002 Otsego Lake water levels.

W.N. Harman and K.S. Ernst:        4

Otsego Lake limnological monitoring, 2002. 

M.F. Albright:        6

Chlorophyll a concentrations in Otsego Lake, summer 2002.

K. Wayman:        16

Water quality monitoring of five major tributaries in the Otsego Lake watershed, summer 2002.

H. Meehan:        21

Fecal coliform monitoring in Otsego Lake, summer 2002.  

J. Martin:        29

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER MONITORING:

Monitoring the fecal coliform bacteria and water quality in the upper Susquehanna River, summer 2002. 

S. Schlierman:        34

ARTHROPOD MONITORING:

Mosquito Studies: Survey for treehole breeding mosquitoes.

W.L. Butts:        43

Mosquito studies: Effectiveness of two models of light traps in sampling low level mosquito populations.

W.L. Butts:        47

VERTEBRATE MONITORING:

Bird list - Greenwoods Conservancy as of 1/1/03.

E. Peterson:        50 

REPORTS: 

Monitoring the effects of the Galerucella beetle as a biocontrol agent of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary, summer 2002.

H. Meehan and M. F. Albright:        54

Continued monitoring of Moe Pond after the unauthorized stocking of smallmouth and largemouth bass.

R.J. Hamway:        66

An update on lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) spawning activities in Otsego Lake.

W.T. Tibbits:        81

Walleye (Stizostidion vitreum) reintroduction update: Walleye stocking, gill netting and electrofishing summary, 2000-2.

M. D. Cornwell:        91

Description of predator diets prior to and subsequent to walleye (Steizostedion vitreum) stocking during the day and at night in Otsego Lake.

B. McDonnell and M.D. Cornwell:        98

Summary of the trap net alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) catch in Rat Cove: 1989-2002.

M.S. Gray and J.R. Foster:        106

Alewife abundance, growth, and mortality in Otsego Lake 1996-2002.

D. M. Warner, M.D. Cornwell, W. Tibbits and M. Gray:        121

Rat Cove and Brookwood Point littoral fish survey, 2002.  

K. Wayman:        130

A survey of Otsego Lake zooplankton, summer 2002.

J. Martin:        137

The recent history of Otsego Lake, New York, as determined from analysis of diatoms in Otsego Lake.

M.R. Arnold:        145

First report of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in Canadarago Lake. T.G. Horvath and P.H. Lord156 Longitudinal distribution of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) veligers along Eaton Brook, Madison County, New York.

T.G. Horvath and B.S. Brodie:        159

Profundal cobble benthos in Otsego Lake.

P.H. Lord and B. Durie:        166

Physiochemical survey of Thayer farm ponds.  

H. Meehan:        170

Zackow Road wetland project: Wetland plant identification and delineation.

M.S. Gray:        174

Wetland Delineation project: Little Pond, Thayer property.

W.T. Tibbits:        179

Third year of monitoring of leather-leaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata) and speckled alder (Alnus rugosa) cutting regime on plant biodiversity on Cranberry Bog.

J.M. Harman:        189

Evaluation of growth changes, related to a lake level increase, on near-lake hardwood trees at the Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary.

S. Merzig:        194

New record for Otsego Lake: Cristatella mucedo (Ectoprocta; Plumatellida; Cristatellidae).

P.H. Lord:        205

The role of the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station in the “Upper Susquehanna River watershed- Cooperstown area ecosystem restoration feasibility study and integrated environmental assessment.

S.S. Fickbohm:        206

A terrestrial invertebrate survey within the provinces of Guanecaste and San Jose, Costa Rica.

B.S. Brodie and P.G. Conde:        213

The Otsego County nitrogen budget: A county-wide denitrification footprint with a feasibility study at Cooperstown, NY.

Heather Burgess and Glenn ReDavid:        221

TECHNICAL REPORTS:

BFS Technical Report #15. Aquatic macrophyte management plan facilitation, Moraine Lake, Madison County, NY, 2002.

W.N. Harman, M.F. Albright,P.H. Lord, and J.M. Harman:        227

BFS Technical Report #16. Report on the 4^th year of monitoring along the Volney-Marcy South power line right of way in Greenwoods Conservancy, summer 2002. Report on the 4^th year of monitoring vegetative succession along the Volney-Marcy South power line right of way in Greenwoods Conservancy, summer 2002.

C.L. Tedesco:        252

A survey of arthropods along the Marcy South power line at Greenwoods Conservancy, summer 2002.

B.S. Brodie:        274

BFS Technical Report # 17. Summary of water quality monitoring of the Otsego Lake watershed: 1998-2002 (Executive Summary and Table of Contents only).

Scott S. Fickbohm:        283

BFS Technical Report # 18. Augmentation of the “aquatic macrophyte moth”(Acentria ephemerella) into Lebanon Reservoir for control of Eurasian water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and follow-up monitoring of fish, insects and water-milfoil (Executive Summary and Table of Contents only).

P.H. Lord:        288