CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION: W. N. Harman.....................................................................………………….1

 

ONGOING STUDIES:

OTSEGO LAKE WATERSHED MONITORING:

2005 Otsego Lake water levels.  W. N. Harman and K. S. Ernst....………................………4

Otsego Lake limnological monitoring, 2005.  M. F. Albright............…….…................….......6

Chlorophyll a analysis of Otsego Lake, summer 2005. S.J. Zurmuhlen...............................16

A survey of Otsego Lake's zooplankton community, summer 2005.

        T. Somerville  and M.F. Albright........................................................................................23

Water quality monitoring of five major tributaries in the Otsego Lake watershed, summer,2005. E.W. Reynolds........................................…....…..........................................................................................…30

 

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER MONITORING:

Monitoring the water quality and fecal coliform in the upper Susquehanna River,       summer, 2005. E. Bauer........................................................................................................................42

           

            ARTHROPOD MONITORING

            Mosquito Studies: Upper site- Collection of Anopheles walkeri Theobald.

                    W.L. Butts............................................................................................................................51

 

VERTEBRATE MONITORING:

Avian observations -Greenwoods Conservancy. W.L. Butts.....…...............................55

 

REPORTS:

Species richness of Otsego Lake submergent macrophytes: A chrononlogy 1935-2005. W.N. Harman…...............................................................................................................................................57

Damage to Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) due to herbivory by            Eurychiopsis lecontei, Acentria ephemerella, and Cricotopus myriophylli Otsego   Lake, summer 2005. D.L. Alfred....…...……...............................................................................................61

Hydroacoustic survey of Otsego Lake, 2005. T.E. Brooking and M.D. Cornwell...............70

Diet analysis of predator fish on Otsego lake prior and subsequent to walleye            (Sander vitreus) stocking, 2005. T. Somerville.............................................................................75

Summer 2005 Trap net monitoring of the fish community in the littoral zone at            Brookwood Point and Rat Cove, E.W. Reynolds and T.J. Somerville…..................................84

Procedural overview of Lachet QuikChem FIA+^® autoanalyzer, H.Meehan.............................................................................................................................................91

Continued monitoring of the dynamics of Moe Pond after the introduction of            smallmouth bass (Micropterous salmoides) and largemouth bass (Micropterous dolomieui).,K.Dresser.....................................................................................................................104

Monitoring the dynamics of Galerucella spp, and purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)        in Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary and along the Otsego Lake shoreline,summer 2005. H. Meehan.............................................................……................…..114

Survey of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) veligers flowing down the Susquehanna   River downstream of Goodyear Lake, summer 2005.T.Horvath&D.Alfred ...........................................................................................................................................................124

Preliminary archaeological investigations at the Thayer Homestead. D.P. Staley..........127

Archaeological Survey of the Thayer Farm: Survey of the hop house and dairy barn

            R.B. Walker.................................................................................................................135

The use of aquatic insects and benthic macroinvertebrates communities to assess water     quality upstream and downstream of the Village of Stamford wastewater treatment facility, K.Suozzo.....................................................................................141

History of ice on/ice off dates for Otsego Lake, NY, M. Altman.........................................151