2006 Annual Report

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CONTENTS

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

 

ONGOING STUDIES:

         OTSEGO LAKE WATERSHED MONITORING:

             2007 Otsego Lake water levels. W.N. Harman & K.S. Ernst.........................................4

            Otsego lake limnological monitoring, 2007, M.F. Albright...........................................6

            Chlorophyll a analysis of Otsego Lake, summer 2007. S.G. Ottley.....................16

               Fecal coliform monitoring in Otsego Lake summer 2007. C.J. Bueche.....22

            A survey of Otsego Lake's zooplankton community, summer 2007. M.Albright..26

            Water quality monitoring of five major tributaries in the Otsego Lake watershed, summer 2007. C.J. Bueche..........................................................................................................33

 

        SUSQUEHANNA RIVER MONITORING:

            Monitoring water quality & fecal coliform bacteria in the upper Susquehanna River, summer 2007 . O.L. Coyle............................................................................46

 

        ARTHROPOD MONITORING:

             Mosquito Studies:Upper site-collection of Anopheles walkeri Theobald.     W.L.Butts........66

            Mosquito Studies: Goodyear Swamp surveillance. W.L.Butts..............................67

 

        VERTEBRATE MONITORING

        Heron nesting-Greenwoods Conservancy: Apparent abandonment of rookery by gread blue heron (Ardea herodias) W.L. Butts....................................................69

 

REPORTS:

           Diet analysis of predatory fish prior and subsequent to stocking walleye (Sander vitreus) in Otsego Lake. J.C. Lydon...................................................70

            Wetland vegetative assessment in Highland, Sullivan County, NY summer and fall 2007. H.A. Waterfield, C.M. Snyder and W.N. Harman        ................................   

          Survey of the pearly freshwater mussels ( Unionidae: Bivalvia) of the Susquehanna River in a reach between exits 14 and 15 of Interstate 88, Oneonta, NY. W.N. Harman and E.S. Underwood. .....................................................

    The effects of hydrodynamic forces on zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) veliger mortality in a laboratory setting. L. Crane and T. Horvath......

    New York State dragonfly and damselfly survey, 2007. Otsego and Madison Counties. C.M. Snyder. ............................................................................

    The effects of Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) on streambank stabilization in Otsego County, New York. K. Mummigatti......................................

        Hydroacoustic surveys of Otsego Lake, 2007. T.E. Brooking & M.D. Cornwell.....98

         Continued monitoring of the ecosystem dynamics of Moe Pond following the introduction of largemouth bass (Mictopterus salmoides) and smallmouth bass (M. dolomieu). E.S. Underwood, summer 2007.    .........................125

         Summer 2007 trap net monitoring of the littoral fish communities at Rat Cove and Brookwood Point. D.S. Stitch......................................................................141

            Monitoring the dynamics of Galerucella spp. and purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in the Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary and along the shorelines of Otsego, Weaver and Youngs Lakes summer,2007J.C. Lydon.......................................................148

         Report on 2007 Archaeological investigations at the Thayer Homestead: Excavations at the Thayer House. D.P. Staley........................

        Walleye ( Sander vitreus) reintroduction update: Walleye stocking, gill netting and diet analysis 2007. M.D. Cornwell and N.D. McBride....................

    Diel habitat utilization by walleye (Sander vitreus) in Otsego Lake. D.S. Stich, B.F. Decker, J.C. Lydon, J.M. Byrne J.R. Foster.......

    Walleye spawning movements in Otsego Lake, NY. B.F. Decker, D.S. Stich, M.A. DiSarno and J.R. Foster................

    Discovery of a socket bayonet at the Thayer residence. D.F. Larkin......

 

TECHNICAL REPORT #25

Aquatic macrophyte management plan facilitation. Lake Moraine, Madison County 2007. W.N. Harman, M.F. Albright, C.M. Snyder