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The Water Bulletin 2024 Edition

Articles Include:

Record-Breaking HABs Season Sparks Community Action and Science on Cayuga Lake
You Get a Rain Gauge! You Get a Rain Gauge! Everyone Gets a Rain Gauge!
South Seneca Elementary Students Dive into Sheldrake Creek Water Quality Data
Results from the 2024 HAB Clump Pilot Study: Are Cyanobacteria Clumps in Cayuga Lake Something We Should Be Concerned About?
How the New TMDL and CSI’s Data Can Lead to a Complete Picture of Phosphorus in Cayuga Lake
Referenced Literature

The Water Bulletin 2023 Edition – Lab Certification and Monitoring Takeaways

Articles Include:

What Does it Mean to be a “Certified” Lab?
HAB or HAB Not? Oscillatoria Clumps in the Cayuga Lake Watershed
Chloride in Cayuga Lake
HABs on Cayuga Lake: Takeaways from the 2023 Monitoring Season

The Water Bulletin 2022 Edition – Climate Change and the Clean Water Act

Articles Include:

The Clean Water Act – 50 Year Anniversary
CSI Staff Highlights: The Faces Behind the Organization
The Not-So-Apparent Implications of Drought
Journey of Water: Cultivating a Place-Based Sense of the Water Cycle
How Does Weather Impact Harmful Algal Blooms?

The Water Bulletin Fall 2021 – Water Quality Data in Action

Articles Include:

CSI’s Role in the Development of the Seneca-Keuka Nine Element Plan
Monitoring E.coli in the Canandaigua Lake Watershed
Monitoring Cayuga’s West Shore for Septic Pollution
Widespread Blooms Increase the Annual Count of HABs

The Water Bulletin Fall 2020 – Three Years of Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms

Articles Include:

Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) on Cayuga Lake in 2020
Anatoxin-a in Select HABs on Cayuga Lake
Patterns of “High” Microcystin HABs Occurrence, 2018 – 2020
Cyanobacteria “Signatures” in Cayuga Lake and their Relation to Harmful Algal Blooms

The Water Bulletin Fall 2019 – Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms and Nutrients

Articles Include:

Two Years of Monitoring Blooms on Cayuga Lake
A map of blooms and toxin levels during the summer of 2019
The Habitat of HABs – Beyond the Blooms
A map of cyanobacteria in plankton net samples from the Cayuga Lake Plankton Project
Monitoring Nutrients in the Cayuga Lake Watershed
Phosphorus in Peer Review

All articles in this edition of the newsletter are interactive with links to information on our website and CSI’s Online Public Water Quality Database. We hope you enjoy exploring the data as you read the articles!