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in early 2026!

The Water Bulletin
2025 Edition

Articles include:

  • CSI’s Statewide Impact: Advancing Science-Based Water Stewardship Across New York
  • Reports vs. Reality: Refining How We Read Cayuga Lake’s Harmful Algal Blooms
  • Where Bugs and Water Quality Hide: Reflecting on Decades of Biomonitoring with CSI
  • Illuminating Water Toxicity with the Bioluminescence Inhibition Assay
  • Science and Community Meet in the Owego Creek Watershed
  • CSI Board and Staff Acknowledgements, References Cited, Glossary
WB24

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
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The Water Bulletin
2023 Edition

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
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The Water Bulletin
2022 Edition

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?
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The Water Bulletin
Fall 2021

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
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The Water Bulletin
Fall 2020

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
Fall 2019 Water Bulletin Newsletter

The Water Bulletin
Fall 2019

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
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The Water Bulletin
Fall 2018

Articles Include:

  • Meet the Cyanobacteria
  • A map of blooms and toxin levels during the summer of 2018
  • What is Driving Cyanobacteria Blooms on Cayuga Lake?
  • Blooms Under the Microscope
  • Monitoring Microcystin – A cyanobacteria toxin
  • The Community Behind the HABs Monitoring Program
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The Water Bulletin
Winter 2017

Article Include:

  • Various Maps
  • CSI Water Quality Monitoring Update
  • Land Use and Bioavailable Phosphorus in Cayuga Lake Tributary Streams
  • Cayuga Lake: HABs and the Summer of 2017
  • Land Use, Bioavailable Phosphorus and the Seneca Army Depot
  • Regional Baseline of Hydrofracking “Signiture Chemicals” in Groundwater
  • Membership Appeal
Fall 2016 Water Bulletin

The Water Bulletin
Fall 2016

Articles Include:

  • The Value of Red Flag Monitoring
  • CSI Biomonitoring Partnerships Meet High Standards
  • Volunteer Monitoring Service Organizations Offer Diverse Perspectives
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The Water Bulletin
Spring 2015

Articles Include:

  • Road Salt in Local Streams
  • Biological Monitoring Shows Long-Term Impacts
  • Online Database Continues to Evolve
Fall 2014 Water Bulletin

The Water Bulletin
Fall 2014

Articles Include:

  • Testing New Waters with Seneca Lake Monitoring Partnership
  • Future Science Leaders Examine Life in Cascadilla Creek
  • Neighbors Investigate Lakeshore Septic Systems
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The Water Bulletin
Winter 2014

Articles Include:

  • BMI – A Report Card for Our Streams
  • Mapping CSI’s Red Flag Sites
  • CSI Lab Crucial for Safe Hydrilla Eradication
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The Water Bulletin Spring
2013

Articles Include:

  • CSI Assesses Risks from Fracking
  • CSI Database: An Invaluable Community Resource
  • Hydrilla Problem – Regional Problem, Community Response
  • Bio-Monitoring with CSI

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    • Volunteer With Us!
    • Monitoring Partnerships
      • Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring on Cayuga Lake
      • Synoptic Sampling
      • Biological Monitoring
      • Owego Creek Tributaries Monitoring Project with Trout Unlimited
      • Past CSI Monitoring Programs
        • Red Flag Monitoring
    • Outreach and Education
      • Journey of Water
        • Learning Materials
      • CSI News and Monthly Updates
      • The Water Bulletin Newsletter
      • CSI’s Public Comments & Testimonies
      • Public Events and Presentations
      • Publications
  • I want to test my water
    • Potable and Non-Potable Water Tests & Fees
    • Instructions for Collecting and Submitting Water Samples
    • Drinking Water Resources for the General Public
    • Water Testing Assistance Program
  • CSI Water Quality Data
    • Database Home
    • Streams and Lakes Data
      • Cayuga Lake Region
      • Seneca Lake Region
      • Upper Susquehanna River Region
      • Select and Download Streams and Lakes Data
    • HABs Database
      • Select and Download Cayuga Lake HABs Data
    • Pre-Fracking Groundwater Baselines
      • Select and Download Groundwater Baselines
    • Biological Monitoring Results
    • Glossary
  • About Us
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