RUI: Implementing the Otsego Lake Watershed Plan - Enhancement of Lake Access, Laboratory and Field Instrumentation and Associated Research

纽约州立大学（SUNY）学院在奥塔被授予补助金，以支持其生物场站（BFS）的基础设施的改善，为一系列协调的跨学科研究项目和研究培训/教育进行的教师和工作人员从纽约州立大学奥塔，农业和技术学院在科布斯基尔（SUNY Cobleskill），农业和生命科学在康奈尔大学的纽约州学院。仪器的建造和购置将使与奥塞戈湖流域管理计划的实施协调进行的研究得以启动和完善。 建造工程包括在通往切萨皮克湾流域萨斯奎汉纳分水岭的源头奥塞戈湖的支流上修建一系列堰，以促进对河流水文、沉积物和营养物质平衡的长期监测和分析;购买四艘船只，以取代1970年由国家科学基金供资购置的船只;购置仪器，以完善对奥塞戈湖鱼类种群的声学评估，收集表征支流水质的鱼类，以及分析湖泊及其支流中的水生生物群。 这些改进将直接加强BFS教师，工作人员和学生的研究，涉及土地使用实践和引入物种对水质的影响;营养物质的可用性和循环;现场废水处理系统的评估输入及其缓解;动物园和浮游植物，大型底栖无脊椎动物和鱼类寄生虫的种群动态;渔业生物学和管理;以及外来饲料鱼和有害水生植物的生物防治。SUNY Oakota BFS在生态和环境研究方面具有培养学生（大学生高中，本科生和研究生）的悠久传统。这些改进将有助于扩大暑期实习和学年本科生研究计划，使更多的学生掌握所需的技能，从事研究生学习或专业培训，或获得相关的入门级职位。它还将增加资源，可用于一个新提出的研究生课程，科学在湖泊管理硕士，现在接近最终纽约州立大学行政批准。此外，拟议的建设和仪器将提高我们吸引高质量研究人员和形成新合作的能力。作为一个涉及学术界与地方，州和联邦合作伙伴的模式，并将生态理论直接应用于水质管理，BFS研究的影响超出了地方，区域和国家层面。

The State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oneonta is awarded a grant to support infrastructure improvements at its Biological Field Station (BFS) for a range of coordinated interdisciplinary research projects and research training/education conducted by faculty and staff from SUNY Oneonta, the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill (SUNY Cobleskill), and the NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. The construction and acquisition of the instrumentation will enable initiation and refinement of research undertaken in coordination with implementation of the Otsego Lake Watershed Management Plan. Construction entails a series of weirs in tributaries to Otsego Lake, the headwaters of the Susquehanna watershed in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin, to facilitate long-term stream hydrologic, sediment and nutrient mass balance monitoring and analysis; the purchase of four boats to replace those acquired with NSF funding in 1970; acquisition of instrumentation to refine acoustic evaluation off Otsego Lake fish populations, to collect fish characterizing tributary water quality, and for analysis of the aquatic biota in both the lake and its tributaries. These improvements will directly enhance BFS faculty, staff and student research involving impacts of land use practices and introduced species on water quality; nutrient availability and cycling; the evaluation inputs by onsite wastewater treatment systems and the mitigation thereof; population dynamics of zoo- and phytoplankton, macrobenthic invertebrates and fish parasites; fisheries biology and management; and biocontrol of exotic forage fish and nuisance aquatic plants. The SUNY Oneonta BFS has a strong tradition of training students (college-bound high school, undergraduate, and graduate) in ecological and environmental studies. The improvements will help expand summer internship and academic year undergraduate research programs, enabling more students to master the skills needed to pursue graduate study or professional training, or to obtain related entry-level positions. It will also enhance resources available to a newly-proposed graduate program, a Master of Science in Lake Management, now close to final SUNY Administration approval. Additionally, the proposed construction and instrumentation will improve our ability to attract quality researchers and form new collaborations. As a model involving academia with local, State and Federal partners, and applying ecological theory directly to water quality management, the impact of BFS research extends beyond the local to regional and national levels.