Department of Environmental
and
Forest Biology
SUNY-ESF
Annual Report
2013-2014
Front Cover: Images for collage by EFB faculty, staff, and students
Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
Annual Report
Summer 2013
Academic Year 2013 – 2014
Donald J. Leopold
Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
SUNY-ESF
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210
Email: djleopold@esf.edu; ph: (315) 470-6760
August 13, 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Overview to Annual Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New York Natural Heritage Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Building(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Summary of main courses taught by faculty members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Course teaching load summary by faculty members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Undergraduate student advising loads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Curriculum changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Undergraduate students enrolled in each EFB major . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Listing of awards and recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Research/Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Summary of publications/presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Science Citation Indices from the Web of Science and Scopus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Summary of grant activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Patents and Patent Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Listing of awards and recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Outreach and Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Enumeration of outreach activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Summary of grant panel service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Summary of journal editorial board service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Number of journal manuscripts reviewed by faculty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Listing of awards and recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Service Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Graduate Students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Number of students by degree objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Graduate student national fellowships/awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Graduate recruitment efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Graduate student advising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Courses having TA support and enrollment in each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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Governance and Administrative Structure . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Supporting offices, committees, directors, and coordinators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
State budget allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Funds Generated by Summer Courses and Grad Tuition Incentive Program . . . . . . . . 35
SUNY Research Foundation research incentives funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Development funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Objectives 2012-2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Objectives, status, and relations to strategic plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Objectives 2013-2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Objectives and relations to strategic plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Undergraduate Recruitment Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Longer Term Visioning and Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Appendix A. EFB Faculty: Rank, Education, and Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Appendix B. Summary of Individual Faculty’s Most Significant Accomplishments . . . . . . . . 49
Appendix C. Faculty Publications (published or in press) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Appendix D. Papers Submitted, In Review, Pending Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Appendix E. Papers/Posters Presented at Science Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Appendix F. Faculty Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Appendix G. Service to Department, College, and University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Appendix H. Unfunded Service to Governmental Agencies, Public Interest Groups, etc. . . . 126
Appendix I. Unfunded Service to Professional Societies and Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Appendix J. Funded Service to Governmental Agencies, Public Interest Groups, etc. . . . . . . 133
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Appendix K. Presentations to the Public. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Appendix L. Miscellaneous Publications and Outreach Activities and Materials. . . . . . . . . . 141
Appendix M. Foreign Travel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Appendix N. Theses and Dissertations completed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Appendix O. List of MPS students who completed degree requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Appendix P. Summary of Faculty and Student Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Appendix Q. New York Natural Heritage Program 2012-13 Publications, Presentations
and Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Appendix R. Annual Report for the Thousand Islands Biological Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Appendix S. Annual Report for the Cranberry Lake Biological Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Appendix T. Annual Report for the Roosevelt Wild Life Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
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Introduction – Overview to Annual Report
The topics and format of this annual report generally follow instructions from Provost
Bongarten. Additional, brief material is included for readers external to ESF. Individual faculty
annual reports, from which much of the information within the EFB Annual Report is directly
taken, are available at: http://www.esf.edu/efb/annualreports.htm. Only a few of the many
exciting activities and accomplishments within EFB the past academic year can be included in
this brief summary.
Appendix A lists EFB faculty during the 2012-2013 Academic Year, including their rank,
education, and scholarly interests. Numerous contributions by, and highlights of, the faculty
follow throughout this report. Each faculty member’s summary (unedited) of their most
significant accomplishments this past year is in Appendix B. Of the many faculty highlights this
past year, only a few are included in this section.
John Castello took a sabbatical leave during the spring semester to work on his baseline
mortality method to assess forest health worldwide. He is collaborating with forest ecologists
from China, Europe, Africa, South America, and Australia on the use of this method for which
he has a patent application pending. Jonathan Cohen managed $1.8 million in grants, and was
part of another $1.4 million in a collaborative grant; he and his graduate students seek to
understand the limiting factors for wild vertebrate populations. Stew Diemont filled the Systems
Ecologist position in EFB and anticipates devoting more research time to traditional and local
ecological knowledge as it contributes to restoration ecology and conservation biology. Among
numerous other research projects, Martin Dovciak initiated (with J. Frair) a new project in
cooperation with NYS DEC and Cornell Cooperative Extension on evaluating deer impacts on
forests of New York State (funded for $214,870).
John Farrell continued to manage numerous grants to support eight graduate students and
serve as director of the Thousand Islands Biological Station where the new Cean Researcher
Building is being built. Shannon Farrell, started her position in August 2013, and laid the
foundation for a successful teaching and research program including rebuilding and updating the
spring semester ornithology class, with a focus on the lecture. Danny Fernando took a sabbatical
leave during the fall semester to work on his Cambridge University Press book textbook, Sexual
Reproduction in Forest Trees, that he is co-authoring with Dr. John N. Owens. Last summer
Melissa Fierke attended the Summer Teaching Institute workshop funded by Howard Hughes
Medical Institute at SUNY Stony Brook and incorporated much of what she learned while
teaching General Biology for the sixth year with over 270 students. Beth Folta taught five
interpretive courses and co-taught one seminar, submitted $3.5 million in research proposals, and
received the ESF President’s Award for Community Service in December. Although on
sabbatical leave during the spring semester, Jacqui Frair negotiated and administered the new
$3.4 million omnibus MOU with the DEC and was very active as Associate Director of the
Roosevelt Wild Life Station in coordinating Station activities including one of the most
ambitious fund-raising efforts ever at ESF.
James Gibbs spent most of July 2013 wandering the high steppe of extreme western
Mongolia with local Kazakh herders measuring rangeland conditions to help develop policy for
the sustainable use of pasturelands in the context of climate change (funded by USAID); in
December he was in the Galapagos Islands with park guards from the Galapagos National Park
creating artificial “airports” for waved albatross struggling with overgrowth of nesting habitats
on the only island where they occur in the entire World. Hyatt Green has been hired to fill the
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Environmental Microbiologist position; his research focus is on developing methods to detect
bacteria and other pathogens in water. Hyatt is the fourteenth new faculty hired in EFB since
2006. Tom Horton continues to teach General Ecology to over 200 students and this past spring
was awarded the Mycological Society of America Weston Excellence in Teaching. Robin
Kimmerer’s new book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the
Teachings of Plants, has already garnered three awards (Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award,
John Burroughs essay award, Orion Book Award finalist); Robin was also founder and Director
of ESF’s Center for Native Peoples and the Environment this past year.
Don Leopold finished his ninth year as Chair of EFB, in March was recognized as a
Purdue University Distinguished Agriculture Alumni, and finished six graduate students (all in
April). Karin Limburg published a highly significant paper in the Journal of Marine Science on
the use of biogeochemical tracers of hypoxia (“dead zones”) recorded in fish otoliths, showing
how these tracers track the history of a fish’s exposure to low oxygen waters, whether it is fresh,
marine, or in between. Greg McGee served again as EFB’s Undergraduate Curriculum Director
and as the Curriculum Coordinator for the Environmental Biology major, and last fall launched
(with K. Donaghy and L. Crandall) a two-year course sequence in Environmental Leadership and
Civic Engagement. Stacy McNulty was Interim Director of the Adirondack Ecological Center
and taught a new course (EFB 411 Research Methods: Understanding the Adirondack
Ecosystem) as part of the Adirondack Residential Semester offered in Fall 2013 and based at the
AEC.
Myron Mitchell continued a major research program in biogeochemistry that has focused
mostly on the role of air pollutants and climate change on forested watersheds, but has also
expanded into other areas including the urban environment and international cooperative work in
Asia and Europe; in May he received the Adirondack Research Consortium’s Adirondack
Achievement Award. In October Lee Newman, co-editor-in-chief for organics for the
International Journal of Phytoremediation, served as Coordinator for the 10th International
Phytotechnology Conference in Syracuse with over 200 attendees from 24 countries; in April she
was recognized by the Undergraduate Student Association with their Best Advisor Award.
Dylan Parry served on the NY State Invasive Species Advisory Committee, a group of
governmental, non-profit, private sector, and academic organizations that function to advise NY
State on invasive species issues and help to craft legislation that effectively combats targeted
species or pathways.
Gordon Paterson, who started in August, has nearly established his research lab which is
primarily focused on the use of persistent organic pollutants as indicators of species
bioenergetics; he taught Environmental Toxicology this past spring. Bill Powell was named the
2013 Forest Biotechnologist of the Year by the Institute of Forest Biotechnology and co (with C.
Maynard) ESF Exemplary Researcher for his many years of working towards disease-resistant
American chestnut. Neil Ringler, besides his full-time job as Vice Provost for Research,
continues a robust research program on Onondaga Lake and teaching Aquatic Entomology and
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy. Rebecca Rundell returned to the field in Belau (Republic of
Palau) during the fall, finished her second offering of both Invertebrate Zoology and Evolution
this past spring, and was awarded $100,000 funding to study the federally-listed Chittenango
ovate amber snail. With funding from a SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines grant, Sadie
Ryan hosted a symposium “From Lab to Landscape: Integrated Infectious Disease Research”,
which brought together SUNY ESF and SUNY Upstate students, faculty, researchers, and
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leaders to address growing training needs, identifying urgent problems in NY State, and
showcasing ongoing collaborative research.
Kim Schulz spent a tremendous amount of effort writing reports, overseeing final
renovations, and planning for the opening of the CIRTAS facility in Illick Hall. Kim also
substantially increased opportunities at ESF for students interested in marine science by
finalizing the affiliation with the Sea Education Association (SEA), including an agreement for
substantial fellowships for ESF students, and direct transfer of credit and financial aid. Don
Stewart discovered and named a new species of Amazonian fish, Arapaima leptosoma, one of
the largest freshwater fish in the world. Steve Teale secured $209,000 in new research funds
that, in combination with about $240,000 in previous but still active awards, has supported in
part or whole, a postdoc, three PhD and two MS students and has enabled him to recruit a fourth
PhD student; research projects being conducted by his group include laboratory and field work
on three continents (North America, South America and e. Asia) and address problems of
concern to both biodiversity conservation and forestry.
Scott Turner continued his research project funded by the Human Frontiers Science
Program (HFSP) and conducted two research expeditions to Bangalore, India and Namibia; he is
continuing production for the planned rollout of Animal Physiology Online, which will be
launched in Fall 2014. Alex Weir continued as Director of the very successful Cranberry Lake
Biological Station program and having a major role in the first semester of the department’s
Diversity of Life course among other teaching duties. Chris Whipps initiated a four year NIH
grant to work on zebrafish diseases and continues serving as Chair of the Institutional Animal
Care and Use Committee, and Director of the Center for Applied Microbiology.
Of the 636 undergraduates in EFB during the fall (just under 40% of the total number of
undergraduates at ESF), over 75% comprise three of the department’s seven majors, i.e., Wildlife
Sciences, Conservation Biology, and Environmental Biology. Two graduating seniors, Beverly
Agtuca and Lauren Alteio, were the College’s only recipients of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award
for Student Excellence. Katy Austin won the Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize for her
honors thesis research. The ESF Chapter of the Wildlife Society won the Quiz Bowl again at the
Northeast Student Conclave.
Of the nearly 150 graduate students in EFB (over one-quarter of all graduate students at
ESF), about 57% are MS, 14% are MPS, and 29% are Ph.D. students. About 75% of these
students are in the Ecology, Fish and Wildlife Biology and Management, and Conservation
Biology areas of study. Ph.D. student, Joe Folta, won the Graduate Student Association’s
Excellence in Teaching Award. Ten EFB graduate students were awarded Edna Bailey Sussman
Foundation internships for this summer, providing over $6000 in support for each; Molly Hassett
received an additional $2000 from the Trustees Supplemental Award for Excellence. Over
$38,000 in scholarships were awarded to undergraduate and graduate students at EFB’s annual
pre-Convocation ceremony in May. Since last year at this time over 50 EFB graduate students
have completed all of their degree requirements and have graduated.
EFB, primarily due to efforts by James Gibbs and Jacqui Frair, is revitalizing the
Roosevelt Wild Life Station (http://www.esf.edu/rwls/ ; and Appendix T), established at the
College in 1919. Drs. Gibbs, Frair, and others are working with the ESF Development Office to
find external support for the Station’s ambitious goals including graduate fellowships, numerous
endowed professorships, and new educational and research programs. EFB is the primary home
for two of ESF’s field stations, i.e., the Thousand Islands Biological Station and Cranberry Lake
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Biological Station (which all EFB undergraduates except those in Biotechnology are required to
attend). Annual reports for both Stations are in Appendix R and S, respectively.
The Department was very pleased to be able to offer the Dale L. Travis Lecture series
following another generous donation from Dale Travis (WPE ’59). Bill Powell gave a public
lecture in October about the American chestnut work he and Chuck Maynard have been doing
and in March Don Stewart talked about the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of the
Amazonian Arapaima species on which he has been working. Both lectures in this series were
very well attended and enthusiastically received. As part of this series, James Gibbs gave a
lecture in April at the Explorers Club in New York City on snow leopards, and Stew Diemont
gave a lecture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in October.
The Department still awaits construction to begin on the new Academic Research
Building which will provide office and research lab space for the department when finished.
Although there were serious setbacks in the rehabilitation of Illick Hall including a major
greenhouse leak in February that caused significant damage on floors below and damaged many
valuable specimens in the plant herbarium, CIRTAS (Center for Integrated Research and
Teaching in Aquatic Sciences), built primarily from NSF funds ($1.47 million), is nearly
finished. This facility on the second floor of Illick will provide exceptional controlled
environments and other spaces for significant research. The Illick roof was replaced before new
green houses were constructed. The new greenhouses, an over 20% increase in space including a
quarantine greenhouse, should be filled before classes start in August. And for the first time in
over ten years, offices and labs throughout Illick should not be flooded after each heavy rain
event. Illick Hall displays were greatly enhanced by the donation of over 100 waterfowl, game
birds, and other specimens by Douglass Carter. His collection fills most of the display cases on
the first floor of Illick.
New York Natural Heritage Program (submitted by D.J. Evans, Director)
The New York Natural Heritage Program (NYNHP) joined ESF’s Department of
Environmental and Forest Biology in July 2012 and, as of March 2014, we have fully completed
the transition of all contracts and staff to ESF. The NYNHP was established in 1985 as a
partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation (DEC), administered through a contract between DEC and TNC.
After 26 years with TNC, the transition out has taken nearly two years; but we are extremely
happy with the result and proud of our affiliation with SUNY ESF. We look forward to many
years of collaboration with faculty and students of the college.
From our new home at ESF, we continue to work closely with NatureServe - an
international network of biodiversity data centers in all 50 states, all provinces of Canada, and
several Latin American countries coordinated by a Washington D.C. based non-profit
organization (NatureServe.org). Through membership in the NatureServe Network, Heritage
Programs work together to maintain compatible standards for biodiversity data management, and
provide information about rare species and natural communities that is consistent across many
geographic scales – state, national and global.
Our participation in the network includes attending (presenting, organizing sessions,
meetings, etc.) the NatureServe’s annual international conservation conference - Biodiversity
Without Boundaries – and each year at this conference, the NatureServe network recognizes
outstanding achievements by its member organization. The awards are an opportunity for the
network to celebrate its commitment to science-based conservation through intra- and extranetwork collaboration, personal integrity, respect for others, and the production of high quality
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work products. We are pleased to report that in 2014, NYNHP received the Conservation Impact
award, which was given to recognize our consistent, high quality work in advancing
conservation across the state and beyond by using our data and years of experience to address
critical environmental issues such as climate change, energy development, and invasive species.
Our NYNHP staff is really a top notch group of professionals! I feel honored to work with them
and happy to see them receiving recognition from colleagues in the network.
Another important highlight of our work with NatureServe in 2014 includes participation
in a technical team that facilitated the upgrade of our Biotics database through testing and
providing feedback. The newly rolled out Biotics 5 is an integrated web-enabled platform for
tabular and spatial data management. Hosted in a shared cloud environment by NatureServe, and
used by all members of the NatureServe network, Biotics 5 provides built-in support for shared
methodology and data standards. Our database team was able to participate in both the
development and testing phases of Biotics 5.
We also collaborate with NatureServe and with DEC, on an invasive species database,
iMapInvasives (iMapInvasives.org), or “iMap,” which now serves 4226 users across New York
and has been adopted by eight (soon to be nine) states and one province of Canada. The scope of
work in our DEC contract to manage invasive species data for New York includes providing data
collection tools and training to database users. This year, we worked with The Nature
Conservancy of New York on an invasive plant decision support tool that now available for
download on our iMap website (http://imapinvasives.org/ipmdat.html). We are currently working
on an Android platform field data collection tool designed for use on tablet computers, which
should be released later in 2014. Finally, our four dedicated iMap staff and one ESF intern
trained 276 new iMap users across the state this past year, including 227 as part of an annual
spring “blitz” during which our team travels to all corners of the state to train new users in iMap
data entry and data management.
Other notable database work we’ve done this year included the first release of the New
York Protected Areas Database (NYPAD). NYPAD is a spatial database of lands protected,
designated, or functioning as open space, natural areas, conservation lands, or recreation areas.
These lands cover of six million acres, approximately 20% of New York State. We use the
‘protected’ broadly in that NYPAD lands may be public or private, open or closed to public use,
permanently protected from development or subject to future changes in management (see
NYPAD.org).
The NYNHP databases are the primary source of information on biodiversity used in
environmental review and land management planning by state agencies in New York, and one of
the important inputs in setting priorities for conservation organizations. Nearly all companies
proposing new construction projects throughout New York State must check our databases for
species of concern during the permitting process. Yet, it is extremely difficult to keep this
13,000 record dataset current when we can only revisit populations opportunistically, where our
government grants and contracts take us. The majority of records in our rare species database
are reviewed on a project by project basis, meaning that some can go decades without a revisit by
NYNHP staff or contractors. This year we requested funding from a private foundation to help
support our database by updating older records and those of uncertain status with thorough field
surveys and by processing data from our considerable backlog – and we received it! The
$150,000 given to us by the Sarah K. de Coizart Charitable Trust will be put towards bringing
hundreds of rare animal records current through field assessments and data processing.
Unbelievably, this is our first ever private foundation grant!
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Research and inventory highlights on rare species and natural communities over the past
year include surveys at Junius Ponds Unique Area where we re-surveyed several natural
communities that are rare in the state, including a marl fen, considered one of the rarest natural
communities in the state, and several state-listed plants. Our surveys for Sartwell’s sedge, Carex
sartwellii, a state threatened plant, resulted in a discovery of an additional, very large population
there (over 2000 plants!), making Junius Ponds home to the largest of four known populations of
this rare sedge in the state. This re-survey of Junius Ponds was made possible by funds provided
by DEC’s Division of Lands and Forests as part of our ongoing assessment of state land and the
unique biodiversity it supports.
Our work on state lands also includes a long term contract with New York State Office or
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) to monitor rare species and natural
communities across New York’s state park system and provide assistance in natural resource
planning and stewardship. Highlights include re-discoveries of plant populations not seen in
over a decade at Goose Mountain State Park (Davis’ sedge - Carex davisii - state threatened) and
Robert Moses State Park on Long Island (twisted ladies’-tresses orchid - Spiranthes vernalis state endangered). We confirmed and updated records for dozens more rare species across the
state park system and monitored the quality of several natural communities of statewide
significance, including the extensive salt marshes at Orient Beach State Park on Long Island and
a state-rare maritime oak forest there.
Our state park partnership also included collaboration on two Bioblitz events conducted
over a 24 hour period in conjunction with I Love My Parks Day. Our role in the annual event is
to assist parks in coordinating the Bioblitz and to bring together the taxonomic expertise needed
to make the 24-hour inventory as comprehensive as possible. This year, we had a great turnout
of ESF faculty and students at the Clark Reservation State Park Bioblitz where 70 scientists
conducted surveys, and we hope the great turnout means OPRHP will continue to offer us this
opportunity to get out in the field together! The second Bioblitz was held at Minnewaska State
Park and was also well attended by 30 experts from eastern NY and beyond.
While the majority of our work on rare species with our state agency partners involves
managing extensive amounts of data on rare species and ecosystems, we are sometimes
presented with opportunities to collaborate on new initiatives. This past year we took on a small
project to coordinate the necessary partners and background information needed to implement a
longer term effort to identify areas of conservation importance for whales off of Manhattan
Island and vicinity. Our goals were to design the most appropriate survey and analysis
method(s) to address baseline migratory trends for each whale Species of Greatest Conservation
Need (SGCN), to delineate areas of conservation importance, and to provide a basis for longterm monitoring. Our report on a workshop and series of meetings with DEC and partners in
marine conservation will be used to direct funding for whale monitoring, data analyses, and
conservation planning in the New York City Bight. We hope to remain involved in this important
work in the future, and possibly to expand our marine capacity so that we can be of greater
assistance in marine conservation and marine endangered species management.
In addition to our work in New York State, we sometimes collaborate on projects that are
broader in scope in order to address pressing questions related to broader-scale issues, such as
species distribution patterns, population or species viability, and climate change. In 2014, we
received Regional Conservation Needs grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to work
collaboratively throughout the northeast to refine the distribution of a newly discovered cryptic
species of leopard frog across its nine-state range (CT, DE, MA, MD, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA). This
multi-agency effort will determine conclusively which leopard frog species occur presently and which
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occurred historically in the nine states. We will refine the species’ distribution, habitat characteristics,
and the separation of the three species via field characters (calls, morphology) rather than relying on
genetic testing.
Though our primary mission is to inventory and manage data on hundreds of rare plants,
animals and natural communities across the state, we also assist with the abatement of threats to
biodiversity through collaborative projects to develop data products that can be used to inform
management decisions on invasive species, energy development, and climate change. For
example, we continue to coordinate the Long Island Partnership for Regional Invasive Species
Management (PRISM) which is comprised of 50 partners in various government agencies,
conservation organizations, and businesses on Long Island and in NYC. Our PRISM coordinator
helps partners communicate on critical issues related to invasive species; keeps the partnership
organized and on track by providing leadership in annual work planning and long term planning;
and provides member organizations with pass-through funding for early detection monitoring,
outreach and invasive species control projects. Among researchers receiving invasive species
funding is Dr. Danny Fernando of EFB, who is studying the potential invasiveness of hardy kiwi
(Actinidia arguta) through analysis of its reproductive biology, genetics, and ecology.
A decision support tool we have worked on for the past two years with The Nature
Conservancy (TNC) will provide the New York State Energy Research and Development
Authority (NYSERDA) and the wind energy industry information designed to help protect New
York State’s biodiversity while still advancing statewide energy development and policy goals.
The online application was created by TNC and presents a number of models and products that
our NYNHP scientists created by combining our rare species data with existing environmental
data. The tool contains maps and information on habitats for at-risk species; animal migration
routes, stopovers, and breeding locations; unfragmented forest and wildlife travel corridors; landuse patterns; estimated wind speeds; and distance to roads and electric transmission lines
(http://www.ebd.mapny.info).
We have teamed up with TNC on another NYSERDA project that will collect, synthesize
and package information managers need to make climate-smart decisions. Information on the
distribution of habitats and species, the condition of these habitats and identified threats,
connectivity among habitats that will allow for species relocation, and the provision of
ecosystem services will all be integrated into a single toolkit that supports the identification of
climate adaptation strategies for conservation objectives. Our specific roles in this project are to
apply our expertise in species science and spatial modeling to predict shifts in selected species
distributions due to projected climate and land use change, and to develop a spatial Climate
Change Vulnerability Index for selected species.
In 2012 we began a major initiative to fully engage with DEC’s wetland program by
applying for and receiving an EPA Wetland Program Development Grant that is allowing us to
develop and refine protocols to assess wetland condition across New York. The project involves
data collection in wetlands across a range of wetland types and condition. In addition to testing
and refining wetland sampling protocols, we will develop a field operations manual for wetland
monitoring, and a wetland data management plan. This framework for New York wetland data
collection and sharing is the foundational step in building a long-term wetland monitoring
strategy that will guide wetland protection, restoration, and decision-making within New York
and regionally.
Wetland permitting in the Adirondacks is under the jurisdiction of Adirondack Park
Agency (APA; the regulatory body in the Park), not DEC. To assist with wetland protection and
assessment in the Adirondacks, we have teamed up with the APA and Adirondack Ecological
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Center (SUNY-ESF) on a project to develop protocols for a monitoring program that will
measure wetland response to climate change and help identify wetlands at risk from climate
change. We are assisting with developing sampling protocols, collecting field data as needed,
and training citizen scientists in data collection as needed. We are also working with the team on
data storage and management.
Our work in wetland monitoring with EPA funding also includes a Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative project that aims to address a critical need in the implementation of a new
regulation plan for Lake Ontario. This project looks in more detail at the relationships between
elevation and plant composition in 16 New York wetlands by linking water-level dynamics to
vegetation samples. We are also monitoring performance indicators for meadow marsh extent,
muskrat houses, and rare plants in these wetlands. We are collaborating with DEC Division of
Lands and Forests, Bureau of Real Property to create control points with centimeter-level
elevation precision near each wetland and with TNC to ensure that our study design, sampling,
and results satisfy the Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River (LOSLR) environmental
monitoring called for in the International joint Commission’s framework for adaptive
management.
Finally, in an effort to improve the vegetation-based wetland condition indicators for
wetland scientists working in New York, we have teamed up with a New York plant taxonomist,
Mr. David Werier. Using vegetation as primary indicators of wetland condition requires that
species are appropriately identified to an accurate, current, botanical name and that the speciesspecific indicator scores are also accurate and well justified. To improve the foundations of these
assumptions, we have received an EPA grant that will allow us to review and update the
taxonomy and status of New York plants and to finalize coefficients of conservatism (CoC) for
all New York plants via a workshop of botanical experts. The taxonomic review includes
significant literature and herbarium specimen review, with the updates compiled on the online
NY Flora Atlas and the USDA PLANTS Database. With this revised flora, we will convene a
four day workshop of New York’s botanical experts to finalize CoC values for each species. The
CoC’s will be applied to ongoing wetland projects and distributed to wetland assessment users
throughout the state to improve vegetation indicators for the state. We plan to hold the workshop
of botanical experts, including EFB faculty, on ESF’s campus in 2015.
Building(s)
Two years past the original construction completion date, EFB’s CIRTAS (Center for
Integrated Research and Teaching in Aquatic Sciences) is just about ready for use. CIRTAS
resulted from a $1.47 million award from the National Science Foundation to Drs. Ringler,
Schulz (to be Director), Farrell, Whipps, and Leopold. CIRTAS was constructed in the spaces
once occupied by rooms 227, 228, 231 through 237 Illick. Funding was used to renovate over
4,000 square feet for wet labs (rooms specially equipped for aquatic experiments) and cyberinfrastructure. CIRTAS is a shared-use facility designed to facilitate interdisciplinary research
and training among individual researchers on campus and with other collaborative facilities.
As part of the CIRTAS construction, the ESF administration funded construction of a
new lab and enhanced remote data access at the Thousand Islands Biological Station which has
been completed. This construction will greatly enhance research space at TIBS and establish an
electronic link between research activities there with the CIRTAS facility in Illick (see Appendix
R).
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(the following paragraph is verbatim from last year’s report because nothing has changed
since) There has been no progress on construction of the new Academic Research Building into
which the Department will move if/when it is ever constructed. Construction was to begin in
September 2013. Because funding is in hand for only half of the project (and one third of the
faculty), the new ARB is planned to be built in phases. The most lab-intensive EFB faculty
(approximately 11) and their graduate students will move into the Phase 1 building upon
completion. Phase 1 was originally expected to be completed by 2015. Currently, there is no
realistic time frame for the start and end of Phase 1, nor a schedule for Phase 2. Current
architectural plans for both phases are at: http://www.esf.edu/efb/newhome.asp
Construction began for the new roof and roof top greenhouses on Illick during the
summer 2012 and finished during the spring 2014. Before plants currently stored in the
greenhouse complex at the Lafayette Experiment station can be moved back to Illick, a number
of issues are still being resolved. For example, wrong fittings burst throughout the new
greenhouses in early February, causing extensive damage throughout Illick including the
vascular plant herbarium. It is hoped that EFB’s living plant collections can be returned to the
roof top greenhouses before classes start in August 2014. Additionally, many faculty and student
research projects have been delayed until the new greenhouses are fully functional.
The Illick heating system has not functioned for years at both ends of the building,
leaving over a dozen faculty, some support staff, and many graduate students without heat during
the winter. A new project, the “perimeter heating” project, is ongoing during the summer 2014
to replace the heating pipes in every room in Illick. This project is supposed to be finished
before the winter of 2014 to 2015. Related to the perimeter heating project, the Illick foyer is
being renovated this summer to include new lighting, ceiling, and flooring.
Teaching
Summary of main courses taught by faculty and enrollment in each course
(as reported by each; does not include 420, 495, 498, 499, 798, 899, 999; Course prefix EFB unless otherwise noted)
Faculty
Course #
Course Name
Enrollment
Castello
345 (0.5)
Forest Health
11
Cohen
493/693
797
797
796
496/796
Wildlife Habitats and Populations
WinBUGS for Ecologists
Adaptive Peaks
WinBUGS for Population Ecol.
Wildlife Habitats and Pop. Class Project
44
14
15
7
35
Diemont
120
Global Env/Evol. Human Soc.
Dovciak
445/645
535
Plant Ecology & Global Change
Flowering Plants: Diversity, Evol., & Syst.
38
19
Farrell, J.
388
496
681
Ecology of Adirondack Fishes
Senior Synthesis AFS
Aquatic Restoration Ecology
10
11
14
111
13
Farrell, S.
Fernando
482/796
797
326
(BTC) 497
Ornithology
Adaptive Peaks Grad Seminar
47
15
Diversity of Plants
Research Design & Prof Development
56
14
Fierke
101
202
566
796
General Biology Lecture I
Entomol, Stats, Projects
Systematic Entomology
EFB Core Course
273
80
9
14
Folta
202
312/512
417/617
560
Ecol. Mon. & Biod. Sci. Journal.
Intro. to Env. Interpretation
Non-Personal Environ. Interp. Methods
Electronic Tech. in Interpretation
146
41
18
10
Frair
(on sabbatical leave)
Gibbs
413
419
Introduction to Conservation Biology
Problem-solving in Conservation Biology
Horton
320
General Ecology
Kimmerer
305/605
337
446/646
496
Indigenous Issues and the Environment
Field Ethnobotany
Ecology of Mosses
Indigenous Environmental Leaders Future
Leopold
327
336
Adirondack Flora
Dendrology I
Limburg
487/687
796
797
797
(EST) 797
Lomolino
83
39
235
38
15
20
8
6
165
Fisheries Science & Mgt.
Practical Ecol. Model in R
A Self-Help Course in R
Dim/Human Pop Growth & Consumpt.
Dim/Human Pop Growth & Consumpt
32
11
19
2
6
483
497/797
796
Mammal Diversity
Geog/Humans-Biogeog of Humanty
Biodiversity of Mammals
57
1
4
McGee
102
104
132
202
General Biology Lab I
General Biology Lab II
Orientation Seminar: EFB
Ecological Monitor. Biodiversity Assess.
253
133
99
143
McNulty
411
484/684
Res. Methods: Understanding Adk Ecosystem 3
Winter Mammalian Ecology
26
14
Mitchell
Ecological Biogeochemistry
Ecological Biogeochemistry
Hydrology/Biogeochemistry Seminar
23
7
11
Newman (BTC) 401/EFB 601
325
(BTC) 499
496/796
496/796
496/796
Molecular Techniques
Cell Biology
Senior Synthesis
Plant Physiology Recitation
Phytoremediation
Cell Biology Recitation
30
89
21
8
16
5
Parry
202
496
502
797
Ecol. Monit., Entomology
Forensic Entomology
Ecology & Mgt. Invasive Species
Elton Revisited….
12
28
16
496/611
797
Special Topics in Environmental Toxicology 11
Adaptive Peaks Grad Seminar
10
Paterson
Powell
415
610
797
(BTC) 132
307
308
(BTC) 425/EFB 625
Orientation Seminar
Principles of Genetics
Principles of Genetics Lab
Plant Biotechnology
18
190
200
15
Ringler
385
554
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Aquatic Entomology
Rundell
311
355
Principles of Evolution
Invertebrate Zoology
Ryan
360
496/796
Introduction to Epidemiology
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Schulz
423/623
424/624
525
Marine Ecology
Limnology: Study of Inland Waters
Limnology Practicum
Shields
(ESF) 109
(ESF) 296
480
496/796
37
17
183
38
28
21
123
74
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Freshmen Honors Seminar
Sophomore Honors Seminar
Animal Behavior
Ecology of Adirondack Insects
Stewart
202
486
523 (0.5)
796
Ecol. Monitor., Aquatics
Ichthyology
Tropical Ecology
Advanced Ichthyology
75
74
15
3
Teale
217
345 (0.5)
352/552
797
Peoples, Plagues and Pests
Forest Health
Entomology
Methods in Ins. Chem. Ecol.
85
11
77
7
1
15
Turner
200
462/662
Physics of Life
Animal Physiology: Environ. & Ecol.
145
60
Weir
202
210 (lead)
440/640
500
Ecol. Monitor., Fungi
Diversity of Life I
Mycology
Forest Biol Field Trip – Ireland
150
166
54
7
Whipps
103
453/653
General Biology Lecture II
Parasitology
148
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Courses by Instructional Support Specialists, Adjuncts, & Visiting Instructors
Arrigoni
485
Herpetology
66
Bremmer
303
Environmental Microbiology
60
Cale
340
Forest and Shade Tree Pathology
41
Devlin
491
Applied Wildlife Science
40
Ettinger
496
Plant Propagation
4
Folta
390
496
Principles of Wildlife Management
Issues in Mgt. & Conflict Resolut.
71
26
Giegerich
381
Vertebrate Museum Techniques
10
Hough
496
Flora of Central New York (Maymester ’12) 16
Marshall
414
Senior Synthesis Cons. Biology
Weber
211
Diversity of Life II
41
159
Course teaching load summary by faculty members
The following data are from the Faculty “Workload” Report (sent 5/24/13) by Dr.
Maureen Fellows, and summarize the number of students multiplied by the number of credit
hours for courses categorized as Research (e.g., EFB 498, 798, 899, 999), Problems/Seminars
(e.g., EFB 420, 495, 797), and regular classes. The first number in each column is for
undergraduate credit hours, the second for graduate. Co-taught courses yield the number of
credit hours for that course divided by number of instructors. All courses are credited, regardless
of departmental prefix. Note that although these data come from an administrative report titled
“Workload”, only the teaching portion of a faculty member’s complete workload is included.
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Teaching Load Summary by Faculty Member
Faculty
Research CH
McGee (1*)
Horton (2)
Fierke (3)
Powell (4)
Schulz (5)
Weir (6)
Rundell (7)
Turner (8)
Newman (9)
Leopold (10)
Teale (11)
Whipps (12)
Shields (13)
Gibbs (14)
Diemont (15; EFB only)
Stewart (16)
Folta (17)
Cohen (18)
Kimmerer (19)
Lomolino (20)
Ringler (21)
Dovciak (22)
Fernando** (23)
Farrell, S. (24)
Limburg (25)
Ryan (26)
Parry (27)
Mitchell (28)
Farrell, J. (29)
McNulty (30)
Frair** (31)
Paterson (32)
Castello** (33)
6/7
16/11
9/36
29/20
21/7
3/38
8/10
0/0
72/74
5/46
2/41
19/6
8/17
4/18
2/0
7/55
9/14
11/48
9/21
0/6
6/26
0/42
9/5
0/0
10/33
0/31
4/9
0/11
2/22
0/25
0/23
4/0
11/4
Prob./Sem. CH
114/2
9/11
36/15
15/0
38/0
41/0
21/0
0/0
45/0
32/2
3/7
12/0
17/0
14/0
0/2
7/0
38/23
8/7
19/3
3/1
15/0
6/0
33/0
6/12
0/23
0/0
4/15
0/11
3/0
10/0
34/6
0/5
6/0
Class CH
1011/2
1035/8
869/21
842/9
682/102
660/18
703/4
624/9
405/34
482/20
506/6
505/15
469/0
410/0
357/0
267/12
231/30
189/60
207/27
236/4
176/15
126/51
168/0
180/8
96/34
130/9
111/25
93/21
58/22
48/9
0/2
18/15
19/0
Total (U/G)
1142 (1131/11)
1090 (1060/30)
986 (914/72)
915 (886/29)
850 (741/109)
760 (704/56)
746 (732/14)
633 (624/9)
630 (522/108)
587 (519/68)
565 (511/54)
557 (536/21)
511 (494/17)
446 (428/18)
361 (359/2)
348 (281/67)
345 (278/67)
323 (208/115)
286 (235/51)
250 (239/11)
238 (197/41)
225 (132/93)
215 (210/5)
206 (186/20)
196 (106/90)
170 (130/40)
168 (119/49)
136 (93/43)
107 (63/44)
92 (58/34)
65 (34/31)
42 (22/20)
40 (36/4)
*rank out of all faculty; 1 highest, 32 lowest
** sabbatical leave during time period
Teaching Load Statistics by Adjunct Faculty, Emeriti, Instructional
Support Specialists, AEC Staff, Visiting Instructors, etc.
Adams
Arrigoni
Boroczky
Bremmer
Cale
Devlin
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
2/0
0/9
0/0
3/0
0/0
984/0
198/0
0/0
118/2
123/0
117/3
984 (984/0)
200 (200/0)
9 (0/9)
120 (118/2)
126 (126/0)
120 (117/3)
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Ettinger
Folta, J.
Giegerich
Hager
Helenbrook
Hough
Marshall
Patinelli-Dubay
Underwood
Weber
Others
0/0
3/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
5/52
0/0
0/18
0/0
12/1
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
3/1
0/0
3/12
0/0
9/11
5/9
398/0
20/0
21/0
52/8
42/6
236/4
53/0
1/0
477/0
38/3
14 (5/9)
414 (413/1)
20 (20/0)
21 (21/0)
60 (52/8)
48 (42/6)
220 (150/70)
53 (53/0)
73 (9/64)
477 (477/0)
79 (47/32)
Dr. McGee had the highest teaching workload (1142 total credit hours), followed by Drs.
Horton (1090), Fierke (986), Powell (915) and Schulz (850). EFB faculty were responsible for
14,231 credit hours (versus 15,225 last reporting period) of campus instruction, an average of
431 credit hours per faculty per year (vs. 476 hours last reporting period). Another 3038 credit
hours were delivered by Visiting Instructors and others (versus 2,844 in last reporting period) for
an EFB total of 17,269 credit hours (vs. 18,069 credit hours last reporting period).
Undergraduate Student Advising Loads
Listed below is the number of undergraduate advisees assigned to each faculty member,
as reported by that faculty member. Some faculty members also regularly and informally advise
a much larger number of undergraduates, and some advise ES undergraduate students. Advisees
are temporarily reassigned to other faculty during an advisor’s sabbatical leave.
Castello* 16
Cohen 23
Diemont 17
Dovciak 19
Farrell, J. 19
Farrell, S. 16
Fernando 16
Fierke 19
Folta* 17
Frair* 28
Gibbs 23
Horton 21
Kimmerer 20
Leopold 9
Limburg 15
Lomolino 17
McGee** 34
Mitchell 13
Newman 29
Parry* 31
Paterson 13
Powell* 24
Ringler 0
Rundell 18
Ryan 20
Schulz 28
Shields ?
Stewart* 20
Teale 15
Turner 21
Weir 15
Whipps 23
____________________________________________________________________________________________
*Also coordinator for one of EFB’s majors
** Undergraduate Curriculum Director and coordinator for the environmental biology major
Curriculum changes
There have been no significant changes in EFB undergraduate majors during this past
year. Dr. Beth Folta initiated a change in name for the Natural History and Interpretation major,
to better reflect its purpose and make the content easier for potential students to understand. It
was hoped that the new name for this major, Environmental Education and Interpretation, would be
approved sometime during this past academic year but additional information was needed and
this request is still being reviewed.
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Undergraduate students enrolled in each EFB major
Enrollment numbers change throughout the year, especially after December and May
graduations, e.g., there were 634 EFB undergraduate students enrolled in classes during the fall
’13 semester and 584 registered for the spring ’14 semester (versus 641 and 614, respectively,
fall ‘12 and spring ’13); 634 undergraduates is the second largest number in the history of the
department – the greatest number enrolled (641) was during the fall ’12 semester. The third
largest number of 633 enrolled at the beginning of fall ’11. The total number of undergraduates
in EFB represented nearly 38% of all full and part-time undergraduates (1688) at ESF last fall.
Fall ‘13 undergraduate enrollments (and percent of total) in each major were:
Conservation Biology:
Wildlife Science:
Environmental Biology:
Biotechnology:
Aquatic and Fisheries Science:
Natural History and Interpretation:
Forest Health:
166 (26.2%)
161 (25.4%)
153 (24.1%)
59 (9.3%)
55 (8.7%)
25 (3.9%)
15 (2.4%)
Total
634 undergraduates in EFB (fall ’13)
Listing of awards and recognition
Thomas R. Horton: William H. Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mycological Society
of America.
Lee A. Newman: SUNY-ESF Undergraduate Student Association Best Advisor Award
Research/Scholarship
Summary of publications/presentations
Appendix C lists books and refereed publications of the EFB faculty; papers submitted, in
review, or pending decision are shown in Appendix D. Presentations by EFB faculty at science
meetings are shown in Appendix E. Other products of scholarship are shown in Appendix L
(Miscellaneous Publications…).
Past annual reports have included the number of papers published by EFB faculty, and
papers in press. Because many journals are releasing papers on line months to a year or more
before the printed versions, these annual numbers are no longer easy to track and accurately
report so are excluded here.
Science Citation Indices
The “impact” of one’s overall publication record can be objectively assessed by a variety
of citation indices. The following summary of the measures reported here was written by the
Director of the ESF College Libraries, Stephen Weiter.
Citation analysis is a quantifiable measure of academic output. SUNY-ESF has access to
two subscription resources used for citation metrics – Web of Science and Scopus. Web of
Science contains authoritative, multidisciplinary content and covers over 10,000 of the highest
impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference
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proceedings. The database includes current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social
sciences, arts, and humanities. Thompson-ISI is very selective in the journal selection process
and this database includes only the most highly regarded publications in a field. Coverage
begins in 1900.
Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed
research literature and quality web sources. Scopus includes nearly 18,000 titles from 5,000
international publishers in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more
recently, also in the arts and humanities. Full coverage begins in 1996. It contains 41 million
records, 70% with abstracts; 70% of its content is from international sources. It includes over 3
million conference papers and provides 100% Medline coverage.
There are limitations and incongruities in the use of citation metrics. The databases
referenced above do not correct errors in citing papers. This means that one paper may be cited
many different ways and appear as separate entries in these tools. Also, author and institutional
naming inconsistencies complicate these analyses. Comparisons between these tools should be
avoided. The databases use different sources to generate data and some are more comprehensive
than others. In addition, the literature suggests that these tools are skewed towards the STM
(science, technical and medical) community of scholars.
The h-index is rapidly becoming the standard accepted measurement of academic output
and can be generated in both Web of Science and Scopus. The h-index is defined as:
A scientist has index h if h of [his/her] Np papers have at least h citations each, and the
other (Np − h) papers have at most h citations each.
However, the h-index has significant limitations in terms of what it measures: (1) it does not
include citations to the same work that have small mistakes in their referencing (of which for
some publications there are many); (2) it only includes citation to journal articles (not to books,
book chapters, working papers, reports, etc.); and, (3) it only includes citations in journals that
are listed in the database being searched, which is never comprehensive of academic journals in
the field. Therefore, the h-index should be viewed as one metric among many in considering
academic output and productivity.
The following table (produced by ESF assistant librarian, Jessica Clemons, June 2014)
shows the science citation indices for each faculty member. Using the number of citations for
2004 to 2013 as determined by Scopus, Dr. Karin Limburg had the highest number of citations
followed by Drs. Myron Mitchell, James Gibbs, Tom Horton, and Mark Lomolino. Using this
same data base for only last year, Dr. Karin Limburg had the highest number of citations
followed by Drs. Myron Mitchell, James Gibbs, Jacqui Frair, and Tom Horton. Applying the
Web of Science citation index for EFB faculty last year, Dr. Limburg had the highest number of
citations, followed by Drs. Mitchell, Gibbs, Whipps, and Horton. Dr. Mitchell had the highest
SCOPUS h-index, followed by Dr. Gibbs.
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Faculty
Member
2013
SCOPUS
2009-2013
Castello
Cohen
Diemont
Dovciak
Farrell, J.
Farrell, S.
Fernando
Fierke
Folta
Frair
Gibbs
Horton
Kimmerer
Leopold
Limburg
Lomolino
McGee
McNulty
Mitchell
Newman
Parry
Paterson
Powell
Ringler
Rundell
Ryan
Schulz
Shields
Stewart
Teale
Turner
Weir
Whipps
49
24
29
39
23
29
15
15
3
231
328
222
37
70
833
192
40
13
489
191
41
46
101
17
43
107
109
16
94
30
16
183
160
176
112
129
145
99
85
86
120
6
796
1432
1075
148
300
3533
968
174
24
2210
632
199
187
302
94
182
337
461
71
381
108
94
1004
640
20042013
300
139
158
199
133
85
167
158
6
1009
2368
1894
299
555
5122
1679
316
36
3689
875
305
228
493
176
230
381
708
120
713
240
163
1299
896
hindex*
# of cited
documents
in Scopus
Web of
Science #
of citations
2013
WoS hindex
8
8
7
8
8
5
10
8
1
15
28
20
9
11
21
21
9
3
34
17
11
10
10
8
7
11
9
3
12
8
5
15
20
26
21
16
17
28
16
22
23
6
19
113
37
20
48
77
49
15
8
169
53
22
59
33
27
13
30
16
12
40
28
25
40
57
48
18
30
35
17
21
12
6
2
93
244
142
33
55
653
67
103
14
478
40
21
36
90
15
34
28
27
5
14
32
14
109
144
13
6
7
8
6
4
7
4
2
7
26
12
14
15
21
10
9
3
40
11
6
8
12
11
3
4
10
2
6
12
7
6
20
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Summary of grant activity
(essential data not provided by SUNY-ESF ORP for this section as of 8/13/14 so material
in light print is repeated from last year’s annual report). From May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2013,
EFB submitted 39.5% of all proposals (of 255 total) submitted by all units at ESF, versus 26.2%
during the previous reporting period. These EFB proposals represent 33.9% of the $74,688,022
amount for all proposals submitted by all units to the ESF Office of Research Programs. The
average amount per EFB proposal was $251,495 (versus $257,406 the previous reporting
period). Nearly 40% of EFB proposals submitted during this period (for $13,530,847) have
already been awarded, with another nearly 40% still pending (for $7,979,434) and 22% rejected
(for $3,815,290).
The proposal submission activity of each faculty member for the 12 month period ending
April 30, 2013 follows. Drs. J. Frair and J. Gibbs had the highest credited number of proposals
submitted, followed by Drs. S. Ryan, D. Leopold, and L. Newman. Dr. D. Leopold had the
highest credited dollar amount of proposals submitted, followed by Drs. J. Gibbs, E. Folta, S.
Ryan, and W. Powell; these five accounted for $10,834,984 of the total.
Proposal Activity Summary by PI/CoPI
(12-Month Period ending 4/30/12)
Name
Abrahamson, Lawrence
Castello, John
Cohen, Jonathan
Dovciak, Martin
Farrell, John
Fernando, Danilo
Fierke, Melissa
Folta, Elizabeth
Frair, Jacqueline
Gibbs, James
Hall, Charles
Horton, Thomas
Kimmerer, Robin
Leopold, Donald
Limburg, Karin
Lomolino, Mark
McGee, Gregory
McNulty, Stacy
Mitchell, Myron
Nakas, James
Newman, Lee
Parry, Dylan
Powell, William
Ringler, Neil
Rundell, Rebecca
Ryan, Sadie
Schulz, Kimberly
Shields, William
Credited* Number Credited Amount
0.60
2.33
3.00
3.00
2.17
0.00
2.58
2.58
8.07
8.07
0.00
3.00
1.33
5.37
4.00
0.00
0.17
3.83
1.17
0.00
4.67
3.58
3.33
2.00
1.00
6.33
0.87
1.00
$58,610 (**25)
$154,527 (21)
$123,392 (23)
$403,537 (18)
$1,035,897 (6)
$0 (30)
$150,454 (22)
$2,074,399 (3)
$765,539 (9)
$2,383,107 (2)
$0 (30)
$37,183 (28)
$456,860 (16)
$3,903,570 (1)
$594,951 (11)
$0 (30)
$14,821 (29)
$325,231 (19)
$510,008 (13)
$0 (30)
$429,653 (17)
$567,518 (12)
$1,086,433 (5)
$766,490 (8)
$100,000 (24)
$1,387,475 (4)
$458,874 (14)
$40,000 (27)
22
Stewart, Donald
2.00
$46,600 (26)
Teale, Stephen
4.17
$217,853 (20)
Turner, Scott
2.00
$907,432 (7)
Weir, Alexander
0.00
$0 (30)
Whipps, Christopher
1.75
$669,776 (10)
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* credit percentages are calculated by ORP to distribute credit for award and proposal activity to each faculty
member identified as a PI or CoPI on each Sponsored Program proposal or award, as well as their respective
college Departments. As an initial starting point this fiscal year, ORP has issued credit as follows: the identified
Principal Investigator of a proposal or award will receive 2-parts credit and each coPrincipal Investigator will
receive 1-part credit. For example: For a proposal or award with a PI and two CoPIs, the PI and his/her respective
Faculty will receive 2/4=50% credit, and each CoPI and respective Faculty would receive ¼=25% credit, for all
sponsored program activities. This procedure generally results in fractional numbers of proposal/awards credited
to each faculty member and his/her respective college Department, as well as the respective fractional portion of
the total proposal, award or expenditure amount.
**rank by credited amount; 1 highest, 30 lowest
Appendix F lists all active grants of each EFB faculty. For the 12-month period ending
6/30/14, EFB accounted for 41.6% of all active sponsored research projects at ESF (of 404 total,
all units) and 45.4% of the $14,563,048 of all sponsored program expenditures by all units at
ESF. The average amount of expenditure per project was $39,286 versus $35,959 in the last
reporting period.
Sponsored program expenditure activity by PI/coPI among EFB faculty for the 12-month
reporting period ending 4/30/14 follows. Dr. Leopold had the highest credited number of
program expenditures, followed by Drs. Cohen, Frair, Teale and Ringler. Dr. Leopold had the
highest credited dollar amount of program expenditures, followed by Drs. Farrell, Cohen,
Ringler, and Frair.
Sponsored Program Expenditure Activity Summary by PI/CoPI
(12-Month Period ending 4/30/14)
Name
Abrahamson, Lawrence
Castello, John
Cohen, Jonathan
Diemont, Stewart
Dovciak, Martin
Farrell, John
Farrell, Shannon
Fernando, Danilo
Fierke, Melissa
Frair, Jacqueline
Gibbs, James
Horton, Thomas
Kimmerer, Robin
Leopold, Donald
Limburg, Karin
Lomolino, Mark
Credited Number Credited Amount
0.98
1.25
11.50
1.67
2.67
4.17
0.00
2.33
2.58
10.58
7.92
2.00
6.00
13.36
7.00
1.00
$161,804 (12*)
$13,002 (28)
$335,190 (3)
$39,180 (24)
$106,498 (16)
$482,707 (2)
$0 (31)
$49,898 (20)
$41,382 (23)
$220,326 (5)
$203,506 (7)
$37,564 (25)
$153,085 (13)
$899,433 (1)
$177,052 (9)
$35,528 (26)
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McGee, Gregory
McNulty, Stacy
Mitchell, Myron
Newman, Lee
Parry, Dylan
Paterson, Gordon
Powell, William
Ringler, Neil
Rundell, Rebecca
Ryan, Sadie
Schulz, Kimberly
Shields, William
Stewart, Donald
Teale, Stephen
Turner, Scott
Weir, Alexander
Whipps, Christopher
0.20
5.70
5.58
4.58
1.42
0.00
6.00
7.25
1.00
2.58
5.67
1.00
0.00
10.25
1.00
1.00
4.00
$6,749 (30)
$139,033 (14)
$106,559 (15)
$175,600 (10)
$44,694 (21)
$0 (31)
$166,270 (11)
$289,587 (4)
$11,544 (29)
$53,927 (19)
$101,526 (17)
$43,232 (22)
$0 (31)
$217,689 (6)
$95,365 (18)
$20,231 (27)
$198,949 (8)
*rank by credited amount; 1 highest, 31 lowest
Patents and Patent Applications
Castello, J.D., Cale, J.A., Castello, D.R., and Devlin, P. 2014. Provisional Patent Application
Filed for invention of a “Forest Structural Sustainability Calculator” (a computer software
program that calculates a structural sustainability score and threshold value to quantitatively
and objectively assess forest health).
Listing of Awards and Recognition
Robin W. Kimmerer: John Burroughs Essay Award for Outstanding Natural History Essay
Robin W. Kimmerer: Finalist, Orion Book Award
Robin W. Kimmerer: Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award
Robin W. Kimmerer: Minnesota Center for Book Art selected “Braiding Sweetgrass” to honor
as handmade art book for 2013-14
Myron J. Mitchell: Adirondack Research Consortium’s Adirondack Achievement Award
William A. Powell: SUNY-ESF Exemplary Researcher Award
William A. Powell: 2013 Forest Biotechnologist of the Year (Institute of Forest Biotechnology)
Donald J. Stewart: Best paper of the year in Coepia
Outreach and Service
Service to the department, college, and university
A summary of service by each faculty member to the department, college, and university
is given in Appendix G.
Enumeration of outreach activities
Appendix H shows unfunded service by EFB faculty to government agencies, public
interest groups, etc. This list does not include the many hours of outreach made by our
Instructional Support Specialists, graduate students, and undergraduate students. For example,
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the Instructional Support Specialists who manage our Roosevelt Wildlife Collection and the
Illick greenhouses (Ron Giegerich and Terry Ettinger, respectively) host numerous tours for the
ESF community (e.g., Family & Friends Barbeque, Annual Alumni Tour, college visitors which
include many school groups).
Besides the numerous phone and email inquiries that faculty receive from the public,
news channels, and newspapers, Ron Giegerich, Terry Ettinger, and Kim Adams respond to
many similar requests for information from these sources. For example, Kim Adams receives
hundreds of requests for information. Terry Ettinger assisted in the development and delivery of
dozens of episodes of the ESF/Time Warner Cable “Going Green” collaboration which is
broadcast weekly across all of upstate New York, western Massachusetts, and northern
Pennsylvania and available on the web. Ron Giegerich coordinates EFB’s day at the NYS Fair
each August which attracts hundreds of visitors.
Although there are no data to support this claim, the Department generates more print in
the Syracuse Post-Standard than all other academic departments combined, and all other offices
at ESF and Syracuse University (except their athletic programs). Most of the dozens of local
newspaper articles of this past year are posted in the main foyer of Illick. Much media attention
often comes from beyond central New York, e.g., the Wall Street Journal featured the American
chestnut research being done by Drs. William Powell and Charles Maynard (FNRM); later in the
fall their work was highlighted in Nature. Increasingly, important web sites are featuring work
done by EFB faculty, e.g., Marketplace (American Public Media; radio and website), National
Geographic, Science Daily, Our Amazing Planet, MSNBC, and CBS News.
Unfunded service to professional societies and organizations is summarized in Appendix
I. Appendix J summarizes the funded service by EFB faculty to government agencies, public
interest groups, etc. Appendix K lists the presentations made to the public by EFB faculty and
Appendix L includes miscellaneous publications and outreach materials.
Summary of grant panel service (by agency)
S. Ryan: AAUW American Fellowships Panel
K. Schulz: National Science Foundation Panel
Summary of journal editorial board service
Animal Conservation: S. Ryan
Bio-Complexity: S. Turner
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology: G. Paterson
Ecological Engineering: S. Diemont (Guest Editor, Special Issue, with Marc Beutel)
Ecology and Society: K. Limburg
Ecology of Freshwater Fish: N. Ringler
Estuaries and Coasts: K. Limburg
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: K. Limburg
Journal of Great Lakes Research: J. Farrell (Guest Editor for special issue)
Intelligent Buildings International: S. Turner (Guest Editor for special issue)
International Journal of Phytoremediation: L. Newman (co-Editor-in-Chief)
Journal of Applied Ecology: J. Frair
Mycorrhiza: T. Horton
Northeastern Naturalist: D. Leopold
Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants: L. Newman
PLoS One: S. Ryan
The Canadian Entomologist: D. Parry
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Number of journal manuscripts reviewed by faculty (#journals/total #manuscripts reviewed;
excludes reviews of NSF, EPA, USDA, McIntire-Stennis, etc. proposals)
Castello, J.: 1/1
Cohen, J.: 3/4
Diemont, S.: 3/4
Dovciak, M.: 4/4
Farrell, J.: 4/5
Farrell, S.: 4/4
Fernando, D.: 3/3
Fierke, M.: 8/8
Folta, E.: 2/2
Frair, J.: ?
Gibbs, J.: ?
Horton, T.: 5/5
Kimmerer, R.: 2/5
Leopold, D.: 4/6
Limburg, K.: 12/14
Lomolino, M.: 5/7
McGee 2/2
McNulty 2/2
Mitchell, M.: 1/3
Newman, L.: 7/8
Parry, D.: 6/11
Powell, W.: 3/3
Ringler, N.: 2/2
Rundell, R.: 8/8
Ryan, S.: 3/5
Schulz, K.: 1/1
Shields, W.: ?
Stewart, D.: ?
Teale, S.: 3/3
Turner, S.: 7/10
Weir, A.: 3/3
Whipps, C.: 5/7
Listing of Awards and Recognition
Elizabeth Folta: SUNY-ESF President’s Award for Community Service
Jacqueline Frair: Elected Fellow, The Wildlife Society
Service Learning
Besides the engagement of students in classes listed below, EFB students were also very
involved through independent studies (EFB 498) and internships (EFB 420).
EFB faculty indicate that the following courses have specific service learning
components:
ERE 425 and ERE 625 Ecosystem Restoration Design (Diemont; which are being offered this new
academic year in a revised format as EFB 496 and EFB 796) had a service learning component (to be
with an expanded service component) – Students worked with the community members from the village
of Lacanja Chansayab, Mexico on a biocultural restoration project; they are creating a Lacandon Maya
field guide to be used in the elementary school to help incorporate Lacandon Maya TEK into the standard
education. In another biocultural restoration project, they worked on an educational video that would be
used by the Mayan Medicine Museum in San Cristobal de Las Casas to educate communities about
traditional and current practice of biological conservation in communities. With a faculty member at El
Colegio de La Frontera in San Cristobal de Las Casas, they worked on siting neighborhood-level natural
wastewater treatment systems for the city of San Cristobal de Las Casas, a community that currently does
not have wastewater treatment.
EFB 312/512 Intro. to Env. Interpretation (Folta) – Was not contacted by Wheeler Elementary School
to help out this year, but the principal has recently been in contact asking that we reestablish the
partnership for the fall.
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EFB 417/617 Non-Personal Environmental Interpretative Methods (Folta) – This year the students
worked with seven community partners and one ESF based research project. The students worked with
Baltimore Woods, Clark Reservation State Park, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Alverna Heights Spirituality
and Nature Center, Beaver Lake, Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, NY State Zoo and the One
Health research project. The students created brochures, waysides, and podcasts for the organizations to
use. Not all organizations needed all three projects, so at minimum the students created a brochure and
one of the other projects for their organization. Below are links to the podcasts created by the students in
EFB 417/617:
 Alverna Heights Spirituality and Nature Center https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00XOwNuwzxpSjdKc0cyMkl5Mkk/edit?usp=sharing
 Baltimore Woods Nature Center https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00XOwNuwzxpb3V0RlA3RjZfdXc/edit?usp=sharing
 Beaver Lake https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00XOwNuwzxpakdQa1dUSVF3aVE/edit?usp=sharing
 Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00XOwNuwzxpVGt1NlI0UE5RYm8/edit?usp=sharing
 Clark Reservation State Park https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00XOwNuwzxpbzRSSkNhNm9FZ28/edit?usp=sharing
 NY State Zoo https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00XOwNuwzxpSXJ0a09BY19oMDQ/edit?usp=sharing
 Rosamond Gifford Zoo https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00XOwNuwzxpcFhMM0VZTDZHa28/edit?usp=sharing
In total, the students donate over 813 hours to the seven different community organizations and the one
ESF based research project. The majority of the organizations have worked with us for several years now
and would like to participate again in the future.
EFB 305/605 Indigenous Issues and the Environment (Kimmerer) – Each student was required to
apply what they had learned in class to prepare a persuasive professional-quality communication related
to an ongoing environmental issue regarding indigenous peoples and to research the appropriate venue for
that communication and then submit it, to gain experience in influencing public discourse. A range of
communications were submitted, including educational brochures, letters to print and digital
publications, elected officials, community groups, educators and NGOs.
EFB 446/646 Ecology of Mosses (Kimmerer) – Student teams created bryophyte terraria and
accompanying interpretive materials on the natural history of mosses, to be used in educational outreach
activities with school groups.
EFB 525, Limnology Practicum (Schulz) – had a significant service learning component for the fourth
time this year. Students worked with two allied local lake associations (Song Lake Association and
COFOKLA – Cortland Onondaga Federation of Kettle Lake Associations) to develop their independent
projects on topics that were both scientifically relevant and of interest to the homeowners. About half of
student time in the course was devoted to developing and performing these independent projects, in cooperation with homeowners (when applicable). This culminated in a scientific poster session and
reception in 12 Illick Hall during finals week (10 December 2013) that was open to the public and
attended by over 50 individuals including other undergraduate and graduate students not in the Practicum,
faculty, and members of the Song Lake Association and COFOKLA, as well as the community. The
projects continue to expand a database of water quality and species presence data that will be useful to the
homeowners in lake management decisions. Among other projects, the students looked at effects of
native unionid mussels versus non-native dreissenid mussels on the kettle lakes, benthic invertebrates in
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two of the lakes, and the condition of the several game fish in the lakes relative to the state average.
Additional projects looked at the effects of flow rate in the salmon river on macroinvertebrate drift, the
buildup of foam in Skaneateles lake, indices of biotic integrity for local streams on a urban to rural
gradient, changes in water chemistry related to geology on Ninemile Creek, and anthropogenic effect
estimations for the Finger Lakes.
After the ESF poster presentation, the students working on the local lakes were invited to present
their posters at a COFOLKLA meeting on March 17, 2014 (after the fall term limnology class and during
a busy time in the spring term), and students brought the class posters to this meeting and met with the
public and regional lake association members. This service learning component is highly beneficial for
both students and the public, and I hope to continue similar efforts in the future with this class.
The interactions with the lake associations have also led to a small research project on lake
chubsuckers funded by the Great Lakes Research Consortium as well as several past and current senior
projects for Environmental Science students. The data we are compiling and collecting on the lakes will
help contribute the management of these lakes for the benefit of homeowners and public users of the lakes
with boater access. One of the undergraduates in the class is developing an honors project (working with
me and Alex Weir) related to the foam on Skaneateles Lake. The foam has been increasing in recent
years and there is a lot of homeowner and drinking water concern about this foam. We are meeting with
people from water management, non-profits and home owner associations about the foam issue and ESF
involvement in late June.
EFB 486/796 Ichthyology (Stewart) – we do a survey each year of fish communities along a river
gradient in central New York. This year we studied the gradient along Chittenango Creek. When new or
unusual fish distributions are found, the DEC may be advised, and sometimes, specimens are preserved
and provided to the New York State Museum. Periodically, such results are provided to NYS DEC
personnel who monitor conservation status of fish populations in the state.
Graduate Students
By the end of this reporting period, 51 (28, previous year) graduate students (Appendices
N and O) completed all degree requirements for the Ph.D., M.S., or M.P.S. degree.
Number of students by degree objectives
At the beginning of Fall ‘13, there were 150 graduate students officially enrolled in EFB,
a decrease of 6 compared to Fall ‘12, which was the largest number (156) ever enrolled in the
department and the same number as for Fall ‘11. The lowest number of graduate students in
EFB since 2005 was 128, at the beginning of fall 2008. The average number of EFB graduate
students each fall since 2005 is 143.
EFB graduate students were about 29% of the total number of all full- and part-time
graduate students at ESF during the fall ‘13. Of this EFB total, about 51% (54% previous year)
were in our M.S., 13% (9%) M.P.S., and 35% (37%) Ph.D. programs. The approximate
percentage of students in each of our nine graduate areas of study is as follows (with percentages
of previous year in parentheses):
Ecology
Fish and Wildlife Biology and Management
Conservation Biology
Plant Science and Biotechnology
Entomology
31% (30%)
21% (25%)
21% (19%)
7% (6%)
6% (5%)
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Environmental Interpretation
Forest Pathology and Mycology
Chemical Ecology
Applied Ecology
Other
Environmental Physiology
5% (5%)
3% (3%)
1% (3%)
3% (1%)
<1% (1%)
0% (0%)
Graduate student national fellowships/awards (new awards only; all graduate student awards
listed in Appendix P)
Katrina Alger
Melissa Althouse
Melissa Althouse
Michelle Avis
Michelle Avis
Silvia Saldivar Bellassai
Sam Beguin
Andrew Brainard
Amanda Cheeseman
Maureen Durkin
Thomas Evans
Rebecca Fuda
Jonas Hamberg
Molly Hassett
Molly Hassett
Molly Hassett
Kristen Haynes
Alison Kocek
Alison Kocek
Kapil Mandrekar
Andrew Miano
Misha Paltsyn
Terra Rentz
Neil Schoppmann
Andrea Thomen
Andrea Thomen
Tess Youker
Miguel Angel G. Zapata
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Central NY Wildfowlers Assoc. Roy W. Glahn Memorial Scholarship
The Waterbird Society Travel Grant
International Ornithological Congress Travel Award
Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund grant
Cullman Grant from Northern New York Audubon Society
Northeast Aquatic Plant Management Society Graduate Scholarship
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
The Waterbird Society Travel Grant
Great Lakes Fishery Commission research grant
Idea Wild Research Award
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Sussman Found. Fellowship Trustees Suppl. Award for Excellence
American Wildlife Conservation Foundation Grant
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
The Waterbird Society Travel Grant
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Research Grant
American Wildlife Conservation Foundation Grant
IUCN Cat Specialist Group Member
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Rizek Cacao Group Research Award
Neotropical Bird Club Research Award
Western New York Herpetological Society Student Research Award
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Graduate recruitment efforts
There were 138 graduate applications to EFB for spring ’14 (13) and fall ’14 (125)
matriculation, versus 140 in the last reporting period. This total number of applications,
specifically the decrease compared to the number of applications two years ago (183, the largest
number of applications ever), is misleading as a number of EFB faculty strongly discourage
potential applicants to formally apply if a review of submitted materials prior to a formal
application indicates that acceptance and funding are unlikely. Some of us individually
recommend to two or three dozen potential applicants each, not to formally apply because their
academic records will likely be below the upper 25% of the anticipated applicant pool. The
individual EFB faculty with the most robust graduate programs are generally those who receive
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the largest number of grad school inquiries and formal grad applications. Of the 125 applicants
for fall ’14 matriculation, 52 (42%) were rejected, versus a rejection rate of 58% last year.
Despite this significant decrease in total number of applications, EFB has recruited at
least 36 new graduate students (i.e., “new” since August 2013) for this coming academic year
versus 36 last year. As of late July 2014, at least 28 new graduate students (i.e.,
“accepted/coming” applicants) will matriculate this fall ’14 semester (versus about 22 for fall
semester ‘13). Illick Hall was not designed to accommodate the current number of graduate
students in EFB. As tight as office and lab space were for the 128 graduate students in 2008,
with over 20 additional grads in the program the past few years we have exceeded our capacity
to provide sufficient, quality space for all graduate students.
Recently, EFB has not had sufficient capacity to increase graduate enrollment in Wildlife
Sciences and Toxicology. With the addition of new faculty in these areas (Drs. Shannon Farrell
and Gordon Paterson, respectively) we should see graduate enrollments increase overall in EFB
although finding adequate space will only become a greater challenge than it is now.
After many years of debate at EFB faculty meetings the faculty agreed in January 2012 to
a greatly revised ranking system of all graduate applicants. The ranking system used for decades
was based only on an applicant’s gpa and GRE scores, never including other measures of
potential success in our graduate program. Although many of the top-ranked graduate applicants
did complete their graduate programs in a timely manner and produced the products (including
peer-reviewed journal papers) expected by the faculty, an unacceptable number have not.
Beginning in January 2012, all EFB graduate applicants were ranked according to this scheme:
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1st authored peer reviewed pub: 100 pts, or 125 pts if done while an undergrad; (PER PAPER)
2nd authored/multi-authored: 50 pts (PER PAPER)
Master's degree (not MPS): 75 pts
Discretionary points for each faculty person to dispense: 150 pts
This new scheme has now been applied to five cohorts of applications, i.e., those who
applied for fall ’12, ’13 and ’14 and spring ’13 and ‘14 matriculation. The use of this new
ranking scheme did indeed greatly alter the ranking of all applicants, and the faculty generally
seemed very pleased by the change. However, it will take a few years to evaluate whether our
new scheme helps us accept and support the applicants who are likely to be most successful in
our graduate program.
Graduate recruitment remains highly dependent on the efforts of individual faculty
members in attracting graduate students into their programs. We stress the importance of
updated faculty web pages and the importance of faculty obtaining research grants to provide
graduate stipends and tuition-waivers through graduate research assistantships (GRAs). In recent
years, EFB has been allocated 39.5 graduate teaching assistantships (GTAs); our graduate
enrollment at the beginning of the past two AYs has been at least 150. Although we have about
40% of the full-time graduate students at ESF, we receive about 30% of the 132 state-funded
graduate assistantships. GRAs are critical for maintaining and expanding our graduate support.
These GRAs can provide a larger stipend than that provided by TAs and include support for the
full calendar year. Teaching assistantships only provide academic year support. A robust
graduate program can only be sustained by recruiting graduate students who are competitive for
GTAs and national fellowships, and having an active research program that provides GRAs.
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Graduate student advising
Below shows the approximate number of graduate students advised last academic year by
each EFB faculty member, as each have reported, including graduate students who finished.
Some EFB faculty advise graduate students in other departments, especially in GPES, and even
at other institutions. Co-major professors are counted as 0.5 graduate students.
Castello 2
Cohen 7
Diemont 10.5
Dovciak 3.5
Farrell, J. 6.5
Farrell, S. 0.5
Fernando 3.5
Fierke 3
Folta 8
Frair 7
Gibbs 8
Horton 4
Kimmerer 7.5
Leopold 14.5
Limburg 6.5
Lomolino 2.5
McGee 3
McNulty 3.5
Mitchell 4
Newman 6.5
Parry 5
Paterson 0
Powell 2.5
Ringler 9.5
Rundell 3
Ryan 5.5
Schulz 6.5
Shields 4
Stewart 5.5
Teale 6
Turner 0.5
Weir 3
Whipps 5.5
Courses having TA support and enrollment in each
Course #
Course Name
# of Students
# of GTAs
101
102
103
104
120
132
General Biology Lecture I
General Biology Lab I
General Biology Lecture II
General Biology Lab II
Global Environment (spring)
Orientation Seminar
273
253
148
133
111
99
2
7
3
5
3
0.5
200
210
211
217
220
Physics of Life
Diversity of Life I
Diversity of Life II
Peoples, Plagues, & Pests
Urban Ecology
145
166
159
85
20+
0.5
3
4
0.5
0.5
300 (ESF)
303
305/605
308
311
312/512
320
325
326
336
340
351
352/552
355
360
Intro to Geospatial Information Systems
Intro Environ. Microbiology
Indigenous Issues and the Environment
Principles of Genetics Lab
Principles of Evolution
Intro. to Environ. Interpretation
General Ecology
Cell Biology
Diversity of Plants
Dendrology
Forest & Shade Tree Pathology
Forest Entomology
Entomology
Invertebrate Zoology
Epidemiology
?
60
38
200
183
41
235
89
56
165
41
89
77
38
28
0.5
1
0.5
5
1
1
5
1
2
2
0.5
2
2
1
1
31
385
390
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Wildlife Ecology and Management
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71
1.5
1
401/601
413
415/615
417/617
419
423/623
425(BTC)
424/525
428/628
435/635
440/640
445/645
446/646
462/662
480
482
483
485
486
487
491
493/693
496
Molecular Biology Techniques
Introduction to Conservation Biology
Biogeochemistry
Advanced Perspectives of Interpretation
Problem Solving in Conserv. Biol.
Marine Ecology
Plant Biotechnology
Limnology/Limnology Practicum
Mycorrhizal Ecology
Flowering Plants: Diversity, Evolution…
Mycology
Plant Ecology
Ecology of Mosses
Animal Physiol.: Environ. & Ecol.
Principles of Animal Behavior
Ornithology
Mammal Diversity
Herpetology
Ichthyology
Fisheries Science and Management
Wildlife Ecol. & Manage. Practicum
Wildlife Habitats/Populations
Emerging Infectious Diseases
30
82
30
27
39
38
20
93
100
47
61
66
74
32
40
44
21
1
1
0.5
1
1
3
1
2
0.5
0.5
0.5
1
0.5
0.5
3
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
0.5
518
554
Systems Ecology
Aquatic Entomology
25
17
0.5
0.5
15
67
27
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Governance and Administrative Structure
Components:
Chair (D. Leopold)
Duties:
Manage allocation of state, Research Foundation (research incentives), and College
Foundation accounts
Manage allocation of 40+ state graduate teaching assistantships
Convene regular department meetings
Represent department at biweekly Academic Council meetings
Work with Development Office for fundraising
Supervise about 35 faculty, one administrative assistant, two Instructional Support Specialists
and other staff
Promote faculty and staff within and outside of the department and facilitate the many good
ideas that regularly emanate from faculty
Ensure that all regular and new undergraduate and graduate courses are offered as listed in the
College Catalog or webpage; main contact with Registrar for any course changes.
Work with Physical Plant on all planned renovations and emergency repairs
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Assist Provost with special projects as needed
Represent department at all college open houses
Prepare annual department report
Associate Chairs (J. Castello and J. Gibbs)
Duties: One (J. Castello) assists with annual EFB preconvocation student awards recognition,
supervises the Keyboard 1 and 2 Specialists in the main administrative office, assists in other
miscellaneous ways. The other (J. Gibbs) is working on benchmarking.
Promotion and Tenure Committee (J. Castello, chair; J. Gibbs, T. Nakatsugawa, D. Stewart, K.
Limburg, A. Weir, and J. Farrell).
Curriculum and Course Assessment Committee (K. Schulz, chair; C. Whipps, M. Fierke, J. Gibbs,
G. McGee, L. Newman)
Duties: review all course and curricula changes in EFB and College; oversee course
assessment of seven EFB undergraduate majors
Graduate Program Advisory Committee (K. Limburg, chair; M. Dovciak, D. Fernando, M. Fierke,
T. Horton; Jeremy Hayward and Kean Clifford, graduate student representatives)
Duties: advise chair on graduate matters and facilitate department decisions about policies
Building and Space Committee (currently vacant)
Field Program (including International Programs) Committee (Stephen Teale, chair; R. Davis, J.
Farrell, C. Nowak, A. Weir, C. Westbrook)
Awards Committee (chaired by J. Castello)
 Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Awards
 Illustrious Alumni, Emeriti Awards
Supporting Offices, Committees, Directors, and Coordinators
Administrative Office
 Adminstrative Assistant to the Chair/Secretary 1 (Sandra Polimino)
Duties: manages all department accounts (state, research foundation, and Development)
and submits payment for department bills; manages ranking of graduate applicants and
currently overseeing administrative aspects of EFB graduate program; assists with
annual student recognition the day of convocation; manages EFB’s digital display in
foyer; manages requests by faculty for all vehicles for their classes; assists in managing
the chair’s calendar and schedule; assists in development activities; assists faculty in
various ways; handles reimbursements, etc. for seminar speakers; assists the chair with a
multitude of tasks.
 Secretary 1 (AnnMarie Clarke)
Duties: provides support to Undergraduate Curriculum Director (UCD) for
undergraduate program (7 majors); schedules prospective/accepted undergraduate
student visits with Admissions; assists UCD with open house and transfer
days; oversees summer mailings to incoming students; revises undergraduate
handbook; assists with data collection for Undergraduate Program Assessments;
provides faculty support for manuscripts, class work, and report preparations; assists
with arranging meetings, conferences, travel and hotel accommodations; orders
department supplies; processes State and Research purchase requisitions for faculty
and staff; modifies, updates and maintains EFB websites for EFB faculty; handles
incoming and outgoing mail when KB 1 is out; handles routine maintenance of office
equipment including fax and copier; assists with Cranberry Lake Biological Station
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registration; assists with assigning rooms for graduate students; provides support to
Department Chair and Secretary 1
 Keyboard Specialist 1 (Joanne Rappleyea)
Duties: responsible for meeting and greeting all visitors to EFB; responds to all inquiries
made by faculty, staff, and students; handles all incoming mail for EFB faculty, staff,
and graduate students; assists Secretary 1, Keyboard Specialist 2, and Department Chair;
orders office supplies for EFB administrative office; sets up a chart of each EFB
conference room; handles routine maintenance of office equipment; oversees sign-out of
digital equipment; types roster of faculty, staff and other key campus numbers and
distributes to EFB faculty, staff, and grads; processes all Work Orders to Physical Plant;
types Class Schedules (fall & spring) and post outside main office; processes State and
Research purchase requisitions.
Undergraduate Curriculum Director (G. McGee)
Duties:
Coordinate student recruitment events with Admissions;
Develop orientation materials and programs for freshmen and transfer students;
Update curriculum plan sheets, directed elective lists and the student handbook;
Facilitate petitions;
Coordinate department undergraduate advising;
Serve as the department’s representative on the Academic Standards Review Committee;
Compile and summarize ENB assessment data.
Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinators (by major)
Environmental Biology (G. McGee)
Aquatic and Fisheries Science (D. Stewart)
Biotechnology (W. Powell)
Conservation Biology (D. Parry)
Forest Health (J. Castello)
Natural History and Interpretation (E. Folta)
Wildlife Science (J. Cohen)
Graduate Program Director (D. Fernando)
Duties:
Act on petitions concerning different aspects of graduate program requirements and policies
Review and sign (paper form and online) forms required for the completion of different
majors and degrees (2A, 3B, 4, 5B and 6B)
Reply to inquiries concerning EFB graduate program (through email, phone, and/or personal
visits) on an almost daily basis from potential applicants and current graduate students
Process each year about 150 graduate applications that involve the review of each
application for initial assessment and designation of faculty reviewers, following up on
the completion of the reviews on each application, summarizing the reviews for each
application, and submitting EFB’s recommendation for each accepted and rejected
applications to the Dean of Instructions and Graduate Studies
Provide orientation seminars to new graduate students about EFB graduate program and the
new faculty about the graduate application process
Serve as the department’s representative to the Graduate Council and raise issues regarding
problems/suggestions on how to improve the graduate program, application and review
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process; shared the ideas and activities of the Graduate School to the department’s
graduate committee and faculty
Review applications and participate in the deliberations in granting Fellows for SUNY
Diversity Fellowship and Bristol Myers Squibb Sustainability Fellowship
Work with the Graduate Secretary on the update and improvement of the various facets of
the EFB’s Graduate Webpage and graduate application filing system
Cranberry Lake Biological Station (A. Weir, Director)
Roosevelt Wild Life Station (J. Gibbs, Director; J. Frair, Associate Director)
Thousand Islands Biological Station (J. Farrell, Director)
Animal Use and Care Protocols (college-wide committee; C. Whipps)
Exhibits Coordinator (E. Folta)
Instructional Support Specialist Supervisors
 K. Adams – S. Teale
 R. Giegerich – J. Frair
 P. McHale – M. Mitchell
 B. McMaster – D. Leopold
 T. Ettinger – D. Leopold
Budget
EFB’s budget comes from four main sources, i.e., (1) state allocations; (2) funds
generated from summer courses, grad tuition incentive program, and course fees beginning this
next academic year; (3) the SUNY Research Foundation (RF) research incentives funds; and, (4)
development funds through the College Foundation. A summary of the allocations from each
source and expenditures follows.
State Budget Allocations: $48,750 (vs. $61,750 for last two reporting periods; state budget
allocation to EFB in ’07-’08 was $79,500 for fewer faculty, students, and courses); excludes
search committee allocations from the Provost, Biotechnology, Tree Pest Info Service, and
Academic Equipment Replacement allocations – amounts of these shown below)
Initial Allocation (August 26, 2013): $48,750 ($44,000 OTPS; $4,750 TS)
Planned* Expenditures:
Offices (administration, faculty, staff, grads):
Computers:
Photocopy:
Mileage/Travel:
Repairs:
Building, facilities, exhibits:
Seminars and receptions
Chairman Operating (over expenditures, all categories)
Greenhouses
Faculty subaccounts and additional requests:
$12,750
$0
$5,000
$2,000
$2,000
$2,000
$8,500
$5,000
$1,000
$31,700**
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Total OTPS
Temporary services (TS)
$57,000
$4,750
*because $26,000 in course fees was anticipated to be collected during the last reporting
period, budgeting was based on an assumed OTPS amount of $70,000, i.e., $44,000 + $26,000)
**an increase of $7,950 vs. last reporting period; amounts in all other categories unchanged except
for the $5000 allocation into the Chairman Operating account (from $0), which covers faculty
overexpenditures.
Biotechnology accounts: $8,450
Tree Pest Info Service account: $1,600
Academic Equipment Replacement: $26,459 (versus $34,695 previous year)
End-of-year allocation: $0 (versus $0 previous year)
The total state budget allocation for 2013-2014 of $48,750 was substantially lower than
in previous years because of anticipated course fees revenue to be collected. Course fees of
$23,017 were collected in the fall ’13 and spring ’14 semesters, and these fees were transferred
into our OTPS account. With an additional $1500 transferred in mid March by the Provost into
the department’s OTPS account, our OTPS account was $11,517 more than last reporting period.
Of the extraordinary expenditures that are covered by state funds, the cost of the
Department’s pre-Convocation award ceremony and reception for graduating students, their
families and friends, and faculty and staff was $4,135. The state budget allocation was also used
to help cover the costs of invited speakers for EFB’s Adaptive Peaks Graduate Seminar Series
and Dr. Lee Newman’s Phytoremediation Seminar; we spent about $3200 of the state allocation
on speakers’ travel, food and lodging, fees, and receptions for this purpose. Other unusual
expenditures from the state allocation include $3100 for the purchase of six office air
conditioners to replace units apparently damaged by all of the Illick exterior rehabilitation work.
Funds Generated by Summer Courses and Grad Tuition Incentive Program
Summer Courses:
Grad Tuition Incentive Program
($6,450 fall ’13; $0 spring ’14)
$9,455.50
$6450
Funds from these sources have only recently been available and provide much incentive
for the department to offer relevant summer courses during Maymester and Summer Session, as
well as increasing enrollment in the department’s M.P.S. programs, the likely graduate programs
to see an increase in self-paying students (i.e., those not on state or research graduate
assistantships). The amount of fund generated from summer ’13 courses was over double the
amount from summer ’12 ($4,539). However, the funds generated from self-paying graduate
students ($6450) were substantially down from the previous year ($18,999.64). All of these
funds ($15,905.50 total) were used to help pay for the part-time salary and fringe benefits for the
previous Executive Director of The Roosevelt Wild Life Station then part-time administrative
assistance to the RWLS from 8/15/13 to 5/10/14.
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SUNY RF Departmental Research Incentives Funds: $22,752 allocated 11/14/13
(versus $24,274 last year and $26,451 in ’11-‘12); carryover of $4,759 balance from
previous year; total available $27,511.
Expenditures (by general categories):
Department Seminars (incl. Adaptive Peaks)
Faculty and Staff Development and Recognition
Faculty and Staff Equipment and Supplies
TIBS, CLBS undergraduate student fellowships
Building Equipment and Supplies
Office Copier
Student Development and Recognition
Searches (Environmental Microbiologist)
Development
Greenhouse
Dept and Field Station Dues
Total Expenditures
Balance (July 21, 2014)
$5,350
$8,805
$0
$0,000
$250
$1,424
$2,000
$0
$1,515
$475
$750
$20,569
$6,942
(an additional $1,853 was spent for similar purposes from the $4,412 EFB RI Chair allocation,
leaving a balance of $1,237)
The Research Incentives allocation to EFB the past two years was over $10,000 less in
each year than the amount allocated four years ago (i.e., $34,405). The Department could not
function without these Research Incentive funds, i.e., the state allocation is insufficient to cover
the basic teaching, research, and outreach expenses of a doctoral-granting biology program.
Additionally, these funds have to cover expenses of faculty searches not covered by the
Provost’s Office. Because of the significant reduction in Research Incentives funds the past
three years and anticipated/unanticipated expenditures, the department suspended the TIBS and
CLBS undergraduate student summer fellowship programs. However, with the course fees
collected to pay for the expendable supplies in lab courses with state funds, the department
should be able to activate these programs during ’14 – ’15 by not having to cover basic teaching
expenditures with Research Incentive funds.
Development Funds ($67,129 budgeted for ’13-’14; does not include balance in EFB Fund nor
College Foundation accounts for the RWLS, CNPE, Dale L. Travis Lecture)
Undergraduate and graduate student awards come from the following endowments:
Maurice and Annette Alexander Wetlands Research Fund, Robert L. Burgess Graduate
Scholarship in Ecology, Betty Moore Chamberlaine Memorial Fund, Leroy C. Stegeman
Endowment in Invertebrate Ecology, Robert A. Zabel Endowed Scholarship, John and Etta
Simeone Graduate Fellowship, Josiah L. Lowe-Hugh E. Wilcox Scholarship Fund, Phyllis
Roskin, Joseph and Ruth Hasenstab, Edwin H. Ketchledge Scholarship, Lanier Memorial,
Silverborg Memorial, and Patricia D. and Jeff J. Morrell Scholarship, and Dr. Samuel Grober ’38
Graduate Fellowship. At the annual EFB Spring Celebration and Awards Ceremony prior to the
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ESF Convocation, $38,050 was given out to EFB undergraduate and graduate students.
Awardees are included in Appendix P.
A new undergraduate award was established this during the spring of 2012 in honor of
Dr. Chun-Juan K. Wang and given out again in May 2013. We hope that this award will be
given annually to the outstanding graduating woman who best exemplifies Dr. Wang’s love of
learning, teaching and research, in hopes that it will inspire her to achieve her highest goals. The
Chun Wang Honor Award recognizes the many contributions that Dr. Wang has made to the
College since 1959 when she began here as the first woman professor at ESF. Dr. Wang is a
Professor Emerita in Botany and Mycology and is a world renowned mycologist, known
especially for her groundbreaking work with the Fungi Imperfecti. In addition to her exemplary
research, Dr. Wang is highly respected for her years of service as a beloved teacher, introducing
generations of students to the wonders of plants through her courses in Botany, Diversity of
Plants and many aspects of Mycology. She has inspired hundreds of students with her
knowledge, her enthusiasm and her passion for learning and has served as a wise mentor and role
model for students and faculty alike. This award was established by the women faculty in EFB,
now representing over 25% of the current EFB faculty.
EFB had an additional $8444 in a General EFB Fund, the result of occasional donations
to the department, primarily from current and retired faculty, and used for end of year student
awards that are made at our annual spring recognition ceremony. The total amount of
Development funds made available to EFB are about two-thirds of the funds that were available
in’07-’08 (i.e., $109,213) before substantial endowment losses due to the poor economy.
Over the next few years and beyond we hope to attract sufficient development funds for a
variety of significant purposes, including: endowed chairs (in biotechnology, conservation
biology, wildlife policy and management, waterfowl ecology, etc.), finishing the residential
building at the TIBS, museum display cases for the Roosevelt Discovery Center, a graduate
seminar series, graduate fellowships (to attract the top applicants) and scholarships (to fully fund
attendance at professional meetings), and undergraduate scholarships (for recruiting top students
and support for attending professional meetings and field trips offered in our program, e.g., to
Russia, Ireland, Australia, and Africa).
To have a better chance of reaching these goals EFB took two unprecedented steps.
Beginning in May 2012, the department, through ESF’s Development Office, hired a highly
successful development person part time (about 20%) for one year; the ESF Development Office
covered that person’s employment thereafter to present. EFB funds to support this position came
from a generous donation from a retired EFB faculty member. The primary focus of this
person’s effort has been on fundraising for an endowed professorship in wildlife sciences, the
specifics of which will be in a future annual report as there are not yet any results to report. In
August 2012 through December 2013 the department hired a part-time (50%,) Executive
Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station to assist Drs. Gibbs (Director) and Frair (Associate
Director) with many tasks, including fund raising for numerous initiatives. Funding for this
position was cobbled together from funds in the Roosevelt Wild Life Station account, summer
salary in grants not taken by Dr. Gibbs, and new sources of funds to the department, i.e., money
generated from summer course offerings and self-paying graduate students. Although our hope
was that this position would be self-supportive by end of December 2013, there were insufficient
funds to continue this position.
In May ’12 the ESF College Foundation received a donation of $25K from an alumnus to
establish a lecture series and other activities to publicly promote significant activities of ESF
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faculty. In March 2013 Dr. James Gibbs delivered the first Dale L. Travis Lecture as part of a
longer term series that is planned. Donations of the same amount were made in spring ’13 and
spring ’14 to continue this series. Dr. Bill Powell gave the Dale L. Travis Lecture in October
2013 and Dr. Don Stewart gave the lecture in March 2014. Under this lecture program, Dr.
Stewart Diemont gave a public lecture in October at the American Museum of Natural History,
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation in New York City, and Dr. James Gibbs gave a talk in
April 2014 at the Explorer’s Club in New York City. We will continue to use this lecture
program for lectures on the Syracuse campus as well as support lectures in other strategic
locations.
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment (contributed by Drs. Schulz, McGee, and Gibbs)
(Please note that due to a sabbatical leave and health issues by key faculty, EFB has not made as
much progress with assessment as anticipated; therefore, the material presented in the past two
years’ reports is summarized along with the plan for completion of EFB assessment over the next
half year).
The Department of Environmental and Forest Biology formed in 1977 with the
amalgamation of three smaller departments, i.e., Forest Zoology, Forest Botany and Pathology,
and Forest Entomology. Between 1965-2002, the Bachelor of Science in Environmental &
Forest Biology was the single undergraduate program offered by the Department of
Environmental & Forest Biology. By the end of this era students were allowed to pick from
nearly one dozen options, all under the umbrella of our Environmental Biology major.
As part of the department’s strategic planning we adopted a vision statement in
November 2001 that included as a key task the importance of strengthening our undergraduate
curriculum, which we planned to do by offering a number of distinct majors. By Fall ’04, all
seven of EFB’s current undergraduate majors (i.e., Aquatic and Fisheries Science,
Biotechnology, Conservation Biology, Environmental Biology, Forest Health, Natural History
and Interpretation, and Wildlife Science) were being offered, replacing the elective
concentrations or options. At the time of implementation, explicit student learning objectives
were not developed for these seven majors, nor were any formal assessment processes
implemented. During the spring ’05 semester, according to a SUNY mandate, an external review
of the Environmental Biology major was made. Assessment plans for each major were approved
in 2009. Natural History and Interpretation had a subsequent name change (2013) to
Environmental Education and Interpretation.
In 2011, the Course and Curriculum Assessment Committee (CCAC) began obtaining,
compiling and distributing the assessment data required for each EFB major to the seven
curriculum coordinators. The assessment plans developed in 2009 called for assessment data to
be generated from (1) grades or Likert-scale evaluations of targeted assignments, embedded
exam questions and student surveys from EFB courses; and (2) final course grades. In 2012, in
anticipation of the sustained effort needed to manage the assessment data, the CCAC developed
an “omnibus” spreadsheet to facilitate consistent, annual reporting of data across all majors to a
central location. The organizational challenges to obtaining and sorting data on hundreds of
students from 49 courses and then redistributing those data to meet the reporting needs of seven
curriculum coordinators was large, and with continued secretarial turnover and some spreadsheet
intensive data tasks, entry and analysis of data rely on efforts from the coordinators of the seven
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majors. The appointment of the new Registrar facilitated receipt of course grade data from the
college this academic year. Representatives from the CCAC and the curriculum coordinators
met with the college’s assessment leaders (Drs. Valerie Luzadis in 2012 and Gary Scott, 2013
and 2014) several times regarding the capabilities of the college’s TracDat system and the
desired formatting of the assessment reports. Due to the structure of our original assessment
plans, and the apparent lack of spreadsheet and dataset analysis capabilities of the TracDat
system, a significant amount of data entry and calculation is still required of each curriculum
coordinator. By the end of the 2013-2014 academic year four of seven majors completed
entering their data from 2010-2012 into the TracDat system, and the CCAC is working with the
other coordinators to complete this task in summer 2014. In conversations with Gary Scott we
agreed that the majors would revise assessment plans rather than continue an assessment process
that is cumbersome and not providing us with the data we need to evaluate our programs. We
will complete a written EFB curriculum assessment summary during summer 2014 in
anticipation of a curricular review of all EFB majors in late fall 2014 or early spring 2015.
As part of this curricular review, all seven of the major coordinators are working to
propose new assessment plans that we believe will be both simpler to administer and will give us
more usable data to allow us to improve student learning outcomes. We understand from the
ESF administration that field tests alone will not be acceptable as assessment metrics either to
the College or to SUNY, nor would grades alone. We are still developing multiple metrics, but
ones that are simpler to collect, more revealing of student learning, and easier to analyze.
TracDat appears designed for users inexperienced with data analysis or management; it is a work
around rather than a tool, and seems to obscure rather than reveal, at least in our experiences.
Alternative assessment data being proposed include internally prepared exit examinations
major field examinations, as well as for some majors (e.g., Environmental Education and
Interpretation) independent review of student portfolios. While discussing these options with
Assistant Provost for Assessment and Academic Initiatives, Gary Scott, we were told that modest
funds might not be available for these metrics, and that we will need to formally apply for funds,
which we will do in conjunction with submission of these plans. We are hopeful to receive
better guidance from the College assessment leaders as we modify our assessment plans.
Current course data are required from a large number of courses (see following table). This
number may be decreased in the future with the implementation of new assessment plans. In
addition, we are interested in communicating more closely with the alumni office to include,
even in an informal fashion, later career success and possible alumni surveys into our assessment
process. Several majors (e.g., Aquatic and Fisheries Science) also perform exit interviews that
have informed curricular changes, and these may be implemented more formally.
We anticipate that TracDat reports will have been generated for all majors, new
assessment plans proposed when necessary, and a full EFB assessment report generated by the
end of the first week of the Fall 2014 semester. We look forward to an external review of our
majors during this next academic year.
Courses in which EFB majors are assessed (data are collected), by major
AFS
APM 105
APM 106
APM 391
BTC 401
BTC
X
X
X
X
CB
ENB
X
FH
X
X
NHI
WS
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BTC 420
BTC 498
BTC 499
CLL 190
CLL 290
EFB 101
EFB 102
EFB 103
EFB 104
EFB 120
EFB 202
EFB 215
EFB 307
EFB 308
EFB 311
EFB 320
EFB 325
EFB 340
EFB 351
EFB 352
EFB 390
EFB 404
EFB 405
EFB 406
EFB 413
EFB 414
EFB 416
EFB 419
EFB 420
EFB 424
EFB 439
EFB 486
EFB 491
EFB 493
EFB 497
EFB 498
FCH 150
FCH 151
FCH 152
FCH 153
FCH 210
FCH 530
FCH 532
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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X
X
X
X
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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FOR 207
FOR 321
X
X
Objectives 2013-2014
Objectives, status, and relations to strategic plan
As a key part of our strategic planning process, the EFB faculty adopted the following
vision statement in November 2001: “Environmental and Forest Biology will be a world leader
in furthering our understanding of the structure and function of the world’s ecosystems and their
biota, and in applying scientific principles to solving the pressing environmental problems of the
biosphere. EFB will pursue this goal through excellence in basic and applied research, in service
to the public, and in educating the next generation of environmental scientists, thinkers, and
problem solvers”. The month before this vision statement was adopted, faculty discussions
culminated in identifying the following tasks that if accomplished would help us realize this
vision:
(1) attraction and retention of top-flight scientists;
(2) evolution of a stronger learning and mentoring environment for students, faculty, and
staff;
(3) development of a more fully integrated field program;
(4) development of greater prominence and national/international recognition of our
graduate program;
(5) enhancement and formal recognition of our public service, informational outreach,
and service learning program;
(6) development of new undergraduate programs;
(7) development of international perspectives and opportunities; and,
(8) collaboration as College partners on data development and utilization.
Numerous examples and data throughout this annual report indicate that EFB continues to make
substantial progress towards accomplishing these tasks.
The primary foci of the ‘13-‘14 academic year were to: (1) fill the Systems Ecologist
position vacated by the retirement of Dr. Charles Hall; (2) fill the Environmental Microbiologist
position vacated by the retirement of Dr. James Nakas; (3) dedicate substantial time towards
development activities, including the revitalization of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station; (4)
continue and expand the Dale L. Travis lecture with lectures on and off campus; and, (5)
implement an evaluation scheme for untenured faculty based on well-defined metrics.
The hiring of a new Systems Ecologist (Dr. Stewart Diemont) and Environmental
Microbiologist (Dr. Hyatt Green) were two of the most significant accomplishments of the
department this past year. Dr. Diemont started his position in EFB on January 1, 2014 and
taught Global Environment (EFB 120) during the spring semester. Dr. Green starts October 1 of
this year.
The Dale L. Travis Lecture Series was greatly expanded during this reporting period to
include a lecture on campus on American chestnut in October by Dr. William Powell, a lecture
by Dr. Don Stewart on campus on his Arapaima research, and two lectures in New York City
including one by Dr. Stewart Diemont in October and one by Dr. James Gibbs in April.
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The work by the EFB Promotion and Tenure Committee (PTC) to develop metrics to
evaluate faculty at various points in their career, is very important although some faculty have
expressed serious concerns about implementing such an evaluation. The PTC gathered data from
peer departments and institutions on faculty teaching, research, and outreach to compare with
data in these categories produced by EFB faculty. Based on these data, as well as a detailed
analysis of metrics of only EFB faculty, the PTC substantially revised their original plan
(presented in May 2013) to eliminate these concerns and gain support from the majority of the
faculty. Because of lingering faculty concerns about the revised evaluation plan and metrics, the
PTC is making additional revisions for faculty to review during the fall 2014.
Although not a departmental accomplishment, the Environmental Health major in
Environmental Science, has been approved by SUNY and the first group of students to enroll in
this program will matriculate at ESF for the fall ’14 semester. EFB will have the largest role in
offering this major, which should greatly benefit ESF. Dr. Lee Newman is the Director of this
interdepartmental program.
Objectives 2014-2015
Objectives and relations to strategic plan
Recently we learned that although we have implemented a mentoring program for new
faculty, there sometimes has been a bit of a disconnect between guidance of a faculty member’s
mentoring committee and evaluations made at various levels in the department and College-wide
promotion and tenure process. Metrics being developed by the EFB Promotion and Tenure
Committee are likely to objectively indicate to faculty pursuing promotion, which area(s) need
strengthening. The PTC has offered to the department two different schemes of metrics, both of
which have met with strong resistance
Implementing a plan to replace Dr. Sadie Ryan is one of the most urgent tasks of the new
academic year because of her role in the College’s emerging Environmental Health program,
specifically her Epidemiology course. We have one announced and one additional retirement
likely in the 2014-2015 reporting period. Dr. Myron Mitchell will retire September 1, 2014; we
hope to initiate the search to fill his position during the fall of 2015. Although we were very
fortunate to recently hire Dr. Lee Newman to cover some of the key teaching duties of Drs.
Kretzer and Smart who are no longer in the department, EFB is still without a plant physiologist.
A doctoral granting environmental biology program must have a plant physiologist so we are
anxious to explore options that would fill this significant void.
The seven EFB undergraduate majors need a formal assessment, planned for 2014 to
2015. The EFB Curriculum and Course Assessment Committee, working with the Chair and
Coordinators of each major, will work on the plan for this assessment during the fall ’14
semester and have the external assessment team visit during the spring ’15 semester.
With substantial time invested in development activities, we hope that there will be some
significant results soon. Although it appears that most of these efforts are concentrated on the
Roosevelt Wild Life Station because of the endowed professorships being pursued and bioblitzes
done, any successes with these efforts will have a significant direct and indirect impact on the
department as well. Without funds from external sources, we will never fully reach the potential
and aspirations of the faculty and students. Besides ongoing development activities for EFB
programs, seeking external funds for the new undergraduate Environmental Health major is a
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high priority. We were close to initiating those efforts this past year but a change in
administrative leadership of Environmental Health required reworking of materials developed for
fundraising.
Following the development and implementation of the College’s new strategic plan,
likely by late in the Spring ’15 semester, the Department should undergo a similar process to
facilitate that plan and take advantage of opportunities that result. Department-level strategic
planning will likely be a primary objective of the 2015 to 2016 period. By that time, the most
important current unknowns should be more certain, e.g., the status of the Academic Research
Building and status of key development efforts, especially related to endowed professorships.
Undergraduate Recruitment Efforts
Most of EFB’s undergraduate recruitment efforts are made through existing college
programs, especially open houses, Transfer Days, and receptions for accepted students. For open
houses, an overview of all our programs is presented in 5 Illick; this overview is followed
immediately by a dynamic, fair-like gathering in the foyer. There, tables are organized by major
and attended by at least one faculty representative - and when possible a current undergraduate
student - to provide information and handle inquiries. Hands-on displays complement the
information in the glass display cases about our undergraduate program. Additionally, EFB
meets all requests by prospective and accepted students for personal visits with faculty during
both the academic year and summer; one of EFB’s Secretary 1’s is responsible for organizing
these meetings.
EFB’s undergraduate curriculum director sends a letter to all Fall-accepted
undergraduates in the summer, welcoming each into our program. These letters are
individualized to the student, and tailored to the circumstances, e.g., whether the accepted
student is a Presidential Scholar, or in a particular major. Similar letters go to the few applicants
who start in the Spring semester.
Six years ago, the chair and coordinators of our majors taped a web video message that
all accepted students were encouraged in their acceptance letters to view. This message was
tailored to accepted students within each major, highlighting unique aspects of the major and
ESF. Acceptance letters include the link to this message.
As of June 28, 2014 we had received 886 total applications for fall 2014 (freshman +
transfer students; vs. 864 last June and 880 in June 2012). We have accepted 388 (vs. 386 and
401 the previous two years) applicants and have received 203 deposits (vs. 179 and 189). Of the
total number of applications that we received, 66% were for freshman; about 62% of our deposits
are from this group; about 44% (45% last year) of all applicants were accepted. The total
number of deposits by EFB major and percent of total for the class entering fall 2014 (in
parentheses) are: Aquatic and Fisheries Science, 20 (10% vs. 10% for class entering fall 2013);
Biotechnology, 19 (9% vs. 8%); Conservation Biology, 46 (23% vs. 26%,); Environmental
Biology, 52 (26% vs. 25%); Forest Health, 2 (about 1% vs. 2%); Natural History and
Interpretation, 5 (2% vs. <1%); and, Wildlife Science, 59 (29% vs. 28%).
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Longer Term Visioning and Planning
The EFB Chair and a few colleagues (notably Drs. Frair and Gibbs) spend a substantial
amount of time on development efforts although there is little to show now for these efforts. Of
the various purposes for which development funds are sought, the highest priority is still to fund
at least three endowed chair positions (Boone and Crockett, Conservation Biology, Waterfowl
Ecology) although endowed professorships in other areas of significance to EFB are of great
interest. Additionally, the Chair spends much time advising Physical Plant on campus plantings,
which also are very important to EFB’s (and the Department of Landscape Architecture’s)
teaching programs. This time commitment has greatly increased with the attention that the
Gateway Building green roof and grounds plantings has required. Of all the new positions that
the Chair would find most helpful in meeting short and long-term goals of the Department, a
full-time person devoted 50% to alumni relations and 50% to development activities, could make
a dramatic difference to the Department. Given the size of EFB in terms of number of students,
faculty, staff, and alumni, equal to the size of many Colleges, the Chair is not aware of similar
size departments without at least one staff person dedicated for these purposes.
Over the next few years we hope to attract sufficient development funds for many
significant purposes, e.g., endowed chairs (in biotechnology, conservation biology, wildlife
management, waterfowl ecology), a residential building for scientists and graduate students at
the Cranberry Lake Biological Station, museum display cases and public interaction space for the
Roosevelt Discovery Center, a funded graduate seminar series, graduate fellowships (to attract
the top applicants) and scholarships (to fully fund attendance at professional meetings), and
undergraduate scholarships (for recruiting top students and support for attending professional
meetings and field trips offered in our program, e.g., to Russia, Ireland, Australia, and Africa).
The Cranberry Lake Biological Station could become an important facility linking ESF with the
public via natural history education and perhaps outdoors experiential learning opportunities.
We also hope to find a means to highlight and mobilize our significant biological collections that
serve a critical function in our teaching programs but likely have a much greater value to the
public and researchers. We remain convinced that the opportunities for biology education that
we provide with our strong emphasis on field experience, problem-solving and integration across
taxa and the biological hierarchy from genes to ecosystems is much sought after and will remain
even more so in the age of changing ways of learning.
Program visioning and strategic planning have not been undertaken formally at the
department level in EFB since the department’s strategic plan was developed in 2001-2002.
Very limited space, resources, the amount of time it takes to get information and tasks done,
understaffed Development Office, and uncertainty about if/when the Academic Research
Building will be completed greatly limit the extent to which many significant ideas can be
pursued and implemented. Instead, efforts are focused on unique opportunities that arise with
little or no planning, e.g., the recent $2 million grant from SUNY to create a natural history
museum in the 5000 square feet shell of the lower level of the Gateway Center. While such
surprises are very welcome, the time now needed to develop those plans and eventual
implementation will greatly consume the limited time needed to meet goals laid out years ago,
with careful planning.
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Regardless, with very healthy undergraduate and graduate enrollments, the addition of
thirteen faculty the past nine years, tremendous effort by some of the senior faculty, greater use
efficiency and enhancements of existing space, and improvements at our field stations, the
department is closer towards realizing its basic goal of being one of the premier environmental
biology programs. The EFB Chair hopes that with the department’s strong foundation and
energy from many new faculty that the department is poised to discuss and move towards EFB’s
aspirations beyond what has already been articulated and attained.
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Appendix A. EFB Faculty: Rank (at end of reporting period), Education, and Interests
Name and Title
Degrees
Interest Areas
Castello, John
Professor and Associate
Chair
PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin
MS, Washington State Univ.
BA, Montclair State College
Assessment of forest health, beech bark disease
Cohen, Jonathan
Assistant Professor
PhD, Virginia Tech
MS, U. Connecticut
BS, Cornell University
Wildlife ecology and management, population and
habitat ecology, threatened and endangered species.
Diemont, Stewart
Assistant Professor
PhD, Ohio State
MS, Univ. of North Carolina
BA, Univ. of Texas
systems ecology, ecological engineering, traditional
ecological knowledge, ecosystem restoration,
sustainability analysis, natural wastewater treatment
systems and re-use, lesser-developed countries,
agroecology
Dovciak, Martin
Assistant Professor
PhD, Univ. of Minnesota
Plant ecology; forest ecology; biodiversity; plant
Dipl. Engin.,. Zvolen Technical population & community dynamics; spatial ecology;
University
ecosystem management & restoration
Farrell, John
Associate Professor
PhD, SUNY ESF
MS, SUNY ESF
BS, Cornell University
Fisheries management, aquatic ecology, wetlands
restoration, St. Lawrence River studies, muskellunge
and northern pike ecology & mgt., invasive species
Farrell, Shannon
Assistant Professor
PhD, Texas A&M
MS, Texas A&M
BA, Brown University
Wildlife ecology, E&T species and habitat,
anthropogenic impacts, quantification approaches for
wildlife habitat services, policy innovations for
implementing the ESA
Fernando, Danilo
Associate Professor
PhD, Univ of Alberta, Canada
MS, Univ of Phillippines
BS, Mountain State Agr. Coll.
Plant reproductive biology, plant structure and
development, in vitro fertilization in conifers, pollen
transformation & gene expression during pollen tube
development
Fierke, Melissa
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Arkansas
MS, Oregon State University
BS, Arkansas Tech University
AA, North Arkansas CC
Forest entomology and forest ecology; impacts of
invasives in forested settings with a focus on woodboring insects.
Folta, Elizabeth
Assistant Professor
PhD, North Carolina State
MS, North Carolina State
BA, University North Carolina
Natural History & Interpretation, informal biology
education, environmental education.
Frair, Jacqueline
Associate Professor
PhD, Univ of Alberta, Canada
MS, University of Wisconsin
BS, Cornell University
Wildlife and landscape ecology, animal movements
and habitat use, predator-prey interactions
Gibbs, James
Professor and Associate
Chair
PhD, Yale University
MA, University of Missouri
BS, University of Maine
Conservation biology, ecological monitoring, wildlife
management, population biology and conservation
genetics
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Horton, Thomas
Associate Professor
PhD, Univ of Cal.-Berkeley
Mycorrhizal ecology and systematics, mycology,
MA, San Francisco State Univ. restoration ecology
BA, Humboldt State University
Kimmerer, Robin
Distinguished Teaching
Professor
PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin
MS Univ. of Wisconsin
BS, SUNY ESF
Ethnobotany, conservation biology, and bryophyte
ecology
Leopold, Donald
Distinguished Teaching
Professor and Chair
PhD, Purdue University
MSF, University of Kentucky
BS, University of Kentucky
Forest and wetland ecology; understanding drivers of
species abundance and diversity at micro to macro
scales; application of unique communities to
sustainable landscapes; dendrology
Limburg, Karin
Professor
PhD, Cornell University
MS, University of Florida
AB, Vassar College
Fisheries ecology, ecosystem ecology, fish migration,
biogeochemical tracers modeling ecological economics
Lomolino, Mark
Professor
PhD, SUNY Binghamton
MS University of Florida
BS SUNY-Cortland
Biogeography; conservation biology, diversity in
isolated ecosystems and habitat islands.
McGee, Gregory
Assistant Professor
PhD, SUNY ESF
MS, SUNY ESF
BS, Allegheny College
Forest ecology, management, and restoration; effects of
atmospheric nitrogen deposition on northern hardwood
forests.
McNulty, Stacy
Research Associate
MS, SUNY ESF
BA, SUNY Geneseo
Forest and landscape ecology, applied GIS; ecology,
conservation, and forest management in the
Adirondacks
Mitchell, Myron
Distinguished Professor
PhD, University of Calgary
BA, Lake Forest College
Biogeochemical cycling in forests and freshwater
ecosystems
Newman, Lee
Associate Professor
PhD, Rutgers & RWJ Med. Sch. Phytoremediation and molecular and cellular biology.
MS, Rutgers & RWJ Med Sch.
BS, Stockton State College
AA, Atlantic Com. Coll.
Parry, Dylan
Associate Professor
PhD, Michigan State Univ.
MS, University of Alberta
BS, University of Alberta
Forest insect ecology, population dynamics of
defoliating Lepidoptera, ecology of predators,
parasitoids, and pathogens of forest caterpillars,
invasive species in forested environments, top-down
(natural enemies) and bottom-up (host plant) regulation
of insect populations, evolution of life-history
strategies in solitary and gregarious caterpillars.
Paterson, Gordon
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Windsor
MS, Trent University
BS, University of Waterloo
Environmental and aquatic toxicology, ecotoxicology,
emerging pollutants, food web bioaccumulation and
biomagnification, persistent organic pollutants as
indicators of species bioenergetics and individual, food
web and ecological efficiencies.
Powell, William
Professor
PhD, Utah State University
BS, Salisbury State University
Forest biotechnology, molecular plant-microbe
interactions, plant genetic engineering, plant gene
analysis
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Rundell, Rebecca
Assistant Professor
PhD, Univ. Chicago
MS, Univ. Chicago; Cornell
BS, Cornell
Invertebrate conservation biology, evolutionary
biology, tropical biodiversity, adaptive and nonAdaptive radiations, organismal biology (Pacific island
land snails, microscopic marine invertebrates)
Ryan, Sadie
Assistant Professor
PhD, Univ. Cal. Berkeley
BA, Princeton
Disease and landscape ecology, wildlife conservation
biology, public health, climate change.
Schulz, Kimberly
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Michigan
BA, Cornell University
Nutrient and exotic species effects on aquatic
ecosystems; ecological stoichiometry, aquatic
community and ecosystem ecology; bioenergetics;
nutrient cycling; lower food web studies; Great Lakes;
Finger Lakes
Shields, William
Professor
PhD, Ohio State University
MS, Ohio State University
AB, Rutgers University
Animal behavior; evolution and genetics; evolution of
animal communication and dispersal systems; effects of
genetic constraints on the evolution of social behavior;
sociobiology and behavioral ecology, the use of DNA
in identity testing and conservation biology; the
interface between science and the law
Stewart, Donald
Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin
MS, University of Michigan
BS, University of Michigan
Teale, Stephen
Professor
PhD, SUNY ESF
MS, University of Kansas
BA, College of St. Rose
Fish ecology and fisheries management; ecological
energetics; modeling predation and production
processes; Great Lakes ecosystems; Amazonian
ecosystems; ecology and systematics of Neotropical
freshwater fishes
Forest entomology; chemical ecology; pheromones of
forest insects; evolution of pheromone communication
Turner, Scott
Professor
PhD, Colorado State Univ.
MS & BA University of
California-Santa-Cruz
Weir, Alexander
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Newcastle
Systematics and evolutionary biology of fungi using
upon Tyne
classical and modern molecular approaches; fungal
BS, University of Bradford, UK biodiversity and conservation; fungal arthropod
interactions; biology of parasites and symbionts
Whipps, Christopher
Associate Professor
PhD, Oregon State University
Fish and wildlife diseases, parasitology, microbiology,
BS, University of Victoria at
taxonomy, molecular systematics, diagnostics, parasites
Malaspina University-College as biological tags and ecological indicators
Animal physiology; physiological ecology, thermal
energetics; biology of body size; physiology of gas
exchange
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Appendix B. Summary of Individual Faculty’s Most Significant Accomplishments
(As written by each faculty member in response to the following request for each individual’s annual
report: [Provide a] “SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
DURING THIS REPORTING PERIOD, ESPECIALLY THOSE MOST NOTEWORTHY AND
RELATIVE TO THE COLLEGE’S AND DEPARTMENT’S MISSION. One paragraph on each of the
following would be most helpful: this past year, what have you done for our students, department/college,
and self professionally?”
John D. Castello
I work constantly on behalf of our undergraduates. I teach three formal courses to about 150
students each year. I am the coordinator of the Forest Health major for our undergraduates. I organize and
supervise EFB 494 (senior synthesis in Forest Health) twice each year. I almost always supervise at last
two independent research project students each year, which has led to including these students on research
publications, and often into graduate work with me or others. I advise and informally mentor
approximately 30 undergraduates, and I take this responsibility very seriously.
I am an Associate Chair of the Dept with various responsibilities. I supervise two of the three
departmental secretaries. I co-organize the departmental spring awards ceremony each year with Sandy
Polimino. I am the informal point person for autoclave usage/needs for the department. I participate
actively in open houses for the department each summer. I am Chair of the departmental P/T Committee,
and we have been actively engaged during the past three years in an attempt to revise the departmental
protocol for evaluation of faculty for promotion and tenure decisions, and to assess faculty/departmental
productivity over time. We are making progress, albeit slowly.
My research has progressed well this year. I submitted four research proposals during the Fall
semester and my sabbatical leave this semester. My Ph.D student Jon Cale will complete his work on
beech bark disease next month. His dissertation research has rewritten the 100 year old paradigm on this
important invasive disease complex., resulting in numerous publications in print, in press, and in review.
In addition, I have one ms currently in press, and two more in preparation for submission relating to my
baseline mortality method to assess forest health worldwide. I am collaborating with forest ecologists
from China, Europe, Africa, South America, and Australia on the use of this method. I have a patent
application pending on the methodology.
Jonathan B. Cohen
This past year I felt like Wildlife Habitats and Populations was really becoming my own. As a
result I think I had the best connection with the students that I’ve had in 3 years of teaching the course. I
was caught by surprise when the class applauded at the end of my last lecture! I offered an extra
independent study credit for the heavy out-of-class workload that has always been involved with the class
project, and that seems to have greatly reduced the feelings among the students that the workload
exceeded the credit load. I still will be searching for ways to keep the class current, and to that end I
attended a workshop in December on structured decision making and I gained several insights that I
intend to incorporate into the class. I also taught a course in Bayesian statistics for graduate students,
which had an enrollment of 14 including 3 Syracuse University students. I have not gotten interest from
other ESF departments’ students, although I may teach that course every other Fall given other
quantitative offerings. In the Spring, I led a discussion/presentation style class on Bayesian methods for
estimating population parameters, and we went on a field trip to a workshop on spatial capture methods.
I had several undergrads work with me on independent research, and one of my honors student advisees
completed his thesis and presented a poster at a regional meeting.
The most exciting part of this past year was the graduation of my first two M.S. students. Now I
have seen what it takes to help students get through defense preparation and thesis completion, and I
learned a lot that I think will help me advise students better in the future. I also had my first peerreviewed publication with one of my graduate students, as the Florida Field Naturalist published the
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results of the pilot study we did as a precursor to her graduate research. My lab grew to 7 students in the
past year, including the two who graduated. We have a diversity of projects, all aimed at solving
conservation problems for wildlife agencies and organizations. However, the focal theme of our lab is
understanding limiting factors for wild vertebrate populations. I had my first Ph.D. student join me, and
she is now in the field collecting data, as well as one more M.S. student. Further, two of my M.S.
students will be continuing with me as Ph.D. students, as we have received research funding for them for
two more years of field work. Both will still defend their M.S. theses, in the coming Fall. In all, I was
managing $1.8 million in grants, and was part of another $1.4 million in a collaborative grant, and I
anticipate another $360,000 in the coming summer and fall to support an M.S. student and my lab’s first
post-doctoral scientist who will be working on a population model for Atlantic Coast piping plovers. My
students presented at numerous state, regional, and international conferences and one M.S. student
received first runner-up for best paper at The Waterbird Society annual meeting in Germany. My
graduate students also had continued success in getting small travel and equipment grants, ranging from
$100 to $8,000.
I began my first term on the Committee on Curriculum. During that time I reviewed several
course and curriculum proposals and served as the EFB liaison with EFB and the departmental CCAC. I
also served for another term on the Sussman Review Committee, for which I reviewed approximately 30
proposals. At the Department level I served as acting curriculum coordinator for the wildlife major
during Dr. Frair’s sabbatical, and led a major-level meeting on the curriculum assessment process, where
we decided to develop an exit exam for the major. I continued to work on the CCAC and became cochair of GPAC with Dr. Fierke, and we had lively discussions on the future work of the committee. I
continued to volunteer at open houses and accepted student events, to speak with young students about
the nature of the wildlife major. I finished my second year as advisor to The Wildlife Society Student
Chapter, where I focused on helping them to meet “Chapter of the Year Criteria.” The chapter continued
to win state and regional quiz bowls.
For my own professional development, I collaborated on a WCF pre-proposal with my colleagues
at NYC Audubon and NYC Parks, continuing to gain practice in crafting proposals for competitive
requests. I also succeeded in attaining competitive grants from National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
both collaboratively and independently. I reviewed manuscripts for three journals and had my first
opportunity to review competitive proposals outside the University Committee on Research. I continued
to serve as chair of the Waterbird Society Conservation Committee, and to serve as a voting Councilor for
the Society. I also reviewed symposium abstracts for the 2014 North America Conservation Biology
Congress of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Students. I continue to work closely with many graduate and undergraduate students both in the
US and in Mexico. Three advisees published their first articles in international journals with me this year
(Bohn, Barlet, and Lin), and two other advisees have manuscripts in review (Falkowski and Martinez). Of
my 11 graduate advisees (or co-advisees), three received their master’s degrees (Nessel, Dygert, and
Falkowski). I traveled to Mexico with Falkowski and an undergraduate ESF student (Ana Flores) where
we conducted research as part of an NSF-sponsored project on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
and ecosystem restoration. Falkowski greatly improved his Spanish proficiency during this summer’s
research. Fifteen other ESF students travelled with me throughout Chiapas, Mexico and participated in
this NSF project through the course I co-taught with Deborah Diemont, ERE 425/625 Ecosystem
Restoration Design (Fall 2014) (now EFB 496/796). I am re-envisioning the courses I am now teaching in
EFB. EFB 120 has had a “flipped classroom” format, and in my first semester teaching this course
(Spring 2014), I experimented with many teaching styles (including small group work, white boards
exercises, music, debates, and more than 10 other methods) to determine what works for students. It is my
first time teaching a class of more than 100 students, so I understand that I have a lot to learn. I am trying
to make the course as engaging as possible while still meeting learning outcomes. I have changed a
couple of key things in my ecosystem restoration course, the course I teach in Mexico at the end of the
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summer, to better teach students about restoring ecosystems. The course will now be four credits for
students who come to Mexico; they will have three hours with me during the weeks of the Fall semester.
In the past, this was limited to one hour each week during the fall, but I felt that this amount of time was
insufficient to learn ecosystem restoration across ecosystems. I also updated the book for this course. I am
taking EFB 518 Systems Ecology through several changes during my first time offering this course. I will
now be teaching the course through two textbooks, and will be using STELLA modelling software, which
is designed for systems ecology. I am also looking at other local sites where we can collect data for
ecosystem modeling.
Department/College. With my move this year from ERE to EFB, my departmental service has
gone through transition, and my service I feel continues to be important to the college. In ERE I was the
Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator during Summer and Fall 2013 of this academic year. In ERE this
is the primary position of responsibility for undergraduate students (~125 students) and includes, in
addition to oversight of the program quality (i.e., approval forms, advising), being the point-of-contact for
all parent questions and the presenter for all information sessions. At the college level, I continue to serve
as the Area Leader for the Ecosystem Restoration area for the Graduate Program in Environmental
Science (GPES), a position for which I make decisions on applications, help determine funding, and serve
on the GPES leadership committee. I am also a member of three other college committees, the Awards
Committee, Library Committee, and the Advisory Board for the Center for Native People and the
Environment (CNPE). As a member of the Awards Committee I helped make recommendations about
Chancellor’s Awards, Distinguished Professorships, and Honorary Degrees/Commencement Speakers.
With the Library Committee I helped make recommendations about the library transition from Syracuse
University to SUNY. As a member of the Advisory Board for the CNPE I helped in the hiring of the new
Assistant Director for the CNPE and worked with other members to initiate a weekly TEK brownbag
meeting.
Myself Professionally. I am energized by a number of developments this year. During this year I
moved from ERE to EFB department to fill the open Systems Ecologist position. The transition has taken
time (moving my office, lab, and grad students; teaching new courses; new advising responsibilities), but
I believe this move fits in well with where I am going with my research and teaching. Increasingly, I am
interested in devoting more research time to traditional and local ecological knowledge as it contributes to
restoration ecology and conservation biology. This research direction fits in nicely with EFB and the work
that Kimmerer, Gibbs, Frair, Leopold, Limburg, and others are doing. This year I published two articles in
this area (one in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment), and I continued work on an NSF-funded
project in this area. Students in my courses and graduate advisees did field work with me on this project
and other similar projects in Mexico. I also began work on a project in the US looking at this research
area. With graduate students Eli Arnow and Eugene Law we have created an experimental site on
Arnow’s family farm looking at how traditionally-used fire and edible herbaceous species can be the first
stage in field restoration in former pasture lands, looking at field to forest restoration in New York. I have
also been working with my doctoral advisees Isaias Martinez and Shruti Mokashi, looking at TEK of field
and forest management in Oaxaca, Mexico and Maharashtra, India, respectively. My grant writing was
less than I would like this year, which I feel was due to time related to departmental transition and
preparing for new teaching responsibilities. I had a good year for publishing. In addition to the two TEK
articles above, I had three other manuscripts published or accepted this year (Impact Factors = 0.9, 1.4,
2.5, 3.0, and 7.6). Two other manuscripts are under review. I continue to do service to the profession. This
year I was a Guest Editor for a Special Issue in the journal Ecological Engineering and served my last
year on the Executive Committee for the American Ecological Engineering Society as Past-President.
Martin Dovciak
Students. I taught Flowering Plants: Diversity, Evolution, and Systematics (EFB 435/635) to the
highest enrollment in this class since I started to teach it at ESF (19 students), and Plant Ecology and
Global Change (EFB 445/645) to an average enrolment for that class (38 students). I continued to
contribute to our large departmental course, EFB 210-Diversity of Life I, by providing lectures on
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Flowering Plants, and I contributed a guest lecture to EFB 326-Diversity of Plants. I advised 19
undergraduates in Environmental and Conservation Biology majors, and 2 students in the NSF-UMEB
and CSTEP programs. I served as an MP or co-MP to 8 graduate students (3 Ph.D., 2 M.S., 3 M.P.S.), 5
of which completed their degrees (1 Ph.D., 1 M.S., and all 3 M.P.S. students). It was particularly exciting
to graduate my first Ph.D. student, who has been awarded two important departmental awards this year
for his work on ecology and conservation of an endangered cycad endemic to northwestern Mexico
(Outstanding PhD Student Award and Dence Award). I am pleased to report that my second PhD student
advanced to candidacy this Spring, and that I can support both of my remaining two PhD students via
research funding in their third and second field seasons (by a NSRC grant and ESF Seed grant), thus
contributing to the EFB/ESF doctoral program. I am also pleased by graduating my fourth MS student
(co-advised by D. Leopold), who through her work contributed to a large collaborative research effort
“Appalachian Trail Mega-Transect Study”. I enjoyed contributing to our growing M.P.S. program by coadvising three Ukrainian students with J. Gibbs, who completed their degrees and gained experience from
their involvement as research interns on the study of invasive species in New York power line corridors
(for which I am a co-PI). I served on steering committees for another 14 graduate students, including 5
who defended their theses and two students at Syracuse University. Most of my previously completed
graduate students and several undergraduate researches continue to be successful, with professional
positions at universities or in environmental consulting firms such as Jones Ecological Research Center,
University of Arizona, University of Miami, or O'Brian & Gere. Three of my former students published
papers with me this past academic year as first authors or co-authors, four additional manuscripts with
former students are currently in review, and three of them presented their work at venues in Minnesota,
New York, and Colombia.
Department/College. I continued to represent College/Department in my broader professional
service, which included serving as a PI, co-PI, or collaborator in larger collaborative research groupings
that included: (1) Cooperation with NYS DEC and Cornell Cooperative Extension on a research project
“Evaluating deer impacts on forests of New York State” (funded by $214,870 from NYS DEC). As a PI, I
developed this project proposal with J. Frair (Co-PI) as one of the initial projects contributing to ESF
receiving funding under NYS DEC-ESF Memorandum of Understanding. I have recruited an excellent
post-doctoral associate, Dr. Mark Lesser, to help with the project over the two years (as well as to teach a
graduate seminar on Deer Impacts on Forests this Fall). (2) Cooperation with New York Power Authority
on a research project “Cost effectiveness of cleaning techniques for controlling human-based transport of
invasive exotic plants on electric transmission line rights-of-way across New York” for which I am a CoPI (with C. Nowak as a PI; funded by $414,551 from EPRI; sub-award to me is $176,184). This funding
supports one of my recent graduates, J. Quant, as a full-time Research Analyst, and it also supports
several part-time technical/field crew members. (3) Cooperation with several state and federal land and
forest management agencies in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in establishing climate
and forest vegetation monitoring network across latitudinal and elevational gradients of the northeastern
U.S. as a part of a research projects “Global change fingerprints in montane boreal forests: Implications
for biodiversity and management of the northeastern protected areas” for which I am a PI (funded by
$89,497 from Northeastern States Research Cooperative). The funding supports one of my doctoral
students, J. Wason. (4) Collaboration with US Geological Survey, US Forest Service, and Carry Institute
on the “Appalachian Trail Mega-Transect Study” as a Co-PI responsible for vegetation (funded by
$747,242 from NPS; $49,310 supported J. Quant at ESF. (5) DEMO Study at the University of
Washington (although I do not receive any current funding, this collaboration continues to provide
opportunities for collaborative publications and invited talks). In addition, I continued to serve as the
Chair for the Selection Committee for the Burgess Graduate Scholarship in Ecology, and I renewed my
activities as a member of the Graduate Program Advisory Committee at the departmental level. At the
college level, I served as a faculty mentor in the CSTEP program, a member in two of the GPES Areas
(Ecosystem Restoration, Environmental Monitoring and Modeling) and I contributed to the Adaptive
Peaks seminar by inviting Dr. A. Royo from USFS as a speaker. I continued as a faculty member in the
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Center for Urban Environment, ESF Beech working group, and a regular participant in ESF and
departmental events and meetings.
Self/Professional Development. In the last cycle, I felt honored for (1) having been appointed
as a Roosevelt Forest Ecologist and Scientist in Residence at Roosevelt Wild Life Station last
summer/fall, (2) receiving SUNY ESF Special Recognition Award for contributing to student success
(given based on a positive feedback from graduating students), and (3) being asked by Springer to serve
as a paid Editor-in-Chief for the Current Forestry Reports (which I declined). I have significantly focused
on further development of my teaching by attending workshops and symposia dedicated to the
development of student-centered teaching, including (1) Instructional Leadership Academy on Team
Based Learning at SUNY Albany, (2) Teaching Section Symposium of the Canadian Botanical
Association “Distilling Plant Science-Botanical Education and Outreach in the 21st Century”, and (3)
Scientific teaching in undergraduate education in biology session within ESF Annual Hardy L. Shirley
Mentoring Colloquium in Syracuse. In terms of research, I have published (or have in press) 4 refereed
papers (2 first-authored), and I submitted another 4 manuscripts that are currently in review or revision
following review; another 3-4 manuscripts are in advanced stages of preparation (to be submitted this
summer). All but one of these papers/manuscripts were initiated at ESF (and all but one have student
co/authors). All deal with global change topics such as changes in land/forest management, biodiversity
loss, drought stress, or introduced pathogens), thus helping me to establish a well-rounded research
agenda in Global Change Ecology. Given that I published 4 papers last academic year, it appears that I am
at a mean publication rate of 4 papers per cycle, but I would still like to push this number higher in the
coming cycle. The impact factors of journals in this past cycle range from 3 (Oecologia) to 1.5 (Canadian
Journal of Forest Research, one of the top-tier forest ecology journals). As one of three speakers, I gave
an invited oral presentation on my work in the Demonstration of Ecosystem Management Options
(DEMO) Study at a symposium organized by Canadian Botanical Association at their annual meeting in
British Columbia (June 1-5, 2013). I also co-authored 2 large multi-author non-refereed reports which
should provide materials for at least two additional refereed manuscripts in the next cycle and I coauthored tree presentations given at an annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Colombian
Congress of Botany in Colombia, and at meeting of the New York Society of American Foresters.
Importantly, I developed a NSF DEB preliminary proposal (as a PI) “How do interacting global change
drivers affect plant invasions?”; although this pre-proposal was not selected for the next round (~80%
rejection rate), I received an encouraging and constructive feedback that should improve the next
submission. My summer travel to Slovakia continued to enhance my research on woody invasions of
grasslands (a manuscript in advanced preparation, to be submitted to Ecography this summer).
John M. Farrell
An important contribution made during this reporting period was working closely with
undergraduate and graduate students in their development as researchers. I brought in and a maintained
funding to support to eight graduate students and served as mentor to two EFB undergraduate honors
students. I brought on four new graduate students into the program. Students also received significant
experience working with my lab group as employees or for course credit both at ESF and at TIBS.
Students received training and developed a variety of skillsets in laboratory, field and analytical work
through experiences in aquatic ecology of value to their future. I taught students in classes offered in the
summer, fall and spring semesters and proposed revisions to the senior synthesis for the AFS major. I
gave research and professional advice and guidance to numerous students from a variety of disciplines
and institutions.
Assistance with development of EFB and ESF facilities related to improvement of our aquatics
programs continues to be a major effort. Along with several faculty, staff and administrators we have
worked intensely moving the CIRTAS facility project forward through numerous obstacles and
challenges to produce an exceptional facility for research. In addition to that effort the TIBS facility is
making great strides including partial completion of the new Cean Researcher Building secured through
extramural and private donations including a 75K gift this period while working with the ESF
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Development Office. We also now have new cyber infrastructure capability with a high speed radio link
with wireless access to the entire TIBS facility. Research capability has been greatly enhanced within
EFB via both CIRTAS and TIBS progress. Service to EFB includes working with the P&T committee
(under Associate Chairs J. Castello and J. Gibbs and with K. Limburg, T. Horton, S. Teale) We have met
countless times to pour over criteria, feedback, and various versions and revisions in an attempt to
improve guidelines for faculty. This is in addition to ongoing P&T activities including reviews of faculty
teaching, dossiers and making recommendations.
Professionally, I provided several invited presentations at institutions and conferences that are
advancing work in aquatic ecology and fisheries. I gave seminars at the Cornell Biological Station and at
the INRS in Quebec City and had the opportunity to meet with past colleagues and build new
collaborations. I also gave a session plenary talk at a symposium at the 143rd American Fisheries Society
in Little Rock Arkansas. This led to participation in a multi-authored manuscript submitted to the AFS
journal Fisheries on status and future research and management needs for northern pike and muskellunge
in North America. I continue to manage numerous grants and serve as director of TIBS.
Shannon L. Farrell
Students. I co-taught Adaptive Peaks in Fall 2013, mainly observing and learning from Dr.
Cohen, which provided me an opportunity to get to know the graduate students. Through learning from
Dr. Cohen, observation, and course evaluations I was able to identify a few ways I could attempt to make
this course work better for students. Student in the Fall noted that while course discussion were left
entirely to the students to lead, carry on and steer, they actually sought some more active guidance and
involvement by the lead faculty member to help the group refocus on key themes, avoid drifting, teasing
out complicated concepts, and perhaps helping facilitate opportunities for participation by the less bold
students in the group. I implemented some efforts to address these comments in Spring 2013, playing a
slightly more active role in helping refocus when needed, engage quieter students, and helping facilitate
the student’s dissecting of challenging concepts, all of which seemed to have a positive effect on overall
participation of discussions and the level of the discussion. After establishing a positive relationship with
the students in this course, I have been able to solicit their formal and informal feedback on ways to make
the course work better, iron out some aspects that do not work well, and enhance the engagement of the
larger ESF community in the speaker series. In the spring I primarily focused on rebuilding and updating
the ornithology class, with a focus on the lecture portion. Given much of what we now know about birds,
including evolutionary origins, the nervous system and cognition, and even basic ecology and behavior,
has changed tremendously in the last decade, and the available multi-media resources have expanded, it
was important to give the course a near complete overhaul. This effort was fairly successful. In creating
an updated course, I was able to generate interest and involvement from students, many of whom
approached me to help advise them on projects for other courses in which they had chosen to focus on a
bird ecology theme, for guidance in finding field experiences and internships in ornithology, or just to talk
about birds. Additionally, I connected with ESF’s birding club, attending meetings, giving a talk on the
twists and turns of avian ecology research, and building relationships with interested students and
prospective future graduate students. Additionally, I implemented a new course project in which students
identified a contemporary, proposed or recently conducted, anthropogenic action (e.g., a proposed hotel
construction at Destiny USA; proposed repair or reconstruction of Hwy 81 in Syracuse); dissected the
impact into constituent elements such as noise, human activity, creation of edge; identified potential
effects on bird physiology, ecology, and behavior, based on what we had learned; and then searched the
literature to analyze if and how these factors may effect birds and to what extent. Students overall did an
impressive job on this semester-long assignment and many expressed that they enjoyed and learned from
this activity. I implemented ornithology lab following the approach that I had inherited from recent years.
I had an interest in making some changes to this format in the future, but wanted to get a baseline idea of
how this worked, and specifically solicited substantial feedback from students and input from TAs to help
guide a recapitulation of the lab component. I am looking forward to continuing to work on this course
overall, as a constant work in progress. I’ve solicited and gotten a great deal of formal and informal
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feedback from students, many of whom reported enjoying and learning from the course, and provided me
with a great deal of momentum for future improvements. I was thrilled to find several students visit my
office at the end of the semester to report that this course was their favorite in their time at ESF so far, but
I was equally pleased to be able to get their thoughts on how to make the course better. I also worked
closely with several graduate students this year to help provide guidance and feedback on their research
projects that had an avian ecology component, and I am now serving on eth committee of several of these
students. However, several others simply needed additional guidance on avian sampling techniques,
analysis or existing data, or troubleshooting study design challenges. I enjoyed spending time
brainstorming with these students and helping them tackle these challenges, and these interactions have
provided me with a better sense of the need for a graduate-level ornithology or avian ecology course.
Department/College. I have participated and joined in various departmental committees and
activities, seeing these as an opportunity to get to know the students, faculty, and overall ESF community,
to get familiar with the culture of ESF and EFB, and to learn how things work through participating and
talking with colleagues, students, staff, and administrators. Serving as a member of several departmental
awards committees, helping with the Glahn award process, and leading selection of the Chamberlain
award, along with I’ve served on a variety of examination committees as an examiner, and as a chair for
one MS defense, has given me a chance to pitch in but also to get a better idea of the variety and level of
work being done by EFB graduate students. I’ve had several opportunities to meet with and assist new
incoming students such as through the transfer student orientation, and prospective and accepted students
through open house events, which have been a good opportunity to learn about the department and be able
to share that with new and prospective students. Being new faculty member gives me a unique
perspective on the interesting and special things that I’ve noticed about ESF and EFB, which I have been
able to convey to these visitors and prospective students. I have been serving on the Fink Fellowship
committee since Fall 2013, reviewing a pool of applications and meeting at least once per semester to
identify awardees. I have also been serving on the IQAS committee since Fall 2013. During much of the
Fall and early spring, this committee had lengthy meetings weekly or several times per month and
additional work conducted between meetings, as we had several substantial tasks including rewriting the
grading policies, formulating syllabus standards, and investigating new systems for course evaluation.
The substantial time and effort involved in participating in IQAS were actually a great asset to me in
learning, in much greater detail than many may ever have the opportunity to do, policies and procedures I
needed to know as part of my teaching. Although I expected I might have little to contribute to IQAS due
to my lack of familiarity with ESF policies and procedures, my unfamiliarity proved to be useful, as I was
able to be a sounding board for policies and procedures that were confusing to a relative outsider, and
helped facilitate better clarity and precision in the revising process.
Self. I am in the midst of building my lab and research program here at ESF. I have focused on
meeting, learning about, and identifying the potential research needs and interests of colleagues and
relevant personnel at agencies in the region, including the DEC, regional LCCs, regional Joint Ventures,
the state Fish and Wildlife Management Board, the Ruffed Grouse Society, and other prospective
collaborators and funding sources. I initiated efforts early on to work with colleagues in FNRM to seek
out collaborative opportunities to conduct avian research associated with forest ecology, forestry
practices, and changing forest landscapes in the northeast, which I plan to continue; I have encountered
interest from a variety of agencies and potential partners in work investigating how these changing
condition and forestry practices may be affecting birds. I have continued to maintain and build my
contributions to some partially funded and some unfunded work on lesser prairie chicken, and more
recently greater sage grouse, conservation planning, with the intent to leverage these relationships into at
least one future funded graduate student project in the coming year. The lesser prairie chicken project has
afforded me the opportunity along with the small team of partners to meet and work with Dan Ashe,
Director of USFWS, on several occasions, along with other national leaders, and work with Regional
Directors for USFWS Southeast regions. Additionally, described by an experienced USFWS species lead
as the “biggest, most challenging project” she’d ever worked on, this project will provide a new policy
approach to implementation of the Endangered Species Act at a time when historical approaches continue
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to fail to meet the need efficiently and effectively. My contributions to this effort are among the things
I’m most proud of and excited about continuing with these and other species, despite the fact that this
work will not likely result in a major peer-reviewed publication in the near future; developing a unique
expertise in bridging the science into the development of innovative policy instruments for natural
resource policy should lay the groundwork for interesting future opportunities. I have worked closely with
Dr. Jonathan Cohen on developing proposals and drafting future collaboration prospects, bringing my
interest in habitat use relationships and spatial distributions and dynamics to compliment Dr. Cohen’s
strengths in population dynamics and population modelling. While we were rejected on a recent grant
proposal, we are awaiting follow up on a proposal in development and I anticipate this will be valuable
and productive collaboration. I am currently working with Michael Fishman, graduate student in Dr.
James Gibbs’ lab and consultant, on development of a bat research project on the Atlantic Coast, with
funding through the National Park Service as a first step to developing a larger research program on bat
habitat use, movement dynamic, and anthropogenic impacts. I continue collaboration with colleagues at
Texas A&M University and now Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario, to complete ongoing work,
data analysis, and drafting of manuscripts. Continuing work on these ongoing data sets and manuscripts,
along with furthering connections with potential collaborators mentioned previously and finding
additional funding opportunities is a primary focus for this summer.
Danilo D. Fernando
Students. This past academic year (mostly for Spring 2014), I taught EFB 326 (Diversity of
Plants), BTC 497 (Research Design and Professional Development), EFB 495 (Undergraduate Experience
in College Teaching) and EFB 498 (Independent Research in Environmental Biology), and in total, 78
undergraduates have been served through this capacity. In addition to the formal interactions with the
students during lectures, I also interacted with many of them during the labs and/or out of the lecture
periods through involvement in some of the lab activities and/or writing assignments. Many of the
students also came in during my office hours for clarifications/short questions or conversations on various
topics including practical applications of concepts covered in the lectures. I have trained several
undergraduate students in my lab through independent research and internship, presented invited lectures
to other courses (in ESF and SUNY Oswego). I have advised at least 16 undergraduate students in various
aspects of their curriculum. As for graduate students, I have advised many graduate students from the
department regarding their program requirements, filing up the required forms, and shifting from one
major or degree program to another. I have worked with my two M.S. graduate students on various
aspects of the laboratory and/or field components of their research projects, draft manuscripts,
grant/fellowship applications, and poster presentations. I have also worked with and trained the two
graduate students who both taught the lab portions of my course (Plant Diversity) for the first time. In
total, at least 82 students have been served under various capacities.
For the department/college: I served as EFB’s Graduate Director for the seventh year (except
while on sabbatical leave for fall 2013) and my major responsibilities included the following: 1) acted on
various petitions concerning different aspects of EFB graduate program requirements and policies; 2)
reviewed and signed on various forms required for the completion of different degrees and majors (e.g.,
2A, 3B, 4 and 6A); 3) replied to inquiries concerning the EFB graduate program (through email, phone,
and/or personal appearances) from several potential applicants and current graduate students; 4) processed
a total of 113 (to date) for fall 2014 entrance that involved the review of each application for initial
assessment and designation of faculty reviewers, followed up on the completion of the reviews on each
application, summarized the reviews for each application, and submitted EFB’s recommendation for each
accepted and rejected applications to the Dean of Instructions and Graduate Studies; and 5) provided
informal orientation to some new graduate students regarding EFB graduate program and new faculty
about the graduate application and review procedures. I also worked with the EFB Graduate Secretary on
the update and improvement of the various facets of the EFB’s Graduate Webpage, graduate application
filing system, and continued the survey on the most effective means of attracting/recruiting graduate
students. As a member of EFB’s Graduate Program Academic Committee, I provided connections
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between the department and college on issues pertaining to graduate degree program offerings and
requirements, admission/review process, policies, and other related matters.
For professional accomplishments: The following are what I consider as significant: 1)
Successful completion of my fourth Master of Science student – Jessica R. Bouchard (Fall 2011 to Fall
2013); 2) Successful completion of a Master of Professional Student (co-mp with Dr. Robin Kimmerer) –
Stephanie Smith (Spring 2012-Fall 2013); 3) Funding of my research proposal on “Reproductive, genetic
and ecological assessment of the invasive potential of hardy kiwi in the northeast U.S.; 4) Recruitment of
an Master of Science student (Jennifer Potrikus) to work on the hardy kiwi project; 5) Publication of two
papers – an invited review for New Forests (The Pine Reproductive Process in Temperate and Tropical
Regions) and co-authors with my graduate students - Quinn CR, Iriyama R, Fernando DD. 2014, on
Expression Patterns of Conserved MicroRNAs in the Male Gametophyte of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda),
Plant Reproduction 27:69–78; 6) Invited as Panel Review Member for NSF’s Plants, Fungi and Microbial
Evolution and Developmental Mechanisms; and 7) As my primary Sabbatical project – I have written my
parts on the three additional chapters plus revisions of the previous eight chapters including the sections
on References and Figures and Tables. Overall, 11 chapters have been written and one more remaining to
be completed (12 Chapters in all) for the textbook (Sexual Reproduction in Forest Trees) that I am coauthoring with Dr. John N Owens through a contract with the Cambridge University Press.
In spite of the above, this academic year has been very challenging to me due the significant
barriers to optimum working conditions in Illick Hall. I am referring to the severe dust and noise from
construction projects, limited access to my own labs, office and other essential facilities (including the
lack of greenhouse space for both research and teaching), power shut downs, almost constant breaking
down of growth rooms that have ruined many experiments to say the least, construction personnel
showing up unannounced on offices and labs to check on things that they needed to work on, and etc. All
these have caused reduction in my own and my graduate students’ current productivity. Unfortunately,
most of these work disruptions will have ripple effects on my research program and even health. I hope
that our administrators are paying attention to this.
Melissa K. Fierke
One extraordinary highlight of last summer was attending a week Summer Teaching Institute
workshop funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute at SUNY Stony Brook. It was an information
packed week extolling backward course design, active learning techniques, developing teachable units,
and appreciating diversity. I used much of what was covered in the STI when I taught General Biology
for the sixth year with >270 students. I supervised three graduate and six undergraduate teaching
assistants along with their workshops and grading - all went smoothly with overall class evaluations again
strong for the two lecture sections. I facilitated the EFB Core Course for graduate students where the main
goal was get grads off to a good start in the department, forming a supportive cohort of students as well as
writing a solid research proposal. I oversaw eight internships summer and fall 2013, including six in EFB
and two in Environmental Science. Two students worked on research projects under me this past
fall/spring and both presented at ESF’s Spotlight on Research. I’ve written >20 UG student
recommendation letters with many resulting in successful internships or positions and I nominated an
advisee for a SUNY Chancellor’s Award, which she received. I am happy with the current state of my
research program and the progress of my graduate students. We’ve had several publications come out and
I am still working with several others on their publications. Three of my graduate students presented at
the Annual USDA Invasive Insect meeting in Annapolis, the New York Society of American Foresters
meeting and three at the National Entomological Society meeting in Austin, Tx this past year. A new PhD
started in August and is working with several urban foresters on emerald ash borer management. My MS
student is working with collaborators at USDA ARS and APHIS on emerald ash borer parasitoids and
both were recently invited to present at an EAB symposia at the annual ESA meeting in Portland OR this
coming fall. My other PhD student passed his candidacy exams and is going into his last summer of field
research on Sirex noctilio. He has presented his research at local, regional and national meetings –
winning a 1st place Presidential Award at the Austin ESA meeting this past fall - and is writing up several
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publications. I have accepted multiple invitations to speak on my labs research this past year at local, state
and regional meetings. I have also had to turn down a couple of invitations. Particularly noteworthy was
an invitation to present at the Western Forest Insect Work Conference, which I recommended my PhD
student do instead, and he was able to garner a couple of travel grants to do so.
I served on six departmental and college committees as well as taking an active part in the ESF
Learning Community, working with other faculty on student retention and success, and serving as the
departmental representative on the Urban Ecology minor. I have continued my efforts on our ESF Bicycle
Safety Committee and have been working with ESF partners, Syracuse University engineers, planners and
safety officials as well as the City of Syracuse Transportation Planner, and multiple neighborhood groups
to make bicycling a safer commuting option for faculty, staff and students at ESF. I’ve continued my
entomology outreach efforts, doing presentations and media interviews, however, I now pass most
opportunities to my graduate students who are doing an excellent job of taking them on, being
enthusiastic and getting our science out there. Two of my grads have presented entomology lectures at
Bryant and Stratton this past year and we continue to represent EFB at the NY State Fair.
Lastly, I was recognized as an Outstanding Cooperator at the Onondaga Cornell Cooperative
Extention 2013 annual meeting for my participation with the Onondaga County Emerald Ash Borer Task
Force.
Elizabeth Folta
Students. This year I taught five interpretive courses and co-taught one seminar, which had a
total enrollment of a 99 students. EFB 796 Research in Interpretation and Environmental Education was
offered for the second time. After offering the course twice, I have decided that it is not working exactly
as I planned, so I plan to redesign the course to focus more on evaluation as well as research. The
evaluation portion will be from the perspective of an education manager/director’s role in an organization.
This would better tailor the course to MPS students as well as MS students in interpretation and closely
related fields. Hopefully, this will help with student recruitment into the course, but also make it more
useful for all interpretation students. This was the second year that EFB 312/512 had a recitation section.
A few changes were made to the recitation, an additional field trip was added as well as another guest
speaker. The idea was to show two examples of what interpreters/educators do in their jobs, but also to
show two examples of how other natural resource professionals use interpretation/education in their jobs.
I also added another presentation project to the recitation to give the student even more experience
presenting to a group. I continue to have a problem with not enough students in the graduate recitation
section for EFB 512. There was only one graduate student in the course this fall, so that student just
participated in an undergraduate recitation section. I need to design an alternative for graduate students
when there are only a few in the course. I co-led a seminar with PhD student Joe Folta on how
interpretation can be used as a wildlife management tool. We used Yellowstone as a case study and had
hoped to take a group of students to Yellowstone this summer. Unfortunately, we did not get enough
interest in the second course to be able to offer it. The graduate students did not get much out of the
seminar, but the undergraduate students really enjoy it. In the future if we offer it again we will make it an
undergraduate only seminar. Finally, I continued to work with my graduate students to help them finish
up. Six (3 MS and 3 MPS) of the nine students finished up this past year and two more MPS will finish up
over the summer.
Department/College. I served on the CCAC for the third year. As part of the work on the CCAC
I began to redesigned the assessment strategy for the Natural History and Interpretation major. I also
completed the paperwork for SUNY to approve the new name of the major. In addition, I was supposed to
serve on the Public Service and Outreach committee starting this year, but a tenured chair could not be
found for the committee. Because of this, the committee was disbanded for the year. In the place of this, I
ended up serving on the Spotlight on Student Research planning committee. My role was to organize the
judging of the undergraduate student posters. I worked with the Alumni Office and the Graduate Student
Association to recruit alumni and graduate students to serve as judges. I arranged all the judging
assignments and gave a brief training session that all judges had to attend. I created a digital score sheet
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that was used by some of the judges to help speed up the tallying of scores before the awards ceremony.
Finally, I helped with the Roosevelt Wild Life Station’s work by recruiting two alumni to design
interpretive products for the bioblitzes the station is conducting.
Self. My focus this year was trying to get some funding for research projects, so I can better
recruit graduate students into the program. I submitted $3.5 million in research proposals this year. While
this is a lower dollar amount compared to years past the hope is by applying for more grants that I have a
better chance of getting some funding. All proposals are still out at this point except for the One Health
continuation, which was rejected. This year I partnered with NY State Parks on two of the grants which
has helped to strengthen the partnership. The local parks are very open to augmented reality research and
educational projects. Otherwise my focus was on improving three courses that were offered for the second
time this year; EFB 796 Research in Interpretation and Environmental Education, EFB 560 Electronic
Technology in Interpretation and Environmental Education, and EFB 496/696 Interpretation of Field
Biology. I made significant changes to each of these courses and while getting closer to what I imagine
they all still need some more work to polish them.
Jacqueline L. Frair
For students, this past year the wildlife faculty completed the first full assessment of the wildlife
degree program, for which Jonathan Cohen helped identify revisions to during my sabbatical leave. This
assessment, as well as the hiring of Dr. Shannon Farrell, has stimulated multiple discussions of how to
better deliver the wildlife program, including looking for opportunities to reinforce and build on content
throughout the upper-division course sequence. My first M.P.S. student (Christa LeGrande) completed
her program last fall, and we identified a very nice professional product for her – an article to be
published in an upcoming issue of The Wildlife Professional that focuses on the importance of
spatial/GIS skills to wildlife biologists despite a lack of focus on such training in the TWS certification
program (which drives college curricula to some degree). This product capitalized on Christa’s extensive
training in geospatial methods, was directly pertinent to her desire to obtain wildlife specific training for a
career in non-profit organizations, and will strategically establish her as an authority on the issue to a
wide professional audience.
For the department/college, my main contributions this past year have involved administering the
omnibus MOU with the DEC and helping to coordinate Roosevelt Wild Life Station activities. The ~$3.4
million MOU with the DEC went officially into effect in the fall and has required a substantial
administrative effort to get all the project pieces off the ground. This MOU has greatly increased
opportunities for wildlife research collaborations with the DEC – currently providing support to studies
on the New England cottontail (Cohen, Ryan, Whipps), deer browsing impacts on forest regeneration
(Dovciak and Frair), and status of Adirondack moose population (Frair) with future projects including
ecological separation of black ducks and mallards (Cohen, Schummer), monitoring ring-necked pheasants
(Cohen), assessing disease in wild turkey (Whipps), and evaluating the success of otter reintroductions to
western NY (Frair). The DEC also has become a key collaborator of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station, for
which we re-established an Honorary Advisory Council this past fall. We formed the HAC in the image
of the original council from 1919 and with the full support of Theodore Roosevelt IV and Simon
Roosevelt. With help from the HAC the Roosevelt Wild Life Station is now entering a major fundraising
push to try to secure endowments for new faculty lines and student opportunities.
For myself, I used my sabbatical leave to focus on my international research program – including
long-standing collaborations for elk research in Canada, recent and developing collaborations for
carnivore and large mammal research in central and South America, and emerging research on giant
tortoise migration in the Galapagos Islands. Foremost I achieved significant face-time with my foreign
collaborators this past year, spending nearly a month with my Panthera collaborators on the jaguar study
in Brazil, several days with the NSF-funded Galapagos study team at the St. Lois Zoo, and a month in
Alberta this February. These studies have overlapping foci in animal movements, resource selection, and
demography which should provide a nice synergy in my lab in the coming years.
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James P. Gibbs
For our students this past year I taught the two core courses for the Conservation Biology
undergraduate major and continue to advise many undergraduates, primarily those in the Conservation
Biology major. I serve on many graduate committees, have a modest group of my own graduate advisees
working on a variety of taxa and problems, and assisted recent graduate students to produce as lead
authors 6 peer-reviewed publications.
For our Department I continue to invest significant effort in collaboration with key colleagues in
the Department (mainly Frair and Leopold) to revitalize the Roosevelt Wild Life Station. In addition to
cultivating supporters for the Station, we undertook three biological surveys (Pennsylvania, New York,
Tennessee) under the Roosevelt Station umbrella that involved our students and helped showcase our
programs. After two years we are finally starting to realize some success in attracting funding and
attention to the Roosevelt Station. In addition, I maintain a diverse portfolio of funded biodiversity
conservation research and outreach programs in various parts of the world attracted attention to our
Department from a variety of media sources during the last year.
For myself professionally I (1) completed a fellowship as “Viejo Sabio” or “Wise Sage” within
the Prometeo Program of the National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and
Innovation of Ecuador (SENESCYT), (2) made good progress with collaborators in advancing a
community-based endangered wildlife conservation program along the Altai Russia/western Mongolia
border that has ultimately garnered very significant outside support for our local collaborators to move
snow leopard and argali conservation projects ahead, and (3) I continue to be heavily involved in many
Galapagos Conservancy-based projects to advance a variety of conservation programs in the Galapagos
Archipelago, most notably the newly initiated giant tortoise conservation initiative.
Thomas R. Horton
Students. Teaching continues to be a joy. I again had a great cohort in General Ecology. I also
facilitated EFB 496/796, Advance Mycology: Basidiomycetes, an EFB 797 seminar, A History of
Ecosystem Thought, which were led by very capable graduate students and the students in these classes
were very positive. The Ecosystem Thought seminar was particularly helpful for students in several of
our graduate disciplines as they prepared for their exams. This was also a great year for student research
in my lab. It was fantastic working with one of this year’s recipient of the SUNY-ESF Chancellor’s
Award for Excellent. This student is starting a funded PhD program in the fall. Further, this student and
one other also conducted successful research under the SUNY-ESF Honors Program. These and other
students were part of an army of undergraduates’ working under the wing of my graduate students and
myself, earning credit towards their degrees (EFB 298, 420 and 498). It as a very active year and it was a
pleasure working with such capable students. I also had successful graduate level research in the lab. One
student finished a PhD that has already included three publications and several more ready for submission
in the next month. A second student finished an MS degree and a third finished a MPS degree. I also
chaired the awards committee for the Lowe-Wilcox, Zabel, Morrell and Silverborg scholarship awards.
The awards ceremony and graduation is probably the best day of the year for me.
Department/College. General Ecology course is an incredibly important course at ESF -- the
topic encompasses what most of us do in EFB and at ESF in one form or another. I am also on the P & T
committee, which had a full slate this year that included reviewing dossiers of several colleagues up for
promotion and tenure. The P & T committee also spent a considerable amount of time taking a serious
look at our criteria for promotion and tenure decisions and we are making good progress in coming up
with new guidelines to help everyone navigate this incredibly important aspect of our jobs. Related to this
effort is my engagement in helping young faculty navigate their first years in EFB as a faculty mentor and
I am thoroughly committed to this task. Just as important as the P&T process is the hiring of excellent
new faculty and to this end I also served on the Environmental Microbiologist search committee. I also
attended the job interview seminars for our new president in the fall. Both new hires were part of a great
slate of candidates and I am excited about how the new hires will contribute to EFB and ESF.
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Self. I was awarded the Mycological Society of America Weston Excellence in Teaching award
this spring. This is a national award that former graduate and undergraduate students initiate and submit
the nomination documents on a recipient’s behalf. As I said to several students during the process, I am
humbled by their effort and feel it demonstrates what excellent and engaged students I have had the
pleasure of mentoring in EFB at ESF. I was also invited to give two seminars, one at Utica College as part
of their Asa Gray seminar series in February. The other invitation is for a symposium on spore dispersal
in in early August at the International Mycological Congress in Bankok, Thailand. This is especially nice
in that the organizers recognized recent publications of my colleagues and I on ectomycorrhizal spore
dispersal, especially with respect to animal dispersal and pine invasions in South America (see PlosOne
article). I was also invited to write a commentary for the New Phytologist on host specificity and mycelial
networks. This too is meaningful given the recognition by this important international journal and it gives
a nod to the book I am putting out shortly on Mycorrhizal Networks. The book is very near completion.
All chapters are in except one, which is in the final stages of revision. In total, I have four papers now
published and three additional papers in press or in review following revision. Two more papers from my
recently minted PhD student will likely be submitted by the end of June as they have been fully vetted by
the steering committee and are ready for submission. Finally, I am very happy to report that NSF invited
both preproposals I co-authored for full proposal submission this round. The one with the highest
recommendation (“High Priority Invite”) specifically addressed the mycorrhizal component of our ideas. I
keep my fingers crossed that one or both of these full proposals will lead to funding in the fall. I have also
initiated an exciting project at the Albany Pine Bush that incorporates lessons I have learned about the
role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in pine establishment following fire. I am particularly excited about this
project as it is New York center and has a strong fire ecology component. I am also working with
colleagues in Chile and Argentina who will continue work we started on Pinaceae invasions, mycorrhizal
fungi, and spore dispersal. This project has been awarded funding through the Chilean government. In
summary, this has been a VERY productive year and my efforts in teaching and research were
acknowledged.
Robin W. Kimmerer
Students. My major and most rewarding contributions to our students during 2013-14 have been
through my focus on the scholarship of teaching and mentoring. I have taught 4 distinct courses this year,
( 6 if grad and undergrad sections are counted separately) all of which are fully subscribed with a waiting
list. Student feedback indicates that they appreciate the diverse, creative approaches and perspectives
offered in these courses. Every semester I learn a great deal from the input of our students and refine the
courses accordingly. I have sought to make these transformative perspectives more widely available to
our students and this year led the development of a new College-wide minor in “Native Peoples and the
Environment” which was approved this spring. This year, I launched a new mentoring program, entitled
“Indigenous Environmental Leaders for the Future” with a weekly seminar, supported by a grant from the
USDA Multicultural Scholars Program, which also provides fellowships to our students, In addition to
these responsibilities and my assigned advisees, I have worked closely with several undergraduates in
independent study projects, as a CSTEP mentor and Honors advisor, helping to mentor the academic,
personal and professional development of our most promising undergraduates. I also serve as advisor to a
student organization, Primitive Pursuits. Our undergraduates are also benefitting from the research
exchange that Dr. Beier and I run in the summer entitled “Learning From the Land” which provides forest
ecology research and cultural exchange opportunities for ESF undergraduates. I have a strong
commitment to graduate student mentoring and this year initiated an informal seminar of 12 graduate
students working in the arena of traditional ecological knowledge. I have contributed to teaching in
diverse outreach settings and through a wide array of invited public presentations around the country. In
addition to guiding my own graduate students, I have been invited to serve on the graduate committees of
students at other universities.
Department and college. I have served as founder and Director of The Center for Native Peoples
and the Environment in 2013-14 which has brought significant positive attention to the College’s
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leadership role in incorporating traditional ecological knowledge in environmental education and
research. I’m particularly proud of the contributions of the Center as an emerging change agent in
broadening the scientific dialogue to include traditional ecological knowledge. The many activities of the
Center include a summer community environmental internship program at Onondaga Nation and at
Tuscarora nation. The Center continues to develop and present the “Native Earth Environmental Youth
Camp” with funding from the National Science Foundation. The camp has been a focal point for wideranging collaborations with 8 different indigenous nations in the region. The impact of the Center can be
seen in the number of invited presentations and collaborations on traditional ecological knowledge
requested from around the country. The validity of using TEK as a partner to ecological science in
education and research is gaining traction through our efforts. The successful development of the Center
has created a platform from which grant proposals have developed. The momentum behind this endeavor
is reflected in the submission of major collaborative grant proposals during the past year. We are
currently implementing a climate change and forest knowledge revitalization education program with
tribal partners. I served as the PI for the development of a proposal to the USDA Higher Education
Challenge Grant program for development of a new interdisciplinary graduate program at ESF in
indigenous issues and the environment. Unfortunately, one of our tribal college partners had to withdraw
at the last moment, but we will submit the proposal in the next round with an interdisciplinary group of
collaborators from ESF and tribal colleges. My work on behalf of these important ideas is also recognized
through numerous invitations for lectures and presentations. This year, I have given at least 58 public
presentations to academic, professional, governmental and community organizations all over the country,
as well as interviews, videos etc., which I trust brings attention and respect to the work of SUNY ESF.
Professional Development. The release of my new book “ Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous
Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” has created extraordinary opportunities for
professional development and for wide dissemination of the ideas embodied in the ESF Center for Native
Peoples and the Environment. This academic year entailed juggling my on campus responsibilities for
teaching, mentoring and administration with participation in an extensive book tour which required
considerable travel. That balancing was assisted by the generous support of Dr. Leopold in allowing me
to defer my fall term teaching responsibilities. It has been gratifying to see the enthusiastic response to
Braiding Sweetgrass and the impact its ideas are having. The book has already garnered three
awards,(Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, John Burroughs essay award, Orion Book Award finalist)
solid media attention and distribution. Given the urgent environmental issues we face, and the power of
literary non-fiction as a cultural change agent, I am committed to investment of my scholarly efforts in
that arena. I am continuing to learn and appreciate the power of engaged scholarship of writing and
speaking to a non-academic audience as a pathway to influence public dialog on sustainability. My
professional development has also been bolstered by my appointment as a Senior Fellow of the Center for
Humans and Nature, which has fostered new connections to a network of scholars and thinkers. Working
in this interdisciplinary arena of public dialogue and engaging teaching tools outside of my academic
expectations has been both challenging and rewarding, contributing to professional growth in new
directions which can benefit my creative capacity as an educator and writer.
Donald J. Leopold
Five of the graduate students (including one Ph.D.) I had advised and one that I co advised all
defended their theses or dissertations in April and graduated in May.
In June 2014 I finished my ninth year as chair of EFB and began the final year of my current
contract.
In March I received a Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award from Purdue University. A few
days later, it was very satisfying to give two sold-out lectures at Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square,
PA), one of the premier horticultural centers in the world.
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Karin E. Limburg
Students. I feel that my adding new, quantitative courses at the graduate level helps to build up
our graduate program, aiding in making it attractive for PhD students in particular. This spring, in
addition to teaching an introduction to the R programming language (which had record enrolment this
spring of 19, from various departments and SU), I piloted a course in ecological modeling that used R as
the modeling platform. I used a textbook written by two Dutch researchers, and although it was
challenging, we – 11 grads and me – made it all the way through together. Two things impressed me,
doing this course: (1) this was a very nice, comprehensive book that I intend to use next year as well,
albeit cutting out some material, and (2) students in EFB don’t get a lot of exposure to this kind of
modeling (differential and difference equations, as well as analysis), but rather spend a lot of time
thinking about statistics. I hope to continue to attract students in order to give them an alternative way of
thinking theoretically. Aside from this, I continue to teach, mentor, and guide students as we all do.
Department/college. I continued my service as head of the Graduate Program Advisory
Committee, and have now turned over the reins to co-chairs Melissa Fierke and Jonathan Cohen (I’ll
continue as a committee member). We have completed our list of tasks set out when we were convened,
and now we are going to look more closely at the suite of courses we offer grads, as well as ways to
enhance stipends. Additionally for the department, I continued service on the Promotion and Tenure
Committee. We had a difficult task to revise the P&T criteria and there was disagreement as to how to
proceed. However, it appears we now have a way to move ahead. I do not play any direct service role,
but continue to represent the College as I can. I am a member of the Technical Steering Committee as
well as the Faculty Leadership Team of the SUNY 4E Network of Excellence.
Myself. My biggest accomplishment was finally to publish a coherent paper on the use of
biogeochemical tracers of hypoxia (“dead zones”) recorded in fish otoliths. Every so often, most of us
have moments of novel thinking and innovation: this was one such moment for me. I was able to show
how these tracers in effect track the history of a fish’s exposure to low oxygen waters, whether it is fresh,
marine, or in between; and I developed statistical metrics (magnitude, frequency, and duration) to
characterize the events. The paper, recently out in the Journal of Marine Science, has become in six
weeks the third most downloaded paper of the journal over the last 90 days. Given the global interest in
fisheries and dead zones, I think that for once I have made a contribution that will be widely used. It
should also help bolster our application to the National Science Foundation. The other major
accomplishments were solidifying some research collaborations, locally, nationally, and internationally,
and involving grad students where possible. I also have been serving on a committee in the realm of
global international research (programs within the IGBP) called the Continental Margins Working Group.
Our charge is to develop a framework for international scientific research in the zone from the coast down
through the continental shelves. To date we have drafted up a policy paper that we are trying to publish
in a high-profile outlet; we will work on more detailed papers in the years to come. I also continue to
collaborate in an international group of scientists studying the impacts of hypoxia on marine food webs.
Of course, engagement with my students has been a high priority as well, and I have been working
increasingly with my students to get them to publish papers. This involves a large time investment on my
part, but it is a good one as it is training these students to get their work out successfully. Finally, I also
mentor junior colleagues at other institutions, serve on international program committees, and continue
service to a number of professional societies.
Mark V. Lomolino
Students. I have continued to teach courses that emphasize fundamental biological, geological
and geographic factors that influence biodiversity, and challenge students to develop an integrative
understanding of relevant patterns and to articulate this in writing (essay form exams that I grade myself).
The mammal diversity course has now grown to approximately 60 students. This course continues to
receive excellent reviews from students. I also continue to offer a series of graduate seminars and courses
on various topics in conservation biology and biogeography, including a new seminar in Biogeography of
Humanity, which I hope to develop into an upper division and graduate course in the enar future.
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Department/College. My service to the department and college has begun to re-expand, including
serving as coordinator of the graduate program (fall 2013), serving on graduate student committees for
ESF, SU and international universities, meeting with prospective students and job candidates, hosting
accepted student receptions and freshman/transfer orientation advising, serving on graduate student
committees and as chair of exam and defense committees for the College.
Professional Development. I have developed my international network of colleagues and
research programs in the areas of biogeography, ecology and macroecology. As a result, I have begun to
publish with new collaborators, develop new proposal and received invitations to give guest lectures,
keynote addresses and serve as external evaluator of faculty and research programs. I served in this
capacity of an external evaluator for renewal of five year funding for Denmark’s Center for
Macroecology and Climate, which also provided opportunities for new collaborations including a new
program of research on long-distance movements as adaptations to climate change for North American
wildlife. I have also begun a new line of research on Soundscape Ecology, which is an emerging
discipline focusing on the spatial and temporal variation in the sounds of nature. We are just about to
submit our first manuscript on this subject (“The Silence of Biogeography”) to the Journal of
Biogeography as an invited guest essay, and will prepare a manuscript to be submitted to NSF’s
competition for macrosystem studies later this year.
Gregory G. McGee
I served again this year as EFB’s Undergraduate Curriculum Director and as the Curriculum
Coordinator for the Environmental Biology major. In my capacity as UCD I worked with Admissions to
organize two departmental open houses and five accepted student receptions and personally participated
in four of these seven events; coordinated undergraduate advising for the department; provided
departmental orientation to freshmen and August/January transfer cohorts; represented EFB at two endof-semester Academic Standards meetings; served as ESF representative on the SUNY working group for
the SUNY-wide Biology transfer pathway; maintained current information for EFB program catalog
descriptions, plan sheets and directed elective offerings for all seven majors; and assisted the Provost and
Registrar in initial steps to carry out the anticipated campus schedule reset for EFB. Apart from my own
advisees, I advised numerous other EFB undergraduate students on a variety of curricular matters and
facilitated numerous student petitions. I continued assisting the department’s other curriculum
coordinators in program assessment processes, and this spring began making preparations with Kim
Schulz to facilitate the upcoming SUNY Department Program Review. I continued to be greatly involved
in organizing and delivering two summer sessions of EFB202 at Cranberry Lake. In addition to time spent
organizing instruction and coordinating evaluation of 143 students, I spent 23 days at CLBS this year
teaching and guiding student research projects.
This past fall, Kelley Donaghy, Laura Crandall and I launched a two-year course sequence in
Environmental Leadership and Civic Engagement. This initiative emerged from the results of the ESF
2011 National Survey of Student Engagement (compiled by the Student Affairs Committee) which
suggested that, following compulsory community service in their freshman year, few ESF students
continue to engage in community service. Further, we recognized that ESF does not provide any formal
study or training in leadership, beyond the workshops offered by Laura Crandall through Student Affairs.
Kelley, Laura and I believe an opportunity exists to launch a meaningful, structured program in
Environmental Leadership at ESF that uniquely integrates aspects of civic engagement. Our first effort
this year was to initiate a Sophomore-Junior year sequence consisting of an introductory seminar on
leadership theory and skills, followed by a practicum in which students design high-impact, service-based
professional or research projects that promote civic engagement by their fellow students. Finally,
participants will implement their projects through independent research and internship experiences during
subsequent semesters of their junior and/or senior years. Of the 21 students who started the program this
fall, 11 continued through the practicum to develop 9 individual or team-based research and service
project proposals, all of which involve leading teams of ESF and community volunteers to accomplish the
objectives of the proposals. Kelley and I will be working with these students through their junior and
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senior years to carry out their projects as professional internships or independent research projects. Our
overall goal for this program is to foster a greater level of student-centered community service on campus,
especially among upper-division students, and to lay the groundwork for developing formal college
programming (a certification, minor, or institute) in Environmental Leadership at ESF. Toward this end,
Kelley and I will be submitting an NSF S-STEM proposal this August to develop a mechanism to sustain
the leadership/civic engagement initiative through a sponsored scholarship program, and then will explore
the institutional interest in establishing some formal college programming in Environmental Leadership.
This year I completed the second of a three-year, NSF-TUES-supported research initiative with
Neal Abrams and Betsy Hogan aimed at exploring innovative approaches to improve first-year student
learning gains and attitudes towards STEM disciplines through an integrated chemistry-biologycommunications course sequence (Project SYNAPSE). Based on our experiences in the first year we
adjusted our instruction and program assessment protocols in the integrated laboratories and the
communications seminar. We now have two years of student evaluations and survey information with
which to begin analyzing the outcomes of the project. This year Neal and I also experimented with
approaches to deploy laboratory course content digitally through tablet devices.
Stacy A. McNulty
Students. I put significant effort into developing a new course (EFB411) as part of the
Adirondack Residential Semester offered in Fall 2013 and based at the AEC. As every faculty member
knows, it was a tremendous learning experience to launch a new course with weekly lab. I explored new
ways to utilize resources on and near the Newcomb Campus’ Huntington Wildlife Forest. Many of these
labs and lessons are now transferable to other existing or potential EFB courses. I developed a Critical
Literature Assessment to guide more effective student reading and analysis of journal articles. I also
team-taught EST404, Using Past Experience to Inform Future Management: Synthesizing the Adirondack
Park, focusing on new state lands just south of the Newcomb Campus. It was fascinating to take students
through a land-use planning evaluative process that unfolded as we taught (the property gates literally
opened during class). One summary of the students’ final presentation to local leaders is here
http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2013/12/esf-students-ideas-essex-chain.html. It was rewarding to
see the proud faces of our undergraduates complimented by Nature Conservancy and DEC officials for
their thoughtful final presentation, or when students in Winter Mammalian Ecology write “this was my
favorite class at ESF” in course evaluations. Finally but certainly not least, my advisees were all
successful in advancing their programs, projects and internships and I am working with several to publish
their research.
Department/College. This was a capacity-building year and I dedicated energy to two successful
searches for the AEC director and head cook of the Newcomb Campus dining center. I additionally
worked with main campus to broadcast the ESF presidential candidate interviews to the regional
campuses to enable efficient participation in that very important search. As Interim Director of AEC, I
focused on linking academic, facilities and forest operations. I also coordinated research and other
programming at the Newcomb Campus with university and agency colleagues. An AEC affiliate
researcher meeting I helped organize on main campus encouraged dialog about collaborative projects
between faculty; since spring planning on several fronts has progressed and will continue in 2014-15.
Finally, I represented ESF in the Adirondack Recreation Strategy team raft in Governor Cuomo’s
Whitewater Challenge, recognition of the college’s leadership assisting public land decision-making and a
unique opportunity for regional visibility.
Self. I represent the college in the international Organization of Biological Field Stations and as a
board member am responsible for helping coordinate the annual meeting and chairing an award. This past
autumn I considered not traveling to the Smithsonian’s Southwest Research Station for OBFS. There
were so many challenges at home: launching the new Academic Residential Semester; searches for key
positions; maintaining vibrant, funded lines of existing and new research. I did ultimately go to Arizona
and was inspired by OBFS members’ creative solutions to higher-education issues as well as ways to
improve the operations of a field station used by many organizations (the Chiricahua Mountains’
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biodiversity and neighboring community engaged in science also inspired!). Teaching the ARS was an
opportunity for me to learn how different stakeholders view the same land-use decision process; I can
more effectively integrate those perspectives into the research realm in the future. Procedurally, from
ARS I now have a solid understanding of departmental and college curriculum development and am
familiar with how our undergraduate programs are structured to aid students in accomplishing academic
goals.
Myron J. Mitchell
Students. My major teaching commitment in recent years has been associated with an
undergraduate and graduate course (Ecological) Biogeochemistry taught jointly as an ESF and SU course
with me and Charles Driscoll as instructors. This has been a very successful course and has engaged a
broad array of students, Last fall (2013) we had 33 students in this class. With my conversion to an
emeritus status on Sept. 1, 2014 there is no faculty member who is willing to teach this class with Dr.
Driscoll. Hence it will be offered only as an SU course. I hope that there will be a future hire for a
biogeochemist in EFB who would be interested in teaching this cIass. I have been responsible for
organizing a “Cross-disciplinary Seminar in Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes.” This past
spring (2013) we had more than 55 students, faculty and staff who came from academic programs at both
ESF and SU that participated in this seminar with an average attendance of ~30 individuals. I am not
sure if other ESF faculty members will take a lead in offering this seminar series. I currently have two
Ph.D. students (Phil-Goo Kang, Tamir Puntsag) and one M.S. student ( Ceili Baker). Daniel Baker
graduated with an M.S. in December 2013. For these two M.S. students I am a co-major professor with
Kim Schulz. Laura Hartley graduated in December 2013 with an MPS. Phil-Goo Kang has had to
return to Korea, but he is still working on his Ph.D. Dissertation. He has had two chapters of his
dissertation published, a third chapter in review in ES&T and the final fourth chapter under development
that will also be submitted to an international journal. He should complete his dissertation in 2014.
Tamir Puntsag is supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and is working on project using the stable isotopes
of water to analyze the effect of climate change on the hydrology at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
in NH. This work is being done with collaboration from Jeff Welker at the University of Alaska who is
one of the world’s foremost experts on the stable isotopes of water. Tamir has completed the written
portion of her Ph.D. Candidacy Examination and is scheduled to do the oral portion of the examination in
July 2014.
Department/College. I currently serve as Director of Council of Hydrologic Systems Science and
also am the alternate ESF representative for the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of
Hydrologic Sciences, Incorporated (CUAHS). I will resign from both of these positions when I change to
an emeritus status. My largest current administrative commitments have been involved with the Research
Foundation Board on which I serve as Vice-Chair, and Member of the Executive Committee. I am
planning on staying on the Board until my term expires in 2016. I hope that ESF and EFB can hire a new
faculty member whose interests would build upon the major program in Biogeochemistry that has
developed over the past 39 years. We have developed both laboratory and field facilities that provide an
exceptional opportunity for doing biogeochemical work especially those aspects of biogeochemistry that
evaluate the effects of atmospheric deposition and climate change on forested watersheds.
Self Professionally. I have continued the development of a major research program in
biogeochemistry that has focused mostly on the role of air pollutants and climate change on forested
watersheds, but has also expanded into other areas including the urban environment and international
cooperative work in Asia and Europe. This research has resulted in 10 refereed papers published or in
press for this reporting period and research grants totaling ~ one million $ for this reporting period. The
Huntington Forest/Arbutus Lake facility is used by a variety of agencies and a new grant has been
awarded from NYSERDA cover and expand basic monitoring from 2013-2017. After considerable
discussion on how to go forward with this effort when I have emeritus status it has been decided that Pat
McHale will become the PI and I will be co-PI starting on September 1, 2014. The other major research
infrastructure that I have helped develop is in the City of Syracuse where we have two towers with one
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located in a residential area in Upper Onondaga Park for which details can be found at:
http://www.esf.edu/hss/em/onondaga/index.html. The other tower is located at the Center of Excellence
(CoE) Headquarters at a downtown location. For a recent paper on this project see: Buckley, S.M., M.J.
Mitchell, P.J. McHale and G.D. Millard. 2014.Variations in carbon dioxide fluxes within a city landscape:
identifying a vehicular influence. Urban Ecosystems (In Press). We are currently collecting
meteorological data as well as using eddy correlation measurements for determining the fluxes of carbon
dioxide, water and heat at both of these sites. I am working with Geoff Millard in developing a paper for
this work including carbon dioxide, water and heat fluxes in the City of Syracuse. In addition at the CoE
site we are collecting traffic data from the two adjacent interstate highways (I81 and I690) as detailed:
http://www.esf.edu/hss/em/coe/index.html. I have had conversations and meetings with a various
individuals at ESF, SU and the CoE discussing how to continue the work using these urban towers.
Hopefully a plan will be developed before Sept. 1, 2014. I am looking forward to transitioning to an
emeritus status and doing some new things in my personal life, but also continuing with my scientific and
academic interests.
Lee A. Newman
Students. I have continued to teach the three courses I am required to teach, Cell Biology, Senior
Synthesis and Molecular Techniques. I continuously work to improve all three courses, but I have put the
most effort into the Cell Biology course, and I feel that it is improving with each time that I teach the
course. At the end of the last lecture, I was again astonished and honored to have the class stand up and
give me a round of applause. This type of response and recognition by the students inspires me to work
even harder to continue to improve and bring elements to the course to engage the students. For the
Senior Synthesis course, for the first time I had students not in the Biotech major take the course, based
on comments that they had heard from other students who recommended the course to students wishing to
improve their presentation skills. Last year, I did a field trip with the Molecular Techniques to Cornell
University to see their Biotech Center, so that they could see the facility, and talk with the technicians,
who run the biotech analytical equipment that I teach them about in class lecture, but which ESF does not
have on campus. The students really seemed to like the tour, and I plant to do it again this coming
semester. I continue to teach the Phytoremediation course (EFB496/796), which again had an increase in
students over last year. I will discuss this more in the service to the Department and College. I taught the
EFB496/796 Cell Biology Recitation again this year. As all of my students had taken the course, the
numbers were lower, but the students who did take the course said that they greatly enjoyed the course
and they learned valuable skills in both reading and understanding research articles, as well as
presentation skills. I also taught the EFB496/796 Plant Physiology Recitation this year. I plan to continue
to teach this course, but have it focus on different areas of plant physiology every year so that students
can take the course more than once and continue to learn new material with each time the course runs.
This coming year, the course will focus on plant microbe interactions. I also continue to co-teach
Biodiversity II, with the topic area of Procaryotes. It is a fun lecture series, and the students seem to enjoy
it and ask a lot of good questions. This year I have had 28 students in the lab, PhD, MS and
undergraduate. Two of my MS students switched to the PhD program. Three students were visiting PhD
students, one from Iran, one from Thailand, and one from SUNY Buffalo. All fit into the lab very well,
and were extremely productive. The student from Iran has stayed on, and is now a Post-Doctoral Fellow
in the lab. In addition to these two international students, there are four other international students in the
lab, two from China, one from Nigeria and one from Brazil, as well as a visiting scholar from China. The
lab also hosts students from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including Trinidad, Philippines, China, and
Native America. The lab hosts not only a diversity of nationalities, but also religious and political
backgrounds. Several students are or were in the Honors program, and several others are in CSTEP. The
best thing about this is how proud the students themselves are of being in this diverse group. The students
are extremely hard working, and this is reflected in the number of awards they have won locally and at
internationally attended conferences. Then graduate student Azam Noori was part of a group of ten
students I took to the International Phytotechnology Society Conference in October 2013, where she won
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third place for her oral presentation, and graduate student Camille Warner won first prize for her poster
presentation at the Biotechnology Research Symposium in May 2014. I have continued to assist students
to have quality internships, with Beverly Agtuca continuing her internship at Brookhaven National Lab.
Several had internships with a colleague who is manager of the largest greenroof company in the US. I
continue to work with the students to develop their sense of community by hosting laboratory trips to
places that are both fun and educational (Corning Museum of Glass and the Rosamond Gifford Zoo). I
also work with the students to develop the importance of community service by participating in a food
drive – last year the lab purchased and delivered over $1600 of food to a local food pantry.
Undergraduate student Beverly Agtuca was also a SUNY Chancellor’s Award student this year for her
research and service work.
Department/College/SUNY. I am continuing my work on the departmental Course and
Curriculum Assessment Committee, the college Committee on Research, and the SUNY Catalyst
Committee. I also continue to participate in three Hill Collaboration groups, Neuroscience, Cancer, and
Wounded Warrior. As part of this last group, we are working for the second year with a former ESF
graduate, Dr. Stephen Lebduska, who currently serves as the head of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at the
Syracuse Veterans Hospital on a Horticultural Therapy program for inpatients in the unit. We are working
not only with the hospital, but also with other community groups to obtain the plants and supplies for the
program, and we currently have two current students and two former students working at the VA on this
program. The program involves growing plants on a rooftop garden, in room plants for patients,
maintaining plants in common areas, and devising enrichment programs involving gardens and plants for
the patients during the winter months. We are also working with Clear Path for Vets to develop a garden
for their Culinary Command program. I chaired the departmental search committee for the new faculty
hire in environmental microbiology, and served on the search committee for the new hire in Chemistry for
a faculty member to be part of the Environmental Health Program. For the third year, I was chair of the
organizing committee for the Biotechnology Research Symposium, which continues to attract both
academic and industry representatives. In 2013, I invited as a plenary speaker Dr. Henry Daniels, who is
recognized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Nature Biotechnology as the leading scholar
worldwide on the production of plant based pharmaceuticals. He has since come to ESF and gave a
seminar at the school in the Plant Physiology Recitation course, and we then spent time working to
develop a collaborative research program, and to discuss ESF Biotechnology students to intern in his lab.
This visit result in proposals sent to the SUNY Health Now program, and the ESF Seed grant program.
During the past year in the EFB496/796 Phytoremediation course, I had three speakers give seminars that
were open to the college and the public, the first being Ms. Kate Kennen, who is principal in a Landscape
Architect firm outside Boston, and she visited with Tim Tolland and Doug Johnson while she was here.
The two other speakers were Dr. Chris Barton from University of Kentucky and Dr. Barbara Zeeb from
the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. I am currently working with the administration at
Brookhaven National Laboratory and Mr. Garrett Sanders and Dr. Timothy Killen of the Research
Foundation to forward the major goals of the MOU, which was to increase research collaborations
between SUNY and BNL. I also organized a tour of the BNL facility for Drs. Donald Leopold and
Russell Briggs. I have been working with Dr. Bruce Bongarten (Provost) and Scott Shannon (Associate
Provost for Instuction) to develop a joint diploma program with Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand
for both the Environmental Biology and the Biotechnology majors. This program would allow students
from Mahidol University to do their last academic year here at ESF, and then receive diplomas from both
ESF and MU. As the program develops, ESF students would also be able to go to MU for a semester or
academic year to participate in an international learning program. In this vein, I am also working with the
SUNY COIL program to develop a jointly-taught course with the University of Parma, where students at
both universities would take a phytoremediation course, and run joint literature review projects between
the two universities. I have also become more involved in the ESF heath related programs. I have
continued working with both ESF and UMU administration to develop and implement a joint MD/PhD
program, and this is moving forward. I am working with Dr. Gordon Patterson to develop a graduate
program in Environmental Health, and I am the Pre Health Advisor for students in the Environmental
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Biology Major. I am also the ESF advisor for students wishing to participate in the UMU 3+3 program to
earn a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. I am also the Coordinator for the Health and the Environment
option in Environmental Science, and was appointed the Curriculum Coordinator for the new major in
Environmental Health, where I am not only doing curriculum coordination, but also updating the web site
and promotional materials for students, administrators and fund raising, and also working with Dr.
Bongarten on developing descriptions for new faculty hires for the program as well as recruiting new ESF
faculty to participate in the program.
Self. I continue as Co-Editor in Chief for the International Phytoremediation Journal, which has
continued to increase the number of submissions received every year. The publishers continue to increase
the number of issues, and from a quarterly journal we are now moving to 12 issues a year, will full 8.5 x
11 pages. Our impact factor continues to be strong for a specialized journal, even considering the
increasing number of articles published every year. I continued to serve as the Immediate Past President
of the International Phytotechnology Society after serving 6 years as President. The Society continues to
grow and the conferences remain strong every year. I was also the chair of the organizing committee for
last year’s conference, which was held in Syracuse in October 2013. The conference hosted over 220
attendees from 24 countries. I also continue my role on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Association
for Environmental Health Sciences. This past year, with travel to Thailand, I have continued to increase
international contacts, with the aim of developing more international collaborations. I also am developing
collaborations with colleagues in the Czech Republic and Italy, and I have been asked to go to
Kazakhstan to teach course of biotechnology. I am also working to developing more collaborative ties
within the SUNY system, and I am starting to work with new colleagues from SUNY Binghamton
(Chemistry Dept) and Buffalo (Engineering) to develop joint research programs. Last year, I submitted a
grant (co-PI) with the group from SUNY Buffalo through the 4E program. While it was not funded, we
did get good reviews and plan to resubmit. While my publications remain excellent in quality and are
published in top journals in my field, I look forward to increasing the number as more graduate students
move through the lab. And finally, I continue to work with an international team of editors to work on the
book Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants. In 2014, NASA was awarded a
patent on the work we have been doing for them for the past 7 years, with two other colleagues and
myself listed as the inventors on the patent. In 2014, I was approached by a science reporter to be
interviewed on the Public Radio International program The World, as an expert on phytoremediation and
to discuss the use of phytoremediation on the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor radioactive waste problem.
Two months later, North East Public Radio program Academic Minute did a second interview with me on
the same topic. And finally, in the past year I received two awards; the first a Distinguished Service
Award from the International Phytotechnology Society for organizing the annual meeting. The second
was the Best Faculty Advisor Award from the ESF Undergraduate Student Association.
Dylan Parry
Students. In January 2013 I became the coordinator of the undergraduate major in Conservation
Biology. In addition to the myriads of petitions and assessment requirements, I promote the college at
accepted student recognition events and open houses, field questions from prospective students and
parents, and write letters to the top potential recruits.
I teach demanding rigorous classes and refuse to use multiple-choice despite the significant time
spent grading written answers. In spring 2014, I again taught EFB-502, continuing to add new
components to this course to keep it fresh and current in this rapidly developing field and I turned over
more than 20% of the lecture material this year. Not recognized by either the Chair or the College, is the
large input effort required to teach a courses like this using labor-intensive written exams, term papers,
and projects. Similarly, my forensic entomology course is a 2/3rds hands on field course that requires an
enormous time investment prepping and maintain samples following recommended BMP for criminal
investigation, field activities, and staging mock crime scenes. Although the FTE’s are low, these are the
kinds of courses that set ESF apart from competing institutions and give students value for their dollar.
Through some analysis by GPAC (I am a member)), it is very apparent that we are lacking in true (not co-
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listed) graduate courses and seminars. With that in mind, I taught the very well received graduate seminar
on Charles Elton’s seminal book on invasive species in the fall and will continue to offer these types of
seminars going forward (new graduate level conservation of invertebrates course with R. Rundell for fall
2014). I also served on CCAC as and oversaw the Stegeman Award and Dence awards process and was
again able to provide three well-deserving students with an award and some supplemental funds for
research. I devote considerable time to helping my grad students acquire small grants and have been
successful with both G. Keene (2013) and N. Schoppmann getting Sussman funding. In addition, G.
Keene won best student poster honors in 2013 at the National meeting of the Entomological Society, as
did Chris Foelker (M.K. Fierke MP) with myself as co-PI.
Department and College. I represent the college’s interests and perspective as a member on the
NY State Invasive Species Advisory Committee, a group of governmental, non-profit, private sector, and
academic organizations who function to advise NY State on invasive species issues and help to craft
legislation that effectively combats targeted species or pathways. Although budget cuts have taken a toll
on the organization, we were still able to play a large role in developing and changing the forth-coming
‘clean-boat’ bill that the governor signed into law this year.
Self. I have begun collaboration with multiple investigators (particularly Derek Johnson and
Kristine Grayson at VCU and Patrick Tobin with the US Forest Service) looking at the effects of climatic
shifts on invasive insects. We submitted a $3.9 million NSF grant that was very well received for a first
submission (1 Excellent, 1 Excellent/ Very Good, 3 very goods). In April we resubmitted this proposal
after extensive revising it and going above and beyond what the panel summary and individual reviewers
asked for. We are cautiously optimistic that we can get this large proposal funded soon.
Gordon Paterson
Students. Introducing myself to the student community as a new member of the College’s
teaching and research faculty was an important component of this reporting segment. This included
presenting a teaching lecture in the Fall semester in the Water Lecture series for First Year Experience
students. The lecture topic introduced students to the mechanisms that result in the release and presence
of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the aquatic environment and their potential toxicity and
fate in these ecosystems. In the Fall semester I also contributed to the EFB graduate program’s Adaptive
Peaks (EFB797) course giving a research lecture regarding the long-term impacts of multiple stressors
such as invasive species and nutrient remediation on the structure of and energy flow within a Great Lake
food web. I also co-taught Adaptive Peaks with Dr. Shannon Farrell this past Spring semester. This
Spring also I taught a special topics course in Environmental Toxicology (EFB496/611) offered at both
the senior undergraduate and graduate instructional levels. Feedback from students and other
departmental faculty indicate that the course content was well received and provided a valuable
contribution to the EFB curriculum. This summer I am looking forward to contributing to teaching the
aquatic sampling/biology component of the EFB202 field course at Cranberry Lake. With respect to
course administration, I revised the course proposal for EFB400/600 (Toxic Health Hazards) in order to
better align the course content with the new Environmental Health major. I am teaching this course in
Fall 2014 and currently have 27 students registered in it. As part of the Environmental Health major, I am
also developing the course proposal and curriculum content for Environmental Risk Assessment
(tentatively ENS470) which I will be teaching as a special topics course in the Fall of 2014 prior to its
approval for the curriculum. This proposal is at final revision stage and will be ready for final committee
review for the start of the Fall 2014 semester. During the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semesters, I acted as
a project advisor for senior Environmental Science student enrolled in ENS494/498 (Research Problems
in Environmental Science & Capstone). This student successfully completed a research project titled “A
meta-analysis of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the aquatic environment” and also his
capstone seminar. As part of the Environmental Scholars program, I mentored two undergraduate
students whom volunteered in my lab and greatly assisted with its cleanup and preparation for organic
analyses. One of my most enjoyable student experiences in the spring 2014 semester was participating in
Dr. John Farrell’s Senior Synthesis AFS course as interview panel member thereby helping students gain
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experience in a professional interview setting. For graduate students, I am involved as a steering
committee member for three students and also as an external reader for two MS thesis. Two of the MS
student’s whose committees I have been involved with have now successfully defended and completed
their theses. I also acted as an academic/professional reference for one of these students who recently
accepted a position with an environmental consulting firm in Brooklyn, NY. Beginning in the Fall of
2014, I will be acting as co-major professor with Dr. Don Stewart for an incoming PhD candidate. The
dissertation project will investigate factors leading to the divergent life-history of the regionally extirpated
Great Lakes cisco (Coregonus hoyi) and the potential for this species’ rehabilitation in Lake Ontario. I
had previously agreed to act as major professor for an MS candidate accepted into the EFB graduate
program, however, the student has since decided to postpone attendance at graduate school.
Department/College. I have very much enjoyed and appreciated the reception I have received
since arriving in the department and from the wider ESF community. As a new faculty member, I have
endeavored to become as involved as possible in departmental and college level service contributions. At
the departmental level, I served on the Burgess Award committee in the role of reviewing candidate
applications and the selection process. I also was a committee member on the ad-hoc Library Council
Committee regarding budgeting and allocations during the transition from shared resources with Syracuse
University to SUNY/ESF independent management. During ESF fall and spring open house sessions, I
gave overview presentations for incoming and transfer students during information sessions for the
Environmental Health program. I greatly enjoyed participating as a judge during the Spotlight on Student
Research Conference and was a thoroughly impressed by the quality of research presented by ESF
undergraduate and graduate students. I am also currently participating as a committee member on the
candidate search for an Environmental Chemist faculty position in the Chemistry Department. During the
Fall 2014 semester, I will be hosting an editorial board meeting for the Springer publication the Bulletin
of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. This meeting will host editorial board members from
across the US and also from Canada, Mexico, Sweden and Germany. Arrangements are being made to
help showcase ESF’s new Gateway Center facilities to the board members.
Self. I am approximately 75% toward the completion of establishing my research lab which is
primarily focused on the use of persistent organic pollutants as indicators of species bioenergetics. The
lab infrastructure has been developed specifically for the extraction of pollutants such as polychlorinated
biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides. Lab methods also permit for the determination of animal lipid,
moisture and lean dry weight (protein) contents that contribute directly to my overall research goals. This
past year has been relatively productive with five research manuscripts accepted for publication as of the
composition of this annual report and revised submissions for two more still pending final decision.
These publications have expanded my collaborative network to include USGS scientists (Oswego NY &
Alpena MI), Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University in additional to building on existing
relationships with research collaborations from my previous academic institutions. I was also invited to
give a research seminar at Clarkson University which was a rewarding experience for meeting additional
researchers around the Great Lakes basin and also colleagues interested in the importance of
overwintering biology/limnology. I enjoyed success in acquiring some funding ($10,000) that will be
used to help further establish lab infrastructure in addition to contributing to student training in both
laboratory and field research. I anticipate developing the required lecture materials for Environmental
Risk Assessment over the summer 2014 in preparation for teaching this course in the fall 2014 semester
which will expand my teaching portfolio and also enhance my pedagogical skills.
William A. Powell
The most significant accomplishment this year is to prove we have produced blight resistant
American chestnut trees. The final supporting evidence came from our small stem assays of the Darling
215 and Darling 311 American chestnuts that showed that our newest transgenic events were as resistant,
or possibly more resistant, than the blight resistant Chinese chestnut controls. I made a time-lapse video
of the assay and placed it on the web in our updated chestnut website http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/ and
separately on YouTube. The You Tube version has over 1,468 views to date and there are likely as many
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views on the webpage version. This is fast approaching the number of views of my TEDx talk with has
over 6,710 views to date. Our success with the chestnut project has generated a lot of popular press, with
at least 14 articles, videos, or radio spots over this year alone. Counting last year, we have averaged one
news item per month, helping keep our college in the public eye. I am also getting many invitations to
talks and have received very positive feedback from the audience. Several of these news items and talks
were initiated my paper published in Scientific American. All of this positive exposure is the result of 24
years of research by Dr. Maynard and myself, which was recognized by our sharing this year’s Exemplary
Researcher Award and by my being awarded the Forest Biotechnologist of the Year. Even though Chuck
and I get the awards, it is a team effort of all our many past and current students, researchers, and
colleagues. The production of the first blight resistant American chestnut trees has been recorded in three
of the four peer reviewed articles published this year.
The next big step is to bring the trees through the regulatory review process, a costly and timeconsuming task. Unlike large corporations, we do not have large budgets and whole departments of
people focused just on the regulatory process. But this needs to be done so that the trees can become
available to the general public and be planted in our forests. The blight resistant American chestnut trees
will challenge the regulators because nobody has ever asked for non-regulated status for a plant that is to
be used in forest restoration, as opposed to being just a crop. It is difficult to judge the time that will be
needed, but if the process for the chestnut goes as other plants before it, we estimate 3 to 5 years. One
problem with the regulatory review is that typical granting agencies will not fund it because this has
always been funded by the businesses that would sell their plants for profit. We are proceeding in a not
for profit manner, so funding will be a challenge. Fortunately we have worked closely with The American
Chestnut Foundation over the years and they are helping raise $2.65 million over the next 5 years. We
currently have $345,000 committed toward this goal. So we have a good start. We will continue to ask for
traditional grants where they can be applied. Our goal is to be sure that the first blight resistant American
chestnut trees come from SUNY-ESF.
But we don’t want to stop there. With the help of ESF’s development office, we are planning a
$1.0M fund raising campaign to go beyond the American chestnut and help save other threatened tree
species. My vision is to someday establish a ‘Forest Restoration Biotechnology Center’ at ESF. With the
American chestnut and our initial work with the American elm, we are laying the foundation for this
center. To do this, funding will be critical. But also other support from the campus will be needed. The
new lab and growth chambers in the Biotech Incubator building is a excellent start and will help us
expand. But the next critical need has to do with faculty. We need a plant physiologist! We also need
someone to teach the plant tissue culture course as Dr. Maynard nears retirement. EFB could hire a person
that would cover both classes, support our current faculty, and help us establish this center. Now is the
time to work on this while we have everyone’s attention with our success with the American chestnut
tree. This window of opportunity will not last forever.
Neil H. Ringler
This was a great year for students! One Masters and two doctoral programs were completed; four
students continued their M.S. or Ph.D. programs; and four new Master’s students joined the
fisheries/aquatic insect group, with start dates in January, May or August 2014. Their projects include
restoration of Onondaga Lake, new studies of the fisheries and invertebrates of the Mohawk River
(funded via NYS DEC), and/or a funded Sea Grant study of Atlantic salmon ecology and bioenergetics.
An off-campus intern rejoined our Onondaga Lake program this year, along with an ESF undergraduate.
Courses in Aquatic Entomology and Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy went well this year; the
undergraduate teaching assistants have provided valuable contributions in synergy with graduate TA’s. A
Reunion and Celebration with my graduate students was held at the Huntington Forest (AEC, AIC) May
23-25. Thirty participants attended from 7 states (including some spouses) of 55 graduate students
guided since 1976. The Reunion included field trips to treasured sites, presentations about memorable
graduate days, current positions and aspirations, and even a Mayfly Hop for Entertainment. A highlight
was watching dozens of Didymops dragonflies leave their nymphal exuviae after “walking” ~20 meters
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from Arbutus Lake. The staff at the AEC and AIC deserve special recognition for their exceptional
support on behalf of the Reunion and Celebration.
At the Department level a major event was completion of our new CIRTAS laboratory on the
second floor of Illick Hall on May 27th, in collaboration with aquatic scientists Kim Schulz, John Farrell,
Chris Whipps, and Chair Leopold, and with support from much of the ORP and ESF teams. The facility
has already facilitated successful research proposals and the TIBS component of this NSF project is in
high gear. Our Hill Collaboration in Environmental Medicine initiative (now entering its third year), with
newly announced seed funding, has contributed to genuine collaboration among faculty at ESF, SU,
UMU and the Syracuse Veterans Administration. Accomplishments of the Hill Collaboration were
presented at a Symposium February 14th at Drumlins, and as a component of the Biotechnology
Conference in the Gateway Center on May 15th, 2014. Continued work on the Syracuse Center of
Excellence Biofuels facility, in conjunction with Art Stipanovic and Tom Amidon is gradually fulfilling
its original promise on behalf of ESF. Pilot scale equipment including a fermenter and distillation column
are on order. A major highlight was moving three ESF teams, including Dr. Lee Newman, into the
exceptional facilities of the Biotechnology Accelerator, a shared project with Upstate Medical University.
In cooperation with Drs. Leopold and Volk, a tour and presentation outlined to President Wheeler our
research and successes in Onondaga Lake, the nearby wetlands and recovered waste beds (May 30th ). A
major theme was the genuine teamwork among ESF, Honeywell and many partners.
Among the most significant contributions to professional development was participation in a set
of planning and strategic meetings for SUNY and the Research Foundation. These entities are striving to
really make SUNY more than the sum of its parts. It has been helpful to discuss issues and opportunities
with the research leads at Stony Brook, Buffalo, and Albany as colleagues in leading the 4E network of
excellence. Approximately one million dollars was awarded this year, with strong ESF participation and
success in winning seed funding. Conferring with the research administrators at SU, UMU, VA (Hill
Collaboration) has also helped to broaden my perspectives. With regard to professional scientific
development, this year has brought an increase in diversity of projects and aquatic science collaborations
to include those from Syracuse University, US Geological Survey, NYS DEC, US Fish and Wildlife
Service, and the NY Natural Heritage Program. The latter has recently been brought within the ESF
framework, which is adding to our overall opportunities as well as our expenditure portfolio.
Rebecca J. Rundell
Students. This year I finished my first grad student, Jessica Miller, with an M.P.S. in
Conservation Biology. Miller is leaving ESF having excelled in challenging courses such as population
genetics, and has been hired this summer as a paid zookeeper. She will then move into a paid competitive
internship in big cat conservation, her desired field. I started two additional grad students this year, one of
whom is working on the captive breeding of the endangered Chittenango ovate amber snail, funded in
part through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Great Lakes Research Initiative (Cody Gilbertson: M.S.).
The other student I recruited through my evolution and invertebrate zoology courses (David Bullis: M.S.).
Bullis is pursuing research on the evolution, biogeography and conservation of critically endangered
Belau endodontoid land snails, and has submitted several small grant proposals this semester (his first
semester) to help fund his work. In the Fall our lab will welcome a new Ph.D. student, Jesse CzekanskiMoir, an expert on Belau ants and snails with deep interests in both evolution and ecology. We will also
welcome an M.P.S. student, Logan Osterhoudt, who was recruited by Sadie Ryan’s lab.
My undergraduate teaching life this year has been full, with an expanding invertebrate zoology
program and a deepening evolution program. In EFB355 Invertebrate Zoology we expanded the number
of live invertebrate representatives and the extent of the “invert-ed [flip] classroom” program that
continues to be successful. In doing so we found that one grad TA and five (!) undergrad TAs just barely
covered the animal husbandry, dry specimen, and dissection meeting and feedback needs for the two
labs—but wow did we have an interesting time making it happen. The mussels threw out byssal threads,
the hermit crabs scavenged, the urchins mowed down algae and thrived, the anemones were generously
fed by probing and inquisitive students, and our jelly tanks and displays improved incrementally. The new
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coldwater hands-on tank was an enormous hit this year, with students gathering around it just to figure
out what was happening by the end of every lab session. By the end of the semester our Amazonian birdeater tarantula (inherited from former inverts professor Roy Norton) successfully molted—which
indicated to me that perhaps we are making progress. This year I had several students approach me after
class to tell me how much they learned from the course and how it had changed them. So I think we are
moving in the right direction.
Evolution (EFB311) is also improving, my chief indicator being the increasing number of
students who approached me after lectures with substantive, intriguing questions. I have a couple of
students from that course who are hoping to come work in my lab. I also think we continued to grow with
our annual International Darwin Day event at Moon Library. Library liaison Jessica Clemons was
instrumental in incorporating the library’s new display system, a Darwin- and Wallace-themed book
display, and the drawing of a permanent bookplate for one of the Evolution students. The idea behind this
Darwin Day poster display is not only to get our students up to their elbows in recent evolution research,
but to expose the public to this work in a fun and accessible way. Our event remains the only publiclyregistered International Darwin Day event in Syracuse.
We also started the Evolution Discussion Group (EDG) in EFB, and it has been well-attended by
students and faculty in the department as well as faculty and students from SU’s Geology Department,
some of whom I met as graduate participants in my invert zoo course last year. The goal of this discussion
group is to provide a collegial environment for discussing a wide range of papers in the evolution,
systematics, paleobiology and evolutionary ecology literature. EDG will continue in the coming year, led
by grad students in my lab.
Department/College. My main (or most important) service to the Department and College this
year was spending an entire weekend carefully pulling soaking Herbarium sheets out of saturated Lane
cabinets and spreading them out across every inch of available horizontal space in Illick Hall. The
February 2014 flooding event appeared to be the final insult in a series of destructive construction-related
events in Illick, and in this case it not only ruined materials in offices and labs, but damaged the
Collections treasure that ESF holds in trust for future generations. To see an entire table of “mighty” oak
species practically ruined was truly one of the more depressing moments of this year. Following the flood
I worked with Alex Weir and others concerned about the Herbarium to try to save what we could.
Additional service to the Department and College (this year and in the coming years) includes heading up
the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections, and I look forward to working with faculty and staff in working to
improve the conditions and visibility of these specimens so many of us rely on.
Self. My most important accomplishment this year was getting back into the field in Belau
(Republic of Palau), after having been away from my work there in order to pursue unrelated postdoctoral
research projects at University of British Columbia and University of Arizona. My Fall field season was
thus a tipping point following decade-long relationship with the Republic of Palau—one that would set
the tone for the next decade of research. I was delighted to find that my work and trust-building had paid
off, and I was finally having meaningful dialogue with community leaders and conservation managers. I
balanced my time between working with new and old contacts in the field, training community members
in land snail survey techniques and conservation, and meeting with governmental officials, NGO leaders
and school groups back in town. One of the most pressing concerns in the country is the initiation of
limestone outcrop quarrying for road building materials. Because these new quarries are also home to
forests with critically endangered partulid tree snails and endodontoid snails I needed to rapidly change
plans and spend most of the trip focused on the quarrying threat as well as rapidly expanding land tourism
sites. I provided direct, practical advice to governmental and community leaders in several states that are
in the midst of clearing roads, trails, and patches of land. Being given the opportunity to impart this
advice and seeing my words and research change perceptions and action was a big moment in my
research career. The field work itself was also eye-opening in that my will was renewed to pursue more
collections in the forest pockets between the rivers of the largest island of Babeldaob, which has been
previously neglected in part because of the difficulty in working there. However, the rate at which the
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forest is being eroded (including endemic tree species down to a handful of known individuals), combined
with the endemism situated there suggests that we need to get back as soon as possible.
Sadie J. Ryan
Students: Teaching: I was hired to create and teach courses in aid of the newly developed
Environmental Health Program (EH), and contribute to EFB teaching needs. I have developed and taught
two courses novel to SUNY ESF: Emerging Infectious Diseases EFB 496/796 (3 cr, Fall), and
Introduction to Epidemiology, EFB 360 (3 cr, Spring). The former evolved as an extended version of a 10
week course I taught at Stanford in 2008, and has been updated each year to reflect ongoing emergent
disease trends. The latter is usually taught as part of MPH programs, so I made the material accessible to
upper level undergraduates without the prior training that MPH students would have. In the third year of
teaching both these courses, I now understand that I use “active learning” approaches, and have been
“flipping the classroom” since I started. Students respond well to a variety of teaching and learning
modes, which are essential for interdisciplinary approaches such as those embraced by EH. I engage the
students heavily in demystifying the health literature, from agency reports to journal articles, to popular
magazine articles and documentaries, to doctor’s pamphlets and web-based fact sheets. To ensure that I
am communicating disease dynamic concepts effectively, I have taken an 8 week MOOC on Coursera:
The Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, for which I got a certificate of distinction.
Scholarship and Research: This year I have been prioritizing focusing on my students and their
research, by not travelling excessively, and encouraging planning progress, through a combination of
regular meetings and explicit goals. Within my lab group this year, 6 graduate students and 2
undergraduates conducted research. Seven of these students presented at least one poster within this 20132014 period, some more than once, 3 won awards for them, and 3 have garnered external research funding
awards. All five thesis track grad students prepared thesis proposals which were approved by their
committees. Andrea Thomen (MS track), works in the Dominican Republic, examining the role of cacao
agroforestry in avian conservation. Using a combination of observational data collection, GIS analyses of
land use, and stakeholder interviews, she is examining both the role of cacao plantations as habitat, the
degree of differentiation from forest structure in the plantations, and how the perception of birds and
conservation affects the landowner management actions. She has conducted two seasons of fieldwork,
presented a poster at a regional conference, overseen an undergraduate research project, and obtained full
IRB approval to conduct her interview work. She has garnered external funding to support the upcoming
field season, and has successfully gained committee approval on her full proposal. Becky Fuda (PhD
track) joined the Uganda project, and has designed her own study of the impact of oil exploration on
carnivore communities in Murchison Falls Conservation Area. A pilot season of non-invasive camera
trapping went very well last summer. Becky has also participated in local interviews with villages and
managers, with colleagues in the NSF funded project. Becky has presented a poster at a regional
conference, has submitted multiple applications for external funding, and is helping rework a couple of
analyses for manuscripts within the project. She is currently in the field, in Uganda, conducting her
second season of field research. Tess Youker (MS track) is looking at ranavirus outbreaks at Heiberg
Forest, NY, in the vernal pool array constructed by James Gibbs and colleagues. She has been collecting
field data with the project for a few years, and has been overseeing an undergraduate working within my
lab, to prepare samples for genetic confirmation and analyses. Her goal is to explore this metapopulation
disease process in the vernal pools, combining modeling and data-driven approaches. This summer, she
has two undergraduate assistants, and has garnered several small research awards through external
funding to support her research, including their waders. Andrea, Becky, and Tess are all supported on
EFB TA-ships, but have each been successful in raising research funding from outside sources, in
addition to creative uses of existing lab supplies and resources. Lindsey Scales (MPS) completed her
degree this Spring (2014), and through one-on-one meetings with myself, and the coursework she has
taken at ESF, has re-analyzed data she collected prior to matriculation, to answer an interesting
management question about captive migratory birds; she presented this as a poster, and we have
submitted this manuscript for publication.
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I co-advise Mike Jones (PhD track), through a McIntire-Stennis funded project to look at Emerald
Ash Borer (EAB) invasions as an epidemic superspreading process. This project builds on co-MP
Fierke’s ongoing research into EAB, supporting a student to conduct dendroentomological fieldwork, to
reconstruct dispersal and establishment histories, validate existing indices of EAB density and impact,
and to fit those data, to understand the influence of differing dispersal patterns and shapes. The ultimate
model will be fully agent-based and spatial, allowing us to explore uncertainty more fully, including
demographic shifts that may occur at high densities. Mike has presented his work as a poster (3rd prize in
the Lab to Landscape symposium this January) at several regional meetings, and is progressing well with
data acquisition.
Through a 5-year, grant from DEC (J. Cohen, PI, Ryan, Whipps, co-PIs), Emily Gavard (MS
track) is conducting research on factors limiting New England Cottontail rabbit (NEC) populations in the
presence or absence of Eastern Cottontails. Emily has conducted urine sampling to look at nutritional
plane differences, fecal parasite analyses to understand different loads and patterns between and among
the two rabbit species, vegetation use (are they consuming invasive), hematocrit analyses (condition
index), and condition scoring, in conjunction with a telemetry and habitat selection study conducted by J.
Cohen’s PhD student Amanda Cheeseman.
Department/College. Establishing a new major in Environmental Health: Part of my hiring
agreement involved becoming the curriculum coordinator for the new Environmental Health Program,
currently operating through the Division of Environmental Science, whose undergraduate major is
launching in 2014.
In late 2012, the major was approved by SUNY, and in 2013, after revisions, the program was
approved by the NY State Board of Education. These efforts were lead by myself, Provost Bongarten and
Dean Shannon. Simultaneously with these approvals, we submitted a proposal for high-risk funding from
SUNY to assist with start up and resource expenses for two new hires for EH, and received the funding,
although at a slightly lower rate than proposed. In addition, I participated in a large proposal to bring $20
million into an Environmental Health Institute across several SUNY campuses, of which, ESF is one,
slated to spend $4.5 million; part of this is lab equipment to pursue EH research on vector-borne diseases,
leveraging ESF expertise in entomology and new faculty interest in health issues.
In addition to programmatic support from the state, we have been working with the development
office on creating fundraising materials and other promotional efforts to garner support for EH. Don
Leopold has been essential to moving this forward, and I am excited to see this come to fruition. I have
presented the new major and program at several admissions events over the past couple of years: firstly
presenting both the Health and Environment option of Environmental Science (of which I am currently
the option area coordinator), and the Environmental Health major to admissions; secondly, at open
houses, representing the EH major in a one-hour informational session and slide show for families and
prospective students. As part of this latter effort, I created a tri-fold pamphlet describing the major, and
this kickstarted the discussion about how to present our information appropriately on the web. The result
of this discussion is that course descriptions created as part of approved paperwork are able to exist in the
catalog and on the web as temporary placeholders – a first for ESF.
Leading a cross-campus symposium: In January, using funding from a SUNY Conversations in
the Disciplines grant, I hosted a collaborative symposium “From Lab to Landscape: Integrated Infectious
Disease Research”, which brought together SUNY ESF and SUNY Upstate students, faculty, researchers,
and leaders, drawing in regional interest (Onondaga Public Health, e.g.), to address growing training
needs, identifying urgent problems in NY State, and showcasing ongoing collaborative research. We held
this in the Gateway Building, and it was a very successful and enjoyable day.
Campus Committee Participation: I have been a part of the Council for Geospatial Modeling and
Analysis (CGMA), the group that handles GIS/GIT needs and information for the campus, since arriving
here. I am a member of the IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee), and I am a member
of EFB’s GPAC. In 2012 I conducted a comprehensive review of our MPS offerings, and the current web
and catalog descriptions. I have since presented this both in EFB faculty meeting, and to the Graduate
Council for ESF. I have contributed to discussions to understand MPS roles in all ESF programs that offer
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them, and have created a list of no-cost options for improving visibility and transparency.
Self. The Uganda project continues to be productive, despite a lack of continued funding. We
currently have household interviews being conducted around Murchison as part of this larger project. A
UNH MS student (whose committee I am on) is supported by a NASA space grant to UNH to conduct
remote sensing and demographic analyses. We will continue to apply for funding; we have a large
backlog of data and many papers to write.
I also still collaborate with the malaria working group project; we have published one paper, one
book chapter, and submitted 3 papers. We are working on a large data project across multiple institutions,
to garner pilot data and analyses to submit an NSF EEID in the coming cycle. I also collaborate with
SUNY Upstate Center for Global Health and Translational Science (CGHATS). I have been a consultant
on two years of funded work on dengue in Ecuador, through DoD’s GEIS program, and led the
submission of an NSF EEID grant ($2.5 million) in November to understand the intersection of climate,
urbanization, and potential sylvatic reservoir spillover in dengue dynamics in Ecuador. I am particularly
interested in how this intersection of land use and land cover change will influence the socio-ecological
environment as climate changes, for vector-borne diseases.
With colleagues here in the U.S. and in South Africa at University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN),
we submitted another NSF EEID this fall (co-PI), and an NIH grant this spring (co-PI, pending), to
combine sampling for tick-borne diseases with GIS analyses of potential spillover hotspots. Tick-borne
diseases are largely unknown commodities. The human-livestock-wildlife interface is particularly
important to the human emergence of tick-borne febrile diseases, and as such, the park landscape
relationship is particularly germane.
Productivity Metrics: According to Google Scholar, my h-index is 16 (770 total citations on 40
citable sources), Scopus, h-index of 11 (882 citations on 30 citable sources). I am first or co-author on
another 7 papers in review. My third year review was largely positive, so I will aim to keep being
productive.
Scientific Community: I serve as Associate Editor for Animal Conservation, and as an Academic
Editor for PLOS ONE, handling 10-12 manuscripts a year. I review for other journals (see CV), under the
premise that one should review 2-3 times the number of submissions, to balance the reviewer pool. I
reviewed grants for the Association of American University Women (AAUW), NSRC, and National
Geographic. In my professional societies, I have participated in annual conferences (AAG, ESA), and I
currently serve on the Board of Governors as the Chair of Education and Student Affairs for Society for
Conservation Biology (SCB).
Kimberly L. Schulz
Students. I had three primary areas of contribution to student success at ESF this year. First, I
invested a lot of effort and believe had generally very good success with formal teaching. I had a heavy
teaching load in terms of total enrollment (oversubscribed courses), number of courses, and the amount of
preparation and contact time required for teaching some of the field and laboratory intensive classes. I
tried some new assignments in classes that were successfully and improved student learning. We
developed an optional field trip to Onondaga Lake for students who are only enrolled in the Limnology
Lecture, which was attended by 90% of students and very positively received. The Limnology Practicum
continues to be fill enrollment limits and students again were able to master a suite of laboratory and field
skills that has propelled some of them to permanent jobs after graduation. The student poster session and
interactions with homeowners on some of the study lakes have continued to be positive, and students
again returned to the lake association meeting in the spring, after class was completed, to present their
posters a second time to the Tully and Preble communities. The marine ecology text that I used in past
years was out of print, so I had to change to an entirely new textbook, requiring major unexpected
revisions to the course. The laboratory sections included more hands on exercises and more basic marine
organismal biology, which students also like. I included more emphasis on critical reading of primary
literature in the course as well. Despite the large class size, and numerous planning difficulties imposed
by college scheduling and administrative hurdles, I successfully took the marine ecology students to a
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weekend field trip on Cape Cod where we had behind the scenes tours at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute, the Marine Biological Laboratory Aquarium, and the National Marine Fisheries Service
Northeastern Division, as well as a whale watch, tour of an oyster farm on the tidal flats, and some beach
organism field exercises. This was the first visit of several students to the ocean.
Second, I was able to substantially increase opportunities at ESF for students interested in marine
science. I finalized the affiliation with the Sea Education Association (SEA), including an agreement for
substantial fellowships for ESF students, and direct transfer of credit and financial aid. I was able, under
short notice on 4-5 October, while teaching several other classes, to bring almost 40 students to Woods
Hole for a day sail on one of the SEA sailing research and training vessels. This was a major event to
plan in short time, but was an excellent experience. A number of students have already taken advantage
of the SEA affiliation. I also was able to finalize the interdisciplinary marine science minor that has been
in the works for several years, and a number of graduating seniors were able to petition for the minor in
its first time of existence. I would estimate that approximately 20 students total are currently enrolled in
the minor.
Third, I was actively involved with undergraduate and graduate research. I served as mentor to
two honors students who graduated this year, and was reader of two additional honors theses and mentor
to several students performing senior projects in my laboratory. A number of these students (>10)
presented posters at the Spotlight for Student Research, and two had posters at national or international
meetings. I had three graduate students complete their studies this year (1 MPS and 2 MS). In addition I
have submitted 4 manuscripts for publication with students this year.
Department/college. I have served the college in several substantive ways during the past year. I
continue to serve as the Chair of the Course and Curriculum Assessment Committee and we passed a
number of course proposals and two new minor proposals. We made some progress on assessment,
although completion of EFB assessment and revision of assessment plans that will be one of my major
efforts this summer and fall (see below). I have spent a tremendous amount of effort writing reports,
overseeing final renovations, and planning for the opening of the CIRTAS (Center for Integrated
Research and Teaching in Aquatic Science) facility in Illick Hall. The facility should be ready for
occupancy in June and I have been developing the formal center proposal as well as user guidelines, and
sustainability/recharge plans that I hope can be finalized and passed in early summer 2014. We already
have three initial users lined up for a June start, and this project is a great opportunity for us to bring
aquatic science at ESF to a new level. After so many years of planning, grant writing, report writing and
dealing with the minutia of renovations, it’s great to finally be able to see the renovations at TIBS and
CIRTAS to completion and start doing some science! Finally, I served as a faculty representative to the
Presidential Search Committee at SUNY ESF.
Self. This again been a difficult year. It’s been almost two years since I had to vacate my office
in Illick Hall due to construction project dust, and my lab has been a very difficult place to work for my
students and me. Just when the construction was scheduled to end, the entire lab was flooded and all the
tiles had to be replaced due to assessment issues. The graduate students and I had to move almost all the
materials out of the lab several times. The continual disruptions to research activities in the lab due to
construction for two years have added to difficulties in carrying out research efforts for me and students
in my research group, and contributed to general morale problems in the laboratory. The apparent lack of
interest or response from administration, as well as the amount of supplies and equipment that have gone
missing during the past two years, are disheartening. As I said last year, I will not apply for new grants
requiring research or take on new students who need to do research in my lab until I have been provided
with safe and functional laboratory facilities. Fortunately, the asbestos abatement is nearly complete, and
the construction is nearly done, and we are hopeful that we will be able to move into a clean and safe
laboratory in summer 2014 and life as an active aquatic researcher can resume! I believe I was successful
at efforts in teaching, service and scholarship that were available to me during this phase of construction,
and not only have submitted a number of manuscripts, but also have a number of others nearing
completion. It’s great to see current and former graduate students excelling (one of my former students
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got a permanent faculty position at VIMS and several have also obtained their dream jobs in state or
national agencies. I anticipate an excellent year ahead.
William M. Shields
(no annual report)
Donald J. Stewart
(nothing submitted)
Stephen A. Teale
In the past year, I have secured $209k in new research funds that, in combination with ~$240k in
previous but still active awards, has supported in part or whole, a postdoc, three PhD and two MS
students and has enabled me to recruit a fourth PhD student. Research projects being conducted by my
group include laboratory and field work on three continents (North America, South America and e. Asia)
and address problems of concern to both biodiversity conservation and forestry. All of my current projects
involve invasive insect pests. In Ecuador, the parasitic fly, Philornis downsi, is a serious threat to the
endemic avifauna of the Galapagos Archipelago including the IUCN critically endangered mangrove
finch. Our work with this parasite is supported by the Helmsley Trust and is focused on identifying
pheromones and other attractants that can be used in support of environmentally harmless pest
management strategies in this sensitive island ecosystem. Our work with longhorned beetles in China is
focused on identifying pheromones and host odors that can be used to detect and monitor populations of
the Asian longhorned beetle, which is established in the U.S., and several other damaging species that are
considered to have high potential for future introduction to the U.S through international trade. Locally, a
U.S. Forest Service funded project on Ibalia leucospoides, a parasitoid of the non-native, invasive Sirex
woodwasp is investigating the chemical ecology of multi-trophic level interactions.
The highlight of my teaching activities this year was EFB 217 Peoples, Plagues and Pests.
Normally, John Castello and I co-teach this course, but John was on sabbatical leave this spring semester
so I taught the entire course (with the exception of a few guest lectures while I was in Ecuador). Because
this is a non-western civ course, it is a great opportunity to integrate my research-related experiences in
Asia and South America into teaching. Student comments in the End-of-Course survey indicated that the
course opened their minds to other world cultures, the dangers of imperialism, the importance of history,
and the interplay of culture and disease throughout history. The personal satisfaction that comes from not
just changing what others know but how they think is priceless.
For the past two years, the EFB P&T committee has been struggling to revise the departmental
P&T policies with the aim of making the process more transparent, objective and fair. It has been far
more challenging than any of us could have imagined and has consumed an inordinate amount of time.
Yet the positive impacts of getting it right cannot be overstated with regard to the future of the
Department and the College. We had hoped to complete the revisions by the end of the academic year,
and although this did not happen, we have made great progress toward formulating a set of revisions that
the EFB faculty will ultimately support.
J. Scott Turner
EFB 200 Physics of Life was offered for the fifth time. Its enrollment continues to be strong.
EFB 462 was offered for the last time as a regular course, with continued healthy enrollment. I am
continuing production for the planned rollout of Animal Physiology Online, which will be launched in
Fall 2014. To date, 72 videos have been produced. Production will continue into the fall semester. Work
continued on my research project funded by the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP), for which I
am the Principal Investigator. We have conducted two research expeditions to Bangalore, India and
Namibia. This project expand upon my previous work on termite mounds to include work on advanced
fluid mechanics, neurobiology of termite swarms, species diversity of termite-built structures, and
application to novel methods of wind-driven control of built environments. The Memorandum of
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Understanding between ESF, Ben Gurion University, the National Museum of Namibia and the Cheetah
Conservation Fund in Namibia has begun development. We are negotiating a visit in October 2014 by
several students in Landscape Architecture, under the direction of Dr Margaret Bryant, to visit CCF to
assist in several planning projects. Tentative plans are being made with Dr Melissa Fierke for a field
course in entomological biodiversity to be conducted in Namibia in May 2015. We have just completed
filming of an online biophysical field methods course with Prof Berry Pinshow of Ben Gurion University.
My graduate student, Ms Tiffany Dieter, has just completed filming of a short documentary on
coexistence of predators and commercial farming in Namibia. I have served as chair of the newly
established standing Committee on Technology. Our principal activity for the year was producing a
strategic planning document, ESF’s Digital Future, which we expect to shape the College’s technology
profile in the coming years. As part of my chairmanship of the Technology Committee, I serve as a
member of the Executive Committee of Faculty Governance. As part of that service, I was a principal
program planner for the January 2014 Faculty Mentoring Colloquium, and as a planner for a proposal for
a Conversations in the Disciplines event to be held next academic year. The proposal was successful.
Alexander Weir
Students. This year I coordinated the required EFB 210 Diversity of Life I and taught about half
the lectures for this course. I also contributed to both sections of the required EFB 202 Ecological
Monitoring and Biodiversity Assessment at CLBS. I taught my regular Mycology offering (54 students)
and offered an International Field Experience trip to Ireland in May (7 students). During April I made a
visit to Moscow, Russia to talk about our Biological Station Exchange Program with Moscow State
University. One idea arising from meetings at MSU was for joint overseas trips with students from both
ESF and MSU including possible future trips to Ireland, Costa Rica, and Armenia. In light of these
discussions we were joined on the recent Ireland trip by two representatives from Moscow State
University who contributed greatly to the success of this year’s program. I have continued to serve
students in my capacity as Director of the Cranberry Lake Biological Station, answering many questions
and queries throughout the year and dealing with programming, informational meetings, registration,
budgeting, and day to day administration of the Station. This year I also accepted two new PhD students
(Matt DaRin and Tiffany Deater), bringing my lab to a total of 3 PhDs at present. I also had two Honors
students complete requirements during this academic year.
Department/College. My major contribution to EFB/ESF this past year has been my leadership
role as Director of the Cranberry Lake Biological Station. Enrollments at the Station are still rising and
we ran at almost full capacity for the summer of 2013, with similar enrollments expected for the summer
2014 program. Both the teaching and research programs were successful with almost 200 undergraduate
students present at the Station during the summer of 2013, and research groups from Indiana State
University, Cornell University as well as our own Grober Research Fellow (graduate) and one Cranberry
Lake Fellowship awardee (undergraduate) in residence. I also continued a fund-raising role in support of
the Biological Station. I have also continued to serve the department as Curator of the Herbaria and
expended much effort in moving and cataloging damaged vascular plant specimens following the Illick
Hall flood on 1st February 2014.
Self. The addition of two new PhD students to the lab has helped to broaden my research focus
while Lauren Goldmann, the existing PhD, has continued to work with me on manuscripts ahead of her
PhD defense this coming fall. This year we published an important paper on dimorphic species on a
ladybird beetle, and we have submitted another that reinforces the only known occurrence of asexuality in
the Laboulbeniales, one of the most diverse groups of fungi. This phenomenon was first reported by us
back in 2004. I am also continuing work with Professor Walter Rossi on new species of Laboulbeniales
on Gerridae (Heteroptera) – a novel host group for these fungi. I am in the early stages of working on a
generic overview of all known Laboulbeniales (150 genera, 2000 known species) and, toward that end,
currently have an undergraduate student photographing taxa in my collection of these fungi from all over
the world. This year I also played the lead role in a macrofungal digitization project funded by NSF and
administered through the New York Botanical Garden. This involved supervision of 3 undergraduate
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students and we have, to date, completed digitization of more than 4000 specimens in the ESF Fungal
Herbarium.
Christopher M. Whipps
Students. This year I had 2 MS students graduate (Eric Bauer and Emily Ogburn) and I started a
new PhD student (Carolyn Chang). From Eric’s work he has a publication and 2 papers accepted with
revisions. He is currently in a PhD program at Auburn University. Emily Ogburn is working on 3 papers
for submission to journals in the coming year and she is currently working on a research project in North
Carolina. I’ve mentored other graduate students as well, serving on 2 committees of students that
defended, 3 I served as chair, and I am on 8 ongoing committees. In all of these I have been actively
engaged in guidance with lab work, writing, and professional development. I am an advisor to >20
undergraduate students, many of which are pre-health, and from several majors (Biotech, Environmental
Biology, Wildlife Biology). I’ve also had 5 undergraduates working in my lab this year (Madeline Clark,
Brooke Clemons, Elizabeth DiPaola, Erica Colicino & Samantha Page), with the latter 3 being honors
students. Their research included population genetics, molecular biology, and microbiology. All of these
students rose to the research challenges they were faced with and I believe had a top notch experience.
The work of the 3 honors students will soon be published as some loose ends are completed. Elizabeth
has applied to Veterinary School, Erica was accepted to the graduate program at Upstate, Madeline is in
summer program a Upstate, and Samantha is currently working on research in my lab this summer. In
teaching, I made some subtle modifications to my 2 main classes (Intro Bio and Parasitology). In
Parasitology, I incorporated more readings and had students write a short article with peer review. Most
students really learn a lot from getting the peer feedback, but also doing the reviews themselves, tend to
improve their writing. For Introductory Biology, I had the smallest class ever at 148, so I incorporated
group activities throughout the semester. The idea was to increase retention by providing an opportunity
for discussion on a particular topic. I will likely continue this in future years, with some minor
modifications.
Department/College. I have served on several committees over the years, but have settled in to 3
main things. I am the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) chair, Director of the
Center for Applied Microbiology (CAM), and serve on the EFB curriculum committee (CCAC). This
year I also served on the Microbiology Search Committee, and the Webcam Taskforce Committee. As
IACUC chair, I am currently handling 40 protocols, with another in review. This exceeds last year’s
record and I estimate I spend at least 10% of my time on this essential committee for the university, upon
which most vertebrate animal research depends. As CAM director I have initiated a student travel grant
program, coordinated member activities, and am developing protocols for ways to more effectively track
investment of resources and related deliverables from the CAM members.
Professional. I was pleased to initiate a 4 year grant through the NIH to work on zebrafish
diseases this year. This work funds a graduate student and part of a technician, which will be essential in
expanding this area of research. I am also working with ESF faculty and the DEC to expand the capacity
to conduct studies that include a genetic component here at ESF. We are currently doing this with
cottontail rabbits. I was invited to give 2 talks at the recent Fish Health meeting in West Virginia. I was
also invited to speak at the World Aquaculture Society meeting in February, and the Environmental
Health symposium in January at ESF. Eleven papers have been published or submitted in the review
period, which like last year, is more in line with where I’d expect myself to be. I believe I have become
more effective at time management, having cut back on reviewing papers (only 7 this year versus 17 last
year), spending more time getting my own papers out.
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Appendix C. Faculty Publications (published or in press; papers in review
or accepted and waiting revision not included)
Books
Kimmerer, R.W. 2013. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the
Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN, 320 p.
Refereed Publications
John D. Castello
Cale, J.A., Ashby, A., West, J.L., Teale, S.A., Johnston, M.T., and Castello, J.D. 2014. Scale insects,
decay and canker fungi interactions in American beech. Forest Pathology (in press).
Cale, J.A., Teale, S.A., West, J.L., Zhang, L.I., Castello, D.R., Devlin, P., and Castello, J.D. 2014. A
quantitative index of forest structural sustainability. Forests 2014 (in press).
Jonathan B. Cohen
Cohen JB, Durkin MM, Zrdavkovic M. 2014. Human disturbance of snowy plovers (Charadrius nivosus)
in northwest. Florida during the breeding season. Florida Field Naturalist 42: 1-14.
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Bohn, J.L., S.A.W. Diemont, J.P. Gibbs, S.V. Stehman, J. Mendoza Vega, 2014. Implications of Mayan
agroforestry for biodiversity conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Agroforestry
Systems 88(2): 269-285.
Nigh, R. and S.A.W. Diemont, 2013. The Maya milpa: fire and the legacy of living soil. Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment 11: e45–e54.
Ferguson, B.F., S.A.W. Diemont, R. Alfaro Arguello, J.F. Martin, J. Nahed Toral, D. Alvarez Solis, Rene
Pinto Ruiz, 2013. Sustainability of holistic and conventional cattle ranching in the seasonally dry
tropics of Chiapas, Mexico. Agricultural Systems 120: 38-48.
Lin, H., S.A.W. Diemont, T. Toland, W. Tao, D. Daley, D.L. Johnson, 2013. Vermifiltration ecological
treatment for the re-use of food waste digestate. Water Environment Research 85(11): 2184-2193.
Martin Dovciak
Dovčiak M, Brown J. 2014. Secondary edge effects in regenerating forest landscapes: vegetation and
microclimate patterns and their implications for management and conservation. New Forests DOI:
10.1007/s11056-014-9419-7 (in press).
Álvarez–Yépiz JC, Búrquez A, Dovčiak M. 2014. Ontogenetic shifts in plant-plant interactions in a rare
cycad within angiosperm communities. Oecologia, DOI:10.1007/s00442-014-2929-3 (in press).
Halpern CB, Dovčiak M, Urgenson LS, Evans SA. 2014. Substrates mediate responses of forest
bryophytes to a gradient in overstory retention. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, DOI:
10.1139/cjfr-2014-0059 (in press).
Dovčiak M, Osborne PA, Patrick DA, Gibbs JP. 2013. Conservation potential of prescribed fire for
maintaining habitats and populations of an endangered rattlesnake, Sistrurus c. catenatus.
Endangered Species Research, 22, 51-60.
John M. Farrell
Kapuscinski, K.L., B.L Sloss, and J. M. Farrell. 2013. Genetic population structure of muskellunge in
the Great Lakes. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 142:1075-1089
Murry, B.A., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Resistance of the size structure of the fish community to ecological
perturbations in a large river ecosystem. Freshwater Biology 59:155-167.
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Crane, D.C., J. M. Farrell, and K.L. Kapuscinski. 2014. Identifying important micro-habitat
characteristics of muskellunge spawning locations in the upper Niagara River. Journal of Great Lakes
Research 40(2) 325-335.
Roseman, E.F., P. Thompson, J. M. Farrell, N. Mandrak, C. A. Stepien. (In press) Conservation and
management of fisheries and aquatic communities in Great Lakes connecting channels. Journal of
Great Lakes Research
Henning, B. F., K.L. Kapuscinski, and J. M. Farrell. (In press). Nearshore fish assemblage structure and
habitat relationships in protected and open habitats in the upper St. Lawrence River. Journal of Great
Lakes Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2013.11.003
Farrell, J. M., H. Brian Underwood, and K.L. Kapuscinski. (In press). Fine scale habitat use by age-1
stocked muskellunge and wild northern pike in an upper St. Lawrence River bay. Journal of Great
Lakes Research.
Kapuscinski, K. L, J. M. Farrell, and M. A. Wilkinson. (In press). Trends in the muskellunge (Esox
masquinongy) population and fishery of the Buffalo Harbor (Lake Erie) and upper Niagara River.
Journal of Great Lakes Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2012.11.006
Kapuscinski, K. L, and J. M. Farrell. (In press). Habitat factors influencing fish assemblages at
muskellunge nursery sites. Journal of Great Lakes Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2012.11.007.
Shannon L. Farrell
Collier, B. A., S. L. Farrell, A M. Long, A J. Campomizzi, K. B. Hays, J. L. Laake, M. L. Morrison, and
R. N. Wilkins. 2013. Modeling spatially explicit densities of endangered avian species in a
heterogeneous landscape. Auk: 130:666-676.
Campomizzi, A. J. , H. A. Mathewson, M. L. Morrison, C. M. Lituma, T. J. Conkling, M. C. Cocimano,
S. L. Farrell, R. N. Wilkins, and J. A. Butcher.2013. Understanding nest success and brood parasitism
in the endangered Black-capped Vireo: comparisons with two sympatric songbirds. Wilson Journal of
Ornithology 125:709–719.
Danilo D. Fernando
Fernando DD. 2014. The pine reproductive process in temperate and tropical regions. New Forests
45:333–352.
Quinn CR, Iriyama R, Fernando DD. 2014. Expression patterns of conserved microRNAs in the male
gametophyte of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). Plant Reproduction 27:69–78.
Melissa K. Fierke
Hellman, W., Fierke, M.K. 2014. Evaluating buprestid preference and sampling efficiency of the digger
wasp, Cerceris fumipennis, using morphometric predictors. J. Insect Sci. 14:4. Available online:
http://www.insectscience.org/14.4
Fierke, M.K., M. Whitmore, C. Foelker, J. D. Vandenberg, J. Carlson. 2013. Delimitation and
management of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), at an outlier
infestation in southwestern New York State. Canadian Entomologist. 145:577-587.
Foelker, C.J., J. Vandenberg, M. Whitmore, M.K. Fierke. 2013. Modeling Agrilus planipennis within-tree
colonization patterns and development of a systematic subsampling plan. Environmental Entomology.
42:532-538.
Elizabeth Folta
Annetta, L.A., Lamb, R., Minogue, J., Folta, E., Holmes, S.Y., Vallett, D.B., & Cheng, R. (2014). Safe
science classrooms: Teacher training through serious educational games. Information Sciences 264
(20). pp. 61-74.
Annetta, L.A., Vallett, D., Fusareli, B., Lamb, R., Cheng, M.T., Holmes, S.Y., Folta, E., & Thurmond, B.
Investigating science interest in a game-based learning project. Journal of Computers in Mathematics
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and Science Teaching (in press).
Jacqueline L. Frair
Campbell, S.P., Frair, J.L., Gibbs, J.P. and Rundell, R. (in press) Coexistence of the endangered,
endemic Chittenango Ovate Amber snail (Novisuccinea chittenangoensis) and a non-native
competitor. Biological Invasions.
Warsen, S.A., Frair, J.L., and Teece, M.A. (2014) Isotopic investigation of niche partitioning among
native carnivores and the non-native coyote (Canis latrans). Isotopes in Environmental and Health
Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2014.897946
James P. Gibbs
Blake, Stephen, Charles B. Yackulic, Fredy Cabrera, Washington Tapia, James P. Gibbs, Franz
Kümmeth, and Martin Wikelski. 2013. Vegetation dynamics drive segregation by body size in
Galapagos tortoises migrating across altitudinal gradients. Journal of Animal Ecology 82:310-321.
Bohn, Jessica L., Stewart AW Diemont, James P. Gibbs, Stephen V. Stehman, and Jorge Mendoza Vega.
2014. Implications of Mayan agroforestry for biodiversity conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere
Reserve, Mexico. Agroforestry Systems 88:269-285.
Dovčiak, Martin, Portia A. Osborne, David A. Patrick, and James P. Gibbs. 2013. Conservation potential
of prescribed fire for maintaining habitats and populations of an endangered rattlesnake, Sistrurus c.
catenatus. Endangered Species Research 22:51-60.
Hunter, Elizabeth A., and James P. Gibbs. 2014. Densities of ecological replacement herbivores required
to restore plant communities: A case study of giant tortoises on Pinta Island, Galápagos. Restoration
Ecology 22:248-256.
Hunter, Elizabeth A., James P. Gibbs, Linda J. Cayot, and Washington Tapia. 2013. Equivalency of
Galápagos giant tortoises used as ecological replacement species to restore ecosystem functions.
Conservation Biology 27:701-709.
Myers, Andrew T., and James P. Gibbs. 2013. Landscape-level factors influencing bog turtle persistence
and distribution in southeastern New York State. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 4:255266.
Shoemaker, Kevin T., and James P. Gibbs. 2013. Genetic connectivity among populations of the
threatened bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) and the need for a regional approach to turtle
conservation. Copeia 2013:324-331.
Shoemaker, Kevin T., Alvin R. Breisch, Jesse W. Jaycox, and James P. Gibbs. 2013. Reexamining the
Minimum Viable Population concept for long‐lived species. Conservation Biology 27:542-551.
Sirois, Angela Marie, James P. Gibbs, Alison L. Whitlock, and Lori A. Erb. 2014. Effects of habitat
alterations on bog turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii): A comparison of two populations. Journal of
Herpetology.
Thomas R. Horton
Dulmer KM, LeDuc SD, Horton TR (2014) Ectomycorrhizal inoculum potential of northeastern US forest
soils for American chestnut restoration: results from field and laboratory bioassays. Mycorrhiza 24
(1), 65-74.
Horton TR, Hayward J, Tourtellot SG, Taylor DL (2013) Uncommon ectomycorrhizal networks: richness
and distribution of Alnus‐associating ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. New Phytologist 198:
978-980
Nuñez MA, Hayward J, Horton TR, Amico GC, Dimarco RD, Barrios-Garcia MN, Simberloff D. (2013)
Exotic Mammals Disperse Exotic Fungi That Promote Invasion by Exotic Trees. PLoS ONE 8(6):
e66832.
Hayward J, Tourtelot S, Horton TR (In press) A revision of the Alpova diplophloeus complex in North
America. Mycologia.
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Grubisha LC, Dowie NJ, Miller SL, Hazard C, Trowbridge SM, Horton TR, Klooster MR (In press)
Rhizopogon kretzerae sp. nov.: the rare fungal symbiont in the tripartite system with Pterospora
andromedea and Pinus strobus. Botany.
Horton TR, Swaney DP, Galante TE (2013) Dispersal of ectomycorrhizal basidiospores: the long and
short of it. Mycologia 105: 1623-1626.
Donald J. Leopold
Landis, C. and D.J. Leopold. Natural plant establishment along an urban stream, Onondaga Creek, New
York. Northeastern Naturalist (in press).
Riddle, J., N. Pederson, J.C. Stella, and D.J. Leopold. 2014. Shifting climate sensitivity and contrasting
growth trends in Juniperus species growing together at opposite range margins. Tree-Ring Research
(in press).
Eallonardo Jr., A.S. and D.J. Leopold. 2014. Inland salt marshes of the northeastern United States: stress,
disturbance and compositional stability. Wetlands 34:155-166.
Raney, P.R., J.D. Fridley and D.J. Leopold. 2014. Characterizing microclimate and plant community
variation in wetlands. Wetlands 34:43-53.
Karin E. Limburg
Levin, L., K.-K. Liu, K.-C. Emeis, D.L. Breitburg, J. Cloern, C. Deutsch, M. Giani, A. Goffart, E.E.
Hofmann, Z. Lachkar, K. Limburg, S.-M. Liu, E. Montes, W. Naqvi, O. Ragueneau, C. Rabouille, S.
Sarkar, D. Swaney, P.F. Wassman, and K. Wishner. 2014 Submitted. Biogeochemistry-ecosystemhuman interactions on dynamic continental margins. Journal of Marine Systems (in press; DOI:
10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.0)
Limburg, K.E., B.D. Walther, Z. Lu, G. Jackman, J. Mohan, Y. Walther, A. Nissling, P.K. Weber, and
A.K. Schmitt. 2014. In search of the dead zone: use of otoliths for tracking fish exposure to hypoxia.
Journal of Marine Systems. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.02.014
Nack, C.C., K.E. Limburg, and D.E. Miller. 2014. Assessing the quality of four inshore habitats used by
post-yolk-sac larval American shad in the Hudson River: a prelude to restoration. Restoration Ecology
(in press)
Brown, J.J., K. E. Limburg, J.R. Waldman, K. Stephenson, E. Glenn, F. Juanes, and A. Jordaan. 2013.
Fish and hydropower on the U.S. Atlantic coast: failed fisheries policies from half-way technologies.
Conservation Letters 6(4): 280-286. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12000.
Finch, C., W.E. Pine III, and K.E. Limburg. 2013. Differential growth of humpback chub in regulated
and unregulated portions of the Colorado River basin. River Research and Applications. DOI:
10.1002/rra.2725
Limburg, K.E., T.A. Hayden, W.E. Pine III, M. Yard, R. Kozdon, and J. Valley. 2013. Of travertine and
time: otolith chemistry and microstructure detect provenance and demography of endangered
humpback chub in Grand Canyon (USA). PLoS ONE 8(12): e84235. DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0084235.
Palkovacs, E.P., D.J. Hasselman, E.E. Argo, S.R. Gephard, K.E. Limburg, D.M. Post, T.F. Schulz, and
T.V. Willis. 2013. Combining genetic and demographic information to prioritize recovery efforts for
anadromous alewife and blueback herring. Evolutionary Applications. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12111
Mark V. Lomolino
Lomolino, M. V., and R. Field. 2014. Re-articulation and re-integration of publications: monographs in
biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography 6.2 :1-3.
Myron J. Mitchell
Duran, J., Morse, J.L.,Groffman, P.M., Campbell, J.l. , Christenson, L.M., Driscoll, C.T. , Fahey, T.J.,
Fisk, M.C., Mitchell, M.J., and Templer, P.H. 2014. Winter climate change affects growing-season
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soil microbial biomass and activity in northern hardwood forests. Global Change Biology. doi:
10.1111/gcb.12624 (In Press)
Vidon, P., Carleton W., Mitchell, M. J. 2014. Spatial and temporal variability in stream dissolved organic
carbon quantity and quality in an Adirondack forested catchment . Applied Geochemistry (In Press)
Buckley, S.M., M.J. Mitchell, P.J. McHale and G.D. Millard. 2014.Variations in carbon dioxide fluxes
within a city landscape: identifying a vehicular influence. Urban Ecosystems (In Press).
Christenson, L.M., Mitchell, M.J., Groffman, P.M. and Lovett, G.M. 2014.Cascading effects of climate
change on forest ecosystems: Biogeochemical links between trees and moose in the Northeast USA.
Ecosystems 17: 442-457.
Inamdar, S., G. Dhillon, S. Singh, S. Dutta, D. Levia, M. Mitchell, J. Van Stan, D. Scott, P. McHale.
2013. The controls of end-member chemistry and hydrologic conditions on the temporal patterns of
runoff in a forested, Piedmont catchment. Water Resources Research (In Press).
Kang, P.G. and M.J. Mitchell. 2013. Bioavailability and size-fraction of dissolved organic carbon,
nitrogen, and sulfur at the Arbutus Lake watershed, Adirondack Mountains, NY. Biogeochemistry
115: 213-234.
Kurian, L.M., L. K. Lautz and M. J. Mitchell. 2013. Winter hydrology and concentrations in a forested
watershed: a detailed field study in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Journal of the American
Water Resources Association 49: 264–283.
McEathron, K.M., M. J. Mitchell and L. Zhang. 2013. Acid-base characteristics of the Grass Pond
watershed in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, USA: interactions between soil,
vegetation and surface waters. Hydrology and Earth System Science 17: 2557-2568,
doi:10.5194/hess-17-2557-2013.
Mitchell, M.J., C.T. Driscoll, P.J. McHale, K. M. Roy and Zheng Dong. 2013. Lake-watershed sulfur
budgets and their response to decreases in atmospheric sulfur deposition: Watershed and climate
controls. Hydrological Processes. 27:710-720. DOI: 10.1002
Singh, S., S. Inamdar, M. Mitchell, and P. McHale. 2013. Seasonal pattern of dissolved organic matter
(DOM) in watershed sources: Influence of hydrologic flow paths and autumn leaf fall.
Biogeochemistry (In Press)
Giencke, Lisa M., Dovciak, M., Mountrakis, G., Cale, J.A. and Mitchell, M.J. 2014. Beech bark disease:
Spatial patterns of thicket formation and disease spread in an aftermath forest in the northeastern
United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research (In Press)
Shibata, H., Branquinho, C., McDowell, W.H., Mitchell, M.J., Monteith, D.T., Tang, J., Arvola. L., Cruz,
C., Cusack, D.F. Halada, L., Kopacek, J., Máguas, C., Sajidu, S., Schubert, H., Tokuchi, N., Záhora,
J. 2014. Consequence of altered nitrogen cycles in the coupled human and ecological system under
changing climate: the need for long-term and site-based research. AMBIO (in Press).
Singh, S. Inamdar, S and Mitchell., M.J. 2014. Changes in dissolved organic matter (DOM) amount and
composition along nested headwater stream locations during baseflow and stormflow. Hydrological
Processes (In Press).
Vidon, P., Carleton W., Mitchell, M. J., 2014. Mercury proxies and mercury dynamics in a forested
watershed of the US Northeast. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (In Press)
Lee A. Newman
Lin, W-C, G-p. Chang-Chien, C.M. Koa, L. Newman, T.Y.Wong, and J-K. Liu. 2014. Biodegradation of
polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins by Pseudomonas mendocina strain NSYSU. Journal of
Environmental Quality 43:349–357.
Odom, L., J. Burken and L.A. Newman. 2013 Distribution and accumulation of trichloroethylene and
trichloroacetic acid in hybrid poplars. Journal of Environmental Engineering 139:162-167.
Jones, K.W., R. Tappero, J. Wang, Y-c. Chen, Q. Yuan, W. B. Lindquist, L. Crandell, C. A. Peters, W.
Um, L. Newman, T. Sabo-Attwood, and C. Moyer. 2013.Tomographic Investigations Relevant to the
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Anderson and J. W. Hopmans (Editors), Soil Science Society of America. SSSA Sec Publ 61.
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De La Torre-Roche, R., J. Hawthorne, Y. Deng, B. Xing, W. Cai, L.A. Newman, Q. Wang, X. Ma H.
Hamdi and J.C. White. 2013. Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes and C60 Fullerenes Differentially
Impact the Accumulation of Weathered Pesticides in Four Agricultural Plants. Environmental Science
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Dylan Parry
Tobin, P.C., D. Parry, B.H. Aukema. 2014. The Influence of Climate Change on Insect Invasions in
Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Pp. 267-293 in Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests
in the 21st Century. Forestry Sciences Volume 81, T. Fanning (ed). Springer-Academic Press.
Gordon Paterson
Paterson G., Hebert CE., Drouillard KG., and Haffner GD. 2014. Congruent energy density trends of
birds and fish reflect ecosystem change. Limnology and Oceanography in press.
Kapuscinski KL., Farrell JM., Wilkinson MA., Paterson G., Skinner LC., Richter W., Gudlewski AJ.
2014. Low concentrations of contaminants in an invasive cyprinid, the rudd,in a Great Lakes area of
concern, the upper Niagara River. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology in press.
McLeod AM., Paterson G., Drouillard KG., and Haffner GD. 2014. Ecological factors contributing to
persistent organic pollutant variability within forage fish communities of the Detroit River, Ontario,
Canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in press.
Daley JM., Paterson G. and KG. Drouillard. 2014. Bioamplification as a bioaccumulation mechanism for
persistent organic pollutants in wildlife. Reviews in Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
227:107-155.
Olin JA., Beaudry M, Fisk AT., and Paterson G. 2014. Age related PCB dynamics in immature bull
sharks (Carcharhinus leucas). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 33: 35-43.
William A. Powell
Newhouse, AE, LD McGuigan, KA Baier, KE Valletta, WH Rottmann, TJ Tschaplinski, CA Maynard,
WA Powell. 2014. Transgenic American chestnuts show enhanced blight resistance and transmit the
trait to T1 progeny. Plant Science (in press) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.04.004.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016894521400079X)
Newhouse, AE, JE Spitzer, CA Maynard, WA Powell. 2014. Leaf Inoculation Assay as a Rapid Predictor
of Chestnut Blight Susceptibility. Plant Disease 98:4-9
Nelson, CD, WA Powell, CA Maynard, KM Baier, AE Newhouse, SA Merkle, CJ Nairn, L Kong, JE
Carlson, C Addo-Quaye, ME Staton, FV Hebard, LL Georgi, AG Abbott, BA Olukolu. 2014. The
Forest Health Initiative, American chestnut (Castanea dentata) as a Model for Forest Tree
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Zhang B, AD Oakes, AE Newhouse, KM Baier, CA Maynard and WA Powell. 2013. A threshold level of
oxalate oxidase transgene expression reduces Cryphonectria parasitica - induced necrosis in a
transgenic American chestnut (Castanea dentata) leaf bioassay. Transgenic Research 22, Issue 5
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Neil H. Ringler
Johnson, S.L. and N.H. Ringler. 2014. The response of fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages to
multiple stressors: A comparative analysis of aquatic communities in a perturbed watershed
(Onondaga Lake, NY). Ecological Indicators 41C (2014): 198-208.
Rebecca J. Rundell
Rundell, R.J. and B.S. Leander. 2014. Molecular examination of kalyptorhynch diversity
(Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela), including descriptions of five meiofaunal species from the
northeastern Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
94(3): 499-514.
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Sadie J. Ryan
Hartter, J., Solomon, J., Ryan, S.J., Jacobson, S.K., Goldman, A. 2014. Contrasting perceptions of
ecosystem services of an African forest park. Environmental Conservation. Early View.
Ryan, S.J., Jones, J.H., Dobson, A.P. 2013. Interactions between social structure, demography, and
transmission determine disease persistence in primates. PLOS ONE 8(10): e7686
Stewart Ibarra, A.M., Ryan, S.J., Beltran, E. Mejía, R., Silva, M., Muñoz, A. 2013. Dengue vector
dynamics (Aedes aegypti) influenced by climatic and social factors in Ecuador: implications for
targeted control. PLOS ONE 8(11): e78263
Hartter, J., Ryan, S.J., MacKenzie, C.A., Parker, J.N., Strasser, C. 2013. Spatially explicit data:
stewardship and ethical challenges in science. PLOS Biology 11(9): e1001364
William M. Shields
(no annual report)
Donald J. Stewart
Castello, L., C.C. Arantes, D.G. McGrath, D.J. Stewart, and F. Sarmento de Sousa. In Press.
Understanding fishing-induced extinctions in the Amazon. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and
Freshwater Ecosystems.
Castello, L., D.J. Stewart, and C.C. Arantes. 2014. O que sabemos e precisamos fazer a respeito da
conservação do pirarucu (Arapaima spp.) na Amazônia. Pages 17-32. In: Biologia, conservação e
manejo participativo de pirarucus na Pan-Amazônia. Amaral, E.S. (ed.) Instituto de Desenvolvimento
Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé, AM.
Stephen A. Teale
Cale, J.A., Ashby, A.W., West, J.L., Teale, S.A., Johnston, M.T., Castello, J.D. 2014. Scale insects,
decay, and canker fungi in American Beech. Forest Pathology (in press)
J. Scott Turner
Turner, J S. In press. The semiotics of a superorganism. In: K. Kull and J. Hoffmeyer (eds) Approaches to
Semiosis of Evolution. Heidelberg, Springer.
J S Turner. 2013. Homeostasis and the forgotten vitalist roots of adaptation. Ch 11 in: Vitalism and the
Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science 1800-2010. . S. Normandin and C. T. Wolfe
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J S Turner. 2013. Superorganisms and superindividuality. The emergence of individuality in a social
insect assemblage. In: Frédéric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman (eds). From Groups to
Individuals.Perspectives on Biological Associations and Emerging Individuality. The Vienna Series
in Theoretical Biology. MIT Press. pp 219-241
J S Turner. 2013. Biology's second law. Homeostasis, purpose and desire. In: B. G. Henning and A.
Scarfe. (eds). Beyond Mechanism. Putting Life Back into Biology. Lexington Books/Rowman &
Littlefield. pp 183-203
Alexander Weir
Goldmann, L., Weir, A., and Rossi, W. (2013). Molecular analysis reveals two new dimorphic species of
Hesperomyces (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniomycetes) parasitic on the ladybird Coleomegilla maculata
(Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Fungal Biology 117: 807-813.
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Christopher M. Whipps
Liu, Y., Whipps, C.M., Nie, P., Gu, Z.M. (In Press) Myxobolus oralis sp. n. (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida)
infecting the palate in the mouth of gibel carp Carassius auratus gibelio (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae).
Folia Parasitologica.
Whipps, C.M., Moss, L.G., Murray, K.N., Moss, J.B. 2014. Detection of autofluorescent Mycobacterium
chelonae in living zebrafish. Zebrafish. 11(1):76-82.
Schaefer, J.J., Kirchgessner, M.S., Whipps, C.M., Mohammed, H.O., Bunting E.M., Wade, S.E. 2013.
Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in New York State white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 49(4):940-945.
Bauer, E.F., Whipps, C.M. 2013. Comparative analysis of native fish parasite communities of Adirondack
lakes with and without introduced fish species. Journal of Parasitology. 99(4):603-609.
Kirchgessner, M.S. Dubovi, E.J., Whipps, C.M. 2013. Disease risk surface for Coxiella burnetii
seroprevalence in white-tailed deer. Zoonoses and Public Health. 60(7):457-460.
Reeve, B.C., Crespi, E.J., Whipps, C.M., Brunner, J.L. 2013. Natural stressors and ranavirus
susceptibility in larval wood frogs (Rana sylvatica). EcoHealth. 10(2):190-200.
Peterson, T.S., Kent, M.L., Ferguson, J.A., Watral, V.G., Whipps, C.M. 2013. Comparison of fixatives
and fixation time for PCR detection of Mycobacterium in zebrafish Danio rerio. Diseases of Aquatic
Organisms. 104(2):113-120.
Whipps, C.M., Font, W.F. 2013. Interaction of two Myxozoan parasites from naked goby Gobiosoma
bosc, in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Journal of Parasitology. 99(3):441-447.
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Appendix D. Papers Submitted, In Review, Accepted and Waiting Revision,
and Pending Decision
John D. Castello
Cale, J.A., Teale, S.A., Johnston, M.T., Boyer, G.L., Perri, K.A., and Castello, J.D. 2014. Unraveling
beech bark disease: New insights into disease development in aftermath forests. PLOS ONE (in
review).
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Barlet, N.T., S.A.W. Diemont, M.A. Teece, K.L. Schulz, 2014. Emergent microbial food webs in
ecological treatment systems for wastewater: Insight from stable carbon isotopes. Ecological
Engineering, accepted.
Falkowski, T.B., I. Martinez Bautista, S.A.W. Diemont. How valuable could traditional ecological
knowledge (TEK) be for a resource-limited future?: An emergy evaluation of TEK learning in two
Mexican villages. Ecological Engineering, in review.
Carter, E., S.A.W. Diemont, B. Rodriguez, C. Barhite. Mortgage discrimination and its effects on urban
ecosystem performance: The case of the Syracuse urban forest 1938-2011. Urban Ecosystems, in
review.
Martin Dovciak
Giencke L, Dovčiak M, Mountrakis G, Cale, J, Mitchell M. Beech bark disease: Spatial patterns of thicket
formation and disease spread in an aftermath forest in the northeastern United States. Canadian
Journal of Forest Research (in review following revisions).
Álvarez-Yépiz JC, Cueva A, Dovčiak M, Teece M, Yépez E. Ontogenetic functional strategies along
environmental gradients: Insights from leaf traits in a rare cycad. Conservation Physiology (in
revision).
Westerband A, Dovčiak M. Aspect influences soil moisture and species coexistence in semi-arid pinyonjuniper woodlands of the southwestern United States. Southwestern Naturalist (in revision).
Steen DA, Osborne PA, Dovčiak M, Patrick D, Gibbs JP. Short-term effects of a prescribed fire on
habitat quality for a snake assemblage. The Wildlife Society Bulletin (in review).
John M. Farrell
Kapuscinski, K. L., J. M. Farrell, M. A. Wilkinson, L. C. Skinner, W. Richter, A. J. Gudlewski, and G.
Paterson. (accepted pending revision) Low concentrations of contaminants in an invasive,
omnivorous Cyprinid, the Rudd, in a Great Lakes area of concern. Bulletin of Environmental
Contamination & Toxicology.
Crane, D. C., J. M. Farrell, D. Einhouse, and J. Lantry. (In revision) Trends in body conditions of native
piscivores following round goby invasion in Lakes Erie and Ontario. Freshwater Biology
Crane, D P., L. M. Miller, J. S. Diana, J. M. Casselman, J. M. Farrell, K. L. Kapuscinski, J. K. Nohner.
(In revision) Muskellunge and Northern Pike ecology and management: Important issues and research
needs. Fisheries.
Kapuscinski, K.L., J. M. Farrell, S. Stehman, T. Tschaplinski, D. D. Fernando, and M. A. Teece. (In
review) Selective herbivory by an invasive cyprinid, the rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus).
Freshwater Biology.
Shannon L. Farrell
Campomizzi, A. J., B. A. Collier, T. M. Mcfarland, S. L. Farrell, M. L. Morrison, and R. Neal Wilkins.
Monitoring songbird occupancy-habitat relationships in a stable vegetation assemblage. Diversity and
Distributions: submitted.
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Danilo D. Fernando
Quinn CR, Iriyama R, Fernando DD. Computational predictions and expression patterns of conserved
microRNAs in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). Resubmitted to Tree Genetics and Genome (minor
revision).
Kapuscinski K, Farrell J, Stehman S, Teece M, Boyer G, Fernando D and Tschaplinski T. Selective
Herbivory by an Invasive Cyprinid, the Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus. Resubmitted to
Freshwater Biology.
Jacqueline L. Frair
Hansen, S.J.K., Frair, J.L., Underwood, H.B., and Gibbs, J.P. (in revision) Pairing call-response surveys
and distance sampling for a mammalian carnivore. Journal of Wildlife Management.
Thomas R. Horton
Rivera Y, Kretzer AM, Horton TR (reviewer comments addressed and MS returned) New microsatellite
markers for the ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus tinctorius sensu stricto reveal the genetic structure
of US and Puerto Rican populations. Fungal Ecology.
Donald J. Leopold
Distler, M.T. and D.J. Leopold. Influence of landscape setting on peatland development in New York
State: Can paleoecological methods inform conservation choices? Journal of Biogeography (in
review).
Karin E. Limburg
Arend, K.K., and K.E. Limburg. 2014. Spatial heterogeneity in sources to Lake Ontario coastal
embayment food webs: recognizing the influence of areal and temporal scaling on ecosystem and
habitat connectivity. Estuaries and Coasts (in review after resubmission)
Evans, T.M., and K.E. Limburg. 2014. The distribution of larval lampreys and their nutritional sources
in the Hudson River Basin. Northeastern Naturalist (submitted)
Glavovic, B.C, Limburg, K., Liu, K.-K., Emeis, K.-C., Thomas, Kremer,H., B. Avril, J. Zhang, M.R.
Mulholland, M. Glaser, and D.P. Swaney. Living on the margin in the Athropocene: Engagement
arean for global sustainainability research and action. Nature (submitted).
Monteiro, R.O., K.E. Limburg, and I. Valiela. 2014. Effects of urbanization of coastal watersheds on
growth and condition of juvenile alewives in New England. Estuaries and Coasts (in revision).
Nack, C.C., K.E. Limburg, and R.E. Schmidt. 2014. Diet composition and feeding behavior of larval
Alosa sapidissima (Wilson 1811) after the introduction of an invasive bivalve, Dreissena polymorpha
Pallas 1771, in the Hudson River Estuary, NY. Northeastern Naturalist (submitted)
Payne Wynne, M., K.A. Wilson, and K.E. Limburg. 2014. Retrospective examination of habitat use by
blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) using otolith microchemical methods. Canadian Journal of
Fisheries and Aquatic Science (submitted)
Turner, S.M., and K.E. Limburg. 2014. Does daily growth affect the rate of manganese uptake in juvenile
river herring otoliths? Estuaries and Coasts (submitted)
Turner, S.M., and K.E. Limburg. 2014. Determination of river herring natal origin using otolith chemical
markers: accuracy as a function of spatial scale and choice of markers. Transactions of the American
Fisheries Society (submitted).
Lee A. Newman
Weyens, N., B. Bram, K. Schellingen, R. Ceulemans, D. van der Lelie, L. Newman, S, Taghavi, R.
Carleer and J. Vangronsveld. 2013. The potential of the Ni-resistant TCE-degrading 1 Pseudomonas
putida W619-TCE to reduce phytotoxicity and improve phytoremediation efficiency of poplar
cuttings on a Ni-TCE co-contamination. International Journal of Phytoremediation. Accepted.
DOI:10.1080/15226514.2013.828016
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Dylan Parry
Hoven, B.M. and D. Parry. Indirect effects of pitch pine-scrub oak barrens restoration on the natural
enemies of the threatened barrens buck moth, Hemileuca maia. Restoration Ecology (submitted).
Gordon Paterson
Paterson G., Rush SA., Arts MT., Drouillard KG., Haffner GD., Johnson TB., Lantry BF., Hebert CE.,
McGoldrick DJ., Backus SM. and Fisk AT. Ecological tracers quantify resource partitioning among
four Lake Ontario prey fish species. Freshwater Biology accepted pending revision.
Paterson G., Ryder M., Drouillard KG. and Haffner GD. Biological and ecological properties regulate
steady- and non-steady state polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) bioaccumulation kinetics in Lake Huron
lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). Submitted to Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in review.
McPhedran KN., Grgicak-Mannion A., Paterson G., Briggs T., Ciborowski J., Haffner G.D., and
Drouillard, K.G. Field validation of multi-chemical hazard metrics for predicting benthic invertebrate
toxicity in the Detroit River, Ontario, Canada. Submitted to Environmental Science & Technology.
William A. Powell
Nelson, C.D., W.A. Powell, S.A. Merkle, J.E. Carlson, F.V. Hebard, N. Islam-Faridi, M.E. Staton, L.
Georgi. 2014. Chestnut. In: K. Ramawat, J.M. Merillon, M.R. Ahuja (eds), Tree Biotechnology,
Chapter 1. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA (accepted, August 2013).
Sadie J. Ryan
Dowhaniuk, N., Hartter, J., Ryan, S.J. accepted. Discrepancies in geographic data cause challenges for
managing protected areas. Environmental Management
Ryan, S.J., McNally, A., Johnson, L.R., Ben-Horin, T., Mordecai, E., Paaijmans, K.P., Lafferty, K.D. in
review. Rising suitability, declining severity: climate change and shifting malaria transmissibility in
Africa. PNAS (submitted)
Hartter, J., Ryan, S.J., MacKenzie, C.A., Goldman, A., Dowhaniuk, N., Palace, M.W., Diem, J.E., and
C.A. Chapman. in review. Now there is no land: a story of ethnic migration in a protected area
landscape in western Uganda. Population and Environment (submitted)
Stewart-Ibarra, A.M., Luzadis, V.A., Borbor Cordova, M.J., Silver, M., Ordoñez, R., Beltran Ayala, E.,
Ryan, S. J. in review. Community perceptions of dengue fever and Aedes aegypti in central and
peripheral urban areas in Machala, Ecuador.BMC Public Health (submitted)
Scales, L.N. and Ryan, S.J. in review. Exploring the influence of migration temperature thresholds on
captive migratory birds: a study of turkey vulture behavior. Zoo Biology (submitted)
Johnson, L.R., Ben-Horin, T., Lafferty, K.D., McNally, A., Mordecai, E., Paaijmans, K.P., Pawar, S.,
Ryan, S.J. in review. Understanding uncertainty in temperature effects on vector-borne disease: a
Bayesian approach. Ecology (submitted)
Jeremy Diem, J.E. Hartter, J., Ryan, S.J., Palace, M. in review. Validation of satellite rainfall products for
central equatorial Africa. Journal of Hydrometeorology (submitted)
Jeremy Diem, J.E. Hartter, J., Ryan, S.J., Palace, M. in review. A drying trend in central equatorial
Africa over the past three decades. Climate Change Letters (submitted)
Kimberly L. Schulz
Barlet, N.T., S.A.W. Diemont, M.A. Teece, K.L. Schulz, 2014. Emergent microbial food webs in
ecological treatment systems for wastewater: Insight from stable carbon isotopes. Ecological
Engineering, accepted.
S. Figary and K.L. Schulz. 2014. Surplus and spines: Impacts of Cercopagis pengoi, an invasive
predatory zooplankton, may be due to a lack of limiting resources and pre-adaptation of a likely prey
species. Hydrobiologia; in review.
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Brown, Brandeis L., N.H. Ringler and K.L. Schulz. 2014. Testing mayfly survivorship in an urban lake
undergoing remediation (Onondaga Lake, NY). Lake and Reservoir Management; in review.
Gillette, Jacob P., Kimberly L. Schulz, and Mark A. Teece. 2014. Light apparatus for mesocosm photomanipulation (LAMP): An inexpensive waterproof lighting device for within-lake mesocosm
experiments. Limnology and Oceanography Methods; in review.
Schulz, K.L., L.G. Rudstam, X. Ji and K.T. Holeck. 2014. Oligotrophication, water clarity, and ecological
stoichiometry – Evaluating food quantity and quality for zooplankton in Oneida Lake. Oneida Lake
Book (peer-reviewed). Accepted, in revision.
Donald J. Stewart
Watson, L.C., D.J. Stewart, and A.M. Kretzer. MS in Review. Genetic assessment of the threatened
Arapaima in Guyana: implications for conservation of a giant fish. submitted to Conservation
Genetics.
Stephen A. Teale
Cale, J., S. Teale, J. West, L. Zhang, D. Castello, P. Devlin, J. Castello. A quantitative index of forest
structural sustainabilty. Forests. (Accepted with minor revision)
Alex Weir
Goldmann, L. and Weir, A. (submitted). Molecular analysis of Chantransiopsis and Tetrameronycha,
provides further evidence of asexuality, and potential recognition of a new order within the
Laboulbeniomycetes. Submitted to Mycologia, May 2014.
Christopher M. Whipps
Helenbrook, W.D., Wade, S.E., Shields, W.M., Whipps, C.M. (In Review) Gastrointestinal parasites of
Ecuadorian mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata aequatorialis) based on fecal analysis. Journal
of Parasitology.
Bauer, E.F., Whipps, C.M. (Accepted with Revisions) Smallmouth bass parasites in the St. Lawrence
River, an ecosystem with hyper-abundant invasive prey. Journal of Parasitology.
Bauer, E.F., Whipps, C.M. (Accepted with Revisions) The bass parasites of Oneida Lake, eighty years
later. Journal of Parasitology.
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Appendix E. Papers/Posters Presented at Science Meetings
John D. Castello
Cale, J.A., West, J.L., Zhang, L., Teale, S.A., Castello, J.D., (2014). A quantitative index of forest
structural stability. New York State Society of American Foresters meeting. Syracuse, NY.
Johnston, M.T., Cale, J.A., Teale, S.A., and Castello, J.D. (2013). Beech bark disease in the aftermath
forests of New York State: a new look at an old problem. Society of American Foresters national
meeting. North Charleston, SC.
Cale, J.A., Teale, S.A., Johnston, M.T., and Castello, J.D. (2013). A proposed new model for beech bark
disease development in aftermath forests. American Phytopathological Society, Northeastern
Division meeting, Southbury, CT.
Cale, J.A., West, J.L., Teale, S.A., Castello, J.D., Johnston, M.T. (2013). Importance of host chemistry to
beech bark disease development. New York State Society of American Foresters meeting. Syracuse,
NY.
Cale, J.A., Ashby, A.W., West, J.L., Teale, S.A., Johnston, M.T., Castello, J.D. (2013) Scale insects,
decay, and canker fungi tripartite interactions in beech. New York State Society of American
Foresters meeting. Syracuse, NY. (poster)
Cale, J.A., West, J.L., Teale, S.A., J.D. Castello, and Johnston, M.T. (2013) A proposed new model for
beech bark disease development in aftermath forests. Entomological Society of America national
meeting, Austin, TX. (poster)
Cale, J.A., West, J.L., Teale, S.A., J.D. Castello, and Johnston, M.T. (2013) Entomological, nutritional
and physiological factors predisposing beech to infection by Neonectria pathogens in beech bark
disease aftermath forests. American Phytopathological Society national meeting, Austin, TX (poster)
Jonathan B. Cohen
2014 –Kocek, A.R., J.B. Cohen, and S.E. Elbin. Factors affecting saltmarsh sparrow nesting success in
New York City. 70th annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference. Portland, ME.
2014 – Cohen, J.B. and C. Davis. A prototype decision support tool for use of exclosures on nests of the
Atlantic Coast piping plover. Least Tern and Piping Plover workshop, National Conservation
Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV.
2013 – Durkin, M., J. B. Cohen, M. Zdravkovic. Impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on snowy plover
reproduction and behavior in Northwest Florida. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union
and Cooper Ornithological Society. Chicago, IL.
2013 – Durkin, M., J. B. Cohen. Comparing trail cameras vs. continuous video systems for Snowy Plover
nest monitoring. Poster. Waterbird Society 37th Annual Meeting/International Wader Study Group
Conference. Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
2013 – Durkin, M., J. B. Cohen. Comparing trail cameras vs. continuous video systems for Snowy Plover
nest monitoring. Poster. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological
Society. Chicago, IL.
2013 – Chaudhary, A., J. B. Cohen. Avian blood mercury and chromium in Onondaga Lake Waste Beds,
Onondaga County, New York. Annual Conference of the Wildlife Society. Milwaukee, WI.
2013 – Nowak-Boyd, L., J. B. Cohen. Factors affecting occupancy rates of ring-necked pheasants in New
York. Annual Conference of the Wildlife Society. Milwaukee, WI.
2013 – Kocek, A., J. B. Cohen. Salt marsh characteristics preferred by saltmarsh sparrows in New York
City: Effect of disturbance on nesting presence. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and
Cooper Ornithological Society. Chicago, IL.
2013 – Kocek, A., J. B. Cohen. Response of saltmarsh sparrows to a highly urbanized environment:
Factors affecting nesting presence in New York City. Waterbird Society 37th Annual
Meeting/International Wader Study Group Conference. Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
2013 – Avis, M.L., J.B. Cohen. Flight behavior of breeding piping plovers: implications for risk of
collision with turbines and other human structures. Waterbird Society 37th Annual
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Meeting/International Wader Study Group Conference. Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Diemont, S.A.W., 2013. Service learning ecological engineering projects to enhance integration of society
with the environment in degraded and lower income areas of Syracuse, New York. American
Ecological Engineering Society 13th Annual Meeting, East Lansing, MI, June 12.
Barlet, N.T., S.A.W. Diemont, and K.L. Schultz, 2013. 13C tracer development to understand trophic
cascade food webs for natural wastewater disinfection. American Ecological Engineering Society
Annual Meeting, East Lansing, MI, June 10 (poster).
Falkowski, T., I. Martinez, and S.A.W. Diemont, 2013. Re-evaluating traditional ecological knowledge
inputs to indigenous farming systems using emergy. American Ecological Engineering Society
Annual Meeting, East Lansing, MI, June 10 (poster).
Martin Dovciak
Dovčiak M, Halpern CB, Nelson C., Evans SA. 2013. Conserving bryophytes in working forests: insights
from the Demonstration of Ecosystem Management Options (DEMO) Experiment. Canadian
Botanical Association, Annual Meeting, Kamloops, British Columbia, June 1-7, 2013 (invited,
symposium speaker).
Álvarez-Yépiz JC, Cueva A, Dovčiak M, Teece M, Yépez E. 2013. Functional strategies of a rare ancient
cycad along an environmental gradient of a tropical dry forest. Ecological Society of America,
Annual Meeting, Twin Cities, MN. Aug. 4-9, 2013.
Quant JM, Dovčiak M, Lawrence GB, Leopold DJ. 2014. Understory composition along the Appalachian
Trail as influenced by broad environmental gradients: The AT Mega-Transect Project. New York
Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting, Syracuse, NY, January 23, 2014.
Gutiérrez Lagoueyte ME, Ruiz Carrascal D, Dovčiak M, del Pilar Arroyave Maya M, Zapata Jaramillo
PA, Arcila Marín N, Gutiérrez Cardona C. 2013. Vulnerability of high mountain ecosystems to
changes in climate in Los Nevados National Park, Columbia (in Spanish). 7th Colombian Congress of
Botany, Ibagué, Colombia, August 6-11, 2013.
John M. Farrell
Amos, B., and J. M,. Farrell. 2014. Spatial Scale and Natal Influence on Spawning Site Fidelity in
Northern Pike: Investigation using Otolith Microchemistry Techniques. New York Chapter Meeting
of the American Fisheries Society. Geneva NY.
Amos, B., and J. M,. Farrell. 2014. Spatial Scale and Natal Influence on Spawning Site Fidelity in
Northern Pike: Investigation using Otolith Microchemistry Techniques. Spotlight on Student
Research Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY.
Bachman C., M. Mitchell, J. M. Farrell and K. A. Schulz. 2013. Freshwater Marshes and Water Level
Regulation: Effects on Nutrients and Lower Trophic Levels in Surface Water. Society of Wetland
Scientists Annual Meeting, Duluth MN.
Bachman C., M. Mitchell, J. M. Farrell and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Drowned River Mouth Wetlands and
Water Level Regulation: Effects on Water Chemistry and Plankton Communities. Poster Presentation.
Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland Oregon.
Bachman C., M. Mitchell, J. M. Farrell and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Drowned River Mouth Wetlands and
Water Level Regulation: Effects on Water Chemistry and Plankton Communities. Spotlight on
Student Research Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY.
Crane, D. P., J. M. Farrell, and K. L. Kapuscinski. 2013. Predictive modeling of Muskellunge spawning
habitat in US waters of the upper Niagara River. 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries
Society, Little Rock, AR.
Crane, D. P., J. M. Farrell, D. W. Einhouse, and J. R. Lantry. 2014. Trends in body conditions of native
piscivores following round goby invasion in Lakes Erie and Ontario. Minnesota Chapter of the
American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Mankato, MN.
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DeVilbiss, K. and J. M. Farrell. 2013. Warming waters: a comparison of pike family metabolic
responses. National American Fisheries Society 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries
Society, Little Rock, AR.
Farrell, J.M., 2013. Long-term Studies of Fish Reproduction in a Changing Environment: Will
Recruitment Sustain Future Populations? Cornell University Biological Station Seminar Series.
Farrell, J. M. 2013. An Overview of the Aquatic Research Program on the Upper St. Lawrence River.
Seminar for the INRS (National research Institute) Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Farrell, J. M. 2013. Current challenges and threats to Great Lakes muskellunge and northern pike
populations. (Invited Session Plenary Speaker) 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries
Society, Little Rock, AR.
Farrell, J. M. 2014. Long-term Research and Management at the Thousand Islands Biological Station.
New York State Fish and Wildlife Management Board Meeting Pulaski NY.
Farrell, J. M. 2014. Update of St. Lawrence River Fisheries Research and Management. Great Lakes
Section Meeting. NYSDEC Training Academy Pulaski NY.
Gunderson, M.A., Kapuscinski, K.L., Crane, D.P., and J.M. Farrell. Habitat‐assemblage modeling of
aquatic macrophytes as a guide for enhancement of fish habitat. New York Chapter of the American
Fisheries Society (Poster) **Best Poster Award**
Huffman, K. C.. Whipps and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Environmental Determinants of Sex Ratio in Northern
Pike (Esox lucius): Development of a Molecular Sex Identification Tool and Experimentation with
Physical and Chemical Variables. New York Chapter Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
Geneva NY.
Huffman, K. C.. Whipps and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Environmental Determinants of Sex Ratio in Northern
Pike (Esox lucius): Development of a Molecular Sex Identification Tool and Experimentation with
Physical and Chemical Variables. Spotlight on Student Research Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF,
Syracuse NY.
Kapuscinski, K.L., Crane, D.P., Farrell, J.M., Clapsadl, M.D., and D.W. Einhouse. 2014. Quantifying
and comparing energy densities of native and invasive nearshore forage fishes of the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Fishery Commission Board of Technical Experts.
Kapuscinski, K.L., Crane, D.P., Farrell, J.M., and M.A. Gunderson. Niagara River Research Projects.
NYSDEC Great Lakes Section Meeting (25 people in attendance)
LaPan, S., J. P. Gibbs, and J. M. Farrell 2013. Measuring avian and herptile response to wetland
enhancement in the St. Lawrence River basin. 5th World Conference on Ecosystem Restoration,
Madison Wisc.
Miano, A., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. The Influence of Spawning Habitat on Round Goby Egg Predation
for Broadcast Spawning Species. New York Chapter Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
Geneva NY.
Miano, A., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. The Influence of Spawning Habitat on Round Goby Egg Predation
for Broadcast Spawning Species. Spotlight on Student Research Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF,
Syracuse NY.
Russell, J., C. Bachman, J. M. Farrell, M. Mitchell, and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Nutrient Analysis in St.
Lawrence River Wetland Sediments. Poster Presentation. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland
Oregon.
Russell, J., C. Bachman, J. M. Farrell, M. Mitchell, and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Nutrient Analysis in St.
Lawrence River Wetland Sediments. Spotlight on Student Research Poster Presentation. SUNYESF, Syracuse NY.
Shaw, A. S., B. Brown, and J. M. Farrell. 2014. A comparison of light traps and zooplankton grabs for
assessing invertebrate assemblages in muskellunge nursery bays. Spotlight on Student Research
Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY.
Tucci, J. P. B. Brown, and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Using Zooplankton as Indicators of Environmental
Quality to Inform Management of Small Lakes of Eastern New York. Spotlight on Student Research
Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracucse NY.
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Shannon L. Farrell
Developing high-resolution, fine-scale, occupancy models for endangered species using LiDAR. The
Wildlife Society, Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2013.
Danilo D. Fernando
Potrikus J, Bouchard J, Young S and Fernando D. Poster Presentation: Ecological impact assessment of
the proliferative growth of hardy kiwi in the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York tri-state area
of the United States. Hudson River Symposium: Watershed Linkages in a Changed World, SUNY
New Paltz, May 2014.
Melissa K. Fierke
C. J. Foelker, D. Parry, C.M. Whipps, M.K. Fierke. Spatial aggregation of pine mortality attributed to the
European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio. 1/2014, New York Society of American Foresters Ann. Meeting,
Syracuse NY. Presentation.
C.J. Foelker, M.K. Fierke, D. Parry, C.M. Whipps. Developing molecular techniques to establish hostparasitoid linkages among Sirex noctilio, S. nigricornis, and native hymenopteran parasitoids. 1/2014
USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species – Annapolis, MD. Poster.
C. J. Foelker, D. Parry, C.M. Whipps, M.K. Fierke. Colonization patterns of Sirex noctilio at a pine
plantation in the Adirondacks. 10/2013 Sirex Symposium. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
M. Jones, M.K. Fierke, S. Ryan. Understanding the emerging emerald ash borer infestation in New York.
03/2014. New York Society of American Foresters Ann. Meeting, Syracuse NY. Poster.
03/2014. From Lab to Landscape: Integrated Infectious Disease Research. Poster. 2nd Place.
M. Parisio, J. Gould, J. Vandenberg, L. Baeur, M.K. Fierke. Assessment of emerald ash borer parasitoid
recovery methods within white ash stands in New York. 11/2013. Poster. New York Society of
American Foresters Ann. Meeting, Syracuse NY.
E. Kosinski, M.K. Fierke. Color preference in members of the order Lepidoptera: a case study in central
New York. 4/2014. Poster. SUNY ESF Spotlight on Student Research.
N. Donato, C.A. Bondi, M.K. Fierke, C.M. Beier. Influence of soil calcium and stand age on the structure
and functional diversity of arthropods: a case study in two northern hardwood stands. 4/2014. Poster.
SUNY ESF Spotlight on Student Research. Poster.
S. Page, C. J. Foelker, M.K. Fierke, D. Parry, C.M. Whipps. Determining host-parasitoid linkages
between Sirex noctilio, S. nigricornis molecular techniques. SUNY ESF Spotlight on Student
Research. Poster.
C. J. Foelker, D. Parry, C.M. Whipps, M.K. Fierke. Colonization patterns of Sirex noctilio at a pine
plantation in the Adirondacks. 11/2013 Entomological Society of America annual meeting. Austin,
TX. 1st place President’s award for outstanding presentation.
M. Parisio, J. Gould, J. Vandenberg, L. Baeur, M.K. Fierke. Assessment of emerald ash borer parasitoid
recovery methods within white ash stands in New York. 11/2013. Entomological Society of America
annual meeting. Austin, TX. Poster.
J. Chille-Cale, J. Vandenberg, M. Griggs, C.M. Whipps, M.K. Fierke. Repellency and Efficacy of two
microbial agents for Xylosandrus germanus.
11/2013. Entomological Society of America annual meeting. Austin, TX.
09/2013. Society of Invertebrate Pathology annual meeting. Pittsburg, PN. Poster.
C. J. Foelker, D. Parry, C.M. Whipps, M.K. Fierke. Clustering of mortality attributed to the European
woodwasp, Sirex noctilio. Apr 2014. Western Forest Insect Work Conference. Sacramento, CA.
Invitation to M. Fierke. (talk fulfilled by PhD student).
M. Whitmore, M.K. Fierke, J. Vandenberg. Connecting research to the “real world”: helping land
managers make informed decisions. 11/2013. Entomological Society of America annual meeting.
Austin, TX. Invitation to M. Fierke. (talk fulfilled by collaborator).
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Jacqueline L. Frair
Top dog? The ecological role of the non-native coyote in the northeastern US. Feb 2014. Invited
presentation, Biology Seminar Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Revealing novel links among bat ecology, genetics, and disease to understand white-nose syndrome. Jan
2014. SUNY ESF and Upstate Medical Center symposium on “From lab to landscape: integrated
infectious disease research”, Syracuse, NY. Presented by co-author Leah Berkman.
Panel Discussion: Women’s Increasing Role in the Wildlife Profession: Understanding Differences and
Leveraging Strengths. 2013. Invited presentation, The Wildlife Society Annual Conference,
Milwaukee, WI.
Correction Factor Predicts Muscle Isotope Signatures in Mustelids to Aid in Diet Reconstruction Study in
theAdirondacks, New York. 2013. Poster presented at The Wildlife Society Annual Conference,
Milwaukee, WI. Presented by lead author Nory Mitchell. Co-authored by J. Frair, S. Warsen, and M.
Teece.
Modeling a spatially-explicit probability of detection for call-based animal surveys. The Wildlife
Society Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI. Presented by lead author Sara Hansen. Co-authored by
J. Frair and H.B. Underwood.
Thomas R. Horton
Alteio LV, Walling RL, Horton TR. 2014. Hungry, hungry earthworms: how invasions affect
decompositional enzyme activity. Rochester Academy of Sciences.
*This poster was selected for the biannual symposium highlighting undergraduate research at CUNY
and SUNY campuses entitled: “Boosting Innovative Exploration Forum: Undergraduate Research in
New York State's Public Higher Education System.” It was on display April 1, 2014 in the
Legislative Office Building in Albany, NY.
Walling R, Horton TR The effects of invasive earthworms on soil properties and ectomycorrhizal fungi.
Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 2013. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Donald J. Leopold
Restoring the plant community of wetlands of the upper St. Lawrence River, SER 2013 World
Conference on Ecological Restoration, Madison, WI, October 2013 (with Matt Regan and John
Farrell).
Use of native plants on an intensive green roof: Initial results, 10th International Phytotechnologies
Conference, Syracuse, October 2013 (with Tim Toland and Doug Daley), about 50 people in
attendance.
Application of highly unique natural plant communities to the restoration of an industrial waste site, 10th
International Phytotechnologies Conference, Syracuse, October 2013 (with Molly Farrell and Tony
Eallonardo), about 50 people in attendance.
Evapotranspiration from a unique wetland restoration site, 10th International Phytotechnologies
Conference, Syracuse, October 2013 (with Tony Eallonardo), about 50 people in attendance.
Feasibility of native species and natural communities on green roofs, American Society of Landscape
Architects annual meeting, Boston, MA, November 2013 (with Darren Damone and Timothy Toland),
over 200 people in attendance.
High performance building design and biomimicry in the built environment, New York State Green
Building Conference, Syracuse, NY, March 2014 (with James Blount and Timothy Toland), over
100 people in attendance.
Understory composition along the Appalachian Trail as influenced by broad environmental gradients: The
AT Mega-Transect Project. New York Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting, Syracuse,
NY, January 2014 (Quant JM, Dovčiak M, Lawrence GB, and Leopold DJ).
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Karin E. Limburg
Title
Authors
K. Limburg
Date
7/12/2013
Urbanization consequences to
diadromous fish production: lateral
and vertical hardening of watersheds
K. Limburg
9/11/2013
Using biogeochemical markers to
track migratory histories of
diadromous fishes
S. Turner, K.
Limburg
9/10/2013
Otolith chemistry of flannelmouth
suckers in Grand Canyon
T. Evans, K.
Limburg
9/11/2013
Phylogenetic constraints on elemental
uptake in flounder otoliths: aid to
interpreting migration and other life
history events
K. Limburg, M.
Wuenschel
11/5/2013
The distribution of larval sea lamprey
and their nutritional sources in Hudson
River Tributaries
T. Evans, K.
Limburg
2/5/2014
More than the sum of its parts: A
discussion on the combined effect of
anthropogenic pollutants and dams
on river fish
The development of a non-lethal index
to determine sexual maturity in
American eels (Anguilla rostrata)
J. Hamberg, K.
Limburg
2/5/2014
Juvenile river herring habitat use and
migrations from Maine to Florida
S. Mount, K.
Limburg, R.
Schmidt, C.
Bowser
S. Turner, K.
Limburg
What can fish ears and eyeballs tell us
about fish use of Onondaga Lake and
vicinity?
K. Limburg, A.
Lochet, C.
Karboski
Ecosystem Services
Occasion
COTE Summer
School: Global
Ecology for Global
Change
Location
University of
Bordeaux
American
Fisheries Society
Annual Meeting
American
Fisheries Society
Annual Meeting
American
Fisheries Society
Annual Meeting
Coastal and
Estuarine
Research
Federation
NY Chapter,
American
Fisheries Society
NY Chapter,
American
Fisheries Society
Little Rock,
AR
2/5/2014
NY Chapter,
American
Fisheries Society
Geneva, NY
2/6/2014
NY Chapter,
American
Fisheries Society
Onondaga Lake
Scientific Forum
Geneva, NY
3/28/2014
Little Rock,
AR
Little Rock,
AR
San Diego,
CA
Geneva, NY
Geneva, NY
Syracuse,
NY
Mark V. Lomolino
The Silence of Biogeography. Soundscape Ecology Workshop and Retreat, Arizona, November, 2013.
Stacy A. McNulty
How beavers influence habitat and species diversity of breeding birds in the central Adirondacks. Alza,
C.M., McNulty, S.M, and J.C. Stella. American Field Ornithologist/Wilson Ornithological Society,
Newport, Rhode Island May 29-30, 2014. Presentation.
A Multi-Scale Analysis of Rusty Blackbird Nest Survival in Northeastern Industrial Forests. Shannon
Buckley Luepold, Thomas Hodgman, Stacy McNulty, Jonathan Cohen, and Carol Foss. Northeast
Natural History Conference, Springfield, MA April 7-9, 2014. Presentation.
White pine management at ESF – Engaging a new century of research and education. Nowak, C., R.
Germain, S. McNulty, C. Demers, B. Breitmeyer, M. Gooden, P. Hai, Q. Oliver and J. Kindt. New
York Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting, January 22-24, 2014, East Syracuse, NY.
Poster.
How beavers influence habitat and species diversity of breeding birds in the central Adirondacks. Alza,
C.M., McNulty, S.M, and J.C. Stella. Northeast Natural History Conference. Springfield, MA April
7-9, 2014.
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Ecosystem Engineering: How beavers influence habitat and species diversity of breeding birds in the
central Adirondacks. Alza, C.M., McNulty, S.M, and J.C. Stella. Millersville University Biology
Department Colloquium. Millersville, PA April 2014.
Myron J. Mitchell
Keynote Address entitled “Direct and Indirect Impacts of Climate Change on the Nutrient Cycling of
Forested Watersheds in the Northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada” at North American Forest
Soils Conference in Whitefish, Montana (June 15-20, 2013)
Lee A. Newman
Bioremediation - Mini Plenary talk. Biotechnology Symposium: Opening the Biotechnology Toolbox,
Syracuse, NY. 15-16 May 2014.
Medical Molecular Biology - Mini Plenary talk. Biotechnology Symposium: Opening the Biotechnology
Toolbox, Syracuse, NY. 15-16 May 2014.
What does the Future Hold? 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October
2013.
Invited talks
The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the Mahidol
University Working Together. Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. 3 November 2013.
ESF Programs in Environmental Biology – Making Collaborations Work. Mahidol University, Bangkok,
Thailand. 4 November 2013.
Student and colleague presentations (* denotes oral presentations)
Gold Nanoparticles in the Environment: Studying the Genetic Toxicity and Bioavailability in Hydroponic
Exposures and Soils with Lycopersicon esculentum (Tomato ‘Brandywine’). B. Agtuca, J. McMullen,
W. Cai, C. Murphy, J. White, T. Sabo-Attwood and L. Newman. Biotechnology Symposium:
Opening the Biotechnology Toolbox, Syracuse, NY. 15-16 May 2014.
Remediation of Trichloroethylene using Constructed Wetlands: A Study of the Biotic Interactions. C.
Warner, S. Hohm, A. Ludlow, D. Tsao and L.A. Newman. Biotechnology Symposium: Opening the
Biotechnology Toolbox, Syracuse, NY. 15-16 May 2014. First Place Student Presentation Award.
The potential for herbicide safener Naphthalic Anhydride to reduce the symptoms of heavy metal toxicity
in Zea mays. F. Afelumo, S. Garrett and L. Newman. Biotechnology Symposium: Opening the
Biotechnology Toolbox, Syracuse, NY. 15-16 May 2014.
Trichloroethylene Degradation by Genetically Modified Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum var. xanthi). J.
McMullen, D. Speer, J. Tirot, and L. Newman. Biotechnology Symposium: Opening the
Biotechnology Toolbox, Syracuse, NY. 15-16 May 2014.
Trichloroethylene Plume Detection using Hyperspectral Imaging. A. Hoffman, D. Lewis, A. Keith, J.
McMullen, J. Quattrocchi, R. Hamilton and L. Newman. Biotechnology Symposium: Opening the
Biotechnology Toolbox, Syracuse, NY. 15-16 May 2014.
Remediation of Trichloroethylene using Constructed Wetlands: A Study of the Biotic Interactions. C.
Warner, S. Hohm, A. Ludlow, D. Tsao and L.A. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April
2014.
The effect of silver nanoparticles introduced to Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca sexta) using tobacco
(Nicotiana xanthi). L. Will, J. Quattrochi, J. McMullen and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research.
15-16 April 2014.
Gold Nanoparticles in the Environment: Studying the Genetic Toxicity and Bioavailability in Hydroponic
Exposures and Soils with Lycopersicon esculentum (Tomato ‘Brandywine’). B. Agtuca, J. McMullen,
W. Cai, C. Murphy, J. White, T. Sabo-Attwood and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16
April 2014.
Quantifying the Effects of Horticultural Therapy on Spinal Cord Injury Patients. D. Collins, H. Holmes,
B. Ross, L. Messano, S. Lebduska and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April 2014.
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The potential for herbicide safener Naphthalic Anhydride to reduce the symptoms of heavy metal toxicity
in Zea mays. F. Afelumo, S. Garrett and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April 2014.
Properties and Microbial Community Analysis of Soil from the Tahawus Mine Site. V. Maietta, C.
Dukelow, M. Tubbs and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April 2014.
Trichloroethylene Degradation by Genetically Modified Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum var. xanthi). J.
McMullen, D. Speer, J. Tirot, and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April 2014.
Trichloroethylene Plume Detection using Hyperspectral Imaging. A. Hoffman, D. Lewis, A. Keith, J.
McMullen, J. Quattrocchi, R. Hamilton and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April
2014.
Potential for Ornamental Plants for Food Processed Waste Water Treatment. J.T. Whitaker, S. Wolcott
and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April 2014.
GreenWall Treatment of High Strength Organic Wastewater: Why won’t my plants grow? S. Wolcott, G.
Lutchmun, T. Endreny and L. Newman. ESF Spotlight on Research. 15-16 April 2014.
Toxicity of Gold Nanoparticles in Soils and Hydroponics with Tomatoes. B. Agtuca, J. McMullen, W.
Cai, C. Murphy, J. White, T. Sabo-Attwood and L. Newman. Emerging Researchers National (ERN)
Conference in STEM. Washington DC, VA. 20-22 February 2014. First Place poster presentation in
Nano Science and Physics.
*Quantifying the Effects of Horticultural Therapy on Spinal Cord Injury Patients. D. Collins and L.
Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Nanoparticle Co-exposure Alters the Toxicity and Accumulation of Persistent Pesticides in Agricultural
Crops. J. C. White, R. De La Torre-Roche, J. Hawthorne, W. Cai, L.A. Newman, C. Wang, X. Ma
and B. Xing. 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Trophic Transfer Potential of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Through a Terrestrial Food Chain. J.C. White,
R. De La Toore-Roche, J. Hawthorne, C. Musante, L.A. Newman, X. Ma and B. Xing. 10th
International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Herbicide safener treated maize overproducing anthocyanin show alleviated symptoms of nickel toxicity.
F. Afelumo, S. Garrett and L. Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse,
NY 1-4 October 2013.
Remediation of Trichloroethylene in a Wetland Microcosm:The Role of Plants and Microbes. C. Warner,
A. Ludlow, D. Tsao and L. A. Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse,
NY 1-4 October 2013.
Trichloroethylene Plume Detection using Hyperspectral Imaging. A. Hoffman, D. Lewis, A. Keith, J.
McMullen, R. Hamiliton, J. Quattrocchi and L. Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology
Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Initial Genomic Survey of Poplar OP-367 and Brandywine tomato after inoculation with the plant
endophyte Enterobacter sp. 638. L. Will, A. Hoffman, J. McMullen and L. Newman. 10th
International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Bioavailability and Genetic Toxicity of Gold Nanoparticles in Soils and Hydroponic Exposures with
Lycopersicon esculentum (Tomato ‘Brandywine’). B. Agtuca, J. McMullen, W. Cai, C. Murphy, J.
White, T. Sabo-Attwood and L. Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse,
NY 1-4 October 2013.
Toxicity screening of inorganic nanoparticles to Agricultural Crops. W. Cai, J.C. White, R. De La TorreRoche, J. Hawthorn, C. Wang, X. Ma, Y. Deng, B. Xing and L. A. Newman. 10th International
Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Mycorrhizal Lycopersicon esculentum exposure to silver nanoparticles. A. Noori and L.A. Newman. 10th
International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Properties and Microbial Community Analysis of Soil from the Tahawus Mine Site. V. Maietta, C.
Dukelow and L Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October
2013.
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Trichloroethylene Degradation by Genetically Modified Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum var. xanthi. J.
McMullen, R. Hamilton, A. Hoffman, J. Tirot and L. Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology
Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Potential for Ornamental Plants for Food Processed Waste Water Treatment. J. T. Whitaker, S. Wolcott
and L Newman. 10th International Phytotechnology Conference, Syracuse, NY 1-4 October 2013.
Dylan Parry
Invited
D. Parry. Egg physiology and hatch phenology across the North American range of gypsy moth:
Implications for a warming world. National Gypsy Moth Review, Chicago , IL Nov 4-7, 2013
D. Parry. Panacea or Pandora’s Box Redux: Non-target Effects and Classical Biological Control in the
Age of Invasion. University of Vermont, Rubenstein School Seminar. Burlington, VT. March 8,
2014.
D. Parry. Changing in a Changed World: Adaptive Evolution in Invasive Species. University of Vermont,
Rubenstein School Seminar. Burlington, VT. March 8, 2014
Other Submissions
Parry, D. K. Grayson, D.M. Johnson. Adaptive shifts in the phenology of egg hatch across the latitudinal
range of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) in North America. Entomological Society of America 61st
National Meeting, November 10-13, 2013 Austin, Texas
Parry, D., G. Keene, C. Maynard, W. Powell. Non-target effects of transgenic blight resistant American
chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marshall) on a seasonal guild of lepidopteran folivores. Entomological
Society of America 61st National Meeting, November 10-13, 2013 Austin, Texas
Grayson, K. D. Parry, D.Johnson, N. Krajah, D. Grim. Local adaptation in larval performance across the
latitudinal range of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, in North America. Entomological Society of
America 61st National Meeting, November 10-13, 2013 Austin, Texas.
Parry, D. K. Grayson, D.M. Johnson. Adaptive shifts in the phenology of egg hatch across the latitudinal
range of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) in North America. 2014 USDA Interagency Research Forum
on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD. January 2014
Grayson, K. D. Parry, D.Johnson, N. Krajah, D. Grim. Local adaptation in larval performance across the
latitudinal range of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, in North America. 2014 USDA Interagency
Research Forum on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD. January 2014.
Graduate Student Posters and Talks
Page SM, Foelker CJ, Parry D, Fierke MK, Whipps, CM. Determining host-parasitoid linkages between
Sirex noctilio and Sirex nigricornis through molecular techniques. Spotlight on Student Research.
Syracuse, NY. April 2014. Poster Presentation
Foelker CJ, Parry D, Whipps, CM, Standley CR, Fierke MK. East meets West: Eastern invasive insect
species that threaten western forest ecosystems: Sirex woodwasp. Western Forest Insect Work
Conference. Sacramento, CA. April 2014. Invited Oral Presentation
Foelker CJ, Parry D, Whipps, CM, Fierke MK. Clustering of mortality attributed to the European
woodwasp, Sirex noctilio. Western Forest Insect Work Conference. Sacramento, CA. April 2014.
Oral Presentation
Foelker CJ, Fierke MK, Parry D, Whipps, CM. Establishing host-parasitoid linkages among Sirex
noctilio, Sirex nigricornis, and native hymenopteran parasitoids using molecular techniques. New
York Society of American Foresters. Syracuse, NY. January 2014. Poster Presentation
Foelker CJ, Parry D, Whipps, CM, Fierke MK. Spatial aggregation of pine mortality attributed to the
European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio. New York Society of American Foresters. Syracuse, NY.
January 2014. Oral Presentation
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Foelker CJ, Fierke MK, Parry D, Whipps, CM. Developing molecular techniques to establish hostparasitoid linkages among Sirex noctilio, Sirex nigricornis, and native hymenopteran parasitoids.
2014 USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD. January 2014. Poster
Presentation
Keene, G.R., D. Parry, B. Underwood, N. Gifford. Spatial ecology, phenology, and dispersal of the
threatened barrens buck moth, Hemileuca maia (Drury), in a fragmented pine-oak barren.
Entomological Society of America 61st National Meeting, November 10-13, 2013 Austin, Texas
Gordon Paterson
Paterson G., Drouillard KG. and Haffner GD. Investigating temporal responses of Lake Huron lake trout
energy densities during ecosystem change. 57th Annual Conference of the International Association
for Great Lakes Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada. May 26-30, 2014.
Paterson G., Drouillard KG, and Haffner GD. Individual efficiencies and lake trout responses to
fluctuating prey fish biomass. 57th Annual Conference of the International Association for Great
Lakes Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada. May 26-30, 2014.
Mcleod AM., Paterson G., Drouillard KG. and Haffner GD. The offshore phosphorus shunt: the influence
of lake trout on nutrient recycling. 57th Annual Conference of the International Association for Great
Lakes Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada. May 26-30, 2014.
Paterson G., Roy D., Warner DM., Drouillard KG. and Haffner GD. Resource use, age structure and
genetics of Lake Huron Deepwater Sculpin, Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Board of Technical
Experts Meeting, Ann Arbor Michigan, March 4, 2014.
William A. Powell
Transgenics or Cisgenics, which will save the American chestnut? 5/26/13 – 6/1/13. 2013 Tree
Biotechnology Confernce hostd by IUFRO. Asheville, NC
American chestnut restoration introduces a new paradigm of transgene introgression to save a keystone
species. 6/14/13. BRAG Annual Project Director's Meeting for USDA-NIFA Biotechnology Risk
Assessment Grants Program. Washington DC
New tools for saving threatened trees, the American chestnut example. 10/29/14 – 10/30/14. Alliance for
Saving Threatened Forests: 2013 Symposium. Ashville, NC
Neil H. Ringler
Johnson, S. L. and N. H. Ringler. 2014. The response of fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages to
multiple stressors: A comparative analysis of aquatic communities in a perturbed watershed
(Onondaga Lake, NY). 15th Annual Onondaga Lake Scientific Forum. Upstate Freshwater Institute
and SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY. March 28, 2014.
Kirby, L N. H. Ringler and S.L. Johnson. 2014, Macroinvertebrate colonization of an experimental
stubstrate prior to sediment remediation of a lentic superfund site. 15th Annual Onondaga Lake
Scientific Forum. Upstate Freshwater Institute and SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY. March 28, 2014.
Burnham, Anne L., Zachary M. Smith, Neil H. Ringler, Alexander J. Smith, Brian Duffy, and Stephanie
L. Johnson. "The Development and Application of a New York State Fish Based Index of Biotic
Integrity (IBI)." 3/28/14. New England Association of Environmental Biologists (NEAEB).
Rebecca J. Rundell
Rundell, R.J. 2013. Build up of ecologically similar rock- and leaf litter-dwelling land snails on the
western Pacific islands of Belau (Republic of Palau, Oceania). Special Meeting of the International
Biogeography Society: The Geography of Species Associations. Université du Québec à Montréal,
Montréal, Québec, Canada, 15-17 November (talk).
Enck, J. and R.J. Rundell. 2014. A survey of Adirondack meiofauna and an investigation into the
phylogenetic dimension of community assembly. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research, 16
April (poster).
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Sadie J. Ryan
Talks
Ryan, S.J., McNally, A., Johnson, L.R., Ben-Horin, T., Mordecai, E., Paaijmans, K.P., Lafferty, K.D.
2014. “Rising suitability, declining severity: climate change and shifting malaria transmissibility in
Africa.”Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 8-12th, 2014, Tampa,
FL
Ryan, S.J., Hartter, J. 2013 "Beyond Ecological Success of Corridors: Integrating Land Use History and
Demographic Change to Provide a Whole Landscape Perspective". Ecological Society of America
(ESA) Annual Meeting. August 4-9th, 2013. Minneapolis, MN. Supported by NSF CHANS-net
fellowship.
López-Carr, D., Ryan, S.J., Clark, M.J. 2013. Population, Health, and Land Transitions at Multiple
Scales: Evidence from Latin America. National Academies of Science, Kavli Frontiers of Science
symposium. June 15-19, 2013. Irvine, CA.
Posters
Youker, T.E.* & Ryan, S.J. 2014. Environmental factors affecting ranavirus prevalence among aquaticbreeding amphibians in natural and constructed ponds. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research
and Outreach, April 15, 2014, Syracuse, NY
Brubaker R.**, Thomen A.P.*, Ryan, S.J. 2014. A quantitative research synthesis of human-avian
conflict in agriculture systems. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research and Outreach, April 16,
2014, Syracuse, NY
Scales L.N.*, Ryan S.J. 2014. Exploring the influence of migration temperature thresholds on captive
migratory bird behavior. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research and Outreach, April 15, 2014,
Syracuse, NY
Gavard, E.G.*, Cohen, J., Ryan, S.J., and Whipps, C.M. 2014 Exploring the Potential for Parasitemediated Competition: New England and Eastern Cottontails, Invasive Vegetation and Parasites in
the Hudson Valley, NY. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research and Outreach, April 15, 2014,
Syracuse, NY. 3rd place prize award: $75
Youker, T.E.* & Ryan, S.J. 2014. Environmental factors affecting ranavirus prevalence among aquaticbreeding amphibians in natural and constructed ponds. Northeast Fish & Wildlife Association
Conference, April 10, Portland, ME
Youker, T.E.* & Ryan, S.J. 2014. Environmental factors affecting ranavirus prevalence among aquaticbreeding amphibians in natural and constructed ponds. SUNY CID: From Lab to Landscape:
Integrated Infectious Disease Research Symposium, January 24, 2014, Syracuse, NY. 1st place prize
winner
Jones, M.I.*, M.K. Fierke, and S.J. Ryan. Understanding the emerging emerald ash borer infestation in
New York. Poster Presentation. New York Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting, Syracuse,
NY. January 2014.
Jones, M.I.*, M.K. Fierke, and S.J. Ryan. Detecting superspreader trees in the emerging emerald ash
borer infestation in New York. Poster Presentation. SUNY CID: From Lab to Landscape: Integrated
Infectious Disease Research Symposium, January 24, 2014, Syracuse, NY. 3rd place prize winner
Ibarra Stewart, A.M., Luzadis, V.A., Borbor Cordova, M.J., Silva, M., Ordoñez, T., Beltran, E., Ryan,
S.J. 2013. Community perceptions of emerging dengue in urban areas in southern coastal Ecuador.
Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 62st Annual Meeting, November 13-17,
Washington, D.C.
Thomen, A.P.* and Ryan, S.J. Evaluating avian communities in Dominican cacao farms: Management
and Conservation. Student Conference on Conservation Science-New York. October 8-11, 2013.
New York, NY.
Fuda, B.*, Ryan, S.J., Hartter, J. and C.A. MacKenzie. 2013. Carnivore Conservation in Northwest
Uganda: Assessing Human Impacts and Attitudes. Student Conference on Conservation ScienceNew York. October 8-11, 2013. New York, NY.
*Graduate student presenter
**Undergraduate student presenter
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Kimberly L. Schulz
Note: not including the numerous posters that were presented at SUNY spotlight on student research from both
Limnology Practicum and students working in my laboratory group, only posters presented at national or
international meetings.
Brainard A. and K.L. Schulz. The effect of propagule pressure and disturbance on non-native abundance:
A case study in a kettle lake district. Sustainable pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the
Future, 98th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, 4-9 August
2013.
Smith R.G. and K.L. Schulz. Factors affecting primary production and respiration in small forested pools.
Sustainable pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future, 98th Annual Meeting of the
Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, 4-9 August 2013.
Holmes, C.J., K.L. Schulz, S. Figary and C.E. Cáceres. Effects of diversity on colonization dynamics in
newly formed ponds. Sustainable pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future, 98th
Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, 4-9 August 2013.
Wright, H.K., C.J. Holmes, K.L. Schulz, S. Figary and C.E. Cáceres. Linking intraspecific trait variation
to community assembly dynamics in newly formed ponds. Sustainable pathways: Learning from the
Past and Shaping the Future, 98th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis,
MN, 4-9 August 2013.
Balogh, S., K.L. Schulz, D. Thiele and B. van Ee. Examining the effects of human additions of feed corn
on the food web of an urban pond using stable isotope analysis. Sustainable pathways: Learning from
the Past and Shaping the Future, 98th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America,
Minneapolis, MN, 4-9 August 2013.
Looi, A., C. Bachman, K. Schulz and J.M. Farrell. Algal and zooplankton response to a flood pulse in a
drowned river mouth wetland. Bridging genes to ecosystems: Aquatic science at a time of rapid
change. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 18-23 May 2014.
Bachman, C.E., M.J. Mitchell, J.M. Farrell, and K.L. Schulz. Drowned river mouth wetlands and water
level regulation: Effects on water chemistry and plankton communities. Bridging genes to
ecosystems: Aquatic science at a time of rapid change. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland,
Oregon, 18-23 May 2014.
Russell, J.M., C.E. Bachman, J.M. Farrell, M.J. Mitchell, and K.L. Schulz. Sediment-water nutrient
analysis in the St. Lawrence River wetlands. Bridging genes to ecosystems: Aquatic science at a time
of rapid change. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 18-23 May 2014.
Brainard, A.S. and K.L. Schulz. The influence of recreational boat traffic on non-native macrophyte
biomass and native biodiversity. Bridging genes to ecosystems: Aquatic science at a time of rapid
change. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 18-23 May 2014.
Figary, S., M.A. Teece, L.G. Rustam and K.L. Schulz. Why are half of the lakes in a lake district invaded
by Cercopagis pengoi, while the other half have remained non-invaded for well over a decade?
Bridging genes to ecosystems: Aquatic science at a time of rapid change. Joint Aquatic Sciences
Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 18-23 May 2014.
Karkuff, S.A., J.C. Stella, K.L. Schulz and M.A. Teece. Quantifying forest subsidies to food webs in
woodland ponds. Bridging genes to ecosystems: Aquatic science at a time of rapid change. Joint
Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 18-23 May 2014.
J. Scott Turner
Swarm cognition and swarm construction. 2nd Delft International Conference on Complexity, Cognition,
Urban Planning and Design. Delft Technical University. 10-12 October 2013.
Homeostasis, adaptation and the problem of biological design. Darwin Keynote Speaker. Indiana State
University. 25 March 2014.
The extended organism. Scale, adaptation and the nature of the individual. Invited presentation to the
2013 annual meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of
Biology. Montpellier, 10 July 2013.
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Christopher M. Whipps
Presentations by Whipps
April 28-May 2, 2014. 39th Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Shepherdstown, WV. Linking
Mycobacterium Infections In Zebrafish (Danio rerio) With Surface Biofilms: Does Eradication Work?
April 28-May 2, 2014. 39th Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Shepherdstown, WV. Renal
Myxosporidiosis Of Laboratory Zebrafish, Danio rerio.
February 9-12, 2014. Aquaculture America 2014. Seattle, WA. Mycobacteria in zebrafish: Resolving
Strain and Isolate Differences with M. marinum.
January 24, 2014. From Lab to Landscape:Integrated Infectious Disease Research, Syracuse, NY. Fins,
feathers and fur: tracking pathogens in fish and wildlife.
July 10, 2013. Cornell Biological Field Station, NY. 2013 Summer Seminar Series. Fish health and the
ecology of parasitic diseases in Northeast fishes.
June 18-20, 2013. 54th Joint Western Fish Disease Workshop & AFS Fish Health Section Meeting, Port
Townsend, WA. Efficacy Of Surface Disinfection Of Zebrafish Eggs Against Mycobacterium Species
June 18-20, 2013. 54th Joint Western Fish Disease Workshop & AFS Fish Health Section Meeting, Port
Townsend, WA. The Bass Parasites Of Oneida Lake, Eighty Years Later.
Co-Authored Presentations
April 26, 2014. Master's Level Graduate Research Conference (MaRC) at The College at Brockport, State
University of New York., Brockport, NY. Diagnosis and Surveillance of Lymphoproliferative
Disease Virus (LPDV) in wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) in New York State. Alger, K.E.,
Bunting, E.M., Schuler, K., Jagne, J.F., Whipps, C.M. [Poster]
April 15, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research and Outreach, Syracuse, NY. Diagnosis and
Surveillance of Lymphoproliferative Disease Virus (LPDV) in wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo
silvestris) in New York State. Alger, K.E., Bunting, E.M., Schuler, K., Jagne, J.F., and Whipps, C.M.
April 15, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research, Syracuse, NY. Impact of changing
landscapes on gastrointestinal parasite communities in people and mantled howler monkeys, Alouatta
palliata aequatorialis. Helenbrook, W.D., Wade, S.E., Stehman, S.V., Shields, W.M., and Whipps,
C.M. [Poster – 2nd Place Award]
April 15, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Research, Syracuse, NY. Fishy infections: investigating
mycobacteriosis in laboratory zebrafish. Chang, C.T. and Whipps, C.M. [Poster]
April 15, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research and Outreach, Syracuse, NY. Exploring the
Potential for Parasite-mediated Competition: New England and Eastern Cottontails, Invasive
Vegetation and Parasites in the Hudson Valley, NY. Gavard, E.G., Cohen, J., Ryan, S., and Whipps,
C.M. [Poster]
April 15, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Student Research, Syracuse, NY. Environmental Determinants
of Sex Ratio in St. Lawrence River Northern Pike (Esox lucius): Development of a Molecular Sex
Identification Tool and Experimentation with Physical and Chemical Variables. Huffman,
K.A., Whipps, C.M., and Farrell, J.M. [Poster]
April 16, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Research, Syracuse, NY. Strain Typing Mycobacterium
marinum from outbreaks at zebrafish research facilities. Clemons, B.M. and Whipps, C.M. [Poster]
April 16, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Research, Syracuse, NY. Population Genetics of the Creek
Chubsucker Across a Drainage Divide in Central New York State. Clark, M.J., Schulz, K.L., Stewart,
D. J., and Whipps, C.M. [Poster]
April 16, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Research, Syracuse, NY. The Effect of Bleach and Hydrogen
Peroxide on Mycobacterium Species. DiPaola, E.J., Colicino, E.G., Chang, C.T., and Whipps, C.M.
[Poster]
April 16, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Research, Syracuse, NY. Determining host-parasitoid linkages
between Sirex noctilio and Sirex nigricornis through molecular techniques. Page, S.M., Foelker, C.J.,
Fierke, M.K., Parry, D., and Whipps, C.M. [Poster]
April 16, 2014. SUNY-ESF Spotlight on Research, Syracuse, NY. Analysis of Disinfectants on
Mycobacterium spp. Colicino, E.G., DiPaola, E.J., and Whipps, C.M. [Poster]
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March 31 - April 3, 2014. 65th Western Forest Insect Work Conference. Sacramento, CA. East meets
West: Eastern invasive insect species that threaten western forest ecosystems: Sirex woodwasp.
Foelker, C.J., Parry, D., Whipps, C.M., Standley, C.R., Fierke, M.K. [Invited Oral Presentation]
March 31 - April 3, 2014. 65th Western Forest Insect Work Conference. Sacramento, CA. Clustering of
mortality attributed to the European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio. Foelker, C.J., Parry, D., Whipps,
C.M., Fierke, M.K.
January 2014. New York Society of American Foresters. Syracuse, NY. Establishing host-parasitoid
linkages among Sirex noctilio, Sirex nigricornis, and native hymenopteran parasitoids using
molecular techniques. Foelker, C.J., Parry, D., Fierke, M.K., Whipps, C.M. [Poster]
January 2014. New York Society of American Foresters. Syracuse, NY. Spatial aggregation of pine
mortality attributed to the European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio. Foelker, C.J., Parry, D., Whipps,
C.M., Fierke, M.K.
January 2014. 2014 USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD.
Developing molecular techniques to establish host-parasitoid linkages among Sirex noctilio, Sirex
nigricornis, and native hymenopteran parasitoids. Foelker, C.J., Parry, D., Fierke, M.K., Whipps,
C.M. [Poster]
January 24, 2014. From Lab to Landscape: Integrated Infectious Disease Research. Exploring the
Potential for Parasite-mediated Competition: New England and Eastern Cottontails, Invasive
Vegetation and Parasites in the Hudson Valley, NY. Gavard, E.G., Cohen, J., Ryan, S., and Whipps,
C.M. [Poster - 3rd Place Award]
January 24, 2014. From Lab to Landscape: Integrated Infectious Disease Research. Impact of changing
landscapes on gastrointestinal parasite communities in people and mantled howler monkeys, Alouatta
palliata aequatorialis. Helenbrook, W.D., Wade, S.E., Stehman, S.V., Shields, W.M., and Whipps,
C.M. [Poster]
January 24, 2014. From Lab to Landscape: Integrated Infectious Disease Research. Diagnosis and
Surveillance of Lymphoproliferative Disease Virus (LPDV) in wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo
silvestris) in New York State. Alger, K.E., Bunting, E.M., Schuler, K., Jagne, J.F., Whipps, C.M.
[Poster]
November 10-13, 2013. 61st Annual Entomological Society of America Conference, Austin, TX. Spatial
colonization patterns of the European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, at a pine plantation in the
Adirondacks. Foelker, C.J., Parry, D., Whipps, C.M., and Fierke, M.K.
October 8-11, 2013. American Museum of Natural History Student Conference on Conservation ScienceNew York. New York City, NY. Parasites as indicators of aquatic ecosystem complexity to inform
restoration. Ogburn E.C., Limburg K.E., and Whipps C.M.
June 26-29, 2013. The 88th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Québec City,
QC, Canada. Cascade of Enemy Release: Impacts of an Invasive Species (Neogobius melanostomus)
on the Parasite Community of a Native Predator (Micropterus dolomieu). Bauer, E.F. and Whipps,
C.M.
June 26-29, 2013. The 88th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Québec City,
QC, Canada. Fish Parasites in the Hudson River Estuary’s Littoral Habitats: A Prelude to
Restoration. Ogburn E.C., Limburg K.E., and Whipps C.M.
June 26-29, 2013. The 88th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Québec City,
Quebec. Influence of forest structure and human encroachment on parasite communities of mantled
howler monkeys, Alouatta palliata. Helenbrook, W.D., Shields W.M., and Whipps C.M.
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Appendix F. Faculty Grants
(active during reporting period)
John D. Castello
Castello, J.D. January 2013-May 2014. An Alternative Model of Beech Bark Disease. NSRC, $10,000.
Jonathan B. Cohen
Cohen, J.B., S.J. Ryan, and C. Whipps. Factors Limiting New England Cottontail Populations in New
York – NYDEC, $860,000, 8/2013 – 7/2017
Cohen, J.B. Population-level effects on Snowy Plovers of road mortality at Gulf Islands National
Seashore – National Fish and Wildlife Foundation via National Audubon, $274,225, 1/14 – 12/16
Elphick, C., B. Olsen, G. Shriver, J. B. Cohen, and A. Kovach. Response of the tidal marsh bird
community to Hurricane Sandy – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $1,573,950 ($149,668 managed by
Cohen). 5/2013-5/2016.
Cohen, J.B. Wildlife Road Mortality at Gulf Islands National Seashore – National Park Service, $30,000
2013, 5/15/13 – 12/15/13
Cohen, J.B. Piping Plover Movements and Flight Heights During the Breeding Season – U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, $295,000 2011, 1/2011 – 8/2015
Cohen, J.B. Piping Plover Movements and Flight Heights During the Breeding Season, supplemental –
N.J. Division of Wildlife, $50,000 2012, 3/2012 – 8/2014
Cohen, J.B. and S. Elbin. Effect of Salt Marsh Changes on Breeding Birds, With Emphasis on the
Saltmarsh Sparrow – NYDEC, $120,000 2012, 4/1/2012-3/31/2015
Cohen, J.B. Monitoring Techniques for Ring-Necked Pheasants – NYDEC, $50,803 2012, 4/2012 –
8/2015
Cohen, J.B. Population Viability Analysis of Florida Snowy Plovers – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
$20,000 2011. 1/2011 – 12/2014
Cohen, J.B. Community Composition and Mercury and Chromium Levels of Onondaga Lake Waste Bed
Birds – US Fish and Wildlife Service, $34,851 2012, 6/2012 – 12/2013
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Diemont, S.A.W. and L. Quackenbush. EAGER: Understanding the potential role of Mayan traditional
ecological knowledge for ecological engineering of forest restoration in Mexico. National Science
Foundation. $100,000 (current year $50,000), 5/1/12-4/30/15.
Diemont, S.A.W., V. Luzadis, T. Toland. A Systems Approach to measuring social and technical
effectiveness of green infrastructure for combined sewer overflow mitigation in Onondaga County.
Syracuse University and Save the Rain, $25,085, 9/1/13-3/31/14.
Diemont, S.A.W. A field guide of Mayan traditional ecological knowledge. New York State United
University Professions, Individual Development Award, $570, 2/1/14-6/30/14.
Klossner, R. (PI), S.A.W. Diemont S.A.W. City of Syracuse creekwalk landscaping design. Spanfelner
Fund/Central New York Community Foundation, $50,000, 12/1/12-7/1/14.
Faust, B.B. (PI), A. Anaya, V. Suarez Aguilar, S. Jimenez, F. Bautista, D. Leonard, S.A.W. Diemont.
Research on irrigation and drainage functions of Maya canals at Cauich, Campeche, Mexico. National
Geographic, $19,837, 5/1/14-4/30/15.
Limberg, K. (PI), S.A.W. Diemont, Cohen, J., Beier, C. Restoring ecosystem integrity and ecosystem
services to Jamaica Bay, NY: A research planning workshop, SUNY 4E Network of Excellence,
$6343, 3/1/14-2/28/14.
Martin Dovciak
NYS DEC. “Evaluating deer impacts on forests of New York State”. M. Dovčiak (PI), J. Frair, J. Hurst
$214,870. 4/2014-4/2016
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Electric Power Research Institute. “Cost effectiveness of cleaning techniques for controlling human-based
transport of invasive exotic plants on electric transmission line rights-of-way across New York”. C.
Nowak (PI) and M. Dovčiak (Co-PI). $414,551 (award to M. Dovčiak: $176,184), 8/2012-8/2015.
Northeastern States Research Cooperative. “Global change fingerprints in montane boreal forests:
Implications for biodiversity and management of the northeastern protected areas”. M. Dovčiak (PI),
C. Beier, G. Lawrence, J. Battles. $89,497. 8/2012-8/2014 (J. Wason, supported PhD student).
SUNY ESF Seed Grant Program. “Effects of mosses on the chemistry of tree seedlings and their impacts
on forest regeneration” M. Dovčiak (PI), R. Kimmerer, C. Driscoll. $6,800. 4/2014-6/2015
John M. Farrell
Farrell, J.M., C. Whipps, and K.L. Kapuscinski. 4/1/2013-3/31/2016. St. Lawrence River Fisheries
Research and Management. Federal Aid in Sportfish Restoration, NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation, $715,001.
Farrell, J. M, D. J. Leopold, M. Mitchell, J. Gibbs, K. Schulz. 9/2011-7/2014, Recovery Act – Coastal
Fisheries Habitat Restoration in the St. Lawrence River. NOAA Coastal and Marine Habitat
Restoration Project Grants
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, $397,722.
Farrell, J. M. 8/1/12-9/30/15. The St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy: Evaluation of
Habitat Enhancements and Development of Novel Restoration Approaches. National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation, $610,073.
Farrell, J. M. 4/1/2011-6/30/2013. Development and Management of St. Lawrence River Fisheries.
Federal Aid in Sportfish Restoration, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, $640,963
Getchell R., and J. M. Farrell. 2/1/14-1/31/16. The Impact of VHSV on the Population Dynamics of St.
Lawrence Muskellunge. Cornell University/NY Sea Grant ($5,000 to ESF).
Kapuscinski K. L., and J. M. Farrell., 1/1/12-12/31/13. Evaluation of Nearshore Fish Assemblages,
Habitat, and the Effects of Herbivorous Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus): Determining the
Efficacy of Fish Habitat Restoration Efforts in the Buffalo Harbor and Niagara River. Niagara River
Greenway Fund, Greenway Ecological Fund Standing Committee $254,944.
Hanchin, P., B.L. Sloss, L. Miller, C. Wilson, K. L. Kapuscinski, K. Schribner, and J. M. Farrell.
Delineation of natural boundaries of muskellunge in the Great Lakes and the effects of
supplementation on genetic integrity of native stocks. Great Lakes Fisheries Commission ($42,721;
ESF share $4,705)
Leopold, D. J. and J. M. Farrell. 7/1/10-6/30/13. Review of Honeywell Onondaga Lake Shoreline
Restoration Projects $23,580.
Ringler, N. H., K. A. Schulz, J. M. Farrell, M. A. Teece, and J. Brunner. 1/1/10-09/30/13. Renovation of
Wet Labs and Cyber-Infrastructure to Enhance Integrated Research and Teaching. National Science
Foundation $1,470,000.
Danilo D. Fernando
Genetic Diversity, Morphometrics, and Habitat Analysis of a Rare Fern in the Northern Forests:
Implications for Management and Long-Term Survival. USDA Forest Service Northeastern States
Research Cooperative, $82,876. September 1, 2011 – August 31, 2013. PI: DD Fernando, Co-PIs: DJ
USDA Forest Service Northeastern States Research Cooperative (same project as above) Budget
Supplement for extension to September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2014. $3,000.
Genetic, Reproductive and Habitat Analysis to Support American Hart’s-Tongue Fern Reintroduction and
Restoration in the Great Lakes Region. USF&WS-GLRIP, $99,600. May 1, 2012 to June 30, 2014.
PI: DD Fernando, Co-PI: DJ Leopold. This project has been extended to June 2015.
Reproductive, Genetic and Ecological Assessments of the Invasive Potential of Hardy Kiwi
(Actinidiaarguta) in the Northeast United States. Natural Heritage Program – NYSDED LIISM.
$75,062. January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015.
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Melissa K. Fierke
G.G. McGee, M.K. Fierke. Nutrient resources associated with establishment and long-term maintenance
of emerald ash borer biocontrol agents. 8/14-9/16. McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry. $53,860.
Molly Hassett.
M.K. Fierke, J. Gould, J. Vandenburg, L. Bauer. Assessing the impact of emerald ash borer biological
control on the health of ash trees in two outlier infestations in New York State. 8/13-7/16. $119,416.
Northeastern States Research Cooperative. Michael Parisio.
S.J. Ryan, M.K. Fierke. Modeling the mother trees: the super spreader phenomenon in an emerging
emerald ash borer. 8/13-9-15. McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry. $80,302. Michael Jones, PhD.
C.M. Whipps, M.K. Fierke, D. Parry. Development of molecular techniques to inform management of
Sirex noctilio, an introduced woodwasp. 5/13-9/15. McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry. $81,235.
Christopher Foelker.
Elizabeth Folta
Project Learning Tree Model Program Initiative Grant, Evaluation of Project Learning Tree Workshop
Formats and Correlation of Use in New York; $10,000; 1/2013-5/2014; Tom Shimalla, Mike Jabot, &
Elizabeth Folta.
SUNY ESF Seed Grant, One Health for All Visitors? Exploring the Effects of One Health Messaging in a
New York Park; $8,000; 6/2013-1/2015; Laura Rickard and Elizabeth Folta.
Jacqueline L. Frair
NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, “Wildlife research and management support”,
$3,359,864 total 2013-2018 ($494,340 for FY13-14). PI: J. Frair. Provides support to various
research projects. Grants directly supporting J. Frair listed below:
Starting this fall: “Monitoring and modeling moose populations in NY”, PI: J. Frair. $622,489 20142018 (starting in next academic year).
“Statistical support for wildlife management and research”, PI: J. Frair. $273,747 2014-2017 ($39,538
FY13-14).
“Indices to track ecological impact of white-tailed deer”, PI(s): M. Dovciak, J. Frair. $235,583 20132015 ($90,837 FY13-14).
“Other program support for wildlife management and research”, PI: J. Frair. $40,440 2013-2015
($19,973, FY13-14).
US Army Corps of Engineers, “Research for carnivore management on Fort Drum”, $59,000 total 20132015 ($37,138 FY13-14). PI: J. Frair.
National Science Foundation, “How environment, physiology and life history interact to determine
pattern in animal migration”, $600,000 total 2012-2015 (none for current year). PIs: J. Gibbs. S.
Blake, S. Deem, J. Frair.
US Forest Service(Joint Venture Research Agreement), “Identifying wolf movement corridors in the
Great Lakes region using a landscape genetics approach”, $168,876 initial 2012-2015 ($82K current
year). PI: J. Frair.
Starting this fall: USDA Northern States Research Cooperative, “Resistance to white-nosed syndrome in
bat populations of the Northern Forest: exploring the critical disease-genotype-microbiome link”,
$103,746 2014-2016. PI(s): P. Marquardt, L. Berkman, J. Frair, D. Donner, and D. Linder.
USDA Northern States Research Cooperative, “Quantifying beaver impacts on Adirondack forest
communities at a landscape scale”, $106,866 total 2012-2014 ($58K current year). PIs: J. Stella, E.
Bevilaqua, J. Frair.
James P. Gibbs
National Science Foundation/Population and Community Ecology: “How Environment, Physiology and
Life History Interact to Determine Pattern in Animal Migration Proposal 1258062,” J. P. Gibbs, S.
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Blake, S. Deem, J. Frair. 3/13-2/15. $600,000.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, "Restoring critical habitat,
mitigating multiple threats, and evaluating population status for bog turtle, eastern massasauga
rattlesnake, and Houghton's goldenrod co-occurring in a single, exceptional, marl fen ecosystem,
Bergen Swamp, Genesee County, NY" D. J. Leopold, K. T. Shoemaker, and J. P. Gibbs. 8/20125/2015, $128,064.00.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), “Engaging Climber-Scientists and
Indigenous Herders on Grazing and Climate Change Issues in the Altai Mountain Region of
Mongolia,” $99,655 James P. Gibbs, Giorgos Mountrakis, Jennifer Castner. 2/13-7/14.
U.S. National Park Service, “Assessment of Natural Resource Condition for Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park”, Geri Tierney and James P. Gibbs, 1 September 2012 – 30 March 2014,
$40,000.
NOAA/Ducks Unlimited, Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Project, Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative, Farrell, J. M, D. J. Leopold, M. Mitchell, J. Gibbs, K. Schulz. 9/2011-8/2013, Recovery
Act – Coastal Fisheries Habitat Restoration in the St. Lawrence River. $274,722.
National Geographic Society, “Long distance migration of Galapagos tortoises: The importance of
nesting and nest sites,” S. Blake, W. Tapia, J. P. Gibbs, and M. Wikelski. $20,000. 08/01/201207/31/2013.
U.S. Geological Survey, “Development of protocol and standard operating procedures for acoustic,
camera and organismal monitoring of phenology.” G. Tierney and J. P. Gibbs. $18,477.00
09/01/2011 - 08/31/2013.
National Geographic Society, “Understanding Interactions among Three Globally Endangered Species -the Waved Albatross, Giant Tortoise, and Giant Tree Cactus -- to Inform Conservation Management
of Española Island, Galápagos,” J. P. Gibbs, $21,500, 6/1/10-5/31/12 (Extended to 12/1/14)
Thomas R. Horton
Simberloff D, Nuñez MA, Horton TR. 2010 – 2015. Collaborative Research: Determinants of
ectomycorrhizal fungal spread and its relation to Pinaceae invasion. NSF Population and Community
Ecology panel. The total award is $571,637, with $242,040 to Horton as a Collaborative award. Nocost Extension to 2015.
Horton TR. 2012-2015. The effects of invasive earthworms on soil microbes and nutrient cycling in
hemlock forests. Mianus River Gorge Preserve, $21,000. $7,000 for 2013/14.
Robin W. Kimmerer
USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant, Learning From the Land: a cross-cultural partnership in forest
stewardship education for climate change adaptation in the Northern Forest. Co-PI Colin Beier,
$712,000 with College of the Menominee Nation. 2012-2015.
United States Department of Agriculture, Multicultural Scholarship Program, $200,000. supports 5
undergraduates, May 2012-May 2016.
Tribes and Climate Change: engaging northeastern indigenous nations. US Forest Service $60,000 20112014
Sustainable Forestry Initiative,$5000. “Sustainable Forests Education: Native Earth Environmental Youth
Camp” June 2014-May 2015
Donald J. Leopold
Anchor QEA, LLC, Grass River Habitat Assessment and Reconstruction – Vegetation Issues; $9,956;
February to December 2014; D.J. Leopold.
Environmental Protection Agency, Improving vegetation indicators of wetland condition; $172,070; Oct.
2013 to September 2015; D.J. Evans and D.J. Leopold.
NYS-DEC, New York Natural Heritage Program; $3,273,393; July 2012 to June 2017; D.J. Leopold.
Environmental Protection Agency; Development of wetland assessment protocols; $499,847; Oct. 2012 to
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March 2015, D.J. Leopold, D.J. Evans, and A. Feldmann.
NYS Consolidated Funding, SUNY-ESF Gateway Building green roof; $413,000; January 2011 to
December 2013; T. Toland, M. Kelleher, D. Daley, and D.J. Leopold.
Honeywell, Inc., Restoration of inland salt marsh, marl fen, and select woody species: Short-term goals of
the native species component of the SWRS demonstration plan; $908,754; January 2008 to August
2014; D.J. Leopold.
Honeywell, Inc., Review of Honeywell Onondaga Lake shoreline restoration projects, $23,580; July 2010
to June 2013, D.J. Leopold.
National Science Foundation, ARRA Renovation to wet labs and cyber infrastructure to enhance
integrated research and teaching in aquatic sciences; $1,470,000; October 2010 to September 2013; N.
Ringler, K. Schulz, J. Farrell, C. Whipps, and D. Leopold.
National Science Foundation, Environmental scholars: A scholarship program in Environmental
Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering; $600,000; March 2009 to February 2014; K. Donaghy, D.J.
Leopold, J.P. Hassett, J.M. Hassett, and J.E. Turbeville.
NYS-DEC, Invasive plants program coordinator; $198,145; January 2010 to June 2014; D.J. Leopold.
University of New Hampshire, Genetic diversity, morphometrics and habitat analysis of a rare wood fern
in the northern forests: Implications for management and long-term survival; $82,876; July 2011 to
September 2013; D.D. Fernando, D.J. Leopold, and S. Bailey.
USACE, Development of database and algorithms to support the National Wetland Plant List; $94,419;
September 2011 to December 2013; D.J. Leopold
USFWS (GLRI), Production of genetically diverse American hart’s-tongue fern for introduction or
reintroduction in the Great Lakes Region, $99,682; July 2011 to September 2014; D.D. Fernando and
D.J. Leopold.
USFWS (GLRI), Control of Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica var. japonica) on Leedy’s roseroot
(Rhodiola integrifolia subsp. leedyi), a federally-threatened plant; $69,902; September 2011 to August
2015; D.J. Leopold
USFWS (GLRI), Restoring critical habitat, mitigating multiple threats, and evaluating population statuses
for bog turtle, eastern massasauga rattlesnake, and Houghton's goldenrod co-occurring in a single...,
August 2012 to May 2015, D.J. Leopold and J.P. Gibbs.
USDA Forest Service-NSRC, Importance of calcium-rich substrates for supporting refugia of biodiversity
and productivity in an increasingly acidified landscape; $41,543; July 2008 to June 2013; C. Beier, M.
Mitchell, J. Gibbs, D. Leopold, and M. Dovciak.
Ducks Unlimited Inc., Coastal fisheries habitat restoration in the St. Lawrence River; $274,722; July 1,
2010 to June 30, 2014; J.M. Farrell, D.J. Leopold, J.P. Gibbs, K.L. Schulz, and M.J. Mitchell.
Arizona Game and Fish Department; Novel survey methods to increase detectability of rare frogs in the
field; $46,948; May 2010 to August 2013; D.J. Leopold and M. Schlaepfer.
USDA CSREES (SUNY ESF McIntire-Stennis program), Restoring small ephemeral wetlands in forested
landscapes of New York State; $89,850; August 2009 to December 2013; J.P. Gibbs, J.C. Stella, D.J.
Leopold, and K.S. Schulz.
Norcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc., To identify priority wildlife and plant conservation areas that might
be less vulnerable to the effects of climate change; $1,200; January to December 2013; P.A. Raney and
D.J. Leopold.
Karin E. Limburg
Source
Title
USGS (via U.
Florida)
Near Shore Fish Ecology in
the Grand Canyon
Total $
$1,178,711
total,
$272,976 to
ESF
Current
year $
$72,563
Start date
10/1/2009
End date
7/31/2013
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National Fish
and Wildlife
Foundation (via
UC Santa Cruz)
NYSDEC &
NEIWPCC
Riverkeeper, Inc.
Hudson River
Foundation
NSRC (U VT),
Colin Beier PI
USGS (Grand
Canyon
Monitoring and
Research
Center)
Great Lakes
Fisheries
Commission
NYSDEC
(agreed upon,
contract
pending)
Determining Origins of River
Herring Bycatch
Analysis of samples
collected in the Hudson
River Estuary for various
Alosa projects
Filling in the gaps: building
the knowledge base on
ecosystem function, utilizing
partnerships to move
forward
Assessing Silver Eels in the
Hudson River Tributaries
Impacts of Forest
Management Practices and
Ecosystem Service
Outcomes in the Northern
Forest: Development of the
Forest Ecosystem Services
Toolkit
Natal Origins of Humpback
Chub at Aggregations by
Otolith Microchemistry
Determining if Eye Lenses
Can be Used to Understand
the Origin and Life History
of Adult Lamprey
Blueback Herring in the
Mohawk River
$428,401
total,
$187,137 to
ESF
$40,000
$162,018
7/1/2012
5/31/2014
$20,000
1/1/2012
12/31/2013
$115,000
$51,200
4/1/2011
12/31/2014
$165,151
$84,537
6/1/2013
5/31/2015
1/1/2012
12/31/2013
$115,117
$120,000
$59,162
7/1/2013
1/14/2016
$10,000.20
$10,000.20
10/1/2013
9/30/2014
ca. $185,000
$56,393
not quite
sure
3 years
later
Mark V. Lomolino
PI - NSF – Of Mice and Mammoths: Toward a General Theory of Body Size Across Space and Time,
requested $420,681, received $100,000 for initial period of grant; August 2010 to 2015.
Gregory G. McGee
McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program. Nutrient resources associated with
establishment and long-term maintenance of emerald ash borer biocontrol agents $53,860 total, 7/14-6/16, Melissa Fierke coPI.
National Science Foundation, “Integrated Knowledge-Based Experiences for First-Year Biology and
Chemistry Laboratories,” (with N. Abrams (PI), E. Hogan and V. Luzadis), $193,290 total.
Stacy A. McNulty
McNulty, S. and J. Stella. McIntire-Stennis program. Beaver Influence on Vegetation Structure and
Avian Diversity at Local and Landscape Scales. $52,027 5/1/13 – 9/30/15.
Germain, R., C. Nowak, S. McNulty and E. Bevilacqua. McIntire-Stennis program. Sustaining White
Pine on High Quality Sites. $66,220, 2/1/12-9/30/14.
Rooks, M., S. McNulty, C. Beier, P. Hai, D. Patrick, and T. Howard. EPA Wetland Program
Development Grant. Building a Monitoring Framework for Detecting Climate Change Effects on
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Wetlands in the Adirondack Park: Phase II. $865,848, $340,000 (ESF portion $62,000). 1/1/12 –
12/31/15.
Beier, C., S. McNulty, P. Hirsch and A. Parker. New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, Application of GIS to Resource Inventory for Unit Management Planning, $1,095,000,
$204,000 6/1/03 – 8/5/14.
McNulty, S., M. O’Brien, C. Foss, D. Hudnut and S. Flint. Northeastern States Research Cooperative. An
Investigation of Rusty Blackbird Foraging Sites: Does Timber Harvesting Influence Site Selection?
$10,000, 5/1/13 – 5/31/14.
S. Beguin and S. McNulty. Northern New York Audubon 2014 Cullman Grant Program. Assessing
Human Noise Effects on Adirondack Boreal Wetland Birds. $2,190.
Myron J. Mitchell
Principal Investigator. Monitoring of an Adirondack Ecosystems: Impacts of Acidic and Mercury
Deposition and Climate Change on Watersheds NYSERDA $497,176. 2013-2017.
Co-Investigator. Determination of Climatic and Geomorphological Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
in Forested Landscapes of the US Northeast. McIntire-Stennis. $77,807. 2012-2015
Co-Investigator. Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBR)
(MJ Mitchell, $90,000) 2011-2016
Co-Investigator. NOAA Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Project Grants under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act, “Recovery Act – Coastal Fisheries Habitat Restoration in the St.
Lawrence River ($202,317 subcontract to ESF) of $1,086,010 Ducks Unlimited. 2011-2013
Principal Investigator. Collaborative Research: Winter Climate Change in a Northern Hardwood Forest.
NSF Ecosystems. $179,149. 2010-2013.
Lee A. Newman
US Department of Agriculture, Nanoparticle Contamination of Agricultural Crop Species; $1,498,080;
Mar 2011 to Mar 2016; JC White, X. Ma, L Newman and B. Xing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Development of Hyperspectral Imaging of Plants to
Detect Contamination; $307,348; March 2011 to March 2015; L Newman
National Science Foundation, Plant Uptake and Interaction with Nanoparticles; $297,907; Sept 2008 to
September 2014; L. Newman and T. Sabo-Attwood
Roux Associates, Treatment Wetlands for TCE Degradation; $12,000; May 2013 to May 2014; L.
Newman
Gifford Foundation, Construction Funds for Horticultural Therapy; $1000; June 2013 to Sept 2014; L.
Newman
American Legion Ladies Auxillary, Funds for Horticultural Therapy, $2500; May 2013 to open ended; L.
Newman
Dylan Parry
2013-2015. Grayson, K.. D.M. Johnson, D. Parry. P.C. Tobin. Population Persistence At An Invasion
Front: Climatic Limitations On The Spread Of The Gypsy Moth. USDA-AFRI. $157,000 (20132015).
2013-2015. Whipps, C.R., M.K. Fierke, D. Parry. Development of Molecular Techniques to Inform
Management of Sirex noctilio, an Introduced Woodwasp. McIntire-Stennis. $52,000
2012-2015. Powell, W., C.A. Maynard. D. Parry, et al. Evaluating Environmental Impact of Maturing
Transgenic Blight-Resistant American Chestnut. USDA BRAG $500,000.
2011-2013. D. Parry and P.C. Tobin. Climate Controlled Reproductive Asynchrony and Mating Success
in Gypsy Moth Populations. USDA Forest Service. $38,000.
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Gordon Paterson
Environment Canada, Development of energetics metrics for Great Lakes seabirds from long-term
biomonitoring data (1982- 2010), $10,000, 01/31/2014 – 03/31/2014. G. Paterson (sole PI).
William A. Powell
SUNY-RF Seed grant program, Protecting Trees from Diseases with Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. $8,000
(5/13/13-5/12/14). PI with Dr. Maynard and Andy Newhouse Co-PIs.
The New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation. Getting Events in the Ground and Tested.
$210,000 (8/1/12-7/31/15). Co-PI with Dr. Maynard as PI.
New. Forest Health Initiative. Phase II: Base Funding Level - Transgenic American Chestnut. $87,500
(1/1/14 – 12/31/15) PI with Dr. Maynard Co-PI (extension of last year’s grant of equal amount.
Possible extension next year)
USDA-Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grant program (BRAG), Evaluating Environmental Impacts Of
Maturing Transgenic American Chestnut Trees Relative To Chestnut Trees Produced By
Conventional Breeding. $500,000 (9/1/12-8/31/14 – no cost extension to 8/31/15). PI with co-PIs,
Dr. Maynard, Dr. Parry, Dr. Briggs, Dr. Nowak, and Dr Tschaplinski (ORNL)
The New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation. Supplemental grant for technician
support for Chestnut research. $20,000 (1/1/11-12/31/13). PI with Dr. Maynard as co-PI. ArborGen
LLC.
Transformation of American chestnut with genes encoding transcription factors. $20,000 (1/1/1112/31/13) PI with Dr. Maynard as Co-PI. Another year of 10 years of support beginning in 2002
totaling $500,000.
The New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation. Regenerating Transformation Events into
Whole Plants and Expansion of Field Trials. $300,000 (5/08-12/31/13). Co-PI with Dr. Maynard, PI.
This is in addition to the grant above.
The American chestnut Foundation. Preservation and multiplication of elite backcross American chestnut
hybrids by micropropagation. $2,700 (9/1/12 – 10/1/13) Allison Oakes PI, myself and Dr. Maynard
Co-PIs.
Neil H. Ringler
Sponsor
Honeywell
International
Incorporated
National Science
Foundation
USDA Forest
Service
USDA Cooperative
State Research
Service
National Science
Foundation
Honeywell
International
Incorporated
USDA Cooperative
State Research
Service
PI/
CoPi
PI
Co-I
PI
PI
Title
Onondaga Lake Biological Assessment
and Moniroing
Collaborative Research: Impacts of InStream Restoration on Hydrological,
Chemical, and Biological Heterogeneity
in the Hyporheic Zone
Enhanced Effectiveness of Planning and
Managing Urban Forest Ecosystems
Amount
Start Date
End Date
$878,656
2008-01-15
2013-12-31
$275,335
2010-01-01
2014-12-31
$40,500
2011-09-22
2016-09-21
$544,532
2012-10-01
2013-09-30
$599,822
2012-09-01
2014-08-31
Co-I
McIntire Stennis FY 12-13
Technology Enhancement of Hot Water
Extraction
PI
Onondaga Lake Biological Assessment
and Monitoring (renewal 46665)
$265,000
2013-07-01
2015-06-30
PI
McIntire Stennis FY 13-14
$23,652
2013-10-01
2015-09-30
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NYS Department of
Environmental
Conservation
New York Sea
Grant Institute
PI
Fish and Macroinvertebrate
Concordance: Validation of a NYS Fish
Index of Biotic Integrity and its
Relationship to Macroinvertebrate
Metrics
$75,000
2013-09-01
2015-10-31
PI
Atlantic Salmon Restoration in Great
Lakes Tributaries: An Ecological and
Bioenergetics Approach
$250,000
2014-02-01
2016-01-31
Rebecca J. Rundell
2014 ESF Seed Grant Program, “Belau’s islands of diversity: Development of a natural laboratory for
evolutionary research and teaching,” $3,900 April 2014 - June 2015. PI: R.J. Rundell
USFWS Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), “Removing the threat of
stochastic extinction for the Chittenango ovate amber snail: A collaborative captive propagation effort
to develop ex situ population in New York State,” $100,000, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2016.
Sadie J. Ryan
MOU with NYDEC: “Factors Limiting New England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) Populations in
New York: Implications for Habitat Restoration” - Cohen, J., SUNY-ESF (PI), Ryan, S.J. SUNYESF (co-PI), Whipps, C., SUNY-ESF (co-PI), $880,000 2013-2018
McIntire-Stennis (USDA), “Modeling Super Spreading in an Emerging Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus
Planipennis) Infestation” – Ryan, S.J. (PI), Fierke, M. (co-PI), $51,865 2013-2015
NSF Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems (ANT) “Quantifying how Bioenergetics and Foraging
Determine Population Dynamics in Threatened Antarctic Albatrosses” – Johnson, L.R. USF (PI),
Ryan, S.J. SUNY-ESF (co-PI), ($122,738.00 to SJR)
Department of Defense (DOD), Global Emerging Infectious Surveillance (GEIS), “Evaluating the
potential use of oceanographic information and remotely sensed algal blooms to predict risk of
cholera and other climate and water-sensitive diseases.” PI: Polhemus, M., SUNY UMU Co-PIs:
Ryan, S.J., SUNY ESF, Stewart-Ibarra, A., SUNY UMU, Finkelstein, J., Cornell. $294K/year - 20132014
Department of Defense (DOD), Global Emerging Infectious Surveillance (GEIS), “Capacity
Strengthening in Ecuador: Partnering to improve surveillance of febrile vector-borne diseases” –
Stewart, A.M. SUNY UMU (PI), Endy, T. SUNY UMU (PI), Ryan, S.J. SUNY ESF (co-I), Leon, R.
USFQ (co-I), Bayot, B. ESPOL (co-I), Cardenas, W. ESPOL (co-I), Munoz, A. Columbia U (co-I),
Carr, D. UCSB (co-I), Mehta, S. Cornell (co-I), $196,000/year – 2013-2014
NSF CNH-ex: “Hotter Hotspots: Land-Use Intensification and Protected-Area Vulnerability in Africa's
Albertine Rift” Hartter, J., UNH (PI), Ryan, S.J., SUNY-ESF (co-PI), Palace, M., UNH (co-PI),
Diem, J.E., GSU (co-PI), Chapman, C.A., McGill (co-PI) - $249,995, 2011-2014 ($23, 718 AY SJR)
National Geographic: “Parks, People, and Climate Change: Assessing Household Vulnerability in
Equatorial Africa” Hartter, J., UNH (PI), Ryan, S.J., SUNY-ESF (co-PI) - $20,000 (project costs
only), 2012-2014. ($0 AY – project costs only)
INECOL/SUNY-ESF Seed Grant, “Emerging diseases and health status of black howler monkeys in
degraded habitat in Balancan, Tabasco, Mexico” – Ryan, S.J., SUNY-ESF (PI), Serio-Silva, J.C. (coPI) - $5,000, 2012/2013 ($0 AY – project costs only)
SciFund, “Amphibian Ranavirus Project” - Ryan, S.J., SUNY-ESF (PI), $1,875 2012-2015 ($0 AY –
project costs only)
SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines (CID), “From lab to landscape: integrated infectious disease
research” - Ryan, S.J., SUNY-ESF (PI), Polhemus, M. SUNY UMU (co-PI), Stewart, A., SUNY
UMU (co-PI), $5,000
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Kimberly L. Schulz
NSF. Renovation of wet labs and cyber-infra-structure to enhance integrated research and teaching in
aquatic science at SUNY-ESF, Neil Ringler; co-PIs: J.M. Farrell, D.J. Leopold, K.L. Schulz (point of
contact), C.M. Whipps; $1,470,000, October 2010-September 2013.
Great Lakes Research Consortium, Genetic analysis of potential lake chubsuckers (Erimyzon sucetta), a
threatened fish in the Lake Ontario watershed, Kimberly L. Schulz, co-PIs: C.M. Whipps and D.
Stewart, June 2013-May 2014; $3,500
NOAA Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Project Grants under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, “Recovery Act – Coastal Fisheries Habitat Restoration in the St. Lawrence River,
Farrell, J.M. (with D.J. Leopold, M. Mitchell, J. Gibbs, K.L. Schulz), $202,317 subcontract to ESF of
$1,086,010 Ducks Unlimited, 9/2011-8/2014
NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Fellowship (Estuarine Reserves Division, Office of Ocean
and Coastal Resource Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA), Andrew Brainard and K.L.
Schulz; $60,000; May 2012-May 2015
NSF, Dissertation Research: Quantifying the role of mixotrophic feeding in aquatic food webs, K.L.
Schulz; co-PIs: Jacob Gillette; $15,000; June 2011-May 2014 (extension to 2014)
NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve Fellowship (Estuarine Reserves Division, Office of Ocean
and Coastal Resource Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA), “Salt Marsh Restoration: The
Importance of a Better Biofilm,” Cheryl Whritenour and K.L. Schulz; $60,000; June 2010-May 2014
(extension to 2014)
Donald J. Stewart
National Geographic Society. Tracking arapaima to create sustainable reserves for inland fisheries in the
Brazilian Amazon, $27,200, 1 Dec. 2013—30 Nov. 2014, would partially support PhD thesis research
of Daniel Gurdak. Co-Investigator (PI: Peter Klimley, UC Davis; 4 other Brazilian and US CoInvestigators).
USAID, funds administered by a Peruvian resource agency. Caracterización morfológica y molecular de
Arapaima gigas en tres localidades de la Amazonía peruana, $27,000, Aug. 2013—Dec. 2014, CoInvestigor (PI: Carmen R. García Dávila, IIAP, Iquitos, Peru; 5 other Peruvian and French CoInvestigators); Project in progress.
Stephen A. Teale
USDA APHIS “Development of chemical attractants and improved trap designs to facilitate detection of
exotic Cerambycidae” PIs: Millar, J.G., L. Hanks & S. Teale $136,353 01-SEP-2012 To 31-AUG2013 ($32,233 to SUNY-ESF).
USDA APHIS “Development of chemical attractants and improved trap designs to facilitate detection of
exotic Cerambycidae” PIs: Millar, J.G., L. Hanks & S. Teale $140,000 01-SEP-2012 To 31-AUG2013 ($31,986 to SUNY-ESF).
Alphawood Foundation, PI: Teale, S. “Asian Longhorn Beetle Research at SUNY-ESF” $ 61,407; 25FEB-2013 To 25-FEB-2015
Alphawood Foundation, PI: Teale, S. “Asian Longhorn Beetle Research at SUNY-ESF” $ 92,137; FEB2014 To FEB-2015.
USDA Forest Service STDP, PIs: Teale, S., J.D. Castello, J.G. Millar. “Fungal Attractants for Sirex
noctilio and its Parasitoids” $123,630 July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2014 ($42,000 in year ending 6/30/14)
Galapagos Conservancy, PI: Teale, S. “Chemical attractants of Philornis downsi, an invasive avian
parasite of the Galapagos Islands” $50,005 01-JAN-2012 To 30-JUN-2013.
McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program, PIs: Johnston, M., S. Teale and J. Castello.
“Fresh taste from a stale pickle: An alternative proposal of beech bark disease” $53,590 15-AUG2011 to 30-SEP-2013
Helmsley Trust/International Community Foundation, PI: C. Causton. ~$800,000/3 yr. $85,061 to ESF in
year 1 (15-OCT-2013 To 14-SEP-2014).
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J. Scott Turner
Human Frontiers Science Program, From swarm intelligence to living buildings. Novel concepts of
managing internal climates; $1,350,000; August 2012 to July 2015
New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (through contract with Terrapin Bright
Green) Proof of concept: A termite-inspired “humidity sponge.” $50,000 May 2014 to November
2014
Alexander Weir
National Science Foundation - Macrofungi Collections Consortium - Grants to Advance Digitization of
Biological Collections, Total Amount – Unknown, ESF Portion - $34,000
Christopher M. Whipps
Kent ML, Whipps CM, Dolan B, Tanguay R. NIH Resource Related Research Projects for Development
of Animal Models and Related Materials (R24) (07/1/2013 -06/30/2017) $858,720 (SUNY Subaward
$370,950). Control and Impact of Diseases in Zebrafish. Role: Conduct outbreak investigations,
characterize Mycobacterium species, assess disinfection and treatment options.
Whipps CM, Fierke MK, Parry D. USDA-CREES/McIntire-Stennis Program (05/01/13-09/30/15) $52,000. Development of Molecular Techniques to Inform Management of Sirex noctilio, an
Introduced Woodwasp. (10% AY) Role: Lead development of molecular biology techniques in
parasitoid insects.
Farrell J, Kapsinski K, Whipps CM. NY-DEC (03/31/2013 – 03/31/2016) - $715,001. St. Lawrence River
Fisheries Management and Research. (2% AY) Co-Investigator. Role: Comparative genomics of male
and female pike. Development of a sex-specific PCR assay and application to field studies.
Cohen J, Ryan S, Whipps CM. New York DEC (8/1/12-4/30/2016) $854,516. Factors Limiting New
England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) Populations in New York: Implications for Habitat
Restoration. (5% AY) Role: Genotyping cottontail rabbits.
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Appendix G. Service to Department, College, and University
John D. Castello
Associate Chair, Dept EFB
Chair, EFB Promotion and Tenure Committee
Co-organizer (with S.M. Polimino), Departmental awards ceremony, 5/10/14.
Supervisor of departmental secretaries Joanne Rappleyea and AnnMarie Clarke.
Coordinator of the Forest Health major.
Unofficial EFB faculty point person for departmental autoclaves.
Jonathan B. Cohen
Faculty advisor for student chapter of The Wildlife Society
CCAC
GPAC
EFB Open House
EFB accepted student reception
Burgess Award Review
Dence Award Review
Committee on Curriculum
Reviewer for Sussman Internship Applications
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator, ERE Department
Student Open House and Information Sessions, Primary Presenter, ERE
Graduate Program in Environmental Science, Ecosystem Restoration, Area Leader
Center for Native People and the Environment, Advisory Board, Hiring Committee for New Assistant
Director
Awards Committee
Library Committee
Co-Adviser, Engineering for a Sustainable Society
Martin Dovciak
Robert Burgess Graduate Scholarship in Ecology, Chair
Graduate Program Advisory Committee, member
NSF UMEB and CSTEP program mentor (2 undergraduate students)
Graduate Program in Environmental Science–Ecosystem Restoration & Environmental Monitoring and
Modeling Program Areas, member
Beech Working Group, member
Center for Urban Environment, member
John M. Farrell
Served on Promotion and Tenure Committee
Mentored an Assistant Professor in EFB
Served with team with Kim Schulz, Neil Ringler, Sue Benoit, Brian Boothroyd John Joyce and Don
Leopold on execution of a $1.4M NSF award to enhance EFB’s aquatics program via improvements
at CIRTAS and TIBS laboratory facilities and cyber infrastructure. Participated in numerous
meetings and site visits and reporting and served as lead for TIBS component of project leading to
renovation of laboratory.
Advised two undergraduates for their EFB Honors Thesis Projects.
Served as supervisor for 25 employees working at TIBS over the summer including 5 staff, 9
undergraduates, 7 graduate students.
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Served on search committee for Major Gifts Officer position in the ESF Development Office.
Nominated students for several awards
Assisted ESF Development Office with numerous visits for supporters of ESF
Leadership for development at TIBS
Shannon L. Farrell
Chamberlain Award, coordinator Spring 2014
Roy Glahn Award, committee member Spring 2014
Dence Fellowship, committee member Spring 2014
Burgess Award, committee member Spring 2014
Open House/ Accepted Student Reception April 12 2014, representative for Wildlife Major
Transfer Student Orientation January 2014, course registration session
IQAS Committee Fall 2013- present
Fink Fellowship Committee Fall 2013-present
Judge for the Graduate Student session of the Spotlight on Research
Danilo D. Fernando
Director, EFB Graduate Program
Member, Graduate Program Advisory Committee
Chair, Joseph and Ruth Hasenstab Memorial Fellowship Award Committee
Member, Graduate Council
Melissa K. Fierke
Graduate Program Advisory Committee
EFB’s representative, Urban Ecology minor, attend meetings and student capstones
Engaged with faculty search for Microbiology position
Scholarship committees: Roskin undergraduate award to outstanding female senior
Chun Wang to outstanding female senior undergraduate award
Outstanding PhD student award
Stegeman and Simeone Endowed Entomology Fellowship
Secretary, Faculty Governance
Faculty Governance Executive Committee
Chair, Bicycle Safety Committee – founded in January 2013 to engage stakeholders at ESF, SU and the
City of Syracuse to increase cycling safety for ESF commuters
Campus Climate Change Committee
Athletics Committee
ESF Learning Community - Participated in ESF’s professional Learning Community Retreat in June 2013
as well as at the Freshmen Learning Community Retreat at Orenda Springs in September 2013.
Graduate Assistant Colloquium on Teaching and Learning Blackboard training
Development of a college biology course, in collaboration with Outreach and local high school teachers
and administrators, to be offered in local high schools
Organized and led an activity for Take Your Daughters/Sons to Work Day for the ESF Women’s Caucus
on the Importance of Insects. April 29, 2014. 37 participants in 2 one hour sessions.
December and May Senior Soirees
Conversations in the Discipline grant: K. Donaghy, P. Hirsch, M.K. Fierke, S. Turner, P. Vidon, S.
Weiter. $5,000. Depolarizing the Environment: Thinking broadly about science, policy and politics.
Elizabeth Folta
Natural History & Interpretation Program Coordinator
EFB Course and Curriculum Assessment Committee Member
Help with departmental open houses: fall & spring; accepted student visitations: spring
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Submitted request for name change for Natural History & Interpretation to Environmental Education &
Interpretation to SUNY.
Started redesigning the Natural History & Interpretation assessment strategy to make it easier for future
assessments of the najor.
Faculty advisor to the INTERP club (student environmental interpretation club)
Curriculum group participant of Environmental Science area Environmental Communication and
Participatory Processes
EFB representative to the Recreation Resources and Protected Area Management minor
Served on the Spotlight on Student Research planning committee. I organized the judging of the
undergraduate portion.
Volunteered to led a nature walk at the Freshmen Retreat for the fourth year.
Jacqueline L. Frair
Associate Director, Roosevelt Wild Life Station
Roosevelt Wildlife Collection, supervised curator, Ron Giegerich,
Curriculum Coordinator for Wildlife Science major (Fall ’13, shifted to J. Cohen during my sabbatical
leave in Spring ’14).
Science Advisor to NY State Fish and Wildlife Management Advisory Board (President’s representative)
James P. Gibbs
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee
Director, Roosevelt Wild Life Station
Associate Chair
INECOL/SUNY-ESF seed grant competition coordinator
Thomas R. Horton
Faculty mentoring committees: Martin Dovciak, Melissa Fierke, Sadie Ryan, Gordon Paterson
Promotion and Tenure Committee
Environmental Microbiologist Search Committee
Academic Research Building Committee
Robin W. Kimmerer
Peer classroom evaluation for Promotion and Tenure Committee
Mentor for junior faculty member
Coordinate Chun Juan Wang Award
Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
Acting Director, Cranberry Lake Biological Station
College wide, Promotion and Tenure Review Committee 2013-2014
College-wide Awards Committee
Assist Admissions Office with recruitment strategies for Native American students
ESF Representative to Great Law of Peace Educational Center
Presentation to New Visions Program, visiting students
Advisor to Primitive Pursuits student organization
Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge, ESF liaison
CSTEP Mentor
SU Native Student Outreach Day, Fall 11/2/13
Member, Syracuse University Native Studies Faculty
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Donald J. Leopold
Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
General Summary of Regular Duties
Supervisor for about 35 faculty, one administrative assistant, one Keyboard Specialist 2, two
Instructional Support Specialists and other staff
Related: promoting faculty and staff within and outside of the department and facilitating the many
good ideas that regularly emanate from faculty and staff
Manage allocation of state, Research Foundation (research incentives), and College Foundation
accounts
Manage allocation of 40 state graduate teaching assistantships
Convene regular department meetings
Represent department at biweekly Academic Council meetings
Work with Development Office for fundraising
Responsible for making sure that all regular and new undergraduate and graduate courses are offered
as listed in the College Catalog or webpage; main contact with Registrar for any course
changes.
Work with Physical Plant on all planned renovations and emergency repairs
Assist Provost with special projects as needed
Represent department at all college open houses and other department events
Prepare annual department report
SEFA Coordinator, Fall 2013
Presenter, Gateway green roof, SUNY-ESF Potluck and Sustainability Tours at Gateway, Green Campus
Initiative, Sept. 2013.
Presenter, Graduate Colloquium August 2013, “A Vision of Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship”
Presenter (twice, on campus trees and shrubs) for annual Alumni, Family, and Friends BBQ, October
2013
Member, Core Team for Academic Research Building
Member (representing Academic Council as “academic dean”), SUNY ESF Presidential Search
Committee
Roosevelt Field Ecologist, Roosevelt Wild Life Station, SUNY-ESF
Chair, AEC Director Search Committee
Karin E. Limburg
I served as chair of the Graduate Program Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Promotion and
Tenure Committee.
I served as coordinator for the GPES Area of Study, Biophysical and Ecological Economics, in the fall
while Jack Manno was on sabbatical. I now serve in the AOS as a faculty member, as we get the
program on its feet.
Committee as well as the Faculty Leadership Team of the SUNY 4E Network of Excellence (for the
Research Foundation).
Mark V. Lomolino
EFB Graduate Program Director, Fall, 2013.
Freshman and Transfer Student Orientation/Advising – Summer, 2013
Accepted Students Open House, Fall 2013, Spring 2014.
Gregory G. McGee
EFB Undergraduate Curriculum Director
ENB Curriculum Coordinator
EFB CCAC member
Faculty Governance Committee on Student Life
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ESF First-Year Learning Community Team
Helped to organize and participated in day-long (Saturday, 9/7/13) First-Year Retreat at Orenda
Springs.
Participated in SU Dept. Education graduate student presentations on ESF learning community focus
groups.
Facilitated (w/ Donaghy and Fierke) a freshman orientation session on Civility during fall orientation.
Assisted in ongoing development of First-Year Experience student outcomes.
ESF Academic Standards Sub-Committee
ESF New Graduate Student Colloquium – conducted two sessions on evaluating written work (8/13).
ESF Faculty Mentoring Colloquium – facilitated two sessions on scientific teaching (w/ M. Fierkek, 1/8)
Served on SUNY Working Group for Transfer Plan in Biology.
Stacy A. McNulty
Interim Director, Adirondack Ecological Center
Associate Director, Adirondack Ecological Center
Search Committee member, AEC Director
Search Committee chair, AEC Cook
Organizer, Huntington Lecture Series
Council for Geospatial Modeling and Analysis (CGMA)
Roosevelt Adirondack Wildlife Conservationist, Roosevelt Wild Life Station, SUNY-ESF
Myron J. Mitchell
Director of Council of Hydrologic Systems Science
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Incorporated (CUAHS),
alternate representative for ESF (2001-present).
Evaluation of Teaching of Philippe Vidon, Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management
Member of Board of Directors of New York Research Foundation
Vice-Chair of Board of Directors of New York Research Foundation (January 2011-present)
Member of SUNY Empire Innovation Program Advisory Committee
Lee A. Newman
Course and Curriculum Assessment Committee member.
Core Team Member for the Academic Research Building.
Fall and Spring Transfer Student Advising
Participate in the updating of the Natural History and Interpretation major
Point person for deionized water treatment system
Member of Environmental Chemistry Faculty Search Committee
Chair, Environmental Microbiologist Faculty Search Committee
Spoke at EFB and BTC orientation seminars
Pre-Med Advisor, Environmental Biology students
Chun Wang Award Committee, member
Member, Committee on Research
Participated in developing new Environmental Health major
Curriculum group participant of Environmental Science
Mentor for Undergraduate Honors and CSTEP programs
Spoke at Environmental Science Orientation seminar
Lead in developing MD/PhD program with Upstate Medical University
Advisor, 3 + 3 Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
Lead in developing NIEHS grant program
Curriculum group participant of Environmental Science Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Member of Hill Collaboration Nervous System Group
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Member of Hill Collaboration Cancer Group
Member of Hill Collaboration Wounded Warrior Group
Chair, Biotechnology Research Symposium organizing committee
Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Science Health and the Environment option
Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Health Program
Member of the SUNY Catalyst Committee for Research
COIL participant
Development of SUNY/BNL Research and education collaborations
Dylan Parry
Coordinator - Conservation Biology Major (132 students)
CCAC – committee member
GPAC – committee member
Stegeman – Chair and award presenter
Dence – Chair and award presenter
Outstanding PhD Award committee – member
Gordon Paterson
Robert Burgess Graduate Scholarship in Ecology (Candidate review and selection)
Ad-hoc Library Council (Committee).
Faculty position search, EFB representative, Environmental Chemist, Department of Chemistry
(Committee).
Environmental Health Program information session, College Open House, October 26, 2013 (Orientation
Seminar).
Environmental Health Program information session. College Open House – Transfer Student
Opportunities., January 6, 2014 (Orientation Seminar).
Hosted hydrofracking webinar in absence of Chemistry Department chair. February 27, 2014. Spotlight
on Student Research Conference April 15-16th (Judge).
William A. Powell
Coordinator for the undergraduate Biotechnology major
Awards Ceremony: Gave the Distinguished Scholar in Biotechnology and Joseph & Ruth Hasenstab
Memorial Scholarship. Took photos of the event for the department.
Represented the Biotechnology major at the Spring Open house.
Director of the Council on Biotechnology in Forestry
IBC (Institutional Biosafety Committee) member
Neil H. Ringler
Ex Officio Committee on Research
SUNY/RF Research Council
SUNY/RF Vice Presidents for Research/Officers
SUNY/RF 4E Network of Excellence co-leader with SUNY Stony Brook, Albany, Binghamton
Co-Director Hill Collaboration in Environmental Medicine with UMU, SU, ESF, VA
Advisory Council, Biotechnology Accelerator
Planning Team, Center of Excellence Biofuels Laboratory
Planning Team, Institute for Environmental Health and Environmental Medicince (2020 Challenge Grant)
Rebecca J. Rundell
Head Curator, Roosevelt Wild Life Collections (development, planning and oversight of Collections)
GPAC; taking over revision of EFB’s M.P.S. program from former committee
Grober Graduate Research Fellowship Committee
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Contributed to NYSUNY2020 marketing materials through photos and testimonial on my performance as
a teacher and mentor by former ESF undergraduate student David Bullis (student in EFB311
Evolution and undergrad TA in EFB355 Invertebrate Zoology); Feb.-March 2014
Sadie J. Ryan
Graduate Program Advisory Committee, member
Environmental Chemistry Position Search Committee, member
CGMA – Committee on Geospatial Modeling and Analysis, member
IACUC – Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, member
Faculty member, Graduate Program in Environmental Science (GPES), CNH group
Program Coordinator, Health and Environment focus, Division of Environmental Science
Program coordinator, Environmental Health (EH) major (prior to March, 2014)
Kimberly L. Schulz
EFB Course and Curriculum Assessment Committee Chair
Faculty mentor for Greg McGee, Beth Folta
Coordinating effort to develop CIRTAS – Center for Integrated Research and Teaching in Aquatic
Science, to find funding to develop a collaborative aquatic science experimental facility for teaching
and research at ESF, and efforts to organize aquatics group in EFB
Marine Science Minor proposer and current co-ordinator
EFB representative to the Water Resources Minor
Faculty advisor to the Nautilus Club (student marine science club)
ES advisor and Curriculum Group Participant in Division of ES, area of Watershed Science
Roosevelt Wild Life Station Scientist-in-Residence: Roosevelt Aquatic Ecologist
Faculty representative to the SUNY ESF Presidential Search Committee
Stephen A. Teale
Promotion and Tenure Committee (member)
J. Scott Turner
Chair, Technology Committee.
Member. Executive Committee.
Member. Planning committee for January 2014 Mentoring Colloquium
Member, Planning committee for Conversations in the Disciplines.
Alex Weir
Director, Cranberry Lake Biological Station 08/06 (see separate report for the Station)
Curator of the EFB Herbaria 09/03
Member, Field Programs Committee, EFB
Active Participant in EFB majors for Forest Health, Conservation Biology, Natural History and
Interpretation, and Environmental Biology.
Member, Lowe-Wilcox, Zabel, and Morrell Award Committees; Grober Grad. Fellowship Coordinator
Director, Cranberry Lake Biological Station 08/06Christopher M. Whipps
EFB Curriculum Committee (Jan-Feb 2008, Aug 2008-present). Chair: Kim Schulz.
EFB Microbiology Search Committee (Oct 2013-present). Chair Lee Newman.
ESF Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (Aug 2011-present). Chair: Christopher Whipps
ESF Honors Program Faculty Council (Aug 2011-present). Chair: William Shields.
ESC Health and the Environment Curriculum Group Participant (Mar 2011-present)
SUNY Center for Applied Microbiology (Feb 2013 – present) Director
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Appendix H. Unfunded Service to Governmental
Agencies, Public Interest Groups, etc.
Jonathan B. Cohen
Advisory board for the Goldenrod Foundation (private nonprofit)
Advisor to the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
BioBlitz at Clark Reservation State Park for New York DEC, May 2014
Mentor to 1 student, Authentic Science Research Program, Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Municipality of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Natural wastewater treatment plant system
design and siting.
Village of Lacanja Chansayab, Chiapas, Mexico. Biocultural restoration project: Creating a Lacandon
Maya field guide for educating children about their own traditional ecological knowledge.
City of Syracuse, Euclid Avenue Bike Lane Design, with Ashley Miller, ESF Undergraduate Honor’s
Research
Martin Dovciak
U.S. National Park Service. Environmental monitoring and modeling support for science-based
conservation of forest vegetation along the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine (Vegetation
team leader).
Sierra de Alamos-Rio Cuchujaqui Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Ecological monitoring and conservation of
an endangered forest cycad, Dioon sonorense (Advisor).
Los Nevados National Park and Antioquia School of Engineering, Colombia. Predicting potential effects
of climate change on vegetation in the Colombian Andes (Advisor).
Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station, Adirondacks, NY. Vegetation monitoring (Advisor).
Regular interaction with the public/answering of inquiries on plant ecology, taxonomy, global change,
and sustainability (ongoing; example: Syracuse University TV News).
John M. Farrell
Cornell University – member of the Cornell Biological Station Advisory Board – attended CBFS
Advisory Committee Meeting and provided recommendations on CBFS development.
Thousand Islands Land Trust Zenda Farms Picnic, Provided live fish and poster displays as part of
community event (June 2013; ~250 attendees)
Save The River, Clayton, NY, 2013. Board of Directors, advisory roles on environmental issues,
development of teacher training initiative for North Country districts.
Pacific Environment. June 2013. Hydropower Safety Workshop. Led Russian Scientists and managers
from Lake Baikal touring Great Lakes visit to TIBS.
Thousand Islands National Park | Parc national des Mille-Îles, Provided assistance with a proposal and
information regarding wetlands restoration.
Great Lakes Fisheries Commission. August 2013. Hosted Lake Ontario Committee Meeting at TIBS.
Shannon L. Farrell
USFWS Lesser Prairie Chicken [LEPC] conservation planning: Lead on science committee drafting of
CCAA/HCP and Habitat Exchange, and drafting LEPC habitat and population conservation targets
anticipated for use in LEPC Recovery Plan. Partially unfunded.
USFWS: review of draft Greater Sage Grouse Colorado Conservation Plan and Habitat Exchange
Framework.
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Melissa K. Fierke
Serve as a science advisor to NYDEC on emerald ash borer and other forest invasives and attend
meetings in Albany as needed.
Serve as co-director, along with Mark Whitmore (Cornell Natural Resources Dept), for the New York
Forest Health Advisory Council; organize & facilitate annual/semi-annual meetings at ESF.
I serve on the City of Syracuse Emerald Ash Borer Task Force attending monthly meetings with other
collaborators, e.g., Steve Harris, the Syracuse City Arborist, Jesse Lyons, Cornell Cooperative
Extension, David Coburn, Onondaga Director of the Environment. I am a member of several subcommittees where we work on developing and implementing an emerald ash borer preparedness plan
for the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County.
Answered questions from the public on insects/arthropods throughout the reporting period.
Participated in a Bioblitz at Clark Reservation State Park
Channel 9: Story on cold temperatures killing off pests, including emerald ash borer.
http://www.localsyr.com/story/experts-cold-could-help-derail-malicious-bugs-in-c/d/story/iJVThA8tkildXqcNQXm4A
Article in the Syracuse Post Standard:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/06/working_moms_bring_home_more_m.html
Elizabeth Folta
Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Education Committee 12/2010 – current
Friends of Beaver Lake, Board Member 1/2011 – current
Education Task Force Member 8/2011 – current
Future Planning Committee 4/2011 – current
Project Learning Tree Steering Committee (NY) 7/2011 – current
Leopold Education Project State Co-Coordinator 2011 (unofficial) – current (official)
Jacqueline L. Frair
NY State Fish and Wildlife Management Advisory Board, SUNY ESF Science Advisor
Member, Forest Carnivore Working Group, established Mar 2013.
James P. Gibbs
Reviewer, Canada Research Chairs - Simon Fraser University
Reviewer / evaluator, Student Conservation Conference – New York, American Museum of Natural
History, Oct 2013
Thomas R. Horton
Scientific advisor – Central New York Mycological Society
Scientific advisory board – Mianus River Gorge Preserve
Mushroom Poisoning: I had several calls this past fall from Poison Control centers in Syracuse and New
York City. Only one proved to be a case of destroying angel ingestion. The patient recovered after
several days in the hospital.
Robin W. Kimmerer
Orion Society, Board of Directors
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, advisor to Generations of Knowledge Project
Fabius Pompey School District
Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation
Great Law of Peace Education Center Initiative
Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Spring Creek Project for Nature, Philosophy and the Written Word (Senior Fellow)
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Donald J. Leopold
Gateway green roof tour, American Wildlife Conservation Foundation, Syracuse, June 2013.
Plant communities and habitat restoration at Onondaga Lake, Onondaga Lake NRD board meeting,
Liverpool, September 2013
Co-chair, paper session at 10th International Phytotechnologies Conference, Syracuse, October 2013.
Co-leader of NYS-DEC Tour of Honeywell Restoration Sites Associated with the Onondaga Lake
Remedy, October 2013
Member, NYS Biodiversity Research Institute Executive Committee
Member, Board of Trustees, The Wetland Trust, Inc.
National Technical Committee for Wetland Vegetation, northeastern U.S. representative from academia
to this US Army Corp of Engineers advisory committee, January 2007 to present.
Upper Susquehanna Coalition, consulting on various wetland issues
Frequent contributor, upon request, to the Syracuse Post-Standard
Frequently answer questions from city of Syracuse employees regarding city trees, park plantings, and
green infrastructure projects
Numerous local and national TV and radio interviews including interviews on fall color, Gateway
Building green roof, drought, invasive species, allergy season, and native plant species.
Karin E. Limburg
Technical advisor to “Targeted ecosystem characteristics for restoration of the Hudson River Watershed,”
a project of The Nature Conservancy
Technical working group on River Herring (for NOAA and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission); includes serving on Habitat and Climate Change sub-committees
Scientific advisor, Mohawk River Basin Program (NYSDEC)
Member, Conseil Scientifique (Science Advisory Board) for “LabEx COTE – Evolution, Adaptation and
Governance of Continental-to-Coastal Ecosystems” – Bordeaux, France
Member, Continental Margins Working Group (IMBER-LOICZ)
External reviewer for P&T decision, Cornell University
External reviewer for promotion decision, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Gregory G. McGee
Board of Directors – Orenda Springs Charter School for Outdoor Education, Marcellus.
Stacy A. McNulty
Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources field tour of Beech Bark Disease Ecology & Management
(Sept.8)
BioBlitz, July 21, Lake Placid, NY – surveyed Intervale Lowlands, Lake Placid, NY (private) as part of
Adirondack Biodiversity Project (All-Taxa Biodiversity Project)
Northeastern Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation – co-led vernal pool working group
Member, Adirondack Partnership/North Country Regional Economic Development Council – Recreation
Strategy Planning team
Facilitator, 5-Towns meeting (coordinating Adirondack public lands planning for Upper Hudson region)
Mentor, High School research on white tailed deer (Ryon Bellamy, Scotia High School)
Moderator, Adirondack Research Consortium Ecology/Humanities session
Myron J. Mitchell
Evaluation of Faculty Member for Promotion at U.C. Riverside.
Board of Directors of Upstate Freshwater Institute
Member of Finance Committee of Upstate Freshwater Institute
Member of City of Syracuse the Natural Environment team for developing the sustainability plan for the
City of Syracuse (2012-present)
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Lee A. Newman
Judge for International Genius Olympiad, SUNY Oswego, 18 June 2013
Reviewer, Department of Defense, ERDEC awards
Dylan Parry
Member, New York State Invasive Species Advisory Council
Member, New York Forest Health Advisory Group
Gordon Paterson
Advisor to National Wildlife Research Centre, Herring Gull biomonitoring program (Environment
Canada)
Collaborator with Lake Ontario Biological Station (United States Geological Survey)
William A. Powell
Advisor to the NY chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation
Science advisory board member of the national American Chestnut Foundation
Neil H. Ringler
Board member Upstate Freshwater Institute; Onondaga Lake Habitat Committees
Rebecca J. Rundell
Angaur State (Island of Ngeaur, Republic of Palau): 1) Worked with Dr. Joel Miles and advised the
Governor of Angaur State on conservation importance of land snails. Surveyed land snails and crabeating macaques following widespread Typhoon Bopha destruction. 2) Donated roundtrip airfare for
Bureau of Agriculture employee and one volunteer (Pacific Mission Aviation), and truck fuel costs
for trip to Anguar.
Belau National Museum (Republic of Palau): I advised the museum on a Collections improvement grant
proposal to acquire curatorial materials for the museum’s Natural History Collections and Herbarium.
Island Conservation (NGO primarily focused on eliminating rats from islands around the world in order
to restore bird nesting on those islands): I advised the organization on key land snail species on
islands in Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, and Palmyra Atoll, and the potential
positive and negative impacts on rat-trapping activities on Pacific islands.
Koror State and Koror State Rangers (Republic of Palau): Advised Princess Blailes and Koror Rangers on
appropriate construction of trails on Ulong to minimize forest destruction and maximize conservation
of threatened diplommatinid species, and critically endangered endodontoid and partulid land snail
species, as well as monitor lizards and megapodes (endangered ground-nesting birds).
Melekeok State (Island of Babeldaob, Republic of Palau): I held a workshop on nonmarine mollusc
identification and conservation for conservation managers at Ngardok Lake Nature Reserve and
advised the director of conservation at Ngardok Lake on conservation practices at the Reserve.
Nchesar State (Island of Babeldaob, Republic of Palau): I advised the Governor of Ngchesar on
appropriate road and trail construction practices in order to preserve fringing coral reef in his state
and river health. I also advised the Governor on the new land tour area at Ngchesar waterfalls, and
proper trail management to ensure survival of endemic orchid species and snail species.
Peleliu State (Island of Beliliou, Republic of Palau): Continued long-term biodiversity survey of the
island, focusing this trip on the Bloody Nose Ridge area that was supposedly decimated by
flamethrowers and related intense fighting and Japanese tunnel construction and entrenchment during
World War II, but that also harbors a spectacular recovered terrestrial biota.
Republic of Palau Bureau of Agriculture: Worked with and advised Dr. Joel Miles on land snail survey
techniques and potential impacts of escaped crab-eating macaques on the Island of Babeldaob.
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Republic of Palau Association of State Conservation Managers: Met with individual conservation
managers in newly established association and began process of advising on the relevance of the
terrestrial inverbrate biota to lands under their care.
NYS DEC: Slug identification.
Kimberly L. Schulz
Upstate Freshwater Institute Board Member October 2011-current
Onondaga County Water Protection Scientific Advisory Boart 2012-current
Clark Reservation Bioblitz (3 May 2014; plankton sampling and identification)
J. Scott Turner
Member. Science Advisory Board. Cheetah Conservation Fund
Alex Weir
National Science Foundation – Grant Application Reviewer
Poison Control Center Consultant on Mushroom Poisoning (1 case fall 2013)
Continued Liaison with Central New York Mycological Society
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Appendix I. Unfunded Service to Professional Societies and Organizations
Jonathan B. Cohen
The Waterbird Society, Chair of Conservation Committee
The Waterbird Society, Elected Councilor
Society for Conservation Biology. 2nd North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Symposium
reviewer
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Executive Committee, Past-President, American Ecological Engineering Society
Martin Dovciak
Invited Panelist—Bryophyte diversity and ecosystem function within managed forests, Canadian
Botanical Association, Annual Meeting, Kamloops, British Columbia. June 1-7, 2013.
John M. Farrell
American Fisheries Society (AFS), NY Chapter AFS, International Association of Great Lakes
Researchers, Great Lakes Research Consortium, Society of Wetland Scientists
Board of Directors, Save The River Inc. – Environmental Advocacy organization on the St. Lawrence
River.
Shannon L. Farrell
Member of Special Recognition and Honorary Membership Committee, TWS National Chapter
Jacqueline L. Frair
The Wildlife Society – College and University Wildlife Education Working Group (member, 2011present)
The Wildlife Society – Member of working group developing a technical review on “The Effects of Shale
Gas Development on Wildlife”
Thomas R. Horton
Student Awards Committee, Mycological Society of America. 2013-2017.
James P. Gibbs
Board member, The Wetland Trust
Board member, Altai Assistance Project
Board member, Nine Mile Creek Conservation Council
Member of the General Assembly, Charles Darwin Foundation (elected)
Robin W. Kimmerer
Appointed Senior Scholar at Center for Nature and Humans
Appointed Senior Fellow Spring Creek Project for Nature, Philosophy and the Written Word
Karin E. Limburg
Serve as President-Elect, Estuaries Section of the American Fisheries Society
Stacy A. McNulty
Chair, Human Diversity Committee, Organization of Biological Field Stations
Board Member-at-Large, Organization of Biological Field Stations
Board Member, Adirondack Research Consortium
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Lee A. Newman
Association of Environmental Health Sciences – Scientific Advisory Board, organizer for Annual
Conference in Amherst, MA
International Phytotechnology Society –Immediate Past President; Chair of Gordon Award Committee,
Chair of Educational Award Committee, Member of Organizing Committee for Annual Conference in
Crete, Greece, 2014; Chair, Organizing Committee for Annual Conference held in Syracuse, NY in
October 2013
Chair of Organizing Committee for Biotechnology Research Symposium in May 2014
Chair of Organizing Committee for Biotechnology Research Symposium to be held in May 2015 at
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Rebecca J. Rundell
Member and Specialist, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Species Survival
Commission, Molluscs
Sadie J. Ryan
Society for Conservation Biology (SCB), Member, Board of Governors, and Chair, Education and
Student Affairs
Alex Weir
Mycological Society of America Distinctions Committee
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Appendix J. Funded Service to Governmental Agencies, Industrial and Commercial
Groups, Public Interest Groups, etc.
Martin Dovciak
New York State DEC and Cornell Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY. Contributing to the development
ofpublic outreach and citizen science addition to currently funded research on the management of the
impacts of deer on forests of New York State (ongoing).
New York Power Authority. Contributing to the development of guidelines on the effectiveness of
cleaning techniques for controlling human-based transport of invasive exotic plants on electric
transmission line rights-of-way across New York by vegetation management crews to inform best
management practices for vegetation management under electric power lines (ongoing).
Shannon L. Farrell
Lesser Prairie Chicken conservation planning: Lead on science committee drafting of CCAA/HCP and
Habitat Exchange. Partially funded; funding from multiple entities including USFWS, Environmental
Defense Fund, and Oil and Gas Industry partners.
Lesser Prairie Chicken conservation planning: Lead on science committee drafting of CCAA/HCP and
Habitat Exchange. Partially funded, funding from multiple entities including USFWS, Environmental
Defense Fund, and Oil and Gas Industry partners
James P. Gibbs
“Viejo Sabio / Wise Sage”, Prometeo Program, National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science,
Technology and Innovation of Ecuador (SENESCYT), Ecuador, appointed 2012-2014.
Thomas R. Horton
Initiated project at Albany Pine Bush Preserved to pine stands to areas where invasive locust trees have
been removed.
Robin W. Kimmerer
Environmental Protection Agency, Tribal Science Forum
Myron J. Mitchell
Panel on Policy-Relevant Science to Inform EPA’s Review of the Secondary National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur( 2014-present).
Rebecca J. Rundell
Sotheby’s New York, Silver and Vertu: Advised on conservation status of mollusc species used in
historical art objects and silver sets in order to ensure their legal export.
Sotheby’s New York, Single-Owner Sales: Advised on conservation status of mollusc species used in
historical art objects in order to ensure their legal export.
Sotheby’s New York, Jewelry Department: Advised on conservation status of mollusc species used in
historical and modern jewelry pieces in order to ensure their legal export.
J. Scott Turner
Consultant on project “Proof of concept: A termite-inspired “humidity sponge.” Terrapin Bright
Green and Freeform Construction, with NYSERDA.
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Appendix K. Presentations to the Public
Jonathan B. Cohen
2014 – Cohen, J.B., Nowak-Boyd LJ. Ring-necked pheasant occupancy and abundance in Western New
York. New York Fish and Wildlife Advisory Board meeting, Pulaski, NY. 20 attendees
2014 – Cohen, J.B., Cheeseman, A., Gavard, E., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M. New England cottontail. New
York Fish and Wildlife Advisory Board meeting, Pulaski, NY. 20 attendees
2014 – Cohen, J.B., Cheeseman, A., Gavard, E., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M. New England cottontail. New
York Forest Owner’s Association meeting, Syracuse, NY. 40 attendees
2013 – Avis, M.L., J.B. Cohen. Piping plover movements, flight heights, and avoidance of obstructions
during the breeding season: implications for risk of collision with turbines and other human
structures. MassWildlife Piping Plover Cooperator Meeting, Cape Cod, MA. 75 attendees
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Diemont, S.A.W., J. Carter Ingram, R. Dirzo, E.J. Sterling. “This Year in Conservation.” Mack Lipkin
Man and Nature Series and Dale L. Travis Lecture Series, American Museum of Natural History,
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, New York, New York, October 9, 2013, ~125 in
attendance.
John M. Farrell
Farrell, J. M. 2014. Long-term Research and Management at the Thousand Islands Biological Station.
New York State Fish and Wildlife Management Board Meeting Pulaski NY.
Farrell, J. M. 2014. Update of St. Lawrence River Fisheries Research and Management. Great Lakes
Section Meeting. NYSDEC Training Academy Pulaski NY.
Thousand Islands Land Trust, Kids Camp – Led multiple groups through a field session called “Life in a
Pond” - Sampled and identified aquatic life in a seasonal wetland and discussed ecology (30
participants)
Thousand Islands Land Trust, Ichthyologist for a Day – led children ages 5-12 and adults through a series
of modules on fish and river ecology on the St. Lawrence River (25 participants)
US EPA & NY SeaGrant Institute. June 2013. Lake Guardian Educator’s Workshop. Led lecture and
hands-on modules related to nearshore ecosystems of the Great Lakes along with Clarkson University
(15 participants)
Danilo D. Fernando
EFB Graduate Programs: Admission Requirements and Application Tips. Invited presentation for the
graduating biology students from SUNY Oswego, March 31, 2014.
Melissa K. Fierke
Importance of Insects. Earth Day presentation at the Museum of Science and Technology, Syracuse, NY.
April 2014. 16.
M.K. Fierke. Girdling, Peeling and Rearing to Know: Insights into New York Forest Invaders.
2/26/2014, SUNY Buffalo graduate seminar series, Buffalo, NY
3/2014, USDA Agriculture and Research Station Seminar Series, Ithaca, NY
4/17/2014 SUNY New Paltz School of Science and Engineering Colloquium seminar series, New
Paltz
James P. Gibbs
Application of Phylogenetics to Conservation Biology, Darwin Day Keynote Speaker, Indiana State
University, Feb 25-26, 2014
On the Brink: Saving Russia’s Last Snow Leopards, The Explorers Club, March 31, 2014, New York
City
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Thomas R. Horton
Horton TR. Ectomycorrhizal ecology under primary succession on coastal sand dunes: interactions
involving Pinus contorta, suilloid fungi and deer. Asa Gray Seminar Series. Utica College. February
10. 50 attended.
Horton TR. Ectomycorrhizal ecology under primary succession on coastal sand dunes: interactions
involving Pinus contorta, suilloid fungi and deer. Mid-York Mycological Society monthly meeting.
September 16. ~20 attended.
Horton TR. Epipactis helleborine - An invasive orchid that is probably in your garden. Syracuse
Botanical Garden club meeting. November 4. ~15 attended
Vincent Neil Mushroom Festival at Beaver Lake. Faculty advisor with members of the CNYMS, MidYork Mycologcial Society and Beaver Lake Nature Center. September 15. ~100 attendees.
Robin W. Kimmerer
INVITED TALKS: ( 58 total including 14 keynotes, 20 university lectures, 24 public organizations)
June 11, 2013 Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the Intertribal Timber Council “Farewell to Maples:
TEK and Resilience in the face of climate change” Keshena, WI. Audience: 450
June 19, 2013 Keynote Address: Environmental Protection Agency Tribal Science Forum, The Fortress,
the River and the Garden: Incorporating TEK into Climate Change Adaptation” Syracuse, NY
Audience: 90
July 19, 2014 “The Eye of the Storm Gathering of Women Environmental writers” “Honoring our Gifts”
The Sitka Institute, Sitka Alaska.
July 27, 2013 Keynote Address: Yosemite National Park. Parsons Memorial Lecture. High Sierra
Natural History Festival. “Gathering Moss: Lessons from the small and green”. Audience: 90
August 1, 2013 Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, educational event . “The teachings of the
Seventh Fire”. Audience: 100
September 5, 2013 Fabius Historical Society. “A wealth of plants: edible and medicinal Plants of CNY”
audience 50
September 20, 2013 Lake Placid Public Library. “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, scientific
knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. Audience: 20
September 21, 2013 Old Forge Public Library .”Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, scientific
knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. Audience 40
October 5, 2013 Keynote Address, “Learning the Grammar of Animacy” Book Lovers Ball, Milkweed
Editions, Minneapolis, MN
October 8, 2013 Keynote Address : American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity
Student Conference. Turtles among us”. Co-sponsor Center for Humans and Nature. Audience: 250
October 16, 2013 University of Oregon, Environmental Studies Department. Incorporating TEK into
cultivation of a Sense of Place. Audience: 25
October 17, 2013 Long-term ecological reflections. Andrews Experimental Forest, LTER. Audience 20
October 18, 2013 Keynote Address: Eugene Natural History Society. .”Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous
Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”.
October 19, 2013 Keynote: Oregon State University, Spring Creek Project for Nature, Philosophy and the
Written Word. “Learning the Grammar of Animacy” audience 200
October 20, 2103 Pacific Crest School, Seattle, Washington “Plants as Teachers” . audience: 40
October 21, 2013 University of Washington, Burke Museum Lecture series. “Braiding Sweetgrass:
Indigenous Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”.
October 22, 2013 Northwest Indian College, Lummi, Washington. “The Fortress, The River and the
Garden: new models for integration of science and traditional knowledge” Audience 60
October 30, 2013 SUNY Buffalo, American Indian Science and Engineering Society. . “The Fortress, The
River and the Garden: new models for integration of science and traditional knowledge”. Audience:
10
136
November 5, 2013 Keynote Address. Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group, Dartmouth
College, “Farewell to Maples: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and building resilience to climate
change” Audience: 300
November 7, 2013 Syracuse University, .”Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,
Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. Audience: 40
November 8, 2013 Keynote Address: 40th anniversary Environmental Studies Department, Antioch
University. . “The Fortress, The River and the Garden: new models for integration of science and
traditional knowledge”. Audience: 150
November 13, 2013 University of Minnesota, Mankato. . “The Fortress, The River and the
Garden: new models for integration of science and traditional knowledge”. Audience: 40
November 13, 2013 Gustavus Adolphus College, Linneaus Arboretum, Mankato MN. .”Braiding
Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. Audience 60
November 14, 2013 Macalester College, Literature of Nature Class. .”Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous
Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. St. Paul, Minnesota Audience :20
November 14, 2013 Minneapolis Indian Women’s Resource Center. “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous
Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. Audience 40
November 14, 2013 Macalester College, EnviroThursday seminar series. Farewell to Maples: Indigenous
knowledge and climate change resilience. Audience 30
November 15, 2013 University of Minnesota, St. Paul Environmental Studies Seminar Series. .”Braiding
Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”.
November 15, 2013 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Native American Literature class. .”Learning
the Grammar of Animacy” Audience 30
November 15, 2013 Mounds Park Academy. St. Paul MN. “Plants as Teachers” audience: 15
November 18. 2013 Duluth Public Library, .”Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,
scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. Audience 40
November 19, 2013 Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota Duluth. “Learning the Grammar of
Animacy” Audience: 30
November 19, 2013 Vermilion Community College, Ely, Minnesota. Sustainability Lecture Series:
.”Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”.
Audience 50
November 20, 2013 Vermiliion Community College, Ely, Minnesota. Environmental Studies Colloquium.
“Indigenous teachings of the Honorable Harvest” , Audience: 125
November 21, 2013 Native American Recognition Banquet, Raytheon, Inc. Lowell, Massachusetts.
Audience: 5
November, 28, 2013 Wisconsin Public Radio : 45 North: Live hour-long interview with Anne
Strainchamps
December 14, 2013 Keynote Address: Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Winter Book Celebration.
“Minidewak” Audience 150
December 15, 2013. University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. .”Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous
Wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”. Audience 10
January 26, 2014 Habitat Gardening Club, Liverpool, NY, “A wealth of plants: edible and medicinal
plants of Central New York”, audience =60
February 6, 2014 Radio Interview,” Braiding Sweetgrass” KPHA Berkeley, CA
February 8, 2014 The Forest Lyceum, N, Canaan CT. “Restoring Reciprocity with the Good Green Earth”
Audience=75
February 18, 2014 Cornell Cooperative Extension, Syracuse NY. “A wealth of plants: edible and
medicinal plants of Central New York”, audience =60
February 21, 2014 Keynote. Native Science Fellows, Montana State University, Bozeman MT. “Farewell
to Maples: traditional knowledge and climate change” Audience=150
February 21, 2014 Montana State University, “Educational challenges to full participation” Audience: 25
February 22, 2014 Montana State University, “ Graduate Student Seminar” Audience =20
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February 27, 2014 Trent University, Peterborough ON. “Braiding Sweetgrass” Audience=60
March 3, 2014 Syracuse Botanical Club, Syracuse NY. “Ethnobotany of Central New York”
Audience=16
March 26, 2014 Keynote Address: Environmental Protection Agency, Science Policy Retreat.
Washington, DC. “Building resilience to climate
change using traditional ecological
knowledge”. Audience=250*
March 10, 2014 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. “Farewell to Maples: traditional knowledge and
climate change” Audience=50
March 11, 2014 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. “The Fortress, the River and the Garden”
audience=20
March 21, 2014 Keynote Address: Endowed Lecture series. Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin
“Farewell to Maples: traditional knowledge and climate change” Audience=200
March 29, 2014 Radio Interview for Future Primitive with Joanna Harcourt. Audience=many
April 11, 2014 Syracuse University, Sustainability Book Club. “Braiding Sweetgrass” Audience =10
April 15, 2014 SUNY ESF, Earth Week. “Renewing the Honorable Harvest”. Audience: 25
April 17, 2014 Arizona State University, Tucson. English Department. “Braiding Sweetgrass” Audience=
30
April 18, 2014 Orion Society fundraiser. “Returning the Gift” Audience=50
April 23, 2014 ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse Cultural Workers, “Braiding Sweetgrass: an Earth Day event
with Robin Kimmerer”
May 2, 2104 Keynote Address, Chicago Botanical Garden, Center for Humans and Nature Conference
“Cascades of Loss, Ethics of Recovery”. Chicago, Illinois, Audience=200
May 11, 2014. NPR Interview “To the Best of Our Knowledge” Audience=many
Donald J. Leopold
Tree identification, ecology, and natural history, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County,
Syracuse, June 2013, about 30 people in attendance.
Incorporating native plant species into CNY gardens, Watson’s Greenhouses, Lafayette, June 2013, about
25 people in attendance
Father’s Day nature walk, Clark Reservation State Park, June 2013, about 40 people in attendance
Pawpaws, shooting stars, and prickly pears. Excellent and underutilized native plants for the garden, Mt.
Cuba Center, Hockessin, DE, July 2013, about 50 people in attendance.
Native tree and shrub selection considering plant, soil and site characteristics, Forest Riparian Buffer
Workshop, USDA-NRCS, Big Flats Plant Materials Center, September 2013, over 200 people in
attendance.
Oakwood in autumn, HOCPA, Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, September 2013.
Segment on fall color for WSYR Bridge Street, October 2013.
Trees of Oakwood Cemetery, Sierra Club, Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, October 2013, about 25 people
in attendance.
Native plants for difficult garden and landscape settings, Adirondack Chapter of the Rock Garden
Society, Ithaca, NY, November 2013, about 70 people in attendance.
Rare and unique native plants of New York State, Syracuse Botanical Club, Syracuse, December 2013,
about 25 people in attendance.
Natural plant communities as templates for restoring degraded landscapes and creating sustainable green
systems, Philadelphia Chapter of the Rock Garden Society, Plymouth, PA, February 2014, about 70
people in attendance.
Alvar plant communities of New York State, Philadelphia Chapter of the Rock Garden Society,
Plymouth, PA, February 2014, about 70 people in attendance.
Natural communities as templates for restoring degraded landscapes and creating sustainable green
systems, Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March
2014, about 25 people in attendance.
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Natural plant communities: Templates for creating/restoring sustainable landscapes (+ book signing),
Garden Club of York, York PA, March 2014, over 200 people in attendance.
Native plants for sustainable landscapes, Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA, March 2014, two
lectures with total over 300 people.
Tree walk in Oakwood Cemetery for International Day of Forests, Atlantic States Legal Foundation,
March 2014.
Field trip for the NY Flora Association Annual Meeting, Clark Reservation State Park, May 2014, about
50 people in attendance
Nature walk in Oakwood Cemetery for HOCPA, Syracuse, May 2014.
Karin E. Limburg
Secrets of Fishes Revealed with Otolith Chemistry. April 5, 2014 as part of Illuminating Physics!
Conference for secondary school educators, Cornell University. Attendance: 30
Climate Change and Urban Sprawl: Impacts to Diadromous (and Other) Fishes. Hudson River
Environmental Society Conference (mix of scientists, managers, and citizens), May 7, 2014.
Attendance: ca. 150.
Gregory G. McGee
Rutgers University, Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program, invited presentation to E&E Graduate
Program Seminar Series, November 7, 2013, ~40 in attendance.
Stacy A. McNulty
Native Plant Ecology Hike, Teddy Roosevelt Days, Sept. 8, HWF - 18
Amphibian/vernal pool hike, April 28, HWF – 22
Current Ecological Research at ESF’s Newcomb Campus, Newcomb Lion’s Club - 15
Wetland Detective training (EPA project) – April 19, Adk Interpretive Center – 6
Wetland Detective training (EPA project) – May 17, Adk Interpretive Center – 10
Gordon Paterson
Paterson G. Working the way up the food web: Ecotoxicology at SUNY-ESF. College of
Environmental Science and Forestry Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, March 19, 2014 (20).
Paterson G., What’s in my water? Pharmaceuticals and how they get in our H2O. College of
Environmental Science and Forestry First Year Experience - Water Lecture Series, November 6, 2013
(100). Paterson G., Drouillard KG. and Haffner GD. Trophic collapse and the bioaccumulation
dynamics of PCBs in Lake Huron. Clarkson University, September 23, 2013. Invited Seminar (75).
William A. Powell
Tour de Trees transgenic American chestnut planting & short presentation, 7/30/13, approximately 100
attended.
Where there be mountains, there be chestnuts. Corning Rotary Club, 8/22/13, approximately 50 attending.
Return of the King. Dale Travis Lecture Series, 10/10/13, approximately 300 attended.
American chestnut project presentations, workshops, and field tours, The American Chestnut Foundation,
New York chapter’s (TACFNY) annual meeting, 10/11/12-10/13/12. Our team organized this
meeting at ESF. Approximately 40 attending.
Different Tools, One Goal: A Transgenic Approach to Blight Resistance seminar, leaf assay workshop,
and board meeting. National TACF annual meeting. 10/18/14 – 10/19/14. Herndon, VA.
Approximately 100 attended.
American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at SUNY-ESF. National TACF Board meeting.
3/21/14 – 3/22/14. Abington, VA. Approximately 25 attending.
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Reviving the American chestnut tree. Voices lecture series, Hudson Valley Community College. 4/2/14.
Troy, NY. Approximately 80 attending and posted on the web at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaKS04BwaYY
Moonlighting: Panel discussion on de-extinction (one of three invited panel members). 4/2/14. SUNYESF. Approximately 30 attending.
Neil H. Ringler
Angler’s New York Entomology. Trout Unlimited, Syracuse NY. 40 participants. November 6, 2013.
Rebecca J. Rundell
Rundell, R.J. 2013. Invertebrate evolution and conservation on the western Pacific archipelago of Belau
(Republic of Palau, Oceania). Biology Department Seminar. Clarkson University (Potsdam, New
York). 20 Sept. Attendance: 40. (Seminar)
Rundell, R.J. and Palau Conservation Society. 2013. Conservation priorities for Belau land snails and
their forest homes. A presentation for the Republic of Palau’s Conservation Managers Association,
Airai State and Oikull Community leaders, and Belau National Museum Board Members. Belau
National Museum (Koror, Republic of Palau). Date: 22 October; Attendance: 20. (Seminar)
Rundell, R.J. 2013. Belau ngetmakl depend on the forest. Belau land snails help the forest. Humans need
the forest, too. Science Classroom of Koror Elementary School (Koror, Republic of Palau). Date: 21
October; Attendance: 30 (Lecture and hands-on snail lab)
Rundell, R.J. 2013. Belau National Museum exhibits on Palau’s indigenous and endemic land snails and
their conservation. Land snail exhibits are located in the central area of the Natural History section of
the Museum. Belau National Museum (Koror, Republic of Palau). Dates: October –
Present/Indefinite; Attendance: 1000. (Exhibition)
EFB 311 Evolution Students (Rundell, R.J. 2014). International Darwin Day Celebration. This was an
officially registered exhibition of student-produced and designed posters, and was the sole publicized
Darwin Day event in Syracuse (International Darwin Day website: darwinday.org). In a collaboration
with Moon Library colleagues and President Quentin Wheeler, we awarded a student a permanent
bookplate in Moon Library’s copy of The Annotated Origin (authors Darwin, C. and Costa, J.T.).
Moon Library, SUNY-ESF (Syracuse, New York). Dates: 10-24 February; Attendance: 250.
(Exhibition)
Rundell, R.J. 2014. The Roosevelt Wild Life Station and its Collections: Wild life on the web. John Ben
Snow Foundation offices (Syracuse, New York). Date: 17 May; Attendance: 5. (Seminar and funding
talk)
Sadie J. Ryan
Cohen, J.B., Cheeseman, A., Gavard, E., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M. 2014. New England cottontail. New
York Fish and Wildlife Advisory Board meeting, Pulaski, NY. 20 attendees
Cohen, J.B., Cheeseman, A., Gavard, E., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M. 2014. New England cottontail. New
York Forest Owner’s Association meeting, Syracuse, NY. 40 attendees
Ryan, S.J. 2013. “Shifting ecologies of vector-borne diseases: novel emergence, recent resurgence, and
the usual suspects.” Tipping Points for Action: 5th annual invasive species workshop. Alverna
Heights, Fayetteville, NY. 40 attendees
Palace, M., J. Harter, S. Ryan, J. Diem, 2013, Remote sensing and tropical ecology in Africa. A talk
given to visiting Rotary Group from Niger, at UNH 2013. 20 attendees
Kimberly L. Schulz
SUNY Oneonta Friday Seminar Series in Biology, 7 March 2014. A quest to determine the roles of two
spiny predatory invertebrates in aquatic food webs. ~50 attendees.
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Donald J. Stewart
Stewart, D.J. Seeking and saving the diversity of Arapaima: Giant air-breathing fishes of the Amazon.
The Dale L. Travis Lecture Series, SUNY-ESF, 26 Mar. 2014.
Stewart, D.J. Conservation of Amazonian giant fishes: Implications of unrecognized diversity in
Arapaima. Invited Seminar, Biology Department, SUNY New Paltz, 18 Oct. 2013.
Stephen A. Teale
Yale Environment 360 – Quoted in article “In Galápagos, An Insidious Threat to Darwin's Finches”
September, 2013
Video interviews (1) EEE and mosquitoes, and (2) Lyme disease and ticks for NCC News, Syracuse
University
J. Scott Turner
Interview on Science Friday.28 March 2014. http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/03/28/2014/robotbuilders-with-bugs-for-brains.html
Christopher M. Whipps
2014 – Cohen, J.B., Cheeseman, A., Gavard, E., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M. New England cottontail. New
York Fish and Wildlife Advisory Board meeting, Pulaski, NY. 20 attendees
2014 – Cohen, J.B., Cheeseman, A., Gavard, E., Ryan, S.J., Whipps, C.M. New England cottontail. New
York Forest Owner’s Association meeting, Syracuse, NY. 40 attendees
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Appendix L. Miscellaneous Publications and Outreach Activities and Materials
John D. Castello
Castello, J.D., Cale, J.A., Castello, D.R., and Devlin, P. 2014. Provisional Patent Application Filed for
invention of a “Forest Structural Sustainability Calculator”. (a computer software program that
calculates a structural sustainability score and threshold value to quantitatively and objectively assess
forest health).
Cale, J.A., West, J.L., Teale, S.A., Castello, J.D., Johnston, M.T. (2013) Entomological and
physiological factors predisposing beech to infection by Neonectria pathogens in beech bark disease
aftermath forests. Phytopathology 103 (Supp. 2) (6): S2.23 (Abstract).
Martin Dovciak
Lawrence GB, Sullivan TJ, Burns DA, Cosby BJ, Dovčiak M, McDonnell TC, Minocha R, Quant J, Rice
KC, Siemion J, Weathers K. 2013. Acidic Deposition along the Appalachian Trail Corridor and its
Effects on Acid-Sensitive Terrestrial and Aquatic Resources. Results of the Appalachian Trail
MegaTransect Study. Report to NPS. 385 pages (in review/revision for NPS).
Nowak C, Quant J, Hopper E, Bartholomew C, Dovčiak M. 2013. Cost Effectiveness of Cleaning
Techniques for Controlling Human-Based Transport of Invasive Exotic Plants on Electric
Transmission Line Rights-of-Way, Second Technical Update. Report No. 3002001189, Electric
Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA. 74 pages.
John M. Farrell
Farrell, J. M., and J. Runner 2014. Muskellunge Monitoring and Management in the Thousand Islands
section of the St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2013 Great
Lakes Fishery Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report.
Farrell, J. M, and J. Runner. 2014. Northern Pike Monitoring in the Thousand Islands Section of the St.
Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2013 Great Lakes Fishery
Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report.
Melissa K. Fierke
M.K. Fierke, C.J. Foelker. 2014. Scorpionflies: Unusual Forest Insects. New York Forest Owner. In
Press.
Jacqueline L. Frair
Editor’s Choice – Managing for stepping stone habitats to facilitate species range expansion: generalized
network models lead the way. Published by The Journal of Applied Ecology online at
http://www.journalofappliedecology.org/view/0/editorChoice.html. January 2014. Written by J.
Frair
James P. Gibbs
Gibbs, J. P., 2014. Chasing the World’s Largest Sheep - Altai Argali - in the Russia-Mongolia
Transboundary Zone. Fair Chase, Spring 2014 34-38.
Robin W. Kimmerer
Kimmerer, R.W. 2014 “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the
Teachings of Plants. Released October 2014. Milkweed Editions. 329 pp.
Kimmerer,R.W. “Returning the Gift” in Minding Nature:Vol.8. No.1. Center for Humans and
Nature
Kimmerer, R.W, 2014 (in review)“Mishkos Kenomagwen: Lessons of Grass, restoring reciprocity
with the good green earth in "Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and
Sustainability," for Cambridge University Press. M.K. Nelson, D.B. Schilling, eds.
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Kimmerer, R.W, 2014. “Am I paying enough attention to the incredible things around me?” in
“Twenty Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself” invited feature in Oprah Magazine April
2014
Kimmerer, R.W. 2013 .Where the Land is the Teacher Adirondack Life Vol. XLIV no 4 p. 36–41
Kimmerer, R.W. 2013: Staying Alive (how plants survive the Adirondack winter) Vol. XLIV no 8
p. 18–22
Kimmerer, R. W. 2013 “What does the Earth Ask of Us?” Center for Humans and Nature, Questions for a
Resilient Future. http://www.humansandnature.org/earth-ethic---robin-kimmerer- response-80.php
Donald J. Leopold
Worked with editor of Scientific American article on the ecology and past importance of the American
chestnut to complement article contributed by William Powell in March 2014 issue. Work included
writing a summary article and taking editor to the field in September 2013. Article at:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chestnut-forest-a-new-generation-of-american-chestnut-trees-mayredefine-americas-forests/
Karin E. Limburg
Pine, W.E., III, Limburg, K.E., Korman, J., Hayden, T., Finch., C., Gerig, B., Dodrill, M. 2013.
Nearshore Ecology (NSE) of Grand Canyon Fish. Final Report to the Grand Canyon Monitoring and
Research Center. 433 pp.
Limburg, K.E., and N.H. Ringler. 2013. Relative Abundance of Blueback Herring (Alosa aestivalis) in
Relation to Permanent and Removable Dams on the Mohawk River. Final report to Cornell Water
Resources Institute.
Stacy A. McNulty
Beguin, S. and S. McNulty. The Boreal Baker’s Dozen: Northern Birds in Adirondack Wetlands.
Adirondack Almanack, 17 March 2014. http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2014/03/borealbakers-dozen-northern-birds-adirondack-wetlands.html
Beguin, S. and S. McNulty. 2014. Adirondack Wetlands: A New Citizen Science Monitoring Project.
Adirondack Almanack, 26 February 2014.
http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2014/02/phenological-detective-tracking-adirondackbiological-changes.html
Dylan Parry
Tobin, P.C., D. Parry, B.H. Aukema. 2014. The Influence of Climate Change on Insect Invasions in
Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Pp. 267-293 in Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests
in the 21st Century. Forestry Sciences Volume 81, T. Fanning (ed). Springer-Academic Press.
Return of the Gypsy’s. D. Parry. New York State Forest Owners Association Newsletter. November 2013
William A. Powell
The American Chestnut's Genetic Rebirth, by William Powell, Scientific American, March 2014 issue,
pages 68-73
Saving our forests from exotic pests and diseases, by William Powell, Post Standard invited Op Ed
article, (Sep. 2, 2013)
The Academic Minute (radio and web) – How genetic modification can save trees from pathogens.
Interviews leading to 14 (or possibly more) popular press articles and shows:
New York Times - Like-Minded Rivals Race to Bring Back the Chestnut Tree (July 13, 2013)
Time Warner Cable News - Bicyclists raise money and awareness for tree (August 22, 2013)
Eagle News Online - Skaneateles high school students get hands on experience in SUNY ESF lab
(October 2, 2013)
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Biology Fortified – What do you want to know about restoring the American Chestnut? (Oct. 8, 2013)
Channel 9 News – SUNY ESF scientists bringing back the American Chestnut tree (October 11, 2013)
The Post Standard/Syracuse.com - William A. Powell, SUNY ESF named Forest Biotechnologist of the
Year (Dec. 10, 2013)
Channel 9 Bridge Street – Dr. William Powell named Forest Biotechnologist of the Year (Dec. 11, 2013)
Reason.com - Science, Not Mysticism, Will Save the American Chestnut Tree (December 27, 2013)
Scientific American Web Exclusive - A New Generation of American Chestnut Trees May Redefine
America's Forests (March 1, 2014)
The Motley Fool - How Genetic Engineering Can Save the Iconic American Chestnut Tree (March 16,
2014)
The Daily Star - Chestnuts are making a comeback (March 28, 2014)
Wisdom (Forest Guild Publication) – American chestnut: A test case for genetic engineering? (April
2014)
NIFA Newsroom blog - NIFA program helps re-establish the American chestnut tree in the United States
(May 5, 2014)
New Scientist – American chestnut set for genetically modified revival (May 30, 2014)
Rebecca J. Rundell
Anonymous. 2013. Spectacular diversity discovered in Palau’s unique land snail biota. Tia Belau 22
[October 28]: 2, 11. (Republic of Palau) [Tia Belau is the Republic of Palau’s national newspaper; I
contributed this article to inform the widest audience in Palau about their indigenous terrestrial biota
and the importance of forest and limestone outcrop conservation]
Rundell, R.J. 2013. Land snail sampling protocol. Report to the Belau National Museum and Republic of
Palau Conservation Managers Association. 14 October 2013. pp. 1-5
Rundell, R.J. 2013. Recommendations for managing and maintaining Koror State forest trails and
recreation areas: Indigenous and endemic land snail perspective. Report to Koror State (Republic of
Palau) and Princess Blailes, Koror State Rangers. 6 November 2013. pp. 1-4.
Rundell, R.J. and J.E. Czekanski-Moir. 2014. Partulid conservation in the western Pacific islands of Belau
(Republic of Palau, Oceania). Tentacle. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Mollusc Specialist Group. 22:
31-33.
Rundell, R.J. 2014. National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan: Terrestrial Flora and Fauna.
Nonmarine Molluscs. Submitted to Palau Conservation Society 20 February 2014; Submitted to the
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on Behalf of the Republic of Palau in
March 2014. pp. 1-5.
Rundell, R.J. 2014. Terrestrial Flora and Fauna. Nonmarine Molluscs. Republic of Palau’s 5th National
Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity for the United Nations. Submitted to Palau
Conservation Society 20 February 2014; Submitted to the United Nations Convention on Biological
Diversity on Behalf of the Republic of Palau in March 2014. pp. 1-5.
News coverage for above two CBD reports in:
Anonymous. 2014. SUNY ESF biologist helps United Nations protect Palau snails: CNY Science. The
Post-Standard and Syracuse.com [March 25]: 1-2.
Kirschen, L. 2014. Slowly but surely: Professor travels to Micronesia, aids in protection of islands’
endangered snail population. The Daily Orange [March 31]: 1-4.
Sadie J. Ryan
Book Chapters
Johnson, L.R., Lafferty, K.D., McNally, A., Mordecai, E., Paaijmans, K., Pawar, S., Ryan, S.J. in press.
“Mapping the distribution of malaria: current methods and considerations”, in Spatial and temporal
dynamics of infectious diseases, Chen, D. ed., Wiley.
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Prins, H.T., Melletti, M., Korte, L., Cornelis, D., Mirabile, M., Ryan, S.J. in press. “Species Account:
African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)”, in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour of Wild Cattle: Implications
for Conservation. Burton, J. and Melletti, M., eds. Cambridge Press
J. Scott Turner
J S Turner. 2014. Book review: Comparative Biomechanics: Life’s Physical World, 2nd edition. Steven
Vogel. American Journal of Physics 82(3): 531-532.
J S Turner. 2014. People. Interview with Scott Turner. Zygote Quarterly 8. Winter 2013/2014. pp. 60-71.
Media
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2013.
Conversations with Scott Turner
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Quentin Wheeler
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Appendix M. Foreign Travel
Stewart A.W. Diemont
Chiapas and Oaxaca states in Mexico, various locations, 7/1/13-8/18/13. NSF-supported research on
traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Maya, working with doctoral students Tomek
Falkowski and Isaias Martinez and undergraduate student Ana Flores. Worked with Martinez on
Zapotec TEK in Oaxaca. Taught ESF course ERE 525/625 Ecosystem Restoration Design 8/4/138/18/13 (12 undergraduate students and 3 graduate students), Chiapas, Mexico.
Martin Dovciak
Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia (Aug. 5-19, 2013). Research on the mechanisms and
consequences of woody colonization of grasslands in the Carpathian Mountains
John M. Farrell
Quebec City, QC Canada – gave invited presentation and served on committee for PhD student from
University of Chicoutimi, Quebec.
Jacqueline L. Frair
Pantanal National Park and surrounding areas, Matto Grosso, Brazil. 6-28 Jun 2013. Participated in field
research program on jaguar in the region with graduate student Allison Devlin.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 1-28 Feb 2014. Worked with colleagues on animal
movement and resource selection models – part of ongoing collaborative research during my
sabbatical leave.
James P. Gibbs
Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, May – June 2013, Espanola Island to conduct research and plan management
activities (NSF and National Geographic projects)
Russia, Altai Republic, July and August 2013, meetings to advance projects in Altai and then transit to
and from Mongolia
Mongolia, Bayan Olgii Province, July and August 2013, herder surveys and rangeland quality assessment
research in Sielkhem National Park and adjoining areas (USAID project)
Ecuador, Galapagos, December 2013, Espanola Island to undertake management activities (NSF and
National Geographic projects)
Mexico, Feb 2014, serve of INECOL’s external evaluation committee
Ecuador, Galapagos May – June 2014, North Seymour, North and South Plazas, Baltra, Santa Fe and
Espanola Islands to conduct research and plan management activities (NSF and National Geographic
projects)
Karin E. Limburg
Bordeaux, France, July 2013, to teach in a summer school
Lee A. Newman
Bangkok, Thailand
2-6 Nov 2013
3-7 May 2014
To develop MOU with administration from Mahidol University
for a joint diploma program with their Biotechnology program
and a newly developed Environmental Biology Program
External examiner for Ph.D. student Jirawan Torit, previous
visiting student in my lab
Dylan Parry
Quebec and Ontario, Canada – August 2013: research collections
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Gordon Paterson
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada. May 26-30 2014. 57th Annual Conference of the
International Association for Great Lakes Research.
Rebecca J. Rundell
Montréal, Québec, CANADA: To give a talk at a scientific meeting (Special Meeting of the International
Biogeography Society: The Geography of Species Associations)
REPUBLIC OF PALAU: Field research; meetings and collaborations with state and federal agencies and
NGOs; school programs.
Sadie J. Ryan
July 14th- August 11th, 2013 – Uganda – Field research
Stephen A. Teale
Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, P.R. China, 3-17 July, 2013. To conduct field and laboratory
research on chemical attractants of various longhorned beetles of concern to forests in the U.S.
Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador, 12 March – 1 April, 2014.
J. Scott Turner
Delft, The Netherlands. October 2013. Invited speaker at Delft Technical University symposium on
Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design.
Bangalore, India. July 2014. Field research.
Namibia. May-June 2014. Field research.
Alex Weir
Moscow, Russia April 2014 – Meetings at Moscow State University to discuss Biological Station
Exchange Program
Ireland, May 2014 – Overseas Field Trip with 7 EFB students
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Appendix N. Theses and Dissertations completed
(i.e., all requirements met and degree awarded)
M.S. Theses
Alza, Carissa. Impacts of beaver disturbance on avian species richness and community composition in the
Central Adirondack Mountains, NY, USA (McNulty and Stella)
Baker, Daniele. Recovery of a hypereutrophic urban lake (Onondaga Lake, NY): Implications for
monitoring water quality and phytoplankton ecology (Mitchell and Schulz)
Bauer, Eric. Cascades Of enemy release: Impacts of an invasive species (Neogobius melanostomus) on
the parasite communities of two native predators (Micropterus dolomieu and Micropterus salmoides)
(Whipps)
Bouchard, Jessica R. Genetic and phenotypic diversity of Dryopteris fragrans, a rare fern in the temperate
forests of the Northeastern United States (Fernando)
Brumbelow, Thomas R. Population and microclimate studies of the American hart’s-tongue fern
(Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum (Fern.) Kartesz & Ghandi) in central New York
(Leopold)
Cai, Hua. Using augmented reality games as motivators for youth environmental education: An American
hart’s tongue fern conservation project (Folta)
Chaudhary, Anand Avian community composition, blood mercury and chromium in Onondaga Lake
Waste Beds, Onondaga County, New York (Cohen)
Clifford, Kean M. Morphological variation in the Bowfin (Amia calva Linneaus, 1766), with a
review of nominal species: Conservation implications (Stewart)
Costello, James. Habitat suitability for northern wild rice restoration: the role of pickerelweed in seedling
establishment (Kimmerer)
Cucura, Daniel. Kairomonal attraction of the native parasitoid, Ibalia leucospoides (Hymenoptera:
Ibaliidae), to Amylostereum areolatum, a mycosymbiont of Sirex noctilio (Teale)
Delaney, Frances J. Short-term response of alvar vegetation following treatment of exotic woody plant
species: A case study at Lucky Star Ranch, Chaumont, NY (Leopold)
Figary, Stephanie. Invasive species spread and impacts: A natural experiment with invasive Cercopagis
pengoi in the New York Finger Lakes (Schulz)
Jivoff, BettyJo. Environmental and ecological limits on native stress-tolerant plant species on calcareous
restoration (Leopold)
Jones, Jaime B. Vernal pools of the Northeastern Unitied States: Plant assemblages and environmental
conditions of constructed and natural ephemeral pools in New York State (Leopold)
Karboski, Curtis. Seasonal utilization by Brown Trout (Salmo trutta L.) of a recovering urban system
(Ringler)
Karniski, Natasha. Effects of snow on American martens and fishers in the Adirondack Mountains, New
York (Lomolino)
Kilhefer, Chellby. Effects of landscape composition and structure on abundance and distribution of urban
white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (Underwood)
Mandel, Jill. Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) as potential bioindicators of the pollution levels of
watersheds in the northeastern United States from 1873 to 2012 (Shields and Limburg)
Nowak-Boyd, Laurel. Estimating occupancy and abundance of ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus
colchicus) in Western New York State (Cohen)
Ogburn, Emily. Banded Killifish (Fundulus diaphanus) parasite communities of the Hudson River
Estuary: a prelude to restoration (Whipps and Limburg)
Quant, Juliana. Forest communities along soil, acid, deposition, and climate gradients of the Appalachian
Trail (Dovciak and Leopold)
Quinonez, Ana Caldron. Assessment of movement corridors for jaguar movement in eastern Guatemala
(Frair)
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Ren, Qing. Evaluating environmental interpretation at the International Crane Foundation (Folta)
Velardi, Sara. An exploration into the components of effective professional development for science
educators: A case study with the environmental education organization Project Learning Tree ®
(Folta)
Walling, Rebecca. Effects of earthworm invasions on soil properties, plant communities, and
ectomycorrhizal fungi (Horton)
Yantachka, Jennifer. Forest bird communities in the Adirondack Mountains of New York: Investigating
the effects of calcium availability and field testing an automated monitoring system (Beier)
Ph.D. Dissertations
Alvarez-Yepiz, Juan Carlos, Mechanisms of persistence in a rare cycad in northwestern Mexico
(Dovciak)
Bowman, Keith. The effect of forest edges on bryophyte communities in northern white-cedar swamps of
central New York (Kimmerer)
Hayward, Jeremy. Specificity and facilitation in the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: implications for
biological invasions and isolated islands (Horton)
Kirby, Lucas. Recolonization of macroinvertebrates in a recovering urban lake (Onondaga Lake,
Syracuse, NY): Analysis within distinct communities of aquatic macrophytes (Ringler)
Meyers, Seth. Land use/land cover change modeling: Investigation of calibration methods and the
influence of income on physical constraints to development at multiple scales (C. Hall and M. Hall)
Raney, Patrick A. Identifying potential refugia from climate change in wetlands (Leopold)
Smith, Alex. Establishing thresholds in nutrient concentrations related to biological community response:
Implications for nutrient criteria development (Limburg and Ringler)
Turner, Sara. Understanding River Herring Movement Patterns at Small and Large Scales Through
Geochemical Markers (Limburg)
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Appendix O. MPS students who completed degree requirements
Ganzia, Anna. (Dovciak and Gibbs)
Geliebter, David. (Leopold)
Hartley, Laura. (Mitchell)
Holmes, Elisabeth. (Horton)
Iegorova, Ielizaveta. (Gibbs)
Karpenko, Darya. (Gibbs)
LeGrande, Christa. Project title: Importance of GIS and spatial analysis tools in wildlife programs,
disciplines, and field positions for wildlife professionals (Frair)
Maldonado, Sarah. (Folta)
Miller, Jessica Lynn. (Rundell)
Purcell, Kelley. (Folta)
Scales, Lindsay. (Ryan)
Shevtsova, Olga. (Dovciak and Gibbs)
Shynkarenko, Natalia. (Dovicak and Gibbs)
Smith, Stephanie. (Fernando and Kimmerer)
Stewart, Kristen Russell. (Powell)
Walz, Kenneth Chad. (Schulz)
Zimmern-Kahan, Tiferet. (Folta)
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Appendix P. Faculty and Student Awards
FACULTY – DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND SUNY RECOGNITION
Elizabeth Folta
Lee A. Newman
William A. Powell
SUNY-ESF President’s Award for Community Service
SUNY-ESF Undergraduate Student Association Best Advisor Award
SUNY-ESF Exemplary Researcher Award
FACULTY – REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
Thomas R. Horton
Robin W. Kimmerer
Donald J. Leopold
Myron J. Mitchell
William A. Powell
Donald J. Stewart
William H. Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mycological Society of
America.
John Burroughs Essay Award
Purdue University Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award
Adirondack Research Consortium’s Adirondack Achievement Award
2013 Forest Biotechnologist of the Year (Institute of Forest Biotechnology)
Best paper of the year in Coepia
GRADUATE STUDENTS – DEPARTMENT AND COLLEGE RECOGNITION
Juan Carlos Alvarez-Yepiz
Juan Carlos Alvarez-Yepiz
Andrew S. Brainard
Jonathan Cale
Joelle Chille
Matthew P. DaRin
Christopher J. Foelker
Christopher J. Foelker
Joseph Folta
Rebecca Fuda
Emily Gavard
Lauren M. Goldmann
Daniel J.Gurdak
William Helenbrook
Kristen R. Haynes
Rie Iriyama
Georgia Keene
Alison R. Kocek
Stewart LaPan
Emily Ogburn
Amanda Pachomski
Michael S. Parisio
Qing Ren
Neil R. Schoppmann
Andrea Thomen
Andrew L. Tomes
Rebecca Walling
Tess E. Youker
Tess E. Youker
Miguel Angel Garmendia Zapata
Wilfred Dence Scholarship
EFB Outstanding Doctoral Student
Leroy C. Stegeman Award
EFB Outstanding Doctoral Student
ESF Graduate Student Travel Grant
Robert A. Zabel Endowed Scholarship
Josiah L. Lowe-Hugh E. Wilcox Graduate Scholarship
Gerald Lanier Memorial
ESF Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award
ESF Graduate Student Travel Grant
SUNY ESF Spotlight on Research poster session, 3rd place
Josiah L. Lowe-Hugh E. Wilcox Graduate Scholarship
Robert L. Burgess Graduate Scholarship in Ecology
SUNY ESF Spotlight on Research poster session, 2nd place
Edwin H. Ketchledge Scholarship
Josiah L. Lowe-Hugh E. Wilcox Graduate Scholarship
ESF Graduate Student Association Travel Grant
Betty Moore Chamberlaine Memorial Award
ESF Graduate Student Travel Grant
ESF Graduate Student Travel Grant
ESF Graduate Student Association Research Grant
Leroy C. Stegeman Award
Fink Fellowship
John and Etta Simeone Scholarship
ESF Graduate Student Travel Grant
Josiah L. Lowe-Hugh E. Wilcox Graduate Scholarship
ESF Graduate Student Travel Grant
ESF Graduate Student Association Research Grant
Maurice and Annette Alexander Wetlands Research Award
Dr. Samuel Grober ’38 Graduate Fellowship
GRADUATE STUDENTS – REGIONAL AND NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Katrina Alger
Melissa Althouse
Melissa Althouse
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Roy W. Glahn Memorial Scholarship from Central NY Wildfowlers Assoc.
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Michelle Avis
Michelle Avis
Michelle Avis
Silvia Saldivar Bellassai
Sam Beguin
Andrew Brainard
Jonathan Cale
Amanda Cheeseman
Maureen Durkin
Thomas Evans
Christopher Foelker
Rebecca Fuda
Matt Gunderson
Jonas Hamberg
Molly Hassett
Molly Hassett
Molly Hassett
Kristen Haynes
Georgia R. Keene
Alison Kocek
Alison Kocek
Kapil Mandrekar
Andrew Miano
Misha Paltsyn
Terra Rentz
Neil Schoppmann
Andrea Thomen
Andrea Thomen
Tess Youker
Miguel Angel Garmendia Zapata
The Waterbird Society Travel Grant
The Waterbird Society Annual Meeting, first runner up for Best Student Paper
International Ornithological Congress Travel Award
Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund grant
Cullman Grant from Northern New York Audubon Society
Northeast Aquatic Plant Management Society Graduate Scholarship
Northeastern Division of the Amer. Phytopath. Society Best Grad. Student Pres.
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
The Waterbird Society Travel Grant
Great Lakes Fishery Commission research grant
Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, 1 st place, oral
presentation
Idea Wild Research Award
NY Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting Best Poster
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Sussman Foundation Fellowship Trustees Supplemental Award for Excellence
American Wildlife Conservation Foundation Grant
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2 nd place, poster
presentation
The Waterbird Society Travel Grant
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Research Grant
American Wildlife Conservation Foundation Grant
IUCN Cat Specialist Group Member
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
Rizek Cacao Group Research Award
Neotropical Bird Club Research Award
Western New York Herpetological Society Student Research Award
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation Fellowship
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS – DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND SUNY RECOGNITION
Beverly J. Agtuca
Beverly J. Agtuca
Lauren V. Alteio
Lauren V. Alteio
Lauren V. Alteio
Lauren V. Alteio
Katy Michelle Austin
Katy Austin
Jaime Barrett
Brian Busby
Maya Brzezicki
Timothy E. Callahan
Cameron A. Carter
Morgan Payne Connolly
Morgan Payne Connolly
Morgan Payne Connolly
Elizabeth J. DiPaola
Joshua Enck
Isabella M. Garramone
Shaler K. Garrett
Michael Grassa
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Patricia ’78 and Jeff ’77 Morrell Scholarship
Chun-Juan K. Wang Honor Award
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – Wildlife Science
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Guy Baldassarre Memorial Scholarship
Savel B. Silverborg Memorial
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – Environmental Biology
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – All Majors
Phyllis Roskin Memorial Award
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – Biotechnology
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – Natural History & Interpretation
Joseph & Ruth Hasenstab Memorial Scholarship
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
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Sabrina L. Green
Erik J. Hazelton
Abigail Jones
Robert T. Meyer
Jesse E. Olsen
Jesse E. Olsen
Sophia A. Pevzner
Sophia A. Pevzner
Sara A. Prussing
Sara A. Prussing
Claire L. Revekant
Thomas A. Ryan
Ryan A. Scheel
Amy L. Shaw
James A. Tucci
James Tucci
Hui Lian Xin
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – Aquatic & Fisheries Science
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Fink Fellowship
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – Conservation Biology
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Ralph T. King Memorial Award
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Graduate of SUNY ESF Undergraduate Honors Program
Alumni Association Memorial Scholarship Honorable Mention (Senior class)
Distinguished Biology Scholar Award – Forest Health
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS – REGIONAL & NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Katy Austin
ESF Chapter TWS
ESF Chapter TWS
Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize, Syracuse University
NYS TWS Quiz Bowl (members: Peter Iacona, Thea Cooper, Rob Meyer, Sarah
McIntire) Champions
TWS Northeast Student Conclave Quiz Bowl Champions
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Appendix Q. New York Natural Heritage Program
2013-14 Publications, Presentations and Service
Publications
Corser, J. D., E. L. White, and M. D. Schlesinger. 2014. Odonata origins, biogeography, and
diversification in an Eastern North American hotspot: Multiple pathways to high temperate forest
insect diversity. Insect Conservation and Diversity. doi:10.1111/icad.12065.
Dean, J.M., Mescher, M.C., and De Moraes, C.M. 2014. Plant dependence on rhizobia for nitrogen
influences induced plant defenses and herbivore performance. International Journal of Molecular
Sciences 15 (1), 1466-1480.
Mawdsley, J. R., M. D. Schlesinger, T. Simmons, and O. J. Blanchard. 2013. Status of the tiger beetle
Cicindela hirticollis Say (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in New York City and on Long Island, New
York, USA. Insecta Mundi 0317:1–7.
Morton, C. M. and M. D. Schlesinger. Accepted. Low genetic diversity and poor dispersal, but not
conservation status rank, are linked to climate change vulnerability. Journal of the Botanical Research
Institute of Texas.
Papers Submitted, In Review, Pending Decision
Feinberg, J. A., C. E. Newman, G. J. Watkins-Colwell, M. D. Schlesinger, B. Zarate, B. R. Curry, H. B.
Shaffer, and J. Burger. In revision. Cryptic diversity in Metropolis: Confirmation of a new leopard
frog species (Anura: Ranidae) from New York City and surrounding Atlantic Coast regions. PLOS
One.
White, E. L., P. D. Hunt, M. D. Schlesinger, J. D. Corser, and P. G. deMaynadier. In review. Prioritizing
Odonata for conservation action in the northeastern US. Submitted to Freshwater Science.
Howard, T.G., and J. Goren. In review. Monitoring Plant Populations in the Adirondack Alpine.
Submitted to Proceedings of the 8th Northeast Alpine Stewardship Gathering.
Papers/Posters Presented at Science Meetings
Dean, J.M. 2013 (Presentation). Communicating Hydrilla Search Efforts in New York: Using
iMapInvasives with Professionals and Volunteers. MIPN/OIPC Invasive Plant Symposium.
Columbus, OH.
Dean, J.M. 2013 (Invited Presentation). Crowdsourcing Invasive Species Information. NY GeoCon.
Saratoga Springs, NY.
Edinger, G. J. 2013. Developing vegetation classifications for federal lands in New York using analysis of
plot data. Presentation at the Ecological Society of America conference in Minneapolis, MN. August
7, 2013.
Kinal, B.T.2014 (Presentation). Engaging citizen scinetists and students through invasive species
mapping projects. NatureServe Biodiversity Without Boundaries Conference. New Orelans, LA
Schlesinger, M. D. and T. G. Howard. 2014. Multi-species distribution modeling to inform wind energy
siting. Presentation at the NatureServe Biodiversity without Boundaries conference in New Orleans,
LA. April 10, 2014.
White, E. L., P. D. Hunt, M. D. Schlesinger, J. D. Corser, and P. G. deMaynadier. 2014. Conservation
status assessment of Odonata in the northeastern US. Presentation at the NatureServe Biodiversity
without Boundaries conference in New Orleans, LA. April 9, 2014.
White, E.L., J.D. Corser, M.D. Schlesinger, P.G. Novak, P.D. Hunt, and P.G. deMaynadier. 2014. The
New York Dragonfly and Damselfly Survey (2005-2009) and the Conservation status assessment of
Odonata in the northeastern US. Presentation at the Dragonfly Society of the America's NE regional
meeting in Binghamton, NY. June 27, 2014.
Howard, T.G. and J.Goren. 2013. Monitoring Plant Populations in the Adirondack Alpine. Presentation at
the 8th Northeast Alpine Stewardship Gathering. November 2, 2013.
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Howard, T.G. and J.Goren. 2014. Monitoring Plant Populations in the Adirondack Alpine. NatureServe
Biodiversity without Boundaries conference in New Orleans, LA. April 8, 2014.
Unfunded Service to Professional Societies and Organizations
Chaloux, A. 2012-present. Co-Chair, Northeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation.
Conrad, N.B. 2010-present. President of the Board, Rensselaer Land Trust.
Conrad, N.B. 2005-present. Secretary, Board of Directors, Friends of the Dyken Pond Center.
Ring, R.M. 2008-present. Board of Directors, New York Flora Association.
Feldmann, A.L. 2010-2013. Board of Directors, New York Flora Association.
Young, S. 2013-present. Organizer of Adirondack Botanical Society.
Young, S. 2013-present. Vice President of the Board, New York Flora Association.
Young, S. Organizer Capital District Friday Field Group.
Funded Service to Governmental Agencies, Public Interest Groups, etc.
Conrad, N.B. 2014. Natural Heritage Animal Screening Layers and Element Occurrence Data. Training
workshop for NYS DEC Region 3 staff.
Dean, J.M. 2013 (Invited Presentation). iMapInvasives: The NYS Invasive Species Database. NYS DEC
Bureau of Fisheries Managers. Canandaigua, NY.
Dean, J.M. 2013 (Invited Presentation). Tools for reaching target audiences with outreach messages .
CCE Invasive Species Inservice Conference. Ithaca, NY.
Evans, D.J. 2007 - present. Member, Chair. US Section Council, NatureServe Network.
Evans, D.J. 2007 – present. Member, New York State Invasive Species Advisory Committee.
Evans, D.J. 2013. Member, NatureServe Board of Directors.
Evans, D.J. 2013 Biodiversity Inventory on Public Lands in New York. 2013. Presentation to New Jersey
State Forestry Services – Office of Natural Lands Management, December 4.
Spencer, E. A., J.D. Corser, and R.M. Ring. 2014. Tools To Inform Management at the Landscape Scale:
Forest Matrix Blocks and Connectivity. Training Workshops for NYS DEC Foresters in Regions 3, 4,
7, 8, and 9.
White E. Member, Steering Committee Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative Stream
Classification System.
White, E. Member, Steering Committee Conservation Assessment of Odonata (Dragonflies and
Damselflies) in the Northeast Region and Project Manager.
iMapInvasives Training Sessions presented by various NYNHP Staff:
Otsego CCE Master Gardeners. Oneonta. 2013.
Hydrilla Hunt online video training. Online. 2013.
DEC Fisheries Managers Meeting. Canandaigua, NY. 2013.
CCE In-Service - Ithaca NY. Ithaca, NY. 2013.
SUNY-Oneonta BFS Graduate Class. Oneonta. 2013.
Rochester Institute of Technology Lectures. Rochester, NY. 2013.
SUNY ESF Class-Tech in Envir Education (Folta). Syracuse. 2014.
NYS DOT Region 9 - Herbicide Update Class. Binghamton, NY. 2014.
Capital-Mohawk PRISM Training. Voorhesville, NY. 2014.
CRISP PRISM Training. Olivebridge, NY. 2014.
Sullivan County CCE - Master Gardeners. Liberty, NY. 2014.
WNY PRISM Training. Jamestown, NY. 2014.
SLELO PRISM Training. Watertown, NY. 2014.
APIPP PRISM Training. Paul Smiths, NY. 2014.
Finger Lakes PRISM Training. Homer, NY. 2014.
Lower Hudson PRISM Extra Training. Middletown, NY. 2014.
Lower Hudson PRISM Training. Millbrook, NY. 2014.
LIISMA PRISM Training. Shirley, NY. 2014.
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Presentations to the Public
Edinger, G. J. 2013. Developing vegetation classifications for federal lands in New York using analysis of
plot data. Invited lecture at SUNY Cobleskill, March 26, 2014.
Ring, Richard M. 2013. Rare Plant Species of New York State. Invited lecture at the Hyuck Preserve &
Biological Research Station, Rensselaerville, NY. July 11, 2013.
Schlesinger, M. D. 2013. Tiger beetles and leopard frogs: Rare animals and the New York Natural
Heritage Program. Invited lecture at the Hyuck Preserve & Biological Research Station,
Rensselaerville, NY. July 11, 2013.
White, E. L. 2014. Identifying high-quality streams in the Hudson River Valley. Presentation and
workshop at the Stephentown Historical Society to Rensselaer Land Trust volunteers. June 21, 2014.
Howard, T.G., and A.L.Feldmann. 2013. Wetland Monitoring for Lake Ontario Adaptive Management.
Presentation at the DEC Lake Ontario Ecosystem Forum, August 15, 2013.
Miscellaneous Publications and Outreach Activities and Materials
Dean, J.M. 2013 (Lecture). Mapping Invasive Species in New York. SUNY Oneonta course: Biological
Invasions (Dr. David Wong). Oneonta, NY.
Dean, J.M. 2013 (Lecture). Mapping Invasive Species in New York. Rochester Institute of Technology College of Life Sciences Courses (Drs. Karl Korfmacher and Susan Pagano). Rochester, NY.
Dean, J.M. 2014 (Lecture). Mapping Invasive Species with Students. SUNY ESF EFB course:
Technology in Environmental Education (Dr. Beth Folta). Syracuse, NY.
Dean, J.M. 2014 (Lecture). Invasive Species Efforts in NY. SUNY ESF EFB course: Invasive Species
Management (Dr. Dylan Parry). Syracuse, NY.
Edinger, G.J. 2014. Kohler Environmental Center Ecological Community Classification and Mapping.
New York Natural Heritage Program, Albany, NY.
Edinger, G.J., A.L. Feldmann, T.G. Howard, J.J. Schmid, F.C. Sechler, E. Eastman, E. Largay, L.A.
Sneddon, C. Lea, and J. Von Loh. 2014. Vegetation Inventory: Saratoga National Historical Park,
New York. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NETN/NRTR-2014/XXX, National Park
Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Edinger, G. J., D. J. Evans, S. Gebauer, T. G. Howard, D. M. Hunt, and A. M. Olivero (editors). 2014.
Ecological Communities of New York State. Second Edition. A revised and expanded edition of
Carol Reschke's Ecological Communities of New York State. New York Natural Heritage Program,
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY.
Feldmann, Aissa L., T. G. Howard. 2013. Landscape Condition Assessment (LCA2) for New York. New
York Natural Heritage Program, Albany, NY.
Langdon, S.F., S. Beguin, G.J. Edinger, M. Rooks, C. Beier, P.B. Hai, S. McNulty, and D. Patrick (eds.).
2014. Developing a monitoring program for detecting wetland response to climate change in the
Adirondack Park: Phase I Protocol development and implementation. A report prepared for the U.S.
EPA
Schlesinger, M. D. and L. A. Bonacci. 2014. Baseline monitoring of large whales in the New York Bight.
New York Natural Heritage Program and New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, Albany and East Setauket, New York.
Sechler, F.C., G. J. Edinger, T.G. Howard, J.J. Schmid, E. Eastman, E. Largay, L.A. Sneddon, C. Lea,
and J. Von Loh. 2014. Vegetation Classification and Mapping at Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National
Historic Sites, New York. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NETN/NRTR-2014/XXX,
National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Appendix R. Annual Report for the Thousand Islands Biological Station
(submitted by John M. Farrell, Director)
The TIBS mission is to conserve aquatic resources using ecosystem-based science and
monitoring to inform decision makers and society while providing exceptional
educational experiences for students and the community.
The TIBS research program at SUNY ESF continues to advance scientific inquiry of the St.
Lawrence River to guide management activities and understand impacts affecting the ecosystem. Many
faculty, staff and undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of institutions are attracted to the
unique nature of this immense river that is the natural outlet to the Laurentian Great Lakes. A long-term
monitoring program continues with support of the New York State Department of Conservation (DEC)
through the Federal Sportfish Restoration Program. Other DEC supported projects are examining fish
population ecology, especially natural reproduction of major sportfishes that serve as apex predators in
the ecosystem. The Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy, funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, advances a partnership of ESF research with agencies
including non-governmental organizations to develop, evaluate, and seek opportunities for ecological
restoration. With funding originating from the NOAA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in partnership
with Ducks Unlimited, TIBS researchers are investigating novel coastal wetland enhancements and the
effects of system-wide water level management administered by the International Joint Commission.
This research incorporates wetland biogeochemistry, nutrient dynamics and lower trophic levels through
higher vertebrates including herpetofauna, avifauna and fish. The Great Lakes Fisheries Commission is
funding a partnership of scientists and managers to assess the genetic integrity of muskellunge across the
entire Great Lakes system. A New York SeaGrant funded project with the Cornell Veterinary College
Fish Health Diagnostics Laboratory is examining effects of an invasive disease outbreak on muskellunge.
Graduate student and undergraduate student projects, with the support of a variety of faculty provide a
diverse research portfolio with many related studies supported by extramural grants. EFB class field trips
and many outreach activities maintain a strong connection to the St. Lawrence River community and
provide students and staff opportunities for information exchange. We are excited about the progress
achieved and ESF’s commitment to aquatic research and conservation in the face of significant and
evolving environmental challenges.
Administration
Dr. John M. Farrell, Director, TIBS
Dr. Donald J. Leopold, Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology
Dr. Bruce Bongarten, Provost, SUNY ESF
Dr. Quentin Wheeler, President, SUNY ESF
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Staff (all supported on extramural funding)
Jacob Runner, Senior Research Support Specialist and Laboratory Manager
Brandy Brown, Senior Research Support Specialist, Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy
Gillian Avruskin, Senior Research Support Specialist, Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy
Nicole Balk, Field Technician
Mariah Taylor, Field Technician
Graduate students
Andrew Miano (MS – Advisor, Dr. Farrell)
Ben Amos (MS – Advisor, Dr. Farrell)
Eric Bauer (MS – Advisor, Dr. Whipps)
Kelly Huffman (MS – Advisors, Dr. Farrell & Dr. Whipps)
Ceili Bachman (MS – Advisors, Dr. Mitchell & Dr. Schulz)
Matt Regan (MS – Advisor, Dr. Leopold)
Alex Looi (MS – Advisor, Dr. Schulz)
Stewart LaPan ( MS – Advisors, Dr. Gibbs & Dr. Farrell)
Mark Leopold (MS – Advisor, Dr. Farrell)
Geof Eckerlin (PhD – Advisor, Dr. Farrell)
Aline Foubert (PhD – Quebec - Advisors, Dr. Mingelbier & Dr. Lecomte)
Undergraduate students
Avriel Diaz – NOAA Field Technician
Eric Johns – Field Technician
Matthew Hamilton – Federal Work-Study Student (funded through EFB)
Nathan Heath – NOAA Field Technician
Emily Landers– Federal Work-Study Student (funded through EFB)
Stanley Kolokovskiy – Federal Work-Study Student (funded through EFB)
Jeffrey Russell – NOAA Laboratory Technician
Amy Shaw – Field and Laboratory Technician and EFB Honors Research
James P. Tucci – Laboratory Technician and EFB Honors Research
Peter Zimmer – Field Technician
Some of the TIBS students and staff during summer of 2013
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Faculty involvement
Dr. Julie Clausen, University of Illinois- Smallmouth Bass nesting study
Dr. Emily Cromwell, Cornell University Veterinary College – NY SeaGrant VHSV study
Dr. Rodman Getchell, Cornell University Veterinary College – NY SeaGrant VHSV study
Dr. James Gibbs, ESF, NOAA wetlands restoration project – avian and herpetofauna
Dr. Frederick Lecomte, INRS Quebec & University of Chicoutimi, Quebec – larval fish ecology
Dr. Donald Leopold, ESF, NOAA wetlands restoration project – plant ecology
Dr. Kevin Kapuscinski , ESF, FA project – esocid diet study
Dr. Marc Mingelbier, INRS Quebec – larval fish ecology project
Dr. Myron Mitchell, ESF, NOAA wetlands restoration project – biogeochemistry
Dr. Gordon Paterson, ESF, FA project – sex ratio study
Dr. David Phillip, University of Illinois – Smallmouth Bass nesting study
Dr. Kimberly Schulz, ESF, NOAA wetlands restoration project – lower trophic levels and nutrients
Dr. Mark Teece, ESF, Round Goby diet study
Dr. Chris Whipps, ESF, FA project Northern Pike sex ratio study
Populations of Great Lakes Muskellunge along with a variety of fishes and critical habitats are
monitored at ESF TIBS as part of a long-term research program
Research (active grants listed - $2.45M in projects and $1.47M to CIRTAS and TIBS facilities)
Farrell, J.M., C. Whipps, and K.L. Kapuscinski. 4/1/2013-3/31/2016. St. Lawrence River Fisheries
Research and Management. Federal Aid in Sportfish Restoration, NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation, $715,001
Farrell, J. M, D. J. Leopold, M. Mitchell, J. Gibbs, K. Schulz. 9/2011-9/2014, Recovery Act – Coastal
Fisheries Habitat Restoration in the St. Lawrence River. NOAA Coastal and Marine Habitat
Restoration Project Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, $397,722
Farrell, J. M. 8/1/12-9/30/15. The St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy: Evaluation of
Habitat Enhancements and Development of Novel Restoration Approaches. National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation, $610,073
Farrell, J. M., 4/1/2011-6/30/2013. Development and Management of St. Lawrence River Fisheries.
Federal Aid in Sportfish Restoration, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, $640,963
Getchell R., and J. M. Farrell. 2/1/14-1/31/16. The Impact of VHSV on the Population Dynamics of St.
Lawrence River Muskellunge. Cornell University/NY Sea Grant, $42,960; $5,000 to ESF).
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Hanchin, P., B.L. Sloss, L. Miller, C. Wilson, K. L. Kapuscinski, K. Schribner, and J. M. Farrell.
Delineation of Natural Boundaries of Muskellunge in the Great Lakes and the effects of
Supplementation on Genetic Integrity of Native Stocks. Great Lakes Fisheries Commission, $42,721;
ESF share $4,705
Ringler, N. H., K. A. Schulz, J. M. Farrell, M. A. Teece, and J. Brunner. 1/1/10-09/30/13. Renovation of
Wet Labs and Cyber-Infrastructure to Enhance Integrated Research and Teaching. National Science
Foundation $1,470,000
Radio link for cyber-infrastructure connection from TIBS
boathouse to the mainland in Clayton NY. Fiber
connections and wireless provide high speed and
dedicated bandwidth to the entire Governors Island
facility. Improvements were provided to connect the ESF
campus CIRTAS facility with TIBS and funded by an NSF
grant. Improvements were completed in spring of 2014.
Publications
Crane, D.C., and J. M. Farrell. 2013. Spawning substrate size, shape, and siltation influence on walleye
egg retention. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33:329–337.
Kapuscinski, K.L., Sloss, B.L., and J. M. Farrell. 2013. Genetic population structure of muskellunge in
the Great Lakes. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 142:1075-1089.
Murry, B. A., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Resistance of the size structure of the fish community to
ecological perturbations in a large river ecosystem. Freshwater Biology 59:155-167.
Crane, D.C., J. M. Farrell, and K.L. Kapuscinski. 2014. Identifying important micro-habitat
characteristics of muskellunge spawning locations in the upper Niagara River. Journal of Great Lakes
Research 40(2) 325-335.
Roseman, E.F., P. Thompson, J. M. Farrell, N. Mandrak, C. A. Stepien. 2014. Conservation and
management of fisheries and aquatic communities in Great Lakes connecting channels. Journal of
Great Lakes Research 40, Supplement 2:1-6.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133014000598
Henning, B. F., K.L. Kapuscinski, and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Nearshore fish assemblage structure and
habitat relationships in protected and open habitats in the upper St. Lawrence River. Journal of Great
Lakes Research 40, Supplement 2:154-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2013.11.003
Farrell, J. M., H. Brian Underwood, and K.L. Kapuscinski. 2014. Fine scale habitat use by age-1 stocked
muskellunge and wild northern pike in an upper St. Lawrence River bay. Journal of Great Lakes
Research 40, Supplement 2:148-153.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133013001706
Kapuscinski, K. L, J. M. Farrell, and M. A. Wilkinson. 2014. Trends in the muskellunge (Esox
masquinongy) population and fishery of the Buffalo Harbor (Lake Erie) and upper Niagara River.
Great Lakes Research 40, Supplement 2:125-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2012.11.006
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Kapuscinski, K. L, and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Habitat factors influencing fish assemblages at muskellunge
nursery sites. Great Lakes Research 40, Supplement 2:135-147.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2012.11.007.
Bauer, E.F., Whipps, C.M. (accepted) Smallmouth bass parasites in the St. Lawrence River, an ecosystem
with hyper-abundant invasive prey. Journal of Parasitology.
Kapuscinski, K. L., J. M. Farrell, M. A. Wilkinson, L. C. Skinner, W. Richter, A. J. Gudlewski, and G.
Paterson. (accepted) Low concentrations of contaminants in an invasive, omnivorous cyprinid, the
Rudd, in a Great Lakes area of concern. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology.
Published reports
Farrell, J. M., and J. Runner. 2014. Muskellunge monitoring and management in the Thousand Islands
section of the St. Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2013 Great
Lakes Fishery Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report.
Farrell, J. M., and J. Runner. 2014. Northern pike monitoring in the Thousand Islands Section of the St.
Lawrence River. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation 2013 Great Lakes Fishery
Commission Lake Ontario Committee Annual Report.
Experimental tank system recently installed in the Marc A. F. Baker wet lab at TIBS. The system is equipped
with 18 tanks with independent air and flow regulation that will enhance researcher ability to conduct
controlled and replicated experiments. Water is carbon filtered and treated with ultraviolet sterilization to
ensure purity.
Presentations (scientific)
Amos, B., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Spatial Scale and Natal Influence on Spawning Site Fidelity in
Northern Pike: Investigation using Otolith Microchemistry Techniques. New York Chapter Meeting
of the American Fisheries Society. Geneva NY.
Amos, B., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Spatial Scale and Natal Influence on Spawning Site Fidelity in
Northern Pike: Investigation using Otolith Microchemistry Techniques. Spotlight on Student
Research Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY.
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Bachman C., M. Mitchell, J. M. Farrell and K. A. Schulz. 2013. Freshwater Marshes and Water Level
Regulation: Effects on Nutrients and Lower Trophic Levels in Surface Water. Society of Wetland
Scientists Annual Meeting, Duluth MN.
Bachman C., M. Mitchell, J. M. Farrell and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Drowned River Mouth Wetlands and
Water Level Regulation: Effects on Water Chemistry and Plankton Communities. Poster
Presentation. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland Oregon.
Bachman C., M. Mitchell, J. M. Farrell and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Drowned River Mouth Wetlands and
Water Level Regulation: Effects on Water Chemistry and Plankton Communities. Spotlight on
Student Research Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY.
Crane, D. P., J. M. Farrell, and K. L. Kapuscinski. 2013. Predictive modeling of Muskellunge spawning
habitat in U.S. waters of the upper Niagara River. 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries
Society, Little Rock, AR.
Crane, D. P., J. M. Farrell, D. W. Einhouse, and J. R. Lantry. 2014. Trends in body conditions of native
piscivores following round goby invasion in Lakes Erie and Ontario. Minnesota Chapter of the
American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Mankato, MN.
DeVilbiss, K. and J. M. Farrell. 2013. Warming waters: a comparison of pike family metabolic
responses. National American Fisheries Society 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries
Society, Little Rock, AR (AFS Skinner Memorial Scholarship Honorable Mention).
Farrell, J.M., 2013. Long-term Studies of Fish Reproduction in a Changing Environment: Will
Recruitment Sustain Future Populations? Cornell University Biological Station Seminar Series.
Farrell, J. M. 2013. An Overview of the Aquatic Research Program on the Upper St. Lawrence River.
Seminar for the INRS (National Research Institute) Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Farrell, J. M. 2013. Current challenges and threats to Great Lakes muskellunge and northern pike
populations. (Invited Session Plenary Speaker) 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries
Society, Little Rock, AR.
Farrell, J. M. 2014. Long-term Research and Management at the Thousand Islands Biological Station.
New York State Fish and Wildlife Management Board Meeting Pulaski NY.
Farrell, J. M. 2014. Update of St. Lawrence River Fisheries Research and Management. Great Lakes
Section Meeting. NYSDEC Training Academy Pulaski NY.
Huffman, K., C. Whipps, and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Environmental Determinants of Sex Ratio in
Northern Pike (Esox lucius): Development of a Molecular Sex Identification Tool and
Experimentation with Physical and Chemical Variables. New York Chapter Meeting of the American
Fisheries Society. Geneva NY.
Huffman, K., C. Whipps, and J. M. Farrell. 2014. Environmental Determinants of Sex Ratio in
Northern Pike (Esox lucius): Development of a Molecular Sex Identification Tool and
Experimentation with Physical and Chemical Variables. Spotlight on Student Research Poster
Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY.
Kapuscinski, K.L., Crane, D.P., Farrell, J.M., Clapsadl, M.D., and D.W. Einhouse. 2014. Quantifying
and comparing energy densities of native and invasive nearshore forage fishes of the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Fishery Commission Board of Technical Experts.
LaPan, S., J. P. Gibbs, and J. M. Farrell 2013. Measuring avian and herptile response to wetland
enhancement in the St. Lawrence River basin. 5th World Conference on Ecosystem Restoration,
Madison Wisc.
Miano, A., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. The Influence of Spawning Habitat on Round Goby Egg Predation
for Broadcast Spawning Species. New York Chapter Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
Geneva NY.
Miano, A., and J. M. Farrell. 2014. The Influence of Spawning Habitat on Round Goby Egg Predation
for Broadcast Spawning Species. Spotlight on Student Research Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF,
Syracuse NY.
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Russell, J., C. Bachman, J. M. Farrell, M. Mitchell, and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Nutrient Analysis in St.
Lawrence River Wetland Sediments. Poster Presentation. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland
Oregon.
Russell, J., C. Bachman, J. M. Farrell, M. Mitchell, and K. A. Schulz. 2014. Nutrient Analysis in St.
Lawrence River Wetland Sediments. Spotlight on Student Research Poster Presentation. SUNYESF, Syracuse NY.
Shaw, A. S., B. Brown, and J. M. Farrell. 2014. A comparison of light traps and zooplankton grabs for
assessing invertebrate assemblages in muskellunge nursery bays. Spotlight on Student Research
Poster Presentation. SUNY-ESF, Syracuse NY.
Aerial image of coastal wetland enhancements designed to increase habitat complexity in sites dominated by hybrid
cattail and other invasive species. Project was completed in cooperation with Ducks Unlimited with NOAA funds and
guidance from the Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy. ESF researchers are conducting studies at many sites with
partners including the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Thousand Islands Land Trust, and New York State DEC using
holistic approaches.
Fish eggs are cultured at TIBS and embryos are marked with fluorescent labels for future identification in the field as part
of a survivorship study to examine effects of environmental change
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Outreach
Thousand Islands Land Trust, Zenda Farm Picnic – Provided display of fish and other aquatic life and
information regarding TIBS programs as a TILT Conservation Partner for major community event
(~300 participants)
Thousand Islands Land Trust, Kids Camp – Led multiple groups through a field session called “Life in a
Pond” - Sampled and identified aquatic life in a seasonal wetland and discussed ecology (30
participants)
Thousand Islands Land Trust, Kids Trek “Ichthyologist for a Day” – led children ages 5-12 and adults
through a series of modules on fish and river ecology on the St. Lawrence River (25 participants)
http://www.tilandtrust.org/Treks-Events/FullCalendarofTreksEvents.aspx
Pacific Environment. June 2013. Hydropower Safety Workshop. Led Russian Scientists and managers
from Lake Baikal touring Great Lakes visit to TIBS.
Great Lakes Fisheries Commission. August 2013. Lake Ontario Committee Meeting.
Thousand Islands National Park | Parc national des Mille-Îles, Provided assistance with a proposal and
information regarding wetlands restoration.
Field technician Mariah Taylor teaches
participants about aquatic invertebrates at the
Thousand Islands Land Trust Kids Trek
“Ichthyologist for a Day” event at TIBS
Teaching
EFB 388 Adirondack Fish Ecology – two day field trip to TIBS to learn about the aquatic ecosystems and
fishes of the St. Lawrence River (11 students)
EFB 525 Limnology Practicum – one day field trip to wetland restoration projects to learn about research
in restoration ecology and field trip to TIBS regarding lower trophic levels, invasive species and
riverine ecology (~15 students)
U.S. EPA & NY SeaGrant Institute. Lake Guardian Educator’s Workshop. Led lecture and hands-on
modules related to nearshore ecosystems of the Great Lakes along with Clarkson University (15
participants)
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EFB 388 Adirondack Fishes makes its annual trip to TIBS and the St. Lawrence
River from the Cranberry Lake Biological Station
Facility upgrades
A significant gift of $75K in the name of Marc A. F. Baker was donated to TIBS along with a $15K
matching grant from the Northern New York Community Foundation and a $5K gift from Professor
Emeritus Robert G. Werner. The TIBS fund was used along with previous gifts and grants to begin
construction on the Cean Aquatic Researcher Building on Governors Island. The contract was awarded to
Continental Construction and work commenced during spring 2013. The exterior was completed and the
interior roughed in. The new building will provide student and faculty housing as well as meeting and
office spaces. A staff apartment exists in the lower level. New roofs were also completed and buildings
painted for the Main Lodge, the Director’s cabin and the Graduate Student cabin through SUNY capital
improvements and a well was drilled that will supply all buildings with drinking water and provide an
additional source to the wet lab in the boathouse. Additionally a new septic system was installed
connecting all buildings and the wet lab drainage system. Cyber-infrastructure associated with the NSF
ARRA grant provided a new radio-bridge from Governors Island to the mainland providing a high speed
data link. Fiber cabling was laid in underground conduits and connections were installed to racks in data
closets linking the boathouse, the Cean Aquatic Researcher Building, and the Main Lodge. Wireless
service now covers the entire facility in addition to access at hardwired fiber ports. Work is ongoing to
install video conferencing and research camera systems with real time connections to the EFB Center for
Integrated Research and Teaching in Aquatic Sciences (CIRTAS) facility in Illick Hall.
The Cean Aquatic Researcher Building at TIBS was primarily financed with public donations and completion
is anticipated in 2014. The building will serve as a residence for students, staff and scientists, and includes
office, computing facilities, video conferencing and meeting space.
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Appendix S. Annual Report for the Cranberry Lake Biological Station
(submitted by Alex Weir, Director)
The on-going strategic plan for CLBS has the following main thrusts: 1) strengthening the
academic program to provide core field biology courses for our students and visitors 2) increasing the
diversity and numbers of students enrolling at the Station, 3) strengthening the research capabilities and
scientist use of the Station, and 4) increasing the synergy between teaching and research at the Station.
Teaching
Each summer CLBS offers a ten-week undergraduate and graduate academic program. The 2013
summer program at CLBS attracted 223 students for a total of 589 student weeks representing our highest
usage rate to date. The two offerings of EFB 202 had 70 and 73 students, respectively, and the four
elective classes in session B attracted 43 students. As usual, the five classes in session D had the lowest
enrollment with a total of 37 students in residence at the Station. Final enrollment figures for each of the
elective classes are given below;
Session B
Field Herpetology
Ethnobotany
Aquatics
Wildlife Techniques
13
11
7
12
Session D
Forest Health
Adirondack Flora
Ecol. Adk Insects
Adirondack Fishes
Philosophy
11
6
7
10
3
Overall student evaluations for all of these classes were very high. In addition to our own
undergraduate/graduate program we also ran two one week programs, one for High School students
through OCM BOCES (36 students) and the other aimed specifically at Native American high school
students (Native Earth -20 students) and focusing on integrating traditional knowledge and scientific
ecology.
Research
The Station has hosted both internal (ESF) and external (outside universities) research projects
for many years. The longest-running of these projects involves studies of white-throated sparrow genetics
and behavior, led by Dr. Elaina Tuttle (Indiana State University) which have been on-going for 27 years,
and have been supported during those years by the NSF, NIH and other grants. During summer 2013 we
hosted three graduate and two undergraduate students along with PI Tuttle from late April to early
August. We have also hosted a research group from Cornell University for 23 years, led by Dr. Tom
Seeley, and focused on honey-bee behavior and ecology, though 2013 was an off-year for this group. Our
other resident researcher during summer 2013 was Andrew Brainard, winner of the Grober graduate
student award, who studied aquatic invasion ecology at Cranberry Lake and other Adirondack lakes.
Administration
During summer 2013 I supervised one graduate student (Business Manager) and nine Federal
work-study students at CLBS, along with overall responsibility for the 223 students on a 24/7 basis. I
also developed and oversaw the annual budget for the Station, helped develop academic programming,
taught portions of EFB 202, welcomed guests and visitors to the station, held informational meetings for
EFB students, handled registration issues and process, and was the contact point for all CLBS-related
inquiries. Both on and off-season I worked closely with Physical Plant, Boat Pilots and Food Service
operations at the Station to ensure as smooth an operation as possible. The finances for the Station were
in the black at the end of the 2013 season with a final balance of $236,000.
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I continued with ongoing fundraising efforts involving visitors and alumni and received a gift of $15,000
during summer 2013 that will be used to develop a scholarship fund and to replace some dated equipment
at the Station. This most recent gift is in addition to the more than $300,000 received from the Samuel
Grober estate in 2009-2010, the bulk of which is invested to support an annual graduate student
fellowship at the Station. This student is based in the Grober Genetics Laboratory here at CLBS.
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Appendix T. Annual Report for the Roosevelt Wild Life Station
(submitted by James Gibbs, Director)
The Roosevelt Wild Life Station (RWLS) was established in 1919 at what was then the College
of Forestry at Syracuse University as a memorial to the life and works of history’s most ardent
conservationist: Teddy Roosevelt. The RWLS is distinct in being the first university program created to
bring science to bear on conservation of biodiversity (or “wild life”, i.e., all life that is wild in the
parlance of the day). The Department of Environmental and Forest Biology is fortunate to be home to the
RWLS and would do well to recognize, celebrate and reinvigorate the Roosevelt Wild Life Station given
its prominent role in the history of conservation. After two years engaged in the process of revitalizing
the RWLS we are finally getting traction.
In terms of program, we:
 Recruited and convened in fall 2013 the RWLS advisory body, which consists of two Roosevelt
Family representatives - Theodore Roosevelt IV and Simon Roosevelt - and its Honorary Advisory
Council: J. Andrew Breuer, Preston Bruenn, Richard R. Capozza (Chair), James Curatolo, Michael J.
Falcone, Jeffrey Gronauer, John J. Jackson III, William Little, Simon Roosevelt, Leonard Vallender,
William Wallauer, James T. Walsh.
 Appointed 14 Scientists-in-Residence with titles modeled after those personnel associated with the
original Station.
 Recruited Ms. Terra Rentz, former Deputy Director of Government Affairs and Partnerships at The
Wildlife Society and currently Masters student in EFB (joint with Maxwell School) to join us as
Station Coordinator during the upcoming year.
 Secured a $3.4 million MOU with the NYSDEC for wildlife research and management support. This
MOU has generated the following research, training and capacity-building projects:
o “Increasing Capacity for Genetic Analysis at SUNY ESF” – a $132,222 grant to Christopher
Whipps (Roosevelt Parasitologist).
o “Evaluating Deer Impacts on the Forests of New York State” – a $235,583 grant to Martin Dovciak
(Roosevelt Forest Ecologist) and Jacqueline Frair (RWLS Associate Director and Roosevelt Large
Mammal Ecologist)
o “Monitoring and modeling moose populations in New York State” – a $622,000 grant to Jacqueline
Frair
 Remain in extended discussion with the Boone and Crockett Club about a $3-6M campaign to
establish an endowed program (professorship, graduate fellowships, and other support) in conjunction
with Maxwell School and NYSDEC.
 Continue to explore how to endow a graduate fellowship focused on wetlands conservation via our
collaborators in The Wetland Trust
For our collections, we received:
 The Carter Waterfowl Collection from Mr. Doug Carter that includes 50 species of waterfowl and
13 species of upland game birds mostly from North America now on display on the first floor of
Illick Hall.
 A beautifully mounted muskox from Bill Hutchens, who has pledged to donate the rest of his
spectacular wildlife collection to the RWLS.
 A spectacular polar bear specimen from an Honorary Advisory Council member; donation of a snow
leopard skin is anticipated shortly.
 The very first specimen deposited in the collection from a Roosevelt…Ted Roosevelt sent us a
female Blackpoll Warbler, the victim of a window strike in Manhattan last fall, which Ron
Giegerich prepared for the collection
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 A $5,000 grant for new cabinetry (awarded to Rebecca Rundell, Head Curator and Roosevelt Field
Zoologist)
In terms of major new projects:
 Senate Resolution No. 6134 allocated $2M in funds to finish the 5,000 square foot space of the lower
level of our new Gateway Center as the “Roosevelt Wild Life Collection Teaching and Research
Center.” We are very excited to begin designing a space that will function as part museum, part
teaching space, and part “Species Hall of Fame.” This project provides a vehicle for attracting
matching gifts, enabling potential donors to be involved from the initial phase of developing the
concept for this exciting new facility. It will also result in significant improvement in how
collections and the space associated with them are managed throughout Illick Hall.
In terms of awards and recognition:
 RWLS Associate Director Jacqueline Frair is being inducted as a TWS Fellow for her “exceptional
service to the wildlife profession”; Jacqui will hold for life the title of TWS Fellow.
 One of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station Scientists-in-Residence – Dr. Bill Powell - is arguably doing
some of the most fundamental conservation work in North America: restoring the American
Chestnut. His labors recently received prominent attention in Scientific American magazine.
 Graduate student Katrina Alger is the recipient of this year’s Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird
Research Scholarship, awarded by the national chapter of The Wildlife Society.
 The student chapter of TWS at ESF conferred the Dr. Ralph T. King Memorial Award to graduating
senior Claire Revekant (ESF ’14). Ralph T. King was a former Director of the RWLS and first
President of TWS.
 RWLS Director James Gibbs recently generated a popular article about 5 years of effort helping to
conserve the World’s largest sheep – Altai argali – along the Russia - Mongolia border for Fair
Chase magazine and presented a public lecture on the topic at The Explorers Club in New York City
in March 2014.
In terms of RWLS activities and events:
 The RWLS oversaw three biological surveys – one near Scranton, PA in June, 2013, one near
Carthage, TN in Oct 2013, and one near Pawling, NY in June 2014 – that provide valuable
opportunities to showcase our graduate student talent in natural history and biological inventory
while also generating revenue for the Station.
 The RWLS was hosted at a reception at the home of Larry Master (formerly of The Nature
Conservancy and NatureServe) in Lake Placid on Monday, June 23.
 Ahead we anticipate convening a next meeting of the Honorary Advisory Council at the Camp Fire
Club of America in Chappaqua in September and having a prominent presence at the American
Museum of Natural History to mark the debut of Lonesome George – the last member of his
species (RWLS has played a pivotal role in this event).
Current composition of the RWLS:
 In addition to the Honorary Advisory Council, core EFB-based personnel associated with the RWLS
include: Dr. James Gibbs (Director and Roosevelt Herpetologist), Dr. Jacqueline Frair (Associate
Director and Roosevelt Large Mammal Ecologist), Terra Rentz (Program Coordinator), Dr. Rebecca
Rundell (Roosevelt Field Zoologist and Curator, Roosevelt Wildlife Collection), Ronald Giegerich
(Manager Roosevelt Wildlife Collection), Dr. Jonathan Cohen (Roosevelt Field Ornithologist), Dr.
Martin Dovciak (Roosevelt Forest Ecologist), Dr. John Farrell (Roosevelt Aquatic and Fisheries
Scientist), Dr. Donald Leopold (Roosevelt Field Ecologist), Stacy McNulty (Roosevelt Adirondack
Wildlife Conservationist), Dr. Bill Powell (Roosevelt Chestnut Restoration Biologist), Dr. Sadie
Ryan (Roosevelt Disease Ecologist), Dr. Kim Schulz (Roosevelt Aquatic Ecologist), Dr. Don Stewart
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(Roosevelt Icthyologist), Dr. Brian Underwood (Roosevelt Field Mammalogist), and Dr. Chris
Whipps (Roosevelt Parasitologist).
 External Collaborators include: Gordon R. Batcheller (NYS Department of Env. Conservation),
Alvin Breisch (NYS Department of Env. Conservation, retired), Dr. Paul Curtis (Cornell Cooperative
Extension), Dr. Daniel J. Decker (Cornell University), Dorothy Evans (New York Natural Heritage
Program). Dr. Doug Frank (Syracuse University), and Dr. Evelyn Merrill (University of Alberta).
Selected examples of current research and training projects overseen by RWLS-associated faculty
members:
Jonathan B. Cohen (Roosevelt Field Ornithologist)
Cohen, J.B., S.J. Ryan, and C. Whipps. Factors Limiting New England Cottontail Populations in New
York – NYDEC, $860,000, 8/2013 – 7/2017
Cohen, J.B. Population-level effects on Snowy Plovers of road mortality at Gulf Islands National
Seashore – National Fish and Wildlife Foundation via National Audubon, $274,225, 1/14 – 12/16
Cohen, J.B. and S. Elbin. Effect of Salt Marsh Changes on Breeding Birds, With Emphasis on the
Saltmarsh Sparrow – NYDEC, $120,000 2012, 4/1/2012-3/31/2015
Martin Dovciak (Roosevelt Forest Ecologist)
NYS DEC. “Evaluating deer impacts on forests of New York State”. M. Dovčiak (PI), J. Frair, J. Hurst
$214,870. 4/2014-4/2016
Northeastern States Research Cooperative. “Global change fingerprints in montane boreal forests:
Implications for biodiversity and management of the northeastern protected areas”. M. Dovčiak (PI),
C. Beier, G. Lawrence, J. Battles. $89,497. 8/2012-8/2014.
John M. Farrell (Roosevelt Aquatic and Fisheries Scientist)
Farrell, J. M. 8/1/12-9/30/15. The St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy: Evaluation of
Habitat Enhancements and Development of Novel Restoration Approaches. National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation, $610,073.
Hanchin, P., B.L. Sloss, L. Miller, C. Wilson, K. L. Kapuscinski, K. Schribner, and J. M. Farrell.
Delineation of natural boundaries of muskellunge in the Great Lakes and the effects of
supplementation on genetic integrity of native stocks. Great Lakes Fisheries Commission ($42,721;
ESF share $4,705)
Jacqueline L. Frair (Associate Director and Roosevelt Large Mammal Ecologist)
NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, “Wildlife research and management support”,
$3,359,864 total 2013-2018 ($494,340 for FY13-14). PI: J. Frair. Supports various research projects.
Starting this fall: “Monitoring and modeling moose populations in NY”, PI: J. Frair. $622,489; 2014-2018
Starting this fall: USDA Northern States Research Cooperative, “Resistance to white-nosed syndrome in
bat populations of the Northern Forest: exploring the critical disease-genotype-microbiome link”,
$103,746; 2014-2016. PI(s): P. Marquardt, L. Berkman, J. Frair, D. Donner, and D. Linder.
James P. Gibbs (Director and Roosevelt Herpetologist)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), “Engaging Climber-Scientists and
Indigenous Herders on Grazing and Climate Change Issues in the Altai Mountain Region of
Mongolia,” $99,655 James P. Gibbs, Giorgos Mountrakis, Jennifer Castner. 2/13-7/14.
National Geographic Society, “Understanding Interactions among Three Globally Endangered Species -the Waved Albatross, Giant Tortoise, and Giant Tree Cactus -- to Inform Conservation Management of
Española Island, Galápagos,” J. P. Gibbs, $21,500, 6/1/10- 12/1/14.
Donald J. Leopold (Roosevelt Field Ecologist)
USFWS (GLRI), Production of genetically diverse American hart’s-tongue fern for introduction or
reintroduction in the Great Lakes Region, $99,682; July 2011 to September 2014; D.D. Fernando and
D.J. Leopold.
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USFWS (GLRI), Control of Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica var. japonica) on Leedy’s roseroot
(Rhodiola integrifolia subsp. leedyi), a federally-threatened plant; $69,902; September 2011 to August
2015; D.J. Leopold
USFWS (GLRI), Restoring critical habitat, mitigating multiple threats, and evaluating population statuses
for bog turtle, eastern massasauga rattlesnake, and Houghton's goldenrod co-occurring in a single site,
August 2012 to May 2015, D.J. Leopold and J.P. Gibbs.
Stacy A. McNulty (Roosevelt Adirondack Wildlife Conservationist)
McNulty, S., M. O’Brien, C. Foss, D. Hudnut and S. Flint. Northeastern States Research Cooperative. An
Investigation of Rusty Blackbird Foraging Sites: Does Timber Harvesting Influence Site Selection?
$10,000, 5/1/13 – 5/31/14.
William A. Powell (Roosevelt Chestnut Restoration Biologist)
The New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation. Getting Events in the Ground and Tested.
$210,000 (8/1/12-7/31/15).
USDA-Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grant program (BRAG), Evaluating Environmental Impacts Of
Maturing Transgenic American Chestnut Trees Relative To Chestnut Trees Produced By Conventional
Breeding. $500,000 (9/1/12-8/31/14 – no cost extension to 8/31/15).
The New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation. Regenerating Transformation Events into
Whole Plants and Expansion of Field Trials. $300,000 (5/08-12/31/13.
Rebecca J. Rundell (Curator of Roosevelt Wild Life Collection and Roosevelt Field Zoologist)
2014 ESF Seed Grant Program, “Belau’s islands of diversity: Development of a natural laboratory for
evolutionary research and teaching,” $3,900 April 2014 - June 2015. PI: R.J. Rundell
USFWS Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), “Removing the threat of
stochastic extinction for the Chittenango ovate amber snail: A collaborative captive propagation effort
to develop ex situ population in New York State,” $100,000, 9/1/2013 – 8/31/2016.
Sadie J. Ryan (Roosevelt Disease Ecologist)
NYS-DEC: “Factors Limiting New England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) Populations in New
York: Implications for Habitat Restoration” - Cohen, J., SUNY-ESF (PI), Ryan, S.J. SUNY-ESF (coPI), Whipps, C., SUNY-ESF (co-PI), $880,000 2013-2018.
Kimberly L. Schulz (Roosevelt Aquatic Ecologist)
Great Lakes Research Consortium, Genetic analysis of potential lake chubsuckers (Erimyzon sucetta), a
threatened fish in the Lake Ontario watershed, Kimberly L. Schulz, co-PIs: C.M. Whipps and D.
Stewart, June 2013-May 2014; $3,500.
Donald J. Stewart (Roosevelt Icthyologist)
USAID, funds administered by a Peruvian resource agency. Caracterización morfológica y molecular de
Arapaima gigas en tres localidades de la Amazonía peruana, $27,000, Aug. 2013—Dec. 2014, CoInvestigor (PI: Carmen R. García Dávila, IIAP, Iquitos, Peru; 5 other Peruvian and French CoInvestigators).
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Your collaboration in this revitalization of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station – where the science of
conservation began - is most welcome and appreciated. Please let us know if you are interested in
becoming part of the effort.