|
Project Investigators
 |
Neil
Ringler, SUNY ESF. Principal Investigator
Neil is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of the Faculty of Environmental
and Forest Biology. He and his graduate students have been studying salmon
and trout in New York streams for nearly 30 years. His other research interests
include behavioral feeding ecology, fish communities in perturbed aquatic
ecosystems, and stream ecology.
|
 |
Lars
Rudstam, Cornell Univ., Assoc. Investigator
Lars is Assistant Director of Cornell Biological Station on Oneida Lake
and Associate Professor at Cornell University. Lars is an expert in using
acoustics for monitoring the spatial distribution of fish populations.
His other current research examines (i) long-term dynamics of Oneida Lake
fish and fisheries including effects of cormorants and zebra mussels, (ii)
dynamics of interacting fish populations and importance of cannibalism,
(iii) role of predatory invertebrates (mysis, spiny water flea) in Lake
Ontario, and (iv) development of acoustic methods to study spatial distributions
of aquatic organisms. |
| |
|
| Staff & Students |
|
|
Michael Connerton, Post Doc,
SUNY ESF
Michael is studying migration timing and abundance of adult and smolts
using hydroacoustics and other techniques. Michael's other research interests
include spatial ecology of stream benthic and fish production, periphyton,
and Altantic salmon restoration and ecology. He also currrently works for
the Great
Lakes Research Consortium Consortium |
. |
Dustin
Everitt, Sea Grant
Scholar, SUNY ESF
Dustin is studying the distribution
of adult spawning locations, the physical characeristics of salmon redds,
and the relationship between location and spawning success of salmon.
Dustin comes to the project from Lake Superior State University where
he received his B.S.. There he also worked on studying
hybridization between Chinook salmon and Pink salmon in northern Lake
Huron.
|
| |
Mary Penny-Sabia, MS Grad. Assistant, SUNY
ESF
Mary is studying the distribution and
abundance of salmon smolts, and determining whether there are diel and
seasonal shifts in habitat preference. She is a native to Pulaski where
she grew up fishing on the River, and currently works for NYDEC as a Salmon
River Steward. |
| |
|
| Cooperators |
|
 |
Jim Johnson, U.S. Geological Survey
Jim is the Branch Chief of the USGS
Tunison Laboratory of Aquatic Sciences in Cortland. Ironically, Jim was
the first to document natural reproduction in the tributaries of the
Salmon River when he was a graduate student with Neil Ringler at ESF
in the late 1970's. After a decade working on insects and salmon out
west and shad in the Suquehanna, Jim returned to studying Tug Hill streams
in 1995. Current projects include habitat parititioning of migratory
salmonines in tributaries, double crested cormorants, lake sturgeon and
restoration ecology.
|
 |
Daniel Bishop, NYDEC
Dan is the Regional Fisheries Manager with
the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. He is responsible
for managing fisheries in Region 7 including the southeastern Lake
Ontario salmon fishery. For this project, Dan is providing analysis of
creel
data, and
hatchery
statistics.
|
|
Fran
Verdoliva, NYDEC
Fran is the Salmon River Program Coordinator for New York DEC. Among other
things, Fran supervises the Steward and public outreach programs at the
Hatchery. He is an avid fly fisherman, author and designer of several original
flies. Fran wrote an excellent article about the history
of the Salmon River. |
| |
The project is sponsored by New York Sea
Grant, with matching contributions by NYSDEC, and SUNY ESF.
The project also wishes to thank
the following local organizations for their assistance with the project:
Lighthouse
Marina
Douglaston
Salmon Run |
| Technicians |
Summer '04:
Alex Studdert. Chris Reddy, Kevin Stager, Pete Austerman
Fall '04
Alex Studdert, Chris Nack, Pete Malaty
|
| |
|
Page last modified
May 12, 2005
|
