Student Research and Creative Activity (SRCA) ShowcasePosters and other presentations from SUNY Oneonta students and their faculty and staff sponsorshttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/18222024-03-29T09:13:14Z2024-03-29T09:13:14ZAll About SUNY Oneonta Open Access RepositoryPeña, Alondrahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/130162023-09-23T04:33:19Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAll About SUNY Oneonta Open Access Repository
Peña, Alondra
The SUNY Open Access Repository (SOAR) is an online digital repository that makes scholarly works of SUNY campuses widely available. This is an available resource for both faculty and students that should be more used and known about throughout our community. I have worked with our campus’ head of scholarly communications, in the backend of the SOAR website uploading these documents and making the website more readily accessible to our community. After working closely with SOAR while also attending SUNY Oneonta, I have realized how little students know about it along with how rarely faculty members and professors advertise SOAR as a resource for not only getting reliable information but also promoting their scholarly works. My goal for this research is to spread awareness of the benefits of SOAR and Open Access as a whole, along with what qualifications your work must meet in order to be eligible for submission into the repository. Furthermore, I wish to share my knowledge of open access scholarly works and the pros and cons that come with them.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAnalyzing Water Levels and Harmful Algal Blooms in Moreau LakeRose, Asiahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/130152023-09-23T04:33:31Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAnalyzing Water Levels and Harmful Algal Blooms in Moreau Lake
Rose, Asia
Analyzing Water Levels and Harmful Algal Blooms in Moreau Lake Moreau Lake is a 122-acre (49- hectare) lake located in the Town of Moreau, Saratoga County, New York in NYSDEC Region 5. The lake is located within Moreau Lake State Park, offering an assortment of recreational activities for tourists and residents. In recent years, stakeholders have become concerned with the changes in water level along with the reoccurring algal blooms, though it has been deemed a mild risk at this time. The goal of this project is to collect profile data, assess the stakeholder’s concerns, and compile previous data to create a comprehensive management plan of the state of Moreau Lake. This will be the first management plan ever created for a lake located within the NYSDEC park system, bringing new light to the need for management plans of this kind.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPutting Your Data to Work! Using Long-Term Volunteer Data to Establish Water Quality TrendsShea, Derekhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/130142023-09-23T04:33:42Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPutting Your Data to Work! Using Long-Term Volunteer Data to Establish Water Quality Trends
Shea, Derek
Craine Lake is a 26-acre lake located in Madison County, New York. The Craine Lake Association has been a consistent participant in the Citizen Statewide Lake Assessment Program (CSLAP) and is entering its 35thyear of participation. This long-term dataset allows us to analyze trends and investigate how water quality parameters may relate to stakeholder concerns such as harmful algal blooms, sedimentation, and nuisance levels of aquatic plants. The lake has a long history of summertime blue-green algae and was used as one of the first lakes in the NYSDEC harmful algal bloom reporting program. The eventual management plan for the lake aims to utilize the long-term dataset along with our own lake profiling and mapping to inform future management strategies.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAnalysis of Northwestern Montana Lakes Based on Transparency and TemperatureMinissale, Karihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/130132023-09-23T04:33:53Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAnalysis of Northwestern Montana Lakes Based on Transparency and Temperature
Minissale, Kari
Lakes in virtually unmodified regions such as national parks are indicators of shifts in the climate and other ecological agitations caused by humans, often responding with physical, chemical, and biological changes. To better understand responses of lakes to regional and large-scale climatological changes, lakes near Glacier National Park have been regularly monitored through the Northwest Montana Lakes Network since 1992. Citizen science volunteers measured Secchi disk depths, temperature, and total phosphorus in over 40 lakes in Montana, USA, to assess water quality and monitor long-term trends in lakes between June and August from 1992 through 2021. We modeled trends in Secchi depth, temperature, and total phosphorus concentrations to determine support for hypotheses regarding long-term, seasonal, and regional variability. Secchi depth varied by month differently among lakes, generally decreasing from June through August, and there was a slight decrease in Secchi depth by year across all lakes. Peak temperatures were reached during July across all years and lakes on average, and long-term temperature changes varied among lakes. Total phosphorus concentrations varied between lakes but did not display any variability across years. The results suggest that while trends in lake water quality parameters over time can be detected, these changes may be lake-specific, and some parameters may not change over time at all. Measurements of total nitrogen and chlorophyll a collected alongside total phosphorus will be used to formulate a comprehensive analysis of trophic shifts concurrent with climate change.
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