7th Annual Finger Lakes Research Conference 

The Finger Lakes Institute is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Finger Lakes Research Conference on the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.  The annual conference highlights Finger Lakes scientific research and provides opportunities to meet others interested in environmental science and scholarship, particularly as they apply to issues related to the Finger Lakes of western and central New York State. Conference coordinators are excited to announce a new agenda which will include a keynote speaker, panel discussion, and more time for interaction and networking amongst speakers and attendees. Members of the general public, independent scientists, students, and educators are encouraged to attend as well as submit abstracts for poster or oral presentation in the agenda.

 Associated deadlines:
November 10: Early Registration Closes $25 Attendee; $15 Student Rate
After Nov. 10: Registration Fee: $30 Attendee; $20 Student Rate
November 16: Registration Closes
November 19: Conference

Keynote Address:
Visual Data and Outreach: Multipurposing Multimedia

David Owen Brown works worldwide as a producer, videograp her, researcher, diver, photographer and lecturer.  He holds degrees from Corn ell University and the Brooks Institute of Photography. 

His work ha s aired on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic television. His award-winning photography has appeared in numerous exhibits and publications, including imagery for the Smithsonian's Ocean Planet and Ocean Hall, and the American Museum of Natural History’s Water display. He has authored a variety of articles, as well as two children's books, and served as a consultant for the National Geographic book, "The World's Wild Shores."

As a member of he Cousteau team, Brown participated in filming expeditions with the vessels Calypso and Alcyone over the course of seven years, exploring above and below water environments from Papua New Guinea to Alaska. He also represented the Cousteau group as a lecturer for universities, trade associations and aboard cruise vessels around the world.

He left The Cousteau Society to begin Passage Productions, a documentary film company and stock house.  He conceived and built the first live underwater audio/video broadcast system for the cruise and resort industries. Passage produced the first live, interactive broadcast from underwater onto the Internet in 1997, and has created cutting-edge interactive programming for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Sanctuary Program, GTE and a variety other clients.

Brown has experienced and documented Humpback whales and submarine lava flows off Hawaii, Great White Sharks and Leafy Sea Dragons off South Australia, Killer whales feeding on sharks off Papua New Guinea and Narwhals off Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.  He has documented environmental events such as the 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.  Brown also filmed the discovery and raising of the submarine INS Dakar for the Nauticos Corporation, subject of a National Geographic special that aired in 2002.  Recent projects include educational films about animal behavior and ocean sound for Cornell University and a NOAA sponsored nationally touring museum exhibit tracing the path of water from inland to ocean. He is currently producing a film about the rocky intertidal zone of Maine.

2011 Finger Lakes Research Conference
Agenda
8:30-9:00              Registration/ Refreshments

9:00-10:00           Keynote Address:
Visual Data and Outreach:  Multipurposing Multimedia by David Owen Brown

10:00-10:20         Break/Poster Session

10:20-10:40         The Influence of Watershed Land Use on the Composition of Dissolved Organic Matter Entering Conesus Lake, NY. by Morgan Bida, Rochester Institute of Technology

10:40-11:00         Comparative Limnology of the Eight Eastern Finger Lakes: A 2011 Update.  By Dr. John Halfman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

11:00-11:20         Delineating Watersheds Associated with Karst Features in Western, NY. by Paul Richards, SUNY Brockport

11:20-11:40         Honeoye Lake Winter Dissolved Oxygen Profile- Mapping Aquatic Life Sustaining Capabilities. by Ben Mauri Pelto, Alfred University

11:40-1:00           Lunch/ Poster Session/ Networking

1:00-2:00              Invasive Species Panel Discussion with Dr. Bruce Gilman, Finger Lakes Community College; Roxy Johnston, City of Ithaca; and Dr. Meghan Brown, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

2:00-2:20              The Owasco Lake Asian Clam Task Force. by Bob Brower, Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology at Cayuga Community College

2:20-2:40              Detection and Control Measures for the Invasive Marsh Thistle (Cirsium Palustre). by Eamonn Hinchey, SUNY Oneonta

2:40-3:00              A New Resident In The Finger Lakes: Spatial, Seasonal, and Diel Distribution Patterns of Hemimysis Anomala. by Dr. Meghan Brown, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

3:00-3:20              Break/ Poster Session

3:20-3:40              The effects of Seiche Activity and Sediment Loading on Daphnia retrocurva in Cayuga Lake. By Eleanor Milano WS'12, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

3:40-4:00              Stream Community Health In the Seneca Lake Watershed by Dr. Susan Cushman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

4:00-4:05              Closing Remarks

4:00-4:30              Optional Building Tours of the Finger Lakes Institute

Posters

• Stable thermal oscillations in columns of partially supercool water by James Brownridge, SUNY Binghamton
• A Master of Science In Lake Management: A New Program for and Emerging Discipline by Donna Vogler, SUNY Oneonta
• Dreissenid Mussel Invasion, Colonization and Impacts to the Nutrient Budget of Canandaigua Lake by Dr. Bruce Gilman, Finger Lakes Community College
• Finger Lakes Stream Monitoring Network: The Tale of Castle Creek by Derek Weiss H’12
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish… A Study of the Correlation between Macroinvertebrate Stream Quality Tests and Fish Community Dynamics by Eli Gleason H’12, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Nutrient Loading in the Seneca and Owasco Watersheds. by Dr. John Halfman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Daily Limnological and Meteorological Data from an Autonomous Buoy in Seneca Lake. by Dr. John Halfman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Mercury Levels in Small Fish:  Do You Know What’s in Your Watershed? By Ryan Kincaid WS’11, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Seneca Lake State Park Enhancement Project by Katherine Marino WS’12, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Incorporating Stream Monitoring into a Middle School Science Curriculum by Jim Murphy, Watkins Glen Middle School
• The Finger Lakes Stream Monitoring Network: The State of the Union by Jordan Youngmann, Finger Lakes Institute
• A Preliminary Study of Black Bear Trails and Sign by Alyssa Johnson and John VanNiel, Finger Lakes Community College

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