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We hope you enjoy our monthly updates which include recent news, water monitoring program updates, photographs from our volunteers, and interested articles, webinars, and upcoming water-related events! To receive CSI Updates each Month, please click the subscribe button below.

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September in Review: Community Science Institute updates

Happy Fall! The days are growing shorter and cooler, but at Community Science Institute, we still have a lot ahead of us before we wrap up our sampling season! Our synoptic stream and lake monitoring always extends into the fall, as that allows our laboratory to keep up with the mass of samples collected by our volunteers. This year, the Harmful Algal Blooms continue to surprise us, with quite a few reported already in these first few days of October.

What has CSI been up to this August?

We enjoyed seeing many of our volunteers and supporters on the evening of Friday, August 18th, at our 2023 Volunteer Picnic. The meal we shared at the beautiful, lakeshore lodge at Camp Comstock was largely donated by Wegmans and Ithaca Bakery. This year, we incorporated Volunteer Awards and a Silent Auction for the first time!

July at Community Science Institute 🌻

You might know CSI for our water quality monitoring, but did you know that outreach and education is also a core part of our work to protect water quality?

June 2023 CSI Monthly Update

This month, we'd like to talk about our volunteers. Thanks to these ~250 amazing community members, we are able to test water quality from streams throughout the Cayuga Lake Watershed (and beyond) using chemistry and biological monitoring.

CSI’s May updates 🏖️- Gearing Up for HABs Season

Summer is just around the corner! At Community Science Institute, we can feel the pull of the warm weather and outdoor recreation. And we are sure that you feel it too! We have been hard at work preparing for the busy summer monitoring season. In this month’s update, we’ll share more about the Cayug…

CSI Monthly Update: April 2023

We have some exciting updates from Community Science Institute this month! More and more of our Synoptic teams have begun monitoring their streams, like our Red Flag volunteers do year round. Meanwhile, CSI staff are planning spring and summer outreach events and running our state-certified water te…

CSI Monthly Update: March 2023

Happy spring! As we collectively welcome back our spring ephemerals and the new buds on the trees, Community Science Institute welcomes back our synoptic volunteers. Some groups are already hard at work collecting their first samples of the year. We have some exciting updates to share with you this…

CSI Monthly Update: February 2023

It’s been a busy February getting ready for our monitoring season to start up again. Between Biomonitoring Open Lab Nights (which are ongoing - read more below), our volunteer trainings, and our outreach efforts, we are doing everything we can to make sure our volunteer teams will be well-supported…

CSI Monthly Update: January 2023

Happy New Year! We hope all our subscribers had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying getting back into the swing of things this month. Though most of our monitoring programs are paused at this time of year, we at Community Science Institute have still been hard at work this winter.

CSI Monthly Update: December 2022

At this time of year, our monitoring programs have mostly come to a close. The days are growing shorter, and the holiday season is upon us. At Community Science Institute, we are taking what little extra time we have to reflect on what matters most to us: serving our community.

CSI Monthly Update: November 2022

I hope you are all enjoying this unseasonably warm autumn (despite its troubling implications about our warming climate). As you soak up this autumn sun, please consider soaking up some CSI data, too! Included in this Monthly Update is a link for newly entered data on the CSI database. This month,…

CSI Monthly Update: October 2022

Happy Fall, water stewards! We’ve had a full summer monitoring water quality across the Finger Lakes region and beyond. Keep an eye on our database as these thorough data continue to be entered and published—we at Community Science Institute look forward to seeing what trends emerge from this year’s…

CSI Monthly Update: September 2022

As August comes to a close, we at the Community Science Institute are sad to see the summer waning but look forward to what the autumn will bring! We are hoping for more rain to help us wrap up our monitoring season. This month, we are kicking off a new segment of our Monthly Updates: volunteer spo…

August 2022 CSI Monthly Update

Welcome to August, subscribers! Between the thunderstorms and the deafening dog-day cicada songs, you can tell we are fast approaching late summer. We are loving the challenge to stay current on our water monitoring duties over at the Community Science Institute, even as we say goodbye to several w…

CSI Monthly Update: July 2022

HAB-y Summer Solstice! In this update, you’ll find a summary of what we accomplished this June and what we’re working on this July. Now that it is officially summer, the Cayuga Lake HABs Monitoring Program is in full swing. Our volunteers are hard at work in this and all of our other water monitor…

CSI Monthly Update: November 2021

October was a busy month! Our volunteer partners completed multiple Synoptic Stream Monitoring Events including some unusually intense stormwater events, the Biomonitoring sampling season ended for the year, and the Cayuga Lake HABs Monitoring Program ended with an annual count of 102 blooms! Now, w…

CSI Monthly Update: August 2021

August was thankfully a bit quieter than July, although monitoring events, stormwater conditions, general public clients, and various projects kept us busy. The extreme rain of July seems to have passed into warm, humid late summer weather. Great weather for cooling off in a stream or in the lake (s…

CSI July Monthly Update

July has been a busy month here at CSI! Frequent and intense thunderstorms early in the month kept us busy chasing stormwater flows in the creeks, and as soon as these storms subsided, harmful algal blooms (HABs) began occurring along the shoreline of Cayuga Lake! Amidst this busy summer of monitori…

June 2021 Monthly Update from CSI

With summer ahead, exciting things are underway and keeping us busy here at the Community Science Institute. Right now we are focusing on completing our Synoptic Stream Monitoring Events, Red Flag Monitoring, Biomonitoring, and preparing for the HABs monitoring season ahead! With the 2021 harmful …

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