CSI News and Monthly Updates

CSI Monthly Updates

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.

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 …