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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: 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 …

Managing Co-Director Position Open for Applications

By Nathaniel Launer | Comments are Closed

Dear Friends and Supporters of the Community Science Institute,After 20 years of leadership, vision, and rigorous work to monitor and protect our local streams and lakes, CSI's founding Executive Dire
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Withdraw Draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Cayuga Lake and Replace with Nine Element Plans for Nutrient-Rich Tributary Streams

By Stephen Penningroth, Ph.D. | Comments are Closed

Comments submitted by CSI Executive Director Stephen Penningroth, Ph.D., to NYSDEC (Comments on Draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Phosphorus in Cayuga Lake, New York, submitted on July 2,
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Managing Co-Director Position Open for Applications

Withdraw Draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Cayuga Lake and Replace with Nine Element Plans for Nutrient-Rich Tributary Streams

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