Long-Term Observation of the Adirondack Ecosystem - Data from the SUNY ESF Newcomb Campus

The Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC) at ESF’s Newcomb Campus has one of the oldest and broadest records of scientific field research in North America. Located on the Anna and Archer Huntington Wildlife Forest, AEC is a biological field station and multi-disciplinary platform for research, education and outreach where the most pressing environmental challenges facing our society can be directly examined and understood. The Newcomb Campus (www.esf.edu/newcomb) includes the AEC, Northern Forest Institute, public Adirondack Interpretive Center and Forest Operations Adirondack Properties unit. The campus’ professional staff and scientists collectively maintain extensive data archives from a century of observation. This paper provides a “road map” for researchers, students, historians and others on what resources exist and how to access them

Historical Patterns and Effects of Changes In Adirondack Climates Since the Early 20th Century

Analysis of weather data from seven United States Historical Climatology Network stations in the Adirondack region reveals statistically significant warming over the last 30 years during June and September, but no significant trends in the other months. The warmest intervals of the 1926-2005 period were the early 1930s, 1949-1954, and 1997-2003. These findings are consistent with similar analyses of northern New York weather data by Kathie Delio, but somewhat less so with earlier works by the first author and others. In this paper, we also discuss the effects of various interpretive methodologies on the study of regional climate and present new phonological data from the Adirondack region. We find little evidence of major biotic responses to weather trends in recent decades, perhaps because most such trends are still largely obscured by inter-annual variability, but a significant reduction in the duration of ice cover has occurred on local lakes. In addition, an increase of river discharge during the 20th century probably reflects a long-term increase in precipitation, particularly during fall

Mother Baby Discharge Process

Problem/Impact Statement: MMC\u27s 32-bed Mother Baby Unit is experiencing backed up flow due to high volume and patients not being discharged quickly enough. The current average discharge time on Mother Baby and the Newborn Nursery is 1:36pm. The Mother baby unit has 32 beds, is staffed by 8-9 nurses, and has average discharge of 91 patients a week

Ensuring due process in the IACUC and animal welfare setting: considerations in developing noncompliance policies and procedures for institutional animal care and use committees and institutional officials

Every institution that is involved in research with animals is expected to have in place policies and procedures for the management of allegations of noncompliance with the Animal Welfare Act and the U.S. Public Health Service Policy on the Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. We present here a model set of recommendations for institutional animal care and use committees and institutional officials to ensure appropriate consideration of allegations of noncompliance with federal Animal Welfare Act regulations that carry a significant risk or specific threat to animal welfare. This guidance has 3 overarching aims: 1) protecting the welfare of research animals; 2) according fair treatment and due process to an individual accused of noncompliance; and 3) ensuring compliance with federal regulations. Through this guidance, the present work seeks to advance the cause of scientific integrity, animal welfare, and the public trust while recognizing and supporting the critical importance of animal research for the betterment of the health of both humans and animals.â Hansen, B. C., Gografe, S., Pritt, S., Jen, K.â L. C., McWhirter, C. A., Barman, S. M., Comuzzie, A., Greene, M., McNulty, J. A., Michele, D. E., Moaddab, N., Nelson, R. J., Norris, K., Uray, K. D., Banks, R., Westlund, K. N., Yates, B. J., Silverman, J., Hansen, K. D., Redman, B. Ensuring due process in the IACUC and animal welfare setting: considerations in developing noncompliance policies and procedures for institutional animal care and use committees and institutional officials. FASEB J. 31, 4216â 4225 (2017). www.fasebj.orgPeer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154293/1/fsb2fj201601250r.pd

Stitching Together the Patchwork Quilt: Using GIS to Assist the Inventory Portion of the Adirondack Forest Preserve Unit Management Planing Process

This article describes a project undertaken by the Adirondack Ecological Center in cooperation with members of the UMP-GIS Consortium, a collaborative effort of the Adirondack Research Consortium. The goal of the project is to facilitate planning for the Adirondack Forest Preserve. The approach is to aid the natural resource inventory portion of the Unit Management Planning process using Geographic Information System datasets provided by the UMP-GIS Consortium. The result will be a coordinated approach to better land use planning in the Adirondacks

Boreal Bird Ecology, Management and Conservation

The circumpolar boreal forest covers approximately 12,000,000 km2 and is one of the world’s most extensive biomes [...

The Adirondack All-Taxa Biological Inventory: Surveying Life in the Park

The Adirondack All-Taxa Biological In­ventory will be the starting point for exploring biological diversity in the Adiron­dack Park, a nexus for historical and contemporary data gathering and for interaction between Adirondack citizens and contributing scientists. The ATBI will gather considerable existing data and generate new biodiversity information while involving scientists and citizens. We intend to develop an educational and interpretive tool in the form of a comprehensive, web-based, spatially-referenced database that will be used to catalog existing biological diversity from known information sources, and engage and build community support for an Adirondack biological inventory. The ATBI will initially conduct a pilot project focused on a comprehensive survey of drag­onflies of the Park. We will document the interpretive and educational value of the program and use this information to refine the approach for use in the continuing effort to document Adirondack biological diversity. The ATBI will bring together groups that represent a very wide variety of stakeholders, taking advantage of local expertise and enthusiasm for the Adirondacks

Rusty Blackbird (<i>Euphagus carolinus</i>) Foraging Habitat and Prey Availability in New England: Implications for Conservation of a Declining Boreal Bird Species

The Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) is an imperiled migratory songbird that breeds in and near the boreal wetlands of North America. Our objective was to investigate factors associated with Rusty Blackbird wetland use, including aquatic invertebrate prey and landscape features, to better understand the birds’ habitat use. Using single-season occupancy modeling, we assessed breeding Rusty Blackbird use of both active and inactive beaver-influenced wetlands in New Hampshire and Maine, USA. We conducted timed, unlimited-radius point counts of Rusty Blackbirds at 60 sites from May to July 2014. Following each point count, we sampled aquatic invertebrates and surveyed habitat characteristics including percent mud cover, puddle presence/absence, and current beaver activity. We calculated wetland size using aerial imagery and calculated percent conifer cover within a 500 m buffer of each site using the National Land Cover Database 2011. Percent mud cover and invertebrate abundance best predicted Rusty Blackbird use of wetlands. Rusty Blackbirds were more likely to be found in sites with lower percent mud cover and higher aquatic invertebrate abundance. Sites with Rusty Blackbird detections had significantly higher abundances of known or likely prey items in the orders Amphipoda, Coleoptera, Diptera, Odonata, and Trichoptera. The probability of Rusty Blackbird detection was 0.589 ± 0.06 SE. This study provides new information that will inform habitat conservation for this imperiled species in a beaver-influenced landscape