Stories of the Ausable
Mirror Lake and Beyond: How Buoys Boost Lake Data
In 2020, the Ausable Freshwater Center (AFC) teamed up with Dr. Kevin Rose and his lab group from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to deploy a high-frequency sensor array in Mirror Lake –starting a partnership between the two...
The Shrinking Habitat of Cold-Water Fish in the Adirondacks
Many lakes in the Adirondacks face two primary threats that impact cold-water fish, including our native salmonids—brook trout, lake trout, and whitefish. The first threat is climate-induced increases in water temperature. The second is deep-water oxygen depletion.
Adapting Historic Monitoring to Meet New Challenges
As the threats and inputs to Adirondack lake ecosystems have evolved, the ways we study these systems have too. Since acid deposition was the primary stressor of the last 50 years, research questions which guided monitoring programs focused heavily on...
