SUNY Oneonta program receives NSF grant

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July 23, 2012

SUNY Oneonta program receives NSF grant

Anonymous Staff Report The Daily Star Mon Jul 23, 2012, 03:30 AM EDT

The Biological Field Station at SUNY Oneonta's Cooperstown Campus has been awarded a $94,315 grant from the National Science Foundation, according to a media release from the college.

The grant will fund instruments to help researchers identify, photograph and monitor plankton in Otsego Lake and other nearby bodies of water.

The Fluid Imaging Technologies FlowCAM will be used to analyze water samples, and will allow for further training and education to be conducted by SUNY Cobleskill and a fish hatchery program operated by Cornell University.

Plankton is a collective name for a variety of small ocean or freshwater organisms.

Field Station Director Willard Harman, who wrote the grant proposal, has spent more than 40 years collecting ecological data that has served as the basis for the Otsego Lake Watershed Management Plan, according to the release.

In recognition of his dedication to studying the lake, last year he received the Susquehanna River Basin Committee's Maurice K. Goddard Award for Excellence.

"Over the last three years alone, Dr. Harman has secured more than a half million dollars to fund research on Otsego Lake and its unique ecosystems," SUNY Oneonta Provost Maria Thompson said in the release. "His work continues to bring attention to the importance of water management not only locally, but well beyond our region."