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Research on lake foam from Canandaigua Lake

2019 study sponsored by the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association The same researchers (Richard W. Smith, PhD and Stella C. Woodard, PhD.) recently found out that the foam can concentrate microcystin-LR (a common cyanotoxin) as well as PFAS (“forever chemicals” from nonstick coating, flame retardants, etc.). https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5161/why-is-pfas-enriched-foam-forming-on-some-of-the-cleanest-lakes-in-the-country (They are working on publishing the results in peer-reviewed […]

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CLMB (yellow data buoy) deployed on May 4, 2025

The Continuous Lake Monitoring Buoy (CLMB) on Otsego Lake was re-deployed on May 4, 2025. This deployment was made possible by 14 dedicated volunteers of the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station Volunteer Dive Team and Otsego Lake Association, Cooperstown, NY (OLA). This annual work was especially challenging this year. The whole sully stick (ice-resistant buoy)

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