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Jefferson Project Expands Weather Monitoring at Chautauqua Lake with New York State Mesonet Partnership
The Jefferson Project at Chautauqua Lake is growing its environmental monitoring and modeling capabilities through a new partnership with the New York State Mesonet, bringing two advanced weather stations to Chatauqua Lake.
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RPI Collaborates on First-of-its-Kind Research Study to Keep New York Lakes Healthy
RPI professor and freshwater ecology expert Kevin Rose, Ph.D., in collaboration with other researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the Lake George Association (LGA), and Paul Smith’s College, conducted the first ever long-term study on the environmental effects of the aquatic herbicide florpyrauxifen-benzyl (FPB), also known as ProcellaCOR.
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Learning Through Play: RPI Game on Freshwater Science Installed at ECHO Leahy Center
World of Plankton, an interactive educational game developed by faculty and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been permanently installed at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain as part of the center’s newly renovated Into the Lake exhibit.
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AAAS Honors Researchers Georges Belfort, Nikhil Koratkar, and Rick Relyea
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, has elected Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Georges Belfort, Nikhil Koratkar, and Rick Relyea to the newest class of AAAS fellows, among the most distinct honors within the scientific community.
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Rensselaer Scholars To Build and Test Prototype To Monitor Water Quality for Nitrogen
A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow Shayla Sawyer, a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Rick Relyea, a professor of biological sciences at Rensselaer, to better understand the growing problem of harmful algal blooms (HABs).
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