Fuller will collaborate with six other scientists to study the levels of acidity of five tributary streams to Honnedaga Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, and the effects on reproduction of a heritage strain of brook trout in New York. The research team, which includes Cliff Kraft and Don Josephson from Cornell University, Colin Beier and Mark Dovciak of SUNY-ESF, and Barry Baldigo and Greg Lawrence of the US Geological Survey, will characterize soil and stream-water chemistry in the watershed of each stream, along with their plant and animal communities, to assess how acidified soils affect both terrestrial and stream communities.
March 26, 2012