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  • waterbodies Ep 106: Lake Ontario CSMI Student Q&A with Dan Gurdak

    waterbodies Ep 106: Lake Ontario CSMI Student Q&A with Dan Gurdak
    Jun 24 2025

    In this special episode, students participating in the ESF in the High School’s dual enrollment course in the Rochester Virtual Academy and Marcellus High School ask their questions about the Lake Ontario CSMI. Answering their questions is Dr. Dan Gurdak, scientist for the Environmental Protection Agency in the Great Lakes Team of the EPA Region 2 office in New York City.


    Show Notes:

    • New York State health advice on eating the fish you catch: https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/outdoors/fish/health_advisories/

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    41 min
  • waterbodies Ep 105: CSMI Science Teachers Panel

    waterbodies Ep 105: CSMI Science Teachers Panel
    Jun 24 2025

    In this episode we hear a recording of the the Science Teachers Association of New York State conference presentation on the 2023 Shipboard Science Workshop. Presenters include: Nate Drag, Great Lakes Literacy Specialist for New York Sea Grant; Melissa Elliott, teacher at North Tonawanda High school (NY) and Christy Pratt, teacher at Horseheads High School (NY).


    Show Notes:

    • 2023 Shipboard Science Workshop on Lake Ontario StoryMap - Link
    • Center for Great Lakes Literacy Website - https://www.cgll.org/

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    41 min
  • waterbodies Ep 104: Nate Drag

    waterbodies Ep 104: Nate Drag
    Jun 24 2025
    Nate Drag is a Great Lakes Literacy Specialist for New York Sea Grant. Nate manages NY Sea Grant’s Great Lakes K-12 Education programming. In this conversation we talk about the Shipboard Science Workshop, a science teacher program facilitated by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network and US EPA Great Lakes National Program Office.

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    37 min
  • waterbodies Ep 103: Tim Johnson

    waterbodies Ep 103: Tim Johnson
    Jun 24 2025
    Dr. Tim Johnson is a senior research scientist at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry in Canada. In this conversation, we talk about Lake Ontario’s fisheries and food webs and long term insights from CSMI research and monitoring.

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    54 min
  • waterbodies Ep 102: Greg Boyer

    waterbodies Ep 102: Greg Boyer
    Jun 24 2025
    Dr. Greg Boyer is a Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Director of the Great Lakes Research Consortium. In this conversation, we talk about Greg’s work with the CSMI and research on monitoring strategies for cyanobacteria and other harmful algal blooms.

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    54 min
  • waterbodies Ep 101: Evie Brahmstedt

    waterbodies Ep 101: Evie Brahmstedt
    Jun 24 2025
    Evie Brahmstedt is a Postdoctoral Associate at the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell University. In this conversation, we talk about her research on mercury in wetlands along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River as part of the 2023 Lake Ontario Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI).

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    32 min