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waterbodies

waterbodies

Written by: Dr. Roxanne Razavi & SUNY ESF Digital Storytelling Studio
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In this first season of waterbodies: short talks on Lake Ontario, we focus on the 2023 Lake Ontario CSMI. The CSMI, or Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative is a binational effort to coordinate monitoring and research activities across the Great Lakes. The goal of the CSMI is to address specific science priorities for each lake, which are established by the Lake Partnerships under the Lakewide Management Annex of the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, 4 priority areas for the 2023 Lake Ontario CSMI were identified: chemical contaminants, nutrient and bacterial pollution, habitat and species, and invasive species.


Hosted by Dr. Roxanne Razavi, Assistant Professor, Environmental Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.


Produced by the Digital Storytelling Studio at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (https://www.esf.edu/).


Funding by the Great Lakes Research Consortium (https://www.esf.edu/glrc/).


Music: In The Vapor With Air Underneath

Artist: Rachel Grimes

Writer: Rachel Grimes

Publisher: Rough Trade Songs (BMI)

Label: Temporary Residence

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Episodes
  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
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