<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</span></div><div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Miranda Rummell, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Natural Resources and Ecology MS Student</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Storms under water: Wind-driven impacts on deep lake thermal dynamics and vertical distribution of Lake Champlain biota.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:0.5in">Lake Champlain is a large, deep, freshwater lake that experiences summer stratification limiting interactions between surface and deep waters. Storms cause rapid vertical temperature changes in the water column that alter habitat conditions which may potentially influence the distribution, behavior, or abundance of aquatic organisms with specific thermal preferences. We compiled ten years of vertical temperature data collected by a buoy deployed in the main lake to classify storms into five severity levels and compared these events with plankton samples collected during storms. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Friday May 15,</b><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> 11:00</b><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">am. </b></p><span class="gmail-im" style="color:inherit"><div><div><div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><div><b>Reception prior to the talk at 10:30</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>You can add the full seminar schedule to your <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y18xMDhkNjVlMjY1ZGVmNjI5MTU3NDJhNzU0ZmQyMTE4ZjBhNmRhYmJjNDg2MDE0MGU3NmUwMTU0YzNiOGFmZTQwQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a><br></div></div><div><div><div>You can also get weekly updates by following our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SUNYPlattsburghCEES" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cees_sunyplattsburgh/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> pages<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please advertise broadly and distribute to anyone you think might be interested.</div></div></div></div><img src="cid:ii_mou4tcob2" alt="Slide1.JPG" width="542" height="407" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></span></div></div>