Posters topics from the First Annual Onondaga Lake Scientific Forum included:

• Onondaga Lake benthic macroinvertabrate communities
• shifts in the fish community structure over the past 10 years
• hypolimnetic oxygen depletion and hypolimnetic accumulation of reduced species over a ten year period
• non-point source pollution
• superfund activities on Onondaga Lake
• METRO reclamation plans
• soil formation study of the Solvay wastebeds

Presentation topics and presenters at the First Annual Onondaga Lake Scientific Forum:

Opening Comments Robert Hennigan Professor Emeritus College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY)

"Nitrogen in Onondaga Lake, It's Just Too Much: I. Dynamics, Violations, and Recent Changes" Dr. Steven W. Effler Director of Research Upstate Freshwater Institute

"Nitrogen in Onondaga Lake, It's Just Too Much: II. Development and Application of a Probabilistic Modeling Framework for Ammonia TMDLs" Dr. Steven W. Effler Director of Research Upstate Freshwater Institute

"Best Wishes on Behalf of Fishes: Diversity and Constraints on Aquatic Resources of Onondaga Lake" Dr. Neil H. Ringler Professor, Chairman Environmental and Forest Biology College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY)

"Breathing Life Into the Dead - A First Look at Oxygenation/Aeration Alternatives for the Hypolimnion of Onondaga Lake" Dr. Emmet M. Owens Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engr. Syracuse University

"And You Wonder Why You Are Mad as a Hatter: Mercury in Onondaga Lake" Dr. Charles T. Driscoll Distinguished Professor Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engr. Syracuse University

"Sediment Phosphorus Release and the Recovery of Onondaga Lake: Life Beneath the Sword of Damocles" Dr. Martin T. Auer Professor Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engr. Michigan Technological University

"Making the Worst of a Bad Situation: Enhanced Invasion Rate by Exotic Species During Peak Onondaga Lake Pollution" Dr. Nelson G. Hairston Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science Section of Ecology & Systematics Cornell University

"Stalking the Wily Hydrophobe: Organic Chemistry of Onondaga Lake, Coal Tar to PCBs" Dr. John P. Hassett Professor, Chairman Department of Chemistry College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY)

"I'll Trade You a METRO for Two Cornfields and a Golf Course: Bioavailability and the Management of Phosphorus Loads to Onondaga Lake" Dr. Martin T. Auer Professor Dept. of Civil and Environ. Engr. Michigan Technological University

Meeting Summary Robert D. Hennigan Professor Emeritus College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY)

First Anuual Onondaga Lake Scientific Forum Presenters (l-r): Robert Hennigan, Emmet Owens, Charles Driscoll, Steven Effler, Neil Ringler, John Hassett, Martin Auer , not shown Nelson Hairston

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