Design and Test of Prototype Curation Facilities at Fort Drum, New York: The Fort Drum Repository Curation Methodology.

Abstract We monitored a maternity colony of little brown myotis Myotis lucifugus on Fort Drum Military Installation in northern New York in 2009 and 2010 for impacts associated with white-nose syndrome. Declines in colony numbers presumed to be caused by white-nose syndrome were initially discovered in the spring 2009. Although colony numbers have continued to decline, we determined that a minimum of 12 individual banded female little brown myotis survived over multiple years despite exposure to white-nose syndrome. Our results also provide evidence that 14 of 20 recaptured female little brown myotis were able to heal from wing damage and infection associated with white-nose syndrome within a given year, and seven of eight recaptures from within both 2009 and 2010 showed evidence of reproduction.

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Predicting the Extent and Stressfulness of Problem Rumors at Home among Army Wives of Soldiers Deployed Overseas on a Humanitarian Mission

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2001.89.1.123 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 89 (1) ◽

pp. 123-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Walter R. Schumm ◽

D. Bruce Bell ◽

Benjamin Knott

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Support Groups ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Communication Problems ◽

Humanitarian Mission ◽

Army Wives ◽

Frequent Use ◽

Fort Drum ◽

Surface Mail ◽

Official Information

Nearly 500 civilian wives of enlisted soldiers from Fort Drum, New York were surveyed about the extent to which they experienced, as problems, rumors about what was happening in Somalia and when their soldier would return from the Operation Restore Hope deployment to Somalia in 1993. Rumors, as problems, were cited less frequently than loneliness, fears about the soldier's safety, or ignorance of the situation in Somalia but more frequently than problems with communication, finances, or legal issues. The strongest initial predictor of such problems was having communication problems with the soldier. Other significant predictors included length of deployment, soldier's rank, and unit support systems. More frequent use of telephone or regular mail, however, did not appear to reduce such rumors. Stressfulness of rumors appeared to be reduced by good unit leadership, good family support groups, and better emotional adaptability to deployment by spouses, while increased by reliance on surface mail for communication with one's deployed spouse. Subsequent analyses indicated that having fears about the safety of one's soldier or concerns about not knowing what was going on in Somalia were also significantly correlated with rumors as problems. Out results may support hypotheses that rumors serve to fill gaps in official information and justify spouses' anxieties regarding the safety of their deployed soldier.

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Let's Agree to Disagree: Comparing Auto-Acoustic Identification Programs for Northeastern Bats

Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management ◽

10.3996/102018-jfwm-090 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 346-361 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tomás Nocera ◽

W. Mark Ford ◽

Alexander Silvis ◽

Christopher A. Dobony

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Maximum Likelihood ◽

Maximum Likelihood Estimate ◽

Information Criterion ◽

Likelihood Estimate ◽

Ecological Inference ◽

Relative Level ◽

Visual Identification ◽

Fort Drum ◽

Acoustic Identification

Abstract With the declines in abundance and changing distribution of white-nose syndrome–affected bat species, increased reliance on acoustic monitoring is now the new “normal.” As such, the ability to accurately identify individual bat species with acoustic identification programs has become increasingly important. We assessed rates of disagreement between the three U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service–approved acoustic identification software programs (Kaleidoscope Pro 4.2.0, Echoclass 3.1, and Bat Call Identification 2.7d) and manual visual identification using acoustic data collected during summers from 2003 to 2017 at Fort Drum, New York. We assessed the percentage of agreement between programs through pairwise comparisons on a total nightly count level, individual file level (e.g., individual echolocation pass call file), and grouped maximum likelihood estimate level (e.g., probability values that a species is misclassified as present when in fact it is absent) using preplanned contrasts, Akaike Information Criterion, and annual confusion matrices. Interprogram agreement on an individual file level was low, as measured by Cohen's Kappa (0.2–0.6). However, site-night level pairwise comparative analysis indicated that program agreement was higher (40–90%) using single season occupancy metrics. In comparing analytical outcomes of our different datasets (i.e., how comparable programs and visual identification are regarding the relationship between environmental conditions and bat activity), we determined high levels of congruency in the relative rankings of the model as well as the relative level of support for each individual model. This indicated that among individual software packages, when analyzing bat calls, there was consistent ecological inference beyond the file-by-file level at the scales used by managers. Depending on objectives, we believe our results can help users choose automated software and maximum likelihood estimate thresholds more appropriate for their needs and allow for better cross-comparison of studies using different automated acoustic software.

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American Woodcock on Fort Drum Military Installation, New York

Northeastern Naturalist ◽

10.1656/1092-6194(2008)15[241:awofdm]2.0.co;2 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 241-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christopher A. Dobony ◽

Raymond E. Rainbolt

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

American Woodcock ◽

Military Installation ◽

Fort Drum

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Patterns of acoustical activity of bats prior to and 10 years after WNS on Fort Drum Army Installation, New York

Global Ecology and Conservation ◽

10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00633 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

pp. e00633 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tomás Nocera ◽

W. Mark Ford ◽

Alexander Silvis ◽

Christopher A. Dobony

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Fort Drum

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Climatological Characteristics and Orographic Enhancement of Lake-Effect Precipitation East of Lake Ontario and over the Tug Hill Plateau

Monthly Weather Review ◽

10.1175/mwr-d-15-0009.1 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 143 (9) ◽

pp. 3591-3609 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Peter G. Veals ◽

W. James Steenburgh

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Lake Ontario ◽

Cool Season ◽

Lake Effect ◽

Fort Drum ◽

Axis Parallel ◽

Radar Imagery ◽

Orographic Enhancement ◽

The Mean ◽

Liquid Precipitation

Abstract Lake-effect snowstorms east of Lake Ontario are frequently intense and contribute to substantial seasonal accumulations, especially over the Tug Hill Plateau (hereafter Tug Hill), which rises at a gentle 1.25% slope to ~500 m above lake level. Using a variety of datasets including radar imagery from the KTYX (Fort Drum, New York) WSR-88D, this paper examines the characteristics of lake-effect precipitation east of Lake Ontario over 13 cool seasons (16 September 2001–15 May 2014). During this period, days with at least 2 h of lake effect account for 61%–76% of the mean cool-season snowfall and 24%–37% of the mean cool-season liquid precipitation. Mean monthly lake-effect frequency and snowfall peak in December and January. The highest lake-effect frequency and snowfall occur over the western and upper Tug Hill, with an arm of relatively high lake-effect frequency and snowfall extending to the southeast shore of Lake Ontario. To the east (lee), lake-effect frequency and snowfall decrease abruptly over the Black River valley, although relatively high frequency and snowfall extend downstream into the western Adirondack Mountains. Broad coverage and long-lake-axis-parallel (LLAP) bands dominate the lake-effect morphology throughout the region. There is no diurnal modulation of lake-effect frequency during winter, but weak modulation in fall and spring, especially of LLAP bands. Collectively, these results quantify the role that lake effect plays in the cool-season hydroclimate east of Lake Ontario. The increase in lake-effect frequency and snowfall over Tug Hill suggest an inland/orographic intensification of many lake-effect systems, with evidence for shadowing in the lee.

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