{"id":668,"date":"2025-09-17T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/?page_id=668"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:01:44","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/?page_id=668","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-2fc57c17 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-733 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-research-features tag-collaboration tag-feature tag-postdoc tag-research\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/?p=733\" target=\"_self\" >Seneca Drums Work Featured in the New York Times!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-11-22T02:09:47+00:00\">November 22, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/00met-seneca-lake-burps-kqtc-superJumbo.jpg-683x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/00met-seneca-lake-burps-kqtc-superJumbo.jpg-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/00met-seneca-lake-burps-kqtc-superJumbo.jpg-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/00met-seneca-lake-burps-kqtc-superJumbo.jpg-768x1151.webp 768w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/00met-seneca-lake-burps-kqtc-superJumbo.jpg-1025x1536.webp 1025w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/00met-seneca-lake-burps-kqtc-superJumbo.jpg.webp 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An article describing our recent collaboration with researchers from SUNY ESF was published in <em>The NewYork Times<\/em> under the headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/08\/nyregion\/seneca-lake-guns-drums.html\">&#8220;Why Is This Lake &#8216;Burping&#8217;?<\/a>&#8221; After reading the article, I&#8217;d encourage you to peruse the comments section. My favorite? The following haiku:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-08-at-12.21.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-08-at-12.21.06-PM.png 998w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-08-at-12.21.06-PM-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-08-at-12.21.06-PM-768x297.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-724 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-research-features tag-collaboration tag-feature tag-postdoc tag-research\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/?p=724\" target=\"_self\" >Sparks Lab Sets Out to Solve the Mystery of the Seneca Drums!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-10-01T16:10:30+00:00\">October 1, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8242.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-725\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent collaboration with researchers at SUNY ESF, Tim Morin and Erin Hasset, was featured on WENY. You can hear Jed&#8217;s description of the mystery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weny.com\/story\/53043139\/working-to-unravel-the-mystery-behind-the-explosive-sound-of-the-seneca-drums\">here<\/a> and watch Ben describe their sampling procedure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weny.com\/story\/53115402\/researchers-take-samples-from-seneca-lake-in-effort-to-figure-out-causes-the-seneca-drums\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-672 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-research-features tag-feature tag-grad-student tag-research tag-undergraduate\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/?p=672\" target=\"_self\" >Allasandra&#8217;s Research Featured in the Cornell Chronicle!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T17:30:44+00:00\">September 17, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sumr_sparks_team_hero-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sumr_sparks_team_hero-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sumr_sparks_team_hero-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sumr_sparks_team_hero-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sumr_sparks_team_hero.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In an article highlighting the importance of undergraduate research opportunities, the Chronicle interviewed Allasandra&#8217;s undergraduate mentees, Eli Barret-Learn and Michael Belfer, about their experience working on Buck Island Ranch. You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2025\/09\/student-summer-research-lays-path-future-scientists?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafgHVziLAblIpjfAyKJniQA3saDjB6iIkKIgA9xdeL6xbwzWej05wsAkQO6dQ_aem_tcY4Yk2s6snRYrCD34c-tg\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-668","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparks.eeb.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}