10/06/2026
Tiffany Miele of Hawthorne, NY, a second-year Environmental Management major, spent her summer internship looking through a microscope at organisms smaller than a grain of rice, using them to help answer much larger questions about the long-term health of Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, the source of the 444-mile Susquehanna River.🌊
Miele, an undergraduate research intern, worked with Dr. Mairi Meehan, Assistant Professor of Biology, on a project that sought to interpret 30 years of zooplankton monitoring data to identify and describe ecosystem change in the lake 🦐
“Throughout my research so far, one thing I’ve learned is that it’s okay to not know exactly what you’re doing at first,” Miele said. “The people I’ve met and the relationships I’ve built have made this one of the most memorable experiences of my time here.” 🛶
Read more about their findings here: bit.ly/OtsegoLakeZooplankton
