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Documenting The Anthropogenic Impact On Ballston Lake New York From A Short Core Using Stable Isotopes Of Carbon And Nitrogen And Trace Metals, Taylor S. Labrecque
Documenting The Anthropogenic Impact On Ballston Lake New York From A Short Core Using Stable Isotopes Of Carbon And Nitrogen And Trace Metals, Taylor S. Labrecque
Honors Theses
Ballston Lake occupies a portion of an avulsed channel of the Mohawk River between Schenectady and Saratoga Springs, New York. The lake is about 5 km long, generally less than 200m wide, ~8-15m deep, dimictic, with a catchment basin area of ~22km2. Long cores (>8 m) indicate that the lake formed ~13,000 cal yr BP. This study was undertaken to document recent environmental change recorded in the upper portion of sediment in Ballston Lake. Three sediment cores ~40 cm long were acquired from ~8 m water depth at the north end of Ballston Lake (42°57.101’N, 73°51.066’W), and were analyzed …