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By Rohanmax on Wednesday, Jun. 3, 2015 - 4:02 pm
By New York City Department of Environmental Protection on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 - 3:16 pm
Job ID: 177470 Business Title: Associate Chemist Civil Service Title: ASSOCIATE CHEMIST Title Code No: 21822 Level: 03 Job Category: Public Safety, Inspections, & Enforcement Career Level: Experienced (non-manager) Proposed Salary Range: $ 62,800.00... Read more
By New York City Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 - 12:10 pm
Proposed Salary Range: $61,238.00 - $80,883.00 (Annual)Work Location: 71 Smith Avenue, Kingston, NY Working in the Watershed Water Quality Operations, in the Kingston Pathogen Laboratory, the Associate Laboratory Microbiologist II will report to the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2014 - 3:38 pm
For the federal wildlife biologists tasked with keeping New York State boar-free, rounding up Zybysek Trunirz's escaped wild Eurasian boars has become something of a regular occurrence.  A few weeks ago, it happened again: A group of boars escaped from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 - 12:41 pm
Above: A white-tailed deer browses at the shore of the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user Ken Ficara; published under Creative Commons license. Local hunters, New York City wants your help: The burgeoning deer population around the Ashokan Reservoir... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2013 - 2:36 pm
Above: The black-legged or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Photo by Scott Bauer of the USDA; published under Creative Commons license. Source: InsectImages.org. In the Hudson Valley and across the nation, tick-borne disease is on the rise. The deer ticks... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 23, 2013 - 10:49 am
"Here they come," writes Watershed Post reader Penny Johnson, who snapped this photo of cicadas emerging in a West Hurley garden at 8am this morning.  This year marks the emergence of Brood II, a group of 17-year cicadas in the Northeast that have spent... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 - 10:34 am
Photo by Dan Century of cicadamania.com. Published under Creative Commons license. Brood II: It sounds like a low-budget horror movie. But it's real, and it's poised to engulf the East Coast from Georgia to Connecticut, an onslaught of giant bugs that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 28, 2013 - 11:09 am
Above: Olivia Paetow, a student at Onteora High School, gets a lesson in microbiology from Donna Reynolds of the DEP. Photos courtesy of NYC DEP.  Students from Ulster County and the Bronx got a hands-on lesson in water science this week, as part of a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 - 5:10 pm
Astronomer and Woodstock local Bob Berman visited Bennett Intermediate School in Boiceville on January 30, bringing meteorites and a spectroscope to Bennett's after-school science club.  Berman is the author of The Sun's Heartbeat and other astronomy... Read more

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