Rice Creek Associates (RCA), the support group for Rice Creek Field Station, invites the SUNY Oswego community and members of the public to join us for our annual event highlighting the research and creative accomplishments of RCA's 2025 small grants awardees.

Students, faculty, staff, family, friends, and community members are invited to glimpse the "behind-the-scenes" work happening at Rice Creek and hear cutting-edge discoveries. Additional research posters will be displayed during the social hour.

This year's format will be hybrid.

In person-attendees

• Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 29 to rca@oswego.edu, as the event is catered
• Children under 17 must be accompanied by an adult
• Students in need of transportation should email rca@oswego or call 315.312.6677 for the van pickup schedule at least 48 hours in advance
• Persons with disabilities requiring accommodations to attend this event should contact Rice Creek Associates at rca@oswego.edu at least 48 hours in advance

Virtual attendees

At the time of the event, please join via Zoom: https://oswego-edu.zoom.us/j/92473530893?jst=3

Program

1:30 – 2 pm: Social gathering with refreshments and poster viewing

2 – 4 pm: Presentations (may end earlier)

• Katie Fisher (Biological Sciences Faculty). Assessment of the impact of pheretimoid earthworm invasion on soil microbiomes at Rice Creek Field Station – a real-world inquiry driven teaching laboratory project
• Mike Holy (RCA Board Member), Karen Sime (Biological Sciences Faculty, Director of Rice Creek Field Station).  Butterfly diversity at Rice Creek Field Station: Student training in field survey and database entry for National Pollard Base Butterfly Network. Presenter: Machara Malone (Student)
• Kelly Roe (Associate Dean, School of Communication, Media and the Arts).  A photographic essay of insects and their environment — found around RCFS and those in the specimen collection
• Shaylynn Schumacher (Student), Julina Almonte (Student), Daniel Baldassarre (Biological Sciences Faculty).  Site fidelity and reproductive success of bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) in low maintenance hayfields on the SUNY Oswego campus
• J. R. Slosson (Atmospheric and Geological Sciences Faculty).  Stream solute buffering in a Northeastern United States constructed wetland