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Category Archives: Biological Research
Taking on the Ticks
Louis Magnarelli (March 27, 1945–July 11, 2013) BY LAURA STEPHENSON CARTER The Huyck Preserve has helped shape the career of many a biologist. One was Louis Magnarelli who studied mosquitoes and horseflies at the Preserve in the 1970s. He later became … Continue reading
The Huycks and the New York Governors
Jessie Van Antwerp Huyck, who founded the E.N. Huyck Preserve, and her husband Edmund (“Ted”) were prominent citizens in the Albany, New York, Capital region, as well as in Rensselaerville, in the early 1900s. Continue reading
Remember When—The Rensselaerville Rangers
BY LAURA STEPHENSON CARTER My first encounter with the Rensselaerville Rangers was in August 1970, listening to 50s and 60s songs like “Silhouettes,” “Teen Angel,” “Little Darlin,’” and “Remember Then.” No, the Rangers weren’t a rock and roll doo-wop group. … Continue reading
The “Arms Race” in an Acorn
BY LYNN LOVE Twenty-two years is nothing in evolutionary time, but it is long enough to figure out some things about evolution if you are a diligent scientist. That is exactly what Huyck Preserve Research Associate Joan Herbers did. In the process, … Continue reading
The Bee Man: Jerome G. Rozen Jr., Ph.D.
Jerome (Jerry) Rozen is a world-renowned entomologist and bee expert at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. And he’s a great friend of the Huyck Preserve. He joined the board of directors in the mid-1980s … Continue reading
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August 5: The Birthday of David Weininger
August 5 was the birthday of David Weininger, born in Brooklyn, New York (1952), and raised in Schenectady. He was considered a visionary and pioneer in the field of chemical informatics and he’s known for inventing a chemical nomenclature system … Continue reading
July 4: The Birthday of Vincent Schaefer
Today is the birthday of atmospheric scientist Vincent Schaefer, born in 1906. As a scientist at General Electric in Schenectady, New York, he invented cloud seeding, a method of seeding super-cooled clouds with dry ice. He discovered the concept … Continue reading
The Beast from Lake Myosotis
You may be familiar with such New York State monsters as Champ (the Lake Champlain monster), Adirondacks Bigfoot, or the Kinderhook Creature, but did you ever hear of the Beast of Lake Myosotis? In the 1960s, people in Rensselaerville … Continue reading
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Pseudoscorpion Named for Huyck Preserve
In 1955, when research fellow William B. Muchmore was searching for snails and salamanders in the deep, damp understory of the Huyck Preserve’s deciduous forests, he discovered several tiny pseudoscorpions hiding under some rocks. Pseudoscorpions look like miniature scorpions—minus the … Continue reading
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