weny news

WATKINS GLEN -- After hundreds, if not thousands of years of uncertainty, scientists from Cornell University and SUNY ESF have teamed up to try to figure out what causes the so called 'Seneca Drums'. Part of the mystery isn't just the noise, it is also that the bottom of southern Seneca Lake are covered with pock marks, some estimated to be as wide as four football fields.

"Seneca Lake is really interesting because it has these pock marks, 144 kind of bowls at the bottom of the lake," said Erin Hassett, Ph.D candidate at SUNY ESF.

Created by glaciers thousands of years ago, Seneca Lake is the deepest of the Finger Lakes, measuring well over 600 feet in some places. To get the samples they needed, researchers had to slowly drop lines all the way to the bottom of the lake, right

See Full Page