Darrin Freshwater Institue (DFWI) is a multidisciplinary environmental research center of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute dedicated to understanding the structure and function of aquatic, terrestrial and atmospheric systems. DFWI's publications prior to 2015 are housed by Rensselaer Libraries in a DSpace@RPI sub-community and organized into various collections. Theses and the online lecture series continue to be added up to the present. These digitized and born-digital collections capture research conducted by the Institute for the last fifty-five years. It is a significant body of research both because of the breadth of years of recorded data and because of the richness of the research focused on Lake George and fresh water ecosystems. These materials are organized into the following collections: DFWI scientific papers, DFWI reports, DFWI theses and dissertations, DFWI media, and records for the DFWI summer lecture series.
Presented in DSpace@RPI by Rensselaer Libraries
"Roundtable discussion on Eurasian milfoil" on WMHT in 1987
A technical report from 2007 and a technical report from 1967
"Down the Hudson from lake tear of the clouds in the Adirondacks to the Manhattan harbor via vintage postcards" by Charles Boylen 2021
"The use of stream delta surveillance as a tool for early detection of Eurasian watermilfoil" in Aquatic Plant Management Society 2001
"Working to Keep the Lake Alive" from the media collection.
Note: some theses are restricted to Rensselaer users
"Darrin Freshwater Institute Opens its Doors to Undergraduates" in the Lake George Mirror 2011.
The Darrin Freshwater Institute Sub-community in DSpace@RPI is the master collection that contains all of the DFWI online collections in the series dating from 1967 to present.
Rensselaer's Darrin Fresh Water Institute and the Historical Society of Bolton co-host a series of presentations on the natural and cultural history of Lake George and the Adirondacks, 2020-2021.
The media collection contains interviews, speeches, and news articles by and about the institute and its research activities. Digital objects in the collection are circa 1980-2013.
Full-text and abstracts of the DFWI's papers published in the scientific literature up to 2015.
This collection contains technical reports and scientific reports released by DFWI up to 2015.
Rensselaer theses and dissertations affiliated with DFWI. The collection consists of older scanned theses as well as electronic theses (ETDS) ranging from 1969 to present.
Collection guide created by Brenden McCarthy