Field Samples is a Q&A with aquatic researchers. Today graduate student, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, talks about attempts to get better measurements of inland fishery catches. . Etienne will give a public lecture on his work today …
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Fish species, rural livelihoods threatened by new dams on world’s largest rivers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Advocates of huge hydroelectric dam projects on the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong rivers often overestimate economic benefits and underestimate far-reaching effects on biodiversity, according to an article in the Jan. 8 issue …
Turning Science Outreach Obligations into Opportunities
Happy Fish Fry Day, when Wisconsin (and your trusty blog) put fish on the menu. Today’s offering – Ellen Hamann’s excellent post, originally written for the Canadian Science Publishing website on her “Fish on the …
Will New Maps Bring Higher-Resolution to Great Lakes Restoration Efforts?
The CFL’s Pete McIntyre is involved in a new Great Lakes mapping effort that may help guide future restoration projects. Details below: ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues have created exceptionally detailed maps …
Video: UW-Madison Undergrad Shares Fish Tales from Thailand
Vera Swanson is a UW-Madison undergraduate in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS). She spent her spring semester in Thailand working with CFL grad student, Aaron Koning. Here’s her amazing video recap of …
Fish Fry Day: Getting “Biggest Bang for Your Buck” in Conservation
by Kelly April Tyrrell A few years ago, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology created the first map of all the road crossings and dams blocking the tributary rivers that feed the …
Fish Fry Day: “FishWerks,” New App to Optimize Fish Barrier Removal
Pretend for a moment that you’re a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources scientist tasked with connecting migratory Great Lakes fish to upstream habitats. Let’s say the stream you’re working on has two dams and five impassable road …
Fish Fry Day Video: Ice Fishing in Madison, Wisconsin
Andrew Stevens is a graduate student working on a master’s degree both with Pete McIntyre in Freshwater and Marine Sciences as well as the Water Resources Management Program here at UW-Madison. He’s also an avid …
Field Samples: Studying Fish Migrations in Great Lakes Streams
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, Lake Superior State University professor, Ashley Moerke, talks about her time on sabbatical studying Great Lakes fish migrations at the …
Field Samples: Restoring the Flow for Great Lakes’ Migratory Fishes
Field Samples is a weekly Q&A asking researchers what they’ve been up to and what they’ve learned. Today, post doctoral researcher, Allison Moody, talks dams, road culverts and getting migratory fish moving again. Who are you, where …