🌊New #CIGLR Fact Sheet: environmental DNA #eDNA in the #GreatLakes

How can scientists detect species without ever seeing them? Through eDNA - tiny genetic traces left behind in water - helps monitor #biodiversity, find elusive species & catch invasives early: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/wp-content/u...

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If you missed "The Story of the GLRI" webinar, you can now view the recording at this link: buff.ly/DPLoWhg #GreatLakes

Ink and watercolor sketch of a long, scaleless fish without a jaw.

Sea lamprey for #SundayFishSketch. Learned about potential genetic biocontrol in the #GreatLakes last week.

Drawing of a lawnmower blenny sitting on a purple couch. He’s a light brown mottled fish with lil fuzzy things coming out of his head in several spots. He is accompanied by a brown mottled snail.

#SundayFishSketch this week is @fishfetisher.bsky.social’s Henry, a lawnmower blenny, painted (drawn) like a french girl 😂

Female Puddingwife Wrasse in oranges, blues and white. Boulders in background. Watercolor

57/100 Puddingwife Wrasse, Initial phase, Halochoeres radiatus
#dothe100dayproject ##SundayFishSketch #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #fishart #marineart #wrasse

Photo of a sketch book page with six spaces each with a crayon drawn fish species: an anchovy, a fire goby, a flounder, a sculpin, a blind garra, and a look down jack

#SundayFishSketch BONUS: A peek at another full page!

A page full of drawings of shubunkin fish.

Banged out a load more shubunkins already 🐟
#SundayFishSketch #sciart

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a river carpsucker (30-45 cm)

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a quillback (30-45 cm)

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a highfin carpsucker (22-30 cm)

Pen, ink, and marker drawing of a white sucker (25-50 cm)

Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 13-16. Added color this week. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch

Photo of a crayon sketch of an albacore, with its wing-like pectoral fins

Quick no-photo doodle of an albacore (Thunnus alalunga) for #SundayFishSketch 🦑🐡🧪

draw me like one of your French girls

I think if I could grow a glowing lantern on my head and rarely have to interact with another soul in the murky black abyss then I, too, would finally have it all.

Weaving stronger communication practices in Great Lakes science Effective science communication is critical to advancing interdisciplinary and applied research, yet it remains one of the most complex aspects of col…

The first article in the Journal of Great Lakes Research special section on Science Communication is now in-press! yayyyy

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After two years I wrapped my observations exploring Eastern Hellbender behavior and spatial use under human care. Keep an eye out over the coming months for more updates on results as I work through the data, but in the meantime enjoy photos of these very cute creatures!

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Chinook salmon are hatching in Upper Klamath for first time in a century The Klamath Tribes are celebrating evidence of Chinook salmon spawning in Klamath River tributary.

Following completion of the largest dam removal in US history in 2024, the Upper Klamath River saw its first naturally hatched Chinook salmon this year - a promising sign of recovery for both the fish and the tribes that historically relied on them www.ijpr.org/wildlife/202...

Flooding in Northern Michigan. 1604 today on the Maple River near Burt Lake, Emmet County MI. Water up to bottom of Brutus Rd bridge, but no visible damage to the timber bridge built in 2016. Drains into Cheboygan River watershed. @mistormchasers.bsky.social #miwx #floods #GreatLakes #climate #water

A tiny turtle on a person's hand

Did somebody say "tiny turtle time"

‘Absolute tank’ of a snapping turtle rescued from Lake Michigan surf after wandering shoreline for days Doug the Tank was being tumbled around by waves when an animal sanctuary volunteer found him.

Doug the Tank, a 33-lb, 30-something-year-old snapping turtle, was rescued after being found wandering the Lake Michigan shoreline and being battered by waves - an unusual sight since these guys typically inhabit the slower waters (like wetlands) of the #GreatLakes www.mlive.com/environment/...

Environmental Restoration Creates Economic Boom for Great Lakes Communities — Healthy Lakes By cleaning up their most degraded areas, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Buffalo have created thriving lakeshore business districts, helped people reconnect with nature, and laid the groundwork for populatio...

Twenty years after we first made real the multi-billion dollar funding for #GreatLakes Restoration, in part by pointing out the tremendous potential economic impact for this industrial heartland region, we see the results all around us! www.healthylakes.org/latest-news/...

A natural lake scene with water lilies and an evergreen forest under a blue sky. Photo credit: A. DePalma-Dow.

A bunch of new lake- and stream-related webinars just dropped on our calendar - check out learning opportunities about:
🦓 Zebra mussel control
🐟 Invasive carp management
🏖️ Beach monitoring
...and much more! See the whole list: www.canr.msu.edu/michiganlake...

My story on the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed is up now

First Piping Plover Has Landed at Montrose Beach, Here’s Hoping He Soon Has Company Once again, early bird honors go to Pippin, the unlucky-in-love bachelor who’s marking his third year at Montrose in search of a mate.

Piping plover season has begun!

The year’s first endangered piping plover has landed at Montrose Beach, the group Chicago Piping Plovers reported Monday. https://to.wttw.com/3Qjthsg

Show them Spy Kids 3D you cowards

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Across administrations and political lines, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has remained a rare bipartisan success story. Discover how GLRI transformed restoration—and what we can learn from it. Join us for a conversation on April 16. Register: nwf-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Here comes the manatee, barreling through snout first gentle as can be! #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #seacow #coralcitycamera

Ink sketch of the long mouth and head of the pike on top. Bottom is view from above of two pike cruising the shallows.

I've been watching spawning Northern Pike in the last week, so here are two sketches of them. #SundayFishSketch

Photo of a crayon sketch of a look down jack

A lookdown (Selene vomer) in honor of the #ArtemisII voyage. For #SundayFishSketch 🐡🦑🧪

Pen and ink drawing of an American Eel. Text indicates females (to 120 cm) grow larger than males (45 cm)

Pen abc ink drawing of a skipjack shad with size bar (30-45 cm)

Pen and ink drawing of a gizzard shad with size bar (25-45 cm)

Pen and ink drawing of a threadfin shad with size bar (12-18 cm)

Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 9-12. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch

Colored pencil sketch of a very odd fish poking out of a hole on a reef. It’s grayish purple with what looks like a collection of little tree branches coming out of its forehead. The mouth is slightly open and shows some tiny little blunt teeth.

This weirdo, featured in some BBC doc or another, popped up in my feed. Unclear what exact species of comb blenny this is but he’s funky #SundayFishSketch

Bar Jack in silver with blue bar and dark line above, watercolor

50/100 Bar Jack, Caranx ruber #dothe100dayproject #100dayproject #100creaturesonthereef #coralreef #fishart #marineart #barjack