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Category: StreamEcoBlog

We’re Back!!!

By Nicholas Pagan Posted on May 28, 2014 Posted in StreamEcoBlog Tagged with Nick

Spring semester’s greeting from our lab to yours!  Hannah Reich and Nick Pagan here, back from our study abroad and not-so-abroad experiences.  Now that we’re back, what better way to celebrate than to pick through the preserved macroinvertebrates we collected …

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The Trouble with Mussels Is…

By Audrey Seiz Posted on July 23, 2013 Posted in StreamEcoBlog Tagged with Audrey

The freshwater pearl mussel has a unique life cycle that includes female mussels ingesting sperm from the surrounding water to fertilize their eggs. Once the eggs are fertilized the female is considered gravid, or pregnant. The fertilized eggs (glochidia) are …

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Unionoid Treasure Hunt

By Nicholas Pagan Posted on July 23, 2013 Posted in StreamEcoBlog Tagged with Nick

For the last few weeks, the stream team has gone mussel crazy. We have been, for the most part, contributing to Hannah’s project of obtaining DNA samples from freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) all over the drainage of the east …

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“How to Milk Macroinvertebrates”

By Nicholas Pagan Posted on June 12, 2013 Posted in StreamEcoBlog Tagged with Nick

  So, the free snapping of a digital camera can catch the funniest things. Today was the first day of Gaby’s macroinvertebrate sampling in Brooks Woodland. From our early morning start, we knew it would be a hot, muggy day. …

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Mussel Madness!

By Audrey Seiz Posted on June 4, 2013 Posted in StreamEcoBlog Tagged with Audrey

My first introduction to Margaritifera margaritifera, the freshwater pearl mussel, occurred during a stream site visit in the Spring of 2010. Brittany Laginhas (’10), a senior at the time, planned to conduct Masters research on the population distribution and habitat …

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Clark has a new Stream Team!

By Cynthia Alonso Posted on May 29, 2013 Posted in StreamEcoBlog Tagged with Cynthia

Last year, I experienced for the first time the joy of sitting in a stream on a hot, humid summer day, with my impermeable waders keeping me dry while allowing the cooling and soothing effects of the ripples rushing to …

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