Teachers, explore 10,000 years of history beneath the #GreatLakes with your students at the next Students Ask Scientists webinar on October 7! UW-Milwaukee professor Ashley Lemke will talk about what's buried beneath the waves of our biggest lakes. www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/join-us...

On this day in 1967, a fierce storm capsized 150+ boats during Michigan’s Coho Salmon run on Lake Michigan. At least 8 lives lost & dozens injured in a fishing disaster that changed lake safety forever. #LakeMichigan #CohoSalmon #GreatLakes #OnThisDay northernmichiganhistory.com/coho-salmon-...

Forgot to cross post, so it’s a dah behind. Better late than never Although colorful enough to be a REEF fish, I painted it for the RIFT prompt of #sciartseptember and this week’s #sundayfishsketch. Haplochromis obliquidens, a cichlid from Lake Victoria and the rift system of East Africa

Just look at this face #herps 🌿

Come join us at @ilinseagrant.bsky.social! We're hiring a Research & Reporting Administrator to manage the program's ~$400,000 per year competitive research portfolio of #GreatLakes science; the position will be based at Purdue University careers.purdue.edu/job/Research...

#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 21: Reef 🐠 An orange shoulder tang. - #tropicalfish #aquarium #sketchbook

Pea puffer fish. Graphite and watercolor in sketchbook #art #SciArt 🐡 #TradArt 🎨 #SundayFishSketch #watercolor #fish #FishArt #artists

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Another little creb 😊

Not all claws are created equal - meet the invasive crayfish crew of Michigan. 📣 Check out our Great Lakes Almanac to Invasive Crayfish and learn how to tell these invaders apart from our friendlier native crawdads. 👉 bit.ly/crayfishalma...

2 DAYS LEFT! Propose a session for the 2026 joint conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research and the Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences. The conference will be May 25–29, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a hybrid event. https://bit.ly/4lpMJNK #IAGLR26 #ConnectedWaters26

#GreatLakes whitefish (Atikameg) - a once-abundant and culturally important staple of the region - is in trouble. Faced with lakes transformed by invasive zebra and quagga mussels, some are proposing "pond rescue" as a potential way to save the species from collapse bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Alright I have something useful for you to do. Think of any teachers and librarians you know. Do they know about Skype a scientist? Our program matches classrooms & other groups w/scientists for virtual Q&As. It’s free! They can sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html #Edusky #StemED

BIG Bigmouth Buffalo fish! These native freshwater planktivores can live for over 100 years! We caught, fin-clipped, released several during yesterday’s @garlab.bsky.social native fishes survey!

Huffle season is upon us! The checkered puffer posses are rolling through town on the regular! 🏁🐡🐡🐡🐡🏁 #checkeredpuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #huffle #huffleofpuffers #school #huffleseason #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Please consider the opportunity to comment on the proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Roadless areas conserve cold, clean headwaters and provide habitat for native fish. The public comment period is open through Friday, Sept 19. Learn more: www.trcp.org/2025/09/12/w...

How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙

When I first moved into my office, there were a couple of crayfish on a shelf that looked like they had been soaking in formaldehyde since the first Bush administration

For the Mimic theme of #sciartseptember and #SundayFishSketch, it's the mimic shiner! Probably because it looks like other shiners. Thanks shiners... #GreatLakes

Another manta ray for #sundayfishsketch #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #oceanconservation

A #WIP Brown Trout illustration for an early #SundayFishSketch 🐡

#SundayFishSketch Anguilliformes on stuff found by the sea European eel, Anguilla anguilla, on a piece of clay Spooted moray eel, Gymnothorax isingteena, on a stone

#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 14: Mimic A mimic filefish, from a photo by Francois Libert. These devious nuggets mimic the poisonous saddled pufferfish. - #sciart #fish #aquarium

Haven’t kept up with #sciartseptember very well. Here’s a plains minnow for the #vanishing prompt from earlier in the week. Once, one of the most common minnows in the sandy drainages of the Kansas and Arkansas rivers, flow regime changes greatly reduced their numbers #sundayfishsketch

Here is a Farlowella catfish for this week’s #SundayFishSketch mimicry theme! Inspired by one I saw at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington DC this past winter.

For mimic, the false cleanerfish who pretends to be cute and innocent and “ohhh here I’ll just clean you” and then CHOMP with those wicked fangs #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch

In Minnesota, beavers have long been considered a nuisance, thanks to their ability to gnaw trees and construct dams that sometimes clog culverts, raise lake levels or flood roads. But among scientists, there’s a growing recognition that these engineers bring a host of environmental benefits.

Continuing to follow our #SciartSeptember #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme this month with @lizlagomorph.bsky.social, this weekend's theme is 'Mimic.' There are so many fantastic fish that mimic other things, including inanimate objects, other animals, even other fish! #sciart 🦑

30 seconds of Lake Ontario 🌊 📍Deer Creek Wildlife Management Area #lakeontario #greatlakes #beach

Day 10 of #SciArtSeptember - Tawny study of the longfin eel (Anguilla reinhardtii). Pretty common sight in creeks on the east coast of Australia. When ready to spawn, they travel downstream, and make their way to the Coral Sea to spawn. Photo used for the study by David Paul / Museums Victoria

Manoomin (aka wild rice) is an aquatic grass, so wind pollinated. But the flowers have a great purple color. This rice bed has flowering plants alongside mature seeds. #GreatLakes

An arctic char for the #SciArtSeptember Borealis theme and a late #SundayFishSketch. I tried an experiment where I painted with only two colors.

Manta ray for #sundayfishsketch I’m still diving in Indonesia, so this is digital. #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #oceanconservation

For the boreal theme of #sciartseptember and #SundayFishSketch, a burbot! This freshwater cod species is found from the #GreatLakes and Midwest north to the boreal regions.

For the week of September, #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme s will be following along with @lizlagomorph.bsky.social #sciartseptember! That means, this Sunday's theme is "boreal!" There are so many fantastic northern/boreal fishes. I can't wait to see some sketches! #sciart 🦑

An off-theme river chub for this week's #SundayFishSketch

#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 7: Boreal Walleye are a common fish in the waterways of the boreal forest. - #sciart #scicomm #walleye #wildlifeart #animalart

Excited to be giving two talks today at the Indiana Invasive Species Conference in Northwest Indiana! Talking all things aquatic invasive species prevention as well as giving a brief history of zebra mussels in the #GreatLakes

We asked Americans about 16 federal agencies. The National Park Service and National Weather Service were among the most favorable. www.pewresearch.org/...

ICB fish read & spotlight on #SundayFishSketch er @drfishsg.bsky.social integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/s... 1 of his projects was to sketch every freshwater fish species in Wisconsin using the Wisconsin Sea Grant fish ID app as a guide (www.seagrant.wisc.edu/fish-id/).

Just keep thinking about fish

Tawas Lake is a beautiful example of a shallow lake, teeming with life. Read the article to view gorgeous photos and read about how this NE Michigan community is working to balance wild rice/manoomin conservation with recreation and invasive species management.

A little evening sketch for #SundayFishSketch and #InverteFest 🐡

Procrastinating the manuscript that features these adorable little shell dwelling cichlids, Neolamprologus brevis #SundayFishSketch

Spotted Congo Pufferfish as requested by my husband 😊 #SundayFishSketch

A pallid sturgeon for this week’s #sundayfishsketch. Found in the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, pallid sturgeons show a preference for swift current and turbid waters. Listed as an endangered species both federally and in Kansas.

For my first #Sundayfishsketch, I sketched a Cobitis spined loach on a stone I found in the beach See before-after in next post

Northern pikeminnow, a great species to target on the fly. Payette Lake, Idaho. #flyfishing

Crickets singing, Morton Arboretum East Woods this evening.