Studying a Swamp Soundscape
As visual creatures, humans rely heavily on their eyes to navigate the world, but this adaptation isn’t much help in the waters of a muddy swamp. While Read More…
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Filed under: 2019
Hot and Cold: Dialing in on Temperatures for Winter-Run Salmon
Of the four runs of Chinook salmon that inhabit the Central Valley, winter-run historically had the most daunting journey to reach their spawning grounds. These cold-loving fish Read More…
Flashback Friday: Safe Harbor
If you're looking for a good dose of adorable wildlife, look no further than today's Flashback Friday. We bring you a profile of the highly charismatic Pacific Read More…
Food Flight: Fish Hitch a Ride in Bird Guts
Fish can show up in remarkable places, like ponds disconnected from any other body of water or remote alpine lakes. Sure, sometimes they get a first-class flight Read More…
Invertebrates with Altitude: Effects of Drought in Mountain Streams
Small headwater streams at high elevations may be mostly inaccessible to fish, but they still teem with aquatic life. Benthic macroinvertebrates, including insect larvae, worms, snails, and Read More…
Photo Friday: Follow the Leader
Several of our recent projects, such as the Stanislaus Native Fish Plan, have been large-scale, collaborative efforts that required teams of our staff to work together – Read More…
Worth its Salt – Could the Salton Sea be Saved?
It only takes a quick visit to the Salton Sea to notice that something is amiss. The lake’s shores are littered with the carcasses of the Nile Read More…
Opening the Door for Open Data
Decades worth of ecological data points, metadata, and databases have been amassed by scientists around the world. Where all these data end up has major implications for Read More…
Film Friday: Studying the Irrawaddy River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ8OLkwrbZ4&t What is it like to travel down the Irrawaddy, Myanmar's longest river? Follow along with one of our biologists to explore this fascinating ecosystem by boat Read More…
New eDNA Sampler Filters for Fish
If uncoiled and stretched to its full length, the DNA contained in a single human cell would be about two meters long, and the total length of Read More…