Clustering Cambodian Fish Diversity for Conservation
The Mekong River Basin contains one of the world’s most diverse freshwater communities that consists of some 850 fish species, many of which are found nowhere else. Read More…
Tonle Sap Lake
Film Friday: Hyacinth on Tonle Sap Lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzSkjQNjYmM Today's Film Friday shows that water hyacinth isn't just a scourge of our study sites at home in California - we found it creating headaches across Read More…
Discovering Fish Distributions of Tonle Sap Lake
Tonle Sap Lake is unique in its status as Southeast Asia’s largest natural inland lake and largest wetland area. This biodiverse water body has the capacity to Read More…
Film Friday: Navigating Hyacinth in Cambodia
https://www.youtube.com/embed/QzSkjQNjYmM While traveling with our partners for the Wonders of the Mekong project in Cambodia, our staff hit a familiar snag – invasive water hyacinth. Today's Film Read More…
Money (fish) that grows on trees
In Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, daily life revolves around fish and water. During the monsoon season, the Tonle Sap River rises and floods the forests around the Read More…
Dai net fishery
The Tonle Sap Lake of Cambodia is one of a handful of water bodies where you can catch such an impressive variety of freshwater fish. Southeast Asia’s Read More…
Future biologist?
A Cambodian boy looks on with curiosity as scientists remove fish from the catch, measure them, and cut off a piece of the caudal fin. The boy Read More…
Lake diversity
The Mekong Basin is extremely diverse. The river level fluctuates more between the wet and dry seasons than any other major river in the world. Maybe it Read More…
Water water everywhere …
When traveling in the Mekong region one gets the impression that water is everywhere - mostly due to the billions of mosquitoes that seem to hover around Read More…
Fishing for a living
For most of us in the United States, the thought of not having a job is either a dream, or anxiety inducing. For much of the world, Read More…