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Aquatic Culture

Winter Waters: The Under-Ice Food Web

March 5, 2022 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

mixed phytoplankton community courtesy University of Rhode Island Earlier this winter, I took to the pond ice – not to skate, but to peek below the surface. Although lake ecologists once considered the plankton in frozen lakes to be dormant during winter, recent studies reveal that the plant-like, microscopic phytoplankton (which move with the lake’s currents) and animal-like zooplankton remain active below the icy surface. [Read more…] about Winter Waters: The Under-Ice Food Web

Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: Aquatic Culture, fish, Fisheries, nature, Wildlife, winter

Invasive Species Boat Inspection Law Extended

December 16, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Adirondack Watershed Institute Decontamination programThe law requiring motorized boats to be inspected for invasive plants and other harmful organisms prior to launch in New York waters has been extended. The Legislature also approved new education and outreach funding.

Boaters must verify that watercraft have been inspected and/or decontaminated to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. [Read more…] about Invasive Species Boat Inspection Law Extended

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Council, Adirondacks, Aquatic Culture, boating, Environmental History, fishing, Invasive Species, Invasive Species Transport Act, nature, water quality, Wildlife

Life In Groundwater Fed Springs in Winter

March 3, 2021 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

TOS_Springs In Winter_CaddisfliesOn a clear mid-winter day several years ago, my student Sarah Wakefield and I pulled on snowshoes, donned backpacks, and headed up through Smugglers’ Notch in Vermont.

Our destination was Big Spring, which rises from Mount Mansfield’s bedrock before flowing east for 100 yards and entering a culvert under Route 108. When it emerges from the culvert, the spring water joins a stream fed by surface runoff and snowmelt. [Read more…] about Life In Groundwater Fed Springs in Winter

Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: Aquatic Culture, Geology, insects, Science, Wildlife, winter

Aquatic Culture in Early America

February 19, 2020 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldThe Atlantic World has brought many disparate peoples together, which has caused a lot of ideas and cultures to mix. 

How did the Atlantic World bring so many different peoples and cultures together? How did this large intermixing of people and cultures impact the development of colonial America?

[Read more…] about Aquatic Culture in Early America

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Aquatic Culture, Black History, Podcasts

Aquatic Culture in Early America

February 13, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldThe Atlantic World has brought many disparate peoples together, which has caused a lot of ideas and cultures to mix.

How did the Atlantic World bring so many different peoples and cultures together? How did this large intermixing of peoples and cultures impact the development of colonial America?

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History Kevin Dawson, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California-Merced and author of Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), joins us to explore answers to these questions with an investigation of the African Diaspora and African and African American aquatic culture. [Read more…] about Aquatic Culture in Early America

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: African American History, African Diaspora, Aquatic Culture, Colonial America, Colonial History, Early America, Early American History, Podcasts, Water

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