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SUMMARY:Great Lakes Book Club: The Salmon Capital of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our free 2025 virtual book club featuring books that give us new insight into our Great Lakes. \nGrab some lunch and join us online for a guided discussion about this month’s book. Our April selection is The Salmon Capital of Michigan: The Rise and Fall of a Great Lakes Fishery by Carson Prichard. Registered guests are not required to buy the book\, but can purchase the book from our Museum Store. \nRegister HERE. \nAbout the Book:  \nLocal voices reveal the personal stories and cultural legacy of a once-flourishing fishing town impacted by environmental change. \nWeaving together the stories and voices of residents\, anglers\, community leaders\, and environmental workers and researchers\, this compelling account details the lives and livelihoods impacted by a once-unrivaled Michigan salmon fishery. From the introduction of Chinook salmon to the Great Lakes in the late 1960s\, a thriving recreational fishery industry arose in Northern Michigan\, attracting thousands of anglers to small towns like Rogers City each week at its peak. \nBy the early 2000s\, a crisis loomed beneath the surface of Lake Huron as the population of a prey fish species called alewife unexpectedly collapsed\, depleting the salmon’s main source of food. By 2007\, the salmon population had collapsed too\, leaving local fisheries and their respective communities lacking a key commodity and a bid on fishery tourism. \nAuthor\, angler\, and ecologist Carson Prichard artfully incorporates fisheries science and local news media into an oral history that is entertaining\, rich\, and genuine. Complementing an ecological understanding of events\, this narrative details the significance of the fishery and its loss as experienced by the townspeople whose lives it touched. \nAbout the Author: \nCarson Prichard is an avid angler and outdoorsman. He received his PhD in earth and ecosystem science from Central Michigan University in 2018. His research in fisheries science\, Great Lakes ecology\, and the fish populations in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Raised in Jenison\, Michigan\, Prichard now resides in Gainesville\, Florida.
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SUMMARY:Spring Lecture Series: From Diatoms to DNA
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our 2025 Spring Lecture Series presented by Larry & Karen Bettcher. Offered as a hybrid event\, participants can choose when registering to take part in-person at the museum or online via Zoom. \nDiscover how lake mud holds clues to the past as Dr. Trisha Spanbauer explores how fossils and DNA in sediment reveal the history of lakes and how they’ve changed over time. \nFrom Diatoms to DNA: Using the Information Contained in Mud to Understand the History of Lakes \nLakes hold a hidden history beneath their surfaces\, preserved in layers of sediment that accumulate over time. In this lecture\, Dr. Trisha Spanbauer will explore how interdisciplinary research is uncovering the ecological and evolutionary changes that have shaped aquatic ecosystems. By analyzing fossil and DNA records from ancient lakes in South America and Africa\, as well as younger lakes in the Midwest and Rocky Mountains\, Dr. Spanbauer and her team reveal how environmental disturbances have influenced lake ecosystems over time. \nRegister to attend virtually HERE. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Trisha Spanbauer joined the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Toledo in 2019\, and she is currently a resident faculty member at the Lake Erie Center. Prior to becoming a professor\, Dr. Spanbauer received a BFA in Visual Art and Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in Geology and Biology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research in her lab is broadly interested in ecological and evolutionary change over a broad range of timescales\, with a specialization in using fossils and genetic material from sediment archives to understand global environmental change. \n 
URL:https://miwaterstewardship.org/event/spring-lecture-series-from-diatoms-to-dna/
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