#mussel day at #2024sfs Join Woolnough Mussel Lab and others in salon 3/4 today (and a handful in other rooms). Including 4-4:15 (#dams and #unionids) and 4:45-5pm (#contaminants and #mussels) talks from Woolnough Mussel Lab Freshwater Science Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society

Media article about use of #mussels Woolnough Mussel Lab circleofblue.org/2024/world/har…

Meet Woolnough Mussel Lab Researcher- Madison Dunlap (Martinez, California) @Cmich_Biology MS in Conservation biology MS. “This project has allowed me to experience the world of Freshwater Science! My favorite activity has been getting to identify macroinvertebrates”. #rivers #mollusks

Woolnough Mussel Lab Researcher: Aiden Judge from right here in #mtpleasant #Michigan. @Cmich_Biology - Eco, Evo & Conservation. (2 years on team). “I enjoyed learning to SCUBA and traveling to so many fun sites on Lake Michigan. It was nice to meet everyone new! We made a great team!”

Meet Woolnough Mussel Lab Emily Petro (Essexville, #michigan). @Cmich_Biology: Eco, Evo, and Conservation (1st summer): “Helping in the lab has bee a great learning experience! I loved spending my summer having fun snorkeling for mussels and learning macroinvertebrate identification.”

Meet: Autumn Brown from Midland, #Michigan @Cmich_Biology Eco, Evo, & Conservation “This lab has taught me about the variability of field and lab work and engage in different activities each day. My favorite activities were SCUBA, collecting abiotic data, and working outside.”

Woolnough Mussel Lab Kyle Reynolds Tawas City, #Michigan @Cmich_Biology Eco. Evo. & Conservation. 1st field season. “Getting lab experience has taught me so much about the field of biology! I loved snorkeling around various lakes and rivers in Michigan while also learning about nature”

Meet Masaki Hara (Tokushima, Japan) #cmich Earth and Eco Sci PhD 1st yr.   “In Michigan, many lakes and rivers have clear water. SCUBA and snorkeling surveys are my favorite part of research. Exploring underwater was amazing and felt like a different world”

sitting at my desk looking a three copies of a specimen. the physical specimen, a printed model, and a digital twin in augmented reality. what a time to be alive

Woolnough Mussel Lab researcher Jessie Gibbins (Cincinnati OH) @Cmich_Biology “This summer was such a valuable experience. I enjoyed snorkeling and diving for mussels. We traveled around Michigan to places I had never been! It was great to meet new people with similar interests!”

Meet Woolnough Mussel Lab researcher Marta Springer (St. Peter MN). @Cmich_Biology Con Bio MS. “This summer I presented at Freshwater Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was fascinating to learn about all the research being done in freshwater systems. I also took a course at CMUBS”.

Seminar THIS Friday 9am ET. Interesting new data from Woolnough Mussel Lab ! Read announcement-

Mollusk, aquatic, Michigan costumes ready for today?

We have one last “unknown” in our samples—any ideas to help Woolnough Mussel Lab MS student? Someone ought to know what this is.