#DYK the #GLANSIS database contains 20,000+ recorded specimens spanning nearly 200 #GreatLakes non-native species (fish, plants, crustaceans, algae, and more)? This animated map shows these records over the last two centuries! #InvasiveSpecies @miseagrant NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory CIGLR

#Earthday2022: inspired by the iconic woodcut from Albrecht Dürer, titled “The four horsemen of the apocalypse” adapted to the current plight of the ocean, threatened by the four pronged anthropogenic attack of #overfishing, #pollution, #climatechange and #habitatdestruction.

Grateful that I could represent C.J. van Riper in the Undergraduate Research Symposium University of Illinois this year with my project on social and ecological drivers of AIS-preventative behaviors!

Thanks for a great summer Illinois River Biological Station I learned so much and am so grateful to have had the experience!

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." —Frank Lloyd Wright

(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading) Please. Folks, seriously. PLEASE. Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.