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Shedd Aquarium’s Queen Conch Study—A Holistic Approach to Counting an Endangered Marine Invertebrate
Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of University of Alaska on April 4, 2013 This, my second article highlighting current field research initiatives of Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, is a look at one of the two most important fisheries in the Bahamian Archipelago—and efforts to address the decline of a shellfish population that has been harvested since Pre-Columbian times. Dr. Alexander Tewfik, a post-doctoral fellow at Shedd’s Daniel P. Haerther…
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The Great Lakes are the largest supply of freshwater in the world, and more than 36 million people depend on them for drinking water. As a result, monitoring and maintaining the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem is an urgent priority. Of the diverse organisms inhabiting freshwater systems, fishes are familiar to scientists and laypeople…
Shedd Aquarium Studies Invasive Fish Species Impacting the Great Lakes Ecosystem
Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of University of Alaska on November 29, 2012 Contributing Editor Dr. Jordan Schaul interviews Shedd Aquarium researchers about the facility’s Great Lakes conservation research programs, which include studies on invasive species. In the face of all the threats that challenge the Earth’s pelagic and coastal zones of fresh water, marine and brackish water bodies, Shedd Aquarium remains committed to the conservation of aquatic…
Coral reefs off Curacao in the south Caribbean Sea (Paul Selvaggio 2012) Hello everyone, this is Mark Schick, the Special Exhibits Collection Manager at Shedd Aquarium. I wanted to share a trip report from our latest coral conservation trip with the SECORE Foundation. The SECORE Foundation uses knowledge from coral scientists and aquarium professionals to…
Greetings, NewsWatch readers: this is Tim Binder, the Vice President of Collection Planning at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. For many years, I’ve been involved with beluga whale conservation research in the field and here at home. Today I’d like to invite you to join me on a research expedition to the shores of Alaska. Beluga…
Interview with Shedd Aquarium’s Manager of Conservation Communications Development—Meg Matthews
Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul of University of Alaska on August 13, 2012 Contributing Editor Jordan Schaul interviews Shedd Aquarium’s Manager of Conservation Communications Development, Meg Matthews, to learn just how Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, one of the leaders in the industry, has embraced the green movement. With zoo and aquariums contributing over 170 million dollars to aquatic and terrestrial field conservation in as recent as 2010, there is…
Hello everyone: I’m Dr. Chuck Knapp, the Director of Conservation and Research at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois. When I started working at Shedd Aquarium as a young aquarist in 1991, I became fascinated with the world’s most endangered lizards: West Indian rock iguanas. Come along with me as I post blogs and photos of…
