PLANT AND ALGAL ECOPHYSIOLOGY LAB

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  Gallery   - Nearshore Lake Michigan

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  Lake Michigan shoreline                          Shoreline Cladophora drift with numerous       Atwater Beach with Cladophora drift

  South of Linnwood  - Cladophora                   bleached Dreissenid mussel shells                at the water’s edge

  deposition and drift in nearshore

 

   

 

Mats of Cladophora frozen over winter.                Rebecca sampling coastal Lake                   Heading out to field sites on the R/V Osprey

Under frozen, dessicated surface, the                  Michigan water with a patented                        with Milwaukee skyline in the background

algae is still photosynthetically viable                       high-tech sampling technique                                             

 

 

 

            

 

 

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