This week out in the field doing some habitat assessments for the Topeka shiner project.

Doing the cool job of wading through stream and recording the depths and widths, along with lots of other features in the habitat of the Topeka shiner in the south west part of Minnesota-

Walking down the road in Minneapolis and some people got swallowed buy a fish

When I was out taking pictures last week on June 24, 2015 I saw this bird at the end of the stream lab at SAFL. I sent a copy of this picture to Janene Lichtenberg and she informed me  it is a Double Crested Cormorant.

From Marcy Mead

The outdoor stream lab is flooded now. There are several people out there taking different readings of things like velocity, depths, phosphorus levels, and others.

This is what is going on outside.

I am the assistant photographer.

But mainly I am doing the background readings on my topic of the endangered Topeka shiner and the impacts of barriers in their passage. The barriers in our study are culverts which can be made of corrugated metal tubes or concrete barrels . This is a photo of a double barrel culvert at the first site we visited.