Field Studies of Freshwater Fishes (UMBS)

Undergraduate credit

Michigan fish communities are facing changing climates, habitat fragmentation and degradation, and species invasions. In this course, students learn fish identification; handling and sampling habitat description; water quality assessment; field photography; tissue sampling; specimen preservation; and data management and analysis methods. Students tour two fish hatcheries, take a sampling trip on the Inland Seas research schooner in Lake Michigan, and prepare a data analysis project.