To recreate natural conditions for rearing fish, salmon can be kept in cages deployed in streams within their native habitat. When setting out to check on the fish and cages, researchers load their equipment onto a jon boat and get their daily exercise by paddling up and down the river. [Photo by Ken Zillig][Caption by…
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Field Notes: A Change of Scene
Science takes place in all sorts of circumstances, and for me, those circumstances are usually inside of a lab. They are also often spread across multiple facilities and at very odd hours of the day (or night), and those are entire research stories of their own. Nonetheless, one of my favorite things about research is…