Fishy Friday on the Coonamessett
It's the crack of dawn on a foggy April morning and the herring are running on the Coonamessett River in Falmouth, MA. This beautifully...
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Heidi E Golden
- Jan 6
- 5 min
Arctic Grayling Update - Fall 2022
I met my first Arctic grayling, the iconic freshwater salmonid of the North, the summer of 1990 while helping test climate change...
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Heidi E Golden
- Aug 15, 2022
- 3 min
Fish Movement and Climate Change
While wintery conditions persist on the North Slope of Alaska, where the Arctic grayling fall migration is likely already underway, my...
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Heidi E Golden
- May 4, 2022
- 6 min
Yogurt Ecology Lab
Recently, I brought ecological principles to 6th graders via a laboratory exercise centered on yogurt! At its core, the field of ecology...
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Heidi E Golden
- Jul 22, 2021
- 4 min
Sampling West Hill Pond
What could be better than sampling Connecticut's most pristine lake with long-term friends, the Snieckuses, on a glorious summer day? My...
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Heidi E Golden
- Jul 20, 2021
- 4 min
Fabulous Fiber Experiment
G.Eco's educational outreach strives to instill love of nature, scientific inquiry, and sustainability to future generations and fiber...
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Heidi Golden
- Jan 23, 2021
- 4 min
Science Inside the Polytunnel
Moving to our new farm in mid-June didn't leave much time for planting a vegetable garden so I decided to extend my growing season into...
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Heidi E Golden
- Jun 17, 2020
- 2 min
Biofiltering Floating Islands
My first research position as a young, budding scientist examined the role of eutrophication, over enrichment of a water body with...
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Heidi E Golden
- Nov 3, 2019
- 2 min
A Very "Carpe Diem"
A fishy problem in Mill Pond on Long Island could be causing water quality issues and carp removal could be a solution.
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Heidi E Golden
- Oct 26, 2019
- 1 min
NYC: Should Have Brought the Machete
Conservation of tidal marshes, like those of New York's Spring Creek, helps to buffer coastal communities from climate change treats.
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Heidi E Golden
- Jul 8, 2019
- 1 min
Tracking New England River Herring
Tracking New England River Herring
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Heidi E Golden
- Jul 8, 2019
- 1 min
Getting Schooled on the Coonamessett
PIT-tagged Easter eggs help these Falmouth, MA 4th graders simulate river herring migration on the Coonamessett River as part of the...
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Heidi E Golden
- Jul 6, 2017
- 3 min
Ecological Fish Farmers
Ecologists or fish farmers? Yup! From left to right, Cam MacKenzie, Heidi Golden, Linda Deegan, and Mark Urban are now officially...
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Heidi E Golden
- Jun 1, 2017
- 2 min
Fishing with Edna
Back in the “olden days,” if you wanted to assess fish communities, you might set gill nets, fyke nets and traps and hope to capture all...
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Heidi E Golden
- May 24, 2017
- 2 min
A Trick to Predicting Migration
We always find difficulty predicting the Arctic spring thaw due to the variability of this environment, but knowing when the Arctic...
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Heidi E Golden
- May 19, 2017
- 3 min
An Uncommon Garden
Overflow on the Kuparuk River portends the onset of spring and its eminent “ice-out.” The ability to either move or adapt will largely...
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Heidi E Golden
- Jul 8, 2016
- 1 min
Frontier Scientist videos and blogs
Heidi Golden shares the FishScape Teams research with Frontier Scientist Frontier Scientists - Videos and texts
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Heidi E Golden
- May 31, 2016
- 2 min
Scenes from I-Minus
Intent on capturing the spring spawning run and collecting and fertilizing Arctic grayling eggs for our local adaptation experiment, we...
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Heidi E Golden
- May 11, 2016
- 2 min
Changing States
The Arctic took a mighty turn today, changing states from solid to liquid faster than conceivably possible. Often during spring thaw,...
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Heidi E Golden
- May 9, 2016
- 1 min
Fish in the TOAS Pool
With snow conditions predicted to degrade rapidly after today, we set out for the TOAS pool to retrieve our vertical fish antenna and any...
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