by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 22, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Liz Marchio, Freshwater
The Catfish Study Group (CSG) Research Study Fund has been helping further the study of catfishes and they are at it again! Funding has been provided to Vanessa Meza-Vargas for her dissertation revising and classifying of Hemiancistrus catfish. This genus of armored...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 20, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Liz Marchio, Freshwater
Catfish are an amazingly specious order of fish, as many enthusiasts can attest. Even smaller groupings within the Order Siluriformes, the catfish families, are specious. Twelve scientists, spanning four countries (the U.S., Brazil, Canada, and Switzerland),...
by Brandon Rutherford | Mar 28, 2015 | CORAL - Brandon Rutherford, Freshwater, Marine
Over the past two years, I have created a large coral reef project at Stratton Elementary in Champaign, Illinois, where I work at as a third-grade teacher. Other teachers and I use the coral reef tanks I’ve built around the school as instructional tools, and...