8: The Really Delicious Carbon
Microbes…they’re everywhere! Today, we chat with Dr. Rachel Poretsky about microbes in the Great Lakes and the important functions they serve in the food web. Plus, bad grocery analogies and worse metric conversions.
For a rough transcript of this episode, please visit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jscarlton/teachgreatlakes/master/episode-8/TMATGL%20-%208.txt
Today’s guest:
Dr. Rachel Poretsky, University of Illinois - Chicago
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Links:
Today’s guest:
Dr. Rachel Poretsky, University of Illinois - Chicago
(Follow Rachel on Twitter)
Links:
- Touch of Grey 3/27/87
- Explore food web diagrams for all 5 Laurentian Great Lakes
- Learn about changes to Lake Michigan through this interactive Story Map
- Create your own Food Web diagrams using these assets
- Poretsky – Microbial Ecology Lab
- Trophic state index - Wikipedia
- Lake Michigan has become much clearer in 20 years, but at great cost
- Heterotroph - Wikipedia
- 1 micron to km at DuckDuckGo
- Menu – Do-Rite Donuts
Creators and Guests
Host
Stuart Carlton
Stuart Carlton is the Assistant Director of the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program. He manages the day-to-day operation of IISG and works with the IISG Director and staff to coordinate all aspects of the program. He is also a Research Assistant Professor and head of the Coastal and Great Lakes Social Science Lab in the Department of Forestry & Natural Resources at Purdue, where he and his students research the relationship between knowledge, values, trust, and behavior in complex or controversial environmental systems.