The Kane Lab hosted local high school students for Science Day, a preview event held by the College of Sciences. Our activity gave students a chance to be an Ichyhyologist for a few minutes, even though we couldn't use live fish.
Students were given a bucket of paper fish of various sizes across 5 species, a dichotomous key, and a sculpin anatomy diagram. Two teams raced each other to identify the fish and keep Tidepool sculpins (our current study species), but separate them in aquaria according to sex. The other species were set aside to be "released".
Identifying fish quickly is a big part of the job when we are in the field, and sometimes back in the lab. Congrats to all of our teams, they did an excellent job and are welcome to help us sort fish one day!
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