MAY 5, 2019
Author Discussion and Film on Coldwater Ecology
Dr. Kurt Fausch is a fisheries ecologist who has spent a career studying how fish make a living in streams and how streams are linked to their riparian forests. In this talk and film, he crosses boundaries of countries, cultures, and scientific disciplines to explore why healthy, connected rivers are essential for fish, and humans, and how we can conserve them–in Michigan and beyond.
Kurt Fausch is a professor emeritus in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, where he taught for 35 years. His research collaborations in stream ecology and fish conservation have taken him throughout Colorado and the West, and worldwide, including to Hokkaido in northern Japan. His experiences were chronicled in the PBS documentary RiverWebs, and the book For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist’s Journey, which won the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. He received lifetime achievement awards from the American Fisheries Society, the World Council of Fisheries Societies, and Fly Fishers International, and served as the acting director of the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University. He began his career in Michigan streams and at Michigan State University.
Admission
Tickets are free with reservation