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
(Follow Rachel on Twitter)
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
