Speaker: Karen Murchie (Carleton University)
November 25, 2009
Wild Oat Café
817 Bank Street, Ottawa
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Karen Murchie is a PhD student at Carleton University who is using bonefish as a model to understand how fish make a living in tropical tidal flats environments. Bonefish are a popular sport fish throughout their circumtropical distribution and thus can be economically important in small island nations such as The Bahamas. It is also believed that bonefish are ecologically important, moving nutrients from nearshore coastal areas, to offshore reefs. Come learn about bonefish, the environments they live in, why anglers love to catch them, and what it is like to do research in paradise.