Burbot in the Great Lakes: A “Lota lota” Mystery by Mia McReynolds.

Mia, member of the YVoS Spring 2022 cohort, is a PhD student at the Rubenstein Ecosystem Sciences lab at the University of Vermont. For her outreach project, Mia wrote a post for The Fisheries Blog about one of her focal study species, the Burbot. Mia’s next step will be to pitch her completed write up to The Fisheries Blog, with an overall goal to build awareness about understudied natives Burbot, encourage fisheries scientists to look beyond their focal species and consider ecological interactions and roles of understudied species in their ecosystems.

Mia shared some lessons she learned from various workshops during her time in the YVoS program and accompanied those into her blog post: to embrace serendipity (Lindsey Rustad), use emotion to grab people’s attention and invite them into new ways of knowing (David George Haskell), and to frame messages about climate change in a way that is motivating and hopeful (Rishya Narayanan).

Stay tuned for a link to Mia’s blog post!