Images from ABLE 2004 @ BGSU
[conference program]


The canal boat visited on the Tuesday afternoon trip.

Tuesday evening reception.

Poster session.

The Bonzai workshop on Wednesday morning.

ABLE v.s. the Toledo Mud Hens, the farm team of the Detroit Tigers!

Presenter Kathy Winnett-Murray and Lori Hertl (right) dressed the part for their mini workshop titled Phylum Masquerade. Students dress up to best represent a characteristic organism from a phylum or class that has been assigned to them, and are evaluated on how well they display the distinguishing features of the group.


ABLE members at the Toledo Zoo, location of the conference banquet.

At the conference dinner, ABLE president Carol Budd (right) presents a "thank you" plaque to host Charlene Waggoner.

 


Lake Erie Islands post-conference field trip. The trip began at mayfly-infested Port Clinton, then continued to the Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island.


Two ABLE members take bottom samples aboard the Gibraltar III research vessel.

If you know what a druse of quagga is, you remember your lessons from the Lake Erie Islands field trip! Mussels are overrunning the lake bottom, but the most common is not the zebra mussel, but the very similar quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis). When a group of mussels stick together, the spherical mass of shells is called a "druse."

An afternoon view from Stone Laboratory.

ABLE group pauses during their tour of Gibraltar Island.


View from the top of the Perry Monument, Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island.

Victorian courthouse in Bowling Green, just a few blocks from the
conference dorm.

Relaxing in the sun on Gibralter Island near the Stone Laboratory.

On the ferry to Gilbralter Island on the Saturday Field trip to the Erie Islands.

John Hageman, leader of tour to Stone Labs, identifying some zebra mussels for us.

On the Stone Laboratory fishing boat to find some specimens.

Part of the group on Look Out Point on Gibralter Island.

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