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\"Led<\/a>
Led by ecology & evolutionary biology professor Mark Urban, participants in a Museum of Natural History program spent an afternoon exploring aquatic life in UConn's Swan Lake. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Swan<\/a>
Swan Lake is an iconic landscape element on UConn's main campus in Storrs. Its scenic characteristics provide a tranquil oasis for study and contemplation on a busy college campus. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The program began with participants going out in small boats in order to investigate the aquatic life and water characteristics in the center of the lake. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Participants<\/a>
Participants measured the water's transparency using a Secchi disk. Water clarity can be influenced by the amounts of phytoplankton, pollution, and sediment found at various depths. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fishing<\/a>
Fishing waders, life vest, collection pans, and nets are some of the gear used in limnology, the study of inland waters. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Exploring<\/a>
Exploring the edge of Swan Lake, Doug Hughes of Storrs examines the contents of his net for signs of aquatic life. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Professor<\/a>
Professor Urban identified some of the group's finds, which included phytoplankton, dragonfly larvae, damselfly larvae, and some small bluegill fish. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The program concluded with a laboratory segment in the Torrey Life Sciences Building. Gus Larsen Giangrave and Cindy Larsen of Scotland, Conn., center, use a stereoscope to view different microscopic species collected from Swan Lake. (David Colberg\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Museum of Natural History program led by biology professor Mark Urban explored the microscopic and other species living in the waters of UConn’s Swan Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-49782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 11:55:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49864,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49782\/revisions\/49864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/49765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49782"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=49782"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}