tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72811504695304324862024-03-05T10:49:53.256-08:00Lake Tanganyika, TanzaniaA habitat diversity and productivity investigation of Africa’s freshwater Lake Tanganyika, and the social and cultural implications of bordering Tanzania to global environmental understanding.lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-6052273222648139382011-09-05T10:23:00.000-07:002011-09-05T10:38:37.713-07:00Raison d'etre? - The reason for being?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The crew is back home. Boats are dismantled, dive gear washed, probes calibrated, and data entered. Clothes packed (or donated), labs locked and good-byes exchanged. The work has completed for this season, but the work is not completed. It is time for sore bodies to rest, indulge in soft mattresses, and cold beverages. We will easily put the lost pounds back on our sapped frames. Interestingly, we will miss sand in our dive booties and a "proper" cup of tea. Hard to believe, but we will.<br />
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We have learned much and have been reminded how much we have to learn. The first steps toward stewardship of our planet are not monumental ones. They are subtle and fleeting. The awareness of a brightly colored bird rarely seen. The appreciation of a stiff breeze moments before the noticeable infrequent rain storm. The twist in your stomach when you realize your childrens' experiences will be different than your own - and you hope they are as good. It is no small wonder we are mis-stepping our handling of that global stewardship. <br />
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In Dr. Goodall's words, "if we are the most intellectual creature that has every walked on this planet, how come we are destroying that planet?"<br />
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Yes, the work has completed for this season, but the work is not completed.lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-13683042765502436882011-08-15T14:25:00.000-07:002011-08-15T14:25:52.007-07:00Long live the water cobra!posted by Pete McIntyre (U of Wisconsin)<br />
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One of the most intriguing species endemic to Lake Tanganyika is the water cobra, an aquatic cobra that seems to feed exclusively on fish. It hunts underwater, systematically probing under rocks until it can corner some hapless cichlid.<br />
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For years, there has been some concern that water cobras could be imperilled by getting tangled up in fishermen's nets. Along much of the lake shore, there probably have not been enough gill nets used to have a major impact on the cobras. However, those of us working near Kigoma have noticed a distinct drop in the number of cobras we see while working in the nearshore zone over the last decade.<br />
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The last time that I had seen a water cobra was 2002, so I was thrilled (in multiple senses) to see a monster today. When I met up with the team this afternoon after counting fish at other nearby sites, George told me that he had seen a large cobra about 100m up the shore. I was relieved to hear that the snakes are still present in at least small numbers, but we had little time to talk about it because we needed to turn to catching the last few fish needed for the day. George quickly got two Neolamprologus toae, and I found a third to complete the collection. On my way to shore to hand the fish off to Ben and Ellen, I saw a tree branch among the rocks that I hadn't noticed before. Then it moved!<br />
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The cobra was by far the largest I have ever seen. I am confident it was nearly 3m long, perhaps more. I didn't get a look at the head, but the neck had 7 black bands compared to the 2-4 that i have seen on smaller cobras. Its girth was shocking--the size of my upper arm--and more than a bit intimidating.<br />
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Thankfully, these beautiful snakes rarely if ever bite anything but fish. This one vanished among the rocks, and we did not see it again. It was heartening indeed to come across my first water cobra in a decade, suggesting that they have not been extirpated from our study area. Alas, as we left the site an hour later, a fishermen was deploying a gill net in exactly the area where we saw the snake. We can only hope that it can continue to elude these inadvertant death traps. Indeed, these marvelous predators may now be sensitive indicators of the few remaining sites where nearshore fishing pressure has not yet intensified... . Long live the water cobra!!!lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-41978621712344046142011-08-14T02:14:00.000-07:002011-08-14T02:14:54.832-07:00It’s a whole different lake at night…<div style="text-align: left;"> posted by Pete McIntyre (University of Wisconsin)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Led by our trusty colleague and field helper George Kazumbe, the team has now gone diving and snorkeling at one of our main study areas at night on two occasions—and what a difference it has made!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whereas we had believed that zooplankton are scarce in the lake, we were amazed to find that on a nearly moonless night, the water along the coast was heaving with small shrimp, tiny copepod crustaceans, and larval sardines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These small animals (often lumped under the term zooplankton) have long been recognized as an essential link in the food chain, but our extensive work during daylight hours always led us to believe that intensive predation by the fish plus the small amount of algae in the water was enough to limit the populations of planktonic animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently we were wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In retrospect, it makes sense that there must be loads of copepods and shrimps because these small animals are a staple in the diet of about half the fish species along the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonetheless, the difficulty of finding them during the day had convinced us that they never achieve large population sizes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Instead, it turns out that there <u>are</u> plenty of zooplankton, but they are able to hide very effectively during the day (from both fish and human researchers!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night, when the moon is dim, they swarm forth to feed on the tiny algae suspended in the water (phytoplankton), and on each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Along with this revelation about nearshore zooplankton densities, we were surprised to see both how many species of small catfish were swimming around (at least 6 species, twice the number what we had found from all previous sampling), and how few eels there were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nocturnal catfishes were dominated by small claroteid species (most less than 4 inches in length), along with some walking catfish (Clarias) and upside-down catfish (Synodontis).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had expected to see more Synodontis and Clarias, but in fact we see more of both groups during the day than we did at night.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The lack of eels was intriguing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiny eels are common predators along the shoreline of Lake Tanganyika (and most rivers and lakes in Africa and Asia), and I suspected they were primarily nocturnal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turns out, we saw an abundance of one species that is rarely observed during the day (one with beautiful rings of brown and black along its body), but not a single individual of the other 5-6 species we have found at the site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These observations have convinced me that the most effective way to count the eels is probably from daylight observations, rather than night-time work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is odd that most species of this group of predators do not take advantage of the opportunities afforded by sleeping cichlids on the bottom, which would seem to offer easy pickings for a fish-eater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it does help to explain why the eels have such good vision—they are remarkably hard to catch because they can see our thin-mesh nets much better than most of the cichlids do!<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Perhaps the biggest surprise of all was observing two kinds of electric fishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew there would be electric catfish, which eat fish and shrimp after stunning them with an intense electric shock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collecting those by SCUBA was a bit nerve-wracking, but George and I got two without any electric tingles (or jolts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we also were amazed to see several different groups of weakly-electric fish, the elephant fishes (mormyrids).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were all the same species (one lacking an elephantine snout), and proved impossible to catch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These fish are about 3-4 inches long, and they use weak electrical pulses to communicate with each other, navigate complex environments, and find their prey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In rivers where I have caught these fish before, they eat mostly insects and worms on the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the Tanganyikan species seemed to be well up in the water column, suggesting that they are catching the shrimp and other zooplankton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, they were also right against the shoreline along intricate rock walls and crevices, so perhaps that is where they hide during the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While George and I chased fish, Ben and Ellen used an ultra-fine net to collect zooplankton samples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ben found that there were far fewer zooplankton in the water on our second trip than on the first day, but still more than we had expected originally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also found large quantities of a beautiful diatom that forms colonies with hair-like spikes radiating outward from a central sphere, sort of like a sea urchin but with a total diameter far less than 1/100<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> of an inch!<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All in all, it was marvelous to see the nocturnal life of Lake Tanganyika.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it’s also very exhausting after a long day of work in the water!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we’ll stick with daylight work for the most part…<o:p></o:p></span></div>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-7823067323103055062011-07-28T08:39:00.000-07:002011-07-28T11:58:38.217-07:00The Road TakenThe approaching long August days of summer bring with them bittersweet thoughts. As I prepare to leave Tanzania, a place of warmth and a love for life, while anticipating going home to my family, I am filled with "Karibu" toward the people here who have allowed me to experience a life like no other. I have come to assume them, making their existence a part of my own. I have spent countless hours in the cool waters of an ancient lake. I have climbed mountains that watch over this lake. I have sat quietly with chimpanzees who share much more with us than just a place on this planet. I have spoken with people far more committed than I am to changing this world for the better. It is all humbling. As time goes on, I will find it hard to remember the details of day-to-day life here, but I will move through my life differently because of this time spent. I will unlikely see the face of Africa again, but the African sunsets on my face will warm me forever. <br />
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</tbody></table>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-78896433105375122872011-07-27T05:56:00.000-07:002011-07-27T08:51:44.414-07:00Work Intensifies at Lake Tanganyika<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>The work on the lake seems to have intensified with the arrival of two more team members, Sam Drerup, a graduate student from Wright State University, and Peter McIntyre, co-principle investigator from University of Wisconsin. Several experiments and lots of data are being gathered, and everyone is putting in long hours on the lake and working late into the night at the lab.<br />
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Yesterday Yvonne Vadeboncoeur's crew was on the lake before dawn and returned to the lab after sunset. Pete's crew had to do emergency repairs on their boat before getting on the lake to gather samples of fish with George Kazumbe. George is recognized as an expert of Lake Tanganyika fishes. He is an excellant scuba diving guide, and runs Maji Makumbwa (Big Water), an Eco-tourism business in Kigoma (PKazumbe@gmail.com, majimakubwa@gmail.com, +255 755 662129). While we have been here, scientists from Princeton, Oklahoma State, University of Arizona as well as Wright State and University of Wisconsin, and others from Europe have passed through to consult with George.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>George Kazumbe, </i><i>Lake Tanganyika </i><i>fish expert, scuba guide, and manager of Lake Tanganyika Ecotourism & Biodiversity Conservation Project (photo by E Gaines)</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table> Last weekend, the team had a wonderful dinner in a village outside of Kigoma at the home of Renalda's brother. We had a great time and enjoyed the food and good company of Renalda's family.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The whole team! Back row: Sam Drerup, Renalda Munubi, Elliot Gaines, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and Ellen Hamann. Bottom row: Ryan Satchell, Peter McIntyre, Len Kenyon, and Benja Kraemer.</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><i> Elliot Gaines July 27, 2011</i>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-86465817802413747662011-07-26T19:26:00.000-07:002011-07-26T19:26:44.336-07:00Meeting and Passing a World Away<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>While traveling between Dar and Kigoma, Dr. Elliot Gaines photographs the demands of life and the resilience to it. <br />
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</tbody></table>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-81676202870489464292011-07-23T11:11:00.000-07:002011-07-23T11:11:25.703-07:00A Post from the P.I. Yvonne Vadeboncoeur<style>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Lmo6gVf8e23VnCdqUSfAQvvgnPEBzEJCOu75iO0SGJ7H7Hk__wPNX_snVr90pJZ1rjoNoclfxLSh0m_mNuJI1YJBf-7dGXhdx2y_KiXnQe5Sf-B4SDzpuip7glECMLQljBggE1A326k/s1600/YV.CU_1649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Lmo6gVf8e23VnCdqUSfAQvvgnPEBzEJCOu75iO0SGJ7H7Hk__wPNX_snVr90pJZ1rjoNoclfxLSh0m_mNuJI1YJBf-7dGXhdx2y_KiXnQe5Sf-B4SDzpuip7glECMLQljBggE1A326k/s200/YV.CU_1649.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">As one of the principle investigators on the Lake Tanganyika Littoral Project, I spend most of my time figuring out the logistics of getting science done while keeping seven people reasonably well-looked after in paradise.<span> </span>Given that its paradise this ought to be easy, but as our fish-man George Kazumbe always says TIA. This Is Africa.<span> </span>Roughly translated this means – don’t expect anything to be on time, as planned, or uncomplicated.<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So why bring all of these folks to East Africa? <span> </span>Lake Tanganyika is one of the most amazing freshwater ecosystems on earth.<span> </span>It is a huge ancient tropical lake that boasts not only a stunning diversity of cichlids, but also snails, crabs, shrimp and jellyfish.<span> </span>When Europeans first encountered Lake Tanganyika, they speculated that it had once been connected to the ocean, which is an understandable mistake given its fauna.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The lake is what we would normally call “unproductive,” meaning that the water doesn’t have many of the nutrients that allow photosynthetic organisms (in this case algae) to grow. “Unproductive” lakes are what you would think of as “clean”--nice clear water with no green pond scum.<span> </span>The clear water allows photosynthesis to occur to great depths in the lake. <span> </span>When plants photosynthesize, they use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates - which the plant uses to grow.<span> </span>Even though this process of making life with light occurs wherever there is light on earth, I find it miraculous. Non-living (or inorganic) compounds are transformed into living tissue using chlorophyll and the energy from sunlight. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If you have house plants or a garden, you know that you don’t give plants carbon dioxide to make them grow faster, you give them fertilizer or manure. These fertilizers contain nitrogen and phosphorus (N & P) which are critical for plant growth. So what has all this to do with fish and Lake Tanganyika? As I said, Lake Tanganyika would be categorized as “unproductive” because nutrients like N and P are extremely scarce in the water.<span> </span>However, the algae on the rocks are growing crazy fast and the fish that eat the algae are very abundant.<span> </span>In fact, densities of fish in Lake Tanganyika rival those of a coral reef.<span> </span>So, the lake ISN’T unproductive with respect to fish, and the algae themselves are very productive, but the fish eat the algae pretty much as fast as they can grow. We are trying to figure out how this seemingly nutrient poor lake supports all these fish and this high algal growth.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dr. Vadeboncoeur measuring photosynthesis</i> <i>(photo by E Gaines)</i></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">We think that in the very shallow waters at the lake edge, the algae get fertilized by the fish pee and poop. Basically, the fish are critical to fertilizing their own food source, much as we would fertilize a farm or garden.<span> </span>Take away the fish and you take away the nutrients, and the algae would not be able to grow as well. The fish “store” nitrogen and phosphorus in their bodies and leak the nutrients out is small amounts that help the algae grow.<span> </span>The algae, in turn, use photosynthesis to create carbon compounds that the fish need to meet their energy demands.<span> </span>It gets pretty circular if you think about it too hard, but ecologists like getting mesmerized by cycles.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">My crew spends all day underwater measuring photosynthesis of algae growing on rocks and watching fish.<span> </span>We try to detect patterns between fish abundance and algal growth. Ecologists use common things in ways that they were never intended in order to understand how organisms interact with their environment.<span> </span>Limnology was once described as “the science of ropes and buckets”.<span> </span>Now we would add PVC, duct tape and zip ties to that description.<span> </span>I get people to work with me by telling them about the fish and the SCUBA diving,<span> </span>Then I ask them to haul around all these weird contraptions to do these underwater experiments.<span> </span>For the first few weeks, we were measuring photosynthesis.<span> </span>I won’t go into details, but we used a bunch of sausage weights to hold our chambers against the rocks. A sausage weight is the circular tube of fabric filled with lead shot.<span> </span>We use about 130 lbs of sausage weights. Len and Ryan got pretty tired of hauling them up from 5 m at the end of a long day underwater.<span> </span>So they were happy when we moved on from photosynthesis to “rugosity”.<span> </span>Rugosity is a measure of the lumpiness of the bottom of the lake.<span> </span>Fish like to have places to hide, so the more rocky areas are preferred habitats for most of the fish we are studying.<span> </span>Measuring lumpiness sounds innocuous and without the sausage weights, our boat got much lighter.<span> </span>Sometimes we even went a little fast.<span> </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>researchers work with tropical fish all around</i> <i>(photo by E Gaines)</i></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">But how to measure lumpiness?<span> </span>Well of course you take a 10 m long chain and drape it over all the rocks and compare the length of chain you use with a straight line distance between the your beginning and ending point.<span> </span>Now instead of moving buckets of lead around, they are doing underwater surveying with an unwieldy chain.<span> </span>Ryan decided today that he misses doing photosynthesis.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jane Goodall and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur (photo by E Gaines)</i></td></tr>
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</div>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-86349788285996048062011-07-21T17:05:00.001-07:002011-07-22T02:09:40.417-07:00A Lifetime in a DayJuly 14, 1960 – Jane Goodall arrives in Gombe Forest at the request of Kenyan archeologist Louis Leakey to begin research on chimpanzees. It will prove to be the longest unbroken field study of any group of animals anywhere. <br />
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Jane once said, “we are indeed unique, but we are not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think. Chimpanzees are so like us.” <br />
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It was 50 years to the day that Jane Goodall began working with chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania. The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) here in Kigoma hosted a global celebration honoring Dr. Goodall’s pioneering research and untiring contribution to conservation and humanity. Our team was invited to attend “Gombe 50” to hear Jane speak and watch her new film <i>Jane’s Journey</i>. We were invited to stay into the evening to meet and dine with Jane outside on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. Words cannot express how Jane touched each of us in a different way. She is careful when she speaks, yet she un-solicitously commands the eyes and ears of everyone. We had multiple opportunities to speak with her; some of the most intimate discussions came while sipping scotch under a bright moon as the evening hours rolled on. This is one of those memories that will never go away.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jane Goodall and Ryan Satchell, Wright State University biology major (photo by E Gaines)</i></td></tr>
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A few days later we found ourselves in a boat heading north on Lake Tanganyika toward Gombe National Forest to follow in Jane’s footsteps in pursuit of wild chimpanzees. Two days of hiking were richly rewarded with numerous chimp encounters both near and far. We sat just feet away from multiple chimpanzee families on the forest floor resting and grooming. Other times we watched as chimps climbed towering trees to forage for berries or combat the more gastronomical-satisfying Red Colobus monkeys.<br />
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We hiked to Jane’s peak 1200m above the lake, and doused our heads in the “erosion” waterfall’s cascading water that had such force that it created winds at the base that whipped at our pant legs and temperatures that made us shiver. In the evening we lay on the white sands of the beach (after waiting for the baboons to leave it) and looked at the southern hemisphere’s star-soaked sky of constellations we did not know. Some of us were fortunate to sleep in Jane’s cottage – a step back through time indeed. Gombe was magical and we take from it not only its dust on our clothes and its history in our minds, but perhaps something less tangible but more troublesome – the understanding that we must make an effort not to neglect the humanity of all beasts.<br />
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The break from our research was nice and we are back in Kigoma with a renewed incentive to pursue our work on the aquatic mechanisms that are so much a part of the terrestrial communities surrounding this very special lake.<br />
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<i>Len Kenyon </i>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-32478242639463320042011-07-20T15:15:00.000-07:002011-07-20T21:50:55.959-07:00Meeting Jane Goodall<style>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Elliot Gaines, Jane Goodall, and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">The Lake Tanganyika Littoral Ecosystem Project group had dinner and a show with Jane Goodall on July 16, 2011! There was a party at Jane Goodall Institute in Kigoma, on the banks of Lake Tanganyika celebrating her 50 years as an ethologist (one who studies animal behavior) and environmental activist. Jane spoke for a while and introduced the new film about her life and then discussed it with us afterward. The film, <i>Jane's Journey</i></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"> is scheduled for release in the US in September 2011. Goodall’s life is an amazing and inspiring story! After the film, we had dinner with Jane and sat and talked until late about her life and work, environmental issues, and about communicating to public audiences.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><i>Ryan Satchell, Wright State undergraduate Biology major, Len Kenyon, and Jane Goodall</i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"> Our research lab is just down the road from the Jane Goodall Institute, and we were lucky to time it right for her visit; she left for South Africa the day after our meeting. Having been at it for more than 50 years, Jane still travels and constantly speaks (very gently and apolitically) 300 days each year about environmental issues. Just two days following this great experience, our group visited Gombe Park where her research about chimpanzees took place. It was a fabulous experience, especially after meeting her personally.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"> Jane told the story of her first major lecture. She was working at Gombe when a letter arrived from the National Geographic Society. They had decided to fund her research for another year, and to fly her to Washington to speak to an audience of more than 5000 people. Jane told us she was terrified and wished she would be gored by a wild water buffalo so she wouldn’t have to go. Needless to say, she was well prepared with interesting material and film from her fieldwork with the chimps, and she made a good impression on the audience. After all these years she said she still carefully prepares before every speaking engagement. She is very soft-spoken, but with an air of authority, honesty, humor, and sincerity. Her message is one of hope for the future. She said she never wanted to be a scientist, but always loved animals and the outdoors. Ironically, she was almost kicked out of her doctoral program at Cambridge because her dissertation came out as a book that had popular appeal, suggesting that it was not scientific enough. Goodall spoke further about the need for scientists to represent the importance of their work to the public in non-political terms in order to communicate the urgency of environmental issues. As the evening wore on, Jane spoke of her work as a “fight” for the environment and the future of life on earth, but stopped to say she should not refer to this important work as a fight. Perhaps her charm and wit are a gift, but her ability as a speaker comes with a great deal of knowledge, experience, and thoughtful preparation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Baby chimp at Gombe Park</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table> My job here is to help the scientists tell their stories. I am not trained in science and cannot tell the story that needs to be told about the scientific research being conducted at Lake Tanganyika. Primarily, I am taking photos and videos to document the work, and interviewing the scientists. These are very smart people doing important work. But, like all well-educated professionals, field biologists have a culture all their own and tend to communicate with others trained in the language and practices of their discipline. The National Science Foundation funds scientists with public money, and is asking grant recipients to communicate to public audiences about the impact of their work for the general population. But even more significantly, with the media and government dominated by corporate money that speaks loud and clear in defense of their own self-interests, can science for the sake of science expect to influence public policy (and continue to receive funding) when research findings challenge the financial interests of the powers that be? Social debate about climate change, the effects of industry and pollution, and misunderstandings about evolution leave scientists isolated by their lack of speakers who can represent science with the charm and appeal of Jane Goodall. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Jane Goodall and Renalda Munubi, PhD student in Biology at Wright State University</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> No one questions science when it contributes to enhancing the quality of our lives, but the advances we experience in everyday life take a long time to develop from the scientific work that takes place in the field and laboratory. Scientists need to speak clearly and appeal to public understanding in ways that will proactively affect public policy. Goodall acknowledged that if scientists don’t speak for themselves, then corporations will. The world needs more environmental activists and speakers like Jane Goodall. Every scientist can’t be a Jane Goodall, but society needs to understand the importance of current research for the future of the planet. <br />
<i>Elliot Gaines </i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr Vadeboncoeur conducting primary production - dissolved oxygen analyes<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light vs Dark Chambers - algae photosynthesis<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rare sight - both research boats meet on the water<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellen's always-infectious smile<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benja en route to day's sampling<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking it all in<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the face of adversity- nothing here surprises me<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fishing boats heading out for the night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down on our cliff jump</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Renalda looking beautiful as always</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Congo is just visible in the haze of the setting sun</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inundated with mayfly-type insects during dinner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sailboats number in the hundreds each day<br />
photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Renalda conducting fish behavior research. Love the colors in the reflected water<br />
photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">African sky blue<br />
photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is it a big fish kissing a rock or two little fishes posing as lips?<br />
photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alone but not lonely<br />
photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Len and Ryan<br />
photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">paradise<br />
photo E. Gaines </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">fruit the monkeys eat<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">having fun with a crab<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Renalda explaining how to eat sugar cane<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muzungus trying to eat sugar cane<br />
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</tbody></table>Our daily rhythms are beginning to settle with the land, or the land itself is settling hard and deep within us - in our bones. It is visceral in how we move through our day. The gentle beat of patterns - not discerned in any way, but we know they are there. Things do become noticable with time. Africans smile with their eyes - genuine and bright. And they show their teeth - something I think Americans do not do. When you pass by someone, greetings are <u>always</u> exchanged- both "how are you?" or "what's the news?" and a response is <u>always</u> given "I'm fine, thank you."Habari gani?" "Nizuri, asante"lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-62613204620999281592011-07-04T21:59:00.000-07:002011-07-04T21:59:47.689-07:00Wright State Professor of Communication at Lake Tanganyika: Early reflections<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3T_3EdVUtbilX82OuPpMVA_IO0iEeIwoSmDOVw6tyeOSOu6p9Y4piSN92DOza9P015ut3uD_4Ppe0rbJbtMfDyumKfq3buyB3e7FroB8Cf13Fh3IIWlTvCpWFnhbSRHfxQ8Lo7D9nr4/s1600/BoysWave.x0929.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3T_3EdVUtbilX82OuPpMVA_IO0iEeIwoSmDOVw6tyeOSOu6p9Y4piSN92DOza9P015ut3uD_4Ppe0rbJbtMfDyumKfq3buyB3e7FroB8Cf13Fh3IIWlTvCpWFnhbSRHfxQ8Lo7D9nr4/s320/BoysWave.x0929.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <style>
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</style><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span> </span>Hi, this is Elliot Gaines writing for Len's blog.<span> </span>I am a Professor in the Department of Communication at Wright State University and part of the team at Lake Tanganyika.<span> </span>After an exhausting trip through Europe and then Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I was part of the research team designated to accompany more than a dozen large crates of scuba and scientific equipment by train across Tanzania to Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.<span> The image above of children waving was taken from our moving train. </span>A two day trip became four days and nights of adventure on an ancient train through a hot tropical terrain of desert and mountains, remote villages of friendly and colorful living primitively along the way.<span> </span>Some living in grass huts, some in brick houses without electricity or plumbing, the people came out to greet the train with fresh fruit, honey, grilled chicken, goat meat, and a variety of beautifully hand-crafted baskets, hats, brooms, carvings, and more.<span> </span>After a two-day delay in Tabora due to a wreck ahead on the tracks, we finally arrived in Kigoma to join our colleagues who flew from Dar and were already preparing the lab and research agenda at Lake Tanganyika.</span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span> </span>It is interesting to be where I don't speak the language or know the culture, and am so conspicuously different from the local population.<span> </span>The word mzungu is an objective name used to identify white people, or people of European origin, generally without distain.<span> </span>People are friendly, and little children call me bobu which means grandfather, because of my white beard.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span> </span>Understanding the culture means understanding the language.<span> </span>So I am challenged with both the local culture and the culture of the scientists I work with.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span> I am not a biological scientist. </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span>My PhD specialty is in communication, media, and semiotics.</span> Each cultural group speaks and acts based on assumptions that they share with others already familiar with the language and behaviors that unify them as a group.<span> </span>I interact with local culture and</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> our scientists</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> everyday in town, in the lab, and on the lake. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Observation, time and experience will hopefully provide understanding.</span></div>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-56547331443056603422011-07-03T13:49:00.000-07:002011-07-03T13:49:03.049-07:00SensorialHow does it feel and smell? I am immediately aware of the bold and colorful dress of the women- in almost purposeful-resistance to the earthy textures of the land. Straight and dark against the red road. The food is equally rich and strong. You <i>know</i> when you've eaten, and a little goes a long way. Fruit is tangible and is never to be passed over for its odor hangs in the air with a thick sweetness that sticks like wet sugar. When biting into the flesh of a pineapple, you can sense it still bleeding with life - unlike the waxy colorless fruit of home. Equally real, is the smell of sweat that stings the air, especially in closed-in areas. A temple of heat and haze pins you down during mid-day, but the evening brings spicy undertones that strangely perfumes the palate. It makes you draw into your own. It makes you look beyond the picture. No longer are you a disconnected, fixed "thing" in a strange land. I know this much.lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-40876192197633942132011-07-02T16:25:00.000-07:002011-07-17T08:53:31.266-07:00"Fragmentary Blue"Why make so much of fragmentary blue<br />
In here and there a bird, or buttterfly (or fish),<br />
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,<br />
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?<br />
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Since earth is earth (and lake is lake), perhaps, not heaven (as yet)-<br />
Though some savants make earth include the sky;<br />
And blue so far above us comes so high,<br />
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.<br />
-<i>Frost</i><br />
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</tbody></table>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281150469530432486.post-57873696207922713652011-07-01T11:53:00.000-07:002011-07-10T13:05:15.173-07:00Blistering Beautiful and Staggeringly DepressingBeen in the water diving the past two days. Yesterday did a 40 foot dive and saw very few fishes. The shore drops off immediately to a vertigo-embedding abyss. Then did a 15 foot dive along rock cliff and saw an insane number of cichlids. Today more diving and we began to practice sampling protocol for primary production measurements.<br />
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Tangawizi is ginger soda...very ginger<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPwFqtyPkgUM1qnAjeOnaWlbERbchz3qWdk1AiZbaEM_HvGlkHKTYys3bb14UR4_2U0RcLoPsL28sTgF1xpd4_lhyphenhyphenDLlGhY0_w_4zk_84-9Nnx5ntg4G6gezL6e824gigu0rBzBK8frw/s1600/pbm_tanganyika2_whitefade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPwFqtyPkgUM1qnAjeOnaWlbERbchz3qWdk1AiZbaEM_HvGlkHKTYys3bb14UR4_2U0RcLoPsL28sTgF1xpd4_lhyphenhyphenDLlGhY0_w_4zk_84-9Nnx5ntg4G6gezL6e824gigu0rBzBK8frw/s200/pbm_tanganyika2_whitefade.jpg" width="170" /></a><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Peter McIntyre, PhD. University of Wisconsin, Madison.</b> </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">McIntyre is co-PI on the parent research project. He will advise on the scientific and educational content of the website, and will provide material for data interpretation exercises associated with the website.<i> </i>McIntyre is a biogeochemist, aquatic ecologist and fish ecologist with research programs in Hawaii, the North American Great Lakes, and Lake Tanganyika.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_0pej9VhjFU6nnrFfkpNl7IT_B6aDvxciaysqw8RGysAOzIZT0YsDCdGsG34NI0iMrvKZd6w70NfG79QKZdRMs22soKbiXXkxrSaeEDqh_YpVE8Wm3mf-xQKjBviUUTMCmMaZ_mlgkQ/s1600/elliot+gaines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_0pej9VhjFU6nnrFfkpNl7IT_B6aDvxciaysqw8RGysAOzIZT0YsDCdGsG34NI0iMrvKZd6w70NfG79QKZdRMs22soKbiXXkxrSaeEDqh_YpVE8Wm3mf-xQKjBviUUTMCmMaZ_mlgkQ/s200/elliot+gaines.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a><b>Media Production Specialist. </b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Elliot Gaines, PhD. Wright State University.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Gaines will record video and still images in the field, and identify locations for collaborative web productions. He will develop story points and narrative strategies for communicating science to public audiences. Gaines has many years of media production experience, and has produced educational </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">videos and audio productions illustrating communication and culture. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">His published research addresses communication, culture, and media criticism, including the issues of representing science in the media. He is the author of Media Literacy and Semiotics (2010), a book focusing on how media are used to represent the world and to construct perspectives about the meanings of events, objects, and ideas. </span></div>lkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560578880563347246noreply@blogger.com1