Icthyology/Aquatic Bio resources? (XP)

[Dmmetler]

DD11 is LOVING entomology this semester, and wants to do Ichthyology/Aquatic biology next year. Does anyone have any place to start on resources? (She's had a solid high school background and reads professional herpetology journals for fun as well as is involved in herpetology research projects,  but doesn't have much knowledge about the specific subject beyond what would be covered in general science through high school level).

 

We have access to ponds, lakes, a couple of rivers and streams of various sizes (including the Mississippi, although we're not likely to be sampling much beyond water at the edge there due to size), and wetlands, but not to anything salt water, so Marine bio resources aren't super useful.

 

We'll be going to the Joint Meeting of Icthyologists and Herpetologists this summer as part of DD's , so there's a very good chance we'll be able to pick up materials there-if we know what to look for.

 

[wathe]

These look interesting:

 

  A primer on limnology

 

Water on the Web

[Reefgazer]

If your DD is up for some advanced ichthyology, try this one (there are older editions available):

 

http://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Fishes-Biology-Evolution-Ecology/dp/1405124946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455118861&sr=8-1&keywords=the+diversity+of+fishes+collette

 

 

I've attended several ichs and herps conferences; always a good time, even for book, stamp, and oddities collectors.  Where is it this year?

Edited February 10, 2016 by reefgazer

[Dmmetler]

New Orleans, July 6-10. This will be her third major conference and second Joint meeting (SSAR did a separate one last year since it was a big anniversary for them, so we didn't do both). There's a AES symposium on Sawfish that may pull her away from the herps for a bit, unless it's at the same time as the herp intelligence one.

[Reefgazer]

Oh, you lucky dogs, New Orleans! 

New Orleans, July 6-10. This will be her third major conference and second Joint meeting (SSAR did a separate one last year since it was a big anniversary for them, so we didn't do both). There's a AES symposium on Sawfish that may pull her away from the herps for a bit, unless it's at the same time as the herp intelligence one.