WILLIAM B. LUDT
  • Home
  • Research
  • Publications
  • Lab and Fish Collection
  • Outreach
  • News
  • Contact & CV

News

Fishing in the desert

1/7/2013

 
Picture
Over the winter holidays I spent my time in my hometown of Tucson, Arizona.  One of my favorite places to show people who have never been to Tucson before is the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  The museum, which I consider more of a zoo, highlights local desert animals and how they have adapted to living in the Sonoran Desert, and every exhibit is very well thought out and executed very tastefully.  This is not exactly the type of museum you would expect to see many fish at, let alone marine fish.  As your calendars switched over to 2013, though, the Desert Museum opened their first new exhibit in over a decade: the Warden Aquarium.  This aquarium not only showcases local Arizona native freshwater fishes that are threatened and endangered, but also has a large marine component including many reef fishes from the Gulf of California and other parts of Mexico, especially Cabo Pulmo.  I was extremely excited to see this new exhibit, and very happy to see the Mexican fishes present, because Arizona is in the perfect location for collaborative studies on Gulf of California fishes (the closest beach to Tucson is on the Gulf of California in Mexico, not San Diego as many assume).  Unfortunately I only had my phone on me to take pictures so you'll have to deal with dark photos here.  The exhibit also educates the public on marine conservation issues, and freshwater desert fish conservation.  Overall it was a great exhibit, and just another reason to visit this amazing museum if you're ever in Tucson.

Picture

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    August 2021
    July 2020
    March 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    January 2018
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    January 2017
    March 2016
    October 2015
    June 2015
    October 2014
    September 2014
    March 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    August 2013
    January 2013
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    June 2012
    April 2012
    November 2011
    August 2011
    July 2010

    Categories

    All
    Meetings

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Research
  • Publications
  • Lab and Fish Collection
  • Outreach
  • News
  • Contact & CV