@article{IMAGE,
      recid = {14645},
      author = {Craig, Adera},
      title = {Fishing the Divide: Water and Industry – Field Work Along  the Little Calumet River},
      address = {2025-01-29},
      number = {IMAGE},
      note = {This image was awarded 2nd Place (Undergraduate) in the  University of Chicago Library's 2024 Image of Research  Contest. The image was selected for its creativity,  description, aesthetic appeal, and connection to research.},
      abstract = {My photo captures Daniel Arad fishing under the Major  Taylor Trail Bridge in Whistler Woods Forest Preserve on  the Little Calumet River to collect specimens of  Micropterus salmoides (Largemouth Bass). My research  project investigates the concentration of heavy metals in  fish tissue from the Calumet region over time. The Calumet  region encompasses the southern tip of Lake Michigan,  spanning southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana, and is  marked by a biodiverse marsh ecosystem alongside extensive  industrial development since the 1870s. Tissue samples from  museum specimens (1910s–2010s) and contemporary fieldwork  specimens from the Calumet watershed will be analyzed with  an ICP-MS spectrometer to measure element concentration.  Additionally, I am digitizing historic USGS and Sanborn  maps and incorporating Landsat satellite data to track  shifts in hydrology and industrial land ownership over  time. By quantifying the increased presence of industry  over time and the temporality of biomagnification of metals  in fish tissue, I hope to identify a correlation between  polluting industries and impacts on aquatic ecosystems, as  water quality was largely undocumented before the late 20th  century.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14645},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.14645},
}