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Dr. Mike Booth

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Such cool fish and a great crew! And excited to add a few other species to my list, including Lake Chubsucker!

Lake chubsucker (Erimyzon succetta) captured in an inland Michigan lake

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

What would you like to see in a new version of the Habitat Evaluation chapter of Analysis and Interpretation of Freshwater Fisheries Data? #TeamFish The term "habitat" is used in myriad ways...keen to make this revision a useful reference for students and practitioners! Reskeet please!

striped phase Fantail darter resting on gravel near a large cobble in an aquarium

infant watching stream fishes in an aquarium, including minnows, suckers, and darters

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Any fellow #TeamFish folks have a regression (or data) to convert Fork Length to Total Length for Creek Chubs (Semotilus atromaculatus)? Want to compare our data to an older paper and hoping not to have to collect more data just for that!

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Fish friends, if I asked you to quantitatively or qualitatively evaluate the health of this *individual* stoneroller, how would you do it? Any methods are of interest! 🧪🐟

Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum)

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Booth lab 2023 pumpkin, inspired by the weird kitch i inherited from department surplus. I think the grad students did an awesome job!

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Another fish pun question from my class this week: What will be the next OSCAR (cichlid) winning movie? A. Forrest Guppy B. The (Carbon) Burial C. Silence of the Lampreys D. Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Sunfish E. Stickleback to the Future F. Kill Gill

Parody movie poster: Silence of the Lampreys

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

A new to me species from our Aquatic Biology sampling trip on the Ohio, a River Darter!

River Darter (Percina shumardi) in the Ohio River near Cincinnati

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I start out my Aquatic Biology class each day with silly questions to get people started on interactive polling. I'm unreasonably proud of this pun-ny answer to the question "My greatest hits of the 70s and 80s limnology mix includes:"

Thin Lamprey - The Gars are Back in Town (DAMBREAK)

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Proud advisor to my now Master of Science Taher Fletcher, who successfully defended his thesis on the use of side scan sonar to quantify habitat in Ohio reservoirs! Greatful to ODNR and Sport Fish Restoration funds for supporting his work!

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

An unexpected and exciting catch while trying to get my 3 yr old onto some sunfish on the Little Miami River! My first mooneye (Hiodon tergisus)!

A mooneye (Hiodon tergisus) caught on a wax worm at dusk in the Little Miami River, Ohio.

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Dr. Mike Booth @mikeboothlab.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

I'm an aquatic ecologist who generally focuses on freshwater fishes, particularly how the movement and behavior of organisms influence ecosystem processes from basic natural history to ecosystem dynamics (fluxes of sediment and nutrients). Plus I'm a sucker for suckers (Catostomidae)!

Sonora Sucker (Catostomus insignis) feeding on invertebrates among cobbles in the Gila River

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