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Osmerus mordax
State Listed as Endangered in Connecticut; Special Concern in New Hampshire
The rainbow smelt is a common fish in the northeast, it’s popular as food. They are rather small, generally measuring between 6 and 10 inches in length and weighing between 1 and 6 ounces. Mostly silver with a green back, they have a pretty, iridescent pink-purple-blue shine when fresh, and are said to smell like cucumbers. Smelt are spring spawners, spawning in fresh water and only at night. Young smelt eat zooplankton and adults eat mostly small crustaceans and fish, while they themselves are a favorite among predators such as striped bass, bluefish, birds, and marine mammals. Rainbow smelt are schooling fish and popular among anglers for the chance to catch many in one day and their reported fine taste, particularly when fried.
Concerns about rainbow smelt populations in Connecticut were first raised in the 1980s, seemingly related to chlorination and sewage pollution in the runs. Fishermen noticed that after sewage treatment plants started chlorinating effluent year-round, it was the last year significant smelt runs occurred.
An additional threat to the Rainbow Smelt is that they are weak swimmers and cannot overcome most fish ladders or jump low dams. This prevents them from making it past the dams to the headwater streams where they spawn. The rise in erosion and dams helped to decimate the smelt population in the 1980s. The North Atlantic and Atmospheric Administration is currently supporting two removals or updating of dams/bridges in New England. In Connecticut 1300 of the 4000 dams listed as high, significant and moderate hazard class dams. There is a Damn Safety Program overseen by the Department of Energy and Environmental Program, though recent online listings are not up to date. In 2017 the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) removed three outdated damn, restoring more than 120 miles of stream. The CRC hopes to continue to remove 3 to 4 damns in Vermont and New Hampshire. There are hopes this can be influential on the rest of New England.
The Endangered Species Project: New England
Exhibition Dates: February 4 - April 14, 2019
Public Lecture and Closing Reception with the Artist: Saturday, April 13
Gallery Hours: M-F 10am - 8pm; Weekends 10am-5pm
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is pleased to present an exhibition of work from Montana-based potter Julia Galloway's most recent body of work, The Endangered Species Project: New England. Galloway works from each state's official list of species identified as endangered, threatened or extinct. She has created a series of covered jars, one urn for each species, illustrating the smallest Agassiz Clam Shrimp to the largest Eastern Elk.
Read more about this exhibition here:
ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics/gallery224/endangered-specie...
Our group took a hike up La Naríz del Indio, one of the points around Lago Atítlan. It was a hot day for a hike, and once we got to the top, we couldn't help but jump for joy!
The smelter at Chillago was constructed in 1900-01 to service mines in the surrounding area including Muldiva, Calcifer, Mungana, and Redcap. This smelter operated intermittently from 1901-43. Ore brought from the mines to this smelter was processed to produce lead and copper.
Today, you can see the remains of the plant after it was dismantled and sold at auction in early 1950.
The Quincy Smelter processed copper pulled from the Earth by local mining companies from 1898-1957. The mines are all gone, and the smelting works have been unused for many years.
Ripley, Michigan, USA.
Osmerus mordax
State Listed as Endangered in Connecticut; Special Concern in New Hampshire
The rainbow smelt is a common fish in the northeast, it’s popular as food. They are rather small, generally measuring between 6 and 10 inches in length and weighing between 1 and 6 ounces. Mostly silver with a green back, they have a pretty, iridescent pink-purple-blue shine when fresh, and are said to smell like cucumbers. Smelt are spring spawners, spawning in fresh water and only at night. Young smelt eat zooplankton and adults eat mostly small crustaceans and fish, while they themselves are a favorite among predators such as striped bass, bluefish, birds, and marine mammals. Rainbow smelt are schooling fish and popular among anglers for the chance to catch many in one day and their reported fine taste, particularly when fried.
Concerns about rainbow smelt populations in Connecticut were first raised in the 1980s, seemingly related to chlorination and sewage pollution in the runs. Fishermen noticed that after sewage treatment plants started chlorinating effluent year-round, it was the last year significant smelt runs occurred.
An additional threat to the Rainbow Smelt is that they are weak swimmers and cannot overcome most fish ladders or jump low dams. This prevents them from making it past the dams to the headwater streams where they spawn. The rise in erosion and dams helped to decimate the smelt population in the 1980s. The North Atlantic and Atmospheric Administration is currently supporting two removals or updating of dams/bridges in New England. In Connecticut 1300 of the 4000 dams listed as high, significant and moderate hazard class dams. There is a Damn Safety Program overseen by the Department of Energy and Environmental Program, though recent online listings are not up to date. In 2017 the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) removed three outdated damn, restoring more than 120 miles of stream. The CRC hopes to continue to remove 3 to 4 damns in Vermont and New Hampshire. There are hopes this can be influential on the rest of New England.
The Endangered Species Project: New England
Exhibition Dates: February 4 - April 14, 2019
Public Lecture and Closing Reception with the Artist: Saturday, April 13
Gallery Hours: M-F 10am - 8pm; Weekends 10am-5pm
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is pleased to present an exhibition of work from Montana-based potter Julia Galloway's most recent body of work, The Endangered Species Project: New England. Galloway works from each state's official list of species identified as endangered, threatened or extinct. She has created a series of covered jars, one urn for each species, illustrating the smallest Agassiz Clam Shrimp to the largest Eastern Elk.
Read more about this exhibition here:
ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics/gallery224/endangered-specie...
Smelt Mill Bay | Смелт Милл Бей, 30-04-2017.
North Down Coastal Path (English)
My North Down Coastal Path set in my Let's Go For a Walk collection
One of the catchphrases of our study abroad group that caught on quickly was "guatever," and we used it all the time -even on the beach!
This abandoned locomotive rusts outside the buildings of the Quincy Smelter, an abandoned mining industrial complex near Hancock, Michigan in the Keweenau Peninsula.
Following a call from someone who'd witnessed dead fish along Gulliver Creek in Milton, we drove out to the Creek to have a look, on March 30, 2012. What we found were a few schools of Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax), swimming upstream. What an awe-inspiring sight! At this time of year, these silvery fish swim from Neponset Estuary into less salty contributing creeks, to lay eggs at night. This occurs each spring, around this time. // Smelt populations have declined drastically over the years, due to water pollution and the construction of dams along their migration routes. Thus, the sight of hundreds of these migratory fish swimming up a Neponset stream is heartening! However, it appears that the smelt can't get past the point at which the stream has been enclosed in a tunnel under the road. If that culvert were modified and fish could get past, they could reach more habitat for spawning, upstream. The more smelt that successfully hatch from eggs, the better! // The dead fish along the edge of the brook may have been killed by raccoons searching out the female, egg-laden smelt, and letting go of the male fish, according to Brad Chase. PHOTO BY TOM PALMER. Learn more about the Neponset River Watershed and how you can help to protect it: www.neponset.org.
Another smelter in the American west and another one of the tallest stacks in the country - this thing just towers over the desert/mountain landscape.
Osmerus mordax
State Listed as Endangered in Connecticut; Special Concern in New Hampshire
The rainbow smelt is a common fish in the northeast, it’s popular as food. They are rather small, generally measuring between 6 and 10 inches in length and weighing between 1 and 6 ounces. Mostly silver with a green back, they have a pretty, iridescent pink-purple-blue shine when fresh, and are said to smell like cucumbers. Smelt are spring spawners, spawning in fresh water and only at night. Young smelt eat zooplankton and adults eat mostly small crustaceans and fish, while they themselves are a favorite among predators such as striped bass, bluefish, birds, and marine mammals. Rainbow smelt are schooling fish and popular among anglers for the chance to catch many in one day and their reported fine taste, particularly when fried.
Concerns about rainbow smelt populations in Connecticut were first raised in the 1980s, seemingly related to chlorination and sewage pollution in the runs. Fishermen noticed that after sewage treatment plants started chlorinating effluent year-round, it was the last year significant smelt runs occurred.
An additional threat to the Rainbow Smelt is that they are weak swimmers and cannot overcome most fish ladders or jump low dams. This prevents them from making it past the dams to the headwater streams where they spawn. The rise in erosion and dams helped to decimate the smelt population in the 1980s. The North Atlantic and Atmospheric Administration is currently supporting two removals or updating of dams/bridges in New England. In Connecticut 1300 of the 4000 dams listed as high, significant and moderate hazard class dams. There is a Damn Safety Program overseen by the Department of Energy and Environmental Program, though recent online listings are not up to date. In 2017 the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) removed three outdated damn, restoring more than 120 miles of stream. The CRC hopes to continue to remove 3 to 4 damns in Vermont and New Hampshire. There are hopes this can be influential on the rest of New England.
The Endangered Species Project: New England
Exhibition Dates: February 4 - April 14, 2019
Public Lecture and Closing Reception with the Artist: Saturday, April 13
Gallery Hours: M-F 10am - 8pm; Weekends 10am-5pm
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is pleased to present an exhibition of work from Montana-based potter Julia Galloway's most recent body of work, The Endangered Species Project: New England. Galloway works from each state's official list of species identified as endangered, threatened or extinct. She has created a series of covered jars, one urn for each species, illustrating the smallest Agassiz Clam Shrimp to the largest Eastern Elk.
Read more about this exhibition here:
ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics/gallery224/endangered-specie...
One of three (four in a couple of years) aluminum smelters in Iceland. This one's in Straumsvík and is just beside the road from Keflavík International Airport to Reykjavík.
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One of the most common native Australian freshwater fish, found in large schools in slow moving and still water throughout Eastern Australia. Has a diet of Small aquatic insects, micro crustaceans and planktonic organisms.
(Upper Macleay River, NSW)
Remains of a 18th - 19th century lead smelter at Dukesfield, near Whitley Chapel, Northumberland.The remains of the smelter have recently been restored; the project's website at www.dukesfield.org.uk/ has loads of information on the smelter and the local lead industry. Highly recommended!
Also known as "white rice fish" in Cantonese. On the oilier side of things even if it was served in the addictive "fung tong" style (aka littered with aromatic garlic!).
It paled in comparison to the version at Bowl Kee.
The old Anaconda Copper Company smelter stack, completed in 1919, is one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world at 585 feet. (In comparison, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.) The inside diameter is 75 feet at the bottom, tapering to 60 feet at the top. The wall thickness ranges from 6 feet at the bottom to 2 feet at the top.
The stack dominates the landscape like the company once dominated the area's economic life. Since the smelter closed in 1980, the stack has become a symbol of the challenges that face communities dependent on finite resources.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the stack may be viewed and photographed only from a distance.