{"id":10246,"date":"2012-09-05T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=10246"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:35","slug":"lake-andrews-critters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/recent-favorites\/lake-andrews-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"What Lurks in Lake Andrews?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We thought the stuff of Lake Andrews had been pretty well cataloged:
\nThere was Professor Smith\u2019s sailboat, anchored mid-pond by prank-addled students in the early 1960s, and then there was the Jeep that fell through thin ice in December 1971.<\/p>\n

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Facility Services staff members fish their Jeep from the depths of Lake Andrews in December 1971. Photograph by Joe Gromelski ’74.<\/p><\/div>\n

And during the Puddle\u2019s 1998 drainage and restoration, the not-so-deep depths yielded, among other things, a bowling ball, mangled bike, stereo, bed frame, chairs, tennis shoes, bottles, cans and three 30-pound snapping turtles.<\/p>\n

Now, thanks to biology major Hannah Schultz \u201912, we\u2019ve got some recent additions to the Puddle\u2019s motley catalog.<\/p>\n

Using the college\u2019s scanning electron microscope, she took photographs of the Puddle\u2019s tiny creatures, including fish and insect larvae, itty-bitty crustaceans known as copepods and ittier-bittier algae.<\/p>\n

She did the work two years ago for a Short Term course in scanning electron microscopy, working with Greg Anderson, assistant in instruction, and Bob Thomas, biology professor.<\/p>\n\n\t\t