{"id":40176,"date":"2011-02-04T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T20:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40176"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:14","slug":"pupfish-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/04\/pupfish-shakeup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupfish Shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Barrett \u201980 is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expert on the endangered Devil\u2019s Hole pupfish, several of which appear in this photograph.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/devils_hole_pupfish4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/devils_hole_pupfish4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"devils_hole_pupfish4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only around 100 of the pupfish exist, dwelling in a geothermal pool within a limestone cavern in Death Valley. When last spring\u2019s Baja California earthquake roiled the pupfish pool, a permanent monitoring station caught the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/pupfish-video\">sloshing on underwater video <\/a>\u2014 some of the action looks like a slowly exploding lava lamp.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett told <em>The New York Times<\/em> that the splish-splashing may have been a \u201cgood thing\u201d for the fish because it stirred up nutrients and removed silt from a ledge where fragile fish larvae spend their early days. In any event, he adds, the video is just \u201cpretty phenomenal\u201d to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett is the science adviser to the regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, based in Albuquerque, N.M. The pool\u2019s monitoring station is maintained by the University of Arizona in conjunction with the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Nevada Department of Wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Barrett \u201980 is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expert on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,232],"tags":[10856,3906],"class_list":["post-40176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-environment-sustainability","tag-bates-magazine","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87093,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions\/87093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}