by Deann Gayman | University Communication and Marketing
Ella Humphrey has always been curious about fish.
“I enjoy the outdoors,” Humphrey, a fisheries and wildlife major, said. “I kept a lot of aquariums, and getting to see those different exotic species and learning about them in a captive setting really piqued my interest. That inspired me to take this path and now I’ve gotten to see different species of fish in their natural habitat. That’s been very enjoyable.”
Even in high school, she found a way to perform research in an internship with the Hutton Junior fisheries biology program, which is sponsored by the American Fisheries Society.
Humphrey knows the underwater creatures have evolved in myriad ways to their surroundings, and now, with the help of a Cabela’s Apprenticeship Research Program stipend and UCARE, she’s conducting research to examine the effects of climate change on Bigmouth Shiners, a plentiful but small fish in the rivers of the Great Plains.
Read the rest of the story and see more images of Ella at https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/cabelas-program-amplifies-student-research-internship-opportunities/