#21 | Pond University - Planning your spring pond management and insights from Oklahoma, ft. Amie Robison

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February 16, 2021

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Description

In this episode of Pond University, we talk with Amie Robison, an Aquatic Ecologist from Robison Wildlife Solutions in Oklahoma. Amie, who is also known as “The Pond Lady”, has over 20 years’ experience helping landowners and homeowner communities manage their ponds. Amie provides invaluable advice on how to start planning now for management that you should consider in the spring. She discusses everything from dams and sediments, to vegetation and fish. She also shares some interesting stories and case studies from her work in Oklahoma, including a mysterious pond slime that can actually move on its own!

 

Anonymous feedback survey:

https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1IhSN3DPQpowBPU

Robison Wildlife Solutions website:

http://www.robisonwildlife.com/

Amie’s social media:

https://twitter.com/The_Pond_Lady

www.instagram.com/the_pond_lady

www.facebook.com/OklahomaPondLady

www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKgHkxpE1bkgep39rb1nEA

Fish Nerds podcast:

https://www.fishnerdspodcast.com/

The Woman Angler and Adventurer podcast:

https://thewomanangler.com/

The Ologies podcast:

https://www.alieward.com/ologies

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, by Lulu Miller:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-Fish-Dont-Exist/Lulu-Miller/9781501160271

Mysterious pond slime in Nebraska:

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/aquatic-ecologists-are-struggling-to-identify-this-bizarre-moving-goo/

Mitch’s profile page:

https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mzischke&intDirDeptID=15

Mitch’s twitter:

https://twitter.com/TheAussieWahoo

Megan’s profile page:

https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mlgunn&intDirDeptID=15

Megan’s twitter:

https://twitter.com/_TFFP

Pond and wildlife management website:

https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/

Natural Resources University website:

https://naturalresourcesuniversity.libsyn.com/

Purdue’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources website:

https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/default.aspx

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant website:

https://iiseagrant.org/

Contact us!

https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/contact-us/

Duration

59:32