Fellow Story

Subalusky in National Geographic article on how scientists use disguise to research animals

Fellow(s): Amanda Subalusky
Topic(s): Conservation Science

Amanda Subalusky, who studies water quality, wanted to know if hippo poop kills fish when Kenya's Mara River floods.  Getting good water samples is risky, however, because of the danger from charging hippos.

Read on National Geographic how her team solved the problem 

Meet the Fellows in this Story

Amanda Subalusky

Amanda Subalusky

2013 Fellow
Amanda was a doctoral student at Yale University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She studied the impacts of large wildlife on water quality in the Mara River, Kenya/Tanzania, and how these impacts interact with water...