Michelle M. Frack
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Ecology and Evolution
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago


looking from uic to traffic

I am in Dr. Miquel Gonzalez-Meler's Lab; the Stable Isotope Group. I use stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen in animal tissues of museum collections.

I'm also a fellow representing the SKIT Program.
While positively adding to a Chicago Public School's 7th grade classroom I gain a better understanding of how teachers engage young students in hands-on classroom implementation of science.

I also mentor for Women in Science and Engineering.

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NSF
UIC Earth and Environmental Sciences
Illinois Natural History Survey
Chris Whelan:Grassland Avian Ecologist
Keith Hobson
Carlos Martínez del Rio
Blair O. Wolf
ESA
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Science For All Americans
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UIC
From University Hall, looking west down onto 290

What's a stable isotope?
These USGS pages are a good place to start; Resources on Isotopes: Fundamentals of Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Stable Isotopes: Providing the Answers to Tough Questions











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Packing samples our lab's mass spectrometer
The Science and Engineering South Building (SES)
June 2006
Packing solid samples Our mass spectrometer







hennepin wetland kayak, may 2006 hennepin wetland soil sample, may 2006 hennepin wetland water sample, may 2006
Kayaking for samples
Collecting soil samples
Collecting water  samples
Erin's research site, a restored wetland
Hennepin, IL, May 2006






snake release_june 2006 my first snake catch_june 2006
great snake bite! june 2, 2006
Holding my first snake release!
June 2, 2006
My first catch!
photo credit: Eric, a wonderfully curious jr.high student
Great Snake Bite! All four rows of teeth!
June 2, 2006
The northern watersnake, Nerodia sipedon, from Jace's project
©2006 Michelle M. Frack