Carly Feiro ’12, a Mellon Summer Scholar, has been collecting and identifying macroinvertebrates in the Bushkill Creek all summer as part of an interdisciplinary research project related to the removal of small dams.  She typically finds a variety of insect larvae and crustaceans.  However, last week, she caught an American eel in her Surber Sampler!  Pretty neat. Eels are catadromous, which means that they live in freshwater habitats and spawn in marine habitats – the opposite of the more familiar Atlantic Salmon.