Education Living with Great Salt Lake North Arm Photographs by Wayne Wurtsbaugh
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Dr. Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Limnology, and Fish Ecology at Utah State University, shares his photographs from a recent coring expedition to the Great Salt Lake. 
Dr. Wurtsbaugh writes: "After strong winds in the morning, the waves subsided leaving foam patterns on the north arm of the Great Salt Lake (Gunnison Bay). Promontory Point in background. The north arm is at saturation with salt (ca. 30% salinity) and the dominant organisms in the water, Dunaliella rubens and bacteria-like Archaea have red, photo-protective pigments (See Aharon Oren 2009; Saline Lakes Around the World). The quantity of foam suggests high levels of dissolved organic carbon (DOC, DOM). Gunnison Bay is poorly studied. On this trip we were attempting to take sediment cores for a paleolimnology study, but the rock-hard salt bottom kept our gravity corer from penetrating."
Foam Patterns on Gunnison Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah
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Winter 2010
Terry Tempest Williams
We live along the Great Salt Lake, one of the most extraordinary natural features in North America. I do not believe we, as a community, have honored its rarity. Our lack of intimacy toward this inland sea is not out of neglect, but of ignorance. We do not know the nature of this vast body of water that sparkles and sings. If we did, the shores of the Great Salt Lake would look different.
Terry Tempest Williams, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake Advisory Board
