He’s in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, emphasis on communication, and he believes in the power of music. So University of Wisconsin Assistant Professor Bret Shaw worked with three singer songwriters to develop folk, rock, and country songs (what no hip hop, Wisconsin?) that spread the word to not spread aquatic invaders—like, for example, viral hemorrhagic septicemia—from one lake to another. This is ambitious song writing. Two songs urge boaters to clean their boats between lakes. The third reminds them not to use bait minnows stored in water from one lake as bait in another lake. These are more complicated instructions than “Love Me Do.”
“The Ballad of Aquatic Invasive Species” by Scott Gatzken (folk)
“One Bait, One Lake” by Andrew Isham (rock)
“Clean Boats, Clean Waters” by James T. Spartz (country)
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