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Hope Klug takes students from across her courses to the Tennessee Aquarium. In addition to her research on the Tangerine Darter, Klug and her students have studied lemur behavior. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga extends from campus laboratories into the Chattanooga community.<\/p>\n

For Dr. Hope Klug, UC Foundation and Guerry Professor in the UTC Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science,\u00a0her research has cultivated a 14-year relationship with the Tennessee Aquarium. The partnership not only advances her research and provides the aquarium with knowledge but also serves as a teaching tool for her students.<\/p>\n

Recently, Klug and 11 of her graduate students published a research article titled \u201cFish Space Use and Behavior in an Aquarium: The Use of Microhabitats as Enrichment\u201d in Zoo Biology\u2014a peer-reviewed scientific journal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea behind this is that if you enrich the environment, they\u2019ll behave more naturally and have better welfare,\u201d Klug said. \u201cAs you would imagine, some animals receive a lot more attention in terms of enrichment. The very charismatic large mammals tend to get a lot of enrichment activities, and there\u2019s been a lot of research on effective enrichment on those animals, particularly mammals, but some with birds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith fish, there\u2019s a lack of research on enrichment practices. All of our zoos and aquariums\u2014and especially the Tennessee Aquarium, which is a really excellent aquarium\u2014implement enrichment practices for all of their animals, including the fish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klug and her students studied the behavior of the tangerine darter, a native fish of the Tennessee River, after introducing a plunge pool, riffle and run microhabitats. She explained that with the introduction of the run and riffle, the fish exhibited more natural behaviors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw darters just kind of hang behind rocks and then dart from rock to rock,\u201d she said. \u201cWe saw a lot of that and also didn\u2019t see any aggression or potentially maladaptive behaviors, which is really great in a human setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School Ethan Carver praised the longstanding partnership between UTC and the aquarium.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aquarium\u2019s been such an educational base for K-12, but we take students over there,\u201d Carver said. \u201cThere are classes that are taught where students go to the aquarium and do assignments. They\u2019re not only integrated, but they\u2019re also actually imperative in our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since its opening in 1992, the Tennessee Aquarium has been an important research partner for UTC.<\/p><\/div>\n

He added that community partners like the Tennessee Aquarium show students that what they are learning \u201cis not just a book.\u201d Research projects like the one Klug and her students participated in show viable career paths and can deepen their interest in the subject.<\/p>\n

Klug highlighted the convenience of having the aquarium so close to campus, making it easier to conduct research by using the prebuilt habitats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been super fun for me because it\u2019s allowed me to take my research in this slightly different direction and has a more applied aspect, which has been great,\u201d she said. \u201cInvolving students in that research, a lot of our students grew up going to the aquarium or have at least been to the aquarium.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to involve them in research that involves this facility that they\u2019re familiar with and allows them to address these questions that are related to important animal welfare has also been really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carver said involving students in research is a priority at UTC, and it often begins at the undergraduate level. He called undergraduate research the \u201cfoundation,\u201d allowing students to hit the ground running in their postgraduate studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere you can do research with a professor as an undergrad,\u201d Carver said. \u201cI\u2019ve taken students who were freshmen, sophomores, and worked with them for two to three years through their undergrad. They\u2019re now dentists, PAs and Ph.D.s. Having that solid focus on research allows us to take a student and give them an experience that they don\u2019t get at a lot of big R1 universities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klug has conducted research with undergraduate and graduate students. The research for the Zoo Biology article included students from the master\u2019s program in environmental science and the graduate\u00a0certificate\u00a0in environmental science.<\/p>\n

With the master\u2019s program being a more comprehensive option, Klug said the certificate program offers opportunities for collaboration with other disciplines across campus.<\/p>\n

She explained that publication experience can significantly strengthen students\u2019 resumes and graduate school applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those students, if they want to go on to get jobs immediately, having that actual publication that\u2019s out and published will be great and help them get jobs,\u201d Klug said. \u201cFor our master\u2019s students who want to go on to get their Ph.D., it\u2019s almost an expectation that you\u2019re going to have at least one publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis can also give them a foot in the door with Ph.D. programs. It\u2019s a big deal and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more<\/h4>\n

Environmental Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n

How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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