#21 | Pond University - Planning your spring pond management and insights from Oklahoma, ft. Amie Robison

In this episode of Pond University, we talk with Amie Robison, an Aquatic Ecologist from Robison Wildlife Solutions in Oklahoma. Amie, who is also known as "The Pond Lady", has over 20 years' experience helping landowners and homeowner communities manage their ponds. Amie provides invaluable advice on how to start planning now for management that you should consider in the spring. She discusses everything from dams and sediments, to vegetation and fish. She also shares some interesting stories and case studies from her work in Oklahoma, including a mysterious pond slime that can actually move on its own!   Anonymous feedback survey: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1IhSN3DPQpowBPU Robison Wildlife Solutions website: http://www.robisonwildlife.com/ Amie's social media: https://twitter.com/The_Pond_Lady www.instagram.com/the_pond_lady www.facebook.com/OklahomaPondLady www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKgHkxpE1bkgep39rb1nEA Fish Nerds podcast: https://www.fishnerdspodcast.com/ The Woman Angler and Adventurer podcast: https://thewomanangler.com/ The Ologies podcast: https://www.alieward.com/ologies Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, by Lulu Miller: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-Fish-Dont-Exist/Lulu-Miller/9781501160271 Mysterious pond slime in Nebraska: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/aquatic-ecologists-are-struggling-to-identify-this-bizarre-moving-goo/ Mitch's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mzischke&intDirDeptID=15 Mitch's twitter: https://twitter.com/TheAussieWahoo Megan's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mlgunn&intDirDeptID=15 Megan's twitter: https://twitter.com/_TFFP Pond and wildlife management website: https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/ Natural Resources University website: https://naturalresourcesuniversity.libsyn.com/ Purdue's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources website: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/default.aspx Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant website: https://iiseagrant.org/ Contact us! https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/contact-us/