This summer, Future Rivers is helping to support graduate student alum Sophie Hammond’s internship with the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center. While there, she is conducting research using a Y-maze to study the effects of 6PPD-Quinone on olfactory mediated behaviors in cutthroat trout. The work combines her environmental science degree with freshwater sciences to study how a chemical produced by humans is negatively impacting trout populations, and as a result also impacting communities who consume these populations. She will be using the findings as the basis of her thesis and presenting on the work later this fall.