Life Among Floating Islands

4/16/2021

My First Visit to Fish Fry Lake With Bruce Kania Was A Transforming Experience

By Ryan Cruz
It was in the grey, pre-dawn light of late summer that I had my first experience with a place and an idea that would force me to rethink Human’s relationship with water. There were still stars in the sky that morning as I shared a cup of black coffee with Floating Island founder, Bruce Kania, before we set out to explore his property and his laboratory.

We gathered up a collection of fishing poles and made our way to the first of several connected ponds that, while beautiful, did not at first appear entirely unique. I’d soon come to appreciate that, thanks to Bruce’s ecological tinkering, this place was very special indeed.

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Interning Through Coronavirus

4/15/2021

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Becoming an intern at Floating Island International was no placeholder but a pivotal influence in my environmental future

Our intern quickly learned to catch big bass in Fish Fry Lake

Catching my first ever bass in Fish Fry Lake brings home that harvesting is an essential part of water quality because it removes phosphorus from the water

By Louiza Wise
When I first heard about Northeastern University and the co-op (extended internship) program, one of the things I was most excited about was the idea of doing a global co-op or internship. Experience and global impact are two of the main pillars of Northeastern and that sold me immediately on the school. I had nothing else planned out at the time: not my major, not my concentrations or even any idea of what I kind of career I wanted, but one thing I knew was that in the fall of 2020, I was going abroad.

Or so I thought. After my plans of travel halfway across the world to intern at an innovative water tech company in Nairobi, Kenya were disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic, I started to think that whatever internship I got this semester would just be a placeholder.

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