Allison Hosner of Saginaw prepares a protein experiment at Ferris State University.
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Ferris State junior Shaughna Langerak with a fruit fly experiment
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Croton Dam Pond, Newaygo County
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Cronton Dam Pond, Newaygo County
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Croton Dam Pond, Newaygo County
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Croton Dam Pond, Newaygo County
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Croton Dam, Newaygo County
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Powerhouse equipment, Croton Dam, Newaygo County
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Muskegon River below the Croton Dam, Newaygo County
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Hardy Dam, Newaygo County
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Muskegon River, Newaygo County
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Emerald Lake, Newaygo County -- a cottage formerly owned by relatives of your humble narrator, where he spent many happy summer hours as a child
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Andrew Mahon, assistant professor and member of the Institute for Great Lakes Research at Central Michigan University, with a new piece of lab equipment that can search for thousands of DNA samples in a single water sample
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Anthony Chappaz, assistant professor and member of the Institute for Great Lakes Research at Central Michigan University, with some of the equipment that will allow him to measure tiny amounts of trace elements in Great Lakes sediment samples
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Daelyn Woolnough, assistant professor and member of the Institute for Great Lakes Research at Central Michigan University, with her experiment to breed native Michigan mussels on native Michigan fish.
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Michigan Tech's Ezra Bar-Ziv gets his hands dirty making biocoal out of wood chips and bark.
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Paul L. Bergstrom, director of MTU’s Multi Scale Technologies Institute, and Thomas Daunais of Muskegon, who just finished his Ph.D., in the MTU nanotech fabrication lab.
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Michigan Tech graduate student Ioakeim Tellidis of Greece and professor Eugene Levin with an advanced unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Joshua M. Pearce, associate professor of materials science and engineering, and guru of MTU’s efforts in the explosively growing field of 3D printing.
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Coming back down below the bridge, Sunday, Oct. 20
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Lake Michigan north shore beach along US-2, Mackinac County
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Lake Michigan from the Cut River Bridge
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The totally unimpressive Cut River from the top of the Cut River Bridge
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Lake Michigan from the Cut River Bridge, Mackinac County
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Lake Michigan from the Cut River Bridge, Mackinac County
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The underside of the new Cut River Bridge.
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I knocked. No troll answered.
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Fall colors near Munising Falls
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Munising Falls
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A tree growing out of a sandstone cliff near Munising Falls
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Munising Falls
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Grand Island in Lake Superior from a state overlook off M-28 near Munising
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The passage between Grand Island and Lake Superior near Munising
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The view of Grand Island near Munising
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Scott Falls, Alger County
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The "canyon" past Canyon Falls in Baraga County
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Canyon Falls in Baraga County
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The end of the "official" trail along the Sturgeon River in Baraga County. But yes, you can always go further.
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Another view of Canyon Falls in Baraga County.
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Sturgeon River, Baraga County.
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Sturgeon River, Baraga County
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Sturgeon River, Baraga County
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Sturgeon River, Baraga County
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A trail marker along the Sturgeon River in Baraga County
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A tiny stream, Bacco Creek, near the Sturgeon River's Canyon Falls in Baraga County.
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Canoes along Lake Plumbago in Alberta
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Canoes along Lake Plumbago in Alberta
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Lake Plumbago in Alberta
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US-2 drive Friday, Oct. 18, Mackinac County
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The Portage Waterway that separates Houghton from Hancock.
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MTU student Paige Borel doing her best Peter Pan.
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The guys who make Paige fly, Kier Macartney of Grand Rapids, Mathew Willette of Flint and Thom Sullivan of Chicago
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's MTU student Paige Borel.
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Michigan Tech physics professor Yoke Khin Yap near one of his nanoparticle ovens.
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Michigan Tech student Paige Borel (left) gets ready to fly.
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A rainbow in the Seney Swamp.
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Tech Report editor Matt Roush (right) with David S. Karpovich, H.H. Dow Chair and Professor of Chemistry at Saginaw Valley State University, with the university's new research vessel.
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Another view of the Saginaw Valley State University research vessel. Eventually the carpet will be replaced by decking and the boat will have a sample crane attached at the front.
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Fall colors along Brockway Mountain Drive, Keweenaw County
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US-41 near Copper Harbor
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Another Michigan "Tunnel of Trees" -- US-41 northbound near Copper Harbor
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A view of Lake Huron from St. Ignace.
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State roadside park near the Manistee River, Wexford County (Credit: CBS Detroit)
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Manistee River, Wexford County
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Manistee River, Wexford County
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State Roadside Park (WWJ File photo)
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"Tunnel of Trees" from Harbor Springs to Cross Village
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"Tunnel of Trees: from Harbor Springs to Cross Village
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Crossing the Mackinac Bridge
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Mackinac Island from the Mackinac Bridge. The Grand Hotel is visible
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Crossing the Mackinac Bridge. (Photo: Matt Roush/WWJ) FILE