![]() ![]() I think that the best teachers are students themselves.” “I spend a lot of time teaching myself so that I can teach others. ![]() “Being a hobbyist means that I still have that spark of excitement when I learn new things,” she adds. “Because of my passion for the Great Lakes,” Rutherford says, “I began to explore other lakes and I kind of became a hobby limnologist.” A limnologist is a scientist who studies the biological, chemical and physical features of inland aquatic systems, including lakes, rivers, springs and wetlands. ![]() She began sharing her artwork- reimagined artist “books” featuring sea glass, plastics and fish bones, for example-on TikTok in spring 2020, and as she gained more followers, curious commenters wanted more information about the science and history she explored in her art. The daughter of a geologist, Rutherford is a Wisconsin-based artist and professor whose large-scale mixed media projects focus on the Great Lakes, often exploring pollution, erosion and climate change through natural and synthetic materials she’s found on the shores of Lake Michigan. TikTok creator Geo Rutherford ( has been highlighting haunted hydrology-everything from dangerously acidic waters to alien-like extremophile life forms-each day of October in her 31-day “Spooky Lakes” series. From a boiling river in the Peruvian Amazon to the blood-red Lake Natron in Tanzania, bodies of water on Earth-and beyond-can be odd, disgusting, mysterious, frightening, deadly and even a little spooky. ![]()
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