An Entirely Synthetic Fish

Book Release

March 04, 2010
7:00p.m.
Eaton Humanities, Room 150 (map)

Join CU-Boulder Professor, award-winning journalist, aquatic ecologist Anders Halverson for the release of his newest book An Entirely "Synthetic" Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World. This exhaustively researched and gripping account follows the discovery and propagation of the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States, the Rainbow Trout. Halverson examines the paradoxes surrounding this prolific fish and reveals a range of characters, from nineteenth-century boosters who believed rainbows could be the saviors of democracy to twenty-first-century biologists who now seek to eradicate them from waters around the globe.

The event will take place on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities building on the CU-Boulder Campus, Room 150. The event is free and open to the public.

Anders Halverson is a research associate at the University of Colorado's Center of the American West. He has a Ph.D. in aquatic ecology from yale University and has received several awards for his journalism. He was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support the research and writing of An Entirely "Synthetic" Fish.