All steelhead and rainbows

Posted by Kelley Voss | Dec 6, 2019 | Local, Outdoors, Santa Cruz Naturalist | 0

Santa Cruz Naturalist

All steelhead and rainbows

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UCSC doctoral candidate Katie Kobayashi’s personal and professional lives look very similar, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. You can usually catch her in waders angling for fish somewhere between Santa Cruz and Patagonia. We caught up with Katie about the fish she studies, which can be known as either steelhead or rainbow trout; what e-fishing is, and why the humble trout matters to the ecosystem of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

About The Author

Kelley Voss

Kelley is a 4th year Ph.D. Candidate in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also the only cephalopod biologist at KSQD: she studies how octopuses use and lose their arms. Kelley co-hosts Santa Cruz Naturalist once a month with Emily Donham and Theadora Block.