“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. "There is almost no calcium in the lake, although the inflowing fresh waters have calcium, which precipitates as it mixes with the high-pH alkaline waters of the lake.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. The animals probably aren't truly calcified, but are coated with sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate, said Cerling, who has researched the chemistry of Africa's Rift Valley lakes. So he believes the birds and bats were confused by the sky's reflection in the lake and killed when they hit the water. However, Brandt said that many people in the region have seen birds crash-land into the water. Since there are few predators in the area, their bodies remain and become salt-encrusted when the lake's water level drops. Thure Cerling, professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah, said by email that the animals in Brandt's photographs likely died of natural causes. Lake Natron's unusually harsh composition comes from a unique neighboring volcano, Ol Doinyo, which spews alkali-rich natrocarbonatites that end up in Lake Natron via rainwater runoff. (Also see " Pictures: Best Wild Animal Photos of 2012 Announced.")
The photographs, taken between 20, appear in Brandt's new book Across the Ravaged Land. So he believes the birds and bats were confused by the sky's reflection in the lake and killed when they hit the water.The animals probably aren't truly calcified, but are coated with sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate, said Cerling, who has researched the chemistry of Africa's Rift Valley lakes."There is almost no calcium in the lake, although the inflowing fresh waters have calcium, which precipitates as it mixes with the high-pH alkaline waters of the lake."-Liz LangleyĪ "calcified" swallow sings in stony silence along northern Tanzania's Lake Natron (map), which contains so much soda and salt that it would "strip the ink of my Kodak film boxes in a few seconds," according to photographer Nick Brandt.īrandt unexpectedly found the dead animals that had washed up on the shore, preserved by the lake, and posed them as they had been in life. Since there are few predators in the area, their bodies remain and become salt-encrusted when the lake's water level drops.However, Brandt said that many people in the region have seen birds crash-land into the water. (Also see "Pictures: Best Wild Animal Photos of 2012 Announced.")Lake Natron's unusually harsh composition comes from a unique neighboring volcano, Ol Doinyo, which spews alkali-rich natrocarbonatites that end up in Lake Natron via rainwater runoff.Thure Cerling, professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah, said by email that the animals in Brandt's photographs likely died of natural causes.
A "calcified" swallow sings in stony silence along northern Tanzania's Lake Natron (map), which contains so much soda and salt that it would "strip the ink of my Kodak film boxes in a few seconds," according to photographer Nick Brandt.Brandt unexpectedly found the dead animals that had washed up on the shore, preserved by the lake, and posed them as they had been in life.
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