- Develop and apply eDNA sampling methods for detecting fish species and measuring eDNA concentration in these large, complex habitats
- Compare results between fish capture methods and eDNA methods
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Results
Genomic resources in lake sturgeon
- Analyze lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens DNA sequence data for genetic markers
Food webs in the 21st century: exploration of new enabling technologies to understand and predict changes in aquatic food webs and impacts of ecosystems
- Explore application of a new enabling technology to aquatic food web dynamics
- Assess whether organisms within trophic levels have unique chemical/nutrient compositions
Real-time online access to fish consumption advice
- Develop a software platform to provide real-time, online access to advisories for consumption of recreationally-caught fish
Assessing consumer preferences and demand for fish: a market analysis of the Midwest aquaculture industry
- Identify consumer preferences and demand for fish products
- Estimate consumers’ willingness-to-pay for important food safety and quality informational attributes embedded in aquaculture products
- Assess the competitiveness of aquaculture products with regards to food safety versus imported aquaculture products
Energy efficient and sustainable aquaculture water treatment Using microbial fuel cells and membrane-supported biofilms
- Investigate the feasibility of a new treatment process, based on microbial fuel cells and membrane-supported biofilms reactors for removing nitrogen and sulfide in simulated recirculating aquaculture systems wastewater.
- Determine the nitrogen and sulfide removal efficiencies, and levels of electric power production
- Test different reactor configurations under variable loading conditions
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