- Characterize the relationships between invasive species and water quality ecosystem services in Great Lakes area wetlands
- Develop site-specific management recommendations for optimizing ecosystem services based on improved understanding of invasive species effects of denitrification.
- Provide educational and research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students centered on improving the scientific basis for stewardship of Great Lakes area wetlands
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Results
Replacement of fish meal in hybrid striped bass diets with proteinaceous fermentation biomass
- Evaluate the potential use of ethanol yeast, a co-product of bio-ethanol production, as a fish meal replacement in the diets of sunshine bass (white bass Morone chrysops x striped bass M. saxatilis)
Increasing the availability of veterinarians for Indiana and Illinois aquaculturists
- Develop and deliver an introductory fish health class for veterinarians and veterinary students, fisheries professionals and students, and other stakeholders in Illinois and Indiana
Development of virtual coastal cities for Indiana
- Develop virtual reality visualization applications for coastal cities by Lake Michigan in northern Indiana
Real-time fluorometric assay for sewage presence: a cost-effective method to determine potential water quality threats to swimmers and ecosystem health
- Use high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection to track the distribution of fluorescent whitening agents along a southern portion of the Lake Michigan shoreline
- Examine the relationship between these fluorescent whitening agents and E. coli
Development of a comparative toxicity database for the U.S. EPA priority drinking water disinfection by-products
- Examine drinking water disinfection byproducts for ability to kill mammalian cells and damage mammalian DNA
- Compare results to published databases that include carcinogens
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