• To measure the economic benefits of tourism-based activities for the Grand Calumet River Waukegan Harbor Areas of Concern following cleanup and restoration.
• To identify socioeconomic benefits of community revitalization through increased jobs due to robust growth in the tourism sector.
• To test whether gentrification or preference-based sorting predominates restoration and remediation incentives in contrast to a more stable resident population.
• To engage in outreach with local stakeholders and communicate findings on economic benefits of environmental projects.

The goal of this project is to develop a web-based model that calculates the expected change in water demand with development and relates it to expected availability.

The objective of this project is to characterize perch effluent water quality from two different by similarly designed recirculating aquaculture systems.

• Determine whether ruffe and gobies display overlap in use of habitat and food and thus may compete for benthic resources
• Determine whether zebra mussels will modify ruffe – goby interactions directly by serving as a major food resource for gobies or indirectly by increasing benthic heterogeneity and associated invertebrate production,
• Determine how yellow perch will respond to coexistence with ruffe and gobies in the presence or absence of zebra mussels