• Count zooplankton already collected from Green Bay
• Contribute to a lakewide understanding of mechanisms limiting recruitment of yellow perch
• Provide information useful to fisheries managers

• Identify the main mechanisms affecting physical transport in the Illinois and Hudson Rivers
• Model the less well-understood mechanisms in detail 
• Construct a single model that combines the physical transport mechanisms with the biology and population dynamics
• Identify the processes controlling the transport and settlement patterns

• Design, construction, demonstration and optimization of versatile new sensors and sensor materials for critical and emerging LaMP and EPA pollutants

• Determine the factors that affect the survival of larval yellow perch in Lake Michigan
• Determine where young of the year yellow perch reside and are transported during the period between when the yolk is absorbed and when they are dispersed
• Document, based on thermal history in the otoliths and stable isotopes in the muscle whether life histories of alewife or benthic fish are closer to yellow perch thermal life histories
• Determine the impact of wind-driven movements of water masses on young of the year yellow perch distribution

• Obtain the full-length perch growth hormone (GH) cDNA.
• Clone and express the yellow perch GH mRNA in a protein expression system.
• Assay the recombinant perch GH for growth promoting activity in juvenile perch.
• Produce antibodies to the recombinant perch GH.

To evaluate the effect of culture temperature on growth, survival, and body composition of largemouth bass.