• Grow freshwater actinomycete bacteria from sediment collected in Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes

The main bottleneck to further development of sustainable and intensive aquaculture in Midwest is improvement of larval fish rearing technologies and larval fish nutrition. The main objective of this project is to develop detailed protocols for larval largemouth bass rearing in indoor facilities that will help to support high survival and growth performance of this species in its young age.

• Develop virtual reality visualization applications for coastal cities by Lake Michigan in northern Indiana

• Assess water supply management options for northeastern Illinois

• Reconstruct the chronology of invasions of Orconectes rusticus and other nonnative crayfishes into the Great Lakes
• Use genetic analyses of the regions in Lake Michigan where O. rusticus is displacing O. propinquus
• Predict the future distribution of O. rusticus in the Great Lakes by comparing the environmental requirements of O. rusticus (especially substrata) with the characteristics of Great Lakes littoral zones

• To test the hypothesis that human and animal E. coli strains are distinguishable
• To screen and select appropriate primers
• To build a small RAPD (random amplied polymorphic DNA) fingerprint database for E. coli from human and nonhuman sources
• To identify landmark DNA patterns
• To determine the sensitivity and applicability of this technology