Unlabelled Aquariums - Invasive Species AMA Saturday, March 20, 2021!

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Aquariums - Invasive Species AMA Saturday, March 20, 2021!

Invasive Species AMA Saturday, March 20, 2021!

Posted: 19 Mar 2021 09:13 AM PDT

Tomorrow on March 20th, we will be hosting an AMA with four academic candidates about their work with invasive species and related ecology. This is a great time to get in some questions with some researchers on Zebra Mussels as well as other related invasive species, where their research is headed, and any takeaways they have about the state of invasive species as a whole in the hobby.

Here are some introductions on all four of our guests:

/u/PolyploidPollywogs:

Hello!

My name is Dr. Mitch Tucker, and I am one of the prospective participants in the upcoming AMA regarding invasive species and our aquarium hobby.

I am currently a biology professor at Trocaire College in WNY, and my PhD is in ecology, evolution, and behavior - my dissertation project focused on evolution of vertebrates via polyploidy, looking at developmental and behavioral changes associated with chromosome duplication. In addition to my frog work, I've been an avid aquarium hobbyist for twenty + years. I also am the town-appointed chairman of the Conservation Advisory Council of my town.

u/AISResearcher:

Hello, my name is Meg and I'm one of the scientists involved in the proposed invasive species AMA. Here is my link to my research gate detailing some of my work and a photo of me with the date and my username: Photo!

u/CO_BoatInspector:

I worked as a boat inspector in Colorado's larimer county as part of the statewide aquatic nuisance species program, as well as my collection of seals I pulled off of boats coming into the reservoir I worked at. https://imgur.com/a/tL6SL3O

I got my undergraduate in Fisheries & Wildlife with an aquatics focus, and I worked directly with the state of Colorado on their Aquatic Nuisance Species program, inspecting watercraft entering/leaving a major reservoir in Northern Colorado for invasive species, mainly zebra and quagga mussels, as well as other lesser known species like Eurasian Milfoil and New Zealand Mud Snails.

u/lampsilis:

As a greeting to everyone, I'm working on my PhD at the University of Minnesota and research zebra mussels and zebra mussel suppression. I'm in the third year of this research project and worked with AIS in the Phelps lab and more generally for 4-5 years before that. Prior to that I was all terrestrial work - I worked for a cooperative weed management area for a year, and got my MS in native plant population ecology. Here is a link to my work. More info on youtube. Photo!

Feel free to drop some questions today for them to answer tomorrow! The AMA will start on 3/20/2021 at 10AM EST and will go on for several days after the 20th.

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