Auburn University

Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures

Ireland Center Current Research

Dennis DeVries' Research Project Titles:

• Assessment and restoration of the coastal fisheries of Alabama: coastal/estuarine/freshwater biota (with Rusty Wright)
• Evaluation of the freshwater mussel community in the weiss bypass reach of the Coosa River, Alabama
• Evaluation of respiration demands of selected mussel host fish in the Tennessee and Mobile Basins (with Rusty Wright)
• The role of yellow perch in Lakes Martin and Yates, Alabama (with Rusty Wright)
• Evaluation of techniques to pass migratory fishes in the Alabama River through navigational lock chambers (with Rusty Wright)
• Re-establishing long distance fish migration pathways: feasibility of passing fish through two Alabama River lock structures (with Rusty Wright)
• The relationship between shoreline development and resident fish communities in Lake Martin, Alabama (with Rusty Wright)
• -->for more info on who is involved with this research, see the IC's Aquatic Ecology Group page

Rusty Wright's Research and Extension Interests and Project Titles (other than those listed with Dennis DeVries above):

• Research: Bioenergetics of fishes
• Research: Forecasting toxic cyanobacterial blooms throughout the Southeastern U.S. (with Alan Wilson)
• Research: Assessing enhancements to recreational fishing ponds using stable isotope analyses (with Dennis DeVries)
• Extension and Teaching: Small Impoundment (Pond) Management
• Extension: Youth development through angling
• Extension: Aquatic resource conservation and management
• for more info, see the IC's Aquatic Ecology Group page

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