emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (05/28/91)
zebra mussels are little critters that hitch-hiked their way in from Europe. they're prolific and enjoy making their homes on things like boats, piers, water intake valves, and the like. they're bad news all around -- the city of Monroe lost their water feed from Lake Erie when the entire pipe got encrusted with the things. A recent article in the Detroit Freep said they'd made it all the way up to Escanaba in northern Lake Michigan. Some questions: - what's the scientific name of the zebra mussel? - who is doing research on them these days? I'd expect it would be a hot topic, given their potential economic impacts on the Great Lakes region, but a cursory search of the literature didn't yield any hits on "zebra". - these things are supposed to be widespread in Europe. How do they cope with them there? thanks. followups to sci.bio.alt.great-lakes. -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (05/29/91)
In article <rkushner.4305@sycom.UUCP> rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: (liberally quoted due to incomplete news distribution) >- who is doing research on them these days? Detroit Water Department and Detroit Edison are both either doing major research or funding research. They have been totally screwed over by these little buggers. I think they found substitute salt of some kind kills 'em. Do you have any names or phone #s that I could make some contacts? It would be nice to get some of those folks on the net, either if they are funding research (no doubt we can find expertise and projects here in need of funding) or doing research (to keep in touch with what they are up to). No sign of either group in any of the net maps I've seen, so I don't know where to start. >followups to sci.bio.alt.great-lakes. I Don't get that group. Have Mike Wayne start sending you alt.great-lakes, I'm sure he carries it. -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com MSEN, Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103. "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216
hacker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Thomas J. Hacker) (05/30/91)
I think someone in the Bio dept in Oakland is studying them. Try calling to Bio dept at Oakland or try sending mail to joswiak@argo.acs.oakland.edu -Tom -- Thomas Hacker "Criticism is something we can avoid easily - by saying Systems Programmer nothing, doing nothing, and begin nothing" - Aristotle Oakland University, Rochester Mich (313) 370-4358 hacker@vela.acs.oakland.edu HACKER@OAKLAND uunet!umich!vela!hacker