Video by Bruce Reid | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 08.07.2017
The Fish Ecology Team at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is studying hydraulic barriers (e.g. water flows through locks and dams) to dispersal of invasive Asian carp. In this video, ERDC's Dr. Jan Jeffrey Hoover says hydraulic barriers may have broad applications across the country and be particularly useful in the Upper Mississippi River and Ohio River Basins.......
Video by Bruce Reid | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.17.2017
This video depicts the field protocol used by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Fish Ecology Team for conducting swimming performance studies on large riverine fishes such as Silver Carp and Bighead Carp. The protocol is part of the Institute of Animal Care and Use Committee requirements. The team uses the world's largest mobile swim tunnel to develop predictive models......
Video by Bruce Reid | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 01.27.2017
The Fish Ecology Team at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi, has been working for 25 years studying fish, freshwater mussels and macroinvertebrates in streams throughout the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Ecoregion including the Yazoo River Basin, commonly called the Yazoo Delta. This video focuses on one reach of the Big Sunflower River in......
Video by Bruce Reid | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 12.21.2016
The Environmental Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi has been working for 15 years studying the status and trends of Pallid Sturgeon on the Lower Mississippi River. Based on these studies, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division signed a conservation agreement under the Endangered Species Act with the U.S. Fish......
