Find An Expert

Looking for answers to your mussel questions? Interested in funding opportunities and compliance requirements for research? Want more information about management and control of mussels? We have a variety of experts within the Invasive Mussel Collaborative ready to answer whatever questions you may have! Click through below to see our contacts by location and expertise. If you are an expert and would like to be added to our list, please let us know!

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Jonathan Bossenbroek

University of Toledo


Topics: Modeling

Located In: Toledo, OH, USA

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Primary focus on the Great Lakes

Katherine Ayres


Topics: Dreissenid Biology and Life History, Management/Control Tools - Development and Assessment, Modeling

Located In: Santa Paula, CA, USA

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Primary focus on Lake Piru, California

Keith Boulais

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Topics: Management/Control Tools - Development and Assessment

Located In: Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Kelly Stockton-Fiti

KASF Consulting, LLC


Topics: Management/Control Tools - Development and Assessment

Located In: Las Vegas, NV, USA

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Primary focus on the Colorado River system, but willing and able to travel to any location

Kimberly Jensen

Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation


Topics: Monitoring, Surveillance, and Sampling

Located In: Montpelier, VT, USA

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802-490-6120

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Kristen DeVanna Fussell

Ohio Sea Grant


Topics: Ecosystem Impacts- Habitat and Native Species

Located In: Columbus, OH, USA

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Kristen's research is focused on interactions between zebra and quagga mussels and other benthic invertebrates.

Kristin Thomas

Michigan Trout Unlimited


Topics: Dreissenid Biology and Life History, Ecosystem Impacts- Habitat and Native Species

Located In: DeWitt, MI, USA

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Primary focus on Lake Michigan drowned river mouth lakes and rivers

Leah Kainulainen

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore


Topics: Detection Methods (Including molecular and genetic)

Located In: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Munising, MI, USA

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Primary focus on Little Beaver Lake, MI and Grand Sable Lake, MI

Lewis McCaffrey

New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation


Topics: Ecosystem Impacts- Habitat and Native Species, Modeling

Located In: Albany, NY, USA

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Primary focus on the Finger Lakes of New York

Lisa Jones

Fisheries and Oceans Canada


Topics: Dreissenid Biology and Life History

Located In: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Primary focus on the St. Lawrence River

Lyuba Burlakova

SUNY Buffalo State University


Topics: Dreissenid Biology and Life History, Ecosystem Impacts- Habitat and Native Species, Monitoring, Surveillance, and Sampling

Located In: Buffalo, NY, USA

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716-878-4504

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Lyubov's area of research interests includes biology, ecology, parasitology, and spread of zebra and quagga mussels and their role in aquatic ecosystems.

Mark Anderson

National Park Service


Topics: Detection Methods (Including molecular and genetic), Ecosystem Impacts- Habitat and Native Species, Ecosystem Impacts- Nutrients, Management/Control Tools - Development and Assessment

Located In: Page, AZ, USA

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Primary focus on Lake Powell and the Colorado River

Matt Claucherty

Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council


Topics: Ecosystem Impacts- Habitat and Native Species, Management/Control Tools - Development and Assessment

Located In: Petoskey, MI, USA

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Primary focus on inland Lakes within the Northern Lake Huron Watershed

Matthew Barbour

U.S. Geological Survey


Topics: Ecosystem Impacts- Habitat and Native Species

Located In: La Crosse, WI, USA

Email

608-781-6244

Matthew Barnes

Texas Tech University


Topics: Detection Methods (Including molecular and genetic), Modeling

Located In: Lubbock, TX, USA

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Primary focus on North-Central Texas River Basins, with experience in the Great Lakes

Maureen Ferry

Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources


Topics: Detection Methods (Including molecular and genetic), Management/Control Tools - Development and Assessment

Located In: Madison, WI, USA

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Primary focus on the waters of Wisconsin