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Fish and Wildlife Disease

• Amphibians

  • Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Chytrid Fungus) in Aquatic Environments
    (Kirshtein)
  • Occurrence of the Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Southern California
    (Wood, Backlin)
  • Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in the Rocky Mountains: Landscape-Scale Presence and Effects on Populations
    (Muths, Pilliod)
• Birds
  • Genetic Assessment of Avian Influenza
    (Derksen)
  • Rapid Molecular Techniques for Avian Influenza Detection in Wild Birds
    (Takekawa, Hill)
  • Examining Virus Isolates from Birds in the North Atlantic for Eurasian Strains of Avian Influenza
    (Hall)
  • Understanding the Dynamics of Avian Influenza: Transmission, Spread, and Potential Risk
    (Hall)
  • Changes in Prevalence of Avian Malaria on the Alaka`i Plateau, Kaua`i: an Early Signal for Global Warming?
    (Atkinson)
    Also under Climate Change: Disease Impacts
  • Molecular Techniques in the Detection and Quantification of Pathogens
    (Ip)
  • Predicting Avian Immunity: Resilience in the Face of Emerging Zoonoses and Climate Change
    (Hahn, Reisen, Kogut, Summers)
    Also under Climate Change: Disease Impacts
  • Scaley-leg Mite and Hawaiian Avifauna
    (Gaudioso, LaPointe, Hart)
  • Viral Genetics--What Can Nucleotide Sequences Tell Us about Viruses that Infect Wildlife?
    (Ip)
  • West Nile Virus and Hawaiian Avifauna
    (LaPointe, Hofmeister, Atkinson, Porter, Dusek)
  • Wild Bird Avian Cholera
    (Blehert)
• Corals
• Using Microarray Technology to Study Mechanisms of Coral Disease
  (Kellogg)
  Also under Microbial Ecology: Corals
• Fish

• Adaptive Potential of Chinook Salmon to Resist Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD)
  (Purcell, Elliott)
• Cyanotoxins in Klamath Lake
  (Rosen)
• Emerging Virus Threat to Fish in Western Washington
  (Kurath)
• Investigating the Nature of a Putative Virus Isolated from the Introduced Species, the Northern Snakehead (Channa argus), Present in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
  (Iwanowicz, Densmore)
• Exploration of the Host Response to Iridovirus Exposure: Identification and Temporal Expression of Immunoregulatory Genes in Scaphirhynchus spp.
  (Iwanowicz)
• Zoonotic Fish Disease and Adaptive Fishery Management: Considerations for Striped Bass from the Chesapeake Bay
  (Panek)
• Q-PCR Detection of Bacterial Sources of Thiaminase I, a Potential Cause of Thiamine Deficiency and Early Mortality Syndrome in Great Lakes Salmonines
  (Richter)
• Quarantine of Aeromonas salmonicida-Harboring Ebonyshell Mussels (Fusconaia ebena) Prevents Transmission of the Pathogen to Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
  (Starliper)
  Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Mollusks
• Recovery of a Fish Pathogenic Bacterium, Aeromonas salmonicida, from Ebonyshell Mussels Fusconaia ebena using Non-Destructive Sample Collection Procedures
  (Starliper)
  Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Mollusks
• Pathogens Associated with Trout Populations and the Relationships to Fish Stocking Practices in National Parks
  (Panek)
• Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus in the Great Lakes
  (Winton)
• Warming Climate Can Affect Fish Health
  (Winton)
  Also under Climate Change: Disease Impacts
• Mammals
  • Brucellosis Increasing in Elk in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
    (Cross)
  • Role of Breeding Interactions on CWD Transmission in White-tailed Deer
    (Samuel)
  • Has chronic wasting disease (CWD) produced genetic selection in the Wisconsin white-tailed deer populations?
    (Samuel)
  • Application of Landscape Genetics for Predicting Spread of CWD in Wisconsin
    (Samuel)
  • Genetic Resistance to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in White-tailed Deer
    (Samuel)
  • Social Group Interactions and CWD Transmission in Female White-tailed Deer
    (Samuel)
  • Surveillance of Influenza in Wild Mammals
    (Hall)
  • Prairie Dogs, Black-footed Ferrets, and Sylvatic Plague
    (Rocke)
  • Predicting Disease Spread among Greater Yellowstone Elk using DNA Markers for Elk and their Parasites
    (Cross)
  • Expression of Genes (as Novel Biomarkers) in Sea Otter Populations as Indicators of Exposure to Organic Pollutants, Metals, Parasites, Bacterial Infection, Viral Infection, and Thermal Stress
    (Miles, Bodkin)
• Mollusks
  • Survey of the Indigenous Microbiota (Bacteria) in Three Species of Mussels from the Clinch and Holston Rivers, Virginia
    (Starliper)
  • Recovery of a Fish Pathogenic Bacterium, Aeromonas salmonicida, from Ebonyshell Mussels Fusconaia ebena using Non-Destructive Sample Collection Procedures
    (Starliper)
    Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Fish
  • Predominant Bacteria Isolated from Moribund Fusconaia ebena Experiencing Die-Offs in the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
    (Starliper)
  • Quarantine of Aeromonas salmonicida-Harboring Ebonyshell Mussels (Fusconaia ebena) Prevents Transmission of the Pathogen to Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
    (Starliper)
    Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Fish
• Reptiles
  • Mycoplasmosis in Desert Tortoises
    (Berry)

Bioremediation

• Arsenic
  • Arsenic Removal at the Lava Cap Mine Superfund site (Nevada City, CA)
    (Foster)
• Chlorinated Compounds
  • Biodegradation of Chlorinated Organic Solvents in Contaminated Aquifers
    (Kirshtein)
    Also under Water Quality: Aquifers
  • Microbial Consortium that Dechlorinates 1,1,2,2 Tetrachloroethane and all its Daughter Products
    (Voytek)
• Methyl Bromide
  • Bacterial Oxidation of Methyl Bromide in Soils
    (Miller, Baesman, Oremland)
  • Removal of Methyl Bromide from Contained Fumigations
    (Miller, Baesman, Oremland)

Climate Change

• Carbon Cycling

  • Forests and Soil Biogeochemistry
    (Perakis)
    Also under Ecosystem Function: Soil
  • Methanogen Response to Climate Change in Boreal Peatlands
    (Waldrop)
  • Microbial Communities and Carbon Cycling in Response to Global Change
    (Waldrop)
    Also under Ecosystem Function: Soil
  • Permafrost Microbiology
    (Waldrop)
    Also under Climate Change: Permafrost
• Disease Impacts
  • Changes in Prevalence of Avian Malaria on the Alaka`i Plateau, Kaua`i: an Early Signal for Global Warming?
    (Atkinson)
    Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Birds
  • Predicting Avian Immunity: Resilience in the Face of Emerging Zoonoses and Climate Change
    (Hahn, Reisen, Kogut, Summers)
    Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Birds
  • Warming Climate Can Affect Fish Health
    (Winton)
    Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Fish
• Permafrost
  • Permafrost Microbiology
    (Waldrop)
    Also under Climate Change: Carbon Cycling

Ecosystem Function

• Early Life on Earth
  • Acetylene Fermentation
    (Oremland, Voytek)
• Habitat Restoration
  • San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project: Mercury Biogeochemistry and Bioaccumulation
    (Marvin-DiPasquale, Windham-Myers, Ackerman, Eagles-Smith)
    Also under Geomicrobiology: Mercury
  • Urban Salt Marsh Restoration: Crissy Field, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
    (Windham-Myers, Marvin-DiPasquale, Ward)
    Also under Geomicrobiology: Mercury
    Also under Microbial Ecology: Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Parasites
• DNA Libraries of Trematode Parasites
  (Lafferty)
• Soil
  • Forests and Soil Biogeochemistry
    (Perakis)
    Also under Climate Change: Carbon Cycling
  • Microbial Communities and Carbon Cycling in Response to Global Change
    (Waldrop)
    Also under Climate Change: Carbon Cycling
  • Soil Community Dynamics in Sagebrush Steppe and Cheatgrass-Invaded Areas of the Northern Great Basin
    (DeCrappeo)
    Also under Microbial Ecology: Soil

Energy

• Energy Sources
  • Bacterial Formation of Nano-scaled Materials from Group 15 and 16 Elements (Se, Te, and As)
    (Oremland)
    Also under Nanotechnology: Energy Sources
  • Biogenic Methane Generation from Coal and Other Geopolymers
    (Voytek, Jones)
    
  • Microbial Fuel Cells
    (Miller, Oremland)
  • Production of Nanomaterials of Group 15 and 16 Elements
    (Oremland)
    Also under Nanotechnology: Energy Sources
• Human Health Impacts
  • Impacts of Energy Resources on Human Health and Environmental Quality
    (Bunnell)
    Also under Human Health: Energy Impacts

Geographic Patterns

• Continental Patterns
  • Geochemical Landscapes Pilot Study (2004)
    (Smith, Goldhaber, Holloway)
• Deep Biosphere
  • Deep Biosphere Studies at the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure
    (Voytek)

Geomicrobiology

• Acid Mine Drainage
  • Microbiology of Acid Mine Drainage
    (Stanton)
• Arsenic
  • Arsenic Geomicrobiology
    (Oremland)
  • Arsenic Biochemistry
    (Oremland)
  • Arsenic Biogeochemistry
    (Oremland)
• Mercury
  • Cycling of Mercury in Estuarine Sediments – Biogeochemical Controls on Fate, Transport and Bioaccumulation along Physical and Chemical Gradients
    (Voytek)
  • Mercury Cycling and Transformations across Louisiana Estuarine and Wetland Gradients
    (Marvin-DiPasquale, Krabbenhoft, Aiken, Swarzenski, Windham-Myers, Hall)
  • Mercury Cycling in Stream Ecosystems
    (Marvin-DiPasquale, Brigham, Shanley, Krabbenhoft, Aiken, Orem, Schuster)
  • Spatial and Seasonal Variations in Mercury Methylation and Microbial Community Structure in a Historic Mercury Mining Area, Yolo County, California
    (Holloway, Goldhaber)
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions in San Francisco Bay Wetland Sediments: Impacts on Mercury Biogeochemistry
    (Windham-Myers, Marvin-DiPasquale)
    Also under Microbial Ecology: Plant-Microbe Interactions
  • San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project: Mercury Biogeochemistry and Bioaccumulation
    (Marvin-DiPasquale, Windham-Myers, Ackerman, Eagles-Smith)
    Also under Ecosystem Function: Habitat Restoration
  • Urban Salt Marsh Restoration: Crissy Field, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
    (Windham-Myers, Marvin-DiPasquale, Ward)
    Also under Ecosystem Function: Habitat Restoration
    Also under Microbial Ecology: Plant-Microbe Interactions
• Selenium
  • Microbial Selenium Cycle in Nature
    (Oremland)
• Storm Impacts
  • Biogeochemistry and Microbial Community Structures in Louisiana Coastal Marshes
    (Holloway, Swarzenski, Krauss, Doyle)

Human Health

• Impacts of Energy Resources on Human Health and Environmental Quality
  (Bunnell)
  Also under Human Health: Energy Impacts

Microbial Ecology

• Corals
  • Microbiology of Deep Sea Corals
    (Kellogg)
  • Using Microarray Technology to Study Mechanisms of Coral Disease
    (Kellogg)
    Also under Fish and Wildlife Disease: Corals
• Plant-Microbe Interactions
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions in San Francisco Bay Wetland Sediments: Impacts on Mercury Biogeochemistry
    (Windham-Myers, Marvin-DiPasquale)
    Also under Geomicrobiology: Mercury
  • Urban Salt Marsh Restoration: Crissy Field, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
    (Windham-Myers, Marvin-DiPasquale, Ward)
    Also under Ecosystem Function: Habitat Restoration
    Also under Geomicrobiology: Mercury
• Soil
  • Soil Community Dynamics in Sagebrush Steppe and Cheatgrass-Invaded Areas of the Northern Great Basin
    (DeCrappeo)
    Also under Ecosystem Function: Soil

Water Quality

• Aquifers
  • Biodegradation of Chlorinated Organic Solvents in Contaminated Aquifers
    (Kirshtein)
    Also under Bioremediation
• Beach Health
  • Impact of Algae on Beach Water Quality
    (Whitman, Byappanahali)
  • Escherichia coli: Influence of Nonpoint Sources to Beach Contamination
    (Byappanahali, Whitman)
  • Using Microbial Source Tracking to Determine Sources of Beach Water Contamination
    (Byappanahali, Whitman)
  • Developing Predictive Models for Determining Microbiological Beach Water Quality
    (Nevers, Whitman)
  • Sand as a Potential Source of Bacteria and Pathogens to Swimming Water
    (Whitman, Nevers, Byappanahali)
• Cyanobacteria
  • Developing a Standard Operating Procedure for Accurately Detecting Cyanotoxins
    (Loftin, Rosen)
  • Real-Time Estimation of Taste-and-Odor Occurrences in Cheney Reservoir, Kansas
    (Graham)
    Also under Water Quality: Drinking Water
  • Taste and Odor in Cyanobacteria
    (Rosen)
    Also under Water Quality: Drinking Water
• Drinking Water
  • Real-Time Estimation of Taste-and-Odor Occurrences in Cheney Reservoir, Kansas
    (Graham)
    Also under Water Quality: Cyanobacteria
  • Taste and Odor in Cyanobacteria
    (Rosen)
    Also under Water Quality: Cyanobacteria

Nanotechnology

• Energy Sources
  • Bacterial Formation of Nano-scaled Materials from Group 15 and 16 Elements (Se, Te, and As)
    (Oremland)
    Also under Energy: Energy Sources
  • Production of Nanomaterials of Group 15 and 16 Elements
    (Oremland)
    Also under Energy: Energy Sources
• Environmental Toxicology
  • Toxicity of Engineered Nanomaterials to Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
    (Hinck)