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Michael A. Boogaard

Position title: Biologist

Email: mboogaard@usgs.gov
Phone: 608.781.6238
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education: 
1984 B.S. Microbiology University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, minors in chemistry and nuclear medicine technology.

Primary Responsibilities/Activities:
My primary focus is to provide technical assistance to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s sea lamprey control program in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.  Technical assistance involves developing new and improved formulations of the lampricides TFM and Bayluscide, developing more efficient and cost-effective application techniques of lampricide formulations to ensure safe yet effective sea lamprey control, and assessing the toxicological risk of the lampricides to non-target species of concern.    

Research Interests:

• Aquatic toxicology
• Analytical chemistry
• Aquatic invasive species control

Active Projects:

• Evaluation of the acute toxicity of 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) and a TFM/1% niclosamide mixture to the black sandshell mussel (ligumia recta)
• Evaluation of the Acute Toxicity of 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) to the Snuffbox Mussel (Epioblasma Triquetra)
• Re-evaluate accuracy of the lower pH/lower alkalinity range of the pH/alkalinity sea lamprey minimum lethal prediction model as a tool to define target treatment levels for effectively controlling larval sea lampreys with the lampricides TFM and niclosamide.

Select Publications:
Boogaard, M.A., T.D. Bills, J.H. Selgeby & D.A. Johnson.  1996.  Evaluation of piscicides for control of Eurasian ruffe.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 16:600-607.

Boogaard, M. A., T. D. Bills and D. A. Johnson.  (In Press).   Acute Toxicity of TFM and a TFM/Niclosamide Mixture to Selected Species of Fish Including Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) and Mudpuppies (Necturus maculosus) in Laboratory and Field Exposures.  Journal of Great Lakes Research 29 (Supplement 1) 529-541.

Bills, T.D., Boogaard, M.A., Johnson, D.A., Brege, D.C., Scholefield, R.J., Westman, W.R., and Stephens, B.E.  In press.  Development of a Treatment Model for Applications of TFM to Streams Tributary to the Great Lakes.  Journal of Great Lakes Research 29 (Supplement 1) 510-520.

Boogaard, M.A.  2003.  Delivery systems of piscicides.  In Integrated management techniques to control nonnative fishes, eds. V.K. Dawson and C.S. Kolar, pp 39-50.  U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin, December 2003.  146 pp. Appendixes A-F.

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