Professor Developing EPA-Sponsored Technique for Removing Invasive Species

September 6, 2016

Troy Keller, professor of environmental science in Columbus State University’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences, is working with the non-profit Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council on an $600,000 EPA-funded project he co-wrote to develop an environmentally-friendly technique for killing invasive mussels in the Great Lakes. Invasive mussels have altered the ecology of all five Great Lakes and spread throughout the United States from their original home in Eurasia.

Keller is recruiting graduate students to help conduct research examining the effects of this technique on non-target species such as fish, crayfish and aquatic plants in northern Michigan during the summers of 2017 and 2018.

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