Research and Services that Support Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems
Projects
Current Projects
- Quinsam Plankton Monitoring Study
- Tenacibaculum maritimum - tracking pathogenesis and typing
- Effects of stress on Kudoa thyrsites expression in Atlantic salmon
- Assessing the feasibility of integrated management plan for Kudoa thyrsites
- Determination of minimum inhibitory concentration of Renibacterium salmoninarum
- Assessment of the inhibitory concentration (IC50) of common disinfectants
- Test and evaluation of a commercial-scale ultraviolet effluent water disinfection system for fish processing plants
- Inhibiting the post-harvest effects of Kudoa thyrsites infection
- Defining the ecological and immunological roles of sea lice in the development of pathogens among farmed salmonids
Past Projects and Areas of Research Interest
- Pink Salmon Fish Health
- LOMA project
- Farmed salmon welfare
- Streamkeepers water analysis
- Shellfish health
- Idaho State University - diagnostics
- Bamfield animal health
- BKD - Water testing
- Whole Foods - Sablefish Purchasing Standards
- Aboriginal Student Exchange - NIWA, NIC
- Gitxaala environmental monitoring - GEMS
- New Diagnostics for IHNV
- Effect of rearing density on fish health
