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Welcome to the USGS Leetown Science Center (LSC). The LSC has a long history of delivering science and technology to help federal and state mangers preserve our Nation’s fisheries resources and fishing heritage. Research capabilities are centered on migratory fish conservation, aquatic animal health, aquatic ecology and fish biology, and invasive and imperiled species.
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USGS Fish Passage Research Helps Fish Get to Spawning Grounds
The Blackstone River in Rhode Island is where one of the Nation’s first fish passages was built back in 1714 to help fish navigate past manmade obstructions so they could complete their instinctual migration cycles.
LSC Earth Day Open House ..HUGE success!
Approximately over 600 individuals attended LSC (WV) Earth Day Open House on Sunday, April 22, 2018 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
LSC has a New Facebook Page!
The Leetown has a new Facebook Page!
Publications
A geostatistical state‐space model of animal densities for stream networks
Population dynamics are often correlated in space and time due to correlations in environmental drivers as well as synchrony induced by individual dispersal. Many statistical analyses of populations ignore potential autocorrelations and assume that survey methods (distance and time between samples) eliminate these correlations, allowing samples to...
Hocking, Daniel J.; Thorson, James T.; O'Neil, Kyle; Letcher, Benjamin H. Linking otolith microchemistry and surface water contamination from natural gas mining
Unconventional natural gas drilling and the use of hydraulic fracturing technology have expanded rapidly in North America. This expansion has raised concerns of surface water contamination by way of spills and leaks, which may be sporadic, small, and therefore difficult to detect. Here we explore the use of otolith microchemistry as a...
Keller, David H.; Zelanko, Paula M.; Gagnon, Joel E.; Horwitz, Richard J.; Galbraith, Heather S.; Velinsky, David J. The S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center--a model for progress
No abstract available.
Castro-Santos, Theodore R.; Haro, Alexander J.; Letcher, Benjamin H.; McCormick, Stephen D.