Projects at the QFC
Completed Projects
- Indirect Estimation of Contact Selectivity for Gillnets Using Hierarchical Models (posted Jan 2026)
- Re-Evaluation of An Adaptive Management Framework for Invasive Grass Carp within Lake Erie (posted Jan 2026)
- Predicting the Response of Fish Populations to Changes in River Connectivity using Individual-Based Models (posted Jan 2026)
- Experimental Assessment of Competition between Round Goby and Slimy Sculpin in Experimental Microcosms (posted Jan 2026)
- Slimy Sculpin Population Trends in Lake Michigan and Southern Lake Ontario (posted Jan 2026)
- Changes in Lake Sturgeon Spawning Periodicity is Associated with Prior Reproductive Effort (posted Jan 2026)
- Decision Analysis of Integrated Pest Management: A Case Study on Invasive Sea Lamprey in the Great Lakes Basin (posted Jan 2026)
- A Modeling Framework for Quantifying Spatial Recruitment Dynamics Using Abundance Estimation and Sibship Analysis (posted Jan 2026)
- Reinforcement Learning Informs Harvest Control Rule Design in Complex Fishery Settings (posted Jan 2026)
- Using Strain-Specific Genetic Information to Estimate the Reproductive Potential of Lake Trout Spawning Biomass in Southern Lake Michigan (posted Jan 2026)
- Grass Carp Behavioral Ecology and Movement States to Inform Removal Strategies in the Sandusky River, Lake Erie (posted Jan 2026)
- Genetic Bio-Control of Sea Lampreys Strongly Affected by Underlying Sex Ratios (posted Jan 2026)
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Influence of Pseudoreplication on Meta-Analysis Inferences (posted Jan 2026)
Ongoing Projects
- Support to the Lake Erie Percid Management Advisory Group on Stock Assessment
- Habitat Use and Movement Patterns across the Lake Whitefish Stock Complex in Lake Huron
- Incorporating New Fishery Independent Surveys into SCAA Models: Interactions Among Time Series Length, Life History, and Data Quality/Complexity
- Untangling the Mystery: Identifying Factors Potentially Causing Mismatches in Great Lakes Sea Lamprey Control Program Metrics
- Evaluating and improving hidden Markov models for application to acoustic telemetry data
- Do Discrete Spawning Stocks Contribute Differentially to Lake Erie’s Walleye Fisheries?
- Assessing Individual Variability in Growth Rates for Great Lakes Fish Populations
- Catchability Dynamics of Walleye in the Ceded Territory of Wisconsin, 1990-2023
- Evaluating Fishery Allocation Tradeoffs in Double-Crested Cormorant Management
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Accounting for Survey Gear Change in Statistical Catch-at-Age Assessment Models