Fish Passage

Biomechanics is the study of mechanical laws relating to the movement of living organisms.

Introduced rainbow trout and brown trout are considered a threat to the endangered humpback chub in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. These introduced species eat native fish, but impacts are difficult to assess because predation vulnerability depends on the physical conditions under which predation takes place. We studied how predation vulnerability of juvenile humpback chub changes in response...

Welcome to the Experimental Stream Lab at the US Geological Survey Eastern Ecological Science Center's Leetown Research Laboratory in Kearneysville West Virginia.