USGS lab personnel (GLSC; Chesterton, Indiana) holding benthic sample processing trays; each team member works on a different part of the process. Photo credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, USGS.
Katarzyna (Kasia) Przybyla-Kelly
Katarzyna Przybyla-Kelly is an Ecologist based in Chesterton, IN.
Kasia Przybyla-Kelly is an ecologist with the USGS, Great Lakes Science Center, and she is a part of the Restoration and Conservation Science branch. She has been working in the Great Lakes region studying various aspects of water quality and environmental threats to the Great Lakes ecosystems for the last 17 years. Her current research encompasses: Cladophora-Dreissenid-round goby interactions in the Great Lakes in connection with phosphorus inputs, eutrophication effects in tributaries, native and non-native aquatic species detection via environmental DNA (eDNA). For the last few years, she has been focusing on eDNA detection and quantification of aquatic invasive round goby and rusty crayfish, and eDNA monitoring of native Unionid mussels throughout the restoration efforts in Indiana Dunes National Park. She is a member of the USGS science dive team conducting underwater research in the Great Lakes.
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Benthic Sampling Sorting Squad
USGS lab personnel (GLSC; Chesterton, Indiana) holding benthic sample processing trays; each team member works on a different part of the process. Photo credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, USGS.
Collecting eDNA samples in the Little Calumet River
Searching for native, unionid mussels, USGS researchers collect eDNA samples in the Little Calumet River within Indiana Dunes National Park as a part of unionid mussels restoration project. Photo Credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly.
Searching for native, unionid mussels, USGS researchers collect eDNA samples in the Little Calumet River within Indiana Dunes National Park as a part of unionid mussels restoration project. Photo Credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly.
Counting and Measuring Invasive Dreissenid Mussels
USGS contractor Victoria Conn counting and measuring invasive dreissenid mussels in a laboratory at the GLSC Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station (Chesterton, Indiana) as part of the Great Lakes Integrated Cladophora Assessment Project.
USGS contractor Victoria Conn counting and measuring invasive dreissenid mussels in a laboratory at the GLSC Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station (Chesterton, Indiana) as part of the Great Lakes Integrated Cladophora Assessment Project.
eDNA Sampling for Round Goby
Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, ecologist at the Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station collecting samples for eDNA sequencing in the search for Round Goby in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron, MI. Photo Credit: USGS.
Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, ecologist at the Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station collecting samples for eDNA sequencing in the search for Round Goby in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron, MI. Photo Credit: USGS.
Deployment of an Acoustic Doppler Profiler
USGS dive team members Marc Blouin and Glen Black carrying an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) into Lake Michigan to measure currents throughout the summer season in order to improve predictive modeling at recreational beaches and better predict E. coli concentrations in the water, therefore improve safety of swimmers.
USGS dive team members Marc Blouin and Glen Black carrying an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) into Lake Michigan to measure currents throughout the summer season in order to improve predictive modeling at recreational beaches and better predict E. coli concentrations in the water, therefore improve safety of swimmers.
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Benthic Sampling Sorting Squad
USGS lab personnel (GLSC; Chesterton, Indiana) holding benthic sample processing trays; each team member works on a different part of the process. Photo credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, USGS.
USGS lab personnel (GLSC; Chesterton, Indiana) holding benthic sample processing trays; each team member works on a different part of the process. Photo credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, USGS.
Collecting eDNA samples in the Little Calumet River
Searching for native, unionid mussels, USGS researchers collect eDNA samples in the Little Calumet River within Indiana Dunes National Park as a part of unionid mussels restoration project. Photo Credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly.
Searching for native, unionid mussels, USGS researchers collect eDNA samples in the Little Calumet River within Indiana Dunes National Park as a part of unionid mussels restoration project. Photo Credit: Kasia Przybyla-Kelly.
Counting and Measuring Invasive Dreissenid Mussels
USGS contractor Victoria Conn counting and measuring invasive dreissenid mussels in a laboratory at the GLSC Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station (Chesterton, Indiana) as part of the Great Lakes Integrated Cladophora Assessment Project.
USGS contractor Victoria Conn counting and measuring invasive dreissenid mussels in a laboratory at the GLSC Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station (Chesterton, Indiana) as part of the Great Lakes Integrated Cladophora Assessment Project.
eDNA Sampling for Round Goby
Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, ecologist at the Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station collecting samples for eDNA sequencing in the search for Round Goby in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron, MI. Photo Credit: USGS.
Kasia Przybyla-Kelly, ecologist at the Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station collecting samples for eDNA sequencing in the search for Round Goby in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron, MI. Photo Credit: USGS.
Deployment of an Acoustic Doppler Profiler
USGS dive team members Marc Blouin and Glen Black carrying an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) into Lake Michigan to measure currents throughout the summer season in order to improve predictive modeling at recreational beaches and better predict E. coli concentrations in the water, therefore improve safety of swimmers.
USGS dive team members Marc Blouin and Glen Black carrying an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) into Lake Michigan to measure currents throughout the summer season in order to improve predictive modeling at recreational beaches and better predict E. coli concentrations in the water, therefore improve safety of swimmers.