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December 2012 Activity Highlights
Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Topics covered in the December activity report.

• Aquatic Ecosystem Health
• Florfenicol Medicated Feed in Aquaculture
• Aquatic Invasive Species
• News Media
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Northern Pintail Case Study: Migratory Bird Spatial Value
• Acronyms

Aquatic Ecosystem Health

Florfenicol Medicated Feed in Aquaculture

• Jeff Meinertz (UMESC) submitted his report on the depletion of florfenicol amine from fillet tissue of rainbow trout, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. 
• Meinertz, J.R.  2012.  Depletion of florfenicol amine from the fillet tissue of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) maintained in recirculating and flow-through aquaculture systems and treated with Aquaflor®-medicated feed.  Final report submitted to the UMESC archives, October 29, 2012 (698 pages) and the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, December 14, 2012 (438 pages).

Aquatic Invasive Species

• Michael Jawson and Mark Gaikowski (UMESC) attended the opening of the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (Center), at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, December 18.  The Center was created to focus on developing new techniques for detecting, slowing, and arresting the spread of Asian carp and other invasive species (e.g., common carp, zebra mussels, Eurasian milfoil).

News Media

• Kevin Kenow (UMESC) was interviewed by Marshall Helmberger (Timberjay News, Tower, MN) December 3, concerning enlisting the assistance of the Lake Vermilion Fire Brigade to recover the satellite transmitter from a common loon radiomarked on Lake Vermilion in July 2011.  They also discussed the study objectives and results of Kevin's Minnesota loon work.  Marshall has done previous stories about this work, available at https://timberjay.com/.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Northern Pintail Case Study: Migratory Bird Spatial Value

• Wayne Thogmartin (UMESC), Brady Mattsson (University of Vienna), and James Dubovsky (FWS) have been invited to present, “Spatial Transfer Of Value By Migrating Birds: The Case Study Of The Northern Pintail,” at the ACES and Ecosystem Markets 2012 conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, December 11.  This presentation is one of several describing the efforts of the Powell Center Working Group, “Spatial Subsidies From Migration: A Foundation For Conservation Markets.”  Presentation abstracts and conference information are available at, http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/aces/. 

Acronyms

ACES – A Community on Ecosystem Services
FDA – Food and Drug Administration
FWS – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
UMESC – Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center