WPAS Monthly Meeting

Please note that this is on MONDAY. I wasn't able to get our normal second Tuesday for this month. We will meet in the Community Room on the 1st floor at Macomb City Hall Building.

Program: Aquatic Invertebrates: Tiny River Creatures, Big Ecological Clues by Manisha Pant

Long-term sampling is the cornerstone of ecosystem health monitoring. I will provide an overview of the macroinvertebrate monitoring program as reinstated by the Illinois River Biological Station in 2023 after a hiatus of almost two decades. I will also describe the historic program and the new developments to improve the program design and implementation, including how macroinvertebrates are collected, identified, and quantified to assess ecological condition. Finally, I will discuss some recent findings from the survey.

Manisha Pant is a Research Scientist at the Illinois River Biological Station, part of the Illinois Natural History Survey. Since 2023, she has led the macroinvertebrate component of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program’s Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) initiative. She earned her BS and MS degrees from Eastern Illinois University, where her research focused on effects of instream restoration on fishes and macroinvertebrates in a small stream. She then joined Virginia Institute of Marine Science/William & Mary where she served as lab manager and laboratory/research specialist responsible for the organizing, collecting, processing, and analyzing data from marine and estuarine benthic ecosystems along the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico.

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