Zebra Mussel CD-ROM Available

From January, 1997 (Update #29)

A team of U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station researchers have developed a new zebra mussel CD-ROM. The "Zebra Mussel Information System" includes identification, biology, ecology, impact, detection and monitoring, risk assessment, management and a list of references on the zebra mussel. "As the knowledge base concerning the biology and management of zebra mussels expands, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to access pertinent and up-to-date information," said researcher Michael Grodowitz. The program runs under Windows using a hypertext interface, illustrations, maps, color photographs and an interactive question-and-answer section to help the user identify adult and immature zebra mussels. There is currently no charge for the CD-ROM, but the number of copies is limited. Please contact Michael J. Grodowitz, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, CEWES-ER-A, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39181, phone (601) 634-2972, email growdowm@ex1.wes.army.mil.

ID: 199701-7.

The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.