Sea Grant Launches Exotic Web Site

From January, 1997 (Update #29)

A comprehensive collection of research publications and educational materials about zebra mussels is now available on the World Wide Web. The Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species (SGNIS) site can be accessed on the Web (www.ansc.purdue.edu/sgnis/), or via Telnet (www.ansc.purdue.edu, login lynx, password lynx) or directly through a modem connection (317-496-1440, user lynx, enter r login www.ansc.purdue.edu, password lynx). For those users who do not have Internet access, a CD-ROM version will soon be available. Although currently focused on zebra mussels, the site also contains Sea Grant information on four other Great Lakes invaders: the Eurasian ruffe, round goby, sea lamprey and spiny waterflea. The SGNIS site was developed as a Great Lakes Sea Grant Network project by the Illinois-Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Sea Grant programs. "We hope the site will give people the information they need to help prevent, or slow the spread, and improve the control of invading species," said project coordinator Allen H. Miller of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. More than 150 research reports and 60 educational items can be searched by title, author(s), author's affliation, publication date, user, product or keyword. The SGNIS Web site offers links to many other Great Lakes- and Nonindigenous species-related homepages.

ID: 199701-8.

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.