Freshwater Mussel Restoration- Data, Products & Reports

Presentations: Listed below are just a sampling of the oral talks and posters given by PDE staff that discuss the Freshwater Mussel Restoration Project:

Year Given Presentation Title (Forum) Downloadable? Type Presenter
2010 Before Reintroduction: Assessing Stream Readiness for Freshwater Mussel Restoration in the Delaware Estuary Watershed. Annual conference of the World Aquaculture Society, 3/2/10, San Diego, CA
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(5 MB pdf)		 oral Angela Padeletti, et al.
2010 Restoration Aquaculture as a Tool for rebuilding Native Bivalve Assemblages and Ecosystem Services: Watershed Perspectives.
 Triennial conference of the National Shellfisheries Association and World Aquaculture Society, 3/2/10, San Diego, CA
.		 Download talk (8 MB ppt) oral Danielle Kreeger and Angela Padeletti
2010 Freshwater Mussel Recovery for Water Quality and Habitat Improvement in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Seminar at Fairmount Water Works Interpretative Center, 2/17/10, Philadelphia, PA
.		 Download talk (10 MB pdf) oral Danielle Kreeger
2009 Musseling our way from the Headwaters to the Bay; Shellfish as a basis for ecosystem restoration Annual conference given at the Coastal and Estutrine Research Federation, 11/5/09, Portland, OR
.		 Download talk (3 MB pdf) oral Angela Padeletti, et al.
2009 Healthy Bivalves = Healthy Watersheds: Rebuilding Bivalve Biodiversity, Populations and Ecosystem Services as a Basis for Ecosystem Restoration. Plenary talk at the Freshwater Mollusc Conservation Society biennial conference, 4/24/09, Baltimore, MD.
.		 Download talk (8 MB pdf) oral Danielle Kreeger
2009 Restoring our Past with Mussel Power in the Freshwater Portion of the Delaware Estuary Watershed. Poster for the National Shellfisheries Association 3/23/09, Savannah, GA
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(1 MB pdf) 		poster Angela Padeletti, et al.
2009 Musseling our way to restoration of the Delaware Estuary with the lightfoot mussel (Elliptio complanata). Poster for the Delaware Science and Environmental Summit 1/12/09, Cape May, NJ Download poster poster Angela Padeletti, et al.
Reports:
Year Published Publication Download Topic  
2011 Kreeger, D. R. Thomas, S. Klein, A. Padeletti, and W. Lellis. 2011a. Recent discoveries of rare freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in the urban corridor of the Delaware Estuary. P. Cole and D. Kreeger (eds.), Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 11-01. 154 p. (abstract) Download poster PDF Poster presented at 2011 Science Conference (Scientific/Technical)  

 

If you are interested in learning more about this innovative project, please contact Angela Padeletti at (800) 445-4935, extension 103, or APadeletti@DelawareEstuary.org.