Smallmouth Bass

Round Whitefish

Sockeye Salmon

Other research

ARL Co-Directors

Geoffrey Steinhart and Ashley Moerke

Current senior thesis projects

Smallmouth bass parental behavior across a predator gradient

Management of yellow perch by introducing a top predator and liming

Evaluating aging techniques for Atlantic salmon

Mortality, harvest, and growth of stocked rainbow and brown trout

Symmetry and merisitics of ARL Atlantic salmon

Walleye egg deposition in Black Lake

Is high harvest the cause of the small size-structure of Soldier Lake yellow perch?

Evaluating the effects of management actions in Piatt Lake

Suggestions for senior thesis projects

Sub-lethal effects of sea lamprey wounding

Hiawatha Sportsmens Club projects

  1. ๏ Effects of a walleye introduction on a yellow perch population

  2. ๏ Bioenergetic analysis of walleye consumption

Conservation of round whitefish

  1. ๏ Genetic diversity of round whitefish in North America

  2. ๏ Effects of acid deposition on survival and development of whitefish

Reproduction, parental care and recruitment of fishes

  1. ๏ Variation in smallmouth bass parental care and nest success

  2. ๏ The effects of storms on hatch-date and growth of smallmouth bass

  3. ๏ Variation in reproductive behaviors among sunfish species

  4. ๏ Evolution of reproductive investment under high fishing mortality

Round goby research  

  1. ๏ Can a round goby removal improve smallmouth bass nest success?

  2. ๏ Digestion rate of eggs and embryos consumed by round goby

Read about my past research using the links above.  See the lists below for examples of current and future research.

Geoffrey B. Steinhart

Associate Professor and Aquatic Research Laboratory Co-director

Lake Superior State University

650 W. Easterday Avenue

Sault Ste. Marie, MI  49783

phone: 906.635.2093

fax: 906.635.2266

Examples of past senior theses

  1. •Testing sea lamprey repellents and pheromones

  2. •Fish use of the St. Marys River Rapids

  3. •Conditioning and predator avoidance in hatcheries

  4. •Crayfish predation on lake sturgeon eggs

  5. •Evaluation of aging techniques

  6. •Factors affecting the condition of lake trout in Lake Huron

  7. •Factors affecting smallmouth bass nest abandonment

  8. •Genetic diversity of round whitefish

  9. •When and why do northern pike become stunted?

  10. •Atlantic salmon diet in the St. Marys R.

  11. •Bioenergetic estimates of walleye predatory demand