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King’s professor Dr. Brian Mangan’s crayfish research leads to published results

March 9, 2009 – Dr. Brian P. Mangan, director, Environmental Program at King’s College, and The Susquehanna River Institute, has learned that the design for the crayfish trap he and his students designed and built will be published in the next edition of the “Journal of Freshwater Ecology.” The title of article is “A Versatile and Economical Trap for Capturing Wild Crayfish.”
 
In summer 2008, Dr. Mangan worked with several King’s students on a study detailing the distribution, diversity, and habitat associated with crayfish. He and his students built over 100 traps that were used to capture crayfish in the Susquehanna River at 11 sites between Harrisburg and the New York border. In 2009, he will expand his crayfish study to include the west branch of the Susquehanna.
 
In the fall semester he worked with students to profile the recent invasion of zebra mussels to the river near Great Bend.  In conjunction with the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies, a group of area colleges and non-governmental organizations, Dr. Mangan is launching a study of mercury contamination of organisms within the Susquehanna Watershed.
 
Brian and his wife, Joy, reside in Nescopeck.

Dr. Brian P. Mangan is shown with the crayfish trap he and King’s College students designed for research studies on the Susquehanna River.

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