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The man dedicated to saving the lake from little invaders

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 9, 2009 at 6:23 am

From the Las Vegas Sun:

“David Wong came to Las Vegas to try to save it from an alien invasion.

The native of China has been working as a researcher at UNLV’s School of Community Health Sciences since July 2008 for one reason — because Southern Nevada is where the war to end all wars must be waged against quagga mussels, the little freshwater mollusks that threaten to clog and poison the region’s water systems.

Wong has for 15 years studied the effects of invasive mussel species in the United States. During the eight years leading up to his move to Nevada, Wong’s sights were zeroed in on a cousin of the quagga, the zebra mussel, and the ecological danger that species posed in the Great Lakes and Hudson River. He was a sidekick to the main mussel fighter there.

In early 2007 he read about the discovery of quagga mussels in Lake Mead, and found his own quest. He saw the quaggas as a disaster in the making “for the economy and the freshwater ecosystem in the Western states,” one that he could play a major role in trying to stop.

Now the biologist’s life’s work is “mitigating, monitoring and studying these invasive pests.” …”

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November 9, 2009 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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