Training Detection Dogs on Invasive Round Goby
Our first study in earnest is a collaboration with the college’s Fisheries and Wildlife program to investigate the potential use of detection dogs to assess waters for invasive round goby. Two studies have begun – one to look at dogs in a laboratory setting, detecting the goby in water and then simply “goby water” from the tank at increasingly lower concentrations, and another working to train dogs in field settings.
Photo by Always Ariel Photograph
Jennifer Essler, Ph.D. 