Investigator’s Annual Reports (IAR’s) for Crater Lake National Park

Survey of the hydra (coelenterata) in Crater Lake

 

Report Number: 12787

Permit Number: CRLA1996AOZH

Date Received: Jan 01, 1998

Reporting Year: 1996

Principal Investigator: Richard Campbell, Department of Developmental, Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA

Park-assigned Study Id. # CRLA1996AOZH

Permit Expiration Date: Jan 01, 1998

Permit Start Date: Jan 01, 1996

Study Starting Date: Jan 01, 1996

Study Ending Date: Jan 01, 1998

Study Status: Completed

Activity Type: Other

Subject/Discipline: Other

Objectives: Survey the lake for hydra.

Findings and Status:  One day (8-26-96) was spent collecting along the western shore of Wizard Island. About 150 individual hydra were observed. 15 polyps were brought into the laboratory. They represent three species. Presently working on specific identities which requires laboratory cultivation.

For this study, were one or more specimens collected and removed from the park but not destroyed during analyses? Yes

Funding provided this reporting year by NPS: 0

Funding provided this reporting year by other sources: 500
Full name of college or university:  n/a

Annual funding provided by NPS to university or college this reporting year: 0

 

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