Control and Prevention of Invasive Bivalves

MAIN RESEARCHERS OF THE WORK GROUPS

Dr. Gustavo Darrigran Macrofouling Services Consultant and Director of the Invading Bivalves Research Group of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (UNLP)

Dr. María Cristina Damborenea, Scientific Coordinator of the Invading Bivalves Research Group of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (UNLP)

Malacologist Dr. Guido Pastorino is one of the pioneers in the study of Limnoperma fortunei in Argentina. He is presently a CONICET researcher working on marine molluscs. The photograph was taken during the XV Brasilian Malacology Meeting, which took place from the 21st to the 25th July 1997 at Florianapolis, Brazil.
e-mail: rvpastor@criba.edu.ar

Dr. Pablo Penchaszadeh leads the invading bivalves work group at Buenos Aires National University (UBA). The photograph was taken during the Potomac river cruise, at the World Congress of Malacology - Washington. 25th to 30th July 1998- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Taeko Kimura, japanese malacologist specialized in Limnoperna fortunei, with Dr. P. Penchaszadeh. The photograph was taken during the Potomac river cruise, at the World Congress of Malacology - Washington. 25th to 30th July 1998- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Ines Ezcurra de Drago (left), head of the invading bivalves work group of the Instituto Nacional de Limnología (Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, Argentina). By her side, malacologist María Cristina Dreher Mansur (Museo de Ciencias y Tecnología PUCRS, Puerto Alegre ) head of the Invading Bivalves Research Group in Brazil.

Dr. Juan José Parodiz (curator of the malacology colection, Pittsburg, USA), pioneer in argenitine malacology. Twelfth International Malacological Congress, Vigo. Spain 3rd-8th September 1995.

Thomas Nalepa, specialist in Dreissena polymorpha or zebra mussel, invited Dr Darrigran to dictate a seminary on Invading bivalves in South America. After the dissertation, Dr. G. Darrigran visited the facilities and laboratories of the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Michigan, July 2003.

Diarmaid Or Foighil, President of the American Malacological Society and organizer of the 69th Annual Meeting (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 2003), invited Dr Darrigran to expose in the symposium: "Non-Marine Molluscan Exotics - The Future is to Foreing Ecosystem"

A visit to the ballast water compartments of CANADIAN TRADE ship, during 10th International Aquatic Nuisance Species and Zebra Mussel Conference, 14th to 18th February, 2000. Toronto, Canada. the arrow indicates to the specialist in Corbicula fluminea and Dreissena polymorpha, Dr. Mc Mahon.

Ing. Juan Crapari (CIDEPINT), the freshwater anti-fouling paints specialist, associated to the group of investigation on Moluscos Invasores/Plagas, exposing in the Seminary International of Environmental Management and Hydroelectricity. (Salto Grande Hidroelectric Power Plant, Argentina Uruguay, 2001).

CAPRARI, J. J. Y LECOT, C. J. 2001. El control de bivalvos invasores Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857) en la central hidroeléctrica Yaciretá mediante pinturas. In: Actas Seminario Internacional sobre Gestión Ambiental e Hidroelectricidad, pp. Salto Grande. Argentina.

For more information contact us by e-mail:
invasion@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
gdarrigran@hotmail.com
gdarrigran@malacología.com.ar

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