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Central Plains Center for Bioassessment

Giant tree on the Lamine River.

LeeAnn Bennett at the microscope.

Clark Co. Lake, KS

Sunset on a lake near Emporia KS.

Debbie, Maggie, and Maritza on the Missouri River for the 2009 National Rivers and Streams Assessment.

Welcome to the Central Plains Center for BioAssessment. Our mission is to provide scientific expertise on aquatic resources of the Central Plains Region of the US.

We are a NABS taxonomic certification center and we ourselves are certified for General Arthropods and Oligochaeta identification
We accept contract work for water, algae, fish, and macroinvertebrates (contact Christopher Rogers for details)
Our services brochure
Our benthic laboratory manual

Topeka Shiner.

eDNA sampling as a non-invasive monitoring tool for threatened and endangered species: Experimental studies using Topeka Shiners (Notropis topeka)

Started: September 2012

Potential sampling sites in the Truman Reservoir watershed from which water will be collected for detection of Asian carp DNA.

Asian Carp Distribution Study Using Environmental DNA (eDNA)

Started: October 2012

Don Huggins and Debbie Baker near Torbeck Haiti, 2013.

Huggins and Baker receive Haiti pilot study funds

Dry Arkansas River in August 2011.

Central Plains Center for BioAssessment to host water panel April 13