Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Virginia Martell

Master's
Email: vsowers@umass.edu
Faculty Website

Education

  • BS University of Massachusetts 2017

Biography

I received my B.S. at UMass-Amherst in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (2017); and am currently an M.S. student at UMass-Amherst in Fish and Wildlife Conservation Biology program. . Aquatic Ecology; Freshwater Mussel Ecology

Project Completion Date
Yellow Lampmussel Restoration Initiative January 2020
Feasibility and uses for freshwater mussel culture in Massachusetts December 2017
Presentations Presentation Date
Sowers, V., A.H. Roy, D. Perkins, P. Hazelton, and T. Warren. 2017. The effect of calcium supplementation on the growth and survival of a freshwater mussel. Joint Meeting of the Southern New England Chapter and Northeast Division of the American Fisheries Society, 26-27 February 2017, Mystic, CT. February 2017
Sowers, V., A.H. Roy, D. Perkins, P. Hazelton, and T. Warren. 2017. The effect of calcium supplementation on the growth and survival of a freshwater mussel. Annual Meeting of the New England Association of Environmental Biologists, 14-16 March 2017, Hartford, CT. March 2017
Martell, V.M., A.H. Roy, P.D. Hazelton, D.L. Perkins, and T.M. Warren. 2019. Developing propagation methods toward restoration of the Yellow Lampmussel (Lampsilis cariosa) populations in New England. Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, 14-16 April 2018, Groton, CT. April 2019
Martell, V.M., A.H. Roy, P.D. Hazelton, D.L. Perkins, and T.M. Warren. 2018. The effect of probiotics on the growth and survival of a freshwater mussel. Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, 15-17 April 2018, Burlington, VT. April 2018