Assessing the Biological Health of Freshwater Ecosystems

Dr. Wevers benefits ABA clients through a rare combination of scientific expertise and project management experience. I have long been impressed by her acumen in both lab and field settings and her capacity to bring value at all phases of planning, implementing, and reporting for fisheries and macro-invertebrate projects. She is a highly skilled communicator and accomplished in coordinating, managing, and collaborating with diverse groups of people, including scientific colleagues, technical professionals, graduate students, and resource managers.

Aquatic Biology Associates provided cost-effective and conscientious services tailored to our project objectives. Their high-quality data sets were presented in a way that could readily be understood by expert and non-expert reviewers alike. And Bob’s succinct interpretation of results related to water quality conditions being assessed for our project enabled us to determine likelihood of risk to the invertebrate community from project operations.

Aquatic Biology Associates has performed our taxonomic analysis for the City of Seattle for the past 16 years. I have been very pleased with the high quality of both work and technical assistance. Bob Wisseman has always been willing to explain various aspects of the process, from the best way to preserve and ship the samples to the interpretation of the results. Our samples tend to be different from other areas’ samples since the sample sites are highly urbanized, but that has never been a problem for this lab. I’ve always felt that ABA was willing to go the extra distance to make sure the City got the maximum value out of their biological sampling efforts.

We were very happy with the work ABA did for us. Their skill with the identification of invertebrates from a variety of sources is hard to match. They worked hard to meet our deadlines, provided results that were clear and easy to use, and helped us reorganize the results to ease interpretation for us.

As a small volunteer group, the Cloud Peak Chapter of Wilderness Watch is especially grateful for the helpful, professional attitude of Aquatic Biology Associates. At the startup of our multi-year project, we needed detailed help in many ways, and ABA got us through all the steps from A to Z. ABA’s excellent reputation in the field of macroinvertebrate analysis also ensured acceptance of our data.

My research lab has been very satisfied over the years with the quality and thoroughness of the data ABA Inc. has provided and with the help Bob has given in interpreting the data and tailoring analysis to fit our project-specific needs.