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For a variety of legal, environmental, and land conservation reasons, multiscale management of stormwater runoff is becoming more prevalent in urban planning. Best management practices are often required for new construction and stormwater entities, like Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation District, often seek to retrofit stormwater infrastructure to mitigate impacts to urban watersheds.  Management of stormwater inflows into urban watersheds may improve biotic use attainment, a major goal of regulatory organizations like the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. However, relatively little data is available on the water quality and biotic effectiveness (and necessary scale) of stormwater retrofit projects (Roy et al 2014).
Our project seeks to monitor changes in the fish community assemblage in a small urban watershed following a stormwater mitigation retrofit and assess whether fish movement changes in response stream hydrology using common, non-game taxa (e.g., Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus and Central Stoneroller Campostoma anomalum) that often compose the majority of fish biomass in headwater streams.
Stormsewer outfall of the Bechtold sewershed, Blue Ash, Ohio
Fish sampling in the outlet of Bechtold Sewershed
PIT tagged Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus
Scanning captured fish for PIT tags
Department of Biological Sciences
The Booth Lab at the University of Cincinnati is focused on understanding the aquatic world, particularly how movement and behavior of organisms (especially fishes) influences community and ecosystem processes. We are also interested in applied and basic science research that has implications for developing better methods for managing natural resources.