TONY WANG

Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research,
University of Windsor,
Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4
ph. (519) 253-3000 ext.
Fax (519) 971-3616
email: Tony

Supervisor(s): 
Dr. Hugh MacIsaac, Dr. Sarah Bailey

Hometown:    
Brampton, Ontario

Education:
University of Guelph B.Sc.
Honours Marine and Freshwater Biology                                                                                          

Research Title:                                                                                                             
Use of NaCl brine as a ballast tank treatment technology for transoceanic vessels entering the Great Lakes.

Research Summary:                                                                           
My research focuses on the use of NaCl brine to treat ballast tanks to eliminate all the organisms in the tanks. This method of treatment may be used as a back-up for vessels that could not comply with ballast water exchange regulation. Many non-indigenous species (NIS) are transported by ballast tanks and the point of treating the tanks is to prevent NIS from invading the Great Lakes. I will do experiments on six ballast on-board (BOB) ships and six no ballast on-board (NOBOB) ships and determine the viability of the organisms before and after the brine treatment to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment.