Dr. Lembi is no longer accepting new graduate students into her program.

Carole Lembi’s laboratory has studied a number of issues integral to aquatic plant management, particularly those that deal with finding 1) more ecologically-friendly alternatives to herbicides/algicides and 2) solutions for difficult-to-control algal species.   Alternatives studied included plant growth regulators, barley straw, a bacterial biocontrol agent, and the herbivorous fish, the grass carp. Their studies on Pithophora (an algicide-tolerant alga that infests waters throughout the U.S.) and Nostoc (a cyanobacterium that infests California rice fields) form the basis for understanding the ecology of difficult-to-control mat-forming species and the potential for inserting control mechanisms into appropriate stages of the life cycle.

Her extension publications in the area of aquatic plant management are available at Extension Publications - Category: Aquatics