During the 1990's, an annual survey of macroinvertebrate communities inhabiting the 5 streams flowing into the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was conducted by the U.S.  Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Morris County Soil Conservation District and Somerset-Union Soil Conservation District (SCS).

	Dr. Pollock and assistant

Professor Pollock has been teaching aquatic ecology at Drew for thirty years.  He has an extensive background in the identification of invertebrates in general, and marine ones in particular, with this work published in  A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America  (Rutgers University Press, 1998).  His published primary research deals with the systematics and ecology of the microscopic members of a phylum known as Tardigrada or “water bears” which live in marine beaches.  He is producing an internet-based Pictorial Key to the Families of Mayflies of Northern New Jersey, which he intends to be the first of a series of such identification aids for students and volunteer citizen monitors.

Professor Pollock is happy to receive comments or questions about this work via email.