The heart of CABA’s aquatic research and student training program is a five-acre facility housing laboratories and aquatic animal containment resources. There is research and student training space for a wide range of programs, including fish ecology, reproduction, nutrition, genetics, endocrinology, disease and pathology, aquaculture engineering, aquatic toxicology, and general aquatic biology. About 15 species are under study at any one time.

Current projects:

Effects of environmental stressors on salmonids; Effects of diseases on captive and wild populations of fish; Sacramento perch restoration physiology; Green sturgeon physiological ecology; Juvenile-fish-compatible fish-screen development; Measuring stress in salvaged fish; Sacramento splittail biomarkers; Medaka endocrine disruption; Nutrient requirements of sturgeon, splittail, and striped bass; Selenium toxicity in sturgeon and splittail; Predator-prey freshwater ecology; Experimental study of interactions between invasive shrimp and fish; Apparent sex-reversal of male Chinook salmon; White and green sturgeons: Organic selenium toxicity and maternal transfer, Sex differentiation and gametogenesis, Captive breeding, and Temperature tolerance of embryos and larvae. 

Currently, these projects include 41 researchers, 36 undergraduate, and 38 graduate students.