Heili, Joseph2016-12-282016-12-282016https://hdl.handle.net/11299/183426To compete with large scale corporate rural farming, aquaponics must match their high efficiency. Two areas of interest for increasing efficiency are reduction of inputs and reducing waste removal. There are numerous unstudied bacteria that have the potential to create valuable micronutrients in the system by degrading harmful solid waste. A protocol to quickly determine the bacterial population diversity and dynamics of a system may provide a method of influencing the bacteria to increase efficiency.enPresentation