title: Examine colonizaition and succession of bacterial communities on suspended particles
design: Water samples were collected from nearshore Lake Superior (lake) and the Duluth-Superior Harbor (harbor). Both water samples were used to generate artificial aggregates and aggregate-free water. By placing lake aggregates into harbor water with different background bacterial numbers being incubated for several days, I examined bacterial richness on aggregates and determine whether the theory of island biogeography applies at the microscopic scale.