News & Events: Calendar of Events

May 9 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Biosecurity under uncertainty: the influence of information availability and quality on expert decision-making for risk outcomes"

Speaker: Dr. Alisha Dahlstrom, CILER Postdoctoral Fellow, Wayne State University

April 10 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Assessing Restoration Success in Muskegon Lake using Fish and Macrophytes"

Speakers: Dr. Carl Ruetz and Mary Ogdahl, Grand Valley State University, Annis Water Resources Institute

April 6 - Brown bag/seminar - Michigan Huron Room, Noon

Title: "Big questions about small things: bacteria, archaea, and their viruses"

Speakers: Dr. Vincent J. Denef, Assistant Professor,
Dr. Melissa B. Duhaime, Research Scientist, UM Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

March 16 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Development and application of an unmanned surface craft: a sample of the future"

Speaker: Dr. Chunyan Li, Associate Professor of the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University; Director of WAVCIS

March 14 - Tweet Chat event - 2:30pm

The amount of ice on the Great Lakes has implications for shipping, electric and water utilities, and also the region’s weather. On Wednesday, March 14, two GLERL scientists will take questions over Twitter about ice cover on the lakes over the past few months and on the long-term trends.

Join George Leshkevich and Jia Wang for the first-ever GLERL Tweet Chat

What: Use Twitter to chat directly with NOAA Great Lakes ice experts George Leshkevich and Jia Wang.

When: Wednesday, March 14 at 2:30 p.m. ET

How: Tweet questions to @NOAA_GLERL using hashtag #IceChat

To read a Q&A interview with GLERL ice researchers, click: http://researchmatters.noaa.gov/news/Pages/GLice.aspx

February 17 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "The Potential of Multiple Discriminant Analysis for Seasonal Snowfall Forecasting in the Continental United States"

Speaker: Dr Daria Kluver, Assistant Professor,
Central Michigan University

January 4 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Effects of increased water clarity on the catchability of fishes in Lake Erie due to Dreissenid activity "

Speaker: Dr. Martin Stapanian, Research Ecologist, USGS-GLSC-Lake Erie Biological Station

December 15 - Holiday potluck, 11:30-1pm; Happy Hour 4pm-?

December 14 - GLERL/CILER/Partners mini-retreat, 10am - 3pm

December 7 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30am

Title: "Earth's Eye: Observatory for Ecosystem Changes in Muskegon Lake"

Speaker: Dr. Bopi Biddanda, Associate Professor
Annis Water Resources Institute and Lake Michigan Center
Grand Valley State University

November 10 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30am

Title: "Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems: The evolution and future of a paradigm"

Speaker: Dr. Bradley Cardinale, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan

October 26 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30am

Title: "Developing a Great Lakes information management and delivery system to support landscape scale conservation"

Speaker: Dr. Scott Sowa, Senior Aquatic Ecologist,
The Nature Conservancy

October 5 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30am

Title: "Modeling Great Lakes Circulation and Ecosystem Responses Using FVCOM"

Speaker: Dr. Jia Wang, GLERL Ice Climatologist

September 28 - Red Cross Blood Drive at GLERL, Lake Superior Hall, 9-3

September 23 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 2pm

Title: "Stressor Gradients and Spatial Narratives: Linking Science, Stories, and Games in the St. Louis River Estuary"

Speaker: Dave Hart, GIS Specialist, Univ of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute

September 20 - Brown bag lunch - Michigan-Huron Room, 11:30 am

Title: "Ohio Coastal Atlas Project: Interactive Atlas and Use Case Map Viewers"

Speakers: John Watkins, PE
Chief, Ohio DNR Office of Coastal Management
&
Brian George
GIMS Specialist, Ohio DNR

September 13 - Seminar - Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Great Lakes GIS, the Lakebed Alteration Decision Support Tool and the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework: How spatial data are used to support assessment, classification and management of aquatic habitats"

Speakers: Jason Breck and Lacy Mason, UM SNRE and Insitute for Fisheries Research

August 30, 31 - GLERL Retreat in Alpena, MI

August 3 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Brazil´s Amazon Region Protected Areas Programme (ARPA): A success story of society´s involvement in biodiversity conservation"

Speaker: Marco Bueno, Environmental Analyst,
Amazon Region Protected Areas Programme (ARPA), Ministry of Environment of Brazil

July 20-21 - NOAA Science Advisory Board Meeting at GLERL

July 19 - Dr. Jane Lubchenco visits GLERL

2:15pm - NOAA Great Lakes Town Hall Meeting, Lake Superior Hall

Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator

July 6 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Effects of climate on circulation in Lake Tanganyika"

Speaker: Dr. Piet Verburg, Limnologist
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand

June 15 - CILER/GLERL Summer Fellows' Picnic

June 15 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:00 am

Title: "A Social Landscape Analysis of Land Use Decision Making in Coastal New Hampshire"

Speaker: Dr. Erika Washburn, Lakewide Management Plan Coordinator, NOAA/GLERL

May 17 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: 'Colonization dynamics and conservation in aquatic ecosystems'

Speaker: Dr. Abigal Fusaro, Research Associate, GLERL

April 19 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: 'Ice-lake models for Lake Erie: Sensitivity study of ice-water processes'

Speaker: Dr. Ayumi Fujisaki, Research Fellow
Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan

April 5 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: 'An Ecosystem-Based Risk Assessment of Mercury in the Great Lakes and Beyond'

Speaker: Dr. Nil Basu
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences
School of Public Health, University of Michigan

March 29 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: 'Background on Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab and Critical Issues Effecting Lake Erie'

Speaker: Jeffrey M. Reutter, Ph.D
Director Ohio Sea Grant College Program, F. T. Stone Laboratory, Center for Lake Erie Area Research (CLEAR), and Great Lakes Aquatic Ecosystem Research Consortium (GLAERC), The Ohio State University

March 10 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "Recent developments at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary"

Speaker: Russ Green, Deputy Superintendent
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Alpena, MI

February 23 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:30 am

Title: "A tale of two coasts: causes and consequences of cross-shelf thermal structure in Lake Michigan"

Cary Troy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Purdue University

February 8 - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall, 10:00 am

Title: "Hunting caribou hunters beneath Lake Huron"

Speaker: Guy Meadows, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering / Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Director, Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratories (MHL)
College of Engineering, University of Michigan

February 5

Great Lakes Bowl at UM SNRE

regional competition of the NOSB

January 6-7, 2011

Saginaw Bay Multistressors PI Meeting

December 14, 10:30 am - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall

Title: "Stressors dynamics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: using ecological theory for applied problems"

Speaker: David Costello, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan

November 30, 9-noon - Michigan-Huron Room

GLERL and GLOS (Great Lakes Observing Systems) host a visit from the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing

November 12, 9-11am - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall

Talk #1: "Invasive bivalves as ecosystem engineers"
Speaker: Alexander Karatayev, Director and Professor
Great Lakes Center, Buffalo State College - SUNY

Talk #2: "A century of change in a lake benthic community (Lake Mendota, Wisconsin)"
Speaker: Lyubov Burlakova, Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor
Great Lakes Center, Buffalo State College - SUNY

September 28, 10:30am - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall

Title: "Improving Barriers Against Great Lakes Sea Lamprey"
Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt, Associate Professor, Biology Department
Eastern Michigan University

September 23, 11am - Seminar, Lake Superior Hall

September 1, 10am - 2:30pm

August 5 - 10:30am, Seminar, Lake Superior Room

Title: "Predicting flows in ungauged basins: a probabilistic comparison of alternative regionalization schemes"
Speaker: Dr. Drew Gronewold, Ph.D. P.E.
GLERL Hydrologist

June 22 - 10:30am, Seminar, Lake Superior Rm

June 15 - 10am, All Hands Meeting with Dr. Sandy McDonald, OAR DAA

June 7 - Safety Training, Michigan-Huron Rm, 9am

June 1 - Safety Training, Michigan-Huron Rm, 9am

May 18 - IOOS Product Development Workshop Reception, 3-5pm

May 10 - Safety Training, Michigan-Huron Rm, 9am

April 22 - Lake Michigan Field Station

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco visits GLERL Field Station for
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Earth Day Tour

April 22 - 10:00 am - Lake Superior Conference Room

Seminar: "Gaps in understanding the Great Lakes: sucker runs as critical lake-tributary connections, and developing a basin-wide cumulative stress index"

Speaker: Dr. Peter McIntyre, Research Investigator
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan

April 1 - 10:00 am - Lake Superior Conference Room

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Mahon
Research Assistant Professor
Center for Aquatic Conservation
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame

March 24 - 10:30 am - Lake Superior Conference Room

Seminar: "Exploring the hydrodynamics of the shallow, saline Lake Neusiedl"
Speaker: Dr. Tamas Kramer
Visiting Research Scientist at GLERL and Associate Professor at the Department of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics

March 16

GLERL - UM Department of Atmospheric Oceanic & Space Sciences Information Exchange
Morning at AOSS (North Campus; Space Physics Research Lab)
Afternoon at GLERL

March 9 10:30 Seminar - Lake Superior Conference Rm

Title: "Drivers of Marine Invasibility"
Speaker: Dr. Emma L. Johnston
Australian Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer
Subtidal Ecology & Ecotoxicology
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

March 2-4 OAR HQ visit