News & Events: Past Events for 2007

January 10 - 10:30 am

Speaker: Dr. Yi Luo, Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

January 11 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Hemimysis anomala - the newest Great Lakes invader"

Speaker: Steve Pothoven, Fishery Biologist, GLERL

January 23 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Making the connection between exposure and toxic response for aquatic organisms"

Speaker: Dr. Peter Landrum, Research Chemist, GLERL

January 24 - 11:30-1:30

NOSB volunteer training

February 1 - 11:30-1:30

NOSB volunteer training

February 6-7

2007 Regional Working Group Meeting (Brandt)

February 10 - NOSB Great Lakes Bowl

UM School of Natural Resources, 8am - 4pm

February 13, 14 (a.m. and p.m.)

EEO Training for federal staff

February 26 - March 2

Congressional Office Visits (Brandt, Sellinger, Quigley)

March 6,7

Congressional Great Lakes Breakfast and Great Lakes Day
(Washington, D.C.)

March 20 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Technology research and development in the marine instrumentation laboratory"

Speaker: Steven A. Ruberg, MSE
Observing Systems Researcher, NOAA-GLERL

March 22 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Hindcasting of estuarine bathymetric change with a tidal-timescale sediment transport model"

Speaker: Neil Kamal Ganju, Hydraulic Engineer
U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA

March 26-27

Ecological Impacts of Hypoxia on Living Resources Workshop
Bay St. Louis, MS

March 30

Dr. Peter Landrum's retirement party

April 11 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Linking environmental changes in the Great Lakes to economic values: invasive sea lamprey and habitat restoration"

Speaker: Dr. Frank Lupi, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University

April 16

Grand Haven City Council Meeting: CEGLHH Scientist Dr. Mike McCormick and Outreach Coordinator Sonia Joseph will present on CEGLHH's summer field research plans on the Grand River.

April 23-27

2007 Annual OHH Meeting - Woods Hole, MA

April 25

NOAA Great Lakes Regional Team Meeting at GLERL

April 30-May 1

Senior Research Council (SRC), at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington

May 3

Rouge River Water Festival

May 8

NOAA Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health and Michigan Sea Grant present the Michigan Harmful Algal Bloom Stakeholder Workshop - Bay City, MI

May 15 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Ramblings about algae - Part Two"

Speaker: Dr. Gary Fahnenstiel, Senior Ecologist
NOAA-GLERL Lake Michigan Field Station
Muskegon, MI

May 14-16

Great Lakes Commission 2007 Semiannual Meeting is being held at the Radisson Hotel City Centre Indianapolis - Indianapolis, Indiana

May 17-18

Erie, PA: Presque Isle State Park Advisory Board and local officials meeting on Beach Issues and Sanitary Surveys in Erie, Pennsylvania hosted by Pennsylvania Sea Grant. (CEGLHH)

May 22-25

American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2007 Joint Assembly is being held at the Acapulco Convention Center in Acapulco, Mexico

May 28 - June 1

IAGLR's 50th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research Hosted by Penn State - University Park, Penn

June 4 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Biodiversity of the Aral Sea and possible ways to rehabilitate and conserve its remnant water bodies"

Speaker: Dr. Nick Aladin, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia

June 6-8

IJC Biennial Meeting in Chicago, IL

June 12

White House awards

June 13 - Noon

Summer Fellows' welcome picnic

June 14 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Eastern Brook Trout Ecology: a Synthesis of Field, Laboratory and Modeling Studies "

Speaker: Dr. Kyle Hartman
Associate Professor, West Virginia University

June 19 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "The stability of a large river fish assemblage: a hierarchical approach to evaluating the influence of multiple ecological perturbations"

Speaker: Dr. Brent Murry
Postdoctoral Research Specialist, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

June 21 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Dreissenids mussel into the Great Lakes offshore benthic zone "

Speaker: Dr. Stephan Lozano
Ecologist, NOAA-GLERL

June 21 - 1:30 pm

Seminar: "Individual contributions to population structure and dynamics"

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Chizinski
Texas Tech University

July 3 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Distribution and activity of pelagic fish – acoustic studies in the Baltic Sea"

Speaker: Tomas Didrikas
Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden

July 12

GLERL/CILER picnic!

July 13 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Real-time monitoring experiences in the coastal waters in Korea: implementation and scientific application"

Speaker: Dr. Young Jae Ro
Department of Oceanography, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Republic of Korea

July 25 - 2:00 pm

Seminar: "Mid twenty-first century coastal restoration in a post-apocalyptic world"

Speaker: Dr. Mark Ford, Executive Director, Coalition to Restore Coastal LA

August 1 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Improving educators’ capacity to teach about the Great Lakes" & "Communicating for Sustainability: Insights from Psychology"

Speaker: Dr. Michaela Zint, Associate Professor of Environmental Education & Communication, School of Natural Resources and Environment & School of Education, University of Michigan

August 15 - 10:30 am

Seminar: "Climate change and the Great Lakes"

Speaker: Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of the UM School of Natural Resources and the Environment

September 8

"A Great Day in the Great Lakes!"
NOAA 200th Anniversary Celebration in the Great Lakes - John G. Shedd Aquarium Chicago, IL

September 18

Seminar: "Nutrient loading to Lake Michigan: a mass balance assessment"

Speaker: Dr. Haejin Han (Jinny)
Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources and Environment

September 18-19

Senior Research Council meeting - Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) - Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

September 25

Seminar: "Genetic and molecular approaches for assessing health of Great Lakes birds"

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Head, Environment Canada
National Wildlife Research Centre, Ottawa

October 22 - 24

2nd Annual OHHI Principal Investigators Meeting - Muskegon, MI

October 23 - 2:00 pm

Video: "Invaders from the Sea"

This documentary was produced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), in co-operation with the BBC and the shipping industry and was filmed by the BBC Wildvision. It won 1st place (gold) for the Best UN Feature Film at the 3rd UN Film Festival in April 2007. (49 minutes)

October 29

2007 Great Lakes Regional Data Exchange Conference
Westin Hotel - Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Council of Great Lakes Research Managers meeting at GLERL

November 19-20

EcoFore Workshop

2007 IJC Nearshore Framework Expert Consultation - Dearborn Inn

November 27 - 10:00 am

Seminar: "The relative influence of landscape configuration and inundation on brown shrimp production in northern Gulf of Mexico salt marshes"

Speaker: Dr. Brian Roth,
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Louisiana State University

November 29 - 10:00 am

Seminar: "Untangling the relationships between variability in the marine environment, population dynamics, and community structure"

Speaker: Dr. Brian Wells, Long Marine Laboratory,
University of California, Santa Cruz;
NOAA Fisheries, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz

SES Summit

December 10-14

GLERL/CILER Internal Proposals

December 13 - 10:00 am

Seminar: "Partitioning variation in fisheries data to help understand and manage aquatic ecosystems"

Speaker: Dr. Tyler Wagner, Quantitative Fisheries Center
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University

December 17

GLERL Groundbreaking Ceremony
Location: 4750 Venture Dr (mapquest pdf), 9:30 am

2:00pm - All Hands' Town Hall Meeting for GLERL staff with
NOAA VADM Lautenbacher

December 18-19

Multi-Stressors workshop