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GLERL What's New: 1999
Great Lakes Environmental Research
Laboratory
Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
Dr. John Gannon
US Geological Service
Great Lakes Science Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Protection and Restoration: Scientific
and
Policy Research Challenges and Opportunities"
Location: Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
2205 Commonwealth Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2945
Date: Tuesday, September 21st, 1999
Time: 11:00 am
Room: 105 (Main Conference Room)
Habitat protection and restoration is emerging as one of the top resource management issues in the Great Lakes along with toxic contaminants and exotic species. Yet, habitat continues to "fall between the cracks" scientifically between the fields of limnology and fisheries ecology and institutionally between water quality and fisheries resources management agencies. Habitat is defined as the physicochemical and biological characteristics where a particular species lives, but the 3-dimensional aspect of aquatic habitat and changes in habitat use seasonally and at different life history stages by most biota make aquatic habitat more difficult to investigate in comparison with wetland and terrestrial habitats. Research is needed to better define habitat usage by many aquatic species to assist resource agencies in identifying relatively "pristine" critical habitats for habitat protection and species management programs. Research opportunities are excellent for working on the rehabilitation of degraded habitats by taking advantage of new approaches being developed in wetland and terrestrial habitats from the comparatively new fields of ecological engineering and restoration ecology. From a Great Lakes policy perspective, it is encouraging that habitat is becoming the issue of common dialogue between the International Joint Commission and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission through their respective programs of Remedial Action Plans (RAPs) in the Areas of Concern (AoCs) and Fish Community Goals (FCGs).
For further information, please contact:
Steve Brandt
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
2205 Commonwealth Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2945
734-741-2244
stephen.b.brandt@noaa.gov
Last updated: September 19, 2002 mbl