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December 30,
2002
Contents
1. Great Lakes Oceanography
2. New Reprint - Ice
3. Science.gov makes research more accessible to the public
1. Great Lakes Oceanography
A field intensive 1-week course (May 4-11)will be taught at NOAA/GLERL's
Lake Michigan Field Station in Muskegon,MI. Students will participate
in a week long cruise aboard the R/V Laurentian using the latest
physical and biological oceanographic methods (e.g.,moored instrument
arrays,state-o -the-art profiling systems,etc.).The course will
focus on physical measurements,and
the dynamics of plankton and fish populations. This course is open
to advanced undergraduate and graduate students who want to experience
field sampling techniques in an offshore, open-water environment
of the Great Lakes. The instructors for this class are research
scientists at GLERL, and include Drs. Gary Fahnenstiel, Mike McCormick
and Steven Pothoven. Students should register fortwo credit hours
at their home institution. Accomodations will be provided free
of cost on the R/V Laurentian. All additional fees (lab, meals,
etc.)will be limited to $150, which the students will pay upon
their arrival at the Lake Michigan Field Station on May 4th between
7-8PM.
Despite the limited class size (12 students) we would like your
help in advertising the availability of this course broadly. I
have a pdf flyer posted off my main web page (www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant)
2. New Reprint - Ice
ASSEL, R.A. and D.C. NORTON. Twentieth Century trends in the ice
cover of the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America. Ice in the
Environment: Proceedings of the 16th IAHR International Symposium
on Ice, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 2-6, 2002. V. Squire and
P. Langhorne (Eds.), pp. 321-327 (2002).
3. Science.gov makes research more accessible to the public
Excerpt from press release By Amelia Gruber agruber@govexec.com
A new federal Web site aims to make scientific information gathered
by different agencies more accessible to the public. The site,
www.science.gov, is an offshoot of Firstgov.gov, and is especially
useful because it houses information under one roof from the multiple
agencies that perform scientific research, said Eleanor Frierson,
deputy director of the National Agricultural Library and co-chair
of the science.gov Alliance, the interagency group that created
the site.
"Science.gov provides the unique ability to search across
the content within databases as well as across Web sites," Frierson
said. "It shows that federal agencies can work together to
pull off
something that none of them could do individually."
The site, which is geared toward a wide audience that ranges from
academics to private business owners, offers a compilation of information
from 10 government agencies and 14 scientific and technical organizations.
The Agriculture, Commerce {including NOAA}, Defense, Education,
Energy, Health and Human Services and Interior departments, as
well as the Environmental
Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation, will
all offer information on the site.
Users can search for technical reports, journal citations, databases,
fact sheets and links to other federal Web sites by clicking on
one of 12 subject areas such as "agriculture and food"
or "health and medicine." Or they can complete a general
search across all subject areas. Access to the site is free and
does not require registration. "Science.gov aims to bring
the substantial resources of the federal science and technology
enterprise together in one place," said John Marburger, director
of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in
a statement.
"The site is a great example of e-government in action." |
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December 6,
2002
Contents:
1. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL - Seminar Postponed
2. NOAA/GLERL 2003 Internal Proposals
3. GLERL Web News - www.glerl.noaa.gov
4. GLERL PROFILE - David Fanslow - NOAA SCUBA diver and GLERL Lab
team member
5. New Faces at GLERL
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1. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL - Seminar Postponed
Dr. Mario N. Tamburri's seminar "Ballast Water Deoxygenation
Can Prevent Aquatic Introductions While Reducing Ship Corrosion"
originally scheduled for December 9 has been postponed until January.
2. NOAA/GLERL 2003 Internal Proposals
GLERL is nearing the end of its annual internal proposal review.
For the second year, GLERL has invited Sea Grant participation
in this review process. Phil Keillor (WI), George Carignan, and
John Schwartz (MI) were able to attend the intense 2 days of presentations
in Ann Arbor and many additional Sea Grant folks were invited to
review the written proposals on-line and provide
comments. Below is the list of proposals which have been submitted
- I can provide Sea Grant staff with copies of proposals, progress
reports (for continuing projects) and other information on request
-- just let me know which titles you want!
- Ice thickness data rescue
- Improved great lakes ice cover climatology
- Great lakes ice cycles
- Recent lake levels & precipitation in historical perspective
- Great Lakes Climate Change Hydrologic Impact Assessment
- Next Generation Large Basin Runoff Model
- Water Resources Decision Support
- Watershed - Great Lakes Interactions: Defining the Ecological
Footprint of the Muskegon
- River Watershed on Fisheries in Nearshore Lake Michigan
- The Impact of Episodic Events on Great Lakes Ecosystems (EEGLE)
- Lake Michigan Mass Balance - Fluxes of Carbon and Nutrients
- Florida ECOHAB
- Measurement and modeling of wave-induced sediment resuspension
in nearshore water
- Origin and maintenance of the benthic nepheloid layer (bnl)
- Sediment resuspension and transport in Lake Michigan
- Assessing Ecological Risks Posed by a Ballast Water Disinfectant
- Bioavailability of Sediment-Associated Toxic Organic Contaminants
- Contaminant Effects Using Body Residues as the Dose Metric
- CoastWatch Operations
- CoastWatch Research and Product Development
- Lake Erie Turbidity Database
- Rogue Waves and Explorations of Coastal Wave Characteristics
- Measurement and time-frequency study of nearshore wind, wave
and sediment resuspension processes
- Dynamical Modeling of Great Lakes Regional Climate
- Climate and Land Use Change Processes in East Africa
- Overlake Wind Events on Lake Erie
- Development of monitoring protocols for Great Lakes wetland
restoration
- Distribution and biomass of Dreissenids in Lake Erie
- Bioenergetic response of gag grouper to reef habitat configuration
- Quantifying the impact of exotic invertebrate invaders on food
web structure and function in the Great Lakes: Development of
network analysis tools
- Dynamics of Alewife Recruitment Variability in Lake Michigan
- Mechanisms affecting recruitment of yellow perch in Lake Michigan
- Development of a lake-wide acoustic monitoring program for
Lake Superior pelagic fishes, phase I: In situ relations of target
strength to fish size and target classification
- Modeling the influence of lake circulation patterns, upwelling
events and turbulence on fish recruitment variability in Lake
Michigan.
- Salmonid spawning stock abundance, recruitment and exploitation
in the Muskegon River
- Study group on fisheries acoustics in the Great Lakes
- Lake Champlain
- Thermal structure monitoring and related studies
- Long term trends in Benthic Populations in Lake Michigan
- Pelagic-Benthic Coupling in Nearshore Lake Michigan: Linking
Pelagic Inputs to Benthic Productivity
- Assessments of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the
Great Lakes region
- Ecology of Lake Whitefish and Response to Changes in Benthic
Communities in Lake Huron
- Development of a food web model (DOVE- Digital Organisms in
a Virtual Ecosystem) to examine problems concerning invasive
species
- New Bathymetry of the Great Lakes
- Computational Modeling of Ballast Tanks to Improve Understanding
and Maximize
- Effectiveness of Management Practices and Treatment Mechanisms
- Assessment of Transoceanic No-Ballast-On-Board (NOBOB) Vessels
and Low-Salinity
- Ballast Water as Vectors for Nonindigenous Species Introductions
to the Great Lakes Project
- Great lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Database
- Environmental Radiotracers
- Development and Testing of Instrumented Incubator-Emergence
Traps
- Great Lakes Observation System
- Lake Circulation Studies and the Great Lakes Coastal Forecast
System
- Real-time Meteorological Observation Network
- Hydrodynamic and Sediment Dynamics Modeling
- Climatology of the Physical Environment in Lake Erie
- Implications of Cercopagis and Bythotrephes to alewife recruitment
and stability of the Lake Michigan pelagic food web
- Changes in the pelagic food web of southern Lake Michigan:
A food web under stress from non-indigenous species?
- The role of zebra mussels in promoting Microcystis blooms and
other ecosystem changes in Saginaw Bay and in Lake Erie
3. GLERL Web News - www.glerl.noaa.gov
GLERL's web team continues to strive to develop and improve the
GLERL web site. Several new features have been added recently which
may be of interest. We have a new search engine, powered by FirstGov
which offers many improvements over our previous search utility.
On the GLERL web pages, the search button is on the upper right,
above the header bar. Each GLERL researcher now has a Researcher
Profile page featuring contact information, recent publications,
research interests, background and current research projects. Profiles
can be accessed by clicking on the GLERL Research by Researcher
link in the Research area (www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/).
Real-time data accounts for over 50% of the non-GLERL visits to
the web site. We have recently
expanded on data available via the GLERL web - check it out at www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/
4. GLERL PROFILE - David Fanslow - NOAA SCUBA diver and GLERL
Lab team member
Reprinted with author's permission from GLERL NOTES
When I first came to GLERL, Tom Nalepa was looking for a person
who could take care of his field-work program, which included becoming
a NOAA SCUBA diver and performing laboratory analyses. After 11
field seasons supporting Tom Nalepa, research is still my primary
duty. This year my research included approximately 30 days of travel
to Muskegon, Milwaukee, Cheboygan,
and various other ports to collect benthic (lake bottom) samples
from the Laurentian, the Shenehon, the Lake Guardian, and the Cyclops.
When I'm not chasing after samples, I perform microgravimetric
lipid assays on Diporeia, CHN elemental analysis on sediment and
Diporeia, chorophyll extraction on sediment, and ETS (electron
transport system, a.k.a "Krebs cycle") analysis on Diporeia.
The purpose of these analyses is to provide information about the
health of the Diporeia to better understand the extensive decline
in their abundance.
This past year my secondary duty was as a SCUBA diver and field
support person for the newly established NOS Thunder Bay National
Marine Sanctuary (TBNMS). As the only formally trained NOAA certified
diver available in the region, I was designated Unit Diving Supervisor
and given responsibility for all aspects of SCUBA operations at
TBNMS. This included the training and
certification, according to NOAA standards, to form a fully operational
three-person dive team. Tasks have included buoy installations,
a diver evacuation drill with full participation of local emergency
responders, preliminary archaeological surveys of shipwrecks, support
of ROV dives with one dive broadcast over the internet, and this
week (11/13/02) a water sample collection
from a karst formation thought to be releasing groundwater directly
into the lake.
5. New Faces at GLERL
Dennis Schornack, newly appointed chair of the U.S. section of
the International Joint Commission, and his assistant John Nevin
now have an office at GLERL
Stephen Schneider, Managing Editor of the Journal of Great Lakes
Research for IAGLR has taken up residence in GLERL.
Dr. Stuart Ludsin joined GLERL as a federal research scientist,
working with Dr. Brandt on a NOAA-COP project on Ecosystem Forecasting
in Chesapeake Bay. His research explores mechanisms that regulate
fish population and community dynamics and seeks to apply ecological
understanding to management/conservation problems in aquatic systems.
Nate Bosch, an incoming PhD candidate at the University of Michigan
is currently completing a research fellowship with Dr. Tom Johengen
doing nutrient analyses on the NOBOB ballast-residual study.
Jessica Bleha (B.S. University of Michigan) will be helping to
process trap samples from Lake Michigan through the end of February
(when she leaves for graduate work in Australia).
Erin Cooney, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan is
working with Hank Vanderploeg to convert tabulated files on phytoplankton
species composition of Saginaw Bay into electronic format for later
statistical and modelling studies (funded by U of M work/study). |
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November 26,
2002
NOAA GREAT LAKES SEMINAR SERIES
[Co-sponsored by the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
(GLERL), the University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for
Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), and the Great Lakes
Sea Grant Network].
Wednesday, December 4 - 2:00 p.m.
"Sediment Transport Modeling, with Application to Lake Michigan"
Dr. Mary Cardenas, Associate Professor of Engineering, Harvey Mudd
College, Claremont, California. Abstract not available.
Monday, December 9 - 2:00 p.m.
"Ballast Water Deoxygenation Can Prevent Aquatic Introductions
While Reducing Ship Corrosion"
Dr. Mario N. Tamburri, Chief Scientist, Alliance for Coastal Technologies,
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory , University of Maryland Center
for Environmental Science
Abstract: One of the most important mechanisms for the introduction
of aquatic nuisance species is transport in ship ballast waters.
Although several ballast tank treatments to prevent transport of
aquatic organisms appear promising, all existing approaches will
result in significant costs to the shipping industry. This seminar
will describe a treatment that can dramatically reduce the survivorship
of most organisms found in ballast waters while providing economic
benefits to ship owners.
Purging of oxygen from ballast tanks with nitrogen was recently
found to be a cost-effective technique for reducing corrosion and
therefore extending ship life. We tested the tolerance of larvae
of known invasive invertebrate species to low levels of oxygen,
comparable to those resulting from this anticorrosion treatment,
and detected significant levels of mortality. Two separate literature
reviews further support the conclusion that few organisms will
be able to withstand extended periods of exposure to nitrogen treated
ballast water. This novel deoxygenation technique may therefore
have direct benefits to both marine conservation and the shipping
industry. Currently investigation are being initiated to optimize
the oxygen stripping process, to examine Microbially Influenced
Corrosion under hypoxia, and to examine deoxygenations's effectiveness
at removing ballast water organisms onboard active vessels. |
November 18,
2002
Contents:
1. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL
2. New Reprints - Circulation & Photosynthesis
1. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL
All GLERL seminars can be recorded for viewing by Sea Grant staff
on request.
Thursday, November 21st @ 10:30 AM
Western Lake Erie Monitoring and Eco-Informatics at the Lake Erie
Center, University of Toledo
Tom Bridgeman & Neela Akhouri
The Lake Erie Center was established in 1998 as a multidisciplinary
center dedicated to exploring the linkages between land use and
water quality in the western catchment of Lake Erie. In 2002, a
two-part program was established to help fulfill this mission:
I. To monitor the water quality of Maumee Bay and the southwest
portion of the Western Basin. II. To establish an interactive database
of historic and current data on the Maumee River catchment, Maumee
Bay, and western Lake Erie. This seminar will provide an introduction
to the Lake Erie Center, including research facilities available
to collaborating scientists. We will also present the preliminary
results of monitoring efforts in 2002 with conclusions that may
have relevance for the "dead zone" phenomenon in Lake
Erie. Finally, we will present a prototype of the environmental
database.
2. New Reprints - Circulation & Photosynthesis
McCORMICK, M.J., G.S. MILLER, C.R. Murthy, Y.R. Rao, and J.H.
SAYLOR. Tracking coastalflow with surface drifters during the epispodic
events Great Lakes experiment. Verh. Internat. Verin. Limnol. 28:365-269
(2002).
FAHNENSTIEL, G.L., C. Beckmann, S.E. Lohrenz, D.F.Millie, O.M.E.
Schofield, and M.J. McCORMICK. Standard Niskin and Van Dorn bottles
inhibit phytoplankton photosynthesis in Lake Michigan. Verh. Internat.
Verin. Limnol. 28:376-380 (2002). |
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November 8,
2002
NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series - Climate
Thursday, November 14 at 2:00 p.m.
"Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Variability through Integrated
Assessments: CLIMAS and Seasonal Forecasts"
presented by
Holly C. Hartmann, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources,
University of Arizona - Tucson
For abstract, check: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/news/seminars/
Contact: Dr. Brent Lofgren |
October 31,
2002
Contents:
1. GLERL in the News: Climate
2. MIL - Automated observing systems
3. Copepod Research Presentations
4. Ship News
5. New faces
6. New Reprints
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1. GLERL in the News: Climate
This week, Earthwatch Radio is featuring a story - "Memories
of Great Lakes"with comments by GLERL meteorologist Brent
Lofgren. Story is listed at: http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/earthwatch/program.asp?ProgramID=3322
2. MIL - Automated observing systems
GLERL's Marine Instrumentation Laboratory (MIL) is developing
the first Great Lakes observatory ustilizing wireless/internet
technology at the Lake Michigan Field Station in Muskegon. When
fully developed, the observatory will provide chemical, physical
and biological data to support long-term research. The goal of
this project is to put in place the infrastructure needed to simplify
sensor deployment and data acquisition with the goal of providing
information that is accessible to scientific researchers, educators
and the public. This data will be available to the scientific and
educational community via the internet through real-time broadcasts.
Over the summer, GLERL staff deployed and tested two vertical profilers
with instrumented tripods and a fixed direction communication mooring
for over 30 days. More information can be found at: www.glerl.noaa.gov/mil/profiler.html and
http://pcrealtime.glerl.noaa.gov/tripods/
3. Copepod Research Presentations
Hank Vanderploeg gave an invited presentation of results at the
8th International Conference on Copepoda in Keelung Taiwan titled
"The effects of oligotrophication, interannual variability
in weather, and nonindigenous fishes and intevertebrates on the
copepod community of Lake Michigan." Gretchen Messnick of
NOS Cooperative Oxford Laboratory, who has been working with Hank
on the 'zooplankton tumor problem' presented a paper 'Histological
Characteristics of Abnormal Protrusions in Copepods from Michigan
Lakes'. This paper has also been submitted to the journal, Zoological
Studies.
4. Ship News
Th addition of the RV/Laurentian to the NOAA 'fleet' on the Great
Lakes has greatly increased the amount of shipboard time available
for research this summer. Several improvements have been made to
the Laurentian including addition of a second conductive cable
winch, a reconfigured wet lab, and an electronic charting display
so that crew can view ship speed, track lines and ETA to the next
station from the lab. Renovation of the Shenehon was also completed,
just months prior to her 50th anniversary. Small boat usage is
also up with the addition of an A-frame and winch to the Cyclops
which increases versatility and capability for larger trawls, net
tows and towed electronic instruments. The mix of shipboard projects
has also been more diverse than in recent years, with more work
in the areas of fisheries, ROVs, towed cameras, side scan sonar,
bottom coring and dive operations. Much of the work in Alpena (aboard
the Shenehon) is in support of archaeological efforts at the National
Marine Sanctuary and the Laurentian was employed to explore an
unknown wreck (originally thought to be the Chicora) in Lake Michigan.
The Shenehon is now out of the water for the season.
5. New faces
Dr. Mary Cardenas joins GLERL as a visiting scientist. Dr. Cardenas
is on sabbatical from the Engineering Department at Harvey Mudd
College in Claremont, CA. She will be working with Dave Schwab
and Dmitry Beletsky on computer modeling of sediment dynamics in
Lake Michigan.
Dr. Cheegwan Lee joins GLERL as a National Research Council Fellow.
Dr. Lee recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin and
will be working with Dave Schwab, Nathan Hawley and Brian Eadie
on sediment dynamics.
David Merkley is a CILER employee pursuing his PhD at the University
of MI working on assessment of wetlands of southeastern lower Michigan.
David is working with Steve Lozano on wetlands protocol development
for the recovery of estuaries (including Great Lakes estuaries).
6. New Reprints
Bogdan, J.J., J.W. Budd, B.J. EADIE, and K.C. Hornbuckle. The
effect of a large resuspension event in southern Lake Michigan
on the short-term cycling of organic contaminants. Journal of Great
Lakes Research 28(3):338-351 (2002).
CROLEY, T.E. II, and C. He. Great Lakes large basin runoff model.
Proceedings, Second Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference,
Subcommittee on Hydrology of the Interagency Advisory Committee
on Water Data, Las Vegas, NC, July 28-August 1, 2002, 12 pp. (2002).
CROLEY, T.E. II, and R.A. ASSEL. Great Lakes evaporation model
sensitivities and errors. Proceedings, Second Federal Interagency
Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Subcommittee on Hydrology of the
Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, Las Vegas, NC, July
28-August 1, 2002, 12 pp. (2002).
CROLEY, T.E. II. Evaluation of NOAA climate outlooks in extended
Great Lakes water levels forecasts. Proceedings, Conference on
Water Resources Planning and Management, Roanoke, VA, May 19-22,
2002. Environmental Water Resources Institute, American Society
of Civil Engineers, Washington, DC, 10 pp. (2002).
EADIE, B.J., D.J. SCHWAB, T.H. JOHENGEN, P. J. Lavrentyev, G.S.
MILLER, R.E. Holland, G.A. LESHKEVICH, M.B. LANSING, N.R. MOREHEAD,
J.A. ROBBINS, N. HAWLEY, D.N. Edgington, and P.L. VanHoof. Particle
transport, nutrient cycling, and algal community structure associated
with a major winter-spring sediment resuspension event in southern
Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 28(3):324-337 (2002).
GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. Aquatic invasive
species (AIS) and the Great Lakes: simple questions, complex answers.
NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor,
MI, 2 pp. (2002).
GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. Exotic, invasive,
alien, nonindigenous, or nuisance species: no matter what you call
them, they're a growing problem. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 2 pp. (2002).
Hancock, G., D.N. Edgington, J.A. ROBBINS, J.N. Smith, G. Brunskill,
and J. Pfitzner. Workshop on Radiological Techniques in Sedimentation
Studies: Methods and Applications. In Environmental Changes and
Radioactive Tracers. Proceedings of the South Pacific Environmental
Radioactivity Association (SPERA) 2000, J.M. Fernandez and R. Fichez
(Eds.). IRD Editions, Paris, France, pp. 233-251 (2002).
He, C., and T.E. CROLEY II. A development framework for two-dimensional
large basin operational hydrologic models. Proceedings, Second
Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Subcommittee
on Hydrology of the Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data,
Las Vegas, NC, July 28-August 1, 2002, 12 pp. (2002).
LESHKEVICH, G.A., and S.V. Nghiem, B.M. Lesht, and N. HAWLEY.
Using wave statistics to drive a simple sediment transport model.
Proceedings, Fourth International Symposium Waves 2001, San Francisco,
CA, September 2-6, 2001, pp. 1366-1375 (2001).
Lesht, B.M., J.R. Stroud, M.J. McCCORMICK, G.L. FAHNENSTIEL, M.L.
Stein, L.R. Welty, and G.A. LESHKEVICH. An event-driven phytoplankton
bloom in southern Lake Michigan observed by satellite. Geophysical
Research Letters 29(8):18-1 to 18-4 (2002).
Madenjian, C.P., G.L. FAHNENSTIEL, T.H. JOHENGEN, T.F. NALEPA,
H.A. VANDERPLOEG, G.W. Fleischer, P.J. Schneeberger, D.M. Benjamin,
E.B. Smith, J.R. Bence, E.S. Rutherford, D.S. Lavis, D.M. Robertson,
D.J. Jude, and M.P. Ebener. Dynamics of the Lake Michigan food
web,1970-2000. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
59:746-753 (2002).
Millie, D. F., G.L. FAHNENSTIEL, H.J. Carrick, S.E. Lohrenz, and
O.M.E. Schofield. Phytoplankton pigments in coastal Lake Michigan:
Distributions during the spring isothermal period and relation
with episodic sediment resuspension. Journal of Phycology 38:639-648
(2002).
Mulsow, S., P.F. LANDRUM, and J.A. ROBBINS. Biological mixing
responses to sublethal concentrations of DDT in sediments by Heteromastus
filiformis using a 137Cs marker layer technique. Marine Ecology
Progress Series 239:181-191 (2002).
MUZZI, R.W., and B.J. EADIE. The design and performance of a sequencing
sediment trap for lake research. Marine Technology Society Journal
36(2):23-28 (2002).
QUINN, F.H. Secular changes in Great Lakes water level seasonal
cycles. Journal of Great Lakes Research 28(3):451-465 (2002). Radar
remote sensing of Great Lakes ice cover. Proceedings, 2002 IEEE
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium and the 24th
Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, June 24-28, 2002, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada (2002).
REID D.F. and M.I. Orlova. Geological and evolutionary underpinnings
for the success of Ponto-Caspian species invasions in the Baltic
Sea and North American Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences 59:1144-1159 (2002).
VANDERPLOEG, H.A., T.F. NALEPA, D.J. Jude, E.L. Mills, K.T. Holeck,
J.R. LIEBIG, I.A. Grigorovich, and H. Ojaveer. Dispersal and emerging
ecological impacts of Ponto-Caspian species in the Laurentian Great
Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:1209-1228
(2002). |
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October 18,
2002
Contents:
1. New ballast water exchange modeling project funded
2. Six Month Publications Update April 2002 - September 2002
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1. New ballast water exchange modeling project funded
A $0.5M proposal developed by David Reid in collaboration with
the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (West Bethesda,
MD) was successful against a field of over 40 competing proposals
received by NOAA Headquarters in response to a national RFP for
ballast water treatment projects. The new project, titled "Computational
Modeling of Ballast Tanks to Improve Understanding and Maximize
Effectiveness of Management Practices and Treatment Mechanisms"
involves computer-based computational fluid dynamics modeling and
scale model experimental validation to study the flow dynamics
and predict the efficacy of the flow-through exchange method as
a ballast water management and treatment practice.
Ballast water discharge is considered to be the number one mechanism
responsible for the exponentially increasing successful invasions
of aquatic species into coastal ecosystems. There are more than
45,000 commercial cargo vessels operating on the world's oceans.
Mid-ocean ballast water exchange (BWE) is presently the primary
management practice with widespread acceptance for reducing or
preventing the spread of nonindigenous aquatic species via ballast
water. Although efforts are underway to replace ballast exchange
with technology-based treatment systems, ballast exchange will
likely continue for the foreseeable future and may ultimately be
combined with some other technologies and management approaches.
Therefore, it is essential to fully understand the ballast exchange
process and what occurs inside a ballast tank during exchange.
Attempts to experimentally determine the effectiveness of BWE
have produced inconsistent and generally unsatisfying results.
Conducting on-board experiments during exchange is complex, labor
intensive, time consuming, and only allows one shot at successfully
detecting the relevant conditions inside the tank. Logistics of
sampling the conditions inside a large compartmentalized ballast
tank make it very difficult to resolve internal fluid dynamics
and flow structures in these tanks. Additional experiments are
usually delayed until the ship has another ocean crossing, which
could be weeks later. Ship schedules are subject to change and
often on short notice, thus disrupting planned experiments. These
difficulties have limited the experimental design and resolution
of sampling needed to determine exchange effectiveness. The GLERL-Carderock
proposal suggested that an approach utilizing computer-based modeling
of the flow dynamics in ballast tanks makes sense and could provide
several advantages over the experimental approaches to date, as
well as enhancing understanding of experimental results.
The ballast water exchange proposal will build on the experience
gained by the Navy modelers over the last six years. We anticipate
that the results of the proposed work may help explain the variable
results of ballast water exchange experiments documented to date,
improve the design of such experiments, lead to ballast tank modification
recommendations to improve overall ballast water exchange effectiveness,
minimize deadspots, and reduce sediment deposition and accumulation,
thus reducing the threat of coastal invasive species being discharged
in our coastal ecosystems.
The new project will start in early FY2003.
2. Six Month Publications Update April 2002 - September 2002
To receive copies of any of these publications, please e-mail: Cathy.Darnell@noaa.gov.
ASSEL, R. A., D. C. NORTON, and K. C. CRONK. A Great Lakes ice
cover digital data set for winters 1973-2000. NOAA Technical Memorandum
GLERL-121, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor,
MI, 45 pp. (2002).
ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/tech_reports/glerl-121
Bogdan, J. J., J. W. Budd, B. J. EADIE, and K. C. Hornbuckle.
The effect of a large resuspension event in southern Lake Michigan
on the short-term cycling of organic contaminants. Journal of Great
Lakes Research 28(3):338-351 (2002).
BRANDT, S. B., D. M. MASON, M. J. McCORMICK, B. M. LOFGREN, T.
S. HUNTER, and J. A. TYLER. Climate change: implications for fish
growth performance in the Great Lakes. American Fisheries Society
Symposium 32:61-76 (2002).
Bundy, M. H., and H. A. VANDERPLOEG. Detection and capture of
inert particles by calanoid copepods: the role of the feeding current.
Journal of Plankton Research 24(3):215-223 (2002).
CARTER, G. S. Environmental assessment of the benthic macroinvertebrate
community of Muskegon Lake, MI 1999 and evaluation of changes since
1972. Masters Thesis, University of Michigan, School of Natural
Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, 67 pp. (2002).
Chen, C., R. Ji, D. J. SCHWAB, D. BELETSKY, G. L. FAHNENSTIEL,
M. Jiang, T. H. JOHENGEN, H. A. VANDERPLOEG, B. J. EADIE, J. W.
Budd, M. H. Bundy, W. Gardner, J. Cotner, and P. Lavrentyev. A
model study of the coupled biological and physical dynamics in
Lake Michigan. Ecological Modeling 152:145-168 (2002).
CROLEY, T. E. II. Evaluation of NOAA climate outlooks in extended
Great Lakes water levels forecast. Proceedings, Conference on Water
Resources Planning and Management, Roanoke, VA, May 19-22, 2002.
Environmental Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil
Engineers, Washington, DC, 10 pp. (2002).
CROLEY, T. E. II. Large basin runoff model. Chapter 17. In Mathematical
Models of Large Watershed Hydrology, V. Singh, D. Frevert and S.
Meyer Eds., Water Resources Publications, Highlands Ranch, CO,
pp. 717-770 (2002).
CROLEY, T. E. II, and R. A. ASSEL. Great Lakes evaporation model
sensitivities and errors. Proceedings, Second Federal Interagency
Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Subcommittee on Hydrology of the
Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, Las Vegas, NV, July
28-August 1, 2002. 12 pp. (2002).
CROLEY, T. E. II, and C. He. Great Lakes large basin runoff model.
Proceedings, Second Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference,
Subcommittee on Hydrology of the Interagency Advisory Committee
on Water Data, Las Vegas, NV, July 28-August 1, 2002. 12 pp. (2002).
EADIE, B. J., D. J. SCHWAB, T. H. JOHENGEN, P. J. LAVRENTYEV,
G. S. MILLER, R. E. Holland, G. A. LESHKEVICH, M. B. LANSING, N.
R. MOREHEAD, J. A. ROBBINS, N. HAWLEY, D. N. Edgington, and P.
L. VAN HOOF. Particle transport, nutrient cycling, and algal community
structure associated with a major winter-spring sediment resuspension
event in southern Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research
28(3):324-337 (2002).
Fritz, H. M., and P. C. LIU. An application of wavelet transform
analysis to landslide-generated impulse waves. Proceedings, Fourth
International Symposium Waves 2001, San Francisco, CA, September
2-6, 2001. American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 1477-1486 (2001).
GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. Aquatic Invasive
Species (AIS) and the Great Lakes: Simple Questions, Complex Answers.
NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor,
MI, 2 pp. (2002). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/
GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. Exotic, invasive,
alien, nonindigenous, or nuisance species: No matter what you call
them, they're a growing problem. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 2 pp. (2002). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/
GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. Met Stations and
Web Cams. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory,
Ann Arbor, MI, 2 pp. (2002). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/
GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. Selected projects
of GLERL's Marine Instrumentation Laboratory. NOAA, Great Lakes
Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 2 pp. (2002).
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/
Hancock, G., D. N. Edgington, J. A. ROBBINS, J. N. Smith, G. Brunskill,
and J. Pfitzner. Workshop on radiological techniques in sedimentation
studies: methods and applications. In Environmental Changes and
Radioactive Tracers. Proceedings of the South Pacific Environmental
Radioactivity Association (SPERA) 2002, J.M. Fernandez and R. Fichez
(Eds.), IRD Editions, Paris, France, pp. 232-251 (2002).
He, C., and T. E. CROLEY II. A development framework for two-dimensional
large basin operational hydrologic models. Proceedings, Second
Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, subcommittee
on Hydrology of the Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data,
Las Vegas, NV, July 28-August 1, 2002. 12 pp. (2002).
Holcombe, T. L., J. S. Warren, D. F. REID, W. T. Virden, and D.
L. Divins. Small rimmed depression in Lake Ontario: An impact crater?
Journal of Great Lakes Research 27(4):510-517 (2001).
Ji, R., C. Chen, J. W. Budd, D. J. SCHWAB, D. BELETSKY, G. L.
FAHNENSTIEL, T. H. JOHENGEN, H. A. VANDERPLOEG, B. J. EADIE, J.
Cotner, W. Gardner, and M. Bundy. Influences of suspended sediments
on the ecosystem in Lake Michigan: A 3-D coupled bio-physical modeling
experiment. Ecological Modeling 152:169-190 (2002).
LANDRUM, P. F., M. L. GEDEON, G. A. Burton, M. S. Greenberg, and
C. D. Rowland. Biological responses of Lumbriculus variegatus exposed
to fluoranthene spiked sediment. Archives of Environmental Contamination
and Toxicology 42:292-302 (2002).
LANDRUM, P. F., and J. P. Meador. Is the body residue a useful
dose metric for assessing toxicity? SETAC Globe May-June:32-34
(2002).
Lee, J.-H., P. F. LANDRUM, and C.-H. Koh. Prediction of time-dependent
PAH toxicity in Hyalella azteca using a damage assessment model.
Environmental Science and Technology 36:3131-3138 (2002).
Lee, J.-H., P. F. LANDRUM, and C.-H. Koh. Toxicokinetics and time-dependent
PAH toxicity in the amphipod Hyalella azteca. Environmental Science
and Technology 36:3124-3130 (2002).
LESHKEVICH, G. A., and S. V. Nghiem. Radar remote sensing of Great
Lakes ice cover. Proceedings, 2002 IEEE International Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium and the 24th Canadian Symposium on
Remote Sensing, Toronto, Canada, June 24-28, 2002. Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, NJ, 1 pp.
(2002).
Lesht, B. M., and N. HAWLEY. Using wave statistics to drive a
simple sediment transport model. Proceedings of the Fourth International
Symposium on Waves 2001, San Francisco, CA, September 2-6, 2001.
American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 1366-1375 (2001).
Lesht, B. M., J. R. Stroud, M. J. McCORMICK, G. L. FAHNENSTIEL,
M. L. Stein, L. J. Welty, and G. A. LESHKEVICH. An event-driven
phytoplankton bloom in southern Lake Michigan observed by satellite.
Geophysical Research Letters 29(8):18-1 to 18-4 (2002).
LIU, P. C., and N. HAWLEY. Wave grouping characteristics in nearshore
Great Lakes II. Ocean Engineering 29:1415-1425 (2002).
LOFGREN, B. M. Global warming influences on water levels, ice,
and chemical and biological cycles in lakes: some examples. American
Fisheries Society Symposium 32:15-22 (2002).
Lotufo, G. R., and P. F. LANDRUM. The influence of sediment and
feeding on the elimination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
in the freshwater amphipod, Diporeia spp. Aquatic Toxicology 58:137-149
(2002).
Madenjian, C. P., G. L. FAHNENSTIEL, T. H. JOHENGEN, T. F. NALEPA,
H. A. VANDERPLOEG, G. W. Fleischer, P. J. Schneeberger, D. M. Benjamin,
E. B. Smith, J. R. Bence, E. S. Rutherford, D. S. Lavis, D. M.
Robertson, D. J. Jude, and M. P. Ebener. Dynamics of the Lake Michigan
food web, 1970-2000. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences 59:736-753 (2002).
Millie, D. F., G. L. FAHNENSTIEL, H. J. Carrick, S. E. Lohrenz,
and O. M. E. Schofield. Phytoplankton pigments in coastal Lake
Michigan: Distributions during the spring isothermal period and
relation with episodic sediment resuspension. Journal of Phycology
38:639-648 (2002).
Mori, N., P. C. LIU, and T. Yasuda. Analysis of freak wave measurements
in the Sea of Japan. Ocean Engineering 29:1399-1414 (2002).
Mulsow, S., P. F. LANDRUM, and J. A. ROBBINS. Biological mixing
responses to sublethal concentrations of DDT in sediments by Heteromastus
filiformis (capitellidae) using a 137Cs marker layer technique.
Marine Ecology Progress Series 239:181-191 (2002).
MUZZI, R. W., and B. J. EADIE. The design and performance of a
sequencing sediment trap for lake research. Marine Technology Society
Journal 36(2):23-28 (2002).
NALEPA, T. F., D. L. FANSLOW, M. B. LANSING, G. A. LANG, M. FORD,
G. GOSTENIK, and D. J. HARTSON. Abundance, biomass, and species
composition of benthic macroinvertebrate populations in Saginaw
Bay, Lake Huron, 1987-96. NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL-122,
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 32
pp. (2002). ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/publications/tech_reports/glerl-122
QUINN, F. H. Secular changes in Great Lakes water level changes.
Journal of Great Lakes Research 28(3):451-465 (2002).
REID, D. F., and M. I. Orlova. Geological and evolutionary underpinnings
for the success of ponto-caspian species invasions in the Baltic
Sea and North American Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences 59:1144-1158 (2002).
RUBERG, S. A., H. A. VANDERPLOEG, J. F. CAVALETTO, G. A. LANG,
J. R. LIEBIG, T. C. MILLER, and M. AGY. Plankton survey system.
Proceedings of the Oceans 2001 MTS/IEEE Conference, Honolulu, HI,
November 5-8, 2001. Marine Technology Society, Washington, DC,
pp. 1899-1903 (2001).
Schloesser, D. W., and T. F. NALEPA. Comparison of 5 benthic samplers
to collect burrowing mayfly nymphs (Hexagenia spp: Ephemeroptera:Ephemeridae)
in sediments of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Journal of the North
American Benthological Society 21(3):487-501 (2002).
Steevens, J. A., and P. F. LANDRUM. Development of a biological-effects-based
approach to assess the significance of contaminant bioaccumulation.
ERDC/TN EEDP-01-48, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development
Center, EEDP Technical Notes Collection, 9 pp. (2002).
VANDERPLOEG, H. A., T. F. NALEPA, D. J. Jude, E. L. MILLS, K.
T. HOLECK, J. R. LIEBIG, I. A. Grigorovich, and H. Ojaveer. Dispersal
and emerging ecological impacts of Ponto-Caspian species in the
Laurentian Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences 59:1209-1228 (2002).
ZHU, Y., and B. M. LOFGREN. Spatially distributed water surface
temperature modeling for the Great Lakes. Proceedings, 14th Conference
on Hydrology, Dallas, TX, January 10-15, 1999. American Meteorological
Society, pp. 431-434 (1999). |
October 8,
2002
Contents:
1. Two New GLERL Fact Sheets
2. GLERL Display at ANS Prevention Day in Lansing
3. New reprint - Freak Waves
4. Brandt receives Presidential Rank Award
5. Reid and Eadie receive NOAA Bronze Medal Awards
_______________________________________________
1. Two New GLERL Fact Sheets
"Met Stations and WebCams" provides information of the
Real-time Meteorological Observations Network operated by GLERL
on Lake Michigan. Real-time information from 6 stations around
southern Lake Michigan is available on-line via this system. See
also:
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/
"Selected Projects of GLERL's Marine Instrumentation Laboratory"
is a good introduction to MIL - the GLERL laboratory which designs
and creates the instruments which GLERL scientists use in our
most cutting-edge research projects. Three projects are profiled
- the plankton survey system, Lake Michigan Wireless Environmental
Observatory, and the sequential sediment sampler. MIL is a dynamic
subgroup here at GLERL - with Great opportunities for collaboration
on both research and outreach projects. See also: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/products/techdev/TechDevelop.html
Fact sheets are available in pdf formats at http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/
Limited quantities can be printed here for distribution via Sea
Grant if you have specific audiences that you feel would benefit
from this information (contact Rochelle
Sturtevant).
2. GLERL Display at ANS Prevention Day in Lansing
GLERL scientists participated in ANS Prevention Day at the state
capitol in East Lansing. A new display focusing on ANS research
was created for the event and the entire suite of GLERL ANS-related
fact sheets was updated - along with the creation of several new
fact sheets. The new fact sheets are not yet available on the GLERL
website - I'll be sure to let you know as soon as they are available
on-line.
3. New reprint - Freak Waves
Mori, N., P.C. LIU, and T. Yasuda. Analysis of freak wave measurements
in the Sea of Japan. Ocean Engineering 29:1399-1414 (2002).
4. Brandt receives Presidential Rank Award
Excerpt from Memorandum to NOAA Employess from the Under Secretary
of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere.
11 of NOAA's very best leaders have been selected to receive
2002 Presidential Rank Awards - including GLERL director Dr. Stephen
Brandt.
Presidential Rank Awards are the most prestigious recognition
bestowed on career Senior Executives. Selectees are officially
recognized as "strong leaders who achieve results and consistently
demonstrate strength, integrity, industry and a relentless commitment
to excellence in public service" - all hallmarks of NOAA's
core values.
Each recipient was selected following a rigorous selection process.
After being nominated by NOAA and endorsed by the Department, each
was evaluated by a board of private citizens, receiving final approval
from the President himself. They will be recognized personally
in separate ceremonies by both Secretary Evans and President Bush.
DR. STEPHEN B. BRANDT, director of the OAR Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, is cited for excellent organizational
leadership. Since arriving at NOAA's only multidisciplinary
laboratory focusing on Great Lakes and coastal issues, Steve has
engaged staff at all levels in decision-making and problem-solving;
fostered recruitment, retention and training of next-generation
scientists; and generated strong partnerships with universities,
state and federal agencies that have resulted in new science programs
for NOAA, joint academic-federal appointments, plans for a multi-institutional
facility, and acquisition of a research vessel. His initiatives
created new multidisciplinary programs critical to science-based
decision-making.
Other NOAA recipients include Dr. Thomas R. Karl, Dr. James Balsiger,
Dr. Eddie N. Bernard, Gary K. Davis, Dr. David J. Hofmann, Dr.
James E. Hoke, Dr. Edward R. Johnson, John Kelly, Louisa Koch and
Gregory W. Withee.
5. Reid and Eadie receive NOAA Bronze Medal Awards
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr. David Reid and
Dr. Brian Eadie have each won the NOAA Bronze Medal Award. The
Bronze Medal Award is the highest honorary award given by the head
of NOAA and is defined as superior performance characterized by
outstanding or significant contributions which have increased the
efficiency and effectiveness of NOAA. To warrant a Bronze Medal,
a contribution must focus on qualitative and quantitative performance
measures cited in the Department's Strategic Plan and be identified
in one of the following areas: leadership, personal and professional
excellence, scientific/engineering achievement, employee development,
customer service, administrative/technical support, or public service
or heroism.
Brian Eadie is recognized for his Scientific Leadership in NOAA
and, in particular, for his leadership in the EEGLE program and
his innovation and leadership as a Science Branch Chief during
the last two years.
David Reid is recognized for his Scientific Leadership in NOAA
and, in particular, for his leadership in developing GLERL as the
leader in NOBOB/Ballast research on Invasive Species within NOAA.
There will be a ceremony in Washington on October 22, recognizing
Brian and Dave and the other NOAA Bronze Medal winners.
6. Martin to leave GLERL for Army Corps
Keith Martin is very excited about his new job with the Army Corps
of Engineers at the Engineering Research and Development Center,
Vicksburg, MS. He begins working with the ACE on October 21. His
position will be a Research Physicist and he will be running hydrodynamic
models in estuaries.
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September
2002
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September 24, 2002
Contents
1. NOAA GREAT LAKES SEMINAR SERIES
2. Muskegon Field Station Facilities Upgrade Approved
3. 2003 NOSB
4. New publications
________________________________________________________________________
1. NOAA GREAT LAKES SEMINAR SERIES
Title: Effects of omnivory in marine planktonic food webs
Speaker: Robert Ptacnik
Visiting PhD student
Institute for Marine Research
Kiel, Germany
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 Time: 10:30 a.m.
Where: GLERL Main Conference Room
Abstract: Omnivory in marine calanoid copepods was manipulated
by the presence/absence of microzooplankton in model food webs.
The presence of microzooplankton caused changes in abundances of
various phytoplankton groups, and enhanced reproduction in calanoid
copepods. Further experiments on calanoid copepods with diatoms
and heterotrophic dinoflagellates as prey revealed that positive
effects of microzooplankton on copepod reproduction cannot be attributed
to differences in the copepod's feeding efficiency. Rather, microzooplankton
caused 'trophic upgrading' of the phytoplankton prey for calanoid
copepods. Recent findings about negative effects of pure diatom
diets on reproduction in calanoid copepods may be relativized by
these results, since diatom blooms are usually accompanied by high
abundances of heterotrophic dinoflagellates.
Contact: Dr. Radka Pichlova (CILER/GLERL).
Phone 734-741-2269.
2. Muskegon Field Station Facilities Upgrade Approved
Thanks to Dennis Donahue's outstanding facilities management and
proposal writing skills, the Lake Michigan Field Station will receive
$270,000 for needed improvements from the NOAA's Facilities Maintenance
Project Prospectus program. Although this will not cover the entire
amount of improvements, it will make a significant impact on revitalizing
LMFS.
Improvements were requested under three categories:
1. Renovations to Building 1-- $236,856 included: outside electrical
system repairs; electrical panel repairs, 1st and 2nd floor electrical
repairs, interior lighting, exterior walls, entrance doors, windows,
new roof, partitions, conference room upgrades, wall, floor and
ceiling finishings, north and south porch, insulation, restroom
upgrades, exhaust fans, ventilation, fire detection system, fire
sprinkler system, window A/C, boiler, new HVAC, and hot water
heater.
2. Parking lot repaving and buried utilities-- $18,000
3. GLERL Vessel Operation Facility -- $32,000
3. 2003 NOSB
GLERL will again be co-sponsoring the NOSB Midwest Regional Competition.
The 6th Annual Competition which will be held on Saturday, February
8, 2003.
In this upcoming competition, we will include team challenge questions
in addition to the multiple choice / short answer questions we've
used previously. Team challenge questions are analytical / problem-solving
questions in which all team members confer and work together to
answer the question for a few minutes following the end of the
first half of a match. The written answer is then
evaluated by the science judges with full or partial points awarded
depending on how correctly the question was answered.
Each of the Regionals is responsible for generating their own
Team Challenge questions for their own competition, so we need
to develop 15 questions/ answers for our event. If you're interested
in developing questions, please let Mike Quigley know and we will
send on copies of the example questions ASAP. Currently only hard
copies of these examples are available. We need to have
questions/answers submitted by October 18, so we need to move on
this quickly.
Also, if you know of new prospective volunteers willing to develop
Team Challenge questions, or work on other aspects of the 2003
Midwest Regional NOSB, please encourage them to contact us.
Contact Mike Quigley
4. New publications
Schloesser, D.W., and T.F. NALEPA. Comparison of 5 benthic samplers
to collect burrowing mayfly nymphs (Hexagenia spp: Ephemeroptera:Ephemeridae)
in sediments of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Journal of the North
American Benthological Society 21(3):387-501 (2002).
Selected projects of GLERL's Marine Instrumentation Laboratory.
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI. 2
pp. (2002). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/
Met Stations and Web Cams. Great Lakes Environmental Research
Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI. 2 pp. (2002). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/ |
September 12,
2002
Contents
1. GLIN SITE OF THE MONTH for September: NOAA GLERL
2. GLERL In the NEWS - National Geographic - Water Levels
3. New reprints - Climate change
4. FYI Passed along from NOAA Headquarters...Fellowship Announcement!!
1. GLIN SITE OF THE MONTH for September: NOAA GLERL >>
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/ <<
The newly redesigned GLERL web site features easy access to detailed
descriptions of GLERL research projects, browsable by research
program, geographical region and subject area. Other popular features
include general information about the Great Lakes, webcams, water
level data, real-time weather station data on lakes Michigan and
Huron, online brochures and fact sheets, and
two photo galleries.
2. GLERL In the NEWS - National Geographic - Water Levels
Great Lakes water levels are the subject of the National Geographic
article "Down the Drain: The Incredible Shrinking Great Lakes"
in the September issue. The article includes imagery and background
information provided by GLERL.
3. New reprints - Climate change
LOFGREN, B. M. Global warming influences on water levels, ice,
and chemical and biological cycles in lakes: some examples. American
Fisheries Society Symposium 32:5-22 (2002).
BRANDT, S.B., D.M. MASON, M.J. McCORMICK, B.M. LOFGREN, T.S. HUNTER,
and J.A. Tyler. Climate change: implications for fish growth performance
in the Great Lakes. American Fisheries Society Symposium 32:61-76
(2002).
4. FYI Passed along from NOAA Headquarters...Fellowship Announcement!!
NOAA's Estuarine Reserves Division is soliciting applications
for graduate fellowship funding within the National Estuarine Research
Reserve System. Twenty-seven Graduate Research Fellowships will
be competitively awarded to qualified graduate students whose research
occurs within the boundaries of at least one reserve. The amount
of the fellowship is $17,500; at least 30% of total project cost
match is required by the applicant. Applicants may apply for between
one and three years of funding. Minority students are encouraged
to apply. Fellowships will start June 1, 2003. Applications must
be postmarked no later than November 1, 2002. Notification regarding
the awarding of fellowships will be issued on or about March 1,
2003. Visit www.ocrm.nos.noaa.gov/nerr/fellow.html for information
on the Graduate Research Fellowship Program and complete guidelines
for applying. Please contact Erica Seiden if you have any questions
at erica.seiden@noaa.gov or (301) 563-1172. |
August
2002
|
August 23, 2002
Contents
1. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL
2. Tall Ships Festival in Alpena
3. GLERL in the News - Ballast Water
4. New Grants - Ballast Tanks
5. New Reprints
1. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL
As I was unable to reschedule Dr. Elise Ralph's seminar, the 2001-2002
series featuring Sea Grant scientists is now complete. Streaming
video of the entire series is now available on CD (it will remain
archived on the web for some time as well -
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/seminar.htm).
Drop me a line if you would like a CD (rochelle.sturtevant@noaa.gov).
The technology series will continue through spring 2003. Presentations
for this series will focus on exploring new developments in remote
sensing and other technology; speaker suggestions welcome. Schedule
is available at www.glerl.noaa.gov/news/seminars/ and
will be posted as dates are arranged. Seminars in this series will
be recorded by request only. Please allow as much time as possible
in making a request (24 hour notice minimum).
2. Tall Ships Festival in Alpena
GLERL's RV Shenehon - newly based in Alpena this summer - was open
to the public during the Thunder Bay Tall Ships Festival. Mike
Quigley reports there was a very good turn out at the Shenehon
open house. Over 500 people visited the Shenehon. The steady
stream of visitors picked up literature and the display was very
well received.
3. GLERL in the News - Ballast Water
Excerpt from the Hamilton Spectator
Looking at life from inside the workings of a great ship
Aug. 13, 02:27 EDT
...Among the scientists studying the ballast water problem are
David Reid at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Hugh McIsaac at the University of Windsor.
The group tested ships last year -- usually ones that made their
first stop in Hamilton -- and routinely found live organisms, resting
eggs or the spores of aquatic plants.
The resting eggs hatched readily in lab conditions, so this year
they'll look for any evidence of hatching on board, work that's
done with the help of companies such as Montreal-based Fednav,
which says it let scientists test empty ballast tanks on a ship
last season.
Reid says the work is difficult, especially because the researchers
can't interfere with the ships' operation. He also says it's tough
to adequately sample a ballast tank, which he describes as a honeycomb
of cells.
Reid says samples taken directly under access hatches may not
represent what's really happening throughout the tanks, where water
may not mix thoroughly and where it may stay trapped.
4. New Grants - Ballast Tanks
Dave Reid has received a two year $500,000 grant from NOAA to
work with the Navy on modeling ballast tanks.
5. New Reprints
Ji, R., C. Chen, J.W. Budd, D.J. Schwab, D. Beletsky, G.L. Fahnenstiel,
T.H. Johengen, H.A. Vanderploeg, B.J. Eadie, J. Cotner, W. Gardner,
and M. H. Bundy. Influences of suspended sediments on the ecosystem
in Lake Michigan: a 3-D coupled bio-physical modeling experiment.
Ecological Modeling 152:169-190 (2002).
Chen, C., R. Ji, D.J. Schwab, D. Beletsky, G.L. Fahnenstiel, M.
Jiang, T.H. Johengen, H. Vanderploeg, B.J. Eadie, J.W. Budd, M.H.
Bundy, W. Gardner, J. Cotner, and P. Lavrentyev. A model study
of the coupled biological and physical dynamics in Lake Michigan.
Ecological Modeling 152:145-168 (2002). |
August
12, 2002
Thanks to everyone who helped in updating my list! For those new
to the list, GLERL updates are sent approximately once per week
- with this message being typical of message length. Messages are
also archived to the web at
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/GLERLUpdates.html. Please respond
directly to Rochelle
Sturtevant if you would like to be removed from the list.
Contents
1. Wind and Wave Forecasts
2. GLERL Hot Item - GLERL Scientist Visits NOS on Great Lakes Forecasting
System
3. Estuary Restoration Act Activities
4. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL
5. Reprints
1. Wind and Wave Forecasts
The Grand Rapids NWS Office is now making the Great Lakes Wind
and Wave Nowcast/Forecasts available via their website: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/main/weather/marine/index_marine.html (click
the top link for 'Wind & Wave Nowcast & Forecast Graphics').
These animations are a direct product of GLERL's Great Lakes Coastal
Forecasting System project, the 'next generation' of the Great
Lakes Forecasting System.
2. GLERL Hot Item - GLERL Scientist Visits NOS on Great Lakes
Forecasting System
On July 23-24, GLERL scientist Dave Schwab visited NOAA's
National Ocean Service (NOS) offices in Silver Spring, Maryland
to discuss possible implementation of the Great Lakes Forecasting
System (GLFS) by the NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic
Products and Services and Coast Survey Development Lab (CO-OP/CSDL).
Schwab co-directs the GLFS with Ohio State University scientist
Keith Bedford, who also participated in the meetings.
During the meetings, the group met with NOS Management, reviewed
GLFS model evaluation and NOS standards, examined and discussed
operational implementation issues for the GLFS, and explored future
cooperative research opportunities among GLERL, OSU, and NOS.
The meeting concluded with a session that defined next steps in
the effort, including a planned agreement among GLERL, OSU, NOS
and the National Weather Service (NWS) for the operational implementation
of the GLFS at CO-OPS and for future collaboration in research
and development.
3. Estuary Restoration Act Activities
David H. Merkey started at GLERL July 22. David joins the staff
for at least the next year to work with Steve Lozano on a CILER
contract on wetlands protocol development for the recovery of estuaries
including the Great Lakes.
A little background on the project...
"The Estuary Restoration Act authorizes projects for the restoration
of estuaries (including along the Great Lakes) with the goal of
restoring one million acres of coastal habitat by 2010. NOAA is
currently developing the monitoring protocols and standards for
all projects funded under the Estuary Restoration Act. A multi-tiered
approach has been undertaken in the development of monitoring protocols
and standards. This year, a monitoring framework document is being
developed that delineates issues and standards that are common
to all monitoring efforts. These include the concept of two leveled
monitoring and adaptive management to address both project specific
goals and watershed level goals and function. The need for linking
monitoring efforts directly to restoration goals is highlighted
as essential. Because human communities are integral parts of most
coastal watersheds in the United States and its protectorates,
consideration of both ecology and socio-economics are stressed."
If interested, I have a 2-pager on the project available. Contact: Rochelle
Sturtevant
4. NOAA Great Lakes Seminar Series at GLERL
Seminars can be recorded or live broadcast via internet on request.
Please allow as much lead time as possible in making a request
to record.
August 13, 2002 - 10:30am
"ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS: SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY AND TROPHIC CHANGE"
Judith W. Budd, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geological
Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University
5. Reprints
Lotufo, G.R., and P.F. LANDRUM. The influence of sediment and
feeding on the elimination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
in the freshwater amphipod, Diporeia spp. Aquatic Toxicology 58:137-149
(2002).
Lee, J.-H., P.F. LANDRUM, and C.-H. Koh. Prediction of time-dependent
PAH toxicity in Hyalella azteca using a damage assessment model.
Environmental Science and Technology 36:3131-3138 (2002).
Lee, J.-H., P.F. LANDRUM, and C.-H. Koh. Toxicokinetics and time-dependent
PAH toxicity in the amphipod Hyalella azteca. Environmental Science
and Technology 36:3124-3130 (2002).
LANDRUM, P.F., M.L. Gedeon, G.A. Burton, M.S. Greenberg, and C.D.
Rowland. Biological responses of Lumbriculus variegatus exposed
to fluoranthene-spiked sediment. Achives of Environmental Contamination
and Toxicology 42:292-302 (2002). |
July
2002
|
July
25, 2002
Apologies for the long list of addresses at the top. I opted not
to blind cc this message because I need assistance in updating
the mailing list. Sea Grant directors, program leaders and
communicators, in particular, please check that I am not
sending to anyone who no longer exists in your organization and
that I have all new staff added as appropriate. If you are routinely
forwarding these messages and would prefer that I send directly,
please send the names/addresses to me and I will add to the list.
If you prefer to continue forwarding, please at least let me know
the names (regular recipients) so that I can keep an accurate estimate
of how many people receive these.
I will be out of the office the week of July 29 - August 2 and
most of the week of August 5-9, so the next GLERL update will be
sometime the week of August 12.
_________________________________________________________________
Contents:
1. GLERL Website Redesign - www.glerl.noaa.gov
2. GLERL High School Summer Interns
3. NOSB Team To Visit GLERL Field Station
4. GLERL in the News - Water Levels
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1. GLERL Website Redesign - www.glerl.noaa.gov
The GLERL web redesign is complete and has gone live. Please check
it out. Several elements of the new design (e.g., research by region)
were incorporated in response to feedback from Sea Grant staff
regarding information needs. Like all websites, this is phase one
of a wrok in progress. Please send suggestions for additional content
types or navigation needs to me (rochelle.sturtevant@noaa.gov).
If you have difficulty reading the pages with your browser, please
send description of the difficulties to Janet Szczesny (Janet.Szczesny@noaa.gov).
Assuming that you like what you see, at this time GLERL
is also asking our partners (including all of you) to
provide links to the GLERL website from your websites.
Links can be from your homepage to ours and/or from specific
content pages to relevant content on our site. Janet can send
you a file for the button to put on your page(s).
Note re GLSGN@GLERL pages. The URL's haven't changed, but the
navigation has...from GLERL's homepage click 'Partnerships' in
the top bar (rather than facilities) and scroll to the link for
Great Lakes Sea Grant Extension Office under 'Onsite Partnerships'.
That leads the homepage for my segment of the web. Note my new
look - thanks to an assist from Janet in designing a template.
I'm gradually working on applying the template to all my web pages.
2. GLERL High School Summer Interns
As part of our Partners-for-Excellence Progam with the Ann Arbor
School System, CILER and GLERL provide an opportunity for 2-4 students
to work with scientists on specific projects every summer. Students
targeted are those just completing their
sophomore year. Candidates are chosen by a panel of teachers based
on a written essay and demonstrated abilities in science, while
final selections are made by GLERL/CILER. This year about 20 students
applied, four were chosen for interviews, and two were selected.
The high school interns this summer are Josh Mosberg and Lu Chen.
Josh is from Pioneer High and Lu is from Huron High. Josh is working
with Tom Nalepa on tasks related to the benthos program, while
Lu is working with Tom Johengen, in the nutrient
chemistry laboratory assisting in the analysis of sediment and
water samples collected from ballast tanks of foreign vessels as
part of our (CILER/GLERL) project on NOBOB project. She is also
working with other CILER research staff to assist in chemical
analyses of dated sediment cores in support of several biogeochemistry
programs.
3. NOSB Team To Visit GLERL Field Station
A&M Consolidated High School's National Ocean Sciences Bowl
(NOSB) team from College Station, Texas will visit GLERL's Lake
Michigan Field Station (LMFS) July 31-August 4 in Muskegon, Michigan.
The team won the all expense paid trip to LMFS
after placing fourth in the NOSB national competition held in Providence,
Rhode Island, April 26-29. Members of the team and their coach
will tour LMFS facilities and learn about GLERL research activities.
The team will take a cruise on GLERL's research
vessel , Laurentian; visit Great Lakes sand dune communities at
Hoffmaster State Park; visit local trout streams to learn about
running water ecology while taking time to enjoy the rich cultural,
historical, and recreational resources of the Great lakes region.
The coach of the team, Dr. Elaine Smith, is a biology, marine,
and aquatic science teacher and Head of the Science Department.
Christopher Smith, an A&M senior, is involved in many extracurricular
activities as well as competitive academics. Felix Huang, a junior,
plays the violin, competes in UIL academics and is president of
the Latin club. Adam Wang, a junior, thoroughly enjoys math and
physics and competes in math events. Michael Adams, a junior has
competed in Science Bowl for the past three years and went to nationals
last year. Justin Chow, a senior, enjoys problem solving and won
first place with his Brazos Best Robotics team.
4. GLERL in the News - Water Levels
Excerpt from
Lake levels bring up boat business: But water still below norm
because of weather
By SUSANNE QUICK of the Journal Sentinel staff. Last Updated: July
22, 2002
Full text at: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul02/60901.asp
... although Lake Michigan's water levels are up from last year,
they still are below normal, said Cynthia Sellinger, a hydrologist
at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great
Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Since
1997, Lake Michigan's levels have been dropping off," Sellinger
said. "But we're up 10 inches from last year - putting us
back to the 2000 levels."
The reasons for this drop - and recent increase - are pretty well
understood. But what is less apparent is whether this year's increase
is a sign of things to come - or an aberration in a larger decline
of water levels. Since 1997, Lake Michigan's surface has dropped
3.4 feet. "It's been a pretty steady decline," said Sellinger,
who, like other researchers studying the fluctuations of water
levels in Lake Michigan, thinks the trend of decreasing levels
is related to the weather. "It's a combination of low precipitation
and higher-than-average temperatures," she said. "And
because we've had warmer winter temperatures than usual for the
past five years," and therefore, no ice, she said, the amount
of water lost to the air has been enormous.
Last winter, however, the situation was ameliorated by "a
combination of near-record snowfall and a bigger supply of water
into the lake" through streams and rivers, said Keith Kompoltowicz,
physical scientist and meteorologist with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in Detroit. But whether this latest resurgence of water
into the lake is the beginning of a new trend "is anybody's
guess," Kompoltowicz said.
The article also highlights research by Todd Thompson, associate
scientist at the Indiana Geological Survey, on at ancient climatological
records and by Brent Lofgren, a physical scientist at GLERL, on
climate change predictions. |
July 18, 2002
A short one this week...
Contents:
1. Recent Reprints
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1. Recent Reprints
Madenjian, CP;Fahnenstiel, GL;Johengen, TH;Nalepa, TF;Vanderploeg,
HA; Fleischer, GW;Schneeberger, PJ;Benjamin, DM;Smith, EB;Bence,
JR; Rutherford, ES;Lavis, DS;Robertson, DM;Jude, DJ;Ebener, MP.
Dynamics of the Lake Michigan food web, 1970-2000. Canadian Journal
of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59 (4): 736-753 APR 2002.
ABSTRACT: Herein, we document changes in the Lake Michigan food
web between 1970 and 2000 and identify the factors responsible
for these changes. Control of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)
and alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) populations in Lake Michigan,
beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, had profound effects on the food
web. Recoveries of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and
burbot (Lota lota) populations, as well as the buildup of salmonine
populations, were attributable, at least in part, to sea lamprey
control. Based on our analyses, predation by salmonines was primarily
responsible for the reduction in alewife abundance during the 1970s
and early 1980s. In turn, the decrease in alewife abundance likely
contributed to recoveries of deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsoni),
yellow perch (Perca flavescens), and burbot populations during
the 1970s and 1980s. Decrease in the abundance of all three dominant
benthic macroinvertebrate groups, including Diporeia, oligochaetes,
and sphaeriids, during the 1980s in nearshore waters (less than
or equal to50 m deep) of Lake Michigan, was attributable to a decrease
in primary production linked to a decline in phosphorus loadings.
Continued decrease in Diporeia abundance during the 1990s was associated
with the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) invasion, but specific
mechanisms for zebra mussels affecting Diporeia abundance remain
unidentified.
REPRINTS: Madenjian, CP,US Geol Survey, Great Lakes Sci Ctr, 1451
Green Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 USA |
July
10, 2002
Contents
1. Office of Global Programs - RISA - Help Requested!
2. GLERL Hot Items: Congressman Ehlers Keynotes at R/V Laurentian
Ceremony
3. GLERL Hot Items: GLERL Scientist Presented 2002 Editor's Award
4. Technology Seminar Series at GLERL
5. Larissa Sano Receives Poster Award
6. Call for Question Writers for the National Ocean Science Bowl
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1. Office of Global Programs - RISA
"The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA)
Program of NOAA's Office of Global Programs (OGP) represents
an important innovation in how our nation conducts science related
to climate variability and society. Explicit in the RISA program
is real partnership between the scientific community and the users
(decision-makers or "stakeholders") of scientific knowledge.
Close stakeholder involvement is new to the climate research enterprise,
but the RISA's clearly demonstrate the value of this involvement.
All RISA effort is focused on climate research and communication
of information required by stakeholders to support their decision-making,
as well as to reduce their vulnerabilities to climate variability.
The RISA's focus on regional- and local-scale science and
information, and thus form the critical link between national science
programs and the inherently regional ("place-based" or
local) users of scientific knowledge." Excerpt from http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/mpe/csi/risa/teams.html
GLERL's Brian Eadie is spearheading an effort to get a Great Lakes
RISA designated in the next round (RFP expected in 2003). The existing
5 RISA's are located in the Interior West, the Northwest, Southwest,
California and Florida. We are likely to see considerable competition
from the Northeast in the next round.
As a precursor to building the partnership needed to develop a
proposal, he has asked me to develop a one page description of
the potential clientele, issues, and product needs of the coastal
community with regard to climate change and its impacts.
So, I need your help in identifying such. If you have ideas
that I could/should incorporate into a one-page description
of specific clientele (no more 'general public'), specific
issues related to climate change which are important to those
clientele, specific products related to climate change generally
or to specific climate research needed by these client groups
and/or specific climate-related research priorities please
send them my way asap (by 7/24/02 if possible).
A few thoughts from the researchers to give you an idea of the
types of research and products a Great Lakes RISA might encompass:
Can climate change impacts be seen in fish species (recruitment)?
What is the role of upwellings on fish productivity and how will
climate changes impact upwelling? What impacts will climate change
have on thermal structure of the lake? Will alterations to the
Great Lakes lower food web be sufficient to support the predictions
of increased fish production? Improved ice cover forecasting, Probabilistic
ice cover forecasting, modelling changes to lake effect snow under
global climate change scenarios, modelling changes to lake circulation
under climate change scenarios, addition of land use parameters
to hydrology models (which can already interface to some extent
with global climate change models). enhancing the interface between
the current Great Lakes hydrology models and the mesoscale climate
change models. For more information about what other RISA's are
doing browse: http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/mpe/csi/risa/index.htm
2. GLERL Hot Items: Congressman Ehlers Keynotes at R/V Laurentian
Ceremony
Keynote remarks by U.S. Representative Vern Ehlers from Michigan's
3rd District highlighted a July 2nd ceremony honoring a new partnership
between GLERL and the University of Michigan. Through a 15-year
lease agreement, GLERL will operate and maintain the University's
science vessel, the R/V Laurentian. The ceremony was held dockside
at GLERL's Lake Michigan Field Station in Muskegon, Michigan
where the Laurentian is now based.
Following remarks by Representative Ehlers, GLERL Director Steve
Brandt and University of Michigan Associate Vice President for
Research, James Penner-Hahn spoke about development of the partnership
and mutual benefits in advancing Great Lakes research activities
of the two institutions. The ceremony ended with a ribbon-cutting
ceremony in recognition of the operational transition and invited
guests joined GLERL and university officials for a vessel briefing
and cruise demonstrating instrumentation and sampling capabilities.
Representative Ehlers is co-chair of the Great Lakes Task Force
for the 107th Congress and has a long history of Great Lakes leadership
on Capitol Hill. He also chairs the House Science Subcommittee
on Environment, Technology and Standards with oversight of NOAA
activities related to weather, weather services, climate, the atmosphere,
marine fisheries and oceanic research.
See also http://www.legislative.noaa.gov/ for
an article in the Legislative Informer.
For more information contact: Michael
A Quigley
3. GLERL Hot Items: GLERL Scientist Presented 2002 Editor's
Award
GLERL scientist Tom Nalepa was recently presented with the 2002
Editor's Award by the International Association for Great
Lakes Research (IAGLR). The award was made on the basis of Nalepa's
outstanding contributions to the review process of the Journal
of Great Lakes Research. Journal Editor Gerald Matisoff noted that
he had found Nalepa's solicitation and handling of manuscript
reviews to be "fair, of the highest caliber and meticulous".
Nalepa has served as an Associate Editor in the area of aquatic
zoology since 1991 with responsibilities for coordinating peer
review of submitted manuscripts and making recommendations on their
publication.
The International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR)
is a scientific organization made up of researchers studying the
Laurentian Great Lakes and other large lakes of the world, as well
as those with an interest in such research. Specifically, the Association
promotes all aspects of large lakes research and communicates research
findings through publications and meetings.
Contact information: Thomas
F Nalepa
4. Technology Seminar Series at GLERL
Recorded yesterday by request...
SPECIAL JOINT PRESENTATIONS - Lake Level Monitoring Using Space
Geodetic Technologies. Dr. C.K. Shum and Digitalization of Coastal
Environmental Monitoring Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial
Information and Analysis: A Demonstration by Tarig Ali, both of
the Laboratory for Space Geodesy and Remote Sensing Research, Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, The
Ohio State University.
Seminar video--ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/webcast/2002/shum/20020709.wmv
Technology seminar series is recorded and posted to the internet
by request only. Please give me as much lead time as possible in
making requests. Calendar of upcoming seminars is generally posted
as seminars are scheduled at http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/news/seminars/
5. Larissa Sano Receives Poster Award
Although the 22nd annual meeting of SETAC occurred last November
in Baltimore, the results of the student awards for presentations
have just been released. Larissa Sano recieved a third place finish
out of 220 posters for her poster "Biocide Treatment of Ballast
Water: Efficacy." Larissa's poster is the basis for the fact
sheet I recently sent to you for review on the "Treatment
of Ballast Water with Chemical Disinfectants."
6. Call for Question Writers for the National Ocean Science
Bowl
Question Writers Needed.
A question writer can be anyone who has knowledge of the material
and can write coherently.
CORE is offering $3 a question. A minimum of 25 questions is required
Please send any interested parties my way
Thanks
Erin
Education Assistant
Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036-2102
Tel 202-332-0063 ext. 272
Great Lakes questions always in short supply! |
June
2002
|
June
28, 2002
Contents:
1. Sea Grant Update
2. GLERL Hot Items: New Digital Great Lakes Ice Cover Data Set
3. GLERL Hot Items: Shenehon Attracts Hundreds at Riverfest
4. Laurentian Press Release
5. GLERL in the News: Climate Change and Water Levels
6. Dr. Al Beeton is GLERL's first Emeritus Scientist
7. ISI Citations
8. Recent articles
___________________________________________________________________
1. Sea Grant Update
I plan to begin putting out a monthly Sea Grant update in format
similar to the GLERL updates. Circulation will be to all GLERL
and CILER staff as well as to the full mailing list of the GLERL
update. Expect the first issue within the next 2 weeks.
Sea Grant staff, please send me short text about projects that
you have going on that you feel may be of interest to this audience.
Feel free to clip from exisitng news releases, reports or other
sources easily at hand. If each program were to send me 2 items,
that would be easily fill a newsletter. If I get nothing from a
particular program, I will tap the communicators for articles,
but information direct from the extension agents is welcome.
2. GLERL Hot Items: New Digital Great Lakes Ice Cover Data
Set
GLERL recently completed digitizing historical Great Lakes ice
charts from 1973 to 2000 in cooperation with the OAA/USN/USCG National
Ice Center (NIC) and the Canadian Ice Service (CIS). At GLERL the
ice cover data sets are being used for:
- Statistical analysis of Great Lakes ice cover and related model
development.
- Analysis of winter regional climate and climate change
Worldwide distribution and amounts of ice and snow (the cryosphrere)
are important indicators of climate and climate change, and lake
ice is a sensitive index of regional change in the Great Lakes.
Given the growing concern over global warming and its potential
impacts on the Great Lakes, GLERL began updating all ice cover
data starting in 1994 under the auspices of NOAA's Earth System
and Data Information Management (ESDIM). Ice cover has an effect
on almost every aspect of life on the Great Lakes, from hydropower
generation to commercial shipping to the fishing industry. The
typical extent and duration of the winter ice cover changes from
year to year, and long-term changes may occur because of global
warming.
These data sets are available on the web at: ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/ice/charts/
The readme.txt file describes the data format, file naming conventions,
and ice cover codes
Subcategories by winter season contain:
- ASCII Grid files (WinZip compressed files)
- Geographic Information System ARC/INFO Export files (WinZip compressed
files)
- Graphic file of total ice concentration for each ice chart (use
to browse data for a given winter)
- Directory (POR) - contains data over the entire period of
record for each of 14 ice attributes in ASCII Grid format
The data set and methods used to digitize and quality control
these data are documented in two Technical Memoranda which are
also available on GLERL's Web Page:
ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/publications/tech_reports/glerl-121/
ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/publications/tech_reports/glerl-117/
Data set users include:
- NOAA
- U.S. Coast Guard National Ice Center
- Canadian Ice Service
- U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
- National Weather Service
- International Joint Commission
- U.S. Navy
- Academic Institutions
- Private Industry
Contact information: Raymond
A Assel, (734) 741-2268
3. GLERL Hot Items: Shenehon Attracts Hundreds at Riverfest
On Saturday June 8th GLERL's research vessel, the R/V Shenehon
joined the annual Riverfest celebration in Alpena, Michigan for
the first time and was toured by an estimated 500 visitors.
The Shenehon made its move last month from its home base in Muskegon
to Alpena to spend the summer assisting the newly designated Thunder
Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve while continuing
research on the Great Lakes. It will be used by the Sanctuary for
deploying new mooring buoys as well as for gathering data on shipwrecks.
Additionally, GLERL will continue to use the vessel for gathering
water and sediment samples along with other research activities.
The Shenehon was originally stationed at the Lake Michigan Field
Station (LMFS) in Muskegon. However, recently a new partnership
between GLERL and the University of Michigan provides for GLERL
operation of the University's vessel R/V Laurentian under a fifteen-year
lease agreement. The Laurentian will operate from the Field Station
to support GLERL research on Lake Michigan as well as the needs
of select University of Michigan scientists. A July 2nd ceremony
is planned at the LMFS to recognize the new operational partnership.
Contact information: Dennis
J Donahue, (231) 755-5173
4. Laurentian Press Release
NOAA's official press release is now available at:
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2002/june02/noaa02r606.html
5. GLERL in the News: Climate Change and Water Levels
EARTHWATCH RADIO, June 18, 2002, Amber Rose Fonzen
Low water levels from five dry years offer a glimpse into the future
in the Upper Midwest.
Full text available at:
http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/earthwatch/program.asp?ProgramID=3238
Earthwatch Radio is a service of the Sea Grant Institute and the
Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of WI-Madison
Water levels in the Great Lakes have dropped about two feet over
the past five years due to dry weather. Brent Lofgren says this
change is probably due to natural ups and downs in the weather,
but it's also a sign of what we might see in the future with global
warming. Lofgren is a climatologist at the Great Lakes Environmental
Research Lab in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "I would not attribute
this fairly fast change in water levels to global warming, but
it is similar to something that we anticipate over a longer period
of time in the future."
Lofgren says the drop in water levels on the Great Lakes was caused
by an increase in evaporation. It's been accelerated by stronger
winds and warmer air and water temperatures. On top of that, there's
been more evaporation during the winter because there has not been
as much ice cover. Lofgren says the result is a picture of what
might become the norm as the Earth grows warmer.
6. Dr. Al Beeton is GLERL's first Emeritus Scientist
I am happy to announce that Dr. Al Beeton is now GLERL's (and
NOAA's) first Emeritus Scientist. As an Emeritus, Dr. Beeton will
work closely with the Director and GLERL scientists on program
issues. Specifically, Dr. Beeton will: (1) support specialized
scientific expertise that is of long-range importance to GLERL
and the Nation; (2) investigate science research frontiers that
have potential future importance to the Nation; (3) provide seasonal
counsel to managers, individuals scientists, and teams; (4) conduct
or engage in special projects that require specialized scientific
perspectives or knowledge and that supplement and enhance normal
GLERL
activities, such as pursuing a Center for Invasive Species Research
at GLERL and serving as special advisory staff; (5) enhance the
institutional memory; and, (6) provide a historical perspective
on Great Lakes science.
As part of the Emeritus process, Dr. Stephen Brandt will serve
as Dr. Beeton's project scientist and will provide broad guidance
on the program scope.
7. ISI Citations
Dr. Pete Landrum was recently notified by the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) that he is among the top 250 most cited invesitgators
in the field of Ecology/Environment. Dr. Landrum's recent publications
include:
Quigley, M.A., P.F. Landrum, W.S. Gardner, C. Stubblefield, and
W.M.Gordon. Respiration, nitrogen extretion, and O:N ratios of
the Great Lakes amphipod Diporeia sp. NOAA Technical Memo GLERL-120.
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 16
pp. (2002).
Hwang, H., S. W. Fisher, and P. F. Landrum. Identifying body residues
of HCBP associated with 10-d mortality and partial life cycle effects
in the midge, Chironimus riparius. Aquatic Toxicology 52:251-267
(2001).
Landrum, P. F., E. A. Tigue, S. Kane-Driscoll, D. C. Gossiaux,
P. L. Van Hoof, M. L. Gedeon, and M. Adler. Bioaccumulation of
PCB congeners by Diporeia spp.: Kinetics and factors affecting
bioavailability. Journal of Great Lakes Research 27(2):117-133
(2001).
Lee, J. H., P. F. Landrum, L. J. Field, and C.-H. Koh. Application
of SPAH model and a logistic regression model to sediment toxicity
data based on a species-specific, water-only LC50 toxic unit for
Hyalella azteca. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20(9):2102-2113
(2001).
Van Hoof, P. L., J. V. Kukkonen, and P. F. Landrum. Impact of
sediment manipulation on the bioaccumulation of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons from field-contaminated and laboratory-dosed sediments
by an oligochaete. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20(8):1752-1761
(2001).
8. Recent articles
Beeton, AM. Large freshwater lakes: present state, trends, | |