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GLANSIS Resources
Please note: some of the links presented below are external to NOAA-GLERL.
- Hanson, E., C. Shelly, and R. Sturtevant. 2025. A Secondary Analysis of Invasion Risk in the Context of an Altered Thermal Regime in the Great Lakes. Diversity 17(12): 861. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17120861.
- Lower, E., R. Sturtevant, S. Iott, F. Martinez, E. Rutherford, D.M. Mason, J. Redinger, and A.K. Elgin. 2024. The Great Lakes’ most unwanted: Characterizing the impacts of the top ten Great Lakes aquatic invasive species. Journal of Great Lakes Research 50(4): 102365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2024.102365.
- Lower, E., and T. Campbell. 2024. Alien language: Reflections on the rhetoric of invasion biology. Oceanography 37(1):68–69, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.208.
- Lower, E., R. Sturtevant and D. Gill. 2020. Sharing Feedback, Sharing Screens: Videoconferencing as a Tool for Stakeholder-Driven Web Design. Journal of Extension 58(3). https://archives.joe.org/joe/2020june/tt1.php
- Sturtevant, R., E. Lower, A. Bartos, and A. Elgin. 2021. A Review and Secondary Analysis of Competition-Related Impacts of Nonindigenous Aquatic Plants in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Plants 10(2):406. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020406.
- Sturtevant, R.A., D.M. Mason, E.S. Rutherford, A.K. Elgin, E.K. Lower, and F.A. Martinez. 2019. Recent history of nonindigenous species in the Laurentian Great Lakes; An update to Mills et al., 1993 (25 years later). Journal of Great Lakes Research 45(6):1011-1035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.09.002.
- Smith, JP, EK Lower, FA Martinez, CM Riseng, LA Mason, ES Rutherford, M Neilson, P Fuller, KW Wehrly, and RA Sturtevant. 2019. Interactive mapping of nonindigenous species in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Management of Biological Invasions 10(1): 192-199. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2019.10.1.12.
- Kocovsky, P.M., R. Sturtevant and J. Schardt. 2018. What it is to be established: policy and management implications for non-native and invasive species. Management of Biological Invasions 9(3): 177–185. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2018.9.3.01.
- Davidson, AD, AJ Fusaro, RA Sturtevant and DR Kashian. 2017. Development of a risk assessment framework to predict invasive species establishment for multiple taxonomic groups and vectors of introduction. Management of Biological Invasions 8(1)25-36. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2017.8.1.03.
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 180 - 2021-2023 Updates to GLANSIS Assessments
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 176 - A Gap Analysis of the State of Knowledge of Great Lakes Nonindigenous Species
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 169d – 2020 Update To "A risk assessment of potential Great Lakes aquatic invaders"
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 161d – 2020 Update To "An Impact Assessment of Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species"
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 161c – 2019 Update To "An Impact Assessment of Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species"
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 169c – 2019 Update To "A risk assessment of potential Great Lakes aquatic invaders"
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 169b – 2018 Update To "A risk assessment of potential Great Lakes aquatic invaders"
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 169 – A Risk Assessment of Potential Great Lakes Aquatic Invaders
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 168 – An Overview of the Management of Established Nonindigenous Species in the Great Lakes
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 161b – 2018 Update To "An Impact Assessment of Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species"
- NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL 161 – An Impact Assessment of Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species
- GLANSIS - Report on the FY 2018 Pilot Projects (PDF) (Table 1 Data)
- Quality Assurance Project Plan for GLANSIS - FY20
- State of the Great Lakes 2022 Technical Report: AIS Subindicators p. 572-616
- State of the Great Lakes 2019 Technical Report: AIS Subindicators p. 421-491
- State of the Great Lakes 2019 Highlights Report
- State of the Great Lakes 2017 Technical Report: AIS Subindicator p. 348-359.
- State of the Great Lakes 2011: AIS Subindicator p. 41-54
- The Great Lakes’ most unwanted: New GLANSIS StoryMap highlights top 10 aquatic invaders (Oct 4, 2024)
- Unlocking the mysteries of the Great Lakes: Contribute to snail research (Oct 4, 2024)
- The cloning crayfish conundrum: A threat to the Great Lakes ecosystem (Feb 23, 2024)
- Balancing act: A policy success story in the Great Lakes (Feb 23, 2024)
- Foes or food? Foraging for Great Lakes invasive species (Feb 23, 2024)
- The less traveled pathways for species introduction to the Great Lakes (Feb 23, 2024)
- A Great Lakes gold rush: Invasion of a costly clam (Feb 17, 2023)
- Pretty but problematic: Aquatic plants to avoid (Feb 17, 2023)
- The too-common reed? Invasive phragmites can cause serious environmental problems (Feb 17, 2023)
- No silver lining: Invasive goldfish in the Great Lakes (Feb 16, 2023)
- State of the Great Lakes 2022 Reports: A look at prevention, control, and impact mitigation (Aug 23, 2022)
- When it comes to aquatic invasive species, how do we know what we don't know? (Aug 18, 2022)
- Alien language: What’s in a (species) name? (Aug 10, 2022)
- The GLANSIS Map Explorer: A hub for habitat suitability maps (July 18, 2022)
- New online tool keeps users up-to-date on AIS regulations (Mar 15, 2022)
- Video series highlights invasive species, their management - and some success stories (Mar 10, 2022)
- Alien language: The importance of metaphor (Oct 5, 2021)
- New GLANSIS research highlights how invasive plants compete (Apr 7, 2021)
- State of the Great Lakes report highlights need for invasive species control (Apr 6, 2021)
- GLANSIS technical memos add new data to invasive species risk assessments (Sep 9, 2020)
- Journal of Extension article highlights how videoconferencing can be used for stakeholder-driven design (Aug 26, 2020)
- Alien language: Using controlled vocabulary to talk about invasive species (Apr 26, 2020)
- GLANSIS invades social media to spread word on non-native species (Mar 16, 2020)
- A recent history of Great Lakes nonindigenous species (Dec 5, 2019)
- GLANSIS risk explorer evaluates the potential for Great Lakes biological invasions (Dec 4, 2019)
- Great Lakes Water Life database documents biodiversity of Great Lakes native species (Aug 19, 2019)
- Stakeholder engagement inspires a new design for GLANSIS database (June 27, 2019)
- The GLANSIS Map Explorer: Tracking Great Lakes invaders (Apr 25, 2019)
- Alien Language: Understanding terminology about nonindigenous species (Feb 24, 2019)
- Alien Language: Stages of invasion (Feb 24, 2019)
- Database provides a diverse toolkit for the fight against aquatic invaders (July 23, 2018)
- GLANSIS: A ‘one-stop shop’ for information on aquatic invaders (Feb 25, 2018)
- Collaborative team identifies 16 high-risk Great Lakes Invaders (NOAA GLERL Blog)
- GLANSIS featured in IJC newsletter
- New research reveals the top ten worst invasive species in the Great Lakes (Cottage Life)
- Scientists Reveal Great Lakes' 'Most Unwanted' Invaders (Newsweek)
- Marbled crayfish raises eyebrows, and concerns
- Asian Clam Joins The Threats Of Invasive Species In The Great Lakes, Comes From Illinois River (Science Times)
- GLANSIS Video Series
- Managing Great Lakes Invaders: GLANSIS Series Part 1
- Ballast Water: GLANSIS Series Part 2
- Sea Lamprey: GLANSIS Series Part 3
- Zebra and Quagga Mussels: GLANSIS Series Part 4
- Invasive Carp: GLANSIS Series Part 5
- See GLANSIS Program Manager Rochelle Sturtevant discuss GLANSIS and invasive species in a WGTE Town Hall (Starting at 26:30, aired April 26, 2018).
- Posters and Infographics
- GLANSIS Poster
- GLANSIS Watchlist
- 2018 Heat Map - Number of Aquatic Nonindigenous Species by Great Lakes Watershed