The NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory participates in
and also hosts many regular events, including seminars and public open
houses. Scroll below to view the scheduled calendar of events.
Calendar of Events: October 2004 |
October 19 - 10:30 a.m.
Seminar:
"Habitat-mediated production and recruitment
of young alewives in Lake Michigan"
Speaker: Tomas Höök, Doctoral Candidate, University of
Michigan
October 21 - 9:30 a.m.
Seminar:
"Ramblings About Algae in the Great
Lakes"
Speaker: Dr. Gary Fahnenstiel, Research Ecologist, GLERL
See our Seminars
page for more information.
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Calendar of Events: September 2004 |
September 30
GLERL's semi-annual
American Red Cross Blood Drive
September 16
Seminar:
"Spatial modeling of fish
growth rate and predator-prey interactions"
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Brandt, Director, GLERL
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Calendar of Events: August 2004 |
August 24-25
Coastal Observing System
Steering Committee meeting |
Calendar of Events: June 2004 |
June 29
Seminar:
"Compartments in Food Webs: How they
Help Quantify Structural Changes in the Food Web of Southeastern
Lake Michigan after the Invasion of Zebra Mussels and Bythotrephes"
Speaker: Ann Krause, Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University |
June 17
Seminar:
"Sedimentary Signatures of
Episodic Resuspension Events in Southern Lake Michigan"
Speaker: Dr. John Robbins, Environmental Geochemist, GLERL
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
June 10
Seminar:
"Winter Operation of Water
Intakes in the Nearshore Zone of the Great Lakes"
Speaker: Dr. Steven F. Daly, Research Hydraulic Engineer,
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Center, Hanover, NH
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
Calendar of Events: May 2004 |
May 20
Seminar:
"Biological Invasions in
the Great Lakes: Science, Management, and Policy"
Speaker: Dr. David Raikow, Biologist, NOAA National Center for Research
on Aquatic Invasive Species/GLERL
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
May 11
Seminar:
"Lacustrine organic matter
bulk and isotopic markers of environmental processes and paleoenvironmental
changes: Examples from Lagoa do Caço (Maranhão State,
Brazil)."
Speaker: Dr. Abdel Sifeddine, Paléotropique. UR 055.
IRD: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. France
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
May 9-16
Field
Course: Great Lakes Oceanography (pdf)
A one-week field intensive course conducted at NOAA GLERL's Lake
Michigan Field Station in Muskegon, MI is open to advanced undergraduate
and graduate students. Enrollment ends when course is full. For
more details, contact Gary Fahnenstiel. Class
is full as of March 1, 2004.
(posted 02-03-04). |
|
Calendar of Events: April 2004 |
April 26
GLERL 30th Anniversary Celebration
April 25
Public Open House at GLERL: Noon - 4pm |
April 15
Seminar:
"Recent Investigations into the use
of Body Residues as a Dose Metric"
Speaker: Dr. Peter Landrum, Aquatic Toxicologist, GLERL
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
Seminar:
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
April 8
Seminar:
"A Carbon Budget for Lake
Malawi, Africa"
Speaker: Dr. Harvey Bootsma, Great Lakes Water Institute, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
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Calendar of Events: March 2004 |
March 30
Red Cross Blood Drive, Room 105, 9am - 3pm Make
an appointment (Sponsor code: noaa) |
March 18
Seminar:
"Great Lakes Coastal Observation Systems
and Microsensor Development"
Speaker: Steven Ruberg, Research Engineer, GLERL
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
March 16
Seminar:
"A Physical-Biological Coupling
for the West Florida Shelf and a New Development of Turbulence-Wave
Interaction and Its Applications"
Speaker: Dr. Le Ly, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
March 4-5
Lake Erie Science Planning Workshop, Room 105 |
Calendar of Events: February 2004 |
February
26
Seminar:
"Numerical modeling of mixed
sediment resuspension, transport, and deposition during the March
1998 episodic events in Southern Lake Michigan"
Speaker: Cheegwan Lee, Research Associate, Cooperative Institute
for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), University of Michigan
|
February 19
Seminar:
"GLERL's Distributed Hydrology Model
for the Maumee River Watershed"
Speaker: Dr. Thomas E. Croley II, Research Hydrologist, NOAA/GLERL
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
February 12
Great Lakes Seminar Series: (Michigan Sea Grant
and UofM SNRE)
"Using Integrated Assessments and
Ecological Forecasts to Inform Great Lakes Policy "
Speaker: Dr. Donald Scavia, Director of Michigan
Sea Grant and
Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
Time: 4:00-5:15 pm
Location: Dana 1024, UofM Central Campus
The Dana Building is located on the north-east corner of the Central
Campus Diag, Map:http://www.umich.edu/news/ccamp.html
|
February 7
National Ocean Science Bowl: The Great Lakes Bowl Competition
NOSB is a nationwide academic competition for teams of
high school students focusing on math and science skills. This regional
competition is hosted by GLERL, University of Michigan, CILER, and
Michigan Sea Grant.
Great Lakes
Bowl Competition |
February
2
U of M SNRE Seminar:
"An examination of nearshore processes
and their influence on nutrient cycling and heterotrophic production
in Lake Michigan".
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Johengen, Director of the University
of Michigan's Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems
Research.
Seminar at Noon in SNRE Room 2024 on Central Campus |
Calendar of Events: January 2004 |
January 14
Seminar:
"Observations of Steep Wave Statistics
in Open Ocean Waters"
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Scott, Post Doctoral
Scholar,
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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2003 Past Events |
November 20
Seminar:
"The Benthification of Freshwater
Lakes: Exotics Turning Ecosystems Upside Down"
Speaker: Christine Mayer, Assistant Professor,
Department of E.E.E.S.
University of Toledo, Lake Erie Center |
November 13
Seminar:
"The NOS (National Ocean Service)
Great Lakes Observing Network"
Speakers: Mark Bushnell, Program Leader for the
Ocean Sensor Technology and Evaluation Program within NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS,
and, Jennifer Werner, Civil Engineer, NOAA/NOS/CO-OPS
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
November 12
Seminar:
"Oxygen Concentration and Demand in
Lake Erie Sediments"
Speaker: Dr. Gerald Matisoff, Department of Geological
Sciences, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH |
October
24
Seminar:
"Body Residues: Implications in Ecotoxicology
and Hazard Assessment"
Speaker: Dr. Lance J. Schuler, Southern
Illinois University |
October
24
The Huron River Watershed Council is hosting a
State of the Huron Conference at
Washtenaw Community College focusing on land use and other water
quality issues of importance to local officials, planners, researchers,
and all watershed residents. Conference hours: 8:30am - 3:30pm.
For information, contact Ellen Offen, 769-5123 Ext. #1
eoffen@hrwc.org |
October
17
Great Lakes Panel at U of M School of Natural
Resources and Environment, Room 2024, Dana Building, 9-11am
Keynote: "Cultural Eutrophication
in the Great Lakes: A changing paradigm about causes and consequences
of low-level phosphorus enrichment." , by Dr. Claire
Schelske, to be followed by a discussion: "Past, Present and
Future Great Lakes Activities in SNRE" led by SNRE Great Lakes
Theme Leader, Dr. Ed Rutherford.
The Dana Building is located on the north-east corner of the Central
Campus Diag, Map:http://www.umich.edu/news/ccamp.html
|
October
14
Seminar:
"Newly Discovered and Corroborated
Deleterious Effects of Zebra Mussels on Lake Ecosystems"
Speaker: Dr. David F. Raikow, Ecologist |
September
30
Red Cross Blood Drive
GLERL Conference Room, 9am - 3pm |
September
22
Seminar:
"Calibrating in situ fluorescence
to chlorophyll concentration for
Lake Michigan"
Speaker: Leah Welty, University of Chicago
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September
11
Seminar:
"Evaluating changes in winter climatology
and hydrology of the Lake Michigan basin from 1948 to 2000"
Speaker: Erin Argyilan, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Earth and Environmental
Sciences
|
August
19
Seminar:
"If Only Benthos Could Talk,
Fish Farming and Azoic Benthic Communities"
Speaker: Dr. Sandor Mulsow, International
Atomic Energy Agency Laboratory, Monaco
|
August
5-6
Ecosystem Forecasting Workshop
hosted at GLERL by Sea Grant Extension Specialist, Rochelle Sturtevant.
The purpose of the workshop is to gain a user perspective on specific
ecosystem forecast products that could be developed at GLERL to
meet basin residents' needs. |
July
30 - August 3
La Jolla, CA Ocean Sciences Bowl Team visits the Great Lakes as
part of their (4th place) prize. The students will go on a research
cruise aboard the R/V Laurentian in Lake Huron before visiting the
Muskegon Field Station and other sites of interest. |
July
22
Seminar:
"Analyses of Floc Characteristics
and Suspended Particle Behavior"
Speaker: Rajat K. Chakraborti, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York |
June
30
Seminar:
"Report of an Invasion: Limnoperna
fortunei (Dunker, 1857), or Golden Mussel, in South America"
Speaker: Dr. Gustavo Darrigran, Facultad
de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Paseo del Bosque - La Plata (1900),
Argentina
|
June
19
Seminar:
"Observed Climate Variability and
Change: Data Issues and Results"
Speaker: Dr. David R. Easterling, NOAA's
National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina
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June
10
Deputy Assistant Secretary of NOAA, Tim Keeney, visits GLERL and
announces the establishment of a new NOAA
National Center for Aquatic Invasive Species Research
to be located here at GLERL. |
June
3
GLERL hosts NOAA Regionalization Workshop aimed at improving communication
and cooperation between NOAA line offices in the Great Lakes region. |
June
2
University of Michigan Aquatic Nuisance Species Awareness Symposium
/ NOAA-GLERL Seminar
Keynote speech: Predicting
the Occurrence and Impact of Species Invasions in the Great Lakes
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Ricciardi, Redpath
Museum & McGill School of Environment, McGill
University, Montreal.
Location: Room 1040 Dana Bldg, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
A reception will follow in the Dana Commons. |
June
2
Seminar:
"Characterization of Hydrodynamics
using HGM and Ecoregions in Southeastern Michigan "
Speaker: David H. Merkey, M.L.A, CILER, University
of Michigan
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
May
29
Seminar:
"Beach Profiles Along Lake Erie"
Speaker: Dr. Tom Lippman, Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
May
20
Seminar:
"Modelling Transport in Lakes"
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Laval, Department of
Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
See our Seminars
page for more information. |
May
13
Seminar:
“The Importance of the Microbial
Food Web in C- and P- Transport through the Base of Great Lakes
Food Webs”
Speaker: Dr. Robert T. Heath, Kent
State University, Kent, Ohio
See our Seminars page for more information. |
May
4-11
Field Course:
Great Lakes Oceanography (pdf)
A one-week field intensive course conducted at NOAA GLERL's Lake
Michigan Field Station in Muskegon, MI is open to advanced undergraduate
and graduate students. Enrollment ends when course is full. For
more details, contact Gary Fahnenstiel.
(posted 01-07-03). Course CANCELLED
due to low enrollment (4/29/03). |
May
8
Seminar:
"A Changing Lake Erie Fish
Community: Unraveling the Mechanisms Involved"
Speaker: Dr. Stuart A. Ludsin, NOAA/GLERL,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
See our Seminars page for more information. |
March
17
2003 Summer Student Fellowships
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Great
Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) and the Cooperative
Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), at
the University of Michigan, announce the 2003 Great Lakes Summer
Student Fellowship Program.
We seek to fill thirteen full-time, three-month positions and one
two-month position. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled
in the 2002-03 academic year. The starting date will be between
May 15 and June 15, 2003. Application deadline: March 17,
2003.
(posted 02-2-02) |
February
8
The Midwest Regional Competition
of the NOSB was held on February 8, 2003 at the Francois
Xavier Bagnoud Center, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
North Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
School's that competed this year: Berkley High School, Berkley,
MI; Berrien County Math/Tech/Science Center, Berrien Springs, MI;
Dexter High School, Dexter, MI; Huron High School, Ann Arbor, MI;
Linworth Alternative, Worthington, OH; Litchfield High School, Litchfield,
MI; Mecosta-Osceola Math/Science Center, Big Rapids, MI; Okemos
High School, Okemos, MI; Port Hope High School, Port Hope, MI, Sterling
Heights High School, Sterling Heights, MI; and Troy High School,
Troy, MI.
E-mail: carole.fletcher@noaa.gov
(posted 01-024-03) |
January 20-21
Great Lakes Issue Identification Workshop
Sponsored by:
NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research
On January 20 – 21, 2003, the NOAA Center for Sponsored
Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR), NOAA-GLERL and the Cooperative
Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research (CILER) co-hosted
a NOAA Great Lakes Issues Identification Workshop at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The focus of this workshop was to identify
major issues within the Great Lakes that fit within the overall
goals of NOAA-CSCOR. The result of the workshop is detailed in
the Great
Lakes Issue Identification Workshop Report (PDF). [more
information...]
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