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Conference will take place online through Zoom. Free to attend, but registration is required.
Please join us for the 32nd annual Great Lakes Conference: Connecting Science and Management. This conference will feature presentations on fish consumption and environmental justice, predator-prey ratios, and lake trout recovery; high water levels, freak waves and flooding; environmental surveillance and assessing health; and connecting people to the Great Lakes. A full agenda is below.
9:30-11:00 — Theme 1: Great Lakes Ecology
Moderator: Scott Peacor, Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
9:30–9:50 — Identifying and Addressing Environmental Justice Issues around Fish Consumption
Donna Kashian, Professor & Director of Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit
9:50-10:10 — The Evolution and Management Application of the Lake Michigan Predator-Prey Ratio
Ben Turschak, Research Biologist, Fisheries Charlevoix Research Station, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Charlevoix
10:10-10:30 — The Past, Present, and Future of Lake Trout in Lake Michigan
Rick Clark, Research Professor, Quantitative Fisheries Center, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing
10:30-11:00 — Panel Q/A Session with Audience
11:00–11:15 — BREAK
Featured Presentation
11:15–12:00 — Addressing our Health with Environmental Surveillance from SARS in Wastewater to E. coli on our Beaches: The Impact of The Michigan Network for Environmental Technology
Joan Rose, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing
12:00-1:00 — LUNCH BREAK
1:00-2:30 — Theme 2 Great Lakes Water Levels
Moderator: Heather Triezenberg, Program Leader, Michigan Sea Grant Extension, Michigan State University
1:00-1:20 — Freak Waves and Meteo-tsunamis
Eric Anderson, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
1:20-1:40 — Water Level Variability and Extremes
Drew Gronewold, Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1:40-2:00 — Coastal Community Inundation: Impacts in the High Water Years 2019-2021
Mark Breederland, Michigan Sea Grant Extension, Traverse City
2:00-2:30 — Panel Q/A Session with Audience
2:30-2:40 — BREAK
2:40-3:25 — Wired Great Lakes: Connecting People to the Lakes One Buoy at a Time
Ed Verhamme, Principal Senior Engineer, LimnoTech, Ann Arbor
3:25-3:30 — Final Comments
For more information, contact Dr. Lois Wolfson at iwr@msu.edu or call 517-230-9281.
This conference is sponsored by Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Institute of Water Research, Michigan Sea Grant Extension, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, and MSU Extension as part of ANR Week at Michigan State University. Support is provided by the US Geological Survey Water Resources Research Program.