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GLERL 2001 Milestone Reports
Milestones are organized by fiscal year quarter.
FIRST QUARTER | SECOND QUARTER | THIRD QUARTER | FOURTH QUARTER
FIRST QUARTER (JANUARY 2001)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy seafood, and Economic vitality
Number of coastal and Great Lake states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of coastal processes
Milestone-01-1-1: Complete and report on studies of the impact of seasonal factors on the bioaccumulation of PCB congeners by the amphipod Diporeia spp. in the Great Lakes.
Scientist: P. Landrum
SECOND QUARTER (MARCH 2001)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, and Economic Vitality
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lake states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of coastal processes
Milestone-01-2-1: Complete a new high resolution bathymetry for Lake Huron and prepare for distribution.
Scientists: D. Reid, GLERL and T.L. Holcombe and D. Divins, NESDIS/NGDC
Milestone-01-2-2: Complete and report on investigations of the capability of Lake Michigan sediments for resuspension based on studies using an in situ flume
Scientist: N. Hawley
Milestone-01-2-3: Complete and report on investigations of single cell measurements of important phytoplankton processes.
Scientist: G. Fahnenstiel
PM: Develop better tools, predictive models and understanding related to water quality and coastal ecosystems management
Milestone-01-2-4: Complete all field work for the 6-year NOAA-NSF Coastal Ocean Program "The Impact of Episodic Events on the Great Lakes (EEGLE)" and report results to NOAA-COP, NSF and on the web.
Scientists: B. Eadie and D. Schwab
GOAL: BUILD SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES
OBJECTIVE 1: Eliminate and Prevent Overfishing and Overcapitalization
PM: By 2005, reduce by 40% (34) the number of overfished fisheries (currently 86 of 269 fisheries are overfished).
Milestone-01-2-5: Report on initial studies to evaluate the impact of declining food resources on Great Lakes fishes.
Scientists: S. Brandt and T. Nalepa
THIRD QUARTER (JUNE 2001)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Protect, conserve, and Restore Coastal Habitats and their Biodiversity
PM: Number of coastal regions with reduced introductions and impacts of nonindigenous species
Milestone-01-3-1: Distribution of the amphipod, Diporeia spp., throughout Lake Michigan and changes over the past 5 years since the introduction of the zebra mussel.
Scientist: T. Nalepa
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, and Economic Vitality
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lake states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of coastal processes
Milestone-01-3-2: Complete data collections describing currents and water circulation during summer and winter conditions in Burlington and Shelburne Bays, Lake Champlain.
Scientist: J. Saylor
Milestone-01-3-3: Complete the preliminary assessment of the wave grouping effects in nearshore Lake Michigan.
Scientist: P. Liu
GOAL: IMPLEMENT SEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL CLIMATE FORECASTS
OBJECTIVE 3: Conduct research for Improved Climate Predictions
PM: Improve understanding of atmospheric, oceanic, land surface and cryospheric processes that contribute to seasonal-to-interannual climate variability, as measured by peer-reviewed publications form NOAA-supported research
Milestone-01-3-4: Assessing impacts of projected greenhouse warming on Great Lakes regional water resources.
Scientist: B. Lofgren
FOURTH QUARTER (SEPTEMBER 2001)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine Resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, and Economic Vitality
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lake states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of coastal processes
Milestone-01-4-1: Determine modern sediment accumulation rates in Lake Michigan
Scientist: J. Robbins
Milestone-01-4-2: Describe the seasonal mesoscale patterns of plankton along onshore-offshore transects in southern Lake Michigan and evaluate the importance of these patterns to developing a monitoring program of the lake.
Scientist: H. Vanderploeg
Milestone-01-4-3: Complete improvements to the algorithm developed for Great Lakes ice cover classification and mapping using satellite SAR data.
Scientist: G. Leshkevich
GOAL: IMPLEMENT SEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL CLIMATE FORECASTS
OBJECTIVE 3: Conduct Research for Improved Climate Predictions
PM: Improve understanding of atmospheric, oceanic, land surface and cryospheric processes that contribute to seasonal-to-interannual climate variability, as measured by peer-reviewed publications form NOAA-supported research
Milestone-01-4-4 : Complete a statistical analysis of Great Lakes ice cover for a 23 winter base period (1973-1995)
Scientist: R. Assel
GOAL: DOCUMENT, PREDICT, AND ASSESS DECADAL-TO-CENTENNIAL CHANGE
OBJECTIVE 3: Ensure a Long-Term Climate Record
PM: Results of 90% of the research activities are to be cited in the year-2001 IPCC Third Assessment of Climate Change
Milestone-01-4-5: Complete hydrometeorological station directory database and map interface on the World Wide Web with the Great Lakes Commission
Scientist: T. Croley
Last updated: 2002-09-10 mbl