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December 2002
Contents
- President Signs Sea Grant Reauthorization Act
- WI Sea Grant - Is our Water Safe? Human health issues addressed
at public forum
- MI Sea Grant Transfer
- MI Sea Grant - UM seeks to reinvigorate Great Lakes Science
- MI Sea Grant Symposium
- Michigan Sea Grant Recommends New Great Lakes Research Projects
- IL-IN Sea Grant - Fish Profiling May Help Prevent Future Great
Lakes Invasions
- IL-IN Sea Grant - Eurasian Ruffe May Increase Pressure on Lake
Michigan Yellow Perch
- Tidbits - OH Sea Grant - National Ocean Science Bowl
- Web News
- WI Sea Grant - Madison Jason
- WI Sea Grant - MODIS Image Server
- MN Sea Grant - Superior Pursuit: Facts About The Greatest
Great Lake
- Publications
- WI Sea Grant - Littoral Drift
- MI Sea Grant - Upwellings (online at: www.miseagrant.org/pubs/up)
- WI -Sea Grant - Silver in the Environment
- Staff News
- MI Sea Grant - Bill Taylor Appointed to GLFC
- MI Sea Grant - Brenner named Chair-elect of the National
Sea Grant Web Specialists Network
- WI Sea Grant - Sea Grant Mourns Death of G.C. Becker
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1. President Signs Sea Grant Reauthorization Act
From Sea Grant News and Notes
On November 26, President George W. Bush signed into law H.R. 3389,
the National Sea Grant College Program Act Amendments of 2002, officially
completing the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant College
Program within the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the period between FY
2003 through 2008. The bill would authorize $60 million for FY 2003
increasing to $85 million by 2008. In addition to these amounts,
the bill would authorize an additional $5 million for zebra mussels,
$5 million for oyster disease, $5 million for algal blooms, and
$3 million for fishery extension each year.
2. WI Sea Grant - Is our Water Safe? Human health issues addressed
at public forum
Excerpt From the Littoral Drift, November/December 2002
Wisconsin's waters are abundant and relatively safe for drinking
and recreation, especially compared to many other places around
the world. Even so, Wisconsin citizens and governmental agencies
face numerous challenges in protecting the quality of our surface
and groundwater. Those were the take-home messages from two sessions
titled "Water and Human Health"at the Waters of Wisconsin
Forum in Madison Oct. 22. The sessions were organized by Vicky Harris,
Wisconsin Sea Grant water quality specialist, and William Sonzogni,
director of the Environmental Health Laboratory at the Wisconsin
State Laboratory of Hygiene. "I think a lot of people were
surprised to learn how widespread contaminants are in our waters,"
Harris said. "It was clear that we need better monitoring,
sound research on human health impacts, adequate regulations, and
public awareness on these issues."
The presenters offered many recommendations for addressing risks,
among them to:
- develop rapid, genomic-based methods of detecting and identifying
pathogens;
- encourage collaboration among health-care providers, hydrogeologists,
microbiologists, epidemiologists, and educators to cement the link
between groundwater quality and public health; and
- adequately fund state and local government agencies responsible
for protecting and delivering high-quality drinking water.
The complete list of recommendations as well as audience members'
questions and presenters' responses can be found at
www.seagrant.wisc.edu/outreach/water_quality/wq_meetings_workshops.asp.
3. MI Sea Grant Transfer
MI Sea Grant has formally announced the transfer of the UM part
of Michigan Sea Grant from the College of Engineering to the School
of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE). The Dean of SNRE,
Rosina Bierbaum, has declared the Great Lakes as one of five major
themes of the School and we expect that UM MSG will flourish in
this environment. This transfer will bring the academic and administrative
arms of Great lakes to a common program and should invigorate Sea
Grant's efforts in interdisciplinary studies and Great Lakes ecology.
MI Sea Grant expects to physically move from the North Campus to
the Central Campus during the winter term. This change should be
largely transparent to external constituencies - addresses, phone
and FAX numbers will likely change within a few months and those
changes will be widely communicated. In the meantime, personnel
of both units - MSG and CILER - can be contacted as before.
As part of this move, the Provost has granted SNRE a senior, tenured
faculty line for the next Michigan Sea Grant Director. The search
committee is being organized.
4. MI Sea Grant - UM seeks to reinvigorate Great Lakes Science
The School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE) at the
University of Michigan has partnered with Michigan's Sea Grant College
Program and the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems
Research (CILER). The University of Michigan is determined to reinvigorate
its Great Lakes instructional and research activity, with the focus
in SNRE.
The School of Natural Resources & Environment (SNRE) has recently
defined four theme areas, which describe foci of interdisciplinary
research emphasized within the School; one of these areas is Great
Lakes. Developing strategies for the careful management of the Great
Lakes is one of SNRE's leading priorities. Approximately one quarter
of the School's faculty have self-identified as active in this area.
SNRE, with its Great Lakes focus and cohort of faculty involved
in Great Lakes research can offer a synergistic home for MSG and
CILER, thereby facilitating the rebuilding of the Great Lakes program
at Michigan.
5. MI Sea Grant Symposium
Ann Arbor-University of Michigan (UM) President Mary Sue Coleman
addressed a capacity crowd at a November 2002 symposium in Ann Arbor,
stressing UM's commitment to reclaim its once pre-eminent position
in Great Lakes research. Coleman highlighted the ecological and
economic importance of the Great Lakes, which contain about one-fifth
of the world's surface supply of fresh water and virtually surround
the state of Michigan. To place the size of the Great Lakes in context,
the waters of Puget Sound can fit into Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay,
while the Chesapeake Bay can fit comfortably into the bottom third
of Lake Michigan.
The two-day symposium featured presentations by UM faculty highlighting
10 priority issues. Among the most pressing topics covered were
the damaging impacts of aquatic nuisance species and diversion and
consumption of Great Lakes water. UM researchers noted that the
rate of aquatic nuisance species introductions into the Great Lakes
is increasing, leading to growing economic costs and a loss of aquatic
biodiversity. Diversion and consumption of Great Lakes water will
also increase with population growth and, according to UM researchers,
may be magnified by the effects of global warming.
In closing comments, Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of UM's School of Natural
Resources and Environment (SNRE), praised the symposium as "provocative
and invigorating." She announced that UM Office of Vice President
for Research (OVPR) has committed $200,000 annually for four years
to fund interdisciplinary Great Lakes research projects as part
of its new Great Lakes Initiative.
Michigan Sea Grant was instrumental in organizing the symposium
in partnership with SNRE and in conjunction with the second annual
Peter M. Wege Lecture. As part of the Great Lakes Initiative, Michigan
Sea Grant will formally be transferred from the UM College of Engineering
to the UM School of Natural Resources and Environment. In light
of the symposium's success, organizers plan to publish papers presented
in a peer-reviewed journal, coordinate a Great Lakes seminar series,
and establish the Great Lakes symposium as an annual event.
6. Michigan Sea Grant Recommends New Great Lakes Research Projects
Michigan Sea Grant recently selected five Great Lakes research
projects to receive a total of $539,786 in federal funding from
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Sea
Grant Program. The projects leverage an additional $285,485 in non-federal
match over a two-year period beginning March 2003. The projects
will investigate changing Great Lakes food web dynamics, state-of-the
art zebra mussel control strategies and contaminants contained in
coastal wetlands. The new research projects coincide with three
of the five priority issues identified in Michigan Sea Grant's five-year
strategic plan-Great Lakes trophic change, aquatic nuisance species,
and coastal wetlands. Following is a list and brief description
of research projects and principal investigators. For more information
on Michigan Sea Grant funded research, visit the program web site
at www.miseagrant.org. Awards will be official March 1, 2003 when
the National Sea Grant College Program approves the 2003 budget.
- Identification of Adhesion Molecules in the Zebra Mussel (Dreissena
polymorpha) Mohamed Faisal, Michigan State University, faisal@ahdl.msu.edu;
(517) 432-4680.
- Impacts of Exotic Species and Trophic Change on Fish Community
Structure, Population Dynamics and Food Web Linkages in Saginaw
Bay, Lake Huron. Sara Adlerstein, University of Michigan, sadlerstein@usgs.gov;
(734) 764-4491. Edward Rutherford, University of Michigan, edwardr@umich.edu;
(734) 764-4491.
- The Impact of the Diporeia Decline on the Competitive Interactions
and Distributions of Slimy and Deepwater Sculpins in Lake Michigan.
David Jude, University of Michigan, djude@umich.edu; (734) 763-3183.
- Spatial Genetic Structuring of Forage Fish in the Upper Great
Lakes: Evidence for a Subdivided Forage Base and Implications
for Structuring in Predatory Fish Species. Kim Scribner, Michigan
State University, scribne3@msu.edu; (517) 353-3288. Wendy Stott,
U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center, wstott@usgs.gov;
(734) 214-7242.
- An Evaluation of Seasonal and Temporal Variability in Potential
Trace Metal Remobilization in Coastal Wetlands Sediments Using
Voltammetric Microelectrode Technology and Solid-Phase Extraction
Techniques. Brent Lewis, Kettering University, blewis@kettering.edu;
(810) 762-7918.
7. IL-IN Sea Grant - Fish Profiling May Help Prevent Future
Great Lakes Invasions
From Sea Grant News and Notes
Suspect profiling is a commonly used technique in the fight against
crime. Now, according to a study reported in the November 8th issue
of the journal Science, scientists are using species profiling to
help prevent further introductions of invasive fish into the Great
Lakes and other waterways.
"Once an invasive species becomes established in a new environment,
its impact often is irreversible," said David Lodge, Illinois-Indiana
Sea Grant researcher and a biologist at the University of Notre
Dame. "If we knew which ones would be likely to present problems
in the future, we could focus our efforts on preventing those particular
species from taking hold," said Lodge, who is a member of the
Federal Invasive Species Advisory Committee. To provide some answers,
Lodge and fellow researcher Cindy Kolar, developed a risk-assessment
"decision tree" that environmental agencies and managers
can use to predict possible culprits of tomorrow. This computer
model correctly identified nuisance fish with a high degree of accuracy.
Using data from as far back as the glacial age, the researchers
gathered information on a range of species characteristics to identify
those that are likely to be adaptive in new environments. "Introduced
species that are successful have several traits in common,"
said Lodge. "More so than unsuccessful invaders, they tolerate
a wide range in temperature and salinity. These fishes are also
smaller at maturity and have higher reproduction rates." By
applying the profiles to fishes that have not yet been introduced
to the Great Lakes, Lodge and Kolar have identified 22 species that
one-day may pose problems. With this sort of information, prevention
efforts can be targeted. "An immediate rapid response to a
species that is a likely threat even if it is fairly expensive might
save a great deal of money and effort, and reduce environmental
effects, down the road," said Lodge.
CONTACT: David Lodge, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Research Scientist,
Associate Professor of Biology, University of Notre Dame, Phone:
(574) 631-6094
8. IL-IN Sea Grant - Eurasian Ruffe May Increase Pressure on
Lake Michigan Yellow Perch
From Sea Grant News and Notes
Eurasian ruffe, an invasive fish whose numbers have multiplied
dramatically in Lake Superior, have now been spotted in northern
parts of Lake Michigan. The good news is that round gobies, which
are already abundant in Lake Michigan, may keep ruffe numbers down.
The bad news is that Eurasian ruffe will nonetheless deplete resources
for yellow perch, an important native sport fish. With funding from
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, Gary Lamberti, University of Notre Dame,
and Martin Berg of Loyola (Ill.) University have been studying the
relationship among Eurasian ruffe, round gobies and zebra mussels,
and how this "exotic triad" can affect yellow perch. "Exotic
species now dominate the food webs of the Great Lakes, including
Lake Michigan," says Lamberti. The researchers found that although
the relationship between these invaders is complex, one fact is
simple. The successful species is often the one that gets there
first, noting that in Lake Superior Eurasian ruffe have become the
dominant fish, while in Lake Michigan, round gobies have become
numerically dominant, relegating ruffe to deeper waters. Yellow
perch in Lake Michigan are pressured early in life by competition
from zebra mussels and round gobies. Zebra mussels filter plankton
that larval perch need to grow. Gobies not only eat yellow perch
eggs, they also compete with young perch for invertebrate food.
Even a diminished ruffe presence will further impact the young perch.
As yellow perch grow larger they move to deeper waters, as do ruffe.
Unlike larger yellow perch, ruffe prefer the bottom habitat, but
nonetheless the two species will continue to tap the same food sources.
"The addition of Eurasian ruffe to Lake Michigan waters will
likely increase the bottleneck on yellow perch," said Lamberti.
"The native fish will experience increased competition during
several stages of its life."
Contact: Gary Lamberti, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Researcher,
Associate Professor of Biology, University of Notre Dame; Phone:
(574) 631-8075; Martin Berg, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Researcher,
Assistant Professor of Biology, Loyola (Ill.) University; Phone:
(773) 508-8853
9. Tidbits
OH Sea Grant - National Ocean Science Bowl
A new addition to the NOSB family - High schools in Ohio and the
surrounding area are invited to participate in the Penguin Bowl
hosted by Youngstown State University on March 1, 2003.
10. Web News
WI Sea Grant - Madison Jason
From Sea Grant News and Notes
An international, interdisciplinary program that uses state-of-the-art
technology such as the Internet and satellite feeds to enable 4th-
through 8th-grade students to see and talk with scientists and researchers
doing fieldwork in remote locations in the world. Site also provides
professional development for teachers. Features include profiles
of Great Lakes fish, birds, and frogs; interactive quizzes; guides
to student and teacher resources, interviews with scientists, and
student art and projects as developed as part of the JASON Project
curriculum. This award-winning site is run by Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Check it out at http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/kidsteachers/madisonjason/
WI Sea Grant - MODIS Image Server
From Littoral Drift
The UW-Madison Environmental Remote Sensing Center has just released
its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image
server. The server is accessible through a link on the center's
website at http://www.ersc.wisc.edu
The image server allows users to view, pan, zoom in on or print
spectacular color images of Wisconsin from space. The site serves
data from daily transmissions received from the NASA satellite Terra.
Because of its high spectral resolution, the primary application
for imagery is for monitoring lake water clarity.
Established at the University in 1970, ERSC is one of the largest
and oldest remote-sensing facilities in the United States. Its primary
mission is to develop and apply cutting-edge remote sensing and
geospatial technologies to improve our understanding of environmental
systems, problems and solutions.
The center is interested in obtaining feedback onthe site. Please
send comments to sabatzli@wisc.edu
MN Sea Grant - Superior Pursuit: Facts About The Greatest
Great Lake
From Sea Grant News and Notes
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/tourism/pursuit.html
Whether you visit Minnesota's North Shore or live there year-round,
Lake Superior is a constant source of wonder. From the sunny calm
of July to the gray crashing waves of November, the lake helps shape
the climate, landscape, economy, and quality of life along the shore.
Learn some fun and interesting facts about Lake Superior that highlight
the greatness of this inland sea at this Minnesota Sea Grant website.
11. Publications
WI Sea Grant - Littoral Drift
- Is our Water Safe
- Sea Grant Mourns Death of GC Becker
- Commission Releases 11th Biennial Report on Great Lakes Water
Quality
- Site Offers Unique Views of State
- Zebra Mussels Invade Three New Lakes
- Sea Grant Seeks Input from Charter Fishing Captains
MI Sea Grant - Upwellings (online at: www.miseagrant.org/pubs/up)
- Reflections at Year's End
- University of Michigan (UM) Great Lakes Symposium
- Aquatic Nuisance Species: Threats to the Great Lakes
- Aquatic Nuisance Species on the Web
- American Heritage Rivers National Conference
- National Ocean Sciences Bowl
WI -Sea Grant - Silver in the Environment
Anders W. Andren and Thomas W Bober, eds., Silver in the Environment:
Transport, Fate, and Effects" Pensacola Florida: Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 169 pages, 2002. WISCU-W-00-001.
$40. Contact linda@seagrant.wisc.edu
for ordering information.
12. Staff News
MI Sea Grant - Bill Taylor Appointed to GLFC
President Bush intends to appoint William (Bill) Taylor, Associate
Director of Michigan Sea Grant College Program, to be the Alternate
Commissioner of the United States Section of the Great Lakes Fishery
Commission. Taylor is Professor and Chair of the Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife at Michigan State University (MSU). He is also Chair
of the Board of Directors for the North Central Regional Aquaculture
Center and is a past-president of the American Fisheries Society.
In addition, to the President's appointment, Michigan's Governor
John Engler recently named Taylor as one of four members to the
Aquatic Nuisance Species Coordinating Council. Taylor will represent
the general public for a term ending December 16, 2004. This newly
created council will be responsible for improved coordination between
the relevant state departments, the federal government, other Great
Lakes states, existing Great Lakes institutions, and the general
public.
MI Sea Grant - Brenner named Chair-elect of the National
Sea Grant Web Specialists Network
Dave Brenner , Michigan Sea Grant Senior Graphic Artist, has been
named Chair-elect of the National Sea Grant Web Specialists Network.
The Sea Grant Web Specialists Network oversees web standards and
consistency for the 30 Sea Grant programs. Brenner was an integral
part of creating the look and feel for the Sea Grant regional web
sites and responsible for the management of the Great Lakes region.
In his role as Chair-elect, Brenner will serve a three-year term,
representing the Sea Grant Web community internally as well as enhancing
Sea Grant's overall Web presence.
WI Sea Grant - Sea Grant Mourns Death of G.C. Becker
From the Littoral Drift, November/December 2002
George C. Becker, eminent fisheries biologist and author of the
seminal Fishes of Wisconsin, passed away Nov. 4, 2002 at his home
in Eureka Springs, Ark. A native German speaker from Milwaukee,
Becker began his academic career with a master's degree in
Germanic philology and a job teaching high school Latin and modern
languages in Port Edwards, Wis. He entered the U.S. Army in 1941
and was a master sergeant in charge of the first radio stations
serving Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines.
In a September 2000 interview, Becker said he had intended to
keep his love for the natural world separate from his vocation.
But that changed when he met Aldo Leopold. "That was a wrenching
experience,"Becker said of his realization that he'd
have to change careers. In the mid 1950s, he left his position as
a high school principal and earned master's degrees in zoology
and botany, then a Ph.D. in ichthyology from UW-Madison. During
a course with the prominent limnologist Arthur Hassler, he was surprised
to find the only overview of Wisconsin fish was a thin book of about
100 pages. "And that was all! For the state of Wisconsin!"
he recalled. "And that's where the idea for Fishes of
Wisconsin was born."
Becker spent much of the next three decades collecting research
articles and, with the help of his students, gathering more than
250,000 fish specimens. Supported in part by UW Sea Grant, Becker
spent six years writing, editing and drawing illustrations for the
1,052-page book.
Becker taught biology at UW-Stevens Point for 22 years. He was
involved in many science, biology and conservation organizations,
including the Citizens' Natural Resources Association; the
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters; and the Wisconsin
Ornithological Society.
An online, searchable version of the entire text and illustrations
of Fishes of Wisconsin is available at:
www.seagrant. wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/becker.html.
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November 2002
Contents:
1. Announcement: 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation
Biology
2. MN Sea Grant - Environmental Estrogens may Threaten Minnesota
Walleye Fishery
3. WI Sea Grant - 2004-06 RFPs
4. NY Sea Grant - Fisheries undergrads get a taste of research
5. MI Sea Grant - Re-invigorating Great Lakes Research and Michigan
Sea Grant Director Search
6. OH - Stone Laboratory Awarded Enhancement Grant
7. Web News
MI Sea Grant - Purple Pages
MN Sea Grant - Lake Ecology Primer
8. Publications
IL-IN Sea Grant "The HELM"
OH Sea Grant - "Twine Line"
IL-IN Sea Grant
WI Sea Grant
Dredge Materials Symposium Proceedings
MN Sea Grant - NEW Exotics ID Cards Available
9. Staff News
ESCAPE
IL-IN Sea Grant - Beach Watch
NY - David White named to MEEF 2002-2003 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MN Sea Grant - Bowen Earns Outstanding Service Award
MN Sea Grant - Shoreland Education Awards
MN Sea Grant - Barb Peichel Awarded Knauss Fellowship
IL-IN Sea Grant - Student Awards
MI Sea Grant - Anna Grace Breederland
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1. Announcement: 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation
Biology
June 28 - July 2, 2003, Duluth, MN
The local organizing committee is now accepting abstracts for invited
symposia, oral and poster presentations. The theme of the meeting,
"Conservation of Land and Water Interactions," will focus
attention on water, forests, wetlands, the Great Lakes, other large
lakes and rivers of the world, marine and coastal systems, and associated
biodiversity issues. Deadline for submission is
January 10, 2003. For more information, see the meeting's web site
at www.d.umn.edu/ce/conferences/scb2003 or contact Kris Lund at
(218) 726-7810.
2. MN Sea Grant - Environmental Estrogens may Threaten Minnesota
Walleye Fishery
Some male fish that dwell in Minnesota waters are developing female
characteristics, according to a study by Sea Grant researchers.
Smaller sex organs, female proteins and sterility were some of the
characteristics found among populations of walleye, fathead minnow
and carp. The mix-up is caused when chemicals get into waterways
and then interferes with the fishes' development and
reproductive systems. The chemicals, known as environmental estrogens,
act the same as natural estrogen, a female hormone. Trace amounts
of the chemicals are enough to change the male fish. If too many
fish lose their male traits, a drop in the fish population could
lead to major ecological problems and impact the economically important
recreational walleye fishing industry.
University of Minnesota Sea Grant researcher Deb Swackhamer and
her team are studying two Minnesota waterways (Duluth-Superior Harbor
and the Mississippi River near St. Paul) to learn more about the
source of the environmental estrogens, as well as their effects
on fish. Considered endocrine disruptors, the chemicals can reach
the environment through sewage systems, paper
mills, feed lots or industrial waste. Environmental estrogens can
come from the natural hormone estrogen (found in animals, including
humans), or from synthetic hormones like those found in birth control
pills and industrial products such as detergents, packaging plastics
and insecticides.
Many questions still remain. So far, researchers have been unable
to pinpoint a specific chemical as the cause of the sexual changes.
The team has found that some wild male walleye taken from waters
near a sewage outflow of the Mississippi River had high levels of
the female egg protein vitellogenin, decreased gonad size and no
sperm. But laboratory goldfish exposed to the same water experienced
much lesser effects. "Even these subtle effects may have an
impact on wild fish," says Swackhamer, "where reproductive
opportunities are limited and competition is severe." Further
study of fish in Duluth, and eventually the entire Great Lakes,
should give her team a better idea of what causes the fish to develop
female characteristics.
CONTACT: Deb Swackhamer, Minnesota Sea Grant Researcher and University
of Minnesota Professor, School of Public Health (O) 612-626-0435
3. WI Sea Grant - 2004-06 RFPs
Working with anyone at the University of Wisconsin? UW Sea Grant
began soliciting preliminary proposals for the 2004-06 grant period
on October 28, with a submission deadline for pre-proposals of December
2, 2002. While federal employees cannot receive funding from Sea
Grant, some of your University-based collaborators may be eligible.
Additional information, descriptions of currently funded projects
and UW Sea Grant draft 2002-06 strategic plan can be found at www.seagrant.wisc.edu
or contact assistant director for research James Hurley for more
information.
4. NY Sea Grant - Fisheries undergrads get a taste of research
In early October, fisheries undergraduates studying with Karin
Limburg at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
(ESF) in Syracuse came aboard Stony Brook University's R/V
Seawolf to evaluate the abundance, variety, and value of the "catch"
in Port Jefferson Harbor. Marine Sciences Research Center's Tim
Essington hosted the joint field trip. During a morning cruise on
the state-of-the-art research vessel, the combined group of students
netted and studied commercially important finfish and shellfish
from Long Island Sound.
Both classes benefited from the experience. Of the ESF undergrads
from Syracuse, Limburg says, "This was a great opportunity
for them to get some hands-on appreciation of saltwater fish and
to compare the diversity and abundance of marine life to what they
see in inland waters upstate." Adds Essington, "By sharing
our data, both classes are getting a good picture of the nature
of the fish community, the scale of the system, and a sense of their
population dynamics." Both Essington and Limburg receive funding
from New York Sea Grant for separate research studies.
Essington's current Sea Grant project analyzes the interactions
between squid and their fish predators in the continental shelf
ecosystem. His results will be used to complete federal fisheries
management plans in the mid-Atlantic region.
Limburg recently completed a Sea Grant study on blueback herring,
a Hudson River native that has taken up residency in the fresh waters
of the Mohawk River and the Great Lakes. Although well studied in
estuaries, little is known about the chances of its spreading westward.
5. MI Sea Grant - Re-invigorating Great Lakes Research and Michigan
Sea Grant Director Search
University of Michigan (UM) President Mary Sue Coleman addressed
a capacity crowd at a November 2002 symposium in Ann Arbor, organized
by Michigan Sea Grant and the UM School of Natural Resources and
Environment and supported by the UM Office of Vice President for
Research.
"In a state that touches four of the five bodies of water
and defines itself-geographically, historically and psychologically-by
its coastlines, it's hard to imagine a more pressing ecological
research imperative," said Coleman. Coleman highlighted the
ecological and economic importance of the Great Lakes, which contain
about one-fifth of the world's surface supply of fresh water and
virtually surround the state of Michigan. To place the size of the
Great Lakes in context, the waters of Puget Sound can fit into Lake
Huron's Saginaw Bay, while the Chesapeake Bay can fit comfortably
into the bottom third of Lake Michigan.
In closing comments, Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of UM's School of Natural
Resources and Environment (SNRE), praised the symposium as "provocative
and invigorating." She announced that UM Office of Vice President
for Research (OVPR) has committed $200,000 annually for four years
to fund multidisciplinary Great Lakes research projects as part
of its new Great Lakes Initiative.
The UM Great Lakes Initiative also calls for a national director
search for the Michigan Sea Grant College Program, one of 30 Sea
Grant programs in the nation. Michigan Sea Grant was instrumental
in organizing the symposium in partnership with SNRE and in conjunction
with the second annual Peter M. Wege Lecture.
6. OH - Stone Laboratory Awarded Enhancement Grant
Excerpt from press release
F.T. Stone Laboratory, The Ohio State University's Island
Campus, recently received a grant of $348,000 from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH)
helped obtain this grant that will enhance the equipment and facilities
used by students and researchers at Stone Laboratory.
"We really owe a debt of gratitude to Senator DeWine. This
award will greatly enhance our research, education, and outreach
programs and impact thousands of students and scientists studying
at the Laboratory each year,"said Dr. Jeffrey Reutter, Laboratory
Director. "With so many changes occurring in Lake Erie, this
is a perfect time to enhance our research capabilities,"he
added.
The grant will be used to enhance the Laboratory's research,
education, and outreach programs by purchasing new microscopes,
computers, and radar units for the Laboratory's research vessels
the BioLab and Gibraltar III, and supporting the construction of
an educational kiosk on South Bass Island near the Laboratory. The
award will also fund major renovations to the first floor of the
Research Building.
Stone Laboratory is located on Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay harbor,
Lake Erie. Established in 1895, it is the oldest freshwater biological
field station in the U.S. Each summer, the Laboratory offers college
courses for credit in the biological sciences and natural resources.
Programs for students in grades 4-12 are offered during the school
year. The Laboratory is also a year-round research facility. To
learn more about Stone Laboratory programs, visit www.sg.ohio-state.edu.
7. Web News
MI Sea Grant - Purple Pages
The Great Lakes Information Network recently featured Michigan
Sea Grant's "Purple Pages" http://www.miseagrant.org/pp/
as the "What's New on GLIN" web site of the day. "They're
beautiful and informative... the menu rollovers are awesome and
really helpful/useful! Great design."
The Purple Pages were featured on Daily News page http://www.great-lakes.net/news,
listed on the Invasive Species page http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/invasive/invasive.html
and the Purple Loosestrife page at http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/invasive/loosestf.html
Also, the National Science Teacher Association recently notified
us of their selection of a Purple Pages activity
(http://www.miseagrant.org/pp/activity_five.htm) marking this page
as one of excellence by the SciLinks program, a service of NSTA.
MN Sea Grant - Lake Ecology Primer
Check out an on-line limnology primer,
http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/under/primer/index.html.
This 21-page-primer provides a general background to Water on the
Web by introducing the basic concepts necessary to understand how
lake ecosystems function. The reader is later referred to a list
of texts and journals for more in-depth coverage of the science
of freshwater ecosystems.
8. Publications
IL-IN Sea Grant "The HELM" http://www.iisgcp.org/aboutus/focus/helm/index.html
Fall 2002
Wingspread Accord Ties Future Growth To Natural Resources
U of I Ecologist Named Sea Grant Director
Removing Dams Reconnects the River System
An Electric Barrier to the Flow of Invasive Species
Simulated Barrier Stops Bighead Carp
OH Sea Grant - "Twine Line" http://www.sg.ohio-state.edu/pdfs/tl-so-02.pdf
Sept/Oct 2002
Entering the Zone - Feature on the Lake Erie Dead Zone
Ask Your Agent - Environmentally friendly communities?
New Steelhead Angler Survey
IL-IN Sea Grant - contact Susan
White at white2@uiuc.edu for ordering information
Stop Ballast Water Invasions. A brochure on ballast management
tips,aquatic nuisances species information,and regulations regarding
ballast water for the shipping industry. Also included are provisions,
reporting and verification, and enforcement programs. 8pp.
Don't Dump Bait Stickers. Preprinted stickers for bags and minnow
buckets carry a message that discourages release of unwanted bait
into the wild.
Improved Decision-Making for Water Resources: The Key to Sustainable
Development for Metropolitan Regions. 153 pp.
IISG Annual Report 2001. This report describes the activities of
the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program for the period from
January 1,2001 until December 31,2001.
Protecting Our Water and Environmental Resources. A model for incorporating
natural resources into local land use decisions. You can download
this publication at www.planningwithpower.org .
How to Get Started: Protecting Your Town from Polluted Runoff.
Provides a step-by-step process for citizens and local leaders.
You can download this publication at www.planningwithpower.org.
WI Sea Grant - contact linda@seagrant.wisc.edu for
oredering information
Patrick J. Schmalz, Michael J. Hansen, Mark E. Holey, Patrick C.
McKee and Michael L. Toneys, "Lake Trout Movements in Northwestern
Lake Michigan," North American Journal of Fisheries Management,
22:737-749, 2002. WISCU-R-02-010
James T. Waples and J Val Klump, "Biophysical Effects of a
Decadal Shift in Summer Wind Direction Over the Laurentian Great
Lakes," Geophysical Research Letters, 29(8)10.1029/2001 GL014564,
2002 WISCU-R-02-011
Dredge Materials Symposium Proceedings
A special issue of Ecological Engineering has been produced based
on the NOAA-Sea Grant Symposium on the "Beneficial Uses of
Dredge Materials for Coastal Ecosystem Restoration."
Contents:
- Editorial: "Use of dredge materials for coastal restoration"
by B.A. Costa-Pierce and M.P. Weinstein
- "Beneficial use of dredged material to enhance the restoration
trajectories of formerly diked lands" by M.P. Weinstein and
L.L. Weishar
- "Innovative erosion control involving the beneficial use
of dredge material, indigenous vegetation and landscaping along
the Lake Erie Shoreline" by E.J. Comoss, D.A. Kelly, and
H.Z. Leslie
- "Detrimental effects of sedimentation on marine benthos:
What can be learned from natural processes and rates?" by
D.C. Miller, C.L. Muir, and O.A. Hauser
Available from Rhode Island Sea Grant. Order: Ecological Engineering
19(3). 2002. 51 pages. $25. Send check or money order payable to
Rhode Island Sea Grant/URI to: Rhode Island Sea Grant Publications,
URI Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI 02882-1197. For more information,
please contact Jean Gallo, Rhode Island Sea Grant publications manager,
at (401) 874-6842.
"Sediment Toxicity Risk Assessment: Where are We and Where
Should We be Going?" is a 100-page publication including four
technical papers presented at a workshop held in conjunction with
the above symposium plus an edited transcript of a facilitated workshop
included in the workshop. Papers include:
- Integrating Toxicology and Ecology: Putting the "Eco"
into Ecotoxicology" by Peter M. Chapman
- An Overview of Toxicant Identification in Sediments and Dredged
Materials, by Kay T. Ho
- Toxicity Testing, Risk Assessment, and Options for Dredged Material
Management, by Wayne R. Munns, Jr.
- New Concepts in Ecological Risk Assessment: Where do We Go From
Here? by Keith R. Solomon.
Copies are available for $7.00 each. Checks should be made out
to NJMSC and sent to Dredged Materials Proceedings, NJMSC, Bldg.
#22 Fort Hancock, NJ 07732 Additional information can be obtained
by contacting Kim Kosko, NJMSC.
MN Sea Grant - NEW Exotics ID Cards Available
Eurasian watermilfoil is the latest species targeted by Sea Grant's
aquatic nuisance species identification card series. The free wallet-sized
card gives background information about why Eurasian watermilfoil
is a problem, outlines what actions boaters and anglers can take
to prevent the spread of this problem species, and provides identification
details. We have also updated the Purple Loosestrife WATCH identification
card. Cards were produced for 8 states, plus the U.S Fish and Wildlife
Service, and Canada. Plans are in the works to produce a European
frog-bit card (an aquatic nuisance plant), a combination spiny waterflea/fishhook
waterflea card, and a rusty crayfish card.
Specific versions were developed for Illinois-Indiana, Lake Champlain,
Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin
plus the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canada-Ontario. 1.1
million of these cards were produced by Minnesota Sea Grant through
a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
to the National Sea Grant
College Program through an appropriation by Congress based on the
National Invasive Species Act of 1996.
Single cards are free. GLERL Staff wishing to obtain cards for
distribution should contact Rochelle Sturtevant.
9. Staff News
ESCAPE
The ESCAPE (Exotic Species Compendium of Activities to Protect the
Ecosystem )project brought home the gold as a non-credit educational
project,and an Outstanding Professional Skill Award,for distance
education and instructional design,in this year's Agricultural Communicators
in Education (ACE)competition. Accepting these awards are Robin
Goettel, IISG communications coordinator, Valerie Eichman, education
projects assistant,and Susan White, publications production and
marketing assistant. Also contributing in the Great Lakes Sea Grant
Network were Helen Domske, NY;Rosanne Fortner, OH; Doug Jensen,
MN;and Mike Klepinger, MI. For more information about ordering ESCAPE,
go to www.iisgcp.org/edu/escape/index.html
IL-IN Sea Grant - Beach Watch
This spring,the BeachWatch information campaign won a gold award
in external communications programs from ACE.This marketing effort
also won the Outstanding Professional Skill Award in the ACE category,integrated
communications programs. BeachWatch is a series of eye-catching
posters and postcards that provide critical information about E.coli
outbreaks, and about other beach and water quality issues.They were
distributed to major museums,a national and a state park,and environmental
organizations and other institutions involved with citizens interested
in water quality issues. These awards are shared by IISG staff members
Irene Miles, media specialist, Leslie Dorworth, water quality specialist,
and Debra Levey Larson, former media specialist.
NY - David White named to MEEF 2002-2003 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Excerpt from Press Release
The Marine Environmental Education Foundation (MEEF) recently named
its 2002-2003 Board of Directors. David White, representing New
York Sea Grant, replaced Jim Fry as the Chairman of the 17 member
Board. "This year's Board reflects the growing diversification
of MEEF's activities,"said Dave White, newly elected
Chairman of the MEEF Board of Directors. He continued "This
new board reflects MEEF's desire to increase the number of
clean marina activities its supports as well as continuing its successful
programming aimed at raising awareness about clean boating."
Founded in 1994, MEEF has evolved as a national consortium of marine
industry associations, marine businesses, academia, government agencies
and environmental groups that have come together to promote clean
water through education and experience. By bringing together national
specialists, MEEF is able to develop educational programs and research
on marine environmental
issues. MEEF is devoted to programs that result in greater awareness
of marine environmental issues and regulations.
MN Sea Grant - Bowen Earns Outstanding Service Award
Debbie Bowen, information specialist, has earned an Outstanding
Service Award from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Bowen will
be recognized in a ceremony in November for her productivity under
pressure, initiative in the use of technology and in working on
several web sites, her innovative ideas for publications production,
excellent performance, and dedication to Minnesota Sea Grant and
the University.
MN Sea Grant - Shoreland Education Awards
Cindy Hagley environmental quality specialist, and Barb Liukkonen,
water resources educator, were recognized as members of The Shoreland
Education Team, which won two awards: the University of Minnesota
Extension Service's Dean and Director's Outstanding Team Award,
and Excellence in Programming - Natural Resources and the Environment
from the Minnesota
Community and Natural Resources Association.
Hagley and Liukkonen were part of an eight-person team dedicated
to tackling the deterioration of Minnesota's shorelands. The team
organized educational efforts to reach shoreland owners, recreational
lake users and other groups. They developed a "Shoreland Design"
curriculum and trained a network of residents to become shoreland
volunteers. The team was recognized for creating a statewide education
plan, producing a Web site and CD, and setting up demonstration
sites. Almost 100,000 square feet of shoreland was revegetated to
protect water quality, improve habitat, and decrease runoff and
erosion.
MN Sea Grant - Barb Peichel Awarded Knauss Fellowship
Barbara Peichel, a recent graduate in Water Resources Science and
a Minnesota Sea Grant program assistant, will leave for Washington,
D.C., in February to work with the legislative branch of the federal
government as a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow.
With notable dedication and energy, Peichel has already built a
sturdy professional foundation. Her masters of science research,
funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, prioritized wetland
restoration efforts in the St. Louis River Watershed of Minnesota.
As a Minnesota Sea Grant staff member, Peichel conducted surveys
on urban watershed practices, led educational efforts
about water quality issues, and collaborated with national experts
and community members to combat invasive aquatic species.
IL-IN Sea Grant - Student Awards
Candice Bauer,a Ph.D student at the University of Notre Dame was
awarded "Best Oral Presentation in Applied Research"at
the 49th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society
in LaCrosse,Wisconsin held June 3-8,2001.Her paper was entitled,"Potential
Interactions Between Eurasian Ruffe and Round Gobies in the Great
Lakes:Prey and Habitat Preferences."Bauer has been supported
by Gary Lamberti's IISG project entitled,"Zebra Mussels,Round
Gobies,and Eurasian Ruffe:Predicting Ecological Impacts of the 'Exotic
Triad' to Improve Control."
Graduate student Joanne Lasrado,whose Purdue University research
is funded by IISG, won the Institute of Food Technology, Toxicology
and Safety Evaluation Division's Graduate Paper Competition in June
in Anaheim,California,with her poster titled,"Measurement of
PCBs in Fish Tissue Using GC and ELISA."The competition judges
commented on her broad appreciation for the subject matter and on
her enthusiastic presentation of the research.
MI Sea Grant - Anna Grace Breederland
Michigan Sea Grant Extension Agent Mark Breederland, is the new
and very proud father of Anna Grace, who was born on Election Day
at 9:05 a.m.
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October 2002
Contents
- Invitation - MI Sea Grant - University of Michigan Great Lakes
Symposium
- WI Sea Grant - 30 Years of Earthwatch Radio
- IL-IN Sea Grant - Electric Barrier May Stop Bighead Carp
- Ohio Sea Grant to Initiate Steelhead Angler Survey
- Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant to Help Improve Beach Monitoring
- MN Sea Grant - Scholarship Boosts Contaminant Research
- MI Sea Grant Research Projects in the 2003-2005 Omnibus Proposal
- MN Sea Grant - SUPERIOR SCIENCE FOR YOU! - A Monthly Speaker
Series
- MI Sea Grant - Where's the Beach?
- WebNews
- Tidbits - National Extension Tourism Conference
- Publications
MN Sea Grant : Seiche
MI Sea Grant: Upwellings
IL-IN Sea Grant: PCBs, Invasive Plants Field Guide, Land Use Impacts
- Staff News
WI- New Specialist Brings Smart Mapping Tools to Wisconsin
MI Sea Grant staff receive APEX awards
MI Sea Grant - Michigan Outdoor Writers Association award
IL-IN Sea Grant - New Director's Contact info
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1. Invitation - MI Sea Grant - University of Michigan Great Lakes
Symposium
The University of Michigan Great Lakes Symposium: Our Challenging
Future is scheduled for November 5 and 6. The agenda includes presenations
by U of M researchers on their Great Lakes research, a keynote address
"Relevant Ecogenic Research: What to Store, What to Re-Store,
What to Create, and How to Adapt to Emergent Chaotic Complexities"
by Henry Regier, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, and
an associated lecture "the Second Annual Wege Lecture: Reflections
on the Great Lakes" by Joseph L. Sax. All GLERL staff are welcome
to attend. The agenda and registration information is available
at http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/symposium/
2. WI Sea Grant - 30 Years of Earthwatch Radio
The Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute has been turning out two-minute
programs on science and the environment for 30 years. September
marked the 30th anniversary of its highly successful "Earthwatch
Radio" program, and the project is gearing up to take on the
challenges of a world where cyberspace is the new frontier for environmental
outreach. The radio project was initiated in 1972 by UW-Madison
students and staff at the Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute and the
Institute for Environmental Studies. With faculty support, they
started the first radio program in the country to concentrate on
environmental news, and today it is the longest-running program
of its kind in the nation. The Earthwatch Radio project has gone
through significant changes since its first tapes were produced
in September 1972. In the beginning, a total of 12 stations in Wisconsin
subscribed to the service; today it's used by more than 140 outlets
across the United States and from Canada to Costa Rica. The reel-to-reel
tapes that stations once received have been replaced by digital
compact discs, and the people who edit the recordings of interviews
don't cut tape with razor blades anymore; they cut and splice sound
bites with audio editing software. Of course the Internet has changed
the project as well. Now people can read the scripts by subscribing
to an email service that distributes them daily; they can also find
them by logging onto the program's Web site (ewradio.org).
Earthwatch Radio has received a number of honors over the years,
including awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support
of Education, the National Sea Grant network, and the United Nations
Environment Programme. (The radio program was named to the UN's
Global 500 Honor Roll in 1992.) In addition, the program achieved
a long-time goal in 2002 of having the name
"Earthwatch" registered as a trademark of the University
of Wisconsin Board of Regents for use in radio programming. But
Richard Hoops, Sea Grant radio producer and principal investigator
on the Earthwatch project, says those accomplishments are dwarfed
by the number of talented students it has cultivated through writing
internships. "It's very rewarding for me to learn about
the fates of the students after they've graduated,"said
Hoops. "They've gone on to great careers, and it's
good to know the job meant something to them. That's extremely
satisfying."Indeed, just as students started the program back
in 1972, they remain its lifeblood today. Earthwatch relies on students
to give the program a fresh perspective. Likewise, the students
rely on Earthwatch to provide them with unique skills and professional
experience. "It is a rare and invaluable opportunity to interview
scientists about cutting-edge research and share it with the public,"
said Amber Rose Fonzen, an Earthwatch writer who graduated in spring
2002 and is now an Americorps VISTA volunteer working in Philadelphia,
Penn. "I hope Earthwatch will continue to operate under the
premise of making earth and environmental science mean something
important to the public."
Aside from serving as an educational program and as a kind of training
lab for students, Earthwatch fills an important role on the UW-Madison
campus, according to Peyton Smith, assistant vice chancellor in
the Provost's Office. "Programs like Earthwatch help translate
what's happening at the university into the public consciousness,"
Smith said, "They increase public understanding of important
issues and that leads to greater science literacy."Smith,
who was the first student working on the Earthwatch Radio Project
back in 1972, and who later served as communications coordinator
for Wisconsin Sea Grant, also said the program fulfills "a
cherished, core value" of the university-the Wisconsin
Idea. "Outreach is a central part of our mission,"he
said. "Earthwatch is one means of facilitating a two-way flow
of information from the university to the people of Wisconsin and
back again, which is so important in extending the university beyond
the parameters of the campus to the boundaries of the state and
beyond."
EarthWatch Radio programs have included interviews with many GLERL
scientists over the years -- most recently a program interviewing
Brent Lofgren slated for release October 30th.
3. IL-IN Sea Grant - Electric Barrier May Stop Bighead Carp
The electric barrier may effectively stop Asian carp from entering
Lake Michigan, according to preliminary research results. In the
early stages of an Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant-funded study, researchers
found that more than 99 percent of bighead carp were deterred by
a simulated electric barrier modeled after the actual one. Using
fish raceways to do controlled experiments, John Chick and Mark
Pegg of the Illinois Natural History Survey are testing the potential
effectiveness of the present electric barrier in stopping Asian
carp. Two species of Asian carp, bighead and silver, are migrating
closer to the actual barrier site, located in the Chicago Sanitary
and Ship Canal near Romeoville, Illinois, and have been spotted
as close as 25 miles from Lake Michigan. Thus far in the study,
in 381 attempts by bighead carp to pass through the simulated barrier--the
fish turned around 379 times. Only one fish went through the barrier,
and in fact, did it twice. "This was a smaller carp, which
was not surprising. Smaller fish are less susceptible to the electric
current," said Pegg. These tests were done for six continuous
hours per day for three days. Chick and Pegg's project has been
reported by major television networks, including CNN, CBS and Fox,
as well as many local outlets.
4. Ohio Sea Grant to Initiate Steelhead Angler Survey
Later this month, Ohio Sea Grant will initiate a Lake Erie-tributary
steelhead angler survey. The overall goal of the survey is to document
the economic contributions of the steelhead fishery using information
collected from steelhead anglers.
People fishing on the following Lake Erie tributaries, located
in northeast and north-central Ohio, will be targeted for the survey:
Conneaut Creek, Ashtabula River, Arcola Creek, Grand River, Chagrin
River, Cuyahoga River, Rocky River, the Vermilion River, and other
smaller tributary streams and creeks. Anglers will be contacted
in person while out on the water about participating in the survey,
and those who agree will have the survey mailed to them. The survey
will include questions about how many trips steelhead anglers make,
how much time they spend fishing per outing, how many fish they
catch, and how many they keep. All responses will be confidential.
The survey will continue through the fall and winter of 2002, and
spring of 2003 as weather conditions allow.
Northeast Ohio steelhead angling associations, coastal visitor
bureaus, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and others are
interested in improving steelhead angling opportunities. However,
there is currently no reliable data available about the needs, expenditures,
or opinions of Ohio steelhead anglers regarding the value of the
fishery. The survey results will help fill the knowledge gap about
this valuable resource.
"The idea behind developing the steelhead survey began with
the Emerald Necklace Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Ohio Central Basin
Steelheaders, Western Reserve Anglers, and the Cleveland Museum
of Natural History Trout Club," said Steve Madewell, Deputy
Director of Lake County Metroparks. "These groups have collectively
realized the economic and recreational importance of steelhead fishing
to northeast Ohio," he added. Lake Metroparks has worked hard
to promote appropriate access to streams in Lake County.
The survey results will be analyzed by Ohio Sea Grant and reported
to local county visitor bureaus, angling groups, the ODNR, Division
of Wildlife and others interested in the growing Ohio steelhead
fishery. This project is sponsored by the Ohio Sea Grant College
Program, the Lake Erie Protection Fund, Ohio State University Extension,
the Lake County Visitors Bureau, the Central Basin Steelheaders,
and the Emerald Necklace Chapter #133 of Trout Unlimited.
5. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant to Help Improve Beach Monitoring
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, along with the Save the Dunes Conservation
Fund and Indiana University Northwest, have been awarded $58,694
from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to develop
an E.coli beach monitoring and notification plan for Indiana's portion
of the Lake Michigan shoreline. This funding is part of the BEACH
Act, passed by Congress in 2000 in an effort to reduce the risk
of disease to users of the nation's recreational waters. The partnering
organizations will evaluate, prioritize, and classify Indiana's
Lake Michigan beaches and other public points of access to coastal
waters according to health risk. The Interagency E.coli Task Force,
which includes state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations,
academic institutions and interested citizens, will guide this process
to completion.
6. MN Sea Grant - Scholarship Boosts Contaminant Research
Excerpt from Seiche
The International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) awarded
Matt Hudson a $2,000 scholarship for his graduate research in Water
Resource Science at the University of Minnesota. Hudson's research
is part of Minnesota Sea Grant's investigation into how bacteria,
which often account for a relatively high amount (80-90 percent)
of the metabolic activity in oligotrophic waters such as Lake Superior,
contribute to the accumulation of contaminants in predators.
Hudson is collecting field and laboratory data in cooperation with
his advisor, Professor Deborah Swackhamer, and project leader, Assistant
Professor James Cotner. "The part that bacteria plays in contaminant
cycling in lakes is unclear," said Hudson. "Current models
looking at the flow of contaminants through a food web like Lake
Superior's don't factor in bacteria. Our aim is to collect data
that will help define the role of these important organisms in accumulating
contaminants."
7. MI Sea Grant Research Projects in the 2003-2005 Omnibus Proposal
Faisal, Mohamed, MSU, Identification of Adhesion Molecules in the
Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)
Adlerstein, Sara, UM, Impacts of Exotic Species and Trophic Change
on Fish Community Structure, Population Dynamics and Food Web Linkages
in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron
Scribner, Kim, MSU, Spatial Genetic Structuring of Forage Fish
in the Upper Great Lakes: Evidence for a Subdivided Forage Base
and Implications for Structuring in Predatory Fish Species
Lewis, Brent, Kettering University, An Evaluation of Seasonal and
Temporal Variability in Potential Trace Metal Remobilization in
Coastal Wetlands Sediments Using Voltammetric Microelectrode Technology
Jude, David, UM, The Impact of the Diporeia Decline on the Competitive
Interactions and Distributions of Slimy and Deepwater Sculpins in
Lake Michigan
8. MN Sea Grant - SUPERIOR SCIENCE FOR YOU! - A Monthly Speaker
Series
Beginning on October 9, the University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program
is hosting a free public speaker series featuring eight respected
scientists.
If you can't travel to the talks, they can travel to you. The Duluth
presentations will be broadcast via live streaming video over the
Internet from the Minnesota Sea Grant Web site, www.seagrant.umn.edu/speakerseries/index.html.
Those in the desktop audience can e-mail questions to the researchers
during the question period following each talk. Videos of the Duluth
presentations will be archived on Sea Grant's Web site, or you can
catch the book and CD to be published late next year.
Up next ...
November 13, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division,
Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility, 6201 Congdon Blvd.
Romancing the Sea Lamprey
Presented by Assistant Professor Weiming Li, Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife, Michigan State University
Forget wine and candlelight. If you want to attract a female sea
lamprey, you've got to use the right cologne -- in this case, a
sex pheromone. Dr. Li will describe his groundbreaking research,
which yielded a purified vial of this super-powered sexual attractant
from a ton of water and is expected to lead to novel management
options for controlling this damaging invasive species in the Great
Lakes.
9. MI Sea Grant - Where's the Beach?
Low water levels in the Great Lakes have helped create a critical
coastal habitat referred to as an "emergent wetland."
These areas are characterized by large expanses of vegetation and
sometimes a soft mud zone, separating upland from water.
These fertile wetlands have returned in dramatic fashion to the
shoreline in some areas of the state, most noticeably in the Saginaw
Bay region. "Saginaw Bay has a gradual slope to the shoreline,"
explains Michigan Sea Grant Extension Agent Walter Hoagman. "Consequently,
low water levels expose extensive mudflats, which sprout up quickly
with wetland plants."
Although these emergent wetlands are part of a natural process,
not everyone sees their beauty. The plants block access and views
of the water, and the soft mud deters swimmers. As a result, many
shoreline property-owners in the Saginaw Bay area have plowed or
graded their beaches, added sand or built footbridges to the water.
The trouble, according to Daniel Morgan of the Saginaw Bay district
office of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ),
is that many of these activities are being conducted in ecologically
sensitive areas that are protected by federal and state regulations.
Without a proper permit, says Morgan, the activities are illegal
and will result in significant natural resource damage.
To learn more about the benefits of emergent wetlands and state
and federal regulations governing Great Lakes bottomlands, see
http://www.miseagrant.org/pubs/up/fall02/page5.html
10. WebNews
MN Sea Grant has redesigned their home page www.seagrant.umn.edu
as the first step in efforts to make the site accessible for disabled
users.
11. Tidbits
National Extension Tourism Conference
The recent very successful National Extension Tourism Conference
was held in Traverse City, MI. Sea Grant staff from Ohio, Minnesota,
New York, North Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, Hawaii, Alaska and
Michigan were part of the 120 participants. Among the themes was
the idea of partnering and Sea Grant continues to be a significant
player. Communicating this basic idea to our various levels of support
is the challenge.
12. Publications
- MN Sea Grant : Seiche (Archived on-line - http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/index.html)
September 2002
- What You Can Do to Help Lake Superior
- Superior Science for You! A Monthly Speaker Series About
Lake Superior
- Seiche Reader Survey Results
- Hang Lake Superior History on Your Wall With 2003 Calendar
- Escaping Classroom Routines with Exotic Species
- MI Sea Grant: Upwellings (Archived on-line - http://www.miseagrant.org/pubs/up/index.html)
Fall 2002
- Valuing Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
- Treasures of the Great Lakes: Recognizing the Value of Michigan's
Coastal Wetlands
- Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Illustrated Guide
- Where's the Beach? Low water levels expose valuable shoreline
- Monitoring Effects of Sedimentation in Wetlands
- Communications Liaison joins Sea Grant
- IL-IN Sea Grant: PCBs, Invasive Plants Field Guide, Land
Use Impacts
- The ABCs of PCBs: Know Your Catch: A multi-lingual (English,
Korean, Polish, and Spanish) brochure on the basic facts of
PCBs and their occurrence in Great Lakes fishes, in particular
the round goby, IISG-02-06. Author: Patrice Charlebois.
- Invasive Aquatic and Wetland Plants Field Guide, produced
by NC Sea Grant--Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and Minnesota
Sea Grant are distributing these in the Great Lakes region.
- The Relationship Between Land Use Decisions and the Impacts
on Our Water and Natural Resources, ID-260, IISG-01-19. Authors:
Brian Miller and Robert McCormick.
13. Staff News
WI- New Specialist Brings Smart Mapping Tools to Wisconsin
Geographic information systems (GIS) are the most powerful tool
in coastal zone management. The smart, flexible, high-tech mapping
tools collect, store, analyze and disseminate information about
any place on earth-its applications limited only by imagination.
"GIS can be used for practically anything, from mapping disease
breakouts to modeling nonpoint-source pollution contributions in
a coastal area,"said David Hart, Wisconsin's new full-time
GIS outreach specialist.
Hart, who previously worked with Sea Grant on coastal GIS applications
through the UW-Madison Land Information and Graphics Facility, became
a Wisconsin Sea Grant employee in August. He is now based at the
Aquatic Sciences Center on the UW-Madison campus. Wisconsin Sea
Grant is one of the only programs in the country with a full-time
GIS Specialist on its outreach team. Hart's appointment reflects
the program's dedication to the use of new tools to understand
coastal processes.
Hart is well qualified for the job, having worked for nine years
with the Land Information and Graphics Facility, where, among other
projects, he used GIS to model urban nonpoint-source pollution contributions
in Lake Superior. He holds a PhD in Land Resources from the UW-Madison
and a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the
University of New Orleans.
How will GIS serve Wisconsin? Its applications in coastal zone
management range from analyzing aerial photography to better understand
shoreline erosion processes, to modeling nonpoint-source pollution
inputs according to land surfaces, to linking tax assessment files
to property maps, in order to plot the value of coastal lands. "Because
it's a visual aid, GIS helps people really understand coastal
issues and how these problems affect their property,"said
Hart. Hart currently is working with the Army Corps of Engineers
to compare historical photography with modern images to identify
erosion trends along the Lake Michigan shoreline. He also is developing
teaching models so the technology can be used by state and local
planning and management officials to integrate site-specific information
into problem-solving scenarios.
To find out more, call Dave Hart at (608) 262-6515, or email him
at dhart@aqua.wisc.edu. Or visit the Wisconsin Coastal GIS Application
Web site at http://coastal.lic.wisc.edu/.
MI Sea Grant staff receive APEX awards
Managing Editor Joyce Daniels received an APEX 2002 Award of Excellence
for feature writing in the Fall 2001 issue of Upwellings. Senior
Graphic artist Dave Brenner was part of a team of communicators
from Alaska Sea Grant who received an APEX 2002 Award of Excellence
for conference program materials. APEX awards are based on excellence
in graphic design, editorial content and ability to achieve overall
communications excellence. The awards are administered by Communications
Concepts, Inc. of Springfield, VA.
MI Sea Grant - Michigan Outdoor Writers Association award
Communications specialist Carol Swinehart received a third place
award for a Great Lakes Facts media kit from the Michigan Outdoor
Writers Association.
IL-IN Sea Grant - New Director's Contact information:
Richard Warner, Director, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program,
University of Illinois, 350 NSRL, MC-635, 1104 W. Peabody Drive,
Urbana, IL 61801 ph:217-333-6444 fax: 217-333-8046 email: dickw@uiuc.edu
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September 2002
Correction - Invasive Plant Brochure
IL-IN Sea Grant produced the invasive aquatic plants brochure. It
is available from most of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Colleges, including
Michigan Sea Grant.
Contents:
- OH - Research Profile: Dr. Maria Gonzalez
- NY - Dipstick Methods Will Improve, Speed Drinking Water Tests
- MI - 2002 National Extension Tourism Conference, Sept. 16-19,
2002, Traverse City
- MN - GLERL Researcher to be Featured in Monthly Speaker Series
About Lake Superior
- MI - Beetle Mania (from Sea Grant News and Notes)
- MI - Students Discover Great Lakes Ecosystem (from Sea Grant
News and Notes)
- PA - Sailing Voyage Lets Lake Erie Students "Rediscover"
Their Environment (from Sea Grant News and Notes)
- Kids Can "Escape" With This Educational Tool (from
Sea Grant News and Notes)
- Web News
WI - Shipwreck Divers Invite Web Surfers on Exploration
WI - Zebra Mussel Watch Site
- ublications
WI - June/JulyLittoral Drift
OH - July/August Twine Line
MN - From Net to Sale (video)
WI - New Reprints - ANS and Oil Chemistry
OH - New Reprint - Zebra & Quagga mussels
MN - New Reprints - Walleye Genetics & Stream Water Quality
- Staff News
NY - Environmental Citizen of the Year Awarded to NY Sea
Grant Educator, Helen Domske
WI - Wittman Participates in National Planning
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OH - Research Profile: Dr. Maria Gonzalez
Dr. Maria Gonzalez' work in the arena of aquatic nuisance
species interactions was featured in a recent issue of Ohio Sea
Grant's Twine Line as part of the article "Diner's Choice:
New Research Explores How One Exotic Species Affects Another's
Behavior" (full text available at
http://www.sg.ohio-state.edu/pdfs/tl-mj-02.pdf
). This work is part of a continuing research project funded by
Ohio Sea Grant, "The Effects of Round Goby on Yellow Perch-Amphipod
Interactions Within Zebra Mussel Colonies and Macrophyte Beds".
Project objectives are to (1) compare the spatial distributions
of Gammarus fasciatus and Echinogammarus ischnus before
and after round goby invasion, (2) investigate the effect of round
goby on the yellow perch-amphipod interaction and yellow perch growth
in macrophyte and zebra mussel habitats and (3) determine the role
of cannibalism and intraguild predation in the interaction between
the native and exotic amphipod. There is evidence that before the
invasion of the round goby in the western basin of Lake Erie, the
exotic amphipod, Echinogammarus ischnus, was displacing the
native amphipod, Gammarus fasciatus, in the zebra mussel
colonies. However G. fasciatus abundance was higher than
E. ischnus abundance in macrophytes beds. Prior research
conducted in in her laboratory has shown that differences in amphipod
spatial distribution were caused by yellow perch predation. By competing
with benthivorous yellow perch for macroinvertebrates, round goby
may cause a negative effect on perch gorth rate and therefore restrict
the recruitment of yellow perch to piscivorous stages. However,
competitive and predator-prey interactions in aquatic systems are
affected by habitat complexity. Thus, competitive interactions between
yellow perch and goby may vary between zebra mussel colonies and
macrophytes beds. Macrophyte beds may provide yellow perch with
a refuge for the competitive interaction and facilitate coexistence
between the exotic and native fish. The replacement of G. fasciatus
by E. ischnus could also affect yellow perch growth because
E. ischnus is a smaller prey than G. fasciatus.
NY - Dipstick Methods Will Improve, Speed Drinking
Water Tests
From Sea Grant News and Notes, August 20, 2002
Drinking water may become even safer thanks to new testing methods
that detect cyanobacteria toxins more easily. New York Sea Grant
scientist Gregory Boyer is developing tools to measure anatoxin-a,
a bioactive toxin produced by blue-green algae and found in freshwater
lakes. His multi-step laboratory approach builds upon previous work
in which Boyer successfully developed a method to detect another
harmful toxin caused by red tides in the ocean. This method detected
saxitoxin, the toxin responsible for causing paralytic shellfish
poisoning, or PSP, in humans who consume shellfish exposed to the
toxic algae.
In freshwater systems, harmful blue-green algae, or
cyanobacteria, can make either saxitoxin or anatoxin-a and threaten
the health of drinking water supplies. Boyer has recently finished
extensive testing for these toxins in Lake Champlain, Lake Ontario
and other freshwater sources. Current methods of detecting anatoxin-a
are time-consuming and expensive. Boyer's research will simplify
the testing process by developing an antibody or "dipstick"
style test to monitor for these toxins. "Our goal is to develop
effective monitoring measures that can be employed by water quality
managers, conservation agents and health officials to rapidly screen
for the presence of cyanobacteria," said Boyer. Results should
offer improved testing methods for drinking water and provide data
on the cyanobacteria toxin occurrence and its effect on freshwater
ecosystems.CONTACT: Gregory Boyer, New York Sea Grant Research Scientist,
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, (O) 315-470-6825
MI - 2002 National Extension Tourism Conference,
Sept. 16-19, 2002, Traverse City
"Changing Faces--Changing Places" is the
theme of the 2002 National Extension Tourism conference. Participants
will have the opportunity to learn about tourism by experiencing
it in a major tourist destination in Michigan; exchange ideas; share
teaching techniques and experiences; enhance the national extension
network to help better understand tourism development issues, and
strengthen extension's capacity to deliver tourism programs and
technical assistance. Sponsored by the National Extension Tourism
Design Team, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
and Michigan State University Extension. For a detailed agenda and
registration information, visit the conference website at: www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/net2002/index.html
MN - GLERL Researcher to be Featured in Monthly
Speaker Series About Lake Superior
Minnesota Sea Grant recently received funding from
the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources-Waters and Minnesota's
Lake Superior Coastal Program for a Lake Superior speaker series,
"Superior Science for You!". Throughout the next nine
months, eight hour-long talks will be held monthly in Duluth, with
duplicate presentations given alternately in Grand Marais and Grand
Portage, MN. One of the speakers will be GLERL's Cynthia Sellinger,
who will talk about lake levels.
The Duluth presentations will be broadcast via live
streaming video over the Internet from the Minnesota Sea Grant Web
site, www.seagrant.umn.edu/speakerseries/index.html. Those in the
desktop audience can e-mail questions to the researchers during
the question period following each talk. Videos of the presentations
will be archived on Minnesota Sea Grant's Web site. A book and CD
related to the talks will be published late next year.
Project partners include the University of Minnesota's
Natural Resources Research Institute and Large Lakes Observatory,
the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Great Lakes Aquarium
and Discovery Center, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, North
House Folk School, St. Louis River Citizens Action Committee, US
Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wisconsin
and Michigan Sea Grant Programs, and Northland College.
Superior Science for You! Speaker Series Schedule
- October 9, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division,
Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. October 10, 7 pm-8 pm, Grand
Portage, Grand Portage Lodge. It's a Fish-Eat-Fish World. Presented
by Professor James Kitchell, Department of Zoology and Institute
for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
More than 70 species of fish swim in Lake Superior. Who eats
whom and what does it mean? Join renowned fish biologist, Dr.
Kitchell, as he examines predator-prey relationships and their
role in the structure of Lake Superior's food web.
- November 13, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology
Division, Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. November 14, 7
pm-8 pm, Grand Marais, North House Folk School. Romancing the
Sea Lamprey. Presented by Assistant Professor Weiming Li, Department
of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University. Forget
wine and candlelight. If you want to attract a female sea lamprey,
you've got to use the right cologne -- in this case, a sex pheromone.
Dr. Li will describe his groundbreaking research, which yielded
a purified vial of this super-powered sexual attractant from
a ton of water and is expected to lead to novel management options
for controlling this damaging invasive species in the Great
Lakes.
- January 15, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division,
Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. January 16, 7 pm-8 pm, Grand
Portage, Grand Portage Lodge. Lake Superior's "Canaries"
- Detecting Ecological Change. Presented by Professor Gerald
Niemi, Department of Biology and the Center for Water and the
Environment, Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI), University
of Minnesota Duluth. Just as coal miners used canaries to monitor
air quality in the mines, biologists look to Lake Superior's
birds, fish, and bugs to alert us to environmental stresses.
Enjoy colorful slides and listen to Dr. Niemi,
seasoned researcher and director of NRRI's Center for Water
and the Environment, talk about a multi-million-dollar endeavor
to identify species and chemicals that can be used to assess
the condition of Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes.
- February 12, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology
Division, Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. February 13, 7
pm-8 pm, Grand Marais, North House Folk School. Three Quadrillion
Gallons, Give or Take a Foot. Presented by Dr. Cynthia Sellinger,
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL). Everybody
knows Lake Superior has a lot of water, but does it have enough?
Dr. Sellinger, GLERL scientist and assistant to the director,
will address issues related to the rise and fall of the Great
Lakes and Lake Superior, including how and why levels change,
and what those changes mean to lake ecology, fish, and people.
- March 12, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division,
Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. March 13, 7 pm-8 pm, Grand
Portage, Grand Portage Lodge. Wetlands-They're Not Just
for Mosquitoes Anymore. Presented by Dr. Janet Keough, U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Mid-Continent Ecology Division.
Although they are small in proportion to the open lake, the
coastal wetlands of Lake Superior generate significant biological
activity. The EPA is examining the mechanics and ecology of
these often over-looked habitats of Lake Superior. Join Dr.
Keough as she explains how wetlands contribute to life in the
lake and their relationship with Lake Superior's seiches.
- April 9, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division,
Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. April 10, 7 pm-8 pm, Grand
Marais, North House Folk School. Coffee Beans, Laundry Soap,
and Fish Sexuality: What Comes Around Goes Around. Presented
by Professor Deborah Swackhamer, Division of Environmental and
Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of
Minnesota Twin Cities. The things we eat, drink, and wash with
can mess up a fish's sex life. As they work through our lives
and down our drains, some common chemical compounds can scramble
the hormonal signals that rule fish development and reproduction.
Dr. Swackhamer, an expert on these endocrine disrupters, will
discuss her research on these chemicals and their impact on
fish in the Duluth-Superior Harbor.
- May 14, 7 pm-8 pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division,
Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. May 15, 7 pm-8 pm, Grand
Portage, Grand Portage Lodge. Something's Going On Down There!
Exploring the Lake Superior Food Web. Presented by Professor
Martin Auer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Michigan Technological University. Explore the foundations of
underwater life with Dr. Marty Auer, a limnologist and engineer
with over 30 years experience on the Great Lakes. Dr. Auer will
describe some of the mysterious phenomena observed in the lower
food web of Lake Superior, relating these findings to the stewardship
of this precious resource.
- June 11th, 7pm-8pm, Duluth, EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division,
Gitchee Gumee Conference Facility. June 12th, 7pm-8pm, Grand
Marais, North House Folk School. Lake Superior: The Big Picture.
Presented by Professor Carl Richards, University of Minnesota
Sea Grant Program. It's hugely beautiful and coldly treacherous;
it's a fisheries and water quality manager's nightmare; it's
Lake Superior. Dr. Richards will discuss how intriguing interactions
among space, time, chemicals, and species influence our understanding
of Lake Superior. From the moments it takes a biochemical reaction
to occur inside a diatom, to the eons it takes to sculpt the
rock formations of the North Shore, enjoy the grand finale!
MI - Beetle Mania (from Sea Grant News and Notes)
In Michigan classrooms, students are encouraged to raise beetles
on windowsills. The beetles, a species known as Galerucella, are
grown as part of Michigan State University's Purple Loosestrife
Project. The beetles feed exclusively on purple loosestrife, a colorful
plant that is native to Europe. The plant has aggressively invaded
many wetlands in North America, and, once established, often overtakes
native vegetation and forms nearly impenetrable stands. By raising
and releasing Galerucella beetles, teachers, students and other
volunteers help to reduce purple loosestrife around the state. According
to Michigan Sea Grant Extension Specialist Mike Klepinger, the project
allows participants to "learn about Michigan's wetlands first-hand
while helping to protect them from an invasive species." Educators
and other volunteers attend a training session and are then qualified
to raise beetles in their classrooms. They receive a small brood
stock, which can multiply to a few thousand beetles within a short
period of time. When the beetles are ready for release, students
and teachers troop out to the wetlands, where the beetles are released
onto the loosestrife. Since the project began in 1997, over 4,000
volunteers have taken part in the effort to control purple loosestrife.
As a result of volunteer efforts, significant reduction in purple
loosestrife has begun to occur in several parts of Michigan. For
more information, visit the Purple Pages at: www.miseagrant.org/pp
CONTACT: Mike Klepinger, Michigan Sea Grant Extension Specialist,
(O) 517-353-5508. For photos that illustrate the success of the
project, please contact Dave Brenner at (O) 734-764-2421.
MI - Students Discover Great Lakes Ecosystem (from
Sea Grant News and Notes)
Fourth-grade students from more than 26 communities in southeast
Michigan, including Detroit, are boarding "schoolships"
on Lake St. Clair and the lower Detroit River for an introduction
to the unique features of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Education
Program, supported by Michigan Sea Grant and Michigan State University
Extension, uses a combination of classroom learning and
hands-on experience to stimulate interest in protecting the Great
Lakes and its resources. On the two-hour cruises, students learn
about concepts such as the aquatic food web, the water cycle, the
roles of oxygen and carbon dioxide and the effects of exotic species.
Student activities include examining plankton samples, testing water
quality, practicing marine knot tying, taking temperature readings
and more. They then use the collected data in follow-up classroom
experiments and discussion. Aboard the "schoolships,"
Great Lakes Education Program staff help prepare students for their
role as future decision makers responsible for the state's natural
resources. More than 37,000 students, teachers and other adults
have participated in the program since it began in 1991. The experience
has played an important role in stimulating enthusiasm and interest
in learning about the Great Lakes and its water resources. For more
information, visit: www.miseagrant.org/glep CONTACT: Steve Stewart,
Michigan Sea Grant Great Lakes Education Program Director, (O) 586-469-7431.
PA - Sailing Voyage Lets Lake Erie Students "Rediscover"
Their Environment (from Sea Grant News and Notes)
Pennsylvania Sea Grant's award-winning Environmental Rediscoveries
Program offers students a hands-on, educational opportunity to explore
the unique Presque Isle Bay environment. Aboard the sailing vessel
Momentum, students have a chance to become sailors and scientists
for a day. While navigating local waters, participants learn about
the surrounding ecosystem. They are also introduced to the art of
sailing aboard the 42-foot Friendship Sloop. While one group of
sailors is busy plotting its course to a sampling site, others are
discussing the impact of zebra mussels in Presque Isle Bay. Students
return to shore and analyze their samples, learning important lessons
about water quality and pollution as well as the critical role they
play as stewards to their environment. The program involves elements
of physics, chemistry and navigation, and has reached over 1500
students in the Erie, Pennsylvania area. CONTACT: Anne Danielski,
Pennsylvania Sea Grant Coastal Education and Maritime Specialist,
(O) 814- 898-6421, Email:
add118@psu.edu
Kids Can "Escape" With This Educational
Tool (from Sea Grant News and Notes)
Exotic species can have devastating impacts on ecosystems, and some
have caused serious problems affecting the economy. ESCAPE (Exotic
Species Compendium of Activities to Protect the Ecosystem) is part
of an overall campaign to teach youth about exotic species issues,
to explore ways to solve these problems and to help them make responsible
decisions as adults. Developed by the Illinois-Indiana, New York,
Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota Sea Grant programs, ESCAPE is consists
of a collection of teacher-developed activities. It uses many instructional
strategies like the game, "Rival for Survival," the simulation
"Seeing Purple" and news-reporting activity "Great
Lakes Grief" to spread its message to children. ESCAPE is a
creative way to teach K-12 students and meet National Science Standards
at the same time. Its hands-on, multi-disciplinary activities spark
curiosity about exotics using real-world problems. Tools such as
color, laminated board games, complete with lessons plans, instructions
and game cards are just one way for kids to ESCAPE and learn about
invasive species. For more information, visit: www.iisgcp.org/edu/escape
CONTACT: Robin Goettel, Communicator Coordinator, Illinois-Indiana
Sea Grant College Program, (O) 217-333-9448.
Web News
WI - Shipwreck Divers Invite Web Surfers on
Exploration
Underwater archaeologists from the Wisconsin Historical
Society, with support from the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Institute, are studying the remains of three nineteenth-century
ships resting in shallow water near the eastern shore of Sturgeon
Bay. Two were schooners and the third was a propeller-driven steam
ship. They carried passengers, iron ore and lumber on the Great
Lakes before ending their careers hauling limestone for the Sturgeon
Bay stone industry. The effort concludes a five-year archaeological
survey of several stone industry-related shipwrecks in Door County.
September 7 through 20th the team of underwater archaeologists
will post daily journal entries and photographs to the Web while
they investigate historical shipwrecks near Sturgeon Bay in Door
County, Wis. The Web site will include videos, scale drawings and
archaeological maps. It also features a Kids' Corner with activities
for teachers and students and brief histories of the shipwrecks
being documented. The site is called "Notes from the Field
2002: Underwater Archaeologists in Action." It can be found
at www.wisconsinhistory.org/shipwrecks/notes. You can learn more
at "Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks," a Web site produced
by the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant, www.seagrant.wisc.edu/shipwrecks.
This latter site has been named the "Best Web Site on Great
Lakes Regional Culture in 2002" by the Michigan State University
Center for Great Lakes Culture.
WI - Zebra Mussel Watch Site
WI Sea Grant recently launched a new Web site to serve
as a resource for identifying, reporting and preventing the spread
of zebra mussels throughout the state's waterways. The web site
provides background on zebra mussels and information on identifying
them in the wild. It also includes a form that visitors can use
to report a sighting. Check it out at http://seagrant.wisc.edu/zebramussels/index.html.
Publications
WI - June/JulyLittoral Drift
- Casting for the Next Generation of Leaders
- Shipwreck Site Draws Praise from Region
- Check Out our New Zebra Mussel Watch Site
- Wittman Participates in National Planning
- Fishing for Answers at the State Fair
Contact Linda Campbell for a copy.
OH - July/August Twine Line -
http://www.sg.ohio-state.edu/publications/o-twineline.html
- Walleye Fishing Changing with Lake Erie
- FYI:Water Levels,Conferences,Publications
- Ask Your Agent:Underwater Preserves
- Lake Erie 's Historic Shipwrecks
- Tourism in the Lake Erie Islands Region
MN - From Net to Sale (video)
Minnesota Sea Grant has produced a video to accompany
ANS-HACCP workshops. Aquatic Nuisance Species Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Point is a program designed to help public hatchery
operators, fish farmers, and baitfish harvesters take measures to
prevent spreading aquatic nuisance species through their activities.
From Net to Sale: Controlling Aquatic Nuisance Species with the
HACCP Approach for Baitfish and Aquaculture Industries is 22-minutes
long and was professionally produced by Parthe Productions in Duluth,
MN. It is designed to accompany the ANS-HACCP workshops but may
also be used as a stand-alone training tool. The video describes
the seven major principles of the ANS-HACCP process, and features
interviews with
aquaculture and baitfish representatives.
Minnesota Sea Grant developed the video on behalf
of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network. Funding was provided by a
grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to
the National Sea Grant College Program through an appropriation
by Congress based on the National Invasive Species Act of 1996.
If you'd like to order the video, the cost is $3.50 to cover shipping.
Contact Minnesota Sea Grant at (218) 726-6191.
WI - New Reprints - ANS and Oil Chemistry
Clifford Kraft, P Sullivan, A Karatayev, L Burlakova, J Nekola,
L Johnson and D Padilla. 2002. Landscape Patterns of an Aquatic
Invader: Assessing Dispersal Extent from Spatial Distributions.
Ecological Applications 12(3)749-759. [WISCU-R-02-006].
Carlos F. Torres, E Barrios and CG Hill. 2002. Lipase
Catalyzed Acidolysis of Menhaden Oil with CLA: Optimization by Factorial
Design. Journal of Oil Chemists' Society 79(5)475-466. [WISCU-R-02-007].
Carlos F. Torres, F Munir, LP Lessard and CG Hill.
2002. Lipase-Mediated Acidolysis of Tristearin with CLA in a Packed
Bed Reactor: A Kinetic Study. Journal of Oil Chemists' Society 79(7)655-661.
[WISCU-R-02-008].
Abstracts at http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu.
Reprints: Linda Campbell at at linda@seagrant.wisc.edu
OH - New Reprint - Zebra & Quagga mussels
Stepien, C.A., Taylor, C.D., and K.A. Dabrowska (2002).
Genetic variability and phylogeographical patterns of a nonindigenous
species invasion: A comparison of exotic vs. native zebra and quagga
mussel populations. J. of Evol. Biol., 15: 314-328. [OHSU-RS-271]
Reprints: cruickshank.3@osu.edu
MN - New Reprints - Walleye Genetics & Stream
Water Quality
Eldridge, W, M Bacigalupi, I Adelman, L Miller and
A Kapuscinski. 2002. Determination of Relative Survival of Two Stocked
Walleye Populations and Resident Natural-Origin Fish by Microsatellite
DNA Parentage Assignment. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences 59:282-290. JR 482.
Richards, C., M White, R Axler, A Hershey, and J Schomberg.
2001. Simulating Effects of Landscape Composition and Structure
on Stream Water Quality in Forested Watersheds. Verhandlungen Internationale
Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 27:3561-3565
JR 479.
Reprints: www.seagrant.umn.edu/pubs/index.html
Staff News
NY - Environmental Citizen of the Year Awarded
to NY Sea Grant Educator, Helen Domske
For Release Prior to September 21, 2002. Contact: Helen Domske,
NY Sea Grant, 716-645-3610
On September 21st The Center for Great Lakes Environmental
Education, the Erie County Environmental Education Institute, and
the Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State College will present Helen
Domske, a coastal education specialist with New York Sea Grant ,
with the 2002 Paul MacClennan Environmental Citizen of the Year
Award. A reception (2 pm) and the presentation (3 pm) will take
place at the Center for Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State College
Field Station.
Helen has more than 20 years¹ experience as an
aquatic science educator and has worked with tens of thousands of
students, teachers, scout and youth group leaders, and her peers
with such agencies as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Helen conducts
exotic species workshops and offers educators an ³Escape from
Exotics² compendium of classroom-ready resource materials on
how to identify exotic species. She is also Associate Director of
the Great Lakes Program at the University of Buffalo, and editor
of the Great Lakes Research Review. Helen has written numerous teaching
materials and a book on Western New York¹s freshwater ecology.
WI - Wittman Participates in National Planning
UW Sea Grant Communicator Stephen Wittman spent the
summer working for the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) in Silver
Spring Maryland. Wittman is assisting the NSGO in developing its
first strategic plan for improving communications "inside the
beltway". As communications chair in 1993-1995, Wittman led
the development and implementation of the network's first strategic
communications plan, among the most notable results of which were
the creation and adoption of the common Sea Grant logo nationwide
and the establishment of the Sea Grant Media Relations Office.
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Correction...The URL for the Sea Grant Update Archive is
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/SGUpdate/2002.htm
Contents
- MI - Ecosystem Mosaics - Dr. Judy Wells Budd (Research Profile)
- IL/IN - Electric Barrier May Stop Asian Carp
- OH - Lake Erie "Dead Zone" causes may lie with aquatic
invaders and run-off
- Tidbits
MI - Round Goby sighting
PA - Possible Bighead Carp Sighting
- Web News
MI - Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Site Moves
MN - Proceedings of the Environmental Strategies for Aquaculture
Symposium
NY - Botulism Research Info On the Web
- Publications
MN - June Seiche Available On-Line
PA - Summer Keystone Shorelines Available On-Line
WI - Shore Protection Booklet Pending
MI - Don't Get Trapped! - Trap Net Brochure
MN & IL/IN - Exotics To Go!
MN - Invasive Aquatic Plants: What Every Plant Enthusiast Needs
to Know
MN - Historic Lake Superior and Minnesota's North Shore 2003 wall
calendar
PA - New Invasive Species Fact Sheets
- Staff News
IL/IN - U of I Ecologist Steers Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Forward
MI - Patricia Stewart joins MI Sea Grant as External Relations
Communicator
MN - New Coastal Communities & Land Use Planning Educator
MI - Chuck Pistis receives MSU's Distinguished Academic Staff
Award
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1. MI - Ecosystem Mosaics: Dr. Judy Wells Budd (Research Profile)
Dr. Judy Wells Budd has a continuing grant from Michigan Sea Grant
for her proposal "Ecosystem Mosaics: Modeling Pattern and Process
Using Remotely Sesnsed Imagery." The overall goal of the project
is to investigate and model Great Lakes lower trophic
dynamics on daily, seasonal, and annual time scales using remotely
sensed imagery. The project focuses on southern Lake Michigan and
the Keewenaw Region of Lake Superior, allowing cooperation with
the KITES and EEGLE projects. Emphasis will be
placed on identifying periods of intense perturbations that may
scour bottom sediments, as well as quantifying the concentrations
of sediment and chlorophyll from important tributaries and the open
lake.
The objectives of this project are to (1) enhance understanding
of the physical and biological processes associated with seasonal
and interannual variation in suspended sediment and chlorophyll
concentrations and primary productions; (2) document the incidence,
magnitude, and persistence of episodic resuspension and upwelling/downwelling
events by merging remotely sensed surface temperatures and chlorophyll
and seston data with measured velocity fields from GPS-ARGOS drifters
and multiple shipboard ADCPs; and (3) explore the potential ecological
dynamics resulting from episodic transport events and model the
physical and biological processes associated with seasonal and interannual
variation in seston and chlorophyll abundances and primary productivity.
In the course of this investigation, the project team will develop
and incorporate several new image products.
2. IL/IN - Electric Barrier May Stop Asian Carp
The electric barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal may prevent
Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan, according to preliminary research
results. In the early stages of an Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant-funded
study, researchers found that more than 99 percent of bighead carp
were deterred by a simulated barrier modeled after the actual one.
Using fish raceways to do controlled experiments, John Chick and
Mark Pegg of the Illinois Natural History Survey are testing the
potential effectiveness of the present electric barrier, as well
as exploring additional barrier technologies as they relate to Asian
carp. Asian carp are migrating closer to the actual barrier, located
near Romeoville, Illinois, and have been spotted 25 miles from Lake
Michigan.
Thus far in the study, in 381 attempts by bighead carp to pass
through the simulated barrier--379 times the fish turned around.
Only one fish went through the barrier, and in fact, did it twice.
"This was a smaller carp, which is less susceptible to the
electric current," said Pegg. These tests were done for six
continuous hours per day for three days.
Asian carp, which have grown to 50 pounds in U.S. waters, were
brought here for use in aquaculture in the 1970s, and escaped into
the Upper Mississippi River System. "Asian carp have the potential
to adversely affect every species of fish in the Mississippi River
and Great Lakes," said Pegg.
3. OH - Lake Erie "Dead Zone" causes may lie with aquatic
invaders and run-off from "Sea Grant News and Notes"
The combination of aquatic nuisance species, agriculture run-off,
warm temperatures and low water levels may be creating increased
frequency and expanding the area of an anoxic "dead zone"
in Lake Erie, according to Ohio Sea Grant and EPA researchers. In
Lake Erie's "dead zone," researchers are working to determine
the causes of what has become an annual summer occurrence. Called
a "dead zone" because its oxygen level falls below that
which can support aquatic animals, the phosphorus-rich water threatens
the health of the lake's ecosystem.
Ohio Sea Grant and the U.S. EPA's Great Lakes National Program
Office supported a graduate student Great Lakes limnology course
and research cruise this summer, during which Ohio State University
researcher David Culver directed water quality analysis of the lake's
nutrient levels and experiments to determine zebra and quagga mussels'
phosphorus excretion rates. The zebra mussel invaded Lake Erie first,
but recent results show that quagga mussels have outcompeted them
in all three basins. Culver's preliminary results showed that both
mussels excreted phosphorus, but the quagga mussel excreted more
than equivalent-sized zebra mussels. The results suggest that both
zebra and quagga mussels recycle phosphorus, and as their populations
continue to grow, so will high levels of phosphorus that contribute
to Lake Erie's "dead zone."
Human contributions to high phosphorus levels and the ensuing "dead
zone" have plagued Lake Erie for many years. Increased phosphorus
inputs stimulate overgrowth of algae. In the 1960s and 1970s, tens
of thousands of tons of phosphorus from sewage plants and other
sources were dumped in the lake, causing the entire lake to be declared
"dead" as oxygen was eliminated from up to 90% of the
bottom waters of the lake in the central basin area. But extensive
cleanup efforts since then have reduced the amount of phosphorus
entering the lake to about 11,000 metric tons a year.
Still, Ohio Sea Grant Director Jeffrey Reutter is concerned that
heavy rains this spring may have increased phosphorus loading to
the lake from agricultural runoff and sewage overflows. These inputs,
combined with overall low lake levels which reduce the volume
of the cooler, bottom waters of the lake could cause the "dead
zone" to arrive earlier and cover a larger area of the bottom
of the lake this year. There, decaying, phosphorus-fertilized algae
quickly use up the available oxygen and cause aquatic life to die.
Reutter will testify about the "dead zone" issue today
in Cleveland (Aug. 5) at a field hearing of the United States Senate
Committee on the Environment and Public Works.
In mid-July, Culver and a group of researchers found oxygen levels
of 3.5 ppm at the bottom at a site north of Cleveland, one of 11
sites sampled in the central basin (between Sandusky, OH and Erie,
PA). This concentration is already too low for many fish, and indicates
a possible initiation of a "dead zone" in August. Upcoming
research trips in August and September should help provide more
answers as to why the "dead zone" occurs, and what can
be done to prevent it in the future. CONTACT: David Culver, Professor,
Ohio State University, (O) 614-292-6995, Email: culver.3@osu.edu;
Jeffrey Reutter, Ohio Sea Grant Director, (O) 614-292-8949, Email:
reutter.1@osu.edu
4. Tidbits
MI ANS - Round Goby sighting
Tom Englehart called the MI Sea Grant office to report that he had
found round goby in the Shiawassee River near Lake Ponemah in Fenton
Township.
PA ANS - Possible Bighead carp sighting
Researchers from the Erie County Health Department and PA Department
of Environmental Quality working in Presque Isle Bay on July 17 report
a probable sighting of a very large bighead carp in Presque Isle Bay.
The researchers were unable to capture the fish for a positive identification.
5. Web News
MI - Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Site Moves
The Great Lakes Sea Grant Network site has a new address and a new
look. Michigan Sea Grant has taken over responsibility for maintenance
of the Network website. With the shift comes a new address (www.greatlakesseagrant.org).
Michigan Sea Grant web designer Dave Brenner has developed a new template
for the Network site which includes enhanced topical navigation.
MN - Proceedings of the Environmental Strategies for Aquaculture
Symposium
Now available online and via compact disk. The symposium was held
December 5 and 6, 2000 in conjunction with the 62nd Annual Midwest
Fish and Wildlife Conference in Minneapolis. For online access, go
to www.idea.iastate.edu/aqua.
Otherwise, a CD is available from the North Central Regional Aquaculture
Center (NCRAC) for $10. Contact them at NCRAC Publications Office,
Dept. of Animal Ecology, 124 Science II, Iowa State University, Ames,
IA 50011-3221, (515) 294-5280, celsberr@iastate.edu.
NY - Botulism Research Info On the Web
August 1, 2002. Earlier this week botulism was identified in dead
birds taken from the Lake Ontario shoreline.
New York Sea Grant Coastal Education Specialist Helen Domske has
been involved in making information available on the botulism outbreaks
on the Great Lakes since they began in1999 and regularly posts information
and research updates to Sea Grant¹s website at http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/botulism.
By the end of the day on August 2nd that website will have a press
release on New York Sea Grant's botulism research, including a study
of Lakes Ontario and Erie already underway by researchers Paul Bowser
and Rod Getchell with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. The
site will also have the proceedings from the February 2002 Botulism
in Lake Erie conference at which possible spread into Lake Ontario
was discussed. Exotic species were suggested as one means of transfer
of the disease.
6. Publications
MN - June Seiche Available On-Line
The latest issue of the Minnesota Sea Grant's "Seiche" newsletter
is available at http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/jun.02/index.html
Articles include:
A Tale of Two Cities' Lawn Care Practices
"Sensing" Duluth's Streams
No Rest for 'Sleeping Beauty'
Great Lakes Commission Gains Minnesota Grad
An Order of (Small) Fries
Interested in Water Gardening?
PA - Summer Keystone Shorelines Available On-Line
The latest issue of PA Sea Grant's quarterly newsletter is available
at:
http://www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant/communication/news/summer02.html
Articles include:
Edinboro Lake Drawdowns Drastically Reduce Zebra Mussel Population
Discover Presque Isle - July 26-28
Botulism Update: February Botulism Workshop Creates Research Agenda
Coastal Connections: Celebrating Land, Water and You
Multipurpose Trail Extension Wins Award
School Notes: Environmental Rediscoveries
Pennsylvania Sea Grant Establishing E-mail Mailing Lists
Alien Beetles Battle Invasive Purple Loosestrife
WI - Shore Protection Booklet Pending
Late in the summer of 2002, a review draft of a new booklet advising
Great Lakes shore property owners about shore protection nears completion.
Portions of the booklet were written by 20 experts around the Great
Lakes, including former GLERL staff; Dr. Frank Quinn. The booklet
writing project is being carried out by University of Wisconsin Sea
Grant Advisory Services under the leadership of Philip Keillor, coastal
engineering specialist, with funding from the Detroit District of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
This will be the first shore protection booklet for the Great Lakes
that the Corps has funded since 1978. The draft is scheduled to be
sent out for review at the end of September 2002 and be published
early in 2003. Contact Phil Keillor for more information.
MI - Don't Get Trapped! - Trap Net Brochure
Recreational boaters on the Great Lakes should be aware that commercial
fishing trap nets may be anchored in some locations. Michigan Sea
Grant provides information on how to recognize and avoid these nets
in a new brochure: Don't Get Trapped! What
Recreational Anglers and Boaters Should Know About Commercial Fishing
Trap Nets.
"The most important thing is to be aware of buoys or floats
that are used to mark the nets," says Michigan Sea Grant Extension
Agent Chuck Pistis. "When boaters encounter these markers,
they need to give the nets a wide berth and should not attempt to
pass or
troll between the net buoys." The brochure includes practical
information and full-color illustrations about identifying and avoiding
commercial fishing trap nets. It was produced in partnership with
the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Ludington Area
Charterboat Association, the Michigan Boating Industries Association,
the Michigan Charter Boat Association, the Michigan Fish Producers
Association and the Michigan Steelhead and Salmon Fishermen's Association.
See the Michigan Sea Grant web site,
www.miseagrant.org for ordering information.
MN & IL/IN - Exotics To Go!
Presentations and Publications to Prevent the Spread of Aquatic Nuisance
Species. An informational compact disk developed by Illinois-Indiana
and Minnesota Sea Grant on behalf of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network
for people who need outreach
materials about aquatic nuisance species (ANS). The exotic species
featured are of national concern to inland water users, and some are
specific to the Great Lakes area. They include zebra mussels, purple
loosestrife, several fish, and two waterfleas. The CD
contains 22 publications in PDF format, lists of people to contact
about ANS, and offers seven adaptable PowerPoint presentations --
including scripts, images, and talking points -- that focus on zebra
mussel impacts and control. The CD is available from Minnesota
Sea Grant for $2.50 plus tax. Contact Minnesota Sea Grant at (218)
726-6191, or by e-mail at seagr@d.umn.edu. This CD may also be ordered
online by visiting http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/exotics/exoticstogo.html.
I have a copy of the CD which GLERL folks can borrow.
MN - Invasive Aquatic Plants: What Every Plant Enthusiast Needs
to Know
A four-page color brochure intended for people with "blue-green
thumbs," who have ponds or water gardens in their yards. The
brochure describes the problems invasive plants create and provides
instructions on how to prevent their accidental spread. It even includes
a "most wanted" list of plants that pose the greatest ecological
and economic threats, and information on native alternatives. To request
a free copy, contact Minnesota Sea Grant at (218) 726-6191 or email
seagr@d.umn.edu.
MN - Historic Lake Superior and Minnesota's North Shore 2003 wall
calendar
A 14-month, black-and-white calendar that features images from archives
of the Northeast Minnesota Historical Center, the Minnesota Historical
Society, and the Lake Superior Maritime Collections at the University
of Wisconsin Superior. View sample
images and order the calendar online at http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/calendar/index.html.
It is available for $10 plus tax by
contacting Minnesota Sea Grant at (218) 726-6191, or by e-mail at
seagr@d.umn.edu.
PA - New Invasive Species Fact Sheets
Pennsylvania Sea Grant has a new suite of invasive species fact
sheets available on their website (http://www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant/communication/communication.html).
Each 2 page fact sheet focuses on a different invasive specie: rusty
crayfish, Eurasian ruffe, spiny & fishhook waterfleas, rond
goby, quagga mussels, and zebra mussels.
7. Staff News
IL/IN - U of I Ecologist Steers Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Forward
Richard E. Warner, a University of Illinois ecologist and administrator,
has been appointed director of the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College
Program (IISG). He brings to Sea Grant a background rich in fisheries
and wildlife research with an emphasis on solving problems. "As
an ecologist, I've used a systems approach, combining different knowledge
bases and schools of thought. I think it's important to bring together
a variety of agencies to address problems and to consider solutions,"
said Warner. He has been the interim director of IISG since Phillip
Pope retired in 2001.
Warner began his research career at the Illinois Natural History
Survey (INHS) in 1975 and was awarded his doctorate in interdisciplinary
environmental studies from the U of I in 1981. In 1990, Warner took
on an administrative role as the INHS director of the Center For
Wildlife Ecology. Since then he has held a number of administrative
and academic positions at the U of I, most recently assistant dean
for research in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental
Sciences (ACES). He is also a professor in the Department of Natural
Resources and Environmental Sciences. "I'd like Sea Grant to
be a clearinghouse for unbiased, sound scientific information about
coastal concerns," said Warner. "Through increased education
and communication efforts we can raise awareness and help facilitate
solutions related to critical issues such as coastal development,
water quality and the impact of invasive species."
MI - Patricia Stewart joins MI Sea Grant as External Relations
Communicator
Patricia Stewart will serve as external relations communicator for
Michigan Sea Grant and director of communications for Michigan State
University's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. With more than
15 years of public and media relations experience, Stewart will lead
Michigan Sea Grant's legislative, agency and foundation outreach efforts.
She will also direct and manage the communications and public relations
programs for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Stewart's outreach
efforts will focus on building relationships with not only federal
and state agencies, but also with great lakes, environmental and research
organizations. She will also devote energy to the Partnership for
Ecosystem Research Management team, a collaboration between Michigan
State University, the MDNR, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and
the Great Lakes Science Center formed to work with their stakeholders
in identifying and conducting research on ecosystem problems and their
solutions. Stewart can be reached at Michigan State University, East
Lansing, 517-355-1821, or via email at stewartp@msu.edu.
MN - New Coastal Communities & Land Use Planning Educator
Minnesota Sea Grant has hired a new coastal communities and land
use planning extension educator, Jesse Schomberg. Schomberg will
work with communities in the Western Lake Superior Basin to help
community leaders better understand the impacts that different land
management decisions have on water quality and community character.
Schomberg will work with related programs in northern Wisconsin
and the Twin Cities area to provide watershed-based nonpoint pollution
education materials and technical guidance to promote community
involvement in water resource protection, while accommodating compatible
economic growth.
NY - NY Sea Grant Specialist Appointed to National Committee
07/16/02 New York Sea Grant Coastal Resources Specialist Chuck O'Neill,
Jr. has been appointed to the select Invasive Species Advisory Committee
(ISAC) that advises the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) regarding
invasive species and diseases.
O'Neill is among ISAC's thirty-two members representing research,
education, private enterprise and public interests. Members assist
with implementation of the Council's 2001 national invasive species
management plan. O'Neill will chair a Communications,
Education and Outreach Sub-Committee charged with engaging public
participation in implementing that plan.
MI - Chuck Pistis receives MSU's Distinguished Academic Staff
Award
Chuck Pistis recently received Michigan State University's Distinguished
Academic Staff Award. This is the highest honor MSU bestows on its
extension staff. |
July 2002
Welcome to the Sea Grant Update monthly newsletter! This newsletter
is patterned after the successful GLERL Update weekly newsletter
and is intended primarily as a vehicle to convey information about
activities and events within the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network to
staff at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. This
newsletter may also be used as a vehicle for communication among
the individual colleges of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network.
Sea Grant Updates will be archived at www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/SGUpdate.htm
GLERL Updates are archived at www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/GLERLUpdates.htm
This inaugural edition is somewhat lengthier than I expect will
be typical. If you would like to have your name removed from this
list at any time, please respond to Rochelle.Sturtevant@noaa.gov.
Contents:
1. Newsletters
2. Minnesota: "Sensing" Duluth's Streams
3. Minnesota: A Tale of Two Cities' Lawn Care Practices
4. Wisconsin: Don't Get Carried Away This Summer: Beware of Great
Lakes Currents
5. Wisconsin: Landlubbers Shine at National Ocean Sciences Bowl
6. Ohio: Summer Steelhead Angling Opportunities Are Now!
7. Ohio: New Discussion Board Premiers
8. Ohio: Lake Erie's Shipwrecks
9. Pennsylvania: Mayflies
10. New York: NY Sea Grant and Seaway Trail Promote Sport/Carp Fishing
to International Travelers
11. New York: Salmonids
12. New York: Catching "Biggest" Fish May Not Be Best
- Evolutionary Change May Be Impacted
13. Lake Champlain: Sea Grant Asking Anglers to Collect Sea Lampreys
for Lake Champlain Study
14. New Staff
15. Staff News and Awards
16. New Reprints
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1. Newsletters
- Minnesota: Seiche
(Archived on-line)
- March 2002
- A Lake with a View
- Cousteau Speaks for Sweetwater Seas
- Lake Superior's Native Lampreys
- Tubenose Goby "Leaps" to Duluth/Superior
- Groundwater CD Available
- Wisconsin: Littoral
Drift (Subscription Information On-line)
- May/June 2002
- Workshops Yield Perch Management Recommendations
- Hurley to Lead Sea Grant Research and Outreach
- Landlubbers Shine at National Ocean Science Bowl
- Ladwig Returns to Sea Grant
- New Weston Scholar Named
- New Reprints
- Illinois/Indiana: The Helm (Current Issue On-line)
- Fall/Winter 2001
- Profiling Culprits in the Great Lakes
- Fond Farewell to Director Phil Pope
- Interim Director Steers IISG into the Future
- Experts Gather to Explore River Restoration
- Students set sights on Community Awareness
- Research Takes the Stage
- Funding Boosts Ideas into Action
- Michigan: Upwellings (Web adaptation on-line)
- Summer 2002
- Challenges in Great Lakes Fisheries
- Citizens Voice Opinions on Great Lakes
- Web of Life: Changes Aquatic Food Web
- Scientists Navigate Ship Ballast Tanks
- Water Safety on the Great Lakes
- UM Enhances Great Lakes Research
- Ohio: Twine Line (Archived On-Line)
- March/April 2002
- Lake Erie Water Levels
- Ask Your Agent: Sea Camp
- FYI: Water Levels, Conferences
- Targeting Eco-Tourists
- Boater Survey
- 20th Anniversary of Friends of Stone Laboratory
- May/June 2002 (should be posted ~7/22)
- New Research Explores How One Exotic Species Affects
Another's Behavior
- FYI: Lake Erie Information Discussion Board, Water Levels,
Publications
- Ask Your Agent: Touring Gibraltar
- Botulism in Lake Erie
- Pennsylvania: Keystone Shorelines (Archived On-Line)
- Spring 2002
- Committee Recommends 'Recovery Stage' Designation for
Presque Isle Bay
- Do You See What The Students See? A Watershed Success
Story
- Great Lakes Restoration Funds Awarded to Erie County
Projects
- If Sea Grant Ran the Circus
- Coastal Zone Fellow Helping to Improve State's Aquatic
Resources
- Introduced Flathead Catfish: Prize or Plague?
- New York: Coastlines
(Archived On-Line)
- Spring 2002
- Focus on Research
- New Core Research: Improving the Health and Balance
of New York's Waters
- CoastWatch: Developing New Methods in Toxin Detection
- Shifting Fisheries Management Toward a Multi-Species
Approach
- Botulism Workshop Sets Research Agenda
- Currents: Researching Lobster Health in LI Sound
2. Minnesota: "Sensing" Duluth's Streams
Excerpt from Seiche.
Minnesota Sea Grant is partnering in a project with the city of
Duluth and the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) to monitor
the water quality of four of Duluth's 42 streams, and then deliver
the information to local resource managers and the public in ways
that can be easily accessed and understood. The Duluth Streams Project
is funded with $352,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency's
national EMPACT program (Environmental Monitoring for Public Access
and Community Tracking).
Project researchers are collaborating with the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency and the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District.
Public information will be provided on interactive kiosks at the
Great Lakes Aquarium and the Lake Superior Zoo, as well as online
at www.DuluthStreams.org. Electronic sensors will monitor the streams
for water flow, temperature, salt content and turbidity (how brown
the water is with sediment) and transmit the information to the
Web site. Researchers will also collect water regularly for a variety
of nutrient analyses. DuluthStreams.org will have a variety of interactive
computer animations and historic information to help citizens explore
and interpret the data. Researchers hope that public access to the
information will result in community action.
3. Minnesota: A Tale of Two Cities' Lawn Care Practices
Excerpt from Seiche.
Plymouth, MN, like a growing number of Twin Cities suburbs, has
an ordinance restricting the use of phosphorus for lawn fertilization.
Plymouth's neighboring city, Maple Grove, does not have a phosphorus-restricting
ordinance. This sets up an opportunity to compare lawn care practices
between homeowners in the two cities and see if the ordinance reduces
the phosphorus content of water runoff. The University of Minnesota
Sea Grant Program, the Three Rivers Park District, and the Hennepin
Conservation District, are taking advantage of this opportunity
by conducting a water quality research project and public education
campaign to inform homeowners about environmentally-sound lawn care
practices as part of the Lake Access project, a cooperative venture
between the institutions already named above and the University
of Minnesota Duluth's Natural Resources Research Institute and Education
Department. The project is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community
Tracking (EMPACT) program.
In spring, 2001, researchers conducted a lawn care survey of homeowners
in Plymouth, MN. Of the 142 people to respond, 77 percent fertilize
their lawns. Of those who fertilize, about 50 percent apply it themselves
and 40 percent use a professional lawn service (the other 10 percent
had their lawns fertilized by another resident, a landlord, or an
association). Only 2 percent of those who fertilize their lawns
calculated the quantity they used based on their yard size or soil
tests. Most relied on their lawn service or on the recommendations
found on fertilizer bags and have never had their soil tested (76
percent). Twenty-two percent of surveyed homeowners remove grass
clippings every time they mow, and in the process remove an easy
way for lawns to self-fertilize.
In addition to the survey, a research project is being conducted
within the Maple Grove and Plymouth watersheds to examine differences
in phosphorus levels in runoff. "Preliminary results show there's
a 23 percent difference in phosphorus between the cities -- it's
lower in Plymouth," said James Johnson, a water quality technician
with the Three Rivers District of Hennepin Parks.
Full results of the survey and a description of the overall study
can be found on the Lake Access Web site: www.lakeaccess.org, under
the "lawn fertilizer experiment" section.
4. Wisconsin: Don't Get Carried Away This Summer: Beware of
Great Lakes Currents
Excerpt from Press Release.
25 June 2002. For More Information: Jim Lubner, water safety specialist,
(414) 227-3291 John Karl, science writer, (608) 263-8621
MADISON, Wis. (6/25/02) -- Several drownings at Lake Michigan beaches
in recent years underscore the importance of understanding Great
Lakes currents and how to escape from them, according to Jim Lubner,
water safety specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Institute.
The two most important currents to know about are longshore and
rip currents, Lubner said. Longshore currents flow along the shoreline,
and rip currents flow roughly perpendicular to the shoreline on
the surface of the water.
"You always want to swim perpendicular to the currents,"
Lubner said. "In the case of longshore currents, that's perfectly
natural. The current will carry you along, parallel to the shore,
and you should just swim toward shore."
Rip currents are trickier, Lubner said. "With rip currents,
you get pulled out away from shore, and your natural instinct may
be to swim directly towards shore, against the current. But it's
best to swim at right angles to the current, which in this case
means swimming parallel to shore. That way, you get out of the current
the fastest. Once you are out of the current, you can swim to shore
much easier," he said. "These currents are usually pretty
narrow, so you can get out of them in a short distance," Lubner
said. Some signs of rip currents are patches or lines of foam, debris
and discolored water moving away from shore. Another sign is a stretch
of breaking waves whose heights are lower than the waves to either
side.
"Remember that the dangers of currents multiply when the water
is cold," Lubner said. "Cold water drains heat from the
body very quickly and interferes with muscle operation and coordination.
You can't swim very far or fast in cold water."
5. Wisconsin: Landlubbers Shine at National Ocean Sciences Bowl
Excerpt from Littoral Drift.
A team of high school students from the heartland of Wisconsin
were among the finalists at the National Ocean Science Bowl in Providence
Rhode Island, placing eighth out of 22 teams at the national competition.
It was the first time a Wisconsin team has made it to the finals.
In fact, this was the first year Wisconsin hosted its own regional
meet, called the Lake Sturgeon Bowl. The regional event was hosted
by the UW-Milwaukee Great Lakes WATER Institute and the UW Sea Grant
Institute. The bowl is made possible in Wisconsin by a grant from
the Brunswick Public Foundation. The program is conducted by the
Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE).
6. Ohio: Summer Steelhead Angling Opportunities Are Now!
Excerpt from Press Release.
20 June 2002. For More Information: Dave Kelch, Ohio Sea Grant
Extension, kelch.3@osu.edu, 440.326.5851
Elyria, OH (6/20/02)-- Lake Erie's summer steelhead fishing is
just beginning and anglers from Lorain to Conneaut are reporting
good catches of Lake Erie's 'silver bullet.' "Steelhead fishing
on Lake Erie is a hidden treasure for anglers. The fishery offers
year-round opportunities for anglers, fishing that gets better every
year," states Dave Kelch, Ohio Sea Grant Extension District
Specialist in Lorain County, Ohio. Unlike their cousins, the rainbow
trout, which live their entire life in landlocked streams or rivers,
steelhead migrate from streams as juveniles to a large lake or ocean
environment. These food rich environments permit steelhead to attain
sizes far larger than their stream-run cousins. Within the U.S.,
the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions are the most popular
areas for these giant rainbows.
Thanks to the restocking program started in the 1980s by Ohio Department
of Natural Resources: Division of Wildlife, steelhead have provided
diversity to the fishery and have added more angling opportunities
(call 1.800.WILDLIFE for information). Because of abundant food
resources in Lake Erie, steelhead juveniles achieve rapid growth,
reaching an average length of 18 inches and weighing two to three
pounds in their first year. Three-year-old steelhead can average
30 inches, weighing eight to ten pounds.
7. Ohio: New Discussion Board Premiers
Ohio Sea Grant is proud to present their new Lake Erie Information
Discussion Board hosted by Ohio Sea Grant Extension. The board's
goal is to offer plain-talk answers to science inquiries, and provide
a forum for discussing Lake Erie-related concerns. Ohio Sea Grant
Extension Specialists and Agents will monitor this board to ensure
a prompt response to questions, and when necessary contact Sea Grant
researchers and partners at colleges, universities, and agencies
throughout Ohio and the nation for the most up-to-date answers.
Go to: www sg.ohio-state.edu an click on the "Discussion Board"
link.
8. Ohio: Lake Erie's Shipwrecks
Guides to Lake Erie's Historic Shipwrecks: The Adventure ,
W. R. Hanna, and F. H. Prince (available August 1, 2002)
Did you know that Lake Erie contains approximately 1700 shipwrecks,
and 50 of them are located in the waters that surround Kelleys Island,
Ohio? Guides to three of these shipwrecks are now available and
ready for you to enjoy on land and in the water. Packaged as a set
in a waterproof envelope, each sturdy, plastic, waterproof slate
measures 9.5" x 6.25" and features a site map, schematic
diagram, diving information, vessel data, and ship history. The
guides are essential for anyone interested in Lake Erie, shipwrecks,
maritime history, or underwater archaeology. Price: $15.00 per set
(includes shipping) © 2002 Great Lakes Historical Society and
the Ohio Sea Grant College Program. For more information contact
Karen Ricker at ricker.15@osu.edu
9. Pennsylvania: Mayflies
Mayflies are alive and well in Erie Pennsylvania. Tom Atkins of
WJET TV-24 reported mayflies on Radar between Conneaut, OH and Girard,
PA. On 29 June I observed mayflies on Radar returning to the Lake
starting at 9:47 until about 10:30 in the Harborcreek to NorthEast,
PA. (Image 1 -9:57) Hundreds (not the masses of the West) were observed
and a collection made along US Rt. 5. On 30 June from Harborcreek,
PA to Ripley, NY emergence started at 9:32 and was still going on
at 10:21.
10. New York: NY Sea Grant and Seaway Trail Promote Sport/Carp
Fishing to International Travelers
Excerpt from Press Release.
June 26, 2002 - While in London last week to represent America's
Byways at the See America Travel Showcase, Teresa Mitchell of Seaway
Trail, Inc., New York, distributed a Seaway Trail Sportfishing/Carp
Fishing flier to travel buyers and sellers from across
Europe. Prepared in cooperation with New York Sea Grant and fisheries
specialist David MacNeill with Seaway Trail Sportfishing Committee
Co-Chair Bill Hilts, Jr., the flier notes that wild carp are many
in number and can reach sizes of 30 to 50 lbs in the St. Lawrence
River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie.
The flier quotes Joe Babbitt of St. Lawrence Experience, Waddington,
saying "New York State's Seaway Trail has the world's best
carp venue" and suggests watching the BBC for carp fishing
in "Tight Lines Stateside: On the Water's Edge with Martin
James." Joe won a 2002 Seaway Trail National Trails Day Award
for hosting Mr. James during his video production visit to the Seaway
Trail.
The flier lists the record-breaking Atlantic chinook and coho
salmon, rainbrow, lake and brown trout, and muskie caught in Seaway
Trail waters and provides websites for information on the Seaway
Trail, carp fishing, coastal resources, fishing guides, licenses
and regulations, international travel information, and when and
where to fish along the Seaway Trail. Two new sportfishing travel
packages are listed for angling on Oak Orchard Creek and the Salmon
and Oswego Rivers with a contact for carp fishing packages.
11. New York: Salmonids
Excerpt from Press Release.
For a free JOURNEY magazine featuring Dave MacNeill's article
on "Record-Breaking Salmonids," call 1-800-SEAWAY-T or
email info@seawaytrail.com.
12. New York: Catching "Biggest" Fish May Not Be Best
- Evolutionary Change May Be Impacted
Excerpt from Sea Grant News and Notes.
Catching only the largest fish may be causing the average size
of fish to decrease is the conclusion of a New York Sea Grant funded
study appearing in the July 5th issue of the journal Science. Researchers
David O.Conover and Stephan B. Munch posit that fishery management
plans ignore evolutionary change in harvestable commercially important
fisheries. They observed that in an experimental population of Atlantic
silverside fish where large individuals were selectively removed,
the average size of the silversides declined dramatically in just
four generations. Conversely, when smaller fish were removed, the
average size increased. Conover makes two suggestions to manage
fisheries for sustainable harvest over the long haul: 1) A rethinking
of the reliance of minimum-size restrictions as a basic management
tool; 2) the establishment of no-take reserves or marine protected
areas that may, if properly designed, provide for the maintenance
of natural genetic variation of marine life. CONTACT: David Conover,
New York Sea Grant Researcher, Professor of Marine Science, Stony
Brook University, (O) 631-632-8667, E-mail: dconover@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
13. Lake Champlain: Sea Grant Asking Anglers to Collect Sea
Lampreys for Lake Champlain Study
Excerpt from Press Release.
June 21, 2002. Contact: Mark Malchoff, Aquatic Resources Specialist,
Lake Champlain Sea Grant Extension Project, 518-564-3038
Lake Champlain Sea Grant Extension Project and New York Sea Grant
would like anglers assistance in collecting sea lampreys from Lake
Champlain in 2002 and 2003. The non-native fish that feed on the
blood and body fluids of large fishes important to the
sportfishing industry will be studied to help optimize planned control
of the parasitic fish which have had a devastating impact on native
fish populations in Lake Champlain and in the Great Lakes.
By bringing the lamprey in, anglers can make a significant contribution
to research that will improve our understanding about sea lamprey
ecology and how managers can best exploit any weak spots in the
sea lamprey life cycle. This work will help support the recently
adopted Long-term Program of Sea Lamprey Control in Lake Champlain
prepared by USFWS, VTFWS, and NYSDEC, and may indirectly support
lamprey control in the Great Lakes, said Mark Malchoff, with the
Lake Champlain Sea Grant Extension Project, Plattsburgh, NY. Research
may help managers identify and prioritize those tributaries most
linked to adult lamprey production.
From 1990 to 1995, an experimental lampricide-based control program
was used in Lake Champlain in thirteen tributary systems with a
resulting reduction in lamprey populations and increase in angler
catch rates of lake trout. When the program was continued, the lamprey
population rebounded.
Malchoff says Lake Champlain is perfect for a mark and recapture
study of sea lamprey because of its small size and the lamprey population
build up, that has occurred since the late 90s. There currently
exists a window of opportunity to study an unsuppressed lamprey
population, prior to the resumption of lamprey control this fall.
This opportunity is unique since lamprey populations are suppressed
in the Great Lakes, and in Lake Champlain during the period 1995-2002.
Approximately 2600 lamprey have been marked by project staff and
U.S. Fish & Wildlife technicians and released in four streams
feeding Lake Champlain. Anglers will not be able to see the coded
tags on the lamprey and are asked to bring all lamprey into collection
points at cooperating tackle shops.
This study of lampreys is funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission,
which continues to support innovative and traditional approaches
for controlling lamprey populations.
Additional info can be found at http://www.uvm.edu/snr/lamprey/
For more information on the lamprey study, contact Mark Malchoff,
Lake Champlain Sea Grant Extension Project, Plattsburgh State University,
518-564-3038; Dr. Ellen Marsden, School of Natural Resources, University
of Vermont.
14. New Staff
Wisconsin: Hurley to Lead Sea Grant Research and Outreach
James Hurley, assistant director for research at Wisconsin Sea Grant,
will lead the Wisconsin Sea Grant Advisory Services program, replacing
Al Miller who retired last summer. Hurley, an internationally regarded
expert in water chemistry and environmental contaminants, brings
a unique perspective to the advisory services program. Bringing
together research and advisory services under a single administrator
will enable a more direct correlation between the two. Hurley will
also continue in his role as assistant director of the UW Water
Resources Institute (WRI). The Institute and Sea Grant comprise
the UW Aquatic Sciences Center.
Wisconsin: Ladwig Returns to Sea Grant
Jill Ladwig is the new science editor and writer at UW Sea Grant
and the Aquatic Sciences Center. Jill was formerly director of communications
at Hawaii Sea Grant (1991-1996).
Minnesota: New Graphic Designer
Mike Cousino is Minnesota Sea Grant's new graphic designer. He is
responsible for creating project Web sites and helping design and
maintain Minnesota Sea Grant's Web site, designing publications,
and providing computer technology support for Sea Grant's outreach
program.
15. Staff News and Awards
Minnesota: Chair of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Directors
Carl Richards, Director of Minnesota Sea Grant, was named chair
of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network directors for 2002. In that
capacity he will coordinate the directors' actions and serve as
a liaison between Sea Grant and external groups.
Minnesota: Chair of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Communications
Group
Marie Zhuikov, communications coordinator, was named chair of the
Great Lakes Sea Grant Network communications group for 2002. This
group represents communication specialists working in Sea Grant
programs throughout the Great Lakes. Zhuikov will serve as a liaison
between communicators, other formal Sea Grant groups, and external
groups. Zhuikov is also serving as chair of the Sea Grant Messages
Task Force, which is developing a national mission statement for
Sea Grant.
Michigan: Upwellings Award
Joyce Daniels, MSG Editor of Upwellings, received an award for feature
writing. We submitted the Fall 2001 issue of Upwellings, "Making
the Most of Michigan's Urban Coastline," to APEX (Award for
Publication Excellence) in the annual competition. Out of
a total of 5,863 entries, 98 APEX awards were announced to honor
outstanding work. Joyce received an Award of Excellence for the
Fall 2001 issue of Upwellings.
Pennsylvania: Web Honors!
Pennsylvania Sea Grant's Web site was recognized as the Great Lakes
Information Network's Site of the Month in April! We work hard to
keep the site informative, interesting, and useful. Check it out
online at www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant.
16. New Reprints
Hove, M., Hillegass, K., Kurth, J., Pepi, V., Lee, C., Knudsen,
K., Kapuscinski, A., Mahoney, P., and Bomier, M. (2000) Considerations
for Conducting Host Suitability Studies. Proceedings of the Conservation,
Captive Care, and Propagation of Freshwater Mussels Symposium 1998,
pages 27-34. [JR 447] Order @ http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/pubs/jrorder.html
Eric A. Andreasen, RL Tanguay, RE Peterson and W Heideman, "Identification
of a Critical Amino Acid in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor,"
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277 (15):13210-13218, 2002 [WISCU-R-02-003]
Reprints: linda@seagrant.wisc.edu - Abstracts:
http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu
Carlos F. Torres and CG Hill Jr., "Lipase-Catalyzed Acidolysis
of Menhaden Oil with Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Effect of Water Content,"
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 78(5):509-516, 2002 [WISCU-R-02-004]
Reprints: linda@seagrant.wisc.edu - Abstracts:
http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu
Carlos F. Torres, B Lin and CG Hill Jr., "Lipase-Catalyzed
Glycerolysis of an Oil Rich in Eicosapentaenoic Acid Residues,"
24:667-673, 2002 [WISCU-R-02-005] Reprints: linda@seagrant.wisc.edu
- Abstracts: http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu
Christopher J. Gobler, Marc J. Renaghan, and Nathaniel J. Buck.
2002. Impacts of nutrients and grazing mortality on the abundance
of Aureococcus anophagefferens during a New York brown tide bloom.
Limnology and Oceanography 47(1):129-141.
Katie Rose Boissonneault-Cellineri, Mausmi Mehta, Darcy J. Lonsdale,
and David A. Caron. 2001. Microbial food web interactions in two
Long Island embayments. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 26:139-155.
Christopher J. Gobler, John R. Donat, John A. Consolve III, and
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy. 2002. Physicochemical speciation
of iron during coastal algal blooms. Marine Chemistry 77:71-89.
Berg, D.J., Garton, D.W., Macisaac, H.J., Panov, V.E., and Telesh,
I.V. (2002). Changes in genetic structure of North American Bythotrephes
populations following invasion from Lake Ladoga, Russia. Freshwater
Biology, 47: 275-282. [OHSU-RS-268] Reprints: cruickshank.3@osu.edu
Fortner, R.W. and Corney, J.R. (2002). Great Lakes educational
needs assessment: Teachers' priorities for topics, materials, and
training. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 28(1):3-14. [OHSU-RS-269]
Reprints: cruickshank.3@osu.edu
Whyte, R.S. and Francko, D.A. (2001). Dynamics of a pioneer population
of Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) in a shallow
Lake Erie wetland. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management, 39:136-139.
[OHSU-RS-270]. Reprints: cruickshank.3@osu.edu
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