News Archive

November 2006

Ravenous shrimp could disrupt Lake Ontario food chain: A half-inch-long ravenous shrimp from Eurasia called the bloody red mysid has been found in Lake Ontario, raising concerns among scientists that the tiny crustacean could mean dire consequences for the lake's food chain. http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/on/011807_great_lakes.html

May 2006

The 2006 IAGLR meeting will be held May 22-26, 2006 at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. The theme for the meeting will be "Great Lakes in a Changing Environment".

March 2006

State and federal fisheries biologists convened for a "state of the lake" meeting in Rochester on March 10th, 2006. They revealed that the population of native lake trout in Lake Ontario is continuing to decline with numbers down 50 percent since last year and 71 percent since peak populations in the 1980s. Unfortunately, the invasive round goby and sea lamprey seem to be thriving. On a positive note however, the native deepwater scuplin seem to be making a comeback with higher numbers found in this year's surveys than in the past seven surveys.

February 2006

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario and Banrock Station Wines announced a five-year $1.25 million dollar project to help restore native Atlantic salmon to Lake Ontario, after an absence of more than 100 years due to habitat loss at the time of early settlement.

December 2005

A Report on strategies to restore and protect the Great Lakes has been released. Eight Strategy Teams, each focusing on a different issue affecting the Great Lakes basin, began work in January 2005 to develop recommendations for action. The plan has been finalized and was released on December 12, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. To view the final strategy please go to http://www.glrc.us

September 2005

A new report on riparian and wetland area protection was released in September 2005. The publication was funded by GLNPO and developed by USEPA’s Cleveland Office along with the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, and the Ohio EPA. The publication has been distributed throughout Northeast Ohio.

March 2005

The application deadline for all 2006 IAGLR awards and scholarships is March 1st. More information on the awards and scholarships including award values, eligibility, and application procedures can be found at www.iaglr.org

December 2005
The NSF Environmental Research and Education group has announced a special competition for Biocomplexity in the Environment funding in 2005.  This competition emphasizes research with the following characteristics: (a) a high degree of interdisciplinarity; (b) a focus on complex environmental systems that includes non-human biota or humans; and (c) a focus on systems with high potential for exhibiting non-linear behavior. More information can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/geo/ere/ereweb/fund-biocomplex.cfm

June 2005
The 2005 International Joint Commission Biennial Meeting will be held in historic Kingston, Ontario at Queen's University, June 9-11. This year's meeting will focus on the review of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement by the governments of the United States and Canada. Deadline to submit abstracts has passed (March 15). Please see http://www.ijc.org org/ for details about the 2005 Biennial Meeting.

May 2005
The Lake Ontario Coastal Initiative (LOCI) conference will bring together interested parties to provide and exchange information on the activities related to environmental conservation and remediation efforts on New York's Lake Ontario Coast. Conference will be held May 5-6, 2005 in Rochester, NY.

The 48th annual conference of the International Association of Great LakesResearch (IAGLR) will be held on May 23-27, 2005 at the University ofMichigan in Ann Arbor.  The topic of the conference will be: Great LakesEcosystem Forecasting - Improving Understanding and Prediction. More information on the conference can be found at: http://www.iaglr.org/

March 2005
The NSF Working Group for Environmental Research and Education is holding their 2005 Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE) Grantees Conference on March 21-23, 2005 in the Washington D.C metropolitan area.  Principal investigators and community members interested in research andeducation on BE issues are invited to attend.  The meeting will build upon the discussions from the highly successful 2003 conference and further explore new topics relevant to BE.
The 15th annual Great Lakes Research Consortium Student/Faculty Conference will be held March 18-19, 2005 at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. The deadline for abstract submission is February 18, 2005.
More information can be found at: http://www.esf.edu/glrc/conf.htm

October 2004
The Program of Excellence in Environmental Risk Analysis at Cleveland State University is holding a conference on "Environment Risk and Nonindigenous Species Invasions in the Great Lakes Region: Risk Analysis, Management, and Communication" on October 14-15, 2004. More information can be found at: http://www.csuohio.edu/gradcollege/%7EglRisk/conference.html

May 2004
IAGLR 2004 "Great Lakes Need Great Watersheds" Conference (May 24-28, Waterloo, Ontario). Session to focus on Lake Ontario Embayment Ecosystems. Session Chair: Charles Driscoll, Syracuse University. IAGLR Conference Student Travel Awards are subsidizing a portion of the costs of travel to and from the meeting for students attending the conference.

May 2004
Spring snowmelt sampling complete. Summer sampling to begin in May 2004.

April 2004
Twenty talks on Lake Ontario biocomplexity research were given in the Lake Ontario Embayment Ecosystems session at the Annual International Association of Great Lakes Research conference in Waterloo, Ontario. See our IAGLR presentations page for more information.

March 2004
The IGERT in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity calls for student proposals for the Spring 2004 Small Grants Competition. The main purpose is to support research by graduate students with an interest in biogeochemistry and biocomplexity. Deadline March 9, 2004.

March 2004
Student Environmental Research Grants available to Cornell graduate students, through the Center for the Environment. Deadline March 12, 2004.

March 2004
USEPA Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) call for preproposals for projects furthering protection and clean up of the Great Lakes ecosystem. Projects should address Contaminated Sediments, Pollution Prevention and Toxics Reduction, Habitat (Ecological) Protection and Restoration, Invasive Species, Strategic or Emerging Issues, and Other Lakewide Management Plan or Remedial Action Plan (LaMP/RAP) Priorities. Deadline: March 29, 2004.

March 2004
Great Lakes Research Consortium 14th Annual Conference March 12-13, 2004 (Syracuse, NY). The conference highlights student research while providing opportunities for students, faculty and others to meet and share insights and information about Great Lakes-related research, academic programs, science and policy, and the Consortium's many programs.

December 2003
Analysis and Techniques Assessment of Year 2002 Data Collection at Wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin. Proposal by Marci Meixler (Cornell, Natural Resources) and Mark Bain (Cornell, CfE and Natural Resources) funded by the Great Lakes Commission, Great Lakes Wetland Consortium.

December 2003
U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office 2003 Significant Activities Report is now available.

August 2003
Climate Change and Water Quality in the Great Lakes Basin.
The IJC's Water Quality Board has released a comprehensive report that provides valuable insight and advice on an issue that could have significant implications for the Great Lakes.

April 2003
Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems. Joint report by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Ecological Society of America.

March 13, 2003
The Great Lakes Research Consortium, in collaboration with project staff, convened a conference of more than one hundred Lake Ontario scientists to assess the state of knowledge of Lake Ontario and to establish priorities for Lake Ontario science. The conference took place at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. Complete conference findings will appear in a special issue of the Great Lakes Research Review.

January 8, 2003
Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life, and Society in the 21st Century. National Science Foundation Report.

September 24-25, 2002
An external policy and management project review was held at project field sites and the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point. The events were planned to show how a large multi-institutional and multidisciplinary research effort is being conducted; seeing and hearing about Lake Ontario coastal wetland and bay systems; and exploring how complex systems concepts might influence future environmental management. Attendees were members of the project’s Policy and Management Advisory Board and representatives of associated project sponsors.

Fall 2002
Biocomplexity Course offered at Cornell University.
Course listing: BIOEE 760
Instructor: Stephen Ellner

May 2002
Project graduate students helped organize and attended a conference in Pittsford, NY: New York's North Coast: A Troubled Coastline Conference. The conference was intended to bring together local, state, tribal, and federal government officials and agencies, members of citizen organizations, representatives of environmental, economic, and civic interests, agriculture, educators, and researchers to begin an ongoing dialogue and an action framework for resolving the coastal region's water quality problems.

April 15-16, 2002
NSF convened a workshop on Biocomplexity in Education at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The Lake Ontario Biocomplexity Project was represented by lead PI, Mark Bain who presented a description of the project's focus on education and the comments of graduate students on the project about Biocomplexity in Education at the poster session.

Spring 2002
Biocomplexity Course offered at Cornell University.
Course listing: NTRES 694: Complex Adaptive Systems in Nature and Society
Instructor: Mark Bain
The first course on Biocomplexity in Nature and Society was taught spring semester 2002 at Cornell University. Three weeks were devoted to complexity theory and the origins of 'Biocomplexity' in science. The rest of the semester was devoted to weekly student presentations on various topics as they relate to the ideas of complexity science.

 

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