Oct. 13, 2011

SNRE Professor and Interim Dean Dave Allan provided an update on his Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping Project during a plenary address Thursday, Oct. 12 as part of the Seventh Annual Great Lakes Restoration Conference. 

Prioritizing Great Lakes Restoration: What are the most important threats facing the Great Lakes, and where are they most serious?Participants will learn about a map-based synthesis of multiple threats. The workshop will sharpen understanding of the relative magnitude and distribution of human impacts and demonstrate a new approach to identifying priority restoration opportunities.

The Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping Project (GLEAM) aims to develop a high-resolution map of cumulative impacts to the Great Lakes, providing a critical tool for catalyzing and coordinating regional restoration and conservation projects. By specifically accounting for both threats and resources, our impact map will facilitate basin-wide coordination of management efforts by providing all the riparian states and provinces with a unified, quantitative framework for discussion and prioritization.