June 29, 2009

For the second consecutive year, The Journal of Great Lakes Research has given its annual award for best peer-reviewed paper to a researcher affiliated with the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Thomas Johengen received the 2009 Chandler-Misener Award for a paper titled, "Stimulation of Lake Michigan plankton metabolism by sediment resuspension and river runoff." He co-authored the paper with fellow researchers Bopaiah A. Biddanda and James B Cotner.

Johengen is an associate research scientist at SNRE and associate director of the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, which is housed at SNRE and serves as a focal point for collaborations between the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and university researchers in the Great Lakes region.

The Chandler-Misener Award is presented to the author(s) of the peer-reviewed paper judged to be "most notable." Papers are evaluated on the basis of originality, contribution and presentation. Established in 1974, the award honors D.C. Chandler and A.D. Misener, the first presidents of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, the Ann Arbor-based organization that publishes the quarterly journal.

Sharing the award with Johengen this year are Biddanda, a research scientist with the Annis Water Resources Institute at Grand Valley State University; and Cotner, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and Moos Chair in Limnology at the University of Minnesota.

The 2008 Chandler-Misener Award went to Dmitry Beletsky and his co-authors, including Ed Rutherford, an adjunct associate research scientist at SNRE. Beletsky is an associate research scientist at CILER. (View the full Beletsky article http://www.iaglr.org/jglr/db/show_article.php?file_name=2007/num4/33_4_8...)

About the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research
The Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research (CILER) is a focal point for collaborations between the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and university researchers in the Great Lakes region. The institute's research mission is to improve the understanding of the fundamental physical, chemical, biological, ecological, social and economical processes operating in the Great Lakes. CILER also promotes regional educational training opportunities through such opportunities as postdoctoral and student summer fellowships.
http://www.ciler.snre.umich.edu/

About the International Association for Great Lakes Research
The International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) is a scientific organization made up of researchers studying the Laurentian Great Lakes, other large lakes of the world and their watersheds, as well as those with an interest in such research. IAGLR members encompass all scientific disciplines with a common interest in the management of large lake ecosystems on many levels.
http://www.iaglr.org/

About The Journal of Great Lakes Research
Published quarterly, The Journal of Great Lakes Research is multidisciplinary in its coverage, publishing manuscripts on a range of theoretical and applied topics in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics and geology of the large lakes of the world and their watersheds.
http://www.iaglr.org/jglr/journal.php