Two SNRE faculty members were part of teams awarded research grants by the new University of Michigan Water Center. There were 12 grants awarded totaling nearly $570,000, to support Great Lakes restoration and protection efforts.
A new $9 million University of Michigan Great Lakes research and education center will guide efforts to protect and restore the world’s largest group of freshwater lakes by reducing toxic contamination, combating invasive species, protecting wildlife habitat and promoting coastal health. With a $4.5 million, three-year grant from the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, the new University of Michigan Water Center will provide a solid scientific framework for more efficient and effective Great Lakes restoration.
Rebecca Williams of The Environment Report interviewed SNRE Professor Don Scavia about the future of the Great Lakes. Scavia, who also directs the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, is part of the U-M team participating with 20 other U.S. and Canadian universities. They are joining forces to propose a set of long-term research and policy priorities to help protect and restore the Great Lakes and to train the next generation of scientists, attorneys, planners and policy specialists who will study them.
The University of Michigan and 20 other U.S. and Canadian universities will join forces to propose a set of long-term research and policy priorities to help protect and restore the Great Lakes and to train the next generation of scientists, attorneys, planners and policy specialists who will study them. The Great Lakes Futures Project of the Transborder Research University Network will use a cross-disciplinary, cross-sector approach to outlining alternative Great Lakes futures through science-based scenario analysis.
Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments is hosting a fall symposium Oct. 30. The Symposium will be in the Rackham Amphitheater on the fourth floor of the Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor. From 1:30-2:45 p.m., there will be an overview of GLISA and its funded research projects. At 3 p.m., authors from the National Climate Assessment Midwest Technical Input Team will summarize climate trends and anticipated impacts of climate change in the Great Lakes region.
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.
Several University of Michigan researchers will be among the speakers at next week's Great Lakes Week in Detroit, a gathering of several organizations concerned with preserving and restoring the health of the Great Lakes. The week's events will include meetings of the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission and the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition's Great Lakes Restoration Conference. The events will take place at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel and Wayne State University.
NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco hailed the science partnerships between her agency and the University of Michigan as an important tool in addressing the nation's environmental challenges.
Watch the video about Michigan Sea Grant, Out of the Blue episode 310, the Big Ten Network. The video premiered on the Big Ten Network recently and will be re-broadcast periodically, see: http://www.ootb.tv/episode.php?episode=310&part=2&video=SeaGrant
The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused "massive, ecosystem-wide changes" throughout lakes Michigan and Huron, two of the planet's largest freshwater lakes, according to a new University of Michigan-led study. The blitzkrieg advance of two closely related species of mussels—the zebra and quagga—is stripping the lakes of their life-supporting algae, resulting in a remarkable ecological transformation and threatening the multibillion-dollar U.S. commercial and recreational Great Lakes fisheries.