July 2024 eNewsletter

Thank You 2024 Great Lakes Summer Fellows!
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In partnership with NOAA GLERL, the Great Lakes Summer Fellows Program is the cornerstone of CIGLR’s efforts to train the next generation of scientists. Each year, CIGLR has the pleasure of hosting a group of bright, upcoming scientists to participate in a 12-week fellowship through which they conduct an in-depth research project, attend career development seminars and science discussions, receive skills training, and bond as a cohort. The fellows, mentors, and CIGLR ECO (Engagement, Career Training, and Outreach) team truly demonstrated just how much can be accomplished in a short 12-week period. We applaud everyone involved for their dedication, creativity, and positivity that shaped a meaningful, career-building experience.

We offer an enthusiastic thank you and congratulations to the 2024 Great Lakes Summer Fellows:
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Amari Dupree

Amari is entering her senior year at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She worked with CIGLR’s Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome and Yang Song and University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s Meng Xia to understand how storm events impact lake surface currents, ice cover, vertical mixing, lake bottom stress, and ultimately what implications these interactions have on sediment plume and turbidity extents in the southern basin of Lake Michigan.

Brandon Ferro

Brandon worked with CIGLR’s Alain Isabwe, Casey Godwin, and Jasmine Mancuso and NOAA GLERL’s Craig Stow to describe the impacts of environmental conditions and available nutrients on algae growth in western Lake Erie. He recently received his master’s degree from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Sydnie Hansen

Sydnie is a recent graduate of the University of Louisville. Sydnie worked with CIGLR scientists Abby Hutson, Jamie Ward, Dani Jones, and Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome on finding correlations between teleconnections and Great Lakes extratropical cyclones, and investigating whether those relationships have shifted with our changing climate.

Cristian Hernandez

Cristian worked with CIGLR’s Rao Chaganti and NOAA GLERL’s Ed Rutherford to track the dispersal of larval fish in Lake Michigan using environmental DNA. He is an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota.

Jamie Huerta

Jamie is a PhD student at North Carolina State University. She worked with CIGLR’s Yi Hong, Anna Boegehold, and Alain Isabwe and NOAA GLERL’s Mark Rowe to explore the impacts of spatial and temporal variations of nutrient loading from multiple rivers on ecological responses in the Great Lakes.

Ruben Jimenez

Ruben worked with CIGLR’s Shay Keretz and Anna Boegehold to investigate quagga mussel growth and filtration rate using lab experiments. Ruben is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan – Dearborn.

Abigail Merolle

Abigail is a master’s student at the University of Michigan. She worked with CIGLR’s Mike Shriberg and Michigan Sea Grant’s Kat Cameron to support and provide resources to Michigan coastal resilience managers and communities, helping with mitigation efforts that will be long-lasting and support equity.

Erin Redding

Erin worked with CIGLR’s Dani Jones, David Cannon, and Russ Miller and Great Lakes Observing System’s Shelby Brunner to help with the strategic placement of the next generation of Great Lakes observing stations and sampling sites using machine learning techniques. Erin is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.

Roshni Sahu

Roshni is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked with CIGLR scientists Justin Riley and Abby Hutson to model how orographic features, such as hills, dunes, and mountainous terrain, affect lake effect snowstorms on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

Elleanna Viere

Elleanna worked with CIGLR’s David Cannon and NOAA GLERL’s Jia Wang to reconstruct historical ice cover records in the Laurentian Great Lakes from 1897 – present. She is currently an undergraduate student at Northland College.

Ruthanne Ward

Ruthanne recently received her master’s degree from Clark University. She worked with CIGLR’s Yi Hong and Justin Riley and NOAA GLERL’s Dan Titze to combine high-resolution dynamic flood mapping with hydrodynamic modeling for the Great Lakes coasts.