News & Announcements

A new research tool to safeguard drinking water is now keeping a watchful eye on Lake Erie. This week, scientists from CIGLR, the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab & the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute successfully worked together to deploy the ESPniagara, a robotic lake-bottom laboratory that tracks levels of dangerous toxins produced by cyanobacteria that bloom each summer in the lake’s western basin.

CIGLR’s Meteotsunami Summit was covered by WDIV Local 4 Detroit. Included are interviews by our partners at NOAA-GLERL, Eric Anderson, and the University of Michigan Graham Sustainability Institute, David Schwab! Watch here.

The Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) is kicking off its 2017 summit series by focusing on the development of a meteotsunami warning system for the Great Lakes. Tsunamis are a common, yet largely under recognized, phenomenon in the Great Lakes…

In this Issue: Director’s Letter from Dr. Brad Cardinale. CIGLR Impacts. Spring Announcements. Our New CIGLR employees. Great Lakes Summer Fellow Spotlight. Featured Research, Invasive Hitchhikers: Catching a Ride on Lake Currents. Featured Research, Ready, Set, Science! Summer Research on the Great Lakes. Recent Publications. Sign up to receive CIGLR’s quarterly eNews and stay informed about Great Lakes research and events.

In this Issue: Director’s Letter from Dr. Brad Cardinale. CILER Impacts. Winter Welcome, Our New CILER employees. Graduate Fellow Spotlights. Featured Research, HABs and Hypoxia Data Portal. Featured Research, Forecasting Movement of Hypoxic Water in Lake Erie. Recent Publications. Sign up to receive CILER’s quarterly eNews and stay informed about Great Lakes research and events.

CILER is happy to announce the opening of 2017 Summer Fellow applications! Sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL), this program aims to provide promising undergraduate students (juniors or...

CILER is the Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN)'s site of the month for December! GLIN Site of the Month "The GLIN December Site of the Month is the newly redesigned Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER) website. CILER is a research...

In this Issue: Director’s Letter from Brad Cardinale. CILER Impacts. 2016 Summit Series. Awards. Featured Research, Lake Erie Algal Toxin Analysis in Near Real-Time, ESPniagara. Featured Research, Asian Carp food web modeling. Recent Publications. Sign up to receive CILER’s quartlerly eNews and stay informed about Great Lakes research and events.

ANN ARBOR – This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal and Ocean Science (NCCOS) awarded $10.4 million to 10 coastal science research projects across the U.S. that focus on harmful algal blooms (HABs), hypoxia,...

CILER staff Alicia Ritzenthaler, and former CILER staff Eva Kramer, were recently recognized at the Harrison Township Environmental Committee's annual awards ceremony, each receiving special tributes from the State of Michigan for their bacterial water quality...