News & Announcements
Apply for 2017 Summer Fellows Program!
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 GLIN’s December Site of the Month
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...
Fall 2016 eNewsletter
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.
New Project to Provide Hypoxia Forecasting System for Lake Erie Drinking Water
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,...
Alicia Ritzenthaler Recognized by State of Michigan
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...
CILER Summit – Great Lakes Observing Systems
Planning the future of Great Lakes environmental observation systems Observing systems around the Great Lakes provide real-time physical, chemical, and biological data that are used topredict weather, ice-cover, water levels, harmful algal blooms (HABs), and many...
Great Lakes Water Balance Model Highlighted in EOS
CILER Co-Author, Joe Smith, has Great Lakes Water Balance Model highlighted in EOS. Check out the EOS Research highlight to read about it. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/what-caused-record-water-level-rise-in-the-great-lakes
Summer Fellows featured in NOAA EEO Connections newsletter
Summer Fellows Alexandre Assuncao and Etienne Herrick were featured in the NOAA Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Newsletter. Check out page 4 of the newsletter to learn about their time at GLERL this summer! NOAA EEO July Newsletter
Second CILER Summit Tackles Ecosystem Services in the Great Lakes
The idea that ecosystems provide society with goods and services that are vital to human well‐being and prosperity has become prominent over the past decade as scientists, economists, resource managers and politicians have considered how to properly value the natural...
CILER Kicks off Summit Series with a “Superior Challenge”
This week the University of Michigan’s Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER) is convening top scientists from around the Great Lakes to participate in the first of three mini-summits focused on identifying the most pressing research and...