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Winter 2017 eNewsletter
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.

Welcome to the CILER Team, Emily Davenport!
CILER welcomes Emily Davenport, ESP Research Technician, to the CILER-GLERL harmful algal bloom (HAB) research team this January. She will be leading deployments of the ESPniagara to monitor western Lake Erie HABs alongside Drs. Tim Davis (GLERL) and Tom Johengen...

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