News & Announcements

NOAA-GLERL and CILER’s Great Lakes Dashboard Team Publishes 3rd Journal Article
The Great Lakes Dashboard Team, composed of researchers and scientists from NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) and CILER, published their 3rd peer-reviewed article for the project on Friday, January 8, 2016. This is their 2nd article in the...

IAHR International Symposium on ICE
You are cordially invited to the 23rd IAHR International Symposium on Ice, which will be held from 31st of May to the 3rd of June 2016 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The 23rd IAHR International Symposium on Ice is sponsored by the International Association of...

Congratulations to Tom Johengen and Dima Beletsky!
The Board of Regents has approved a recommendation to promote Tom Johengen and Dima Beletsky to the rank of Research Scientist within the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. This promotion represents a significant career...

Press Release: Multiple factors, including nitrogen, may shape toxicity of Lake Erie cyanobacterial blooms
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Contact: Jim Erickson, 734-647-1842, [email protected], Watch and share a video at youtu.be/oviLqaFk1kk. ANN ARBOR—The most detailed genetic study of western Lake Erie's shifting cyanobacterial communities is yielding new insights into...

What does “normal” mean anyway?
A closer look at the changes in Lake Michigan’s surface water temperature, ice cover, and water levels. A recent article published in Geophysical Research Letters is based on efforts of UM-CILER and NOAA-GLERL researchers to understand changing conditions in Lake...

New Asian carp study released
CILER Assistant Research Scientist Hongyan Zhang and a team of scientists, including NOAA-GLERL colleagues Ed Rutherford and Doran Mason, used a food-web model to predict the likely impacts of Asian carp on Lake Erie. They predicted that Asian carp could eventually...

New Publication: Drought Led to Massive “Dead Zone” in Lake Erie
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2015 Press Release available here CILER Research Scientist, Dima Beletsky is a co-author for a paper on hypoxia in Lake Erie that was just published in Environmental Science & Technology! See full abstract...