2015 Summer Fellows
Whitney Conard
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Mentor: Rochelle Sturtevant (Michigan Sea Grant)
Project: Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Information System (GLANSIS)
Kyle Dettloff
Affiliation: Oregon State University
Mentors: Ashley Baldridge & Henry Vanderploeg (NOAA); Hongyan Zhang (UM-CILER)
Project: Advancing Dreissenid Mussel Biomass and Growth Estimates
Drew Eppehimer
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Mentor: Edward Rutherford (NOAA)
Project: Invasive Species, Fisheries and Food Web Dynamics Impacts
Megan Ewald
Affiliation: SUNY-ESF
Mentors: Larissa Sano (UM-CILER); Catherine Riseng (Michigan Sea Grant); Margaret Lansing (NOAA)
Project: Science Translation and Communications for CSMI – Lake Michigan
Jordan Frey
Affiliation: Ithaca College
Mentor: Sonia Joshi (UM-CILER)
Project: Beach Information Communications, Marketing and Outreach
Trent Frey
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Mentors: Ayumi Manome (UM-CILER); Eric Anderson & Jia Wang (NOAA)
Project: Weather Research and Forecasting Data Analysis
Jeffrey Houghton
Affiliation: UW-Milwaukee
Mentors: Val Klump & Harvey Bootsma (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Project: Nearshore Metabolism and Food Web Structure in Lake Michigan
Rosemary Kelley
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Mentor: Tom Johengen (UM-CILER)
Project: Monitoring and Forecasting Microsystis Blooms in the Great Lakes
James Kessler
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Mentor: Ayumi Manome (UM-CILER)
Project: Great Lakes Modeling and Forecasting
Kevin Kijanka
Affiliation: University of Buffalo
Mentors: Hank Vanderploeg & Steve Ruberg (NOAA)
Project: Biophysical Measurements Using Video Imaging Analysis of Cyanobacteria
Scott Loeffler
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Mentors: Drew Gronewold (NOAA); Becky Bolinger (NOAA-NCAR)
Project: Assessing and Improving Regional Water Budget Forecasts
Lillian McGill
Affiliation: U. of Notre Dame
Mentors: Hongyan Zhang (UM-CILER); Ed Rutherford & Doran Mason (NOAA-GLERL)
Project: Ecosystem-based Modeling of Remediation Action Effects on the Lake Erie Food Web
Sabrina Shuman
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Mentors: Felix Martines (NOAA-NOS); Jennifer Day (NOAA-OAR)
Project: Muskegon Lake Watershed Outreach and Habitat Blueprint Coordination
Zifan Yang
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Mentors: Xuezhi Bai (UM-CILER); Xianglei Huang (UM-AOSS); Jia Wang and Anne Clites (NOAA)
Project: Great Lakes Ice Data Compilation and Analysis
Morgan Zyzik
Affiliation: Clarkson University
Mentors: Gregory Boyer & Michael Satchwell (SUNY-ESF)
Project: Autonomous Monitoring Systems for Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms