Summits & Working Groups
Description
CIGLR convenes top experts from Great Lakes universities, NGOs, government agencies, and businesses to participate in summits and working groups (SWGs) focused on identifying the most pressing research and management needs to achieve sustainability in the Great Lakes.
- Summits comprise groups of 20-30 invited experts meeting for 2-3 days to summarize the state of knowledge and recommend future directions on Great Lakes problems that span decadal time-scales.
- Working groups bring together smaller groups (8-12) for up to one week to make detailed progress on more narrow Great Lakes issues with solutions on the time scale of months to years.
Summits and working groups are centered on CIGLR’s research themes and are designed to advance Great Lakes science and contribute to CIGLR’s mission to increase NOAA’s research capacity across the Great Lakes.
CIGLR funds and hosts three to five SWGs per year that are led by Regional Consortium members, with steering committee members from the CIGLR Research Institute and NOAA GLERL.
2025 Summits & Working Groups – request for proposals
proposal deadline by 5pm ET on January 31, 2025
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Upcoming Summits and Working Groups
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Title: Understanding Recreational Fishing for Food in the Great Lakes
Dates: September 30 – October 2, 2024
Steering Committee: Leads: Aaron Fisk (University of Windsor); Vivian Nguyen (Carleton University); Ed Rutherford (NOAA GLERL)
CIGLR Research Theme: Protection & Restoration of Resources
Title: The Use of Archival Environmental DNA in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Dates: June 10-13, 2024
Steering Committee: Leads: Ryan Newton (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee); Trisha Spanbauer (University of Toledo); Craig Stow (NOAA GLERL); Steve Ruberg (NOAA GLERL)
CIGLR Research Theme: Observing Systems & Advanced Technology & Invasive Species & Food-web Ecology
Dates: June, 2024
Steering Committee: Leads: Jing Liu (University of Michigan); Bill Currie (University of Michigan); Silvia Newell (University of Michigan); Scott Steinschneider (University of Michigan); Dani Jones (University of Michigan – CIGLR); Lauren Fry (NOAA GLERL); Lacey Mason (NOAA GLERL); Andrea VanderWoude (NOAA GLERL)
CIGLR Research Theme: Observing Systems & Advanced Technology & Hydrometeorological & Ecosystem Forecasting