Past Seminar Series
CIGLR co-sponsors and coordinates the joint CIGLR-GLERL Great Lakes Seminar Series, which brings in regional, national, and international researchers to talk about pertinent new and emerging scientific issues in the Great Lakes. These events facilitate collaborations between researchers, provide an educational opportunity for NOAA and university scientists, and serve as an outreach forum for stakeholders and the general public to attend.
For more information about this seminar series, to be included on an email list, or to request a visit to Ann Arbor to present your research, please contact Mary Ogdahl, CIGLR Program Manager.
05/06/2026: Leveraging behavioral insights to improve outreach and protect water quality

Great Lakes Seminar Series
4/16/2026: Exploring the role of nitrogen substrate availability in the ecology of Microcystis-dominated CyanoHABs

Great Lakes Seminar Series
04/07/2026: Harnessing genomics to characterize diversity in Great Lakes ciscoes across space and time

Great Lakes Seminar Series
03/12/26: Strengthening science on the African Great Lakes through a highly collaborative network of freshwater experts

Great Lakes Seminar Series
02/18/26: Using eDNA and population genomics to monitor the invasion of hemlock woolly adelgid throughout eastern North America.

Great Lakes Seminar Series
12/04/25: Modeling the Fate and Transport of Plastic Pollution Using Great Lakes Hydrodynamic Models and Exploring the Potential Impact of Data Assimilation

Great Lakes Seminar Series
09/24/25: Critical hope: Centering emotions as a missing component of climate change resilience research

Great Lakes Seminar Series
05/08/25: Spawning and sustenance: exploring two key aspects of Great Lakes fish ecology

Great Lakes Seminar Series
04/22/25: Adapting to extreme weather patterns in Michigan and beyond

Great Lakes Seminar Series
03/20/25: The promises and perils of research in solving sustainability problems

Great Lakes Seminar Series
03/04/25: Representing Lake-Atmosphere Interactions in NOAA’s Weather Prediction Models

Great Lakes Seminar Series
02/18/25: The Maritime to Inland Transitions Towards ENvironments for Convection Initiation (MITTEN-CI) Field Campaign

Great Lakes Seminar Series
11/12/2024: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses of Phytoplankton to Global Environmental Change

Great Lakes Seminar Series
10/23/24: The Science and Art of Collaborative Flood Forecasting: Rivers, Lakes and their Expert-Inhabitants

Great Lakes Seminar Series
09/27/24: Climate, Chemistry and the Great Lakes: What Goes Up Must Come Down

Great Lakes Seminar Series
07/18/24: Geodetic Observations of Water Mass Changes in the Great Lakes Basin

Great Lakes Seminar Series
06/18/24: Applying New Technology at a Great (Lake) Scale: What are We Waiting for?

Great Lakes Seminar Series
05/14/24: Some Applications of Machine Learning in the Physical Sciences

Great Lakes Seminar Series
04/24/24: Thirty-five years of progress on the Great Lakes: from no policy to global ballast water standards

Great Lakes Seminar Series
02/07/24: Observing, Characterizing, and Quantifying Wintertime Precipitation Processes: A 10 Year Retrospective from Marquette, Michigan

Great Lakes Seminar Series
01/17/24: Assessing Nutrient Load Reductions in H2Ohio Constructed Wetlands: Case Studies from Brooks Park and the Burntwood-Langenkamp Wetlands

Great Lakes Seminar Series
01/11/24: Plant community dynamics linked to ecosystem biogeochemistry in Great Lakes coastal wetlands: modeling for both basic understanding and management applications

Great Lakes Seminar Series
12/04/23: How Environmental Justice Law & Policy Has Been Shaping Great Lakes Protection & Restoration

Great Lakes Seminar Series
11/14/23: Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledges through University-Indigenous Community research partnerships: Sharing guidance from the “Seasons of Research” Framework

Great Lakes Seminar Series
Postponed: Grant Gunn

Great Lakes Seminar Series
07/27/23: Flying Slime: Lakes, Aerosols, and Harmful Algal Blooms

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Flying Slime: Lakes, Aerosols, and Harmful Algal Blooms
07/14/22: Sara Hughes

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equitable Urban Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Lakes
05/10/22: Cody Sheik

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: TBA
04/25/22: Jonathan Edwards-Opperman

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: TBA
03/23/22: Jordon Beckler

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: The Harmful Algal Bloom Assessment of Lake Okeechobee (HALO): Innovative monitoring technologies providing multidisciplinary insights into HAB dynamics and internal nutrient loading
02/22/22: Branko Kerkez

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Self-Driving Water Systems
1/11/22: Rebecca Klaper

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Building the environmental science toolbox to address the complexity of exposures and effects of emerging contaminants
12/06/21: Michael McKay

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Life under ice: The rise and fall of Lake Erie’s winter algal bloom
11/18/21: Silvia Newell

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Nitrogen availability as a driver of HABs and toxins: the missing piece for modeling?
05/05/21: Rajendra Poudel

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Economic Value of Selected Wetlands in the United States
12/09/20: Charles Menza

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Characterizing benthic habitats using remotely-sensed bathymetry and reflectance in high-priority areas of the Great Lakes
11/03/20: Jay Martin

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: TBD
08/12/20: Max Herzog

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Building a Smart Lake Erie
07/22/20: Aaron Fisk

Virtual Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: New Insights and Future Direction in Great Lakes Food Web Research
POSTPONED; Date TBD

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: TBD
POSTPONED; Date TBD

Will be rescheduled; Date TBD: "Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Life under ice: The rise and fall of Lake Erie’s winter algal bloom"
03/3/20: Maureen Coleman

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Linking microbial communities and biogeochemistry across the Laurentian Great Lakes
10/8/19: Joannes Westerink

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Towards Heterogeneous Process, Scale, and Model Coupling in Simulating the Hydrodynamics of the Coastal Ocean
9/20/19: Jay Austin

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: What does it really mean for a lake to "turn over"? Radiatively driven convection in a deep lake.
7/22/19: Craig Williamson

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: “Implications of Changes in Water Clarity for Lake Ecosystem...
6/17/19: Anika Kuczynski

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Modeling the Canopy Effect in the Great Lakes Cladophora Model v3
5/7/19: Peter Annin

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Great Lakes Water Tension in the 21st Century
8/1/18: Carol Stepien

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Understanding Marine and Aquatic Community Responses in Species Composition, Diversity, and Population Genetics: Targeted Metagenomics from eDNA and Plankton Samples
7/24/18: Hunter Carrick

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Recent changes in Lake Michigan’s lower food web
6/13/18: Casey Godwin

Great Lakes Seminar Series, Title: Ecological stoichiometry of aquatic microbes: from water quality to sustainable energy production
5/3/18: Patricia A. Soranno

Macrosystems ecology: Developing a macroscale understanding of ecosystem properties
3/26/18: Thomas M. Hamill

Improved Statistical Postprocessing of Precipitation for the NWS Forecasts and Hydrologic Applications
11/7/17: Christopher Spence

Ten years of the Great Lakes Evaporation Network: Progress Made and Opportunities for the Future
10/25/17: Hongsheng Bi

Seeing the invisible in coastal waters: imaging systems for ecological monitor and forecasts
8/15/17: Yushun Chen

Ecological responses to water diversion of the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) of China
7/27/17: Yi Chao

Ocean Observing and Modeling Technology to Enable Operational Forecasting
5/11/17: Bopi Biddanda

Finding and Tracking the “Goldilocks Zone” for Carbon Cycling in a Great Lakes Watershed
4/10/17: Robert Sterner

Lake Superior: A warming ecosystem
3/21/17: Christopher Winslow

Lake Erie HABs and current research efforts: bloom behavior, producing safe drinking water, public health impacts, and nutrient load reduction
2/16/17: Mark Rowe

Looking at Lake Erie Hypoxia From a Different Point of View
1/25/17: Galen McKinley

Spatio-temporal Variability in Great Lakes Biogeochemistry
12/6/16: Silvia Newell

Nitrogen cycling in eutrophic systems: Case studies in Lakes Erie and Taihu
10/19/16: Jesse Feyen

Delivering Impactful Coastal Science Services to Strengthen Communities
9/14/16: Andre R. Erler

High-resolution Dynamically Downscaled Climate Projections for the Great Lakes Region
8/17/16: John Iames & Ross Lunetta

Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) for freshwater systems: an early warning indicator for toxic and nuisance blooms using ocean color satellites
7/20/16: James Richman

Internal tides and waves in the global ocean
6/30/16: Bradley Cardinale

CILER and GLERL’s alliance studying the Great Lakes: Where have we been, and where to from here?
5/26/2016: Beth Gibbons & Omar Gates – May 26, 2016

GLISA and the Great Lakes Adaptation Data Suite: Climate Data Focused on Adaptation Decision-Making
4/5/16: Quinton Phelps

Using a multi-tiered approach to investigate the Asian carp invasion in the Mississippi River
11/13/15: Bill Lovis & Alan Arbogast

Potential forcing variables that drive coastal dune evolution along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan: Does hemispheric ENSO Cycling also play a role?
7/29/15: Catherine Riseng & Kevin Wehrly

Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework: A spatial framework, database and tools to meet the needs of Great Lakes management and research
7/13/15: Becky Bolinger

Improving Climate Information for Operational Lake Level Forecasting
5/21/15: Drew Gronewold

Monitoring and modeling the water budget and water levels of Earth’s largest lake system
4/30/15: James Pauer

Do we have the tools and the smarts to quantify near shore conditions in Lake Michigan?
1/30/15: Peter Levi

Evaluating the Ecological State of Restored Streams in Urban Watersheds










































































