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SUMMER 2021 NEWSLETTER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Stakeholder Focus Groups Co-Design NOAA Great Lakes Experimental Ice Forecast
  • CIGLR Welcomes New Member to Our Team!
  • CMU Biological Station Awards $5000 in Seed Funds
  • CIGLR Hosts Virtual Summit Addressing Groundwater Challenges in Michigan
SPOTLIGHT

Welcome 2021 Great Lakes Summer Fellows!

In partnership with NOAA GLERL, the Great Lakes Summer Fellows Program is the cornerstone of CIGLR’s efforts to train the next generation of scientists. Each year CIGLR has the pleasure of hosting a group of bright, upcoming scientists to participate in a 12-week fellowship that exposes them to an in-depth research project. Once again, the fellowship is being held virtually this year. We applaud everyone involved for their flexibility, creativity, and positivity that are shaping a meaningful, career-building experience out of a challenging situation. READ MORE

CIGLR Research Institute’s Hayden Henderson Discusses Spotter Buoys

Great Lakes observing systems such as buoys provide critical information to support natural resource decision making, forecasting, public health protection, and navigation safety and efficiency. CIGLR is at the forefront of implementing well-integrated observing systems that monitor key aspects of the Great Lakes environment. Environmental Observing Systems Engineer Hayden Henderson helped deploy newer, compact wave buoys, called spotter buoys, with partners in the Great Lakes. Spotter buoys are affordable, user-deployable, and their data enhance and ensure recreational safety for local stakeholders while providing valuable observations for our Great Lakes researchers. READ MORE

PHOTOS FROM FRIENDS

Photos from Friends shares exciting research and activities from our colleagues and friends across the Great Lakes region. Each picture includes a short description highlighting the exciting and important work captured through the lens. To learn even more, click on the images and read the full story.

               
          

FEATURED RESEARCH

Deep-Water Quagga Mussel Nutrient Cycling in the Great Lakes

Over the past few decades, invasive zebra and quagga (dreissenid) mussels have become the dominant organism inhabiting the bottom of all the Great Lakes, apart from Lake Superior. By removing phytoplankton from the water, excreting nutrients, and changing bottom-dwelling communities, dreissenids have dramatically altered nutrient cycling regimes in the lakes. A lack of information on the bioenergetics and physiology of deep-water quagga mussels has resulted in a gap in understanding of the impacts of dreissenids on the Great Lakes ecosystem. Audrey Huff is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota Duluth Large Lakes Observatory (UMD LLO) and a 2020-2021 CIGLR Graduate Research Fellow, working with advisor Ted Ozersky (PhD, UMD LLO) and co-advisor Mark Rowe (PhD, NOAA GLERL) to determine how deep-water dreissenid populations alter carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles in the Great Lakes, and to model individual deep-water quagga mussel metabolism and nutrient cycling. READ MORE

Forecasts to Improve Multi-Objective Water Level Management on Lake Ontario

Outflows from Lake Ontario are regulated by the International Joint Commission (IJC) at the Moses Saunders Dam on the St. Lawrence River. In 2017, the IJC implemented a new regulation plan called Plan 2014, with the goal of reintroducing natural variability in lake levels to promote wetland health and services while maintaining or improving other system objectives, such as flood control, navigation, hydropower, and recreation. However, record-setting precipitation followed a few months after Plan 2014 was implemented, and Lake Ontario experienced its worst flood event on record. Kenji Doering is a 2020-2021 CIGLR Graduate Research Fellow at Cornell University working with fellow graduate student Kyla Semmendinger (Cornell University), advisor Scott Steinschneider (PhD, Cornell University), and co-advisors Lauren Fry (PhD, NOAA GLERL) and Deborah Lee (NOAA GLERL) to advance the use of subseasonal-to-seasonal hydroclimate forecasts in lake level management. READ MORE

RECENT ARTICLES
Journal Article Highlights
  • Dick, G.J., M.B. Duhaime, J.T. Evans, R.M. Errera, C.M. Godwin, J.J. Kharbush, H.S. Nitschky, M.A. Powers, H.A. Vanderploeg, K.C. Schmidt, D.J. Smith, C.E. Yancey, C.C. Zwiers and V.J. Denef. 2021. The genetic and ecophysiological diversity of Microcystis. Environmental Microbiology. (DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.15615).
  • Fraker, M.E., A. Shrestha, L. Marshall, L. Mason and R. Miller. 2021. Seasonal variation in light penetration and subsurface chlorophyll-a in southern Lake Michigan observed by a glider. Journal of Great Lakes Research. (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2021.04.007).
  • Hu, H., A.J. van der Westhuysen, P. Chu and A. Fujisaki-Manome. 2021. Predicting Lake Erie wave heights and periods using XGBoost and LSTM. Ocean Modeling. 164. (DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101832). 
  • Li, Y., D. Beletsky, J. Wang, J. Austin, J. Kessler, A. Fujisaki-Manome and P. Bai. 2021. Modeling a large coastal upwelling event in Lake Superior. JGR Oceans. 126(5). (DOI:10.1029/2020JC016512).
  • Ozersky, T., A.J. Bramburger, A.K. Elgin, H.A. Vanderploeg, J. Wang, J.A. Austin, H.J. Carrick, L. Chavarie, D.C. Depew, A.T. Fisk, S.E. Hampton, E.K. Hinchey, R.L. North, M.G. Wells, M.A. Xenopoulos, M.L. Coleman, M.B. Duhaime, A. Fujisaki-Manome, R.M. McKay, G.A. Meadows, M.D. Rowe, S. Sharma, M.R. Twiss and A. Zastepa. 2021. The changing face of winter: lessons and questions from the Laurentian Great Lakes. JGR Biogeosciences. 126(6). (DOI:10.1029/2021JG006247).
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As one of 16 NOAA Cooperative Institutes, CIGLR helps NOAA accomplish its goals for research and management of the Laurentian Great Lakes by leading exciting new research efforts, training the next generation of Great Lakes scientists, expanding NOAA research in the Great Lakes through our Consortium, and translating research into actionable science to meet societal needs. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) is our primary NOAA sponsor and home of CIGLR research personnel.

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