lake ecosystem News
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EPA Awards 21 Grants to Combat Invasive Species in the Great Lakes Basin
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced 21 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GRLI) grants totaling nearly $8 million for projects to combat invasive species in the Great Lakes basin in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. “These EPA grants will prevent the spread of invasive species, increase the accuracy of early detection techniques, ...
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EPA Presents Success Story Award to Muskegon Community Organizations for Ruddiman Creek Project
CHICAGO (Nov. 21, 2006) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock presented a Success Story Award to Muskegon, Mich., community organizations for their involvement in a the recently completed Great Lakes Legacy Act sediment cleanup of Ruddiman Creek.Team members from Muskegon Lake Public Advisory Committee and the Ruddiman Creek Task Force accepted plaques at the ...
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NOAA, Research Partners Predict Severe 2015 Harmful Algal Bloom for Lake Erie
LimnoTech’s Western Lake Erie Ecosystem Model (WLEEM) is one of three models being used in an ensemble modeling approach by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its research partners to forecast the severity of the 2015 Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) in the Western Basin of Lake Erie. The models predict that the 2015 western Lake Erie harmful algal bloom season will ...
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EPA Awards Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant to Clarkson University for Monitoring Pollutants in Fish
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, has received a $6.5 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to monitor pollutants in Great Lakes fish over the next five years. This EPA grant continues funding for the university’s surveillance program to monitor Great Lakes fish for contamination from legacy pollutants such as ...
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Meet the 2012 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
The 2011 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate, Prof. Stephen R. Carpenter believes that the need to deal with large catastrophic events such as floods and droughts will make us rethink how or landscapes and institutions are built. In an interview with the Stockholm Water Front from his office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carpenter says that natural science is making a lot of progress in ...
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EPA Report to Congress: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is Accelerating Great Lakes Cleanup and Protection
During its first five years, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative implemented more than 2500 projects to improve water quality, clean up contaminated shoreline, protect and restore native habitat and species and prevent and control invasive species in the Great Lakes. That work, which began in 2010, is summarized in a new Report to Congress and the President. “The Great Lakes Restoration ...
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EPA Announces Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant to Ohio Lake Erie Commission to Study Causes of Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a $500,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the Ohio Lake Erie Commission to study the causes of harmful algal blooms and low oxygen levels in Lake Erie. “This EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant will fund crucial scientific work to answer questions about the role of nutrients, such as phosphorus, in harmful algal ...
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EPA presents Success Story Award to Earth Keepers
CHICAGO (Nov. 20, 2006) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock recently presented a Success Story Award to Upper Michigan's Earth Keepers for environmental stewardship. Superior Watershed Partnership Director Carl Lindquist accepted on behalf of the group at the 2006 State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC) awards dinner in Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 1. ...
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EPA analysis shows decrease in toxic releases across Midwestern states
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has updated its annual analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which provides vital information about pollution to the people of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. The analysis for these six states, which comprise EPA Region 5, is part of the Agency's national TRI announcement. For the first time, the 2009 TRI highlights toxic ...
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LimnoTech Presents at IAGLR 2014 Annual Conference
LimnoTech again had a high level of involvement in the annual International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) conference in Hamilton, Ontario, that took place during the last week of May. Several staff members were contributors to six different presentations and papers. The authors (LimnoTech authors are in bold) and titles of these presentations and papers and links to them are listed ...
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EPA Announces 11 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Totaling Over $5 Million to Combat Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of 11 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling more than $5 million for projects to combat invasive species in the Great Lakes basin. “These Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants will be used to target aquatic and terrestrial invasive species in the Great Lakes basin,” said Region 5 Administrator / Great ...
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American scientist receives 2011 Stockholm Water Prize for his work to save lakes
Stephen R. Carpenter, Professor of Zoology and Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, received today the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize by H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for his groundbreaking research that showed how lake ecosystems are affected by the surrounding landscape and human activities. The Stockholm Water Prize Laureate receives USD 150,000 and a crystal sculpture ...
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Far below South Dakota, a cave holds pure, promising water
Hundreds of feet beneath the Black Hills, a team of scientists and researchers snake through dark, narrow and silent corridors of ancient rock to reach their goal: what is thought to be some of the purest water on Earth. The crew of National Park Service scientists that's anchored by microbiologist Hazel Barton travels sporadically to the lowest reaches of South Dakota's Wind Cave National Park ...
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American environmental scientist named the 2011 stockholm water prize laureate
Stephen R. Carpenter, Professor of Zoology and Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, will receive the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize. This announcement was made today in connection with the UN World Water Day. For translations, background facts, photos and video, see: http://www.siwi.org/SWP2011 Professor Carpenter’s groundbreaking research has shown how lake ecosystems are ...
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Lake Ohrid: Soon to become a Ramsar Wetland
The SWS Europe chapter has some good news to share. We were alarmed by people from North Macedonia in 2015 because the very last wetland bordering the famous Lake Ohrid, Studenchishte Marsh, was threatened to be drained for tourist infrastructure development. After writing letters to the authorities on behalf of SWS, we organized our annual chapter meeting in Ohrid in 2018 and called for the ...
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EPA Awards $10 Million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant for Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today announced it has awarded a $10 million five-year grant to Central Michigan University to continue implementation of EPA's Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program. Central Michigan University’s project team includes SUNY College at Brockport and other institutions and agencies. The project team will work on coastal wetlands monitoring ...
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EPA Provides Funds to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species into Lake George; $50,000 Provided to Purchase Boat Inspection and Washing Stations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has provided $50,000 to the Lake George Park Commission for the purchase of two boat inspection and washing stations that will reduce the threat of aquatic invasive species being introduced into the Lake George ecosystem. The stations began operating over the 2013 Memorial Day weekend, the start of the annual boating season. An invasive species is a plant ...
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EPA Awards Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant to Central Michigan University to Monitor Coastal Wetlands
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, has received a $10 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to monitor coastal wetlands around the Great Lakes basin over the next five years. This project expands an existing GLRI grant to the university for Great Lakes wetlands monitoring. “This new Great Lakes ...
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SEJ Annual Conference: Register Now and Save
AUGUST 15, is the earlybird deadline for SEJ's 16th Annual Conference, October 25 -29 in Burlington, Vermont. The University of Vermont and Vermont Law School are co-hosting SEJ for another comprehensive program you can't afford to miss. The earlybird rate for SEJ members is $170. After August 15 it's $200. Lunches are included. Many details on tours, sessions and speakers ...
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Biological recovery may lag behind chemical recovery in acidified Swedish lakes
Acidification of water bodies can have substantial impacts on aquatic wildlife, and even after chemical conditions improve, biological recovery may lag behind. A study of Swedish lakes shows that, although their chemical quality has improved as a result of international reductions of acidifying emissions, biological recovery has been much slower in some lakes. In Europe, the Water Framework ...
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