Institute of Water Research

FOOD WEBS

• Long-term changes in the benthic community of Lake Michigan - Ashley Elgin, Research Benthic Ecologist, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, NOAA, Muskegon, MI

• Bottom-up and invasive species mediated changes to Lake Michigan’s food web - Tomas Höök, Professor/Director, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

• Predator-prey balance in fish communities of the Great Lakes infested with Alewives - Chuck Madenjian, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center, Ann Arbor, MI

⇒ Link to recorded session on FOOD WEBS

INVASIVE SPECIES

• Spatial ecology of Grass Carp in Lake Erie and its implications to response efforts - Travis Brenden, Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing

• Interactions of Rusty Crayfish, Round Goby and Dreissenids on Lake Michigan spawning reefs – Lindsay Chadderton, The Nature Conservancy

• Ballast Management in the Great Lakes - Hugh MacIsaac, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

⇒ Link to recorded session on INVASIVE SPECIES

FISHERIES (WHITEFISH, CISCO, BLOATER)

• Sault Tribe's Whitefish Rearing Efforts - Rusty Aikens, Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians

• Cisco rehabilitation efforts for Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron - Dave Fielder, Fisheries Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources

• Movement, habitat use and survival of a reintroduced fish: bloater (Coregonus hoyi) in Lake Ontario - Tim Johnson, Great Lakes Research Scientist, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Glenora Fisheries Station, Picton, Ontario, Canada

⇒ Link to recorded session on FISHERIES