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Plants - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program. Plants as Indicators of Condition, Integrity, and. Sustainability of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands. Unique plants are what might come to mind when you think of wetlands, marshes, and bogs. These plants are important to the functioning of wetlands: they are a major component of the habitat for most wetland animals and they influence water quality. All these things make aquatic plants critical. By Dr Carol Johnston.
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Diatoms - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program. Great Lakes Diatom Indicators. Diatoms, a kind of algae, are an important part of aquatic ecosystems and serve as food for many aquatic insects and invertebrates. You can't see them, but they live in the slimy layer that builds up on almost everything that is in the water. Diatoms. A presentation by Dr. John Kingston. Dr John C. Kingston, Natural Resources Research Institute, Ely Field Station, University of Minnesota Duluth. Dr Russell G. Kreis...
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goals - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program. The following pages present reports by each of the investigative teams detailing their indicators for assessing the condition of the coastal margins. Of all five Great Lakes. Birds of Coastal Wetlands. Birds of the Coastal Zone. PAH Phototoxicity to Larval Fish. Diatom-based Integrative Water Quality Model. Diatom-based Multimetric Index of Disturbance. Diatom Deformities Reflect Pollution. Land Use/Land Cover Change. GLEI Final Report, Version II.
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Birds - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program. Development of Great Lakes Environmental Indicators Based on Birds. The Great Lakes basin is one of North America's richest areas of breeding songbirds. This makes avian-based monitoring programs particularly important for this region. A presentation by Dr. Howe and J. Hanowski. Ecohealth App. A;. Dr Robert Howe, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. For more about Bird Research go to:.
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Contaminants - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program. Chemicals as Indicators for Monitoring Ecological Risk. We will focus on two groups of chemicals of current concern in the Great Lakes: photoactivated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and environmental estrogens. By Dr Deborah Swackhamer. Dr Deborah L. Swackhamer, University of Minnesota. Dr Matt F. Simcik, University of Minnesota.
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goals - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program. Project Goals and Objectives. To develop an integrated set of environmental indicators that can be used to assess the condition of the coastal margins. Of all five Great Lakes. What environmental indicators can be developed to efficiently, economically, and effectively measure and monitor the condition. Of the Great Lakes coastal margins. Pilot study field season. Data analysis and recommendation of indicators.
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Fish - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's. Testing Indicators of Coastal Ecosystem Integrity Using Fish. Developing Fish and Invertebrate Indicators. By Dr Lucinda Johnson. Dr Lucinda Johnson, Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota Duluth. Dr Carl Richards, Minnesota Sea Grant, Duluth. Dr Tom Hrabik, Department of Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth. Dr Jan Ciborowski, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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Fish - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's. Development of Great Lakes Environmental Indicators Based on Amphibians. Amphibian populations are monitored by through frog-calling censuses in the spring, and by sampling for tadpoles, salamanders, newts, and frogs in pools and wetlands along the Great Lakes shorelines. By Dr R. Howe and J. Hanowski. Dr Robert Howe, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.
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Water Quality - GLEI Pub
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A multi agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program. Supportive Water Quality Sampling. We will collect water samples for laboratory analysis and perform a variety of field measurements to provide supporting data for the many indicators being developed. Some water quality parameters have to be measured in the laboratory. These include nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, silica), organic carbon, color, alkalinity, turbidity, total suspended solids, chlorophyll and chlorophyll fluorescence. Jo Thompson, US...
