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Annual GLOS Meeting Takes Place on Lake Erie
The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) held its annual meeting on October 12 at the Maumee Bay State Park Lodge and Conference Center in Oregon, Ohio. GLOS serves as one of the eleven Regional Associations of the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®), working to enhance the ability to collect, deliver, and use ocean and Great Lakes information. Attendees at the meeting included GLOS's Board of Directors and other key stakeholders interested in expanding and growing the Great Lakes data sharing community.
The meeting's agenda focused on key water monitoring and data issues in the Great Lakes including a demo on GLOS's new data portal and a presentation about GLOS's exploration of alternative funding sources such as its Adopt-A-Buoy program. Additionally, the Northeast-Midwest Institute's Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program, Matthew McKenna, participated on a panel entitled "A Compelling Case for Sustained Observing and Data Sharing," that was moderated by John Bratton of LimnoTech and featured Mike Laitta from the International Joint Commission, Jennifer Hill from the Healing Our Waters Coalition, and Jim Kreft from the United State Geological Survey, Office of Water Information. The panel focused on how to make water monitoring and data sharing a larger piece of funding programs like the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). Another panel discussed "Data Democracy, Open Data By and for the People," which was moderated by Kristin Schrader from GLOS and included Brian Stubbs from the Cleveland Water Alliance, Steve Cole from the Great Lakes Commission, and Brian Huberty from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The meeting also served as a celebration for the ten year anniversary of the creation of GLOS in 2006.
For more information, contact
Matthew McKenna
, Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program
at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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NEMWI Attends Upper Mississippi River Conference in Moline, IL
NEMWI staff attended last week's 9th annual Upper Mississippi River Conference in Moline, IL, hosted by River Action. This year's conference was built on the seven focus areas of the America's Watershed Initiative Mississippi River Report Card: Energy, Flood Control and Risk Reduction, Recreation, Ecosystems, Water Supply, Transportation and Gulf Hypoxia. The first day of the conference consisted of breakout sessions on each of these focus areas, where participants discussed current work. The second day consisted of workshops in each of these focus areas to define specific goals towards "raising the grade" of the Mississippi River. A major theme that came out of the individual workshops is that more collaborative and coordinated effort is needed across all disciplines to work towards restoring the Mississippi River.
For more information, contact Jared Mott, Senior Policy Analyst for the Mississippi River, or Ankita Mandelia, Policy Analyst, at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Ballast Water Workshop to be Held on November 16-17 in Detroit, MI
The Great Lakes Commission, in coordination with the Northeast-Midwest Institute, the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission and the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, will host a workshop on Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Ballast Water on November 16-17 in Detroit, Michigan. The workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence community - including representatives of federal, state and provincial agencies, industry, ports, research facilities, environmental groups and other key stakeholders - to come together, share information and develop a common base of understanding of contemporary conditions - and associated challenges and opportunities - of ballast water management in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River region. Registration is free, but participants are asked to sign up before October 31. The workshop will be at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit. For more details and a draft agenda, please see here.
For more information, contact
Matthew McKenna
, Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program
at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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New Brownfields/Land Reuse Survey Now Open
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Brownfields/Land Reuse Program created a 5-minute survey geared to municipal managers to ask about awareness of brownfields and any ordinances that may be in place that may prevent new brownfields from forming. The ATSDR is calling these "waste left in place" ordinances and hopes to use the results of the survey to learn about any ordinances that may be in place, which they may be able to highlight as best practices or to develop model ordinances.
To learn more about ATSDR's Brownfields/Land Reuse Program, visit this link:
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/brownfields. The ATSDR's survey link is live and shown below. Please feel free to share this link with all interested parites, as it will greatly help the ATSDR to advance research into the prevention of brownfields.
The ATSDR will hold the survey open for at least two weeks (until November 2nd or later).
For more information, contact
Matthew McKenna
, Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program
at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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NEMWI: Strengthening the Region that Sustains the Nation
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