Tori Agnew-Camiener, PhD (she/her)

Who: Professional level experts in the field are invited to participate in a review process for the Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Information System. What: The GLANSIS database provides information on exclusively aquatic nonindigenous species in the entire Laurentian Great Lakes region regardless of national or state-level boundaries. GLANSIS does not provide data on reptiles, amphibians, or waterfowl, since they spend substantial portions of their lives outside the water. The database also includes facultative wetland plants in its target species. GLANSIS formally requests your participation in an external review process that will assist in the publishing of risk and impact assessments as well as species profiles that appear in the GLANSIS database. Each assessment and profile document follows a rigorous review process requiring two external reviews by subject matter experts before being published on the GLANSIS website. Materials provided for review will have already gone through the required NOAA internal review. When & Where: February 14-March 6 (independent review) Thursday Mar 6, 2025 (virtual event) How: The GLANSIS team will provide you with your assigned assessments and profiles by February 14. We will need all reviews completed by March 5. On the day of the virtual event, each species will be presented for discussion and approval. You are welcome to attend the entire event if you wish, but are required only to attend the segments of the agenda relevant to your assigned species. In addition to the assigned reviewers (2 per species), the virtual event will be open to any researcher, manager, or student who wishes to contribute data or information about these species. Honorarium: Your time and expertise are valuable. We can provide each reviewer with a $200 honorarium for your time and expertise in this review process. RSVP asap to Rochelle Sturtevant (rochelle.sturtevant@noaa.gov), GLANSIS Program Manager, Michigan Sea Grant.

Are you a #GreatLakes #InvasiveSpecies researcher who wants to contribute to #AIS knowedge in the region? The #GLANSIS team requests your expertise for our first Grand Review of species profiles and risk assessments! Please reach out to Program Manager Rochelle Sturtevant, and share w/ your network!

Super excited to attend this webinar tomorrow!

Super excited to see this part of my PhD dissertation out! @colleenburge.bsky.social @morganeisenlord.bsky.social @jeukmicro.bsky.social

🚨 New paper! Pathogenicity and phylogeny of Labyrinthula spp. isolated in Washington and Oregon, USA - pathogenic isolates could be identified as L. zosterae, while nonpathogenic isolates did not form a clade with any previously identified SSU ribotypes 🧪onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

Scientists want microplastics monitored in the Great Lakes. Now, it's up to the U.S. and Canada There's currently no tracking program for microplastics in the Great Lakes.

there’s currently no coordinated regional effort to monitor #microplastics across the #GreatLakes. That would change if microplastics are added to a binational list of contaminants.

A young student leans over the bank of the Huron River to release a juvenile salmon that had been raised in their classroom.

Are you involved in Great Lakes #participatoryscience or #communityscience? Add your voice to a #IAGLR25 session about this powerful area of knowledge creation: www.michiganseagrant.org/blog/2024/12...

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Only one week left to submit abstracts for #IAGLR25! Join us for Session 8: “Charting the future of Great Lakes Participatory Science”

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Call for abstracts 📢 Our advisory boards are hosting sessions on #GreatLakesSci topics at #IAGLR25 next June in Milwaukee. Visit iaglr.org/iaglr2025/ for session descriptions and to submit your abstract: due by December 15 @iaglr.bsky.social

Related, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2024 was passed last night in the Senate. The focus now shifts to the House, which has yet to act.

Read more: www.healthylakes.org/latest-news/...

Co-hosted w/ Cleveland Water Alliance and Water Rangers, we will highlight efforts to lead and support volunteer water monitoring efforts across Great Lakes & will include a discussion section to explore the future of this work. Deadline for abstracts is 12/16! 🧪 (2/2) #GreatLakesSci #IAGLR25

Interested in participatory/community/volunteer science & the infrastructure needed for it to be better integrated into Great Lakes research and management? Submit to Session 8 “Charting the future of Great Lakes Participatory Science” at #IAGLR25 (1/2)

iaglr.org/iaglr2025/pr...

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I am interested! Please do send my way.

Looking for external grants that can be used toward science-based conference registration and conference travel?? Either for an individual to apply for or an organization to supply $ to potential attendees. Ideas welcome! TIA 🧪 #travelfunds

#IAGLR25 has fantastic plenary talks coming your way. Our midweek speaker is Susan Chiblow, a Canadian commissioner with the International Joint Commission and Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph. Follow the link for further information: bit.ly/3X1fPKC

Excited to attend and learn from this panel today!

Hello! 👋 I’d love to join - currently a Great Lakes Fellow with the IJC/GLC/Great Lake Sea Grant

The Great Lakes Science Plan for the Next Generation The International Joint Commission's Great Lakes Science Advisory Board is developing the The Great Lakes Science Plan for the Next Generation, as a roadmap…

To better anticipate and prevent threats to water quality, the environment and public health, the IJC’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board is working with partners to develop a Great Lakes Science Plan. https://www.ijc.org/en/sab/great-lakes-science-plan