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FinalGreat Lakes Science for Parks Symposium 2023 Booklet

…National Park Bailey Adams – NPS Scientists in Parks Program Marcus Key – NPS Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Thomas Parr – NPS Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network Desi Robertson-Thompson – NPS Great Lakes Research and Education Center Erin Williams – NPS Great Lakes Northern Forest; NPS Great Lakes Restoration…

Great lakes Initiative Madeline Island Ferry Dock

Great Lakes Islands Summit, Madeline Island Fellowship Project

…shared problems and possible solutions. The work to organize and launch a Great Lakes Islands Initiative is currently supported by the Northland College Center for Rural Communities, the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes, the Island Institute of Maine, and community members from Great Lakes islands. An Island Fellowship program…

Northland College staff working in stream

Researchers Create Model for the Great Lakes

…“The idea is to protect what we have and restore what we can—and keep in mind that wetland restoration has an economic side,” Cooper said. The annual value of Great Lakes fisheries is estimated at $7 billion and a majority of Great Lakes fish species use coastal wetlands at some…

Northland College student collects data for bat research

Monitoring Bats by Sound

The Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network Employs Students for Bat Research

…surveyed parks in 2017. The Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network is looking to continue the project into the foreseeable future and will hire eight seasonal employees for the summer of 2019.   Photo: Taylor Pichler deploys a bat monitor on Stockton Island in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.  …

Student and professor in wetland

Chasing Dragonflies for Science

…Upper Midwest. The project will be housed at the Burke Center. “The dragonfly monitoring project is an excellent collaboration where students get to learn about parks, wetland ecosystems, and mercury in those systems,” said Bill Route, ecologist at the National Park Service Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network. “For our…

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Alumnus Karl ’04 oversees outdoor therapeutic program

Healing Through a Lense

…conservation. The program extension is funded by the Wisconsin Sea Grant to involve more communities that don’t always have the chance to express their relationship to the Great Lakes. In 2017, the program will be repeated with kids from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe near Hayward….