Fall 2024 Lakes Letter

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Contents

Features

• Research Networks: Advancing Great Lakes oil spill preparedness, response, and recovery through collaboration by Kelsey Prihoda and Kenneth Lee
• Oil Spill Modeling: The critical impact of ice cover in the Great Lakes by Yang Song, Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome, Christopher H. Barker, Amy MacFadyen, Dan Titze, David M. Wright, James Kessler, and Jia Wang
• A New Focus on an Old Issue: The International Consortium of Oil Research builds scientific capacity in the Great Lakes to understand oil spills by Michael Twiss and Ashley Moerke
• Leading Response Research: The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes Oil Spill Center of Expertise by Alison Gates and Allison Snider
• Innovating Environmental Solutions for a Cleaner Future: Concordia Oil Spill Research Group responds to oil spills and protects freshwater ecosystems by Chunjiang An and Zheng Wang
• Oil Spill Risks & Response Capabilities: An overview of the Great Lakes region by Alexis Levedahl and Jo Caulkins
• The Impact of Regulation on Oil Spill Response: A perspective from an oil spill removal organization by Josh Clifford
• A Look Back: A chronology of oil spills in the Great Lakes basin

Research Briefs

• Can freshwater microbes help clean up oil contamination in the Great Lakes?

Association News

• Executive director’s note
• Announcing 2 conferences in 2026 
• Season of Giving 
• IAGLR 2025: sponsor, exhibit, or place an ad 
• Great Lakes Benefactors 
• Travel support to attend IAGLR 2025
• Call for award nominations
• Become a guest editor for Lakes Letter
• STEM society culture survey 
• Join IAGLR on Bluesky
• IAGLR 2025 speaker lineup and Call forAbstracts
• Renew your membership for 2025

Member News

• Kudos
• In memoriam
• Welcome new members
• Member spotlight: Meet Huifang Bi

Community News

• New book looks at phosophorus, cyanobacteria, and climate change
• An environmental history of Lake Ontario
• Great Lakes Fishery Commission Call for Proposals