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Fall 2024 Lakes Letter

Oil spill science
Guest edited by Kenneth Lee and Kelsey Prihoda


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