Summer 2024 Lakes Letter

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Contents

Features

• Emerging technologies for remote sensing of the Great Lakes by Andrea Vander Woude
• A research jiimaan: Adapting to protect manoomin by Jeff Feng, Michael Waasegiizhig Price, Josiah Hester & Kimberly Marion Suiseeya
• Improving safety in the Straits of Mackinac with high-frequency radar by Timothy Havens

Research Briefs

• Plane-mounted hyperspectral cameras help forecast Great Lakes harmful algal blooms by Andrea Vander Woude
• Investigation on Lake Geneva: Assessing satellite data for monitoring phytoplankton abundance and phenology in deep lakes by Mona Bonnier, Orlane Anneville, R. Iestyn Woolway, Stephen Thackeray, Guillaume Morin, Nathalie Reynaud, Frédéric Soulignac, Thierry Tormos, and Tristan Harmel
• High-resolution satellite images provide insight into Great Lakes' coastal changes after historical water level Increase by Hazem Abdelhady
• Leveraging satellite Earth observations in the monitoring strategy for tracking the health of Lake Victoria by Shungudzemwoyo Garaba, Anthony Gidudu, Lydia Letaru, Ajode Z. Migeni, Ted Lawrence, and Anthony Vodacek

Association News

• A note from the executive director on Earth observations
• IAGLR 2025 Call for Sessions, Sponsors & Exhibitors
•  IAGLR 2024 survey results
• Get support to attend IAGLR 2025
• Indigenous Peoples' Earth observations webinar recording
• IAGLR committee chairs set for upcoming year
• Interested in JGLR print copies?
• CASS update
• Early career science communication fellowship accepting applications
• IAGLR, ASLO receive minigrant for “conferencing better”
• Call for Award Nominations
• Run for the IAGLR Board of Directors
• IAGLR 2025 Scholarships - Call for Applications

Member News

• Welcome new members
• Kudos
• Student presentation award winners

Community News

• Trent University, Michipicoten First Nation to investigate resource extraction impacts
• New report highlights ecosystem approach successes
• New conservation research center to monitor Ontario's aquatic biodiversity
• Baril named IJC Canadian co-chair
• U-M center to study connection between climate change, Great Lakes algal blooms, human health
• Churchill Fellow visits Great Lakes organizations
• Navigating the connectivity conundrum: FishPass and the science of selective fish passage
• White Lake Area of Concern a decade after delisting