Great to see new work lead by @pjflood.bsky.social out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social this week. Another piece from our collaboration with @michigandnr.bsky.social examining recently digitized historical lake survey data. news.umich.edu/fishes-young...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #restoration #toronto

Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...

If you're in northern Michigan, drop by the U-M Biological Station in Pellston on July 30 for MISG Director Silvia Newell's talk about nitrogen as a driver of harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes: buff.ly/V5tTtjA @newelllab.bsky.social

Michigan Sea Grant is a smart investment: We turned $19 million of federal and state funding into nearly $86 million in direct economic benefits for Michigan in 2018-23 💪

Also a highlight by Carol Thompson in the Detroit News www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Please share this commentary by scientists and collaborators at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) outlining the enormous benefits of investments in Great Lakes Research. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

The USGS ecosystems research program doesn't just study wildlife. Its researchers work on rangelands and forests, fisheries and aquaculture, and critically, wildfire. Trump's proposed budget eliminates this program entirely, allocating $0 for 2026. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

New publication from our group at UMich in collaboration with MI DNR. Mismatch between climate-based bioenergetics model of fish growth and long-term and regional-scale empirical data 🐟 🧪 🌎 doi.org/10.1139/cjfa...

New OA paper out this week!🚨This one is particularly meaningful for me as it is the final part of my dissertation to be published, and it is the project I set out to do when I started my PhD – Did African Jewelfish alter the Everglades aquatic food web? 1/n 🧪🐟🌎🧵 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

It is hard to imagine a world without the USGS Ecosystems Mission, the bird banding lab, the Coop Unit program, etc. but apparently that is what America voted for and what this administration plans to do: wildlife.org/usgs-cuts-wo...

A light in the midst of a lot of chaos and uncertainty in #GreatLakes science- Using genetics and morphology, we discovered a fish that was once presumed extinct still swims in Lake Superior. #CiscoInferno🔥 🐟🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

While this is good news, the #GreatLakes lamprey control program is now several weeks behind schedule for this year's treatment, and it’s still unclear how many of the previously-fired workers will actually choose to return www.michiganpublic.org/environment-...

My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling. Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.

The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

Among the other great points in this statement, “Every dollar spent on conservation in the US has a positive return of 2.4 times its original investment.” Conserving natural resources is good business. 🐟🐠🎣

NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014

Dozens of workers focused on lamprey control were among scores of Michigan federal workers fired without notice in the past week Story by @bridgemi.com: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative cleans up our lakes and rivers. Literally removing toxic substances that cause things like fish deformities. It’s been supported by both parties for decades (including JD Vance) This is our money. The people of Michigan want it used to clean up our Lakes.

Today, we share our love for federal #fisheries professionals who work tirelessly to address the myriad problems facing our nation’s fisheries. We urge the Administration to stop indiscriminate mass firings and to build and maintain a sufficient federal natural resource workforce.

NOAA includes offices like us! We fund and conduct work like: - hands-on teacher trainings - sturgeon restoration - grad student research - learn-to-fish camps - flood recovery and prevention Every federal $1 that goes to a Sea Grant program reaps $3 in benefits for coastal communities!

After decades, lake trout restored to sustainable levels in Lake Superior #GreatLakes www.wmuk.org/2024-11-20/a...

Freshwaters of the Amazon are experiencing unprecedented impacts, but decades of research and practice have produced a rich foundation for advancing management solutions. We identified 63 actions that combined could change the game. In Cons Sci & Pract conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

One of our weird discoveries: 1st field-documented case of a zebra mussel attached to a fish (lake chub). This phoretic association could facilitate 1) within-basin spread of zebra mussels via fish migration & 2) overland transport by anglers moving baitfish. redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...

See what lies below the waves of the Great Lakes. An excellent doc that explores the impact of invasive mussels on the underwater ecosystem. Very nice ROV images of fish, wrecks, bottom habitats, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=udbk...

Great opportunity for grad students/Postdocs from any of the 10 CASS societies, including IAGLR. Deadline to apply is Oct 1!

Astudillo-Clavijo et al. mine hundreds of archived field records for habitat data, and assess the relationship between habitat use and swimming morphology in the continent-wide radiation of Neotropical cichlids. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Please help us honor Mike’s work and continue his legacy by donating to the Michael Fraker Student Research Memorial Fund: buff.ly/3soClAF

We are looking for a new PhD Student to start in the Lab in Fall 2024. Applications are due Dec 1. Please share and if you are interested reach out!