3/1/2020 – 12/31/2021
Yoonshin Kwak, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois
Dr. Brian Deal, University of Illinois
Great Lakes Commission Releases Report on Uses of Great Lakes Water in 2020
Contact: Beth Wanamaker – 734-396-6082, beth@glc.org
Ann Arbor, Mich. – A report released by the Great Lakes Commission finds that 37.8 million gallons of water per day were withdrawn from the Great Lakes basin in 2020, a close to 3% decrease from 2019 withdrawals. According to the 2020 Annual Report of the Great Lakes Regional Water Use Database, thermoelectric power production, public water supply, and industrial use were the primary water use sectors. Only 5% of the total reported water withdrawn was consumed or otherwise lost from the basin.
The report’s findings were shared at the December meeting of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Compact Council. Since 1988, the eight states and two provinces in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin have submitted water use data to the Great Lakes Commission. The GLC compiles and summarizes these datasets into an annual report, which is presented to the Regional Body and Compact Council.
“The water use data published annually by the Great Lakes Commission helps to ensure that regional decision-makers protect and use the waters of our Great Lakes wisely,” said Timothy Bruno, Great Lakes Commissioner, chief of the Office of the Great Lakes at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and designated chair of the Regional Body. “With the growing effects of climate change and extreme weather on the basin, carefully managing our resources will be even more critical in the years to come.”
To read the report, visit waterusedata.glc.org.
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The Great Lakes Commission, led by chair Todd L. Ambs, deputy secretary for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is a binational government agency established in 1955 to protect the Great Lakes and the economies and ecosystems they support. Its membership includes leaders from the eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes basin. The GLC recommends policies and practices to balance the use, development, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes and brings the region together to work on issues that no single community, state, province, or nation can tackle alone. Learn more at www.glc.org.
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Sandia National Laboratories Summer Internship Opportunities
Sandia National Laboratories currently has graduate and undergraduate summer internship postings in the FORCEE Institute (Future of Research for Climate, Earth, and Energy). If you are an interested student, please visit the links below to see the internship postings.
(PAST) Virtual Harmful Algal Bloom Research Symposium
January 6-7, 2022, the Algal Bloom Action Team hosted a free Virtual Harmful Algal Bloom Research Symposium. Last year’s event brought together over 890 educators and researchers from across the US to hear the latest HAB research and discussed ongoing outreach efforts.
This year’s symposium featured emergent harmful algal bloom (HAB) research and provided a venue for moderated discussions regarding HAB research, outreach, and how information dissemination can be improved.
Symposium Presentations
- Session 1: HAB Monitoring and Ecology – View the Recording
- Session 2: Cyanotoxin Treatment and Detection – View the Recording
- Session 3: Forecasting and Modeling HABs – View the Recording
- Large Scale Season-Ahead Forecasting of Algae Abundance in Inland Lakes
- The Effect of Local Physical Lake Conditions on the Vertical Heterogeneity of
Cyanobacteria and Microcystin in Stratified Eutrophic Lakes - Utilizing High-Frequency Water Quality Observations to Understand Physical Mixing Controls of CyanoHABs in Inland Discontinuous Polymictic Aquatic Systems
- Spatio-temporal Characterization of a Complete Algal Bloom Event using
Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Tandem with Conventional Physio-Chemical Methods
- Session 4: Emerging Technology for Detecting and Monitoring HABs – View the Recording
- Real-Time HAB Monitoring via Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Digital Microscopy
- Harmful Algal Bloom and Nutrient Monitoring and Modeling Using Unmanned
Systems - Rapid Testing Technique for Microcystin and Cylindrospermopsin
- Rapid, Portable, Multiplexed Detection of Harmful Algal Toxins in the Great Lakes
This event has passed. You can view all information regarding the symposium at the link below.
Newly Released Fact Sheet on Prevention and Treatment for Landowners!
The Algal Bloom Action Team has recently published a new fact sheet on Prevention and Treatment of Harmful Algal Blooms for Landowners! You can view the newly released fact sheet here.
(PAST) 2-3PM, November 9 – Geothermal Illinois: Resilience Winter Webinar Series
Geothermal Energy: Federal Energy and Water Sustainability Requirements
Energy Storage, Disaster Resiliency, and Sustainability
Federal Models in Resiliency and Sustainability: At home and Abroad
** This event has passed. You can view the slides, recording, and find more information at the links below! **
Slides: https://uofi.box.com/s/wa5h0gc3g1rl9n9htlzvl3pbzijn1re9
Recording: https://youtu.be/2D31Ay1eeo8
Other links:
https://geothermal.illinois.edu/
https://www.sustainability.gov/
To subscribe to receive information on further geothermal webinars/programs: https://groups.webservices.illinois.edu/subscribe/148913
Unlike the sun and the wind, geothermal energy resources are located underground and not commonly visible or exposed to disaster. This resiliency makes them a valuable untapped resource. University of Illinois Extension, in collaboration with the Illinois Geothermal Coalition, is providing a webinar series this winter with expert testimony on the value, sustainability, and policies surrounding geothermal energy.
This will be the first part of an ongoing webinar series.
View the announcement post on the Illinois Geothermal Coalition website here.
Agriculture
Reports
- Hydrologic Impacts of an Alternative Agricultural Land Use: A Woody Perennial Polyculture
Investigators: E.H. DeLucia and K.J. Wolz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2015. - The Impacts of Cellulosic Biofuel Feedstock Production on Midwest U.S. Hydrologic Cycle
Investigators: C.J. Bernacchi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and A. VanLoocke, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Services. Completed: 2013. - An Agent-Based Model of Farmer Decision-Making and Stream Nitrate Load in Response to a Nitrogen Fertilizer Reduction Subsidy, and Carbon and Second-Generation Bioenergy Crop Prices
Investigators: J.W. Eheart and X. Cai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2011. - Applications of GIS Databases and Water Quality Modeling for Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
Investigators: M.T. Lee, Illinois State Water Survey, and D.C. White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1992. - Hydrology and Sedimentology Modeling on Illinois Agricultural Watersheds
Investigator: L.K Ewing, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1989. - Improvement of Lake Water Quality by Paying Farmers to Abate Nonpoint Source Pollution
Investigators: F. Lupi, Jr., R.L. Farnsworth, and J.B. Braden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1988. - Economic Differences between Cumulative and Episodic Reduction of Sediment from Cropland
Investigators: P.-I. Wu, J.B. Braden, and G.V. Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1986. - Analysis of Potential for Supplemental Irrigation in Southern Illinois
Investigators: J.T. Scott, Jr., J.A.K. Taylor, and J.B. Braden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1985. - Feasibility of Subirrigation Systems on Claypan Soils in the Midwest
Investigators: S. Mostaghimi, W.D. Lembke, and C.W. Boast, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1984. - Water Management on Claypan Soils in the Midwest
Investigators: S.K. Sipp, W.D. Lembke, C.D. Boast, M.D. Thorne, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and P.N. Walker, Pennsylvania State University. Completed: 1984. - Efficient Use of Water for Irrigation in the Upper Midwest
Investigators: G.E. Stout, P.N. Walker, W.D. Goetsch, M.D. Thorne, and E.C. Benham, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, T.A. Austin, J. Colchin, Z. Shahvar, C.E. Anderson, H.P. Johnson, R.H. Shaw, and O. Arjmand, Iowa State University, W.L. Miller, R.L. Clouser, P. Erhabor, and J. Sobek, Purdue University, and V.R. Eidman, P.N. Wilson, and C.C. Sheaffer, University of Minnesota. Completed: 1983. - Dredged Sediment for Agriculture: Lake Paradise
Investigators: W.D. Lembke, J.K. Mitchell, and J.B. Fehrenbacher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and M.J. Barcelona, Illinois State Water Survey. Completed: 1983. - Administrative Coordination in the Implementation of Agricultural Nonpoint Pollution Controls
Investigators: J.B. Braden, D.L. Uchtmann, and D.R. Prutton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1982. - Optimization of Water Use for Field Crop Production in the Upper Midwest
Investigators: P.N. Walker, M.D. Thorne, and E.C. Benham, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1981. - Determinants of Water Quality in Agricultural Watersheds
Investigators: I.J. and J.R. Karr, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1980. - Recycling Agricultural Runoff
Investigator: P.N. Walker and W.D. Lembke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1977. - Relationship of Crop Metabolism and Water Status to Irrigation Need
Investigators: S. Jurgens, R.R. Johnson, and J.S. Boyer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1975. - Evaluation of Agricultural Policy Alternatives to Control Sedimentation
Investigators: W.D. Seitz and M.B Sands, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and R.G.F. Spitze, Purdue University. Completed: 1975. - Economic Evaluation of the Effect of Selected Crop Practices on Nonagricultural Uses of Water
Investigators: H. Onishi, A.S. Narayanan, T. Takayama, and E.R. Swanson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1974. - Bibliography on Optimization of Irrigation Systems
Investigator: D.D. Meredith, State University of New York at Buffalo. Completed: 1973. - Nitrate Reduction in the Vicinity of Tile Drains
Investigators: L. A. Davenport, W.D. Lembke, and B.A. Jones, Jr., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1973. - Economic Evaluation of Alternative Farm Water Sources in the Claypan Area of Illinois
Investigators: C.L. Moore, E.R. Swanson, and W.D. Seitz. Completed: 1973. - Relationship of Plant Moisture Status to Irrigation Need in Corn and Soybean Crops
Investigator: J.S. Boyer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1972. - Experimental Study of Eddy Diffusion Coefficients, Evapotranspiration and Water Use Efficiency
Investigators: R.J. Millington and D.B. Peters, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Services. Completed: 1971. - Economic Analysis of Water Use in Illinois Agriculture
Investigator: E.R. Swanson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1971. - Experimental Study of the Uptake of Water by Soybean Roots
Investigators: A. Klute, D.C. Reicosky, R.J. Millinton, and D.B. Peters, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1970. - Analysis of the Uptake of Water by Plant Root Systems
Investigator: A. Klute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1966.
Published Materials
Ng, Tze Ling; Wayland Eheart, J.; Ximing Cai; John B. Braden; George F. Czapar, 2012, Agronomic and Stream Nitrate Load Responses to Incentives for Bioenergy Crop Cultivation, Reductions of Carbon Emissions and Fertilizer Use, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 140:1, 112-120.
Ng, Tze Ling; Wayland Eheart, J.; Ximing Cai; John B. Braden; George F. Czapar, 2011, An Agent-Based Model of Farmer Decision-Making and Water Quality Impacts in a Watershed Under Markets for Carbon Allowances and Second-Generation Bioenergy Crops, Water Resources Research, 47:9, W09519.
Aquatic Ecology
Reports
- Effects of Dams on the Genetic Structure of Fish Assemblages in the Vermilion River
Investigator: R. Colombo, Eastern Illinois University. Completed: 2016. - Effects of Structural Rehabilitation on Nutrient Retention and Uptake, Community Assemblages, and Functional Morphology of Biotic Communities in a Small Midwestern Stream
Investigator: A. Maia, Eastern Illinois University. Completed: 2016. - Changing Food Webs in Lake Michigan: Dreissena and the Microbial Loop
Investigators: J.H. Kavouras and E. Cox, Lewis University. Completed: 2015. - Year-Round Wetland Microbial Activity Impacts on Nitrogen Cycling Annual Budgets: Is Restoration Impacting Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Wetlands?
Investigators: A. Kent and N. Stevenson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2015. - Restoration Trajectories and Restored Floodplain Wetlands and Their Ecosystem Services
Investigator: A. Kent, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2015. - Influence of Water Quality and Stormwater Management on the Ecology of Mosquito-Borne Disease
Investigators: B. Allan and A. Mackay, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2015. - Influence of Algal/Bacterial Interactions on Denitrification in Stream Biofilms
Investigators: J. Kelly, M. Rojas, and C. G. Peterson, Loyola University Chicago, and K. N. Kalscheur and K. A. Gray, Northwestern University. Completed: 2012. - Natralization of Developed Floodplains: An Integrated Analysis
Investigators: R.E. Sparks and J.B. Braden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. - Developing a Dynamic Model to Predict the Recruitment and Early Survival of Black Willow (Salix nigra) in Response to Different Hydrologic Conditions
Investigators: C. Ahn, K.F. Moser, R.E. Sparks, and D.C. White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. - Linking Hydrodynamics, Conservation Biology, and Economics in Choosing Naturalization Alternatives for the Illinois River, USA.
Investigators: R.E. Sparks, A.M. Isserman, D.M. Jonhnston, Z. Nedovic-Budic, and D.C. White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, C. Ahn, George Mason University, and M. Demissie and Y. Lian, Illinois State Water Survey. - The Role of Flooding in Seed Dispersal: Restoration of Cypress Swamps Along the Cache River, Illinois
Investigator: B. Middleton, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Completed: 1995. - Management and Development of Aquatic Habitat in Agricultural Drainage Systems
Investigators: M.J. TerHaar and E.E. Herricks, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1989. - Streamflow and Velocity as Determinants of Aquatic Insect Distribution and Benthic Community Structure in Illinois
Investigators: L.L. Osborne and E.E. Herricks, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1983. - Identification of the Water Quality Factors Which Prevent Fingernail Clams from Recolonizing the, Illinois River—Phase III
Investigators: R.E. Sparks and M.J. Sandusky, Illinois Natural History Survey, and A.A. Paparo, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Completed: 1983. - Identification of the Water Quality Factors Which Prevent Fingernail Clams from Recolonizing the, Illinois River—Phase II
Investigators: R.E. Sparks and M.J. Sandusky, Illinois Natural History Survey, and A.A. Paparo, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Completed: 1981. - Environmental Observations of a Riparian Ecosystem During Flood Season
Investigators: W.J. Mitsch, W. Rust, A. Behnke, and L. Lai, Illinois Institute of Technology. Completed: 1979. - Forested Wetlands for Water Resource Management in Southern Illinois
Investigators: W.J. Mitsch, C.L. Dorge, and J.R. Wiemhoff, Illinois Institute of Technology. Completed: 1977. - Effects of Feedlot Runoff on Free-Living Aquatic Ciliated Protozoa
Investigator: K.S. Todd, Jr, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1977. - Dynamics of Manganese, Cadmium, and Lead in Experimental Power Plant Ponds
Investigators: B.J. Mathis, T.F. Cummings, M. Gower, M. Taylor, and C. King, Bradley University. Completed: 1977. - Studies on the Population Dynamics and the Physiological Ecology of Four Species of Fresh Water Isopods
Investigators: Seidenberg, Arthur J. Completed: 1970.
Published Materials
Kalscheur, K.N.; Miguel Rojas; Christopher G. Peterson; John J. Kelly; Kimberly A. Gray, 2012, Algal Exudates and Stream Organic Matter Influence the Structure and Function of Denitrifying Bacterial Communities, Microbial Ecology, 64, 881-892.
Drinking Water Treatment
Reports
- Modeling of Activated Carbon and Coal Gasification Char Absorbents in Single-Solute and Bisolute Systems
Investigators: W.E. Thacker and V.L. Snoeyink, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and J.C. Crittenden, Michigan Technological University. Completed: 1981. - Removal of Low Levels of Phenol by Activated Carbon in the Presence of Biological Activity
Investigators: W.A. Chudyk and V.L. Snoeyink, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1981. - Humic Substances Removal by Activated Carbon
Investigators: M.C.Y. Lee and V.L. Snoeyink, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1980. - Regeneration of Clinoptilolite by Biologically Restored Brine
Investigator: M.J. Semmens, University of Minnesota. Completed: 1979. - Reduction of Aqueous Free Chlorine with Granular Activated Carbon
Investigators: M.T. Suidan and V.L. Snoeyink, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1975. - Study of the Treatment of Lake Michigan Water Using Direct Filtration
Investigator: R.D. Letterman, Illinois Institute of Technology. Completed: 1975.
Groundwater and Aquifers
Reports
- Epikarstic Groundwater Ecosystems in Illinois: A Sensitive but Unstudied Faunal Element
Investigators: S.J. Taylor, Illinois Natural History Survey, and S. Cinel, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2015. - Attachment and Transport Mechanism of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in Subsurface Environments: A Multi-Scale Study
Investigators: H. Nguyen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2010. - Estimating Shallow Recharge and Discharge in Northeastern Illinois Using GIS and Pattern Recognition Procedure
Investigators: Y-F. Lin and A.J. Valocchi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2007. - The Flow Dimensions of Groundwater Resources in Northeastern Illinois
Investigators: D.D. Walker, Illinois State Water Survey, and A.J. Valocchi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 2007. - Genetic-Algorithm-Based Design of Groundwater Quality Monitoring System
Investigators: J.W. Eheart, S.E. Cieniawski, and S. Ranjithan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1993. - In Situ Bioreclamation of Contaminated Groundwater
Investigators: B.E. Rittmann, A.J. Valocchi, J.E. Odencrantz, and W. Bae, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1988. - Photolytic Ozonation for Protection and Rehabilitation of Ground-Water Resources: A Mechanistic Study
Investigators: G.R. Peyton, M.A. Smith, and B.M. Peyton, Illinois State Water Survey. Completed: 1987. - Characterization of a Landfill-Derived Contaminant Plume in Glacial and Bedrock Aquifers NE Illinois
Investigators: C. Booth and P.J. Vagt, Northern Illinois University. Completed: 1986. - Multicriteria Management of Groundwater Quality Under Uncertainty
Investigators: J.W. Eheart and A.J. Valocchi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1986. - Isotopic Studies of the Natural Sources of Radium in Groundwater in Illinois
Investigators: R.H. Gilkeson, Illinois State Geological Survey, E.C. Perry, Jr., Northern Illinois University, J.B. Cowart, Florida State University, and R.B. Holtzman, Argonne National Laboratory. Completed: 1984. - Water Reuse through Groundwater Recharge in Northeastern Illinois
Investigators: G.E. Stout, Water Resources Center, and T.F. Naymik, T.H. Larson, and M.R. Schock, Illinois State Water Survey. Completed: 1984. - Hydrogeologic and Geochemical Studies of Selected Natural Radioisotopes and Barium in Groundwater in Illinois
Investigators: R.H. Gilkeson and K. Cartwright, Illinois State Geological Survey, J.B. Cowart, Florida State University, and R.B. Holtzman, Argonne National Laboratory. Completed: 1983. - Undisturbed Core Method for Determining and Evaluating the Hydraulic Conductivity of Unsaturated Sediments
Investigators: A. Elzeftawy and K. Cartwright, Illinois State Geological Survey. Completed: 1983. - Isotopic and Geologic Studies to Identify the Sources of Sulfate in Groundwater Containing High Barium Concentrations
Investigators: R.H. Gilkeson and K. Cartwright, Illinois State Geological Survey, and E.C. Perry, Jr., Northern Illinois University. Completed: 1981. - Geologic Studies to Identify the Source for High Levels of Radium and Barium in Illinois Ground-Water Supplies: A Preliminary Report
Investigators: R.H. Gilkeson, S.A. Specht, K. Cartwright, and R. A. Griffin, Illinois State Geological Survey, and T.E. Larson, Jr., Illinois State Water Survey. Completed: 1978. - Analysis of Liquid-Waste Injection Wells in Illinois by Mathematical Models
Investigators: M. Heidari and K. Cartwright, Illinois State Geological Survey, and P.E. Saylor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1974. - Microbial Modifications of Ground Water
Investigators: R.P. Gunsalus, J.G. Zeikus, and R.S. Wolfe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1972. - Statistical Porous Media Hydrodynamics
Investigator: A.E. Scheidegger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1968. - Further Study of Aquifer Performance
Investigator: W. Rose, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Completed: 1967. - Occurrence of Nitrate in Well Waters
Investigators: T.E. Larson and L. Henley, Illinois State Water Survey. Completed: 1966.
Published Materials
Reed, Patrick; Barbara Minsker; Albert Valocchi, 2000, Cost Effective Long-term Groundwater Monitoring Design Using a Genetic Algorithm and Global Mass Interpolation, Water Resources Research, Vol. 36:12, 3731-3741.