This webinar, Realizing Resilience: Coordinating efforts from across the Great Lakes basin, is the first of a three-part series from the Great Lakes Commission (GLC): Realizing Resilience: Coordinating efforts from across the Great Lakes basin. The webinar series is offered in advance of the Midwest Climate Resilience Conference, scheduled for October 20-22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Staff from the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership (MCAP) will preview the upcoming Midwest Climate Resilience Conference, and the Great Lakes Commission will provide an overview of GLC’s Action Plan for a Resilient Great Lakes Basin. This Action Plan helps to prioritize basin-wide efforts and forms a roadmap to advance climate resilience in the region.
Great Lakes Themed Midwest Climate Resilience Conference in October 2025
The Great Lakes Commission’s (GLC) Standing Committee on Climate Resilience is thrilled to partner with the Midwest Climate Resilience Conference (MCRC) to offer a Great Lakes theme for this 3-day convening, scheduled for October 20-22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The GLC is coordinating a Great Lakes conference sub-track that will highlight basin-wide resilience efforts for all conference attendees, and will host a working session for Great Lakes resilience practitioners.
Summer Symposium August 5-7
Join the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center this summer to meet adaptation scientists and practitioners, learn about innovative research, and discuss regionally important issues related to climate adaptation.
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar: A Look at Cyanobacteria
Tune into the Algal Bloom Action Team’s first webinar of the year focusing on cyanobacteria! The webinar will feature the work of Rick Stumpf of NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and Rebecca North of the University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. They will look at cyanobacteria in the Great Lakes from satellite and explore winter cyanobacteria.
- When: Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, 11:00 AM CT
- Register Here
2025 Annual Water Resources Conference Call for Abstracts is Open
UCOWR and NIWR invite you to engage with leading researchers, educators, water managers, students, and other professionals from across the globe as we seek to develop new and innovative collaborations and transdisciplinary solutions to complex water resources challenges.
Abstracts (300 words max.) for oral, poster, panel, lightning, and participatory should be submitted electronically. The deadline to submit abstracts is January 29, 2025. Notification of acceptance will be late February. If accepted and presented, abstracts will be available for viewing on the Conference Platform & App during and after the conference.
- Abstract Deadline: January 29, 2025
- Conference: Minneapolis, June 3-5, 2025
- Submit Abstract Here
Abstract Call for Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium – Deadline Extended to November 1st
The Algal Bloom Action Team, a collaboration of water professionals, researchers, and educators from 12 states in the North Central Region of the United States, invites you to submit an abstract to the Fifth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium. The symposium will feature emergent harmful algal bloom (HAB) research and provide opportunities to discuss community outreach efforts.
To learn more about this opportunity, you can read more on our website.
- Deadline: November 1st, 2024, 11:59 pm Central Time
- Submit: Google Form
Master’s Defense by Amy Schneider: Using Water Quality to Deter Invasive Fishes in the Illinois Waterway
Water quality as a deterrent to the movement of invasive fishes in the Illinois Waterway: Implications for the Upper Mississippi
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar on April 3
This edition of the Algal Bloom Action Team will feature Ellen Preece, Senior Scientist for the California Department of Water Resources. Dr. Preece will share her research monitoring microcystin from 2020 to 2023, which spanned California’s driest consecutive 3-year period and one of the wettest years on record (2023).
Save the Date! The University of Illinois System and São Paulo Research Foundation Hosting FAPESP Week in Chicago, Register By 3/28/24
The University of Illinois System and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) have the pleasure of inviting you to attend FAPESP Week Illinois on the 9th and 10th of April 2024 at the University of Illinois Discovery Partners Institute.
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar
Tune into the first Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar of the year! This webinar will feature two presentations – Jen Wisecaver, Associate Professor at Purdue University, who will discuss extreme diversity and cryptic species in Prymnesium parvum and Barry Rosen, Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, who will discuss the secrets of freshwater cyanobacteria blooms.