2013

January 11, 2013 (canceled due to weather)
James Cervino, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Seminar Title: TBA

February 8, 2013
J. Dennis Newbold, Ph.D., Stroud Water Research Center
Seminar Title: Linking upstream to downstream: How nutrients and particles spiral through the River Continuum.

March 15, 2013
William H. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Seminar Title: Chasing nitrogen atoms in the global nitrogen cycle.

April 12, 2013
Ralph E.H. Smith, Ph.D., University of Waterloo
Seminar Title: The P paradigm in Great Lakes management and new methods for exploring nutrient controls on phytoplankton.

2012

January 13, 2012 (canceled due to weather)
Ed Rutherford, Ph.D., NOAA/GLERL
Seminar title: A stable isotope-based food web model of Muskegon Lake, Michigan.

February 10, 2012
David Janetski, Ph.D., Grand Valley State University
Seminar title: Ecological effects of introduced Pacific salmon in Great Lakes tributaries.

March 13, 2012
Greg Druschel, Ph.D., University of Vermont
Seminar title: Nutrient mobility and speciation controlled by changing redox geochemistry in freshwater lake systems.

April 13, 2012
Puneet Srivastava, Ph.D., Auburn University
Seminar Title: Ecologically-sustainable surface water withdrawal for cropland irrigation and other uses through incorporation of climate variability.

September 14, 2012
Bradley J. Cardinale, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems

October 12, 2012
Tomas Höök, Ph.D., Purdue University
Seminar Title: The influence of river mouths and river plumes on recruitment of Great Lakes fishes.

November 2, 2012
Solange Duhamel, Ph.D., Columbia University
Seminar Title: Phosphorus resource partitioning in the open ocean: new insights from single cell approaches.

November 9, 2012
Vincent Denef, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Studying evolutionary dynamics and ecological complexity of microbial communities in nature.

December 14, 2012
Jeffrey Connor, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Seminar Title: Mechanisms of rapid adaptive evolution in flowers and weeds.

2011

January 14, 2011
Dr. Kim Scribner, Michigan State University
Seminar title: Long-term ecological and genetic studies of lake sturgeon in Black Lake, MI.

February 11, 2011
Lindsay Chadderton
Seminar title: Development of a Great Lakes aquatic invasive species strategy and lessons from some recent regional incursions.

March 11, 2011
Dr. Drew Gronewold, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Seminar title: Propagating uncertainty into water resource management decisions.

April 8, 2011
Dr. Walter Dodds, Kansas State University
Seminar title: Valuation of aquatic ecosystem goods and services.

April 15, 2011
Dr. Charles Madenjian, USGS Great Lakes Science Center
Seminar title: Adverse effects of alewives on Laurentian Great Lakes fish communities; and Sex and PCBs in walleye: the "hot spot" effect.

May 13, 2011
Sandra Cooke, Duke University
Seminar title: Plankton food resources for Asian carp in the Great Lakes: a feast or famine?

Sept. 16, 2011
Daniel A. Bergman, Ph.D., Grand Valley State University
Seminar Title: Using crayfish as a model system for ecological, behavioral, and neurological research

Oct. 14, 2011
Joanna Freeland, Ph.D., Trent University
Seminar Title: Invasive plants in aquatic habitats: sex, dispersal, and other secrets to success

December 2, 2011
Lisa Huberty, Ph.D., Aquatic Nuisance Control Program, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Seminar title: A discussion with MDEQ about invasive starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa)

November 11, 2011
Michael Pikaart, Ph.D., Hope College
Seminar title: Microbial source tracking to identify fecal contamination in the Lake Macatawa watershed

December 12, 2011
Indrani Pal, Ph.D., AWRI Climatologist Candidate
Seminar title: Detection and attribution of precipitation extremes: understanding hydrological phenomena from a climate perspective.

December 14, 2011
Kevin Strychar, Ph.D., AWRI Climatologist Candidate
Seminar title: Modeling climate change: can we trust model predictions?

December 19, 2011
Colleen Mouw, Ph.D., AWRI Climatologist Candidate
Seminar title: Remote sensing and optical variability of the Great Lakes and inland lakes.

2010

February 12, 2010
Dr. Greg Dick, University of Michigan
Seminar title: New views into microbial communities: stewards of the Earth, past and present

March 12, 2010
Dr. Dan O'Keefe, Michigan Sea Grant
Seminar Title: Great Lakes Fisheries Management: Ecological, Institutional, and Economic Realities

March 19, 2010
Dr. Jelena Pantel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar title: The interface between metacommunity ecology and microevolution in freshwater zooplankton

April 16, 2010
Dr. Meng Xia, University of Michigan
Seminar title: A Numerical study of wave-current interaction in Lake Michigan using Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model

April 30, 2010
Dr. Robert Michael McKay, Bowling Green State University
Seminar title: Some like it cold: Psychrophilic diatoms in Lake Erie

September 10, 2010
Dr. Paul Isely, Grand Valley State University
Seminar title: A preliminary look at the long run value to Muskegon of current remediation projects

October 8, 2010
Dr. Duane R. Hampton, Western Michigan University
Seminar title: Simulating CO2 injection into a deep saline aquifer in Michigan

November 12, 2010
Dr. Richard L. Whitman, United States Geological Survey
Seminar title: Swim at your own risk

December 1, 2010
Dr. Evens Emmanuel, Université Quisqueya, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Seminar title: Water quality in Port au Prince, Haiti

2009

January 15, 2009
Dr. Azizur Molla, Grand Valley State University
Seminar title: Water Contamination and Disease Incidence in Rural Bangladesh - An Anthropological Discourse

February 19, 2009
Dr. Jennifer Read, Michigan Sea Grant and Director of Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)
Seminar title: The Great Lakes Observing System: Partnership for Science-based Solutions

March 19, 2009
Dr. Scott Sowa, The Nature Conservancy
Seminar title: Conserving Freshwater Biodiversity: Logical Constructs, Experience, and Lessons Learned

April 16, 2009
Dr. Hans VanSumeren, Northwest Michigan College
Seminar title: Monitoring/Observation Technologies for the Great Lakes

April 30, 2009
Dr. Figen Mekik, Grand Valley State University
Seminar title: Isn't Photosynthesis Enough to Curb Global Warming?: Sources, Sinks and Fluxes of CO2 Through Geologic Time

September 10, 2009
Dr. Gertrud Nurnberg, Freshwater Research, Canada
Seminar title: "The Devil is in the Sediments: Internal Phosphorus Loading in Lakes"

September 25, 2009
Dr. Scott Peacor, Michigan State University
Seminar title: "Effects of Invasive Spiny Water Flea on Lake Michigan's Food Web: Is Scaring Prey More Important than Eating Prey?"

October 2, 2009
Dr. Allen Burton, University of Michigan
Seminar title: "Assessing Aquatic Ecosystem Impairment: Issues and Approaches"

November 13, 2009
Dr. Stuart Jones, W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
Seminar title: "Influence of Terrestrial Organic Matter on Stability of Aquatic Ecosystems"

2008

January 17, 2008
Dr. Robert Hollister, Grand Valley State University
Title: The Impact of Warming on Arctic Vegetation

February 20, 2008
Dr. Erik Nordman, Grand Valley State University
Title: Open Space Preservation: Economic Values and Priorities

March 20, 2008
Dr. Peggy Ostrom, Michigan State University
Title: Stepping Back in Time: Food Web Relationships in Modern and Ancient Ecosystems Unveiled by Stable Isotopes

May 8, 2008
Dr. J. Val Klump, Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Title: Radionuclides, particle transport and carbon cycling: clues to changing climate and food web dynamics

September 18, 2008
Dr. Alex Flecker, Cornell University
Title: Migratory fishes as functional linkages across tropical landscapes

October 16, 2008
Dr. Harvey Bootsma, Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Seminar title: The Role of Dreissenid Mussels in the Nearshore Phosphorus Cycle

November 20, 2008
Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall, Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago
Seminar title: Adaptive management and food web dynamics of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon

2007

January 18, 2007
Scott McNaught, Ph.D., Central Michigan University
Seminar Title: Larval perch recruitment failure in Lake Michigan

February 15, 2007
Joel C. Trexler, Ph.D., Florida International University
Seminar Title: Metacommunity dynamics of fishes in the Florida Everglades or Setting restoration targets for the Everglades in the absence of historical data

March 22, 2007
Alan E. Wilson, Ph.D., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL)
Seminar Title: Community genetics of cyanobacteria-grazer interactions

April 19, 2007
Jay Lennon, Ph.D., Michigan State University
Seminar Title: The energetic importance of terrestrial carbon in lake ecosystems

September 20, 2007
Dr. Clinton Boyd Sustainable Research Group, Grand Rapids, MI
Title: The design imperative for the next industrial revolution: harmonization of anthropogenic and biospheric flows of matter and energy

October 18, 2007
Dr. Nathaniel Ostrom, Michigan State University
Title: Nitrous Oxide, the forgotten greenhouse gas

November 15, 2007
Dr. Steven Francoeur, Eastern Michigan University
Title: Microbial interactions in periphyton

2006

January 19, 2006
Don Scavia, University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Coastal Eutrophication: in search of simple forecasts

February 16, 2006
Edward Rutherford, University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Recruitment dynamics of Chinook salmon in the Muskegon River Watershed

March 16, 2006
Elena Litchman, Michigan State University
Seminar Title: Physiological trade-offs, ecological strategies and selective pressures in phytoplankton

April 20, 2006
Mark Walbridge, West Virginia University and National Science Foundation
Seminar Title: The Biogeochemistry of forested floodplains: nutrient availability, phosphorus retention, and microbial diversity

September 21, 2006
Shuguang Li, Michigan State University
Seminar Title: Modeling Michigan's groundwater systems: A "new" data source and a real-time GIS-based software and visualization system

October 19, 2006
Juli Dyble, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Seminar Title: Is it safe to drink the water? Using molecular methods to detect toxic strains of Microcystis in the Great Lakes.

November 16, 2006
David Jude, University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Walleye recruitment failure in the Muskegon River and round goby dispersal via ballast water transfer

2005

January 20, 2005
Jennifer Tank, University of Notre Dame
Seminar Title: The Influence of Anthropogenic Activities on Nutrient Cycling and Carbon Dynamics in Streams

February 17, 2005
David Clapp, DNR Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station
Seminar Title: Yellow Perch Research and Management in Lake Michigan: Evaluating Progress in a Cooperative Effort, 1997-2001

March 17, 2005
Mark Baskaran, Wayne State University
Seminar Title: Applications of Short-lived Radionuclides as Tracers and Chronometers in a Freshwater System

September 15, 2005
Silvia Rossbach, Western Michigan University
Seminar Title: Microbial Ecology and Geophysics of Polluted Environments: From Metal-Regulated Genes to Hydrocarbon Degradation

September 29, 2005
Robert Shuchman, Altarum Institute
Seminar Title: A Bio-Optical Algorithm for Lake Michigan Using SeaWiFS

October 20, 2005
Karl Havens, University of Florida
Seminar Title: TBA

November 17, 2005
Stephen Nold, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Seminar Title: When Does Diversity Matter? Microbial Species and Ecosystem Function in Northern Peatlands

2004

January 15, 2004
Stephen Burton, Grand Valley State University
Seminar Title: Can Amphibian Conservation Be Balanced With Human Development? A Summary of Early Collaboration Efforts to Understand Amphibian Diversity in West Michigan

February 19, 2004
Hamdy Helal, West Shore Community College
Seminar Title: Freshwaters of the Nile River (Egypt) and in West Michigan: Common Concerns of Human Impact

March 18, 2004
Orlando (Ace) Sarnelle, Michigan State University
Seminar Title: Herbivore Suppression and Cultivation of Harmful Phytoplankton in Lakes

April 1, 2004
Neil MacDonald, Grand Valley State University
Seminar Title: Soil and Vegetation Responses to Municipal Solid Waste Leachate Applications at the Fenske Landfill

April 16, 2004
David Hyndman, Michigan State University
Seminar Title: Efficient Large-Scale Bioremediation in a Heterogeneous Aquifer: The Schoolcraft Bioaugmentation Experiment

April 29, 2004
Alex Nikitin, Grand Valley State University
Seminar Title: Bioremediation of Dissolved Oil-Based Organic Pollutants

September 23, 2004
James Fortney, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Seminar Title: DEQ Aquatic Resource Impact Permit: An Overview of the Permit Process and the Identification of Opportunities for Meaningful Input

October 21, 2004

Patrick Bohlen, MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center
Seminar Title: Innovative Approaches for Reducing Nutrient Runoff From Cattle Ranches in Lake Okeechobee Basin

November 19, 2004
Steve Kohler, Western Michigan University
Seminar Title: The Structure of Stream Food Webs: "Bugs" rule

December 13, 2004
Patrick Mulholland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Seminar Title: Nitrogen Uptake and Cycling in Streams: What We've Learned from Whole-Stream 15N Addition Experiments

2003

January 16, 2003
Steve Pothoven, University of Michigan, Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystem Research (CILER)
Seminar Title: Changes in Diet, Abundance, and Condition of Planktivorous Fish Following Declines of Diporeia in Southeast Lake Michigan

January 30, 2003
Dennis A. Albert, Michigan State University
Seminar Title: Aquatic Macrophyte Sampling in Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands: A Brief Summary of Plant Sampling and Classification During the Last 17 Years

February 13, 2003
Steve Ruberg, NOAA / Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
Seminar Title: Towards a Great Lakes Observation System: Real-Time Environmental Data Collection at NOAA/GLERL

February 27, 2003
Xuefeng (Michael) Chu, Annis Water Resources Institute
Seminar Title: Preliminary Hydrological Modeling for Mona Lake

March 20, 2003
Patricia A. Soranno, Michigan State University
Seminar Title: The Role of Landscape Context on Lake Chemistry and Biology

April 3, 2003
Mark Luttenton, Grand Valley State University
Seminar Title: Algal Communities as Indicators in Three Subtropical Watersheds

April 17, 2003
G. Wayne Minshall, Idaho State University
Seminar Title: Effects of Wildfire on Wilderness Streams

May 1, 2003
Peter Riemersma, Grand Valley State University
Seminar Title: Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Grand River Plume in Lake Michigan During the Summers of 2001 and 2002

September 18, 2003
Bill Rude Riverkeeper, Muskegon River
Seminar Title: The Role of the Riverkeeper in the Modern World

October 16, 2003
Tom Johengen, University of Michigan
Seminar Title: The Role of Episodic Events on the Transport of Biogeochemically Important Materials in Lake Michigan

November 20, 2003
Ying Hong, University of Michigan, Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystem Research (CILER)
Seminar Title: Dinoflagellate Cysts in NOBOB Ballast Tank Sediment: Potential Risk of Invasion to the Great Lakes

2002

October 17, 2002
Steve Hamilton, Michigan State University
Seminar Title: Hydrological Control of Ecology and Biogeochemistry in the Pantanal Wetland (Brazil)

November 7, 2002
J. David Allan, University of Michigan
Seminar Title: Catchment Land Use and Its Effects on Aquatic Ecosystem Health

December 6, 2002
Greg Courtney, Iowa State University
Seminar Title: Biosystematics of Rheophilic Insects: Tales of Torrenticoles From Thailand

December 19, 2002
Gary Lamberti, University of Notre Dame
Seminar Title: Linkages Among Aquatic Ecosystems: From Bacteria to Bears