Great Lakes Freshwater Symposium: Monitoring and Controlling Invasive Species in the Great Lakes

What do sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels, round goby, and phragmites all have in common? They have invaded the Great Lakes and are changing the entire ecosystem.

This webinar highlighted some of the current research around monitoring and controlling invasive species in the Great Lakes.

Panelists included:

Harvey Bootsma, Associate Dean & Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences

Janice Gilbert, Executive Director, Invasive Phragmites Control Centre, Ontario

Sara Good, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, University of Winnipeg

Steve Pothoven, Fishery Biologist, NOAA GLERL Lake Michigan Field Station, Michigan

This event is co-hosted by the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin and is part of a quarterly online water symposium series in partnership with the Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium, an initiative of Council of the Great Lakes Region. These events seek to encourage and advance collaborations, share science across borders, encourage students in research and career opportunities and present research that is solving real-world problems.

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