Great Lakes health
Research Projects
- Constructing the Nearshore Lake Michigan Food Web Using Multiple Trophic Indicators
Principal Investigators: Tomas Höök, Serguisz Czeny
Completion Date: January 2012 - Developing functional indicators of coastal wetland health
Principal Investigator: Matthew Cooper
Completion Date: December 2011 - The effect of wet weather driven dissolved oxygen sags on fishes in urban systems
Principal Investigator: Greg Gaulke
Completion Date: December 2011 - Influence of riparian forest and agricultural land use on stream community structure and ecosystem function
Principal Investigator: Eden Effert
Completion Date: July 2011 - Contaminant transport by introduced Pacific salmon to Great Lakes tributaries
Principal Investigator: David Janetski
Completion Date: May 2011 - Pilot field observations of Lake Michigan atmospheric boundary layers
Principal Investigator: David Kristovich
Completion Date: May 2011 - (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Principal Investigator: Dr. Patrick Zollner
Completed: December 2010
HELM article: Recreation reduces Karner blue butterfly reproduction - Land Use Disturbance Impacts on Stream Fish Physiology
Principal Investigator: Zachary Blevins
Completed: October 2010 - Modeling the 10-year changes of Juvenile Fish Assemblages in Lake Michigan Near-shore Water
Principal Investigator: Yong Cao
Completed: September 2010 - Real-time Fluorometric Assay for Sewage Presence: A Cost-effective Method to Determine Potential Water Quality Threats to Swimmers and Ecosystem Health
Principal Investigator: Kishanipuram Vinodgopal
Completed: January 2010 - A Spatio-Temporal Study of Methylmercury Biogeochemistry in Wetlands of the Southern Lake Michigan Watershed
Principal Investigator: Robert Hudson
Completed: August 2008- Thiourea catalysis of MeHg ligand exchange between natural dissolved organic matter and a thiol-functionalized resin: a novel method of matrix removal and MeHg preconcentration for ultratrace Hg speciation analysis in freshwaters. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2007) 388:341-352.
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- Thiourea catalysis of MeHg ligand exchange between natural dissolved organic matter and a thiol-functionalized resin: a novel method of matrix removal and MeHg preconcentration for ultratrace Hg speciation analysis in freshwaters. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2007) 388:341-352.
- Multi-site Economic Benefits of Sediment Remediation at Great Lakes Areas of Concern
Principal Investigator: John B. Braden
Completed: August 2008 - Reconstructing Low Lake Levels of Lake Michigan
Principal Investigator: Timothy Fisher
Completed: February 2006 - Mercury Methylation and Demethylation in a Contaminated Urban Watershed
Principal Investigator:Robert J. Hudson
Completed: January 2005 - Speciation and Availability of Metals in Wetlands
Principal Investigator: Jean-Francois Gaillard
Completed: December 2004
- DNA Fingerprinting as a Means for Tracing the Source of E. coli Contamination
Principal Investigator: Charles C. Tseng and W.T. Evert Ting
Completed: March 2002
Peer-Reviewed Publications
To obtain abstracts and, where available, full papers, visit the National Sea Grant Library
- Braden, John B., DooHwan Won, Laura O. Taylor, Nicole Mays, Allegra Cangelosi, and Arianto A. Patunru. 2008. Economic Benefits of Remediating the Sheboygan River, Wisconsin Area of Concern. J. Great Lakes Res. 34(4):649–660.
- Braden, John B., Laura O. Taylor, DooHwan Won, Nicole Mays, Allegra Cangelosi, and Arianto A. Patunru. 2008. Economic Benefits of Remediating the Buffalo River, New York Area of Concern. J. Great Lakes Res. 34(4):631–648.
- Fisher, T.G., Loope, W.L., Pierce, W.C., and Jol, H.M., 2007. Big lake records preserved in a little lake’s sediment: an example form Silver Lake, Michigan, USA. In: Karrow, P. and Lewis, C.F.M. (Eds.) The Greater and Lesser Great Lakes, Journal of Paleolimnology. 37: 365-382.
- Vermillion, Brian R. & Robert J. M. Hudson. 2007. Thiourea catalysis of MeHg ligand exchange between natural dissolved organic matter and a thiol-functionalized resin: a novel method of matrix removal and MeHg preconcentration for ultratrace Hg speciation analysis in freshwaters. Anal Bioanal Chem. 388:341–352.
- Fisher, T. G., and Loope, W. L. 2005. Aeolian sand preserved in Silver lake: A reliable signal of Holocene high stands of Lake Michigan. The Holocene. 15(7): 1072–1078.
- Peltier, E.F., Dahl. A.L., Gaillard, J-F. 2005. Metal Speciation in Anoxic Sediments: When Sulfides can be Construed as Oxides. Environmental Science & Technology. 39, 311-316.
- Shade, C.W. and R.J.M. Hudson. 2005. Determination of MeHg in environmental sample matrices using Hg-Thiourea complex ion chromatography with on-line cold vapor generation and atomic fluorescence spectrometric detection (Hg(-T)U/IC-FI-CVAFS). Environmental Science and Technology. 39(13): 4974-4982.
- Souch, C., Filippelli G.M., Perkins S., Dollar N.L. and Mastalerz, M. 2002. Accumulation rates of heavy metals in wetlands. Physical Geography. 23, 21-44.
- Perkins, Steven M., Gabriel M. Filippelli, and Catherine J. Souch. 2000. Airborne trace metal contamination of wetland sediments at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution. 122:231-260.
- Keefe, M.H., R.V. Slone, J.T. Hupp, K.F. Czaplewski, R.Q. Snurr, and C.L. Stern. 2000. Mesoporous Thin Films of “Molecular Squares” as Sensors for Volatile Organic Compounds. Langmuir. 16(8): 3964-3970.
- Keefe, M.H., K.D. Benkstein, and J.T. Hupp. 2000. Luminescent Sensor Molecules Based on Coordinated Metals: A Review of Recent Developments. Coord. Chem. Rev. 205: 201-228.
- Benkstein, K.D., J.T. Hupp, and C.L. Stern. 2000. Luminescent Mesoporous Molecular Materials Based on Neutral Tetrametallic Rectangles. Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 39:2891-2893.
- Fraser G. S., T.A. Thompson, E.P. Kvale, C.P. Carlson, D.A. Fishbaugh, B.L. Gruver, J. Holbrook, S. Jairo, C.S. Kohler, A.E. Malone, C.H. Moore, B. Rachmanto, L. Rhoades. 1991. Sediments and sedimentary structures of a barred, nontidal coastline, southern shore of Lake Michigan. Journal of Coastal Research. 7(4): 1113-1124.
