Important and Significant Meetings

Week of November 9 - 13, 2009:
USGS Great Lakes Science Center scientist Chuck Madenjian has been invited to give two seminars at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin on November 13, 2009. The titles of the seminars are "Adverse effects of alewives on Great Lakes fish communities" and "Poor quality of spawning habitat: a serious impediment to cisco rehabilitation in the Great Lakes?".
(Contact: Charles Mandenjian, 734-214-7259)

Research Activities

Dr. Noel Pavlovic, USGS, in collaboration with the National Park Service, is conducting a study of the effects of post fire environment on the invasion of the invasive vine Oriental bittersweet (PDF file). Several small scale burns were conducted on November 5 in beech-maple forest at Chellburng Farm and the Heron Rookery at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. After the burns, seed of Oriental bittersweet will be sown in these research plots to determine how post fire environment influences the germination, survival, and growth of this highly invasive vine. Dr. Stacey Leicht-Yoiung will also participate in this interagency research, funded by the Joint Fire Science Program.
(Contact: Noel Pavlovic , 219-926-8336 x428)

Research Activities

Chuck Madenjian of the USGS, Great Lakes Science Center, has been invited as a guest lecturer for the Fisheries Research course at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. The title of the lecture is "Examples of using fish bioenergetics models to solve problems in fisheries biology".
(Contact: Charles Madenjian, 734-214-7259)