GLIN==> Making a Great Lake Superior: 2nd Call for Participation

["Marie E. Zhuikov" <mzhuikov@d.umn.edu>]

Making a Great Lake Superior 2007's 2nd Call for Participation is now 
available, with additional information about the conference.  The 2nd 
Call for Participation can be accessed online here:
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/superior2007/participate/

Reminders:
Abstracts are due by June 15th, and registration begins in Early June
Please forward to your contacts and interested persons!


Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Making a Great 
Lake Superior 2007 conference, being held in Duluth, Minnesota from 
October 29 to 31, 2007. This conference is focused on the most pressing 
issues facing the Lake Superior ecosystem and incorporates how 
research, education, and resource management are attempting to address 
these issues. We look forward to lively dialogue among people of 
different disciplines, and we will also be holding facilitated 
workgroups to develop recommendations and priorities for future 
research, education, outreach, and management.

Protecting and restoring the Great Lakes is of binational importance. 
Research continues to provide important insights on ecosystem 
functions, the impacts of human activities, and effective ways to 
reduce those impacts. Education and outreach provide vital links among 
basin residents and stakeholders, researchers, and resource managers. 
The needs of basin communities are evolving as populations change and 
economic and cultural paradigms shift. Making a Great Lake Superior 
2007 will unite people throughout the Lake Superior Watershed in 
discussions about:

·       Transforming research results into effective protection and 
restoration of Lake Superior,

·       How management approaches and projects reflect priorities,

·       Information needs of land and resource managers, and how this 
information can best be brought to bear on critical issues

·       The role of educators to help ensure accurate information about 
Lake Superior is reaching the right audiences in the right way, and

·       The role of citizen groups and individuals in protecting Lake 
Superior.
On behalf of the conference Co-Chairs,
Liz, John, Jesse and Jan

Elizabeth LaPlante, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-Great Lakes 
National Program Office, 77 W. Jackson, Chicago, IL 60604

John Marsden, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, 
Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4

Jesse Schomberg, University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program, 2305 E. 5th 
St, Duluth, MN 55812

Janet Keough, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Health and 
Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Midcontinent Ecology 
Division, 6201 Congdon Blvd., Duluth, MN 55804


--
Jesse Schomberg
Assistant Professor-Extension Educator
Minnesota Sea Grant College Program
2305 E 5th St
Duluth, MN 55812-1445                      www.seagrant.umn.edu
ph: 218-726-6182  fax: 218-726-6556        www.northlandnemo.org
jschombe@d.umn.edu                         www.lakesuperiorstreams.org



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