GLIN==> Environment Canada and U.S. EPA release Nearshore Areas of the Great Lakes 2009 report

Environment Canada and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are
pleased to release the Nearshore Areas of the Great Lakes 2009 report.
This report describes the current state of nearshore area environmental
conditions and changes in nearshore areas of the Great Lakes since 1996,
and it suggests management implications related to nearshore issues.
Nearshore areas of the Great Lakes are important because this is where
land-based activities can impact water quality and where humans
generally interact with the Great Lakes.

The report includes information on the issues of botulism, harmful algae
blooms, viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), and shoreline development,
among other stressors.  Experts in the United States and Canada
contributed the chapters for this report, which was prepared for the
State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC) 2008.

Download the reports in English and French at
http://binational.net/solec/sogl2009_e.html and
http://binational.net/solec/sogl2009_f.html

For further information contact Nancy-Stadler Salt at Environment Canada
(Nancy.Stadler-salt at ec.gc.ca) or Paul Bertram at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (bertram.paul at epa.gov).

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Elizabeth Hinchey Malloy, Ph.D.
Great Lakes Ecosystem Extension Specialist
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, Purdue University
Liaison to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 West Jackson Blvd. (G-17J), Chicago, IL 60604
office: 312-886-3451, fax: 312-697-2606
www.iisgcp.org