GLIN==> GLMRIS Team Releases ANS White Paper and Announces Conference Call

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ANS White Paper Release
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released today an Aquatic Nuisance Species
White Paper (http://glmris.anl.gov/documents/docs/Non-Native_Species.pdf),
the first interim product of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin
Study (GLMRIS). The purpose of the ANS White Paper is to catalog potential
non-native species within the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins and
identify which high-risk species will be an initial focus in GLMRIS.

Identification of the species in the ANS White Paper will aid the GLMRIS Team
in focusing efforts toward identifying available prevention and control
technologies for analysis.

A new page at http://glmris.anl.gov/documents/ans/index.cfm on the Documents
tab of the GLMRIS Web site has been launched in conjunction with the release
of this paper. Explore the 40 high-risk species that are poised to
potentially transfer between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins
through the Chicago Area Waterway System in our new high-risk species fact
sheets.

The Army Corps of Engineers will host a conference call on August 10, 2011,
at 11:00 a.m. (central) for interested parties to ask questions of the
technical team that developed the paper. Call in information is:

USA Toll-Free: (888) 684-8852
Access Code:   3027302
Security Code: 3010

If you have any questions about the paper, please contact Dave Wethington,
GLMRIS Project Manager at (312) 846-5522.


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