Dear Great Lakes colleague, It's your last chance to register for the 2011 State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC 2011) in Erie, Pennsylvania, October 26 & 27, 2011. Registration closes Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Draft indicator reports are being posted at http://www.solecregistration.ca/en/indicator_reports.asp. Please check back regularly to download this information. These indicator reports are used to provide the current conditions and trends in the Great Lakes and help to convey information about complex issues in the lakes including: * Resurgence of algal blooms * Disastrous effects from invasive species * Food web disruption * Water level impacts * Lack of aquatic habitat connectivity * Loss of coastal wetlands * Watershed stresses and high risk areas * Depletion of dissolved oxygen * Presence of toxic substances and chemicals of emerging concern and; * Problems associated with increased water clarity. Register <http://www.solecregistration.ca/en/registration.asp> for SOLEC today to attend the premier binational science-based conference on environmental conditions in the Great Lakes for stakeholders, decision-makers and scientists. See you at SOLEC! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20111017/bf4b9751/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 124557 bytes Desc: image001.jpg Url : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20111017/bf4b9751/attachment.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SOLEC 2011 Poster.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 250957 bytes Desc: SOLEC 2011 Poster.pdf Url : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20111017/bf4b9751/attachment.obj