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Great Lakes Freshwater Symposium: Monitoring and Controlling Invasive Species in the Great Lakes

February 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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What do sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels, round goby, and phragmites all have in common? They have invaded the Great Lakes and are changing the entire ecosystem.

Join the Freshwater Collaborative for a webinar that highlights some of the current research around monitoring and controlling invasive species in the Great Lakes. Our own Harvey Bootsma, Associate Dean & Professor, will be a panelist.

Other panelists include: 
  • Harvey Bootsma, Associate Dean & Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences
  • Janice Gilbert, Executive Director, Invasive Phragmites Control Centre, Ontario
  • Sara Good, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, University of Winnipeg
  • Steve Pothoven, Fishery Biologist, NOAA GxLERL Lake Michigan Field Station, Michigan

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