written by Allison Hrycik
GLC research scientists Allison Hrycik, Sasha Karatayev, Lyuba Burlakova, and Susan Daniel attended the State of Lake Erie (SOLE) meeting on March 15–17, 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio. The meeting brought together researchers, resource managers, industry professionals, and non-profit employees with an interest in Lake Erie. SOLE is part of a larger series of State of the Lake Meetings that follow intensive field years on each of the Great Lakes. The conference had a hybrid format, with about half of the attendees in person and half online. GLC members elected to attend in person, making this our first in-person conference in two years! It was great to catch up with our colleagues around Lake Erie.
Allison presented on using video methods to assess Dreissena mussel populations in Lake Erie, including our “rapid assessment” of mussels using a drop-down camera. Lyuba presented on video methods to distinguish different benthic communities and environmental conditions. Sasha talked about long-term changes in Lake Erie benthos using our grab sample data combined with other surveys from the past 90 years. Susan’s presentation was an ecologist’s perspective on genetic barcoding and described lessons learned from a project to catalog barcoding data from aquatic species in the Great Lakes. Other highlights included plenary talks by Chris Korleski (the head of EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office) who described ongoing and future research endeavors in Lake Erie and Bill Zawiski (Ohio EPA) who described the history of the Cuyahoga River, which infamously caught on fire several times, but has undergone successful restoration efforts that have improved water quality tremendously.
Image caption: Susan Daniel, Sasha Karatayev, Allison Hrycik, and Lyuba Burlakova attended SOLE.
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