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Welcome Rotary Club! USGS Great Lakes Science Center Russ Strach Director June 7, 2017 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Are The Great Lakes

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U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey

Welcome Rotary Club! USGS Great Lakes Science Center Russ Strach

Director

June 7, 2017

U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey

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Are The Great Lakes Bigger Than You Think?

If Each Lake Were A State By Land Area

Superior = Maine Michigan and Huron each = West Virginia Ontario = New Jersey Erie = Maryland The drainage basin (green) of the Great Lakes (blue) centered on Washington DC SIZE FACTS Total area of lakes and drainage basin = 295,000 sq mi. Total w ater surface area = 95,000 sq mi. Total volume of w ater = 5,473 cubic mi or 6 quadrillion gallons (6,000,000,000,000,000) of w ater. Total coastline = 10,900 mi. The deepest part of the Great Lakes is in Lake Superior at a depth of 1,335 ft. SIZE COMPARISONS Chesapeake Bay holds 18 trillion gallons of w ater. The Great Lakes could fill Chesapeake Bay 333 times. You could submerge the Empire State Building in Lake Superior. Spread evenly across the continental U.S., the Great Lakes w ould submerge the country under about 9.5 feet of w ater. If the w ater in the Great Lakes w ere distributed evenly among Earth’s population, everyone w ould get about a million gallons
  • f w ater.
DID YOU KNOW? The Great Lakes hold 95%
  • f the United States fresh
surface w ater! DID YOU KNOW? 1 out of every 10 Americans live in the Great Lakes Basin. That’s 25 million people! Contact Information: David Bennion, Jeffrey Schaeffer, Sandra Morrison USGS Great Lakes Science Center Ann Arbor, MI 734-994-3331, www.glsc.usgs.gov

Great Lakes Science Center

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Great Lakes Science Center

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GLSC by the numbers:

30 research scientists across 1,000 miles 125+ research projects 100+ papers/yr. dozens of collaborative efforts and partnerships

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GLSC Base Science Funding

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 Funding ($ Millions)

$8.6M $8.4M

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Southeast Northeast Midwest Alaska Northwest Pacific

USGS Regions

GLSC

Business & regional science collaboration

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Climate and land use change Core science systems Ecosystems Energy and minerals Environmental health Natural hazards Water

USGS Mission Areas

GLSC

Science funding & national priorities

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Brief History

1940 Bureau of Sportfish & Wildlife Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1957 1970 “. . . except the Great Lakes . . .”

1970 Nixon Executive Order, Reorganization Plan No. 4

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Fisheries Science

Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act

Great Lakes Science Center

Great Lakes Fishery Research Authorization Act lf 2016

Authority Funding Authority Funding

Introduced Feb 2016 Supported by many partners

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  • 2. What is driving GLSC science?
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DOI legal obligations

Oversees development of 23% of US energy supplies Largest supplier and manager of water in the 17 western states Maintains relationships with 566 federally recognized tribes Provides services to > 1.7 million American Indian and Alaska Native people Manages 1/5 of all US land Laws: Endangered Species A., Migratory Birds A., National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement A., etc.

USGS is their science branch

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OMB’s recurring questions:

Why is this federal science?

vs state, academic . . .

If it is federal science, why USGS?

vs EPA, NOAA . . .

If USGS, why GLSC?

What is Federal science? . . .

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2010-11

USGS Mission Area Science Strategies

2012 Congressional earmarks eliminated

Substantial shift in budget influence to Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Funding (“fiscal efficiency”) National science strategy

  • A. “Era without earmarks”

OMB Controls:

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Management Science

“The science branch

  • f the DOI”
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Implications:

Local/regional applications with national significance Science for management (not “discovery”) Cross-disciplinary and collaborative (“efficiency”)

Phragmites, HABs, Mussels Collaboratives; Coll. Impact

* “Trust resources”

Species, tribes, lands

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Federal Authorities/ Responsibilities

Hitting the Sweet Spot

Engage here

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  • 2. What is GLSC doing?
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SLIDE 18 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Percent of publications life history stock assessment invasives ecosystem modeling

Papers by Re Resear earch F Foc

  • cus

s by decade

From Schaeffer, Vinson, Hansen presentation to MWFW Conference 2016

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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Percent of publications

fish benthic invertebrate plant bacteria zooplankton fish, benthic invertebrate

Papers by Phy Phylum by decade

From Schaeffer, Vinson, Hansen presentation to MWFW Conference 2016

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  • A. Fisheries (60-70 % of budget)
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Lake Committee process

Monitor and assess

Prey fish, lake trout recovery, sea lamprey status

Understand the food web

Top-down vs bottom-up

Lake Michigan prey fish

MOU

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MOU

Stock Sport Fish Limits on Harvest

Lake Committee Process

Natural Res. Managers:

States Provinces Tribes Cooperation Data & Interpretation Council of Lake Committees

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R/V Muskie

Lake Erie

R/V Kaho

Lake Ontario

R/V Arcticus

Lake Mich-Hur

R/V Kiyi

Lake Superior

R/V Sturgeon

Lake Mich-Hur

Small vessels

GLSC research vessel fleet

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Coregonid restoration

Artedi

Cisco

Fishery Energy transfer

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nigripinnis

(blackfin)

X X

johannae

(deepwater)

X X

zenithicus

(shortjaw)

X X X X

reighardi

(shortnose)

X X X

kiyi

X X X X

hoyi

(bloater)

X X X X

artedi

(cisco)

X X X X X

Historical occurrences (Muir et al. in prep)

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nigripinnis

(blackfin)

johannae

(deepwater)

zenithicus

(shortjaw)

X X

reighardi

(shortnose)

kiyi

X

hoyi

(bloater)

X X X X*

artedi

(cisco)

X X X X X

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Extinct Extinct

Contemporary occurrences (Muir et al. in prep)

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Ann Arbor, MI Cortland, NY

Rearing & stocking techniques

Two experimental fish rearing labs

Jim Johnson, Solomon David

Coregonid restoration

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Cisco (coregonus artedi)

Life history, recruitment dynamics and habitat requirements

(Mark Vinson, Dan Yule, Brian Lantry)

Larval cisco

Coregonid restoration

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Cisco (coregonus artedi)

Genetics and morphology

(Wendy Stott, Dan Yule)

GLSC Coregonid Database

Coregonid restoration

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Acoustic Telemetry

Sea lamprey Lake sturgeon Lake trout National Animal Telemetry Network via Integrated Ocean Observing System

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Sea lamprey control technology

Pacific lamprey American eel Sea lamprey attractants/repellants

DC current guidance Acoustic walls Pheromones

Restoration of native species Selective fish passage in GL streams

3kPZS

Nick Johnson, Chris Holbrook, Scott Miehls

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Predation

  • Migrants are being

killed upstream.

Larval Mortality

  • Poor habitat for

deposition of offspring.

  • Over-winter mortality?

Post-spawning Mortality

  • Low mate availability.

Alarm cue: risk information

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Lake trout restoration

Life history of morphs Spawning habitat

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  • 1. Map
  • 3. Control

Gene Silencing Microbial symbiosis

  • 4. Coordinate

Collaborative for Microbial Symbiosis

  • 2. Forecast

Vulnerability

Phragmites Integrated Pest Management

Kurt Kowalski

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Asian carp: tracking the invasion front

How old is it? Was it born here?

Patrick Kocovsky

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Annuli easily identified Remove various boney structures

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  • A. Fisheries
  • B. Invasive species
  • C. Restoration ecology
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Pollinators

Monarch butterfly Karner blue butterfly Native bees Monitoring plan Habitat and phenology Inventory

Ralph Grundel

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Pitcher’s thistle

Status Threats Dune ecology

Noel Pavlovic

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Oak savanna

Management approaches Impact on species

Noel Pavlovic

Image: Steepcone, wikimedia commons (link)

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Reef siting Pre/post monitoring

Restored spawning reefs

Detroit River Habitat destruction to 2003

Bennion and Manny, 2011

Reef construction Proposed site for reef restoration

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Example Coastal wetland restoration tool

WLER WLERA

Western rn Lak ake Er Erie R Restor

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tion Asse n Assessm ssment nt

Justin Saarinen Kurt Kowalski Ryan Keeling

  • Sorry. This tool is not presently
  • nline, but will be soon.

It depends on these. Where should I plan a restoration project? Here? Or there?

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  • A. Fisheries
  • B. Invasive species
  • C. Restoration ecology
  • D. Advanced Technology
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

Ground-truth remotely sensed data

Autonomous gliders USGS Advanced Tech program

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And much more . . . Thank you

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  • Audience: Staff and scientists, varying levels of understanding;
  • Purpose: Begin a more formal relationship (not provide THE summary of GLSC research)
  • My background
  • My role: 30 research scientists across 1,000 miles; 125+ projects; 100+ papers/yr.; dozens of collaborative efforts; 1.25 FTE communications staff
  • Who is GLSC? : How we aren’t like you
  • “Science branch of the DOI”
  • USGS Mission Areas vs. Regions
  • EMA is the ecosystem science branch of the DOI (FWS  NBS  NBS  USGS EMA)
  • Lellis’ timeline
  • Executive Order 1970: “except the Great Lakes”
  • GLFRA Act
  • What is driving GLSC science? : How to engage with us
  • Era without earmarks  EMA Science Strategy
  • Federal science agency:
  • For management (not curiosity)
  • Cross-disciplinary and collaborative (“efficient”)
  • Phragmites, HABs, Mussels
  • CESUs with MSU, UT, Wayne State
  • Trust resources
  • “Hitting the sweet spot”
  • “Unbiased” science facilitator: collaboratives, collective impact
  • Regional science-management initiatives:
  • GL WQA
  • 1 AOC technical support
  • 2 Lakewide management: Nearshore Framework (with 7)
  • 4 Nutrient load recommendations in 2015/2016
  • 7 Habitat baseline survey 2016, GLAHF
  • 10 Science: adaptive management
  • GLRI
  • LCC
  • What is GLSC doing?
  • Schaeffer’s GLSC pubs stuff
  • Themes throughout: restoration, native species, landscape ecology
  • Fisheries (~60+% of budget):
  • Lake committee process – MOU, technical committees
  • Vessels
  • Monitoring & assessment: prey fish and lake trout/lamprey
  • Understand the food web: bottom up vs. top down
  • Coregonids
  • Rearing techniques: 3 aquatic research laboratories