Sea Grant Illinois-Indiana
The Helm is a collection of recent IISG success stories, describing some of our research, outreach, and education efforts to address coastal and Great Lakes issues in Illinois and Indiana.
This is an annual summary of Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant success stories.
Flip through the magazine: https://issuu.com/iiseagrant/docs/thehelm-2021
This strategic plan for 2024-2027 lays out IISG goals and outcomes in four National Sea Grant focus areas: Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, Resilient Communities and Economies, Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development.
A quarterly roundup of news stories related to the ongoing work of Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant.
In this issue:
IISG staff members win outreach and communication awards;
Graduate fellowship opportunities available;
New podcast series discusses the science of ponds;
Illinois Extension searching for assistant dean who will serve as IISG associate director
In this issue:
Indiana Master Watershed Steward volunteers dive in to help their local environment;
New toolkit makes finding weather and climate lesson plans easy;
Scientists bring the Great Lakes to students learning from home
In this issue:
Lake Michigan Chinook salmon stick with declining alewife as their main meal;
Sea Grant Faculty Scholars program provides new opportunities for researchers in Illinois and Indiana;
New feeding approach promises more robust and healthy farm-raised larval largemouth bass;
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, the need for frequent hand-washing collides with soaring water rates
In this issue:
Water affordability report helps inform new Chicago water billing policy;
Social norms help motivate people to adopt practices that protect water quality;
Purdue Extension Land Use Team launches American Citizen Planner program in Indiana;
Microplastics may increase the risk of PFAS entering the Lake Michigan food web
This publication brings together program impacts from the 2018-2019 Sea Grant year.
Quadrennial strategic program plan for IISG which is intended to guide program by laying out mission, vision, values, principles, focus areas, goals, desired outcomes, and performance measures for the given period.
This fact sheet provides an overview of IISG’s work in 2017.
We use research, outreach, and education to bring the latest science to Great Lakes communities and their residents. Here is a quick summary of IISG impacts in the region for educating interested parties about what Sea Grant does.
Handout overview of the impact of Sea Grant programs