Assessing Nearshore-Offshore Connectivity in the Lake Michigan Food Web Using Multiple Trophic Indicators

Principal Investigator: Sergiusz Czesny
Affiliation: Illinois Natural History Survey
Initiation Date: 2015

• Investigate how ecosystem-wide changes to Lake Michigan affect prey utilization by top predators, using stomach content, fatty acid profiles, and stable isotope ratios

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Impacts of invasive Asian carp on native food webs

Principal Investigator: David Wahl
Affiliation: Illinois Natural History Survey
Initiation Date: 2011

• Determine the impacts of invasive Asian carps on native fishes and aquatic food webs

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Developing functional indicators of coastal wetlands health

Principal Investigator: Matthew Cooper
Affiliation: University of Notre Dame
Initiation Date: 2011

• Develop a suite of candidate functional indicators to identify human impacts to Great Lakes wetlands and characterize the functional nature of these systems

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Restoration of native pine species in Great Lake coastal environments

Principal Investigator: Robert Fahey
Affiliation: The Morton Arboretum
Initiation Date: 2011

• Define historical baselines for restoration of coastal Great Lakes pine forests
• Evaluate the necessity for restoration of composition and structure in modern coastal forests
• Assess the impact of historical legacies on modern composition and structure of coastal pine forest

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Impacts of nanomaterials on aquatic microbial communities

Principal Investigator: John Kelly
Affiliation: Loyola University Chicago
Initiation Date: 2011

• Examine the effects of nanotitanium dioxide on microbial communities in streams

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The effect of wet weather driven dissolved oxygen sags on fishes in urban systems

Principal Investigator: Greg Gaulke
Affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Initiation Date: 2011

• Quantify the impacts of acute hypoxia events on fishes, using the Chicago Area Waterway System as a test environment

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