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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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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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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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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A web-based tool to measure environmental quality standards for phosphorus in water at Lake Erie

Principal Investigator: Acushla Antony
Affiliation: Purdue University
Initiation Date: 2010

• Enhance the NAPRA online web-based decision support tool and update the soil database using SSURGO soils data suitable for field and county level evaluation
• Assess the level of phosphorus reaching water with existing cropping management systems and assess the change in phosphorus level due to increases in biofeedstock production and intensive livestock production

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Nutrient fluxes in tile drains and ditches draining Midwestern agriculture fields fertilized with manure

Principal Investigator: Chad Jafvert
Affiliation: Purdue University
Initiation Date: 2010

• Calculate the loads of 17α- and 17β-estradiol, estrone, and estriol, nitrate, and dissolved reactive phosphorus exported from a subsurface tile drain and a receiving ditch
• Compare the export dynamics of nutrients and hormones in response to animal waste applications
• Assess the potential for nutrient best management practices (e.g., no-till, buffer strips, wetlands, etc.) to reduce hormone export from tile-drained agroecosystems

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